I was alone. It was winter and I was sitting in my 17m² one-room apartment in Göttingen in my first semester of a study program that I hated. It was snowing quite heavily and on YouTube, a fresh let's player named Gronkh had uploaded a video series on Risen. I saw this game, knew it was from one of my favorite developers and had to have it. So I made my way through the snow to Media Markt and bought a way too overpriced version of the game. I didn't regret it. It was the Gothic 3 I had always dreamed of. To this day, this game has the best combat system Piranha Bytes has ever developed. Music, setting and quest design were again top notch and I could fully immerse myself for some time in this beautiful world. Why did I only play it once? I don't know. I watched a lot of let's plays but didn't play it again myself, maybe I should change that.