Cralon

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After 7 hours in Cralon I can confidently say this game has stolen my free time and I'm not even mad about it. The graphics are packed with detail, making exploration feel rewarding. The world is fun to wander through. The quests are interesting and best of all, the game respects your time. No spending three hours hunting for that one quest item that apparently only drops when the moon is full and your character is facing north. Cralon focuses on what RPGs should be, exploring, adventuring and actually enjoying yourself. Every time I log in and play it feels like progress not a second job. If you're looking for an RPG with great visuals and satisfying exploration, enjoyable quests and zero "collect 47 boar toenails" nonsense Cralon is absolutely worth checking out. I spent my $20 fast food lunch allowance this week on Cralon and I am not regretting it. Worth every bite of PB&J I will have to substitute this week! Highly recommended!

A game that knows exactly what it wants to be, and a small, endearing, and honest team that set out to make exactly this game. Players with a straightforward “loot and level up” mindset might be put off, but if you’re looking to dive into an interesting underground world and compact gameplay, this is the game for you.

this game is not good. but it does have its´ very own, very rough charme. it feels like "Underworld Ascendant" and, of course, Gothic had an ugly child. Then the devs decided to add themselves and a LOT of "Ruhrgebiet" Stuff to the mix, no matter how fitting or unfitting that might be. I mean, it´s obviously a medieval world, but they have yellow plastic helmets, battery driven flashlights, pictures of modern mine hoisting systems, even fotographs of themselves scattered throughout the game. enemies sometimes just "glide" backwards, there are no real attack or retreat animations. it´s been a while since I experienced such a bad combat system.. inventory management is from 2001 and the dialogues are not really funny. but in the end, the pricing does reflect this, i think. for (atm) 15€, it´s okay to have a few hours (~10) of mine-crawling fun. Addendum: OK, now i´ve reached the end credits, and I do have to add something to my review. 1. the "unfitting objects" are being explained in the end. you may like the explanation (or, the story, that is), i do not like it very much, because it was so forseeable from the first 1/3 of the game, but also "the easy way out" of these inconsi…

This was my second playthrough of Cralon since I played the console version first. I bought it again because I wanted to support the developers. I was really looking forward to this as I loved Björn and Jenny’s work on their previous games. Even though this is very different to the big RPGs that they worked on before, it still has some of the great qualities that those games had. For example, the atmosphere is amazing and is brought to life by the dark visual style and interesting story. Another example is that the characters are interesting, and I really enjoyed talking to them. I had a lot of fun wandering around all the floors looking for things and completing the quests. The ending was another thing I loved and the hints throughout the game of what was actually going on added a lot to that. I’m really looking forward to seeing what Pithead Studio does next.

While I haven't had time to play this for very long, the couple of hours so far have been enjoyable.