A fairly entertaining ARPG if you can get it during a sale, which happens often these days. I got my copy with a 90% discount.
The gameplay is very competent albeit limited. Each character has only a couple of builds you really want to go for and they aren't varied at all.
For my playthrough I chose the dwarf slayer because that's what's on the box and he's fun with the industry standard spin to win and shouting barbarian skill plus the ranged basic attack. However, I don't see myself grinding high rarity gear or anything because red items are pretty much the same with bigger numbers. Increasing the difficulty helps with the monotony, but you can only raise it so much before beating the final act so this is a temporary fix at best.
The presentation is equally mixed as I found most environments, character models and animations to be quite good looking, but the game also suffers from some of the worst sound design I've ever experienced. A lot of sound effects are nauseating and your character barks at you constantly when they are either out of energy or a cooldown is still up despite the fact that there is a dedicated sound for these as well. I ended up playing the game with no voices because it was annoying me so much.
The story is nothing to write home about and doesn't do a great job at introducing the setting to new players. The player character is a demigod who can cleave through chaos legions like a hot knife through butter and by the end of the first act you have already accomplished feats worthy of legend for the setting. This makes for fun, fast paced gameplay but not exactly the best worlbuilding.
To conclude, I don't think Chaosbane is a bad game but I'm not sure who I could recommend it to. Perhaps you need to get it on sale and be in a state of mind where you don't want to think for about 10 hours, then you should get it like I did.
The gameplay is very competent albeit limited. Each character has only a couple of builds you really want to go for and they aren't varied at all.
For my playthrough I chose the dwarf slayer because that's what's on the box and he's fun with the industry standard spin to win and shouting barbarian skill plus the ranged basic attack. However, I don't see myself grinding high rarity gear or anything because red items are pretty much the same with bigger numbers. Increasing the difficulty helps with the monotony, but you can only raise it so much before beating the final act so this is a temporary fix at best.
The presentation is equally mixed as I found most environments, character models and animations to be quite good looking, but the game also suffers from some of the worst sound design I've ever experienced. A lot of sound effects are nauseating and your character barks at you constantly when they are either out of energy or a cooldown is still up despite the fact that there is a dedicated sound for these as well. I ended up playing the game with no voices because it was annoying me so much.
The story is nothing to write home about and doesn't do a great job at introducing the setting to new players. The player character is a demigod who can cleave through chaos legions like a hot knife through butter and by the end of the first act you have already accomplished feats worthy of legend for the setting. This makes for fun, fast paced gameplay but not exactly the best worlbuilding.
To conclude, I don't think Chaosbane is a bad game but I'm not sure who I could recommend it to. Perhaps you need to get it on sale and be in a state of mind where you don't want to think for about 10 hours, then you should get it like I did.