Last Epoch

They sold out to Krafton. Purchase at your own risk.

To lie or not to lie? That is the question...

So... I've never posted a review before, but this time I need to. After spending +100 hours in this game (80 of them right before the 1.0 and 20 recently (1.4.7)) I must say I kinda regret buying it. It promised a lot at the beginning, it was the right choice at that moment but it looks like all those promises went directly to the trash bin. The game haven't evolved a single bit in all this time, falconer still the most broken build even if some of the other are broken too, but the thing is that the game looks like a "Survivor" or "Clicker", you will spend most of your time tank facing enemies with just 1 button pressed and sometimes placing buffs. It might be fine for very casual players but if you want to be kinda serious in ARPG after playing less than 10 hours in PoE2 I must say they play in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEAGUE, there you have to actually pay attention to what you do, dodge enemy attacks, make combos and use your brain to make infinite builds however you want. The game was fine at the beginning but considering that all the cosmetics are paid and there's no way to get anything free, in a PAID game, there's no transfigurations and it was sold to a different company i must say, go play PoE2, now that it's in early access the price is around the same and it's already way beyond this game, it will also be free in the future and there's ways to get free cosmetics... I mean... EHG, Krafton... Espabilad, que la vida os va a comer...

Gender-locked classes with no character customisation, Devs have no plans to ever add this :)

I am a pretty casual ARPG guy but I've played POE2 and Last Epoch more or less concurrently, definitely find Last Epoch to look nicer and play smoother. I haven't done much end game at all but leveling is enjoyable for sure.

The game is still playable and fun, its more straightforward and punchy than most other ARPG's Been playing this game since it's conception, the ability to change your builds, and specific skills on the fly and forging your gear ANYWHERE is an amazing trait in the game, even in offline mode you will still have an enjoyable experience, get it on sale if you wish, I do absolutely reccommend this product if you want to try something similar, yet different. I am hoping they bounce back soon enough.

For me Last Epoch is better than D4 and PoE but to each his own. I sink 4 or 5 hours a night into this game without even realizing the time went by. If you liked Diablo 3 you will like this. My favorite part is every single skill has it's own skill tree of customization so all 5 skills that you can equip at a time can be customized and theyre not just small customizations, for example on Necromancer (Acolyte) you can customize each minion, bone golem for example can be customized to have more hp/armor, can be a fire golem, ice golem, your golems hits can inflict bleed or poison, your golems hits against enemies that are poisoned turn into armor for you, your golems hits can leech hp to itself and you. Thats just skill tree for 1 minion but like I said every single skill has its own tree with branching paths. So in theory 2 people with the same class and same 5 skills in use can have completely different looking/acting playstyles. The bosses are WAY harder than any Diablo 3/4 offered, later bosses have multiple phases, really cool looking late game bosses too like a Lovecraftian style tentacle monsters that have like 5 different 1 shot mechanics, but the game never feels unfair and you can respec as much as you want. Also I should go into more detail about classes, at around level 15 each of the 5 classes have 3 masteries you can choose from. So again I'll use Acolyte as an example, with Acolyte you can choose between Necromancer which is a pure summoning minion class and you get access to a bunch of different minions each with their own pros/cons, next mastery is Lich which I've never really dove into but it a transformation class with a lot of DoTs and spells that do massive damage at the cost of your own HP, Lastly and my person favorite is the Warlock which is a pure damage based mastery with minion use, you can throw out giant spells that create fissures in the ground that spirits come out of and attack enemies and with the Fissue customization you can make the fissure poison so any enemy that stands on it get an instant poison DoT, than theres DoTs that you can cast out that will jump from enemy to enemy and again you can customize it to where if an enemy dies from the DoT it doubles it's damage when it jumps to the next enemy and that stacks up to like 8 times. Theres so much more I could go into but honestly it's worth just playing for yourself, it's so much fun, it's like if PoE didn't have the annoying complicated gem/socket and passive tree system. It's my personal pick for best ARPG on Steam right now.

Immediately lost interest in playing the game as soon as I logged in to my old character and saw that my gear was faction locked and would have to grind that faction again...