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What is difference between Owlcat Games and Bethesda? Both of them release mess of the game with tons of bugs. But Owlcat actually create otherwise a great game with flaws and try to fix them over period of several months, while Bethesda just don't even bother and let community do all the work.

Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader could be describe as a great game with several flaws, but very accurate setting, sticking to the estabilished lore with brilliant music in the background. Something that Owlcat know how to do in my personal opinion.

Sadly, they again repeat their past mistakes, which I will describe right now


Personally I was lucky enough to encounter mostly visal ones. For example weird animations, sometimes enemies will just stay for a while and doing nothing in the middle of combat, so you need to wait from few seconds to half of minute for computer to pass a turn, enemies moving through objects sometimes (happened to me once), you could cover behind invisible crates, dead enemies standning in idle pose, one companion doing the same after death too.

But of them were more annoying like I needed to reload my save before encounter, because even after destryoing a objective, it still counts as active so I couldn't finish the fight.

From what I read in other reviews, some people had corrupted saves after a bug in final location. I recommend to create a save before entering final location in Act 5. If you would to be really safe, make a backup somewhere. Now, talking about Act 5...


Previous game had the same problem as this one. The more you progressed, the more it seemed unfinished and rushed. Owlcat have this bad habit creating a great first half of the game. Second one starts to show slowly its flaws, which will get worse and worse. Without spoil too much, I will just say that they should put Act 5 into Act 4 and delay the game a little so they can cook Act 5 a little bit more. In Act 4, if I may be perfectly honest, you won't do much exploring. If you explored in previous hours the whole map, you won't get much more systems to explore again. Keep something for later, because the blank parts of the map will stay mostly blank.

Also, from Act 4, it will starts to drag a little, especially in last Act 5. At least I had this feeling. Personally I just turned down difficulty from Daring to Normal so I can finish the game a little bit faster. I would even say that in some fights I asked myself "Why is this there? It don't even makes sense to be here. It's just unnecesarry." Talking about fights...


Again, they don't know how to balance them. Previous game have this problem, this one too! I played 90% of the game with Daring difficutly. If I may recommend, play it on it too, it's probably the best difficulty to experience the game. Now, I played without any build guide and for the most part, I didn't had problem. Some battles were challenge, some stupidly easy. But then, there is certain part of Act 4. This is when I lower my difficulty for the first time from how stupid encounter it was. For the most of the game, you could basically play how you wanted and build your characters how you wanted. Then this specific encounter come. From having difficult and fun combats in this finale of Act 4, I went to insane one, where I got my party wiped out in turn 1. This is part, where you just need to have full meta character builds, if you want to play on Daring. Honestly, for me it wasn't fun at all and I just lower difficulty to normal. Then it was stupidly easy. Balance! I laugh on how badly designed that combat was. So just be careful and have a good builds on this fight.



Let's start with locations and their design. Let me tell you, they did a astonishing job to portrait Warhammer 40K universe. Their art design and architecture is something I didn't saw in other Warhammer 40K games. I applaud Owlcat Games for creating such a great looking game! There is nothing to point out. Just great!

Music! Another part where Owlcat excel. When you launch the game and you will look into the main menu, you will get welcome by I would dare to say W40K: Mechanicus quality level of music, maybe even more. Composers, who created this great soundtracks deserve applaud too, because they managed to create pieces you would exactly expect from Warhammer 40K. Especially ones made by Pawel Perepelica. My personal favourite from him is Darkness Between the Stars.

Story is interesting too! You play as a Rogue Trader, a powerful person with Warrant granted by Imperium of the Man, who can freely move across the galaxy on your own flagship and interact with not just several powerful human beings, but xenos too.
I won't tell you anything more except that you will find a several companions, who will help you on your journey. Just do me a favour, please. Don't make your Seneschal sad.

Gameplay is like your other cRPG, but with turn based combat only. If you played tabletop W40K, you will be probably like at home. Let me just tell you, read everything before you put your points into it. It will take time, but really, read everything. Trade mechanic is new tho! Now, you need to gain reputation for certain number of faction. You will gain it by trading cargo you gathered on your adventure. Just a tip form me, gather every junk you will get and put it into cargo, you will thank me later. When you will gather enough reputation, you need things named Profit Factor, which are your money. In this game, you don¨t have classic copper/silver/gold pieces. No. You are so wealthy that your money are under Profit Factor. You can get them by completing contracts, completeing projects on your colonies or in quests.

About colonies, instead of Kingdom managment, you have colonies you will get after completing a story missions. One you need to discover yourself. Here, you can execute several projects, that will give you materials, reputation, profit factors or even items for you and your ship.

In previous game, you had this second type of battles, which was basically a Lidl version of Heroes of Might and Magic. Here, you have space battles. It's not Battlefleet Gothic, but personally, I had fun with them and actually looking forward to do them. Your companions can have several roles on your ship and after few upgrades, they can even help you with several abilites in these battles a well. You upgrade your ship with items from factions, battles or colonies. You can even upgrade some abilites as well, which I discovered just today, before I completed the game.

That should be around everything I wanted to share with you. I hope I didn't forgot anything.



If I should be honest with you, wait a few months or take it in sales in case you are not familiar with Owlcat previous games. If you are not and you know exactly what you can expect from technical sides and quality of second parts of their games, go for it now! There will be a DLC too with a new companion, so if you want, wait for it and then play this game for a full experience.

For a number I would give to Warhammer 40: Rogue Trader: Soild 7/10

The story is great, where you need to think for yourself too, if you want to uderstand, why you do things and why they happened. But bugs and rushed last two Acts spoil overall a great game with a wasted potentional in the end.
You will have a lots of fun! I complete this game in 100 hours with one restart and didn't even explored 100% of the map.

Imagine a game, where you put the best from Gothic I and II together into one game and make it even better. That is The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos.

You can feel in this project from Polish team, that they liked and respect the source material, putted their passion into it and created something amazing. Masterpiece, if you will. But, it have some flawes.
I have four playthroughs behind me and I basically saw everything I could at this point. First and second one was when the game was released. The third previous year and the last one I just almost complete.

Let's start with flawes.

1. It have bugs. Not much, but some of them may be really annoying and one even game breaking. Let's start with animations.
One is that you will get stuck at one place, if you jump to inclined surface. Your character will just be stuck in "slide" animaton in one place.
Second one is when you have skilled crossbow weapon. There is animation when your character will prone and shoot on the enemy. Sometimes may happen that you will get stuck and can't move, switch weapon or shoot.
But these two ones are nothing you can't fix in no time.

Then there are two serious ones, one of them game breaking, but like I said, it was new for me in my 2nd run.
In one part of the game, you will get script, where after gates should open. It happened to me that these gates were closed. I discover that I need to go into the same place to trigger that script again. That helped.

Now there is the game breaking one. At the end of the game, there is NPC you need to do some quest for it and it will disappeear for few days... or it should, but for me, he never appeared again so I can't continue in main quest. This one, from what I read, is rare. It may be because I triggered two scripted at once by accident. Just be careful here.

2. It's a Gothic game, so if you don't want any problems, you need min-max a little. Otherwise you will have tons of problems.

3. Only one dabing. That is something I saw that pushed people away, because its not in German, nor English but in Polish

4. Ending. The ending may be different a little depends on your choices. But the main ending will stay the same and in my opinion, it wasn't bad... but not great either. You will see. In my opinion, it was a little bit... weird?


Now the good sides of this game!

1. The world of the game. You feel that is in the Gothic universe. They manage to create something you would believe that this is offical new game from Piranha Bytes. For free.

2. Story. The story is sooooooo great! And I don't talk about the main story line, but the side content too. You will not just remember most of them, but you feel that these situations could be real. And the variety of the quests! Hmmm!

3. Replayability. There is enough content for at least 2 runs. There are two factions you can join. These factions have their "main quest", and both of them two "Side quest" lines, that depends on who you will choose. The most interesting thing is that there is part of the main quest, where you get from one person quests depending on what faction you decided to join, so you have two different quests from that one NPC too.

4. Exploring. They done a great job with the world map and its corners. This world, this Archolos have many places you can visit, explore and get a loot you will need from mushrooms to runes and good weapons. There is even place you can discover, if you managed to deliver certain amount of items to certain NPC.

5. Dabing. Yes I added the dabing here too. Let me tell you, I was sceptic too about Polish dabing but oh boy I fall in love with it. I will even say, and I will get backlash from the veterans of first two games, is even better than in Gothic I and II. I played original two Gothics in English and German. I still like more Polish one here in Archolos. Don't let it push you away from this great game, try it.

6. Soundrack. It have its own great Gothic inspired soundtrack. You will find some familiar ones, but different at the same time. You will probably like it same I do.


I tried to avoid spoilers, yet I wanted to warn you about some things that may happen to you, but may not and tell you why this game have so high score in reviews. It is modification for the old game, but I want to say to you all to try it, at least for a few hours if you have Gothic II in your library and never launch it. It may grab you and sink you into this great world, where you will lost several hours without knowing.

In the end, I want to thank you, The Chronicles of Myrtana Team, that you gave us this masterpiece. In my eyes, you managed to create something, that surpass the original series, made something exceptional that created a special place in my hearth.

That is all from me, take care and I hope, that you will try this and enjoy it! Good luck in world of Myrtana!

This game is like a job. Except that you actually want to wake up in 5 am in the morning and do your 12+ hour long shift with smile, full of energy just to have happy time with your fellow miners in dangerous cave full of minerals and swarms of bugs who want to kill you on sight. And after return (if you make it... ahem) you can buy yourself a nice tasty beer and have a good night with your fellow dwarves.

Even Management is your average boss in a factory who cares only about profit and you are just a number to him. But here, you can legally piss him off without consequences and its funny as hell.

Buy this game. Play it. And remember, do every time ROCK & STONE salute with key V and do not leave single dwarf behind.

Verdict: 10/10

I just finished the game and I will tell you something about my experience.

This game is Desperados/Commandos like game. You will take control of 7 characters through the game with different nationality, personality and believes. Most of the story is placed on Eastern front in Poland.

Lets start with CONS:

From what I read, this game had real problems with bugs after release to that point it was unplayable. It still have some issues, but mostly its like corpse glitched inside the texture, kill animation after reload even you did not killed anybody in that point, your character will sometimes move a little bit after reload, but overall nothing game breaking just minor flaws.

Movement can be clunky, like you want to move to bush, your character seems like hidden but isn't.
You can pretty easy cheese AI with weapons or skills so difficulty can be much more easier then it sounds (played on hard and it was like medium for me). To be fair you can cheese AI in other games like Desperados 3 but here its easy if you are really creative.

There is one mission, where one of the character is supposed to stay in one place and if you are unlucky, can die pretty quickly and you cannot move him. Well, you can but it will return to the same position and its very frustrating part of the game, but its just one mission and part of it.

its just a detail but for someone dabing of the characters can be immersion breaking, because most of the time they speak in english, but sometimes in some moments of the story, they will just switch to they native for a second or two. On the other hand, NPCs talk with their first language, so thats cool.

Now something about PROS:

What I really like about the game is realism. In most of the games from 2.WW, Germans are THE worst of the worsts, while Soviet Union are the saviors and yara yara. Not here. Germans and Soviets are in same league if we talking about morality. And characters who came from Poland hate Germs AND Soviets and even do not see any differences between them. You do not see that so much in games or films and I as history enthusiast really appreciate it that devs showed this.

And in bad side of the war we stay, because this game is not scared to show mass executions, genocide right front of your eyes, torture and more realistic side of the war overall. It is not heroic story, its gritty reality.
About story. Nothing you didn't saw in past but that doesn't mean its bad. No its actually good, something above average, but not perfect.

Cinematics are beautiful. The black & white art its fenomenal. They will be played before and after each mission.


Verdict: Decent 7.5 / 10

It have some flaws, but I had fun and I believe that you will have fun too. If you are interest in 2.WW and you are bored of the CoD like games full of heroism and want to see more realistic approach buy this game and play it.

It is one of these game you want to replay every single year in the rest of your life.

Hotline Miami on crack with best pixel art I ever seen.

In my first battle, I told my SL that this is my first game in HLL ever. He's answer was: "It's ok man, right now, you are better than most people here, because you are not scared using your mic. I can see you're a team player." Rest of the match I told just few things like calling enemy position and asking some questions.

After like 10-15 hours, I started playing as SL. I didn't know wtf I'm doing, but I was trying to build OPs and garries. But mainly I was talking with my squad. Well, I was trying atleast.

And now, after 70 hours, I play most of time as SL, telling people what to do and talking with them whole match and have fun match with my entire squad.

Guys, this game is really awsome, if you using your mics. I'm shy guy and I was really scared to talk with other team players. But I try my best and now I do as much as I possibly can to give other random people in my squad good experience. Community in this game is incredible and I found only a few toxic players, thats all. If you do not know what to do, ask your SL or if you are SL, do not hesitate and ask your commander or experience people in your own squad, they will guide you or watch some guide videos on YT, there are plenty of them. Other skill you learn trought experience. If you decide to buy this game, I really wish good luck on battlefield, good experience and mainly fun.

And my quote from game in the end: "Guys, imagine that this strong point is your girlfriend and enemy is guy who hitting on her. Defend it at all cost and do not let them even touch this point."

Previous review was negative, because I had problems with launch. After month I can finally play this masterpiece. But in my case, its not without flaws, I have sometimes FPS drops for no reasons and some tear problems, but its playable so I am happy.

Now I can FINALLY say: BUY IT! DO IT! JUST DO IT!

This game is one of these really original games on market. This game is mix of survival, hobo simulator, pandemy simulator and doctor simulator in low-fantasy universe setting and mainly horror. But you will not be scared because of paranormal creatures, but because of deadly plague.

You will be in role one of doctors in Town, like in original game from 2005, but you will be able play just one route as Haruspex (Because of low sales, devs didn´t complete other two routes and I really hope, they complete this game), but do not get me wrong, Haruspex route is complete and one playtrought will take +- 30 hours. Writing of characters is insanely good and story, oh boy this story is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awsome. And its something, you will not get in other games.

But there are some technical issues, like 20 fps block animation, optimalization is not perfect and sometimes your FPS will drop but its nothing really horrible.

You will die. You will starve and people you care about, will die if you do not save them from plague. Time is againts you, never stop. You cannot save everyone and you will feel that really hard.

This game is for me really masterpiece. This game gived something unique, really unique experience and I hope, devs complete other routes one day.

Even with these technical issues I give this game 9/10. Its worth for 30€, even more.

I really enjoyed this game and I can tell, this game is really original and you cannot find experience like this in other games.

Do you want good old school R6 and SWAT 4 game with better graphic, 5v5 PVP and CO-OP? If your answer is yes or HELL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YES! LETS GOOOOO! This game is for you.

You play as Bangladesh police special forces against terrorist organization. Right now, you can have only few weapons (~10 main weapons and 3 handguns) and few utilities. You can attach different scopes, suppressors, lasers, etc. on your weapons so there is some customization.

It have some issues like minor bugs, but is Early Access and they hopefully repair it. Player base is also not super great but its not bad either (right now around 2K but thats because of sales, before that ~600).

There are two modes, PVP and CO-OP. Personally I didnt touch PVP yet so about it a cant tell much. But CO-OP is another story. You can play it solo or with friends, but solo is challenge as hell. You have different scenarios in different maps like hostage situacions, bomb defuse or kill all terrorist. What suprise me is AI. Yeah, have a little aimbot but its not completly stupid. And in maps, they spawns randomly so you can never know where enemy is after restart mission (and yes, enemy can camp under bed or table so be careful).

Oh and OST is one big banger.

I will not give it final score right now, because its not finished product but If devs will go this "realism" path, not like Ubisoft and theri R6 Siege, I can say this: "We will have new SWAT-like game and we will love this game for this".

I bought this game in sales, but is worth for default price. Buy it, if you like tactical FPS and I can tell, you will not regret.