Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Prologue

Very well done on providing a free demo. This way anyone can try it and see for themselves if it their kind of game. Myself liked it very much. I loved the story and the many choices. I felt really cast in the role of a Vagrus so the RPG element is very strong in the game and the branching is really interesting. I liked it so much that I searched for it in Fig and became a supporter of it. I'm looking forward to its release.

First off the game is text heavy, its a roleplay game based on a fantasy world featuring post-apocalyptic romans, which is a pretty cool and original setting imo. The game has lots of branching paths, an intrincate lore and tons of strange characters. You play as a vagrus, some sort of caravan leader and guide your comitatus, your crew, through the dangerous world of Xeryn. Dont want to spoil much so youll have to play it. At the end of the day the demo is free so i encourage you to try it and see for yourselves.

this game is not easy to play and that's what i like about it. You really have to think about how to survive, this you do not get from many games these days..

I am reviewing this game not as a demo, but as instant access owner. Why is that? It's because I was sold the moment I sank around 2 hours in demo that I played about a year ago. But this isn't about is it? I backed it up, now, because I want to see this game exceed so badly, devs are open but it doesn't take much to see that they are in tough spot. (Demo is kind of a desperate attempt to market a product, since demos are crazy expensive invests) So to the game, what dragged me in the most is the word setting. Those who are avid fantasy readers will instantly spot from where influence comes from. Before I go ahead, a fair warning. If you are not someone who enjoys reading, 99% you won't enjoy this heavy text oriented game (There are some voice overs, but that's for intro and standalone tutorial story, which very small fraction of the game). Next, onto the game pros/cons: Pros: - World setting - Meaningful Characters - Art (it's so damn good) - Combat (looks simplistic but it's really neat. One of those things easy enough to understand but hard to master) - Trading, I think it's well-verbose and featured system, that doesn't overburden you with technicalities and provides challenge and edge to scratch your itch -Theme and the tone of the setting -Choices, this one is well executed part as well and you won't know if you are making good or bad right way, you have to relay on your hunch or wait to see the outcome Now a bit bad, cons: -Even though tutorial really does it's best to explain things I feel like some UI elements need to be more transparent/obvious (headers,tabs, more hover hints), but overly it's not terrible. It serves the purpose just could use a bit refinement -Someone already said and I personally am not bothered but seems like having a grammar error this days, meaty/confusing sentences and etc, can really turn down people and ironically be a doom. That's only the major complaints I have. And I could go on about pros forever.