There are some interesting features planned (the 'novelties' pointed out by Mawain), and I'll probably throw at least the minimum pledge at the Kickstarter to get the game.

For anyone looking at it and not sure about it, do note that some things listed as features of the game are Kickstarter dependent (romance options and different languages). I don't think it will be the next CRPG 'hit' (still looks too generic, even with the 'novelties'), but for a CRPG junkie like me, it does look like it will scratch the itch and probably be worth the minimum price at least.

As to the GOG release, they seem pretty definitive on that. Maybe they already have an agreement with GOG but it's just not announced here yet.

Why so pessimistic? Paypal will come later, they can't do it at the start of the campaign because paypal plegdes are not counted in the actual kickstarter campaign.
What do you mean?
How so?

I checked out the gameplay video (thanks for not making the usual crap, but an actually informative one!), and it looks interesting. Not heard about it before, but a new RPG with new concepts cannot be a bad thing.

Will check out some articles on their website and see if I get more intrigued. If it has a strong story without too many of the usual cliches, it's a plus in the book ;-)

Oh, and unlike in POE, I hope loading screens won't take half an eternity (SSD helps, but still... wow!).

Ingame backer rewards ruin games, but are apparently super necessary to motivate donors. A "serious tone" game à la PoE gets the funny look-it's-me tombstones, a "comedic" game à la Thimbleweed becomes a huge kickstarter in-joke in and by itself. It's worse than having a corporate sponsor and pepsi billboards all over middle earth. So yeah, I tend to keep away from games financed that way, from now on. I keep to single player games to avoid some middle age setting getting filled with bunnyhopping K3vIn_K1cka$S and BaTmAn97, I'm not keen on these single player games filling up with some equivalent (in the landscape, as NPC, or in game mechanics) as a kind of reward for its funders.

But they haven't even planned such things, you are way to pessimistic man, you could at least give it a chance.

"Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness"

The couriers portion gave me a chuckle. Also, the redundant dark overtone. If you have a geyser spewing blackness, is it too small to spread, thus you need another distribution system to deliver the darkness? Or perhaps black geyser is describe the courier system itself.

Yup. Let's just say it's become my default expectations from now on. This is my preemptive growl. We'll see for the rest.

They told me that they like gog very much, maybe they will negotiate something out with them, in the future, like any other developer does.
What do you mean?

I am skeptical like some of the others, and the title alone says to me that the writing might not be very good due to overloaded darkness inference and the redundant nature of using blackness and darkness like "Department of Redundancy Department". I fail to explain it any better than that.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/01/19/further-songs-of-sorcelation-part-two ?

Let's be honest, this would just put it on par with 98,7% of all videogame classics.

You know what, play gianna sisters instead, if it's to dark for you, but keep your trolling to yourself.

How can you even know that the story isn't good, just because the game has a dark tone, doesn't make any sense to me.

I mean the game is called couriers of darkness for a reason.

WHY

Bit off-topic or a tangent, but I managed to re-locate a game from years ago that looked pretty interesting and innovative in terms of gameplay mechanics: Sui Generis. Apparently it's called Exanima now. Was supposed to be released in 2014, and still isn't out. Judging by comments on Kickstarter and their forum, backers are not best pleased. I hoped it was out as it was a game I kept tabs on at the time, yet didn't back (which I guess was a good thing).

Naturally I hope that won't be repeated for this game, and it looks to have come a bit farther, but it's always a risk with these KS games.

uhhh, no - looks bad

and this video is terrible and not a video to show to get ppl interested, imo

"Just like old classics, now let me take over THREE MINUTES minutes to explain superobviousshit if you've ever played a single game before - oh and here's a TINY TASTE of some TERRIBLE dialogue+quest" where the guy wants you to get something FOR HIM but then won't even tell you what it is, which just doesn't make any fucking sense.

I agree it looks generic and the title is bad and the writing+voice acting is bad bad bad. A 2nd video of it started as I was typing this so I gave that a minute, so I could actually see what gameplay was like and more writing, it's hard to tell if the writing is as bad as the voice acting or if the voice acting just makes the meh writing worse.