If you liked West of Loathing, you'll probably like this. If you did not like West of Loathing, you will definitely not like this.

I played Kingdom of Loathing as a kid and I enjoyed the silly writing. Sadly, I really don't think you can make an entire narrative experience around random quirky dialogue with ultimately no connection to anything. It's good for a few hours of fun, but based on the themes and setting, I kind of expect more.

The humor is worth maybe a few hours, the gameplay is worth maybe a few hours, but there's not much of a cohesive experience to be had outside the individual components. Once you've heard the first 10 conversations, just imagine that repeating for the entire runtime of the game. Once you've gone through one combat sequence, you've experienced pretty much all it'll ever be.

This game would've been so good if it was cut in half. If you played this or its predecessor, you would know the mechanics in these games are just context for the real draw which is the writing. It's hilarious if you like slapstick/absurdist humor. But the gameplay is not nearly fun, varied or deep enough for me to enjoy it from start to finish, it's 6 chapters long and I gave up 4 chapters in (about 15 hours) when the game simply didn't let me advance because of some bullshit RNG event that I couldn't trigger, not that I wasn't gonna drop it either way.