Grim Tides - Old School RPG

Alright. [i]Grim Tides[/i] is an interesting case of a mobile title being ported to PC (mostly) properly. The actual story writing is pretty decent, and the gameplay is all perfectly functional. However, this game is also the very definition of RPG bloat, with sooooo much content padding. Which ultimately makes it super grindy and kind of boring. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3518811866 The story itself is pretty simple (but as mentioned, also reasonably well written and definitely the star of this show). You, some random Joe, had a cursed tattoo placed on you by the head Sage in your kingdom. Functionally the same as a Geas spell from old school AD&D. It compels you to do his bidding or die, more or less. And his bidding is that you track down a group of rogue Sages in an Archipielago. And so, you set off to your hub town, which is basically a pirate port, to go do exactly that. And while none of that sounds particularly compelling, as mentioned twice now, the writing is actually pretty decent. Which is entirely necessary since the gameplay is pretty meh. In your hub town, you have a lot of services, from a shipbuilder to an alchemist to a tavern with …

nice game:)

Eh, kinda boring and the walls of text that serve as plot don't really interest me. It's fun to design a character and incrementally grow in power though. It's OK, but just OK.

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Enjoyable little game.

isa good