Discover the shattered world of Solasta: explore ruins and dungeons for legendary treasures, learn the truth of an age-old cataclysm - and stop it from happening again. Create your very own party of adventurers with our Character Creation Tool in the classic tabletop RPG tradition. Breathe life into your heroes, and see their personalities reflected in their dialogue. Tailor your squad to your preferred strategy and maximize your party's abilities. The choice is yours. Delve into long forgotten dungeons to unearth ancient artifacts, but stay watchful of light and darkness: many dangers hide in the dark, but a light can attract monsters. Some enemies have darkvision, some may flee from your torch... Successful adventurers will learn to use it to their advantage. Fight monsters in squad-level, turn-based, tactical combat. Solasta's dynamic environment offers some interesting tactical options. Bridges can collapse, leaving enemies stranded and vulnerable. Walls and columns can be pushed over - on top of your foes, if you do it right. The world is your playground.
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The emergent gameplay systems aren't as developed as that of Divinity: Original Sin 2, but I still had some fun engaging my lateral thinking to avoid just a bit of the combat funnel.
In terms of combat, I can comfortably say that I prefer Wizardry 8. D&D 5e's combat system is rewlly not the greatest in my opinion, and while the use of light can add a bit of tactical decisionmaking to battles against vampiric forces, it ultimately boils down to out-damaging the enemy a lot of the time; Status effects such as fear rarely proc due to the dice rolls involved, and wear off quickly, meqning that pure damage often ends up being a better investment of a turn.
One bonus, and what has given me the most fun in the game, is the custom campaign maker. It's easy to use and, while still painfully limited compared to what developers have created for their own campaigns, still allows you to flex your creative muscles and have some fun doing it.
The game uses the classic DnD system and brought me back to all my sessions of a table top RPG!
Decent main campaign, but the DLCs make the game even greater! Both campaigns (Lost Valley and Palace of Ice) expands the world (Lost Valley is alongside the main campaign and Palace of Ice is after it) and makes an even better experience!
Not a game for everybody, but a game that got me by surprise and made up to my top 10!
Not too far along yet, but so far the story is fun, the fights are ok, the dungeons are quite good, and the animation, character models, item designs, menus, writing, and acting are all fully doo-doo garbage
More fun than playing D&D 5E on a tabletop, by a long way. 5E is a kinda crappy system, but the way Solasta's world is laid out on a grid, the emphasis on cover, and the way it foregrounds readying actions makes it play kiiinda like Fantasy XCOM. Pair the decent fights with interesting dungeons, and this seems like it's gonna be a reasonably good time
Also the environmental art is incongruously good - the dungeons, cities, etc. all look anywhere from totally competent to Actually Nice, which is weird because all the characters in them look like 3d printed dog turds
Anyway, definitely gonna dig into this more, and probably see it thru. Its many flaws are outweighed by its few strengths!