Recent reviews by LMJ

Basically this is Dungeons 3 but with some good updates that I didn't know that I wanted.

The overworld doesn't have islands now so you must consistently do evil acts (killing unicorns, intercepting patrols, etc), which I thought would be annoying but it makes for a much more interactive overworld gameplay than in dungeons 3.

Also the dungeon is now almost exclusively run by the snots, they make toolboxes, summon mana, etc, so your creatures have more time to be in the overworld. There's still some things for them to do in the dungeon if you want such as train, pray, dance and stuff.

There's also a new talent system that lets you start with 3 selectable bonuses which ranges from decent to really strong. It's a really fun addition but I feel like I end up taking the same ones for most of the missions unfortunately. Still fun though and opens up for more replayability.

Solid factorio-like game without the monsters but with more resource gathering and building. Makes you travel between planets to set up resource networks which is pretty atmospheric.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥' love building stuff.

Super solid TD. Lots of difference in tower functions and the enemies waves. Good map variety. Maps on hardest difficulty (max anarchy) are actually challenging and requires thinking, planning and adapting to beat, especially the ones where you can't fuse the waves.

Won't be your main game, but for a few bucks it's really fun and worthwhile. You collect body parts from different creatures and monsters and merge them together and send the product out to fight stuff. Needs some tweaks and balances to be a really great game, but even without those it's more than worth its current purchase price.

Bought it for 2 euro, worth every... well, both of 'em.

It's titled a minimalist city builder and is pretty much exactly that. You just place out buildings, and better placement gives more points, better placement meaning that you have to take into consideration both the natural resources and shape of your islands, and also where you place your other buildings.

It can be a cozy little game to blow off steam, or it can be a meticulous city planner game where you can spend a lot of time learning all the rules and place your buildings carefully. I play it as something in between, and if you enjoy city building games I'd say this game is worth it even full-priced.

Top of the shelf game right here. Stand-out qualities are the combat system, which is extremely fun and challenging, and the character customization since there is ten different school of abilities you can mix and match and dabble in so no two characters you play will ever be that similar. Try out a rogue/shapeshifter who dabbles in necromancy and pyromancy, the warrior/geomancer with a side dish of shapeshifting, or why not the summoner/necromancer with a touch of wind and water magic utility? The possibilities really are endless here, and in the best way possible.

Add to that a very well-crafted and immersive fantasy setting, important and interesting companion characters, fantastic music and you have one of the best games published in a long time.

So, I've played fairly constantly since release and just beat the game. Just want to give my two cents on what is currently good and bad with the game, for people considering buying it.

+ Storyline was very well-made. Not too grand, not too small, fitted the gap between BG1 and BG2 nicely, even with some nice twists and turns that I wasn't expecting. Well-written dialogue, believable characters. Nothing extraordinary, but I was expecting a good work and was not let down.

+ Good fights. At this point in the series you are around level 7-10, meaning you have more tools than in BG1 but not quite as many as in BG2, which leaves you in a good place. The large fights was a bit disappointing and turned out to be mostly fireball spams, but there was still some challenging and entertaining fights in true BG-style that left you feeling proud and accomplished to have beat.

- Very linear. Like most "modern RPGs" it's more about the developers telling you their story than they are giving you the tools to tell your own, which is what fascinated me about Baldur's Gate in the first place.

- Buggy. Personally I havn't been able to play the Legacy of Bhaal mode yet because of a bug that constantly resets difficulty, and I've read about other bugs popping up in people's game. Wasn't a huge problem for me though, I'm not in a great hurry to play Legacy mode and the standard campaign worked fine outside of crashing twice, which was just to boot up the game and continue again.

* Some people seem to have problem with one character (not playable) being transgendered, and Minsc having one line relating to the current PC culture debate. While I'm not fond of SJWs or the PC crowd influencing game development, I didn't even notice this during my playthrough and have only read about it afterwards.

To sum it up, if you enjoyed the Baldur's Gate series, you will enjoy this because it's basically just more of it, and both the story and the gameplay holds up. As Chris Avellone said in his cheesy comment, it really is somewhat like visiting an old good friend you havn't seen in a very long time.