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Miasma Chronicles is a work of art. The visuals, the sounds, the music, the universe are breathtaking.
Many times I just walked up to a ledge just to admire the scenery. It makes you feel small with impossible odds of survival, yet always pushing through.

The story is alright, very contemporary.
The plot twists are not great: you see one with a certain character coming a mile away, the other one is just disappointing.

The cons:
- Combat is repetitive with few valid options on higher difficulties.
- Most guns you find are useless, and it feels like you only ever upgrade once near the end.
- Controls and UX suffer from several small design flaws that pile up. In UI web design, you learn that people spend most of their time on other websites, so you need to respect some basic principles. It feels the same in a game set in an established genre: players spend most of their time playing different games.
So playing a tactical shooter with reloads, you expect R to reload your gun, Tab to switch between different targets, right click to move, etc. This leads to reloading a save for dumb UI manipulation mistakes.
- No replayability. When you've completed it once, there is no incentive to go back. It is all linear and you get the extra companions so late.

Overall the creative minds behind this game did a fantastic job,
Miasma Chronicles came close to greatness, and is a beautiful experience with great value for money.

Fun and replayable.
I wish there was a way to bypass a bit of the grind though, or maybe better players can just rush the main objectives.

I tried to like it. I loved and spend thousands of hours on xcom 1 and 2, I came hoping for another tactical masterpiece, but it's just a boring story milking the Marvel franchise, with non-stop comic-relief and fan-service references.
There is so little action, most of what I saw from the game felt like a long cutscene.
I tried to power through it hoping the gameplay would become interesting but gave up after a couple hours.

There was potential, shame

There were some issues with the previous episode Kingmaker that made the game punitive and a slow grind in the end unless you built to face constant controls.
Wotr made everything worse with serious balance issues. Right from the start you need to exploit cheesy mechanics like grease.
The first boss can one-shot your tank.
The companions are weak and badly built.
You get those annoying attribute drains.
I love difficulty in a game, but it has to be fair and give you the ability to recover.
On top of that you get an overwhelming amount of classes, subclasses, feats and specializations.

So much fun!

A lot of people on the forums get excited about the game and disappointed they are not showered with content and fine-tuned quality.
I really enjoy the game and the devs are working on it.
You can spend a lot of time exploring, trying it different skill trees, gearing up and chasing achievements.

My main issue with the game is the long walks through uninteresting areas and overall lack of fast travel options.
I love the challenge, the graphisms, the depth in stats and see a wonderful potential for future updates.

Nice game, a bit grindy to finish up the quests, but a good experience overall.
I found all archer classes very powerful, while some of the others were underwhelming or very slow to get started.
I quite liked the super weird story and context, it gave flavour to a classic deck-building game.

I started liking the game and its seemingly endless character build possibilities, the interesting lore, the intrigue, and so many good things.
Then the campaign began feeling like a slugfest, struggling to keep up with kingdom management and having to build settlements, with so many unskippable cutscenes of people visiting the throne room.
Eventually I reached Nyrissa's domain, followed by the last boss's domain, and that was horrible. It is an endless crawl through mobs that one-shot, perma-paralyze, drain stats, focus on your squishies. Sure, if you know what you are doing, you can build a party against that, but since you have no idea the first time around, you just save and load, buffing with all you have all the time.
Horrible, horrible experience.
Shame, there are so many great aspects to the game, but the end of the campaign and the kingdom management ruined it for me.

I played a couple games, it's alright.
Might play another one

Lots to do, constant free updates to the game and a bit of story.
The game has flaws: some aspects of the game are not rewarding like trading. The reputation system is also a bit punishing.
Still, I find the game worth it. For that price and made by indie devs, I find it engaging and regularly come back to it.