Rogue Lords

it takes some getting used to, especially when to and when not to use the devil mode to cheat, but it is fun. however sometimes you are forced to take bad deals. such as with the teleport system, on the tutorial map the portal was placed nowhere near the interaction place, but in my experiance beyond it the portal was always right next to it, forceing you to for example sacrifice a skill to avoid whatever encounter or debuff you did not wan't. it also does not help that you can not skip the interactions and continue on to the next, combat i understand but why am i allways forced take the sacrifice skill encounter, why can't i just skip it, and it can only be skipped via a teleport but you can't allways place one depending on your location. the fun you can get from the cheating system and the builds is equalizing but consider it more a 2,5/5 rather than a 3. due to fanaticals refund policy i can't reccomend a purchase of the game here if you are unsure.

The game is really fun with a great spin on the normal turn based rouglike with the cheat feature and story elements but the game feels as if they skimped on the Polish.

Rogue Lords is a nice candy with a tasteless filling that will bore you after the first 2 hours. After that, it is the same over and over. Nice setting, graphics, interesting set of skills and good voice overs but lack of real depth in combat, poorly balanced essence feature, empty useless world, too linear, merchant is a bummer and it is a bad roguelike. More specifically, you encounter events on the map where your lords can improve their skills or get more souls and create terror advantages throughout sections of the world. Combat is turn-based where each character has their unique set of skills that needs recharging before next use costing the action points from the same action points pool. The events are varied but it is always about cheating the skill checks. In combat, you deal physical and spirit damage with actions points from a conjunct pool, similarly to Iratus or Darkest Dungeon but the problem is enemies deal too much damage and your lords have short physical and spirit bars which get restored after every fight but after just few fights, your demonic essence, which is used for cheating skill checks as well as moving statuses, will get depleted, and it also works as back up health and stress pool if your lords are on a brink of dying, so if it reaches zero, it is game over. You can regain this essence only in a specific shrine in one of the world paths. I also do not understand why we have to walk through the world if there is nothing in it and you only walk from combat to event to merchant to combat to shrine. And that is it. Instead, they should simply make it like in Slay the Spire, click on these events directly on a map and not waste our time walking and getting stuck on trees and "exploring" a linear lifeless world. Merchant aka Grim Reaper is another supposedly complex feature, we get to buy new skills or upgrade existing ones by merging 3 of the same kind, or upgrading one but we will lose it until the next merchant encounter. And then, there are relics which can be either good or terrible. By good, you get to be lucky to buy one that synergizes with ones of your lords and by terrible, it will give you some bonus but will reduce something else important like give 1 more action point but all incoming damage is doubled. Merging skills is too expensive and it is better to lose one temporarily and fight with another lord or skill with similar values. I can barely afford anything useful if anything at all at merchants also thanks to...

Nice graphics and sound. Lots of ways to tweak your troops to get the most out of them and its fun arguing strategy with my friends.