Posted May 24, 2019
kai2: From what I've read Grimoire is actually quite good but very difficult and... players actually need to read the manual. This is an old-school game.
Seeing the developer's pedigree (earlier Wizardry games) and the fact that the current Wizardry is having issues getting curated here, maybe GoG no longer likes the genre?
All I can say is that from now reading extensively about the game (but not having played it), it's quality would seem to be on par with many games here already.
What have you read? From everything I've seen it's a mess. The only outright positive reviews I've seen were user reviews that were suspect cause they gave it perfect scores, and when you look at the general user reviews it doesn't even crack a 5 out of 10. Seeing the developer's pedigree (earlier Wizardry games) and the fact that the current Wizardry is having issues getting curated here, maybe GoG no longer likes the genre?
All I can say is that from now reading extensively about the game (but not having played it), it's quality would seem to be on par with many games here already.
The reviews from actual critics were mixed to bad. Usually when I see reviews they tend to skew to being overly generous, where an 8 or 9 should really be a 7 or an 8. If that's the case for this than the best case scenario based on it's ranking is a 6 and the worst case is a 1,
I'm not saying there's no place for the game, just that I've seen very little positive said about this game.