FATE: The Traitor Soul

FATE: The Traitor Soul (TS) is best summarised as: "Yo Dawg, I herd you like FATE, so I put an FATE in your FATE so you can deep delve while you deep delve." The title of this review is not hyperbole: TS contains the two realms in FATE: Undiscovered Realms (UR), but with improvements to NPC voice lines (they may actually say something now, instead of coughing or clearing their throat) on top of improvements to the overall game formula, such as a complete removal of the level cap (it was 199 in UR), the ability to use two weapon setups on the fly, and the addition of the species system that gives your character some starting handicaps based on which species you decide to play as. By now, many players of the WildTangent or Steam release should be aware that Grove, the realm in the first FATE, is locked behind an integer in its realms.dat file. In this GOG.com release, however, Grove is already unlocked, so fiddling with that file in a text editor is a thing of the past. All of the above is this game's supplementary content. TS adds a new, fourth dungeon, called the Chamber of Trials, whose monster levels will always scale with your character's (as opposed to the dungeons in Grove, Druantia, and Typhon, where monster levels stop scaling once your character reaches a high enough level), so you just can't cheese it through level grinding - you need to master the mechanics of the game to do more than just survive, especially on Legend difficulty. TS also retains the same QoL improvement seen in the GOG.com release of the other FATE games - common widescreen resolutions are immediately selectable from the Options menu, so you don't need to fiddle with config.dat. If you must choose only one of the FATE games to buy, it's a toss-up between this and The Cursed King. The latter takes place in a different realm and features its own spread of dungeons along with minor improvements over TS, although only one dungeon is available at the start.

Good game - very similar to Torchlight!

Only grab on sale tho. Used to play this as a kid via Wild Tangent Launcher. Good times. I have still not been able to find a better Dungeon Crawler out there in modern times.

If Diablo 1/ Torchlight nostalgia hits you, this is A good fix.