I thought the combat would be like Dark Messiah, but it's like Skyrim.

If you want something like Dark Messiah, play Sir Kicksalot.

Decent game. I bought it at I think 25% off, which I think is a fair price for what you're buying.

At 25.7 hours I've reached level 52 or so, completed the main storyline (after having dragged my feet a bit) and fully upgraded my base. Got 28 / 35 achievements (80%). Wasn't focused on achievement hunting.

Basically, the game is what you'd get if you took the draugr dungeons out of Skyrim and just turned that into a gameplay loop. Its a simple game, though not bad if you understand that you're buying it specifically and only for that experience. The combat is roughly on par with Skyrim or Dark Messiah, which seem to be the primary sources for inspiration. There is not magic in the game yet, but apparently the dev plans to implement that at some point.

The storyline is perfunctory at best, and only serves to give you some excuse to have a game. There's some concept of a big bad evil guy using evil crystals to do... something. So you have a loop of fetch quest -> hunt crystals -> fetch quest -> hunt crystals etc. with random dungeons in between, until you reveal the final area. But that final battle doesn't actually include the big bad evil guy, even though there's an achievement for completing the story. So I hope there's a plan to actually finish out the story with a real final boss at some point, but right now it just sort of ends after you kill the last few evil crystals.

There's really only one primary NPC to give you main quests, and she's AI-voiced. I know that bothers a lot of people, so it's worth mentioning.

There is one city in the game with merchants and side quests. I found it pretty fun when I realized that there are hidden goodies around the city as a reward for nosing about and platforming, so that was nice.