I feel like they have stumbled onto something great with KB: The Legend and Armored Princess, but everything after these games has been the studio searching for the next great thing. Sadly they aren't able to figure out a good sequel.Something similar happened to Disciples after the second game. On a positive note, first and second King's Bounty games are still a lot of fun, and I return to them often.

Ah, Blade of Darkness. I enjoyed some seriously tense moments with that game way back. Too bad the author of the piece doesn't know how to string together a decent essay. I was hoping the writer would have dived deeper into the game. Now we end up with a few surface level anecdotes. Also the way they flip the script at the end is really awkward and the justification for why it's not actually like Dark Souls are just...I don't know, face-palm worthy. To be fair though, I enjoyed BoD more than DS; the clunky gameplay was fine in the early 00s, but I just couldn't take it anymore when DS came out.

Well, this is disappointing. The older games still stand up, I will stick to playing them.

Yes, I am still waiting for that Alita sequel!

Cool, I do like this game. Thanks

My understanding is "Encased" is not "RTS-like" but has the regular turn-based RPG combat. So does Wasteland 3, which has also been referred to as "tactical". Granted all RPG combat has RTS at its roots at some historical point. May be "tactical" just translates into "more tactical than original Fallout", since that's what all these games are based on.

Thanks. I'm going to scoure GoG.

They do. But it may take a while to realize this because the UI is pretty terrible and takes some getting used to.Geneforge is mostly a solo campaign, while Avernum is a party-based series. Though in Geneforge you do get to create a party of mutants to help you. But then there's a class that just hits things with a sword instead, and I played it that way. It has this thing where you start really weak and have to carefully pick your battles, but over time you become a death-dealing machine.

Thanks. Do they yave decent mechanics?

The first Geneforge is very good and can easily hold its own with the acclaimed classics. Other than that, either the first or the third Avernum can serve as a decent introduction to Spiderweb's style of RPG.