Lawless Lands

This game is easy to spend all day playing; it's got a surprising amount of game customizations available, has fun quests and a solid (if not slightly generic) world to explore. I do wish that there was more color/less dreariness, but for the price you get a lot of hours of content to play through in multiple ways.

This was made in RPG Maker, which comes with a whole lot of baggage. It means some things that would be a UI selection are instead items you need to use to get said UI to pop up (see: using your Fame to upgrade things like "able to have more companions" and "get a few more stat points", which I found out quite a while in) but once you learn it, it just becomes an annoyance. That said, it's very well made and largely lets you do what you want, Skyrim-style. There's a main story that you'll need to follow at some point, but there's so much content, characters you can recruit, and stuff to do that will keep you entertained for quite a while. I spent a whole lot of time just wandering around and doing stuff before doing the storyline after a while, because I am an explorer. The combat is turn-based and kind of familiar to anyone who plays this stuff, but it's been changed enough to be both awesome and painful. Awesome in that there's a lot of ways to affect combat (bleeding, knocking someone off balance, stunning, arrows that do all kinds of status things. That said, it's all percentages, and I think it's a pretty raw percentage so there's an awful lot of RNGesus happening with t…

The game is good a lot of work and thought has been put in. Now i wanted to play this game as a solo wizard and see where it could bring me, after 10 hours unfortunately i can say it's nearly impossible. The spells alone aren't enough they deal an abysmall damage, the level ups fail to bring enough upgrade the accuracy of a smite with divine energy on a ghost is nearly zero and when you take them it does less damage than scorch the spells themselves have a fixed damage so when you got them they will remain at that level of damage (bar the 4 points you can put in the stats using fame), so even gifting myself a dozen levels to counterbalance the disantvantage of playing alone still dosen't do it. Sure by paying 40 something euro for the dlc maybe one of them will have an upgrade, still leaves a bitter sensation This is a good game, as long as you don't try to play a solo wizard.

Lawless Lands is a role-playing game that wears its inspirations proudly, delivering a sprawling fantasy adventure rooted in the traditions of classic Western RPGs. Developed and published by Corrosive Studios LLC, the game transports players to the fractured realm of Crossia, a land where political instability, corruption, and endless conflict have pushed society toward collapse. Rather than guiding players through a tightly scripted experience, it encourages them to forge their own path in a world that feels indifferent to their existence. From the outset, Lawless Lands establishes itself as a title designed for enthusiasts of deep character progression and expansive exploration rather than players seeking a streamlined, cinematic experience. The game's greatest achievement lies in its commitment to player agency. Character creation offers an extensive collection of races, professions, religions, alignments, and personal traits that significantly influence interactions throughout the adventure. The choices made during creation are not superficial additions but meaningful elements that shape how NPCs respond and how certain situations unfold. This dedication to role-playing exten…

https://youtu.be/mBZd6gr8NOU Front loaded with massive lore drops and dozens of contextless choices players are thrust into a giant world without basic onboarding. A lot of good could be buried but players will have to dig.

A solid roleplaying experience that keeps situations tense without being too overly punishing; you can't save scum, and saving costs resources, but saving at a reasonable rate is doable. Plenty to watch for and be careful of. If you play at the baseline normal and expected way, this game is fine. Take heed if you play the Loner style (start your playthrough with the Loner modifier to reduce companion group size), you can wind up in a tough spot travelling on the world map and getting ambushed by an enemy group you can't flee from. A slight problem you can fine-tune with volume settings: overly noisy horror sting sound effects in the environment could alarm you into thinking something terrible just happened when really, that's just ambience. It could jar you into being attentive just to realize nothing happened. I question the choice of the horror sting effects is all, some of them are questionably much.