Venetica - Gold Edition

Its not a bad game but the pc port is pretty much unplayable. Some NPC while disappear and cant finish the quest other while straight up crash the game. There is also times where the city of venice wont even load when exiting buildings and require to restart the game.

If you can get the game to run on a modern system it's a very unique experience. I haven't played a game like this, or at least not in a while. Would recommend to people who like story based rpgs that don't overstay their welcome.

Unforunately unplayable due to constant crashes. For example, every time you enter/leave a building the game will crash. Capping FPS to 30, lowering graphic settings, performance changes or opening the game as administrator - nothing helps. I suppose it is Windows 11 which causes the problem. But this game is literally in every way unplayable.

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I guess it's impressive that it works as well as it does. Only crashes occasionally, but can get stuck if you tab out. Probably not worth recommending when there's so many better games to play with these days. It's kinda curious from a nostalgia point of view. Everything feels very dated. Combat, skills, inventory management. Writing is kinda bad, but in an uncanny sort of way where it's almost impressive.

Going to combat all the reviews here talking about crashes and problems. On Windows 10 there is no issue, aside the Leon crash I only had ONE random crash. Some flickering light/textures, in Arsenal there were several VO/text mismatches and a random skeleton I could pick the choices for, that was weird. In Africa I was dropped to the exit when entering caves, so going "forward" I came right back outside. Those were my only isssues. Tying left mouse to Q allowed me to play perfectly the entire game with one hand. Very arrow spaces sometimes became an issue, and stairs. So many stairs.

Somehow I missed that in 2009, but fortunately it still holds up, and I enjoyed the very most of it in 2025. It's classic RPG in structure, opening up new areas along the story, yet you can always go back to previous areas. It also understands the lessons from older games, like Gothic, about building a breathing world. Thus it brings an immersive city, recognisable characters (with voices,) factions, variety in quests (with multiple resolutions,) along with its own mechanics and fresh ideas, which all work well. It also comes with janky combat that won't satisfy the demanding arcade players, but satisfied me. I really appreciate when a game doesn't respawn its mobs and keeps the cleared areas clear. This one does, with a handful of local exceptions (if you want to grind respawning mobs, you can roam certain dark streets at night.) Boss fights occur, but are not as annoying as the norm (despite their use of the 3 stages trope,) mainly because none of them overstays their (un)welcome. However, these were the moments when the game bugged for me, into deadlocks and even a couple of crashes. I had to replay some boss fights from scratch several times. They are also the only moments when manual saves are disabled. Which, by design, wakes up the most powerful being in the Universe for him to apply his law: the dreaded Murphy. The one part I really disliked lies somewhere else however: A mid-game quests wants you to return to the starting village, with no other task than killing dozens of the same mob along the way. Roughly 1 or 2 of them every few steps. Felt like endless punishment, with a heavy toll on the player's mental fatigue. Apparently the quest designer called sick one day, so the studio recruited a temp for the task. After that, fortunately, it's back to exploration and adventure. Quite engaging and entertaining. For me, the jewel on the crown is the locations design, the creativity and ingenuity put into them. Points for originality, on top of feeling organic and achieving memorable, at time superb aesthetics.

Миядзаки крал отсюда идеи, но я пока не могу это доказать

Добротная камерная рпг немецкого разлива. Как есть - Класс Б. Но это чертовски хорошая игра. Можно было провести сравнения с готикой, фэйбл и даже иногда котор. Но это самобытная игра в центре событий которой стоит простая мораль, отсутствие сложных многоступенчатых квестов и история которая вызывает немного грусть. Поэтому нет, это не готика, фэйбл или тем более котор. Скучная боёвка, обилие багов, кривая прокачка всё как я люблю в играх нулевых от разработчиков бюджет на игру у которых складывался из личного кармана. Уж сколько наскребли, чуть издатель накинул и дошиков насыпал, чтобы разработчики привзяанные цепями к пентиумам не померли и успели выдать хоть что-то в срок. Нормальная игра.

El juego es bueno al igual que su historia y tiene una jugabilidad clásica de los juegos de aventura. Juegas como Scarlett, quien después de que tu aldea es atacada y tu prometido asesinado, haces un pacto con la muerte para vengar (o no) a tu prometido. No lo termine por problemas técnicos del juego, al ser ya un juego viejo y no tiene mas soporte quedo muy desactualizado para equipos modernos. Tuve que ponerle varios parches caseros, el ultimo me desactivo el Overlay de steam (no podía sacar fotitos del juego) pero solucionaba los problemas de crasheo en las pantallas de cargas y nada, sin fotitos no puedo jugar jaja. Con esto dicho, el juego es bueno, es solido, se nota como antes le ponían mucho empeño y amor a sus juegos. Si quieres jugarlo vas a tener que meterle varios parches que fui encontrando en el foro del juego. Asi que ya estan advertido... a ver, con los parches el juego es jugable, pero, al tener un sistema de guardado viejo, osea, guardado manual, recomiendo guarda a cada rato. Tiene un autoguardado cada vez que entras o salís de una casa, pero nada mas. Guarden siempre que puedan. A mi me empezó andar mal mas o menos a mitad del juego. Las primeras horas no pasa nada. Nota: 7/10, Scarlett tiene un aire a Lara Croft.