There aren't that many new blobbers out there these days, and there are almost(?) none featuring both free-roam (ie, not locked to a grid) and turn based combat. Still, I was a bit leery of the small number of steam reviews and rather rough look of the game. I gave the demo a shot anyway and was hooked. The exploration, character building, difficulty, and questing all have a great oldschool charm to them. I bought the full game and played through it fairly obsessively. It scratched a very particular itch I'd had since playing Wizardry 8 over 20 years ago (though, the Might and Magic influences are a bit more prevalent in most systems here). Overall, I had a great time.

I'd be remiss if I failed to mention the overall lack of polish and existence of critical bugs, though. There are many display issues with the UI, including some instances of overlapping windows causing issues and text cutting off too early. It's generally manageable, but you can feel it. The balance is a bit wonky at times, but, honestly, that's pretty true to the era the game is pulling inspiration from, so I didn't mind it personally. Finally, I ran into a couple of bugs along the critical path that required patches before I could continue. That said, Blind Monkey Games was very friendly and responsive in dealing with the issues I had crop up and quick to push out fixes.

I had a lot of fun with this one despite the rough edges.