Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

Highly recommended for anyone who is a fan of the original baldur's gate games.

After a few false starts, I've finally gotten around to finishing the game. Overall, it was a decent experience as someone who enjoys the old Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 style RPGs. It's not as mechanically polished or narratively interesting as the Pillars of Eternity, which Black Geyser feels closer to than other BG inspired games I've played, but a solid start for a small studio. There's a lot to like and a lot to improve on. Hopefully they get the chance to with a sequel. Some things I'd like to see in a sequel: - More defined classes and distinct class features that aren't just stat bonuses. Too often the classes felt like they overlapped within their category, with clear winners and losers. - Overhauling the Thief and Swindler classes, as they felt kinda pointless. - More character building options as you level up. Feats, optional class features etc. would be welcome. - Fully embracing the psuedo turn based nature to better balance the number of actons/attacks/spells etc, or doing away...

Great, and still getting updates

If you like old-school RPGs, go for it!

I like the fact I can make my own complete party and even add in other characters that I make that's more than the party so I can get rid of one or more character and get the next one/others in. I think the character customization could be greater though, I'd like to see a character customization as thorough as Cyberpunk 2077. also I like the fact that it will zip my party back to the quest giver and not have me waste time riding/walking all the way back. I think the graphics need to be on the scale of BG3 however. I wish the NPCs could actually say my characters name (more Ai needed)I haven't a way to give items from one character to another other than dropping it and have the other character pick it up. I'd like to see automatic spell use during a combat.

Get ready to find another lickspittle for 30+ hours. In all seriousness I wish I could give this game a thumbs in the middle, it has some things going for it, but in the end it suffers a death by 1000 cuts. Around Chapter 4 the game became incredibly unstable for me crashing about every 20 minutes or so, not sure what the cause was and it ended up resolving itself at the end of chapter 4 into chapter 5. I will give it props for its spell system (at least concerning Wizards) that gives casters a generous amount of spell slots. What really won me over was the Necromancy and Summoning, its an archetype I always play and Black Geyser lets you bathe the screen in minions. Like I mentioned above the game suffers from a lot of little annoyances and slight bugs, but it's worth picking up, especially if its on sale. Cheers fellas.

Good RPG, more like that we need!

not bad