Does this mean that enemies don't respawn? (If so, then that is another reason for me to avoid the game.)

Also, nobody's answered my question about missable stats and (non-)retroactive HP gains.

- Enemies (including animals) do not respawn in Balrum. Nor do rocks you can mine. Trees do near wisps and you can plant most plants.

- Enemies mostly drop random number of stuff you'd expect (deer can drop meat, leather and antlers, skeletons can drop bones, fractured bones, skulls and occsionally rusty swords etc.), some monsters have preset loot.

- Loot in the world is hand placed.

- There is at least 2 cases where you can get extra stat point ONLY if you have exactly 5 points in the stat. If you are over, you're out of luck.

- There are number of skill books in game and you can only use them if you have the requirements (level 1 skill for level 2 skill book) and don't already have the skill at level or above it (if you already have skill 2, level 2 skill book is unusable). Learning skills costs learning points that are finite so you save them using books and waste them if you learn skill when book is available. (skill book locations. Obviously spoilers!)

- I'm pretty sure you get set number of health each level up and 50 per vitality point. If you lose vitality, you lose health and if you gain it you gain health. You can get more health from trainers by spending learning points and there are few other things that can improve your health in game. Mind that I've only played as melee character (chose swordplay at start) but I just tested starting with arcane arts and had less base health and more base mana so it's possible that what combat skill you have affect mana/helth you gain at level up. Also just tested and you do NOT gain the bonus health/mana if you get other combat skill later in game.

- You get one base stat point per level (you have 8 points to distribute at start). Base stats determine what equipment you can wield. You can use learning points to improve your base stats at trainers. There are also few other things in game that can improve you base stats. Majority of your total stats eventually come from your equipment (2/3 or more). Stats given by equipment are bonus stats and do not affect what equipment you can wield (so no, that +5 strenght sword won't allow you to wield that 5 strenght requiring platemail) but as far as I can see otherwise act the same way as base stats.

- You start with 4 skills at level 1 (1 is carpentry and you are given 3 choises each for 3 others skills) and 5 learning points. You get 6 points per level up and there are few books that give you learning points, few that gives skill levels and you can gain learning points from killing certain special monsters. You spend these learning points to improve your skills and stats. As far as I can tell, even if you get all the LP (from level ups, books and monsters) and use all the skill books available, you can't max all skills so build you character accordingly.

- Majority of xp gained in game comes from quests and monster xp only amounts to 20% or so of total xp if you kill everything worht xp and do all quests available to you.

- Max level people who completed this game have achieved is around 12.

Any other questions?

Somehow, whenever I read the title of this game, I have to think of this nice little spot.

Looks interesting. Reminds me I reall should start playing the Eschalon games someday ;-) But really, this game seems perfect to play on a notebook on the road. I will have an eye on this.

sorry hadnt kept track of it lol

I can see your point and Oracle hasn't been the greatest steward in making a secure release of java. I run java for one app only, but ages ago I made sure there were no browser plugs enabled and I run a reasonably tight ship on my desktop that it is unlikely I'm going to download something that takes advantage of JAVAs security flaws so for me I'm ok with what the game's dependencies. Oracle really do need to take a year and just focus on bug and security architectural work on java.

Actually I'm now starting to agree with you more, I forgot oracle are buggers, I just noticed in my java applet settings it says turned on in the browser and I had turned that off ages ago so they must have switched it back on with an update. Luckily the browsers I have installed have it disabled / removed it in the addons,

You are right java is bad and with oracle updating it you can't trust it, as they do some sneaking settings changes.

All I know is that GOG refused publishing several titles I was very happy to buy. Also, from what I heard the terms aren't always encouraging, but that's obviously hear-say because NDAs.

Oh my, reading about it this sounds like bloody good fun. Recent sales drained all the current funds but I'll be keeping my eye out for this. Love games where the mobs don't respawn and you really feel like you're making progress fighting your way into the map.

Thank you, this is all very helpful info!

Good price + good impression from the videos I found in YouTube = bought.
And I've great interest in isometric RPGs since I discovered Fallout.
Thanks for bringing this here, gOg!

I can't seem to get the game to run in GOG Galaxy or directly from the desktop. Has anyone had this problem. Any solutions? I've looked on line and found that steam users are having the same problem. Sounds like the game is having issues.

Working perfectly here.
Your best bet is asking for help to gOg staff, they are more likely to be able to point where the issue lies, and how to fix.
Don't forget you have the right to ask for a refund, in the worst case.
But I doubt the staff won't be able to help you.

Why did I just buy this on Steam when I could of got it here DRM free?! /smh

You didn't actually buy it.
You rented.
Now on your knees, pray to not go to hell, sinner!

Have you tried installing the latest version of the JRE from Oracle's Java website?