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Surprisingly fun, considering our usual forays into other arena-based-autobattlers have ended in boredom in less than ten hours.

We can fault the tragedy, but we cannot fault the writing.
Or the world, or the mechanics, or the complexity, or the music.
For anyone who likes an excellently written story and world, highly recommended.
A 10/10 personally - far from perfection, but close enough.

Funny writing and great style!
Main campaign may not be very long if you are used to playing roguelikes with stacking mechanics - that said, some of the mechanics in Royal Writ threw us for a loop or two!
Surprises *almost* guaranteed.

Pretty good, co-op shooty stuff like L4D but more DRG-like, the upgrade system for characters and weapons(hexagonal jigsaw puzzles, you add pieces to a board and try to minmax 'wasted' space) adds some interesting complexity but is also likely to be the main thing to turn people off because, well, as said, it can become rather complex - but not in a fun way for some. Funny characters, huge(albeit static) maps, weapons & abilities felt diverse and there are a surprising amount of secrets/easter eggs everywhere!

One of the simplest, yet most memorable point-and-click adventure games we have ever played.

An absolutely incredible game for those with a thirst for mystery and puzzle solving, like many of the games that Blue Prince is compared to, it is a bit difficult to talk about *why* it is good without spoiling it, but if we were to describe it in familiar terms...

This feels like a modern original take on MYST, much more than it does Outer Wilds and choose-your-path/powers roguelikes, although we do understand the comparisons from both sides and would personally say it is more Outer Wilds than a roguelike, yet it is most definitely still that too!

Despite the 32 hours, it still doesn't feel like we are close to fully completing the game yet, there are so many threads left to pull and some still seem to leave more questions than answers, and little compares to the moments when your fairly average playthrough turns into multiple "Eureka!" moments in a row!
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And of course it is also possible to have moments when a fairly average playthrough ends and you later feel extreme shame when in retrospect it was an actually incredible one that you just happened to make multiple blunders in, multiple times in a row.

As with all games of course - "this is not for everyone", as someone else described in their review, you have to be both a "puzzle sicko and a roguelike sicko" to stick with this game once one of the games two major elements, either its mystery or building your own mansion room-by-room, loses its luster.

EDIT: Almost a hundred hours in and this is where we have hit our wall, most puzzles left are beginning to feel like moon logic or needing specialist knowledge about various things. Pretty fun up to this point!

There are animals in the well, so name checks out!
One of the best mystery-puzzle-exploration-platforming game things we've ever played.

Good little perspective-based puzzle game with some absolutely striking imagery.

Nothing quite like this out there, there are more spell combinations than grains of sand in the universe, everything is destructable, everything matters(in every definition of the word), more secrets than some actual mystery games(a few of which are unsolved to this day).
Would highly recommend looking up a guide for understanding basic wand mechanics.
10/10 otherwise.

Biggest selling point, it's free, if you have the time, try it out, at least once!

Good game overall, excellent style and some fairly good quests, plenty of stuff/mystery to both find and do - buuuuut... it is also rather janky, there are way too many menus and there are a plethora of minor annoyances and bugs everywhere.

Still, despite or perhaps because of these things, we have played over 500 hours somehow.
Would recommend Once Human for at least one full playthrough! It has some unique enemies and quests, also highly recommend joining a non-permanent server because permanent ones are not balanced for new players at all, PvE and PvP both will be extremely difficult and annoying experiences in permanent servers for most.

As an additional note, it is entirely possible to solo Pro(level 60) dungeons with free gear gained from Mystic Crates.