Forsaken Realms: Vahrin's Call

I enjoyed this game, it has a somewhat grim worldbuilding yet leaves a place to some jokes here and there Also, was a pleasant surprise to not encounter any bugs outside of a few minor texture issues, beside this - the game feels really polished Definitely gave me a sense of nostalgia as well, it was a good adventure

Addictive exploration that provides practical and dramatic gameplay rewards and surpisingly top-tier voice acting from top to bottom. It's rough around the edges but a spectacular effort from such a small team and more charm and minute to minute fun than most AAA RPGs.

These developers are out of their minds. You can rebind all keys but movement keys? Instant refund. No excuse for this garbage.

I haven't played a whole lot yet, but I can say that I am glad I bought this game and didn't choose to refund it. It is very janky and does need a lot of polish. The AI is terrible even on the higher difficulty settings, the animations are very choppy and not super responsive, and it drives me nuts that I have to focus perfectly on a bag or item to pick it up. But I love games like Fable, Gothic, and other less than perfect but still very enjoyable RPGs. This one scratches that itch. The world, exploration, and progression aspects are fantastic, and make up for all of its flaws in my opinion. I completely understand the concern about the price of this game. I think it should have been priced at 25.00 or less with the amount of polish it needs, but for me personally, I was happy to pay the asking price to support a dev team making this kind of RPG that I feel like has been thrown to the wayside in recent years. We need more games like this, and so I will vote with my dollars and support the team as they take in the feedback and make this game even better.

Until there is no 32:9 support big NO.

A great game with a rocky launch.

[h2]The game is fun, but maybe wait for a discount.[/h2] I must also point out that the developer team is rather small, so maybe the game will become more polished and issues will be addressed, but it is pretty fine as it is. Let's list pros and cons to allow the reader to make a decision, first the [b]cons[/b]: [list] [*] Enemies are rather dumb, they will not notice kills, they will not hide or move, they will not even attempt to find you until you stumble upon them. In the late game there will be enemies that pose some more challenge, so it looks like a design choice maybe? I've played on medium difficulty though. [*] In the end game difficulty spikes, locations grow very large and convoluted, enemy count also rises a lot. You may become overwhelmed, especially since enemies will re-spawn on re-load, and in some locations even if you run too far away. [*] In some places my video card sounded really loud, I assume the game may not be very well optimised, but it looked like it should run fine for the most part. [*] Picking up items requires targeting a rather small area, you may pick without doing that by holding the interaction button, but I kept forgetting about it and it requires some waiting, so not ideal. [*]Item economy is a bit weird, you need to dismantle some items [b]once[/b] to discover the parts, but then it makes no sense to break down the rest of items as you would get more parts by selling the item and buying the materials from a merchant that will stock everything you have discovered. [/list] And the [b]pros[/b]: [list] [*]The game is pretty, at least for the most part, I didn't like the saturation overdrive in the beginning, but either I got used to it, or it got balanced somewhere mid game. [*]Progression system feels nice and satisfactory, albeit it feels like you reach max level too fast and then it immediately gets hard to balance skill points. [*]There are some puzzles that felt nice, even if those were not rocket science. [*]A setting to enable quest markers on the map is a great thing, I've played most of the game with those disabled and only enabled those in the epilogue to keep track of some quests where I felt like I already have been everywhere (of course I've missed a door) [*]You don't need to bother with inventory management, only with what you wear. [*]Searching for genomey is fun, if frustrating a bit sometimes. [/list] I've heard people comparing it to Fable, but it reminded me more of Elden Ring just with difficulty toned way down and colours toned way up. The story is not exactly very interesting, but it's fine, and the best part is exploring the place and enjoying the scenery, in my opinion. You can definitely finish the game way faster than me if you're not planning to hunt down every item and finish every quest (this I haven't completed yet), I would estimate main story to be 4–8 hours. Right now less than 5% of players have achievement for completing the main quest, by the way, I hope this will change in the future.

Don’t really get all the hate for this game. I’ve been having a ton of fun with it! Is it the best-looking game around? No. Is it perfect? Probably not. But is it fun? YES! Exploring, finding new things, and just seeing what’s around the next corner has been a blast. Definitely worth it if you’re on the fence!