Knights of the Chalice 2

This feels more like a student's first effort rather than a game priced similarly to a AA/AAA title. The graphics and music are an amateurish mix with cringey AI generated content. The writing is childish, the story is almost non-existent, there are no real characters, and the map design is extremely simple and linear. It's less an RPG and more just an encounter simulator where you have to play 100+ fights in row with little content in between. Combat could have potentially been the saving grace but the poor design and lack of balance just completely ruins it. To artificially create challenge the dev has gone the low effort route of extreme stat bloat of enemies and forcing the player to play through each encounter using a very narrow range of tactics. DnD 3.5e was always a broken system, particularly the balance of high level magic, but the dev added additional poorly-thought out homebrew rules that break things even further. As a result spell casters are ridiculously overpowered and every encounter just comes down to which side can spam more area effect spells first. This is made worse by the inept implementation of movement and attacks of opportunity which hugely nerfs melee c…

My true playtime is about 15 hrs. The game is good but I won't recommend it to anyone except 3.5e and tactics veterans looking for a challenge. In my opinion the first game is far superior to this sequel. Still, I got my money's worth and had a good time :)

Probably the worst game I've bought in a very, very long time. This claims to be a 3.5 D&D game, but if any DM had run campaigns like this back then, literally no one would play D&D. Over-priced garbage; absolute waste of money. Pitting 5 level 1 characters (that you don't get to design) against a level 4 Necromancer and 6 monsters is about the dumbest ♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen. You'd be better off paying someone the $50 to stomp on your hands repeatedly in steel-tipped stilettos. Less painful than trying to play whatever the f* this is supposed to be.

This game is... legitimately terrible! I don't say that lightly either. I bought it fully expecting an extremely challenging & unforgiving tactical CRPG, where you'd have to make full use of the mechanics and die often until you figure out optimal encounter strategies, etc. Difficulty is not the issue. It's just that the game makes no sense. The dialogue & narrative appear to have been written by a 10 year old. Everything is *really* janky. It's a mishmash of awful budget graphic assets, sound, music - I play many low-budget games but the way it's all put together here just feels really amateurish. The encounters (the meat & potatoes of the game) are just ridiculously gonzo grab bag affairs, with insanely overpowered enemies that make no sense in the game's context. Zero immersion, clearly no effort from the dev to balance anything or create a coherent experience. It's hard to even feel satisfied winning battles b/c they feel so arbitrary & lazily designed. Probably the most amateurish game I've purchased in quite a while.

Every progression choice matters, from the first time creating your team to how you manage your gold, every single move of your heroes on the battlefield has to be pondered carefully and makes the difference between a loss and a win, the resource management is TIGHT, rest options are limited and wasting resources on minor encounters means not having them on the main stage fights. All in all i loved this game, it's hard and it challenges you sometimes to the extreme, but it is also extremely rewarding in a way modern RPGs are no more. The definition of hidden gem and IMHO one of the best strategic RPGs ever made. If you are up for a challenge you won't be disappointed.

This game is nearly perfect, as long as you understand what it is going into it. Every RPG UI/UX designer needs to look at all the QoL stuff