
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
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45+ hours of main story, packed with dialogue, well-developed characters, books, and side quests.
Two major factions to choose from — each with its own unique storyline, quests, and exclusive rewards.
Combat system features three distinct battle stances, multiple weapon types, and active skills.
A vibrant, open-world island with diverse biomes to explore.
A wide range of professions to master, including fishing, hunting, blacksmithing (with the ability to craft your own one-of-a-kind sword), alchemy, and more.

Of Ash and Steel offers a challenging yet rewarding combat system. You are not a legendary bounty hunter or monster slayer by default. Instead, you must master the mechanics: manage stamina, time your attacks and parries, and determine which combat stances and weapon types suit you best. It takes time and practice, but the more you play, the more both you and Tristan evolve and gain an understanding of what is happening around you.
Learn to stand up for yourself using different weapons, environments, and active skills. Tailor your fighting style to suit you, from the agile rapier wielder to a heavy armour-clad knight, or create something unique!


Immerse yourself in a story full of twists, humor, and discoveries. Step into the shoes of a man who is destined to become much more than just a cartographer. Gain strength, survive, and forge alliances. Prove that even someone who has lost everything can become a significant force that can shape the fate of the whole world.
Talk to locals to learn about their daily lives, and help them with tasks. Watch how people’s opinions of you change as your character grows. Join one of the two major factions and complete its unique storyline to earn exclusive rewards. Your actions and choices will also affect the world and the characters around you.


Of Ash and Steel has no marker system, and quests won't lead you by the hand. Rediscover the joy of exploration and let curiosity be your guide; the world promises rich rewards for those who dare to uncover its secrets.
Listen carefully to what people tell you and pay attention to what is said in the quests to find your way. Read books and notes to learn more about the world. Mark interesting locations on your map, explore the island, and uncover hidden treasures!

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SteamYou are here | $19.49−35% | 7Kreviews | 66% | — | $3.7M |
| $23.99−20% | 143ratings | 70% | — | not modelled | |
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Update: I am in my second playthrough with newest patch and mods now. The performance was drastically improved. I have barely any stuttering now and the loading time was also cut short by a mile. No more problems when moving from one area of the map to another as well. I will leave my initial review below untouched for transparency: First of all: If you liked Gothic and Risen 1 you will love this game. I was sceptical about this game first because the facial expressions of the characters in the intro and the videos looked like everybody had strokes all the time. I don't actually care about graphics very much, but this look in particullar gave the whole game a weird and "cheap" touch in my opinion. Then a streamer I watched played the game and I had the possibility to see some gameplay before actually buying it and it looked quite good. So I bought it and started playing. The tutorial is very linear, stict and limits you a lot but is not that long. Afterwards you can go and explore the world, and that is when the game really starts: The best way to describe it is by comparision to Gothic 2. You get a mission that is quite vague (go and deliver a message) and then start completely alone, without equipment, without any combat experience and without knowledge where the f*** you are. An NPC gives you a rough direction where to go and that's it. You have no map (in the beginning, you will get one much later in the game), so your compass and the signs along the main "road" are your only way of knowing where to go. The game shows you right from the start how it will treat you: "So you skipped the dialog of the NPC that explained the way to a specific location? Well, how do you expect to find the damn place then? Map marker? Nope. Ask for direction again? Nope. Have fun looking for the place." When I write that I noticed that this sounds frustrating, but it really isn't. Because you can find the way if you listen. And you can find it as well when you spend a lot of time looking. And exploring the world is the best thing in this game anyway. Go a few steps of the main road and you will find something. A ruin, monsters, rare plants, a chest, a locked chest, a buried chest, a buried locked chest, a buried locked chest with a combination lock... You constantly get the feeling that you just found something amazing and that feeling is that satisfying because there are very meaningful and strong things you can find. Yet it is also balanced so you don't get too strong too quick. This balancing is honestly the best I have ever seen, because they manage to keep it for pretty much all of the game which is astonishing considering that I spent over 200h on my frist playthrough (I am a full-explore kind of gamer). The fighting system is solid. You start completly without any fighting experience, so your swings are wide and slow. Miss the first enemies too much and they will kill you quite fast. I spent a good amount of time trying out how to beat the first few enemies. So fighting can be really challenging on the highest difficulty, but if the fight is too tough, just run away. The enmies in this game are not scaling in any way, so build up your strength, come back and beat the sh** out of them. The writing of the characters is also very close to the gothic vibe: You get a "F*** off!" more often than a "Good morning", expecially in the beginning of the game. The characters all seem to have their own agenda, and a lot of them don't trust a stranger in the beginning. But you can also feel that they warm up to you once you helped them a bit. For that you need quests, obviously, and they have quests. A lot of them. Most of them are not hard or long but they also are not the "go and kill 5 boars" type of quests. A lot of chars that give you a quest have follow up quests as well, which more or less build up on the previous quests. The main story is ok but definetly not the strongest point of the game. Now let's get to performance. In summary: It is bad. Very bad. I had a lot of stuttering in locations with a dense population. To get rid of it for one or two hours I needed to restart my PC, but than I have to load again and the first load after a restart is very long. On the plus side there are only a few places in the game where you have to actually load a new location before going there. To be exact you only need to load if you teleport or enter the capital, which makes sense because it is huge and crawling with NPCs. Setting aside teleport and main city the game loads constantly the surroundings to prevent loading screens, but they implemented a pretty smart way to minimize loading assets (thats what I guess it does, at least): There are "choke points" beween a few regions that you have to pass through before entering the new region. all other ways are blocked by walls or mountains or something of the sort. And when you pass through these passages you can feel that it's loading a loooot of stuff in the background. I even had sometimes the bug that the floor of the next region would not load fast enough, so you can fall through the floor of the map.... At some point I started to make saves everytime i passed one of these points, just to be save. So in summary: It is a very good and very addicting RPG and the best recreation of the "gothic feeling" since gothic 3. Even Risen 1 was not as good as this because it was too small in my opinion. I had an absolute blast playing the game, even with the bad performance of the game.
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I tried to like it! I really did! But as a part time player A game with no quest markers its not going to work. I log back in after a week or so, check the journal and in the quest says head east over yonder and ye will find what ye searches for beyond a moutain and past the village, dont forget to ask Bob in the field to the south-west what his fav food and to buy some in the shop to the north before you leave. Hopefully one day there will be a mod
Fantastic RPG full of love and creative, surprising ideas. It is pretty unpolished and buggy in many aspects indeed, but that hasn't stopped me from playing it. Also it's probably the closest game to Piranha Bytes GOTHIC I played in a very long time.
The kind of game i want to play and enjoy. It still needs some polish and updates. Im hopeful but can't recommend at this time.
Oldschool RPG jak má být. Pro všechny veterány doporučuji nejtěžší obtížnost hned na první průchod. Prvních 10h může být hra trošku frustrující, ale jakmile se se hrou seznámíte, čapnete lepší zbraň, rozdělíte pár skillpointů, tak si to sedne (třeba odemknutí silného úderu a Parry...s tím jsem si zatím vystačil 20h hraní) Soubojový systém je komplexnější než u starších her, ale ze začátku je hodně těžký díky stamině. Jakmile vám dojde, jste prakticky mrtví...je potřeba staminu opravdu hlídat - žádné zběsílé klikání levého tlačítka myši nepřichází v úvahu. Líbí se mi, že kromě bojových skillů jsou ve hře i Survival a Crafting skilly. Můžete si vyrábět/vylepšovat zbraně a výbavu, dělat šípy, paklíče atd....můžete si vařit podle receptů (jídlo poskytuje krom léčení dobré bonusy). Není to žádná kopie Gothicu, ale staví na něm posouvá tento žánr her o kousek dál. Jsou tam nové herní mechaniky...celkově je hra o něco komplexnější, ale stále nekompromisní a frustrující (ze začátku) - což velkou část hráčů odradí a pak píšou zbytečně negativní recenze. Ve hře jsem narazil na několik menších bugů. Nejotravnější . asi 5x mi hra zamrzla, když jsem otevřel inventář. Hra zamrzne, když obchodník už nemá sloty a vy mu prodáte další zboží. Také jsem mohl hýbat se svou postavou v bezvědomí. Dále se občas nezaškrtne, že máte splněnou část úkolu. Za mě je to 8/10 - pokud máte rádi přesně tyhle hry. Nenechte se zbytečně odradit od recenzí typu "kombat je strašný, nedá se to hrát". Kombat není strašný, je těžký...a to už dnešní hráčí prostě neznají.
Juego solo recomendado si tienes un nivel muy elevado de tolerancia a la frustración y a juegos AA tipo Gothic. Espera animaciones, combate, controles toscos y 0 ayudas a la hora de tener que resolver las misiones. Al grano: Aspectos Positivos: 1. El mundo está creado a mano y se recompensa la exploración. 2. No te lleva de la mano(arma de doble fijo). 3. Cumple en lo narrativo (sin ser algo que vaya a ser tu obra narrativa de referencia) 4. Se siente como un sucesor espiritual de Gothic (en lo bueno y malo). Aspectos Negativos: 1. No tienes mapa hasta llegar al segundo acto y las indicaciones que te dan en muchas misiones o no existen o son incorrectas, no dándote el juego ninguna opción de pistas esperadas (carteles, hablar con pnjs...) por lo que al final muchas de las cosas las resuelves por azar en lugar de por deducción (que sería lo esperado). 2. La zona de las minas es un horror con misiones tediosas sin senido donde se agradecería poder atajar (busca a todos los mineros para acumular su deuda de 100 pepitas... cuando tu ya llevas encima más de 100....) 3. Se consciente que esto es un juego de bajo presupuesto y con mecánicas muy ajustadas... constantemente te encontrarás con comportamientos de IA enemiga cuestionables o verás como los pnjs se quedan bloqueados en sus movimientos sin saber bien que hacer. Conclusión: Aún cuando he intentado darle muchas oportunidades jugando de diferentes formas, no recomiendo el juego. Todavía no he terminado el juego debido al tedio y lo mal que están planteadas la mayoría de misiones secundarias (haciendo casi imposible encontrar referencias de donde están los personajes con los que debes interactuar o los objetos que debes encontrar) y lo más crítico que es muchas primarias también son sumamente tediosas con referencias erroneas o directamente sin ellas. Una cosa es que no te lleven de la mano, otra muy diferente es que te tomen el pelo y te mientan constantemente en las referencias o parezca que han montado misiones para trolearte.
Неплохой Готик лайк. Сначала душно, но потом игра раскрылась. Минус малые награды за квесты в опыте, учитывая что без гайдов некоторые даже не поймешь где искать. Нет точного описания. 7.5 безымянных из 10.
Я очень редко пишу отзывы. Наиграл 40 часов и решил поделиться. Обычно просто играю, нравится - продолжаю, не нравится - не играю. Но тут у меня прям настолько диссонанс эмоций, что не знаю, что и думать. 1) Да, это вдохновлено Готикой, великой и могучей, которую я раз 20 прошел с разными модами и не планирую останавливаться, потому что это шедевр для меня. 2) Для любителей хардкора - это реально хардкор, я без видосов вообще не могу разобраться куда идти, где искать того или иного персонажа. Карты нет, подсказки очень посредственные. Это как плюс, так и огромный минус, так как в той же Готике мир был не настолько огромен и найти кого то было не слишком трудно. Здесь же это ад... Причем даже в самом городе очень тяжело порой просто вернуться на то же место, откуда ты взял квест например. Город огромен и я бы сказал нелогичен по структуре. 3) Разрабы садисты. Я вообще с чего начал обзор писать, я после трудового дня сел поиграть на пару часиков, и знаете что я делаю??? я тупо бегаю с одного конца острова в другой, туда - сюда. С Ирвином этим **аным квест. Он видите ли не дома, а в таверне за просто минут 5 бега от дома!!! Ты просто бежишь 5 минут! Потому что перс еще не особо прокачан, вступать в драки со всей живностью бесполезно. Плюс выносливость заканчивается спустя секунд 5, чтобы ее пополнить надо пить воду например. Но когда пьешь воду персонаж замедляется до обычного шага и пару секунд открывает и хлебает. И это только один из примеров квестов где надо бегать, бегать, бегать....... Честно, очень большое желание дропнуть игру, так как мне не интересно бесконечно заниматься пробежками. Планирую все таки остудить пукан и продолжить. 4) Вообще непонятно что прокачивать. Права на ошибку нет. Да, это хардкор, но напомню, в Готике например было очень четко понятно кузнец - милишник силач, или ловкач и Босперу шкуры сдаешь, или маг у Константино. Я наиграл 40 часов, почти 10 лвла (тут лвл не так легко как качается) и вообще не понимаю куда что вкинуть. Нашел кучу перманентов по видео в интернете, но это мне мало пока что помогает. Итог: Мне реально интересно в нее играть, но что называется, моментами. Остальное время почувствуй себя курьером сервисов по доставке еды, снабжайся водичкой и вперед наматывать часы и километры пробега по острову. Я полностью осознаю, что это небольшая команда, которая замахнулась на масштаб, но как мне кажется, это их основная ошибка. О покупке игры не жалею, местами приносит кайф. Местами хочется удалить и больше никогда не запускать. Разрабы молодцы. Продолжайте творить. Но очень прошу учесть мнение комьюнити. Тут подобных комментариев, у кого также сгорела пятая точка, прилично. P.S. Только написал, продолжил играть, и опять сгорел. Почему, НУ ПОЧЕМУ NPC ходят пешком??? Блин, мне жалко времени своего на такую ерунду! Я в смятении рекомендовать или нет игру.
Hra od menšího studia, ale dokázali to co mnozí ne, udělali skvělou hru a pro člověka jako já, který vyrůstal na sérii Gothic tak hra otevřela a připomněla hezké i špatné vzpomínky. Ano ve hře je pár bugů a občas to zastaví nějaký progress, ale vše se dá načíst a udělat to správně. Nespočet hodin jsem žasl jak mi vše připomíná atmosféru Gothicu a těchto slepě dělaných RPG kde ti hra nic nedá zadarmo. Pro hráče co mají takové hry rádi mohu jedině doporučit, za hooodně dlouhou dobu opravdu skvělé RPG.
Игра настолько крутая, что она даже запускаться не хочет. В первые секунды баг словил из-за того что слишком новые драйвера на инвидеа. Разрабы пофиксите
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