I could tell this is as good as Arcania. Pretty nice game. But I can not recommend this because it is too short. Stand-alone expansion for about 5 hours of gameplay. This should be included into Arcania or exist as DLC.

This game will let you import your character from Arcania with full inventory and stats. Very good solution.

Purchase of this game make sense only as a part of pack or on a sale.

Did it in 4.0 hours on normal difficulty, I think I completely explored the game and killed every single enemie, too.


CLASSES:

I started with the "Knight" class. "Mage" and "Hunter" are the other 2 available classes.


MELEE WEAPONS & COMBAT:

Weapons which apply burn or have life steal are just OP and get you through the game even easier than regularly.

It's very easy to stunlock enemies by using a "Zweihänder" sword, I guess even a one handed would do, but I played with the two-handed fire sword most of the time and that's where i noticed it the most.


SPELLS & COMBAT:

You only need the lighning spell, which deals damage and paralizes every enemy, except the boss, for a long enough time to get close and kill them. It also doesn't cost much mana, which you'll regen very fast anyways and it can't be charged, so you can just spam it.

You don't even need to aim exactly at the enemie because it has a relatively big hitbox, so if you'd fire it a bit to the left or right of an enemy, it will still hit.

I don't know about the other spells but I think they won't be as useful.



RANGED WEAPONS & COMBAT:

I didn't use crossbows but normal bows are okay, not too good, though, because the hitbox for "headshots" seems off and aiming is a pain.

Sometimes a hit in an enemie's head will deal as much damage as a shot anywhere else in their body, and sometimes it deals like 300 extra damage.

MERCHANTS:

Merchants are pretty useless and the 3 merchants in the game just pop up at certain spots during the story, all three of them almost standing in each other. That makes it seem like they've just been dropped there without a second thought.

Buying stuff isn't necessary at all, you'll find anything you need in chests, which aren't even well hidden, and you can craft good gear, if needed and if you found the recipes in chests (which again is hardly a challenge).


EXPLORATION?!:

There isn't very much to explore, though. It's a linear setting and you can see caves on the mini-map so you don't even need to search for those.

What I hated the most was, that you only can sprint with an ability ("8" on default), which has a painfully long cooldown. It took so long to walk around that it took my joy in exploring away after 5 minutes.


OTHERS (Graphics,AI etc.):

For a stand alone it feels kind of unfinished and empty at many parts. For example the water "animation" which glitches, the environmental shadows are jumping around, the background looks plain and loveless, enemy AI has it's problems at times (enemies just standing around for 2 sec after I approached them, for excample). But besides all that it has fairly good graphics.

Charachter models and Enemies are well designed.

The mobs won't respawn, so after a while you just cleared the few enemies and turtles in the areas and go on.


RESULT:

I got the game as part of the Gothic Pack on a Steam sale and therefor the price wasn't too high. I won't recommend buying it any other way, because it sadly is not worth it.

Unless you really loved Arcania: Gothic 4 then don't bother with this stand alone continuation of that story. And if you do want to continue Arcania's story, get this on sale.

It took me about 5 hours to meander through the whole thing. You can take your character from Arcania along with all his loot and stats. My character progressed a few more levels but there was not enough content to really make much of a difference. In contrast to Arcania's wide open areas, the Fall of Satarrif features mainly a trench/corridor environment for most of it's story. Otherwise it's pretty much the same game as the original, even down to the end game fight.

The story itself is fairly simplistic but I didn't think it was noticeably worse than the original game.

Do not even consider buying this abomination if it's not included in any bundle.
This is a joke,not a standalone expansion.This game is so short that it should be released as an update to the original ArcaniA. In some RPGs single main quests take as long as this whole game does...it looks like they cut out a quest from the original game before its release and sold it as a standalone title.

PROS

-There is an improvement of the dialog over the main game Arcania. The possessed human's are colorful.
-Worth getting if you plan to play it right after Aracania, AND if you buy it for 75% off or more.
-You can import your high level character from Arcania. You keep all the gear and cash which is nice, and almost feels like cheating.

CONS

-Very short. It has a short main story, and several really mini side missions.
-Map tracking wasn't improved. But since the environments are smaller than the original game it's less likely you'll have to google where your mission is.

This is how JoWooD ends. Not with a bang, but with a $15 expansion for a game nobody bought or liked very much that re-uses a lot of the same assets from the main game. Originally supposed to come out a few months after ArcaniA shipped, the expansion seemed to be destined never to come out until Nordic Games (now THQ Nordic) picked up a lot of JoWooD IP, along with ArcaniA, and put this out.

FOS is basically the ending to ArcaniA, locked up behind $15. It takes place immeditely after the main story concludes with the Shepard being sent to assist forces in Setarrif. Remember the cool looking white and gold Persian-esque city with the miniarets that was under siege and could not be accessed? That's Setarrif. However, a volcano has errupted and has cut off the city from the rest of the island, as well as seriously affected the city and the surrounding wildlife. The expansion is pretty linear and there are exactly two side quests outside of the critical path. It's worth noting that you can start FOS with an end-game character from ArcaniA along with all your equipment and inventory, although it will all get quickly replaced with better gear.

The engine performs slightly better, with none of the *many* glitches and bugs that hounded ArcaniA present, and there are some interesting sequences where you take control of Lester and Gorn for story-related purposes, but overall, FOS is pretty bare-bones. I paid $3 for this and I still feel like maybe I could have spent it on something better. Also, the voice acting is weirdly delivered in FOS with lots of unnatural pauses and volume levels versus how it was in ArcaniA (although that had it's fair share of audio problems too) which can probably be explained away by its traumatic development process.

Your money is better spent elsewhere.

✅I give it a positive review because I wanted to see how the story of the Nameless Hero would end.

✅Nice graphics
✅Soundtrack
✅We have equipment from the main game
✅Old friends in the location
✅The plot ending the story of the Nameless One

❌The add-on is very short
❌low level of difficulty
❌For me it is unacceptable that in RPG games there is a linear plot

while i for one enjoyed this standalone expansion i agree with everyone else, the game was way too short the store page says Playing time: 4 – 8 hours (what a joke) but its really only around 2 1/2hours. they should of added this into arcania as a update or dlc instead of trying to milk full profit like its a full game. I would avoid this game unless its at least 75% off

Arcania was bad, but this is worse. They cut content from the main game to make a separate game you have to pay for. GREEDY!

Fall of Setarrif is apparently some cut content from the mediocre ArcaniA masquerading as a full game. I powered through it, listening to all dialogues and killing most monsters but not going out of my way for anything, in 2 3/4 hours. There may be 3 1/2 hours of content here if you REALLY scavenge every inch of the ultra-linear map for things to do. And by "things to do", I mean grabbing junk off of the ground, not side quests because I only encountered one in my (admittedly truncated) playthrough. Considering that they're still asking $15(!) full price for a barely-there expansion, I feel sorry for anyone who bought it on launch.