Grim Tides - Old School RPG

if you want a game to play in short sessions of 30-40 minutes, kill a bit, complete a few map levels, and then continue one or two days later without having to worry about uncompleted quests or complex mechanics, that is a good game that can relax you for a few days the game is simple, but in a good way: the map is simple because its a grid, the skills/spells can be learnt and forgotten (although some of those skills are tied to stats and your build), you go to areas that are leveling up as you finish them with monsters scaling as you level up (but each area is harder than the previous as you complete quests and unlock them), there are events based on your stats but failing the events do not penalize too much the game loop is repetitive but at the same time is relaxing, the game is not casual and sometimes a boss can surprise you (especially in the hard or hardes difficulty settings), but in general if you are well equiped and with items you should not have problems as in most rpgs the beginning can be brutal but as you progress you get powerful enough

Simple interface to learn with good depth of storytelling. If you don't like reading, this isn't the game for you.

Pretty Good. Grim quest is better IMO though.

Really addictive and very easy to play, super deep RPG mechanics, if you like pen & paper style fantasy or old school Ultima, you'll feel right at home. Super easy to drop in for 5 minutes or hours on end if you want. The solo dev behind the game is super nice and responsive to feedback too, lore is great and the music is nostalgic.

Love this game, easy to loose time in it

If you loved Grim Quest, you'll love this as well. While the core gameplay loop remains mostly the same, there are a lot of new features and improvements across the board, like attributes, perks, more equipment slots, ship and crew management etc. The story is technically a prequel, but works very well on its own, so playing Grim Quest prior to it isn't a must. And it's a well written story, offering heaps of interesting lore surrounding the world itself. There's a lot here that old-school RPG fans can appreciate.

Un RPG à old school qui vaut le détour ! Le prix est très abordable, ce qui en fait une excellente affaire pour la qualité offerte ! Le développeur est impliqué et à l'écoute de la communauté ! J'adore !

Reminds me of old school gamebooks with a touch of Warhammer.

I played this in 2024, after Grim Quest. This is a prequel to it, but it's basically the same game with a fresh coat of paint. The almost-identical mechanics and even reused text make it feel more like a remaster or remake than an actual sequel. I bought it under the expectation that I would get a new game, but this cannot be considered a new game according to any reasonable definition of the word "new." If it had been advertised as a remaster or remake, my tune might be different. Many events are identical, with identical text. What makes this particularly egregious is that the game has very low production values (like its predecessor) and instead relies on its textual material to provide value to the gamer. How hard would it have been to insert new writing into this game? To take a few hours to write some new material and insert it? Or at least to fix the English mistakes that were already present the first time around? One example (among hundreds:) "Reaching for the weapon at your hip, you demand that he hands over both his notes and his gold, or the lustrous Explorer's Guild will be to shipping his headless corpse back home in a bag. The man flinches for a moment, but than break into a laughing fit, all the while praising your sense of humour." Or my personal favorite, the "Gloves of Elemental Furry." Also, there are bugs that remain unfixed: 1. The daily wages button doesn't actually give you money sometimes. (The bug is intermittent, so I never figured out exactly what triggers it.) 2. I've gotten locked in the naval battle screen with no choice but to hard-quit the game more than once, which is painful after a hard-won dungeon run. 3. The Sage Erideus journal quest line was completely broken for me. The game kept telling me that I'd learned more about the man, but I had not found a single one of the 15 journal entries, and that is, according to the developer, a crucial part of understanding the narrative. Note that I skipped the optional end-game Arcane Realms content, because this game is already a massive grind and timesink, and not because of tons of substantive content; this is no Spiderweb game. I do want to shout out to the dev for addressing my posts in the Steam forums professionally, courteously, and in a friendly manner, including the bug reports. Kudos, and may other devs follow your lead. (My Steam time is about 95% idling; I know many Steam users like to pick on that.)

nice game:)