Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Troika Games · 2016 · RPG, Steampunk, Story Rich, Isometric, Classic
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About Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Build your own hero in a sprawling steampunk-fantasy world where magic and technology clash, choosing your path through deep character customization, 80 spells, and 56 technological skills. Explore a massive hand-crafted land with 300+ unique characters, tackle quests through diplomacy or combat, and experience a living world that adapts to whether you're a spellcaster or an engineer.
An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick
Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of Ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.
Character Design allows you to customize your character any way you choose
- Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character's development
- Classless, point-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character's development
- 8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma
- More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed
- 16 Primary skills, including Gambling and Healing
- 80 Spells with 16 Colleges of Magick
- 56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines
Extraordinary Adventure Features
- Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious-it would take over 30 real-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum
- Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land
- Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery
- Take on a band of ogres in real-time, or plan your strategy through turn-based combat - you decide
- Accurate day and night cycles affect the gameplay, from combat to thieving skills
- Automatic character management lets action-oriented players delve into the quest at hand
- Create your own worlds or play the included multiplayer scenario online cooperatively or competively
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
One of the greatest RPGs ever made, period. Very interesting setting that is often not explored, which blends traditional D&D fantasy with steampunk aesthetics. The game itself is unbalanced, half-broken, and janky, but I currently have no issues running the vanilla game, other than the severe lack of display options. The biggest issue with this game is the combat, which is a step-back from Fallout and Fallout 2, with muddy feedback, and a tacked on real-time mode which is broken.
10/10 absolute GEM
Sorry no! After being constantly fall down after dunno low health stamina with ma guy who destroyed his weapon on top of the wolf I decided to leave it be. The game's got a huge potential but for me it just didn't turn my mind into it. Sorry but can't reccomend this one :/
Very detailed
A flawed narrative gem of a game.
it's ok
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