Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

So basically, it's Oblivion but set in England if English myth was bastardized in similar way to how Nordic myths get bastardized to everything else. This means that if you're even slightly familiar with Arthurian legends you'll die of cringe from how edgelord the game makes everything. Gameplaywise it's Oblivion with a lot of mechanics yoinked from Elden Ring, except your tag-along ghost waifu is a dudebro in heavy armor. Like Oblivion, the combat is very simplistic. Like Elden Ring, you fight a hellova lot of undead. The issue is that the variety of enemies is kind of anemic, for the first ten hours or so you fight five enemy types tops. The combat build variety is also kind of wide, but at the same time, a lot of builds just run into straight roadblocks as the game has a lot of very sudden difficulty spikes followed by combat that is numbingly easy. Elden Ring classic of a dude with big sword and nothing else on him is still effectively the most powerful build because a lot of the game's bosses and more challenging fights are just straight up asking you if you can dodge as a yes/no question and answering 'no', or wearing any type of heavy armor, means you're playing on hard mode and are gimping yourself for difficulty. The difficulty spike enemies will one or twoshot even tank builds and often outnumber you five to one, while normal difficulty enemies will struggle to scratch tank builds and get swept away like trash by mage builds. The graphics are fairly dated. Yes I know its a year old game, but even still the graphics are straight from something from 2018's, and the shadows are just completely absent or completely awful. All in all I'd give the game a solid 7/10. It's okay. Get it on sale.

Bon jeu mais crash souvent dommage et aussi pour changer les touches clavier c'est un peut buger sinon j'aime bien ^^

one of my new fav rpgs in a while since the big two lol

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Comparing it to Elder Scrolls games does Tainted Grail a disservice. At the same time that's the easiest way to establish the core gameplay loop. Take on quests, level up your characters skills and unlock new abilities and bonuses, craft new gear and tweak the existing for more power. Just... imagine it way better than Bethesda does it. Better care for the story, more interesting quests, often with branching paths, more meaningfully upgrades than "do X 20% better" (mostly, the first tier of a skill usually does that, but the others get more interesting). It's a great game, in my humble opinion. Absolutely worth playing.

It's a little janky, but in much the same way as beloved classics like Oblivion. The dark fantasy theme is pretty unique and I'm really enjoying my first playthrough right now. The modding community is pretty active on Nexus. If it's on sale and you want something that feels like a modded Skyrim run with a fresh coat of narrative paint, try it out. If you like Arthurian legend, check it out.

A fantastic RPG akin to early Bethesda. Much more gritty while fantastical. Great NPC dialogue (I'm amazed at times) and choices matter and persist in consequences. The only gripe I have is the engine used (Unity). The engine was clearly chosen because their previous experience with it and it's cheap for indie devs. Unity struggles ridiculously with the kind of high fidelity open worlds this game demands. Pop-ins are constant and DLSS/FSR doubles GPU power draw (extremely poor optimization). This game has massive memory leaks even after more than year after release. I have to keep Steam overlay open and watch as my VRAM is consumed more and more for no reason (poor culling). Even my locked 60fps on a 4090 dips in small enclosed dungeons for no reason. A lot of this can be excused by the VERY indie team behind this project. But they had passion and it shows. Still working my way through Act 1, but I'm very pleased with the game overall (especially if you hate how sloppy Bethesda has become). Highly recommend Tainted Grail and anything that comes out of Questline.