The Lantern of the Laughless Saint

Good game so far, user interface needs some work. The selection wheel feature may seem intuitive but it isn't. I think you should remove it and maybe make something a little more straight forward like a list of favorites.

I haven't even had a chance to really play it yet but the few minutes loading in were pretty cool. The true reason for this review is the fact that day one of launch the dev team has pushed out three hotfixes to solve day one issues containing well over 50 fixes. For an early access title and hell for even fully released games this is unheard of. Good job guys.

Please change the combat music

Its so good, but so badly buggy atm. I love it.

I don't appreciate being insulted by a game that I paid for. Whoever thought that a fake "Objective Marker" option that insults the player was a good idea was wrong. Other issues include poor performance considering the visuals on offer, no up-scaling options, and no HDR support.

Woah there partner! Stay a moment and listen to my tale before you go and purchase this here game. Firstly, I want to say that I do like this game. It has a lot of promise and character. It feels very much like a classic RPG and my mind races with possibilities when I play. That said, it is VERY MUCH a diamond in the rough. And I mean really rough. Claiming Morrowind as the primary source of inspiration is a weighty thing. The alien landscapes and strange creatures, the freedom to fail or succeed spectacularly, and the unlevelled zones are all there. What is not there (yet) is the polish. A lot of mechanics available in Morrowind (which released 24 years ago) are not yet to be found in this game. Skill trees are incomplete. the UI is extremely basic. There is a sense of tedium in managing inventory or trying to sell things or put them in storage. In an rpg, managing your inventory is half the game. Enemies have three different AI. A ball that jumps at you, a swordsman that uses the same three moves, and a ranger that lobs arrows or spells while backpedaling as fast as you can advance. Despite the variety in enemy models, all fights end up feeling the same. Ranged enemies are especially frustrating to me. The use of synth in a fantasy rpg is... a choice. It could be awesome if done well, but a lot of the tracks are 6 second loops that don't jive with the atmosphere. At one point a song annoyed me so badly I turned off the music volume and I haven't gone back. Optimization is bad right now. I have a respectable rig (gtx3080, i9) and I have to turn this game that looks 20 years old down to medium settings. Even still, in areas with lots of actors or buildings the stuttering cannot be helped. There's also a prevailing sense of jank with hit detection and object collision. What really sets this game apart is the allure of multiplayer. I played with two friends for about two hours and it was fun but also a mess. Enemies tended to jitter around in combat. NPC's would turn hostile for no reason. We would randomly become invisible to eachother. This is all stuff I would expect from an early access game made by a small time developer. What I cannot look past however is the issue of save corruption. We ended up losing all two hours of our session because when the host saved at the end it reset our characters and inventories to the start of the game. My biggest pet peeve in games is having my time wasted so that was very irritating. It probably sounds like I hate this game by now, but truthfully I've been having dreams about it and thinking of builds I can try when I get home from work. This game is in a very early release state and I hope it improves, but early access releases have a bad track record and I don't know this developer form a can of paint. I can see this game being worth $30-$40 dollars down the road if they can polish these issues, and I will be very disappointed if this turns into another half finished product.