They're not very character driven, mind you, pretty old school feel both in gameplay / encounters. And the video games themselves have an interface that's basically 30 years old despite many remasters over the years. You're not going to get character creation sliders for scars and tattoos. You're not going to get voiced text and narration.
But once you wrap your head around the format, the games are absolutely excellent in storytelling, consequences, and definitely satisfy. Excellent world building, things just make sense in-universe. Multiple ways to do things? Yes. Decisions matter.
Bonus: Computer specs and easy on the wallet (priced very reasonably for the enjoyment time).
Second bonus: This guy keeps his politics out of games, so if you want to be hardline against cultural marxism infesting institutions, you can buy their stuff directly from them without giving money to Steam or GOG.
You talking about the Exile games? Damn that brings me back. I didn't realize they were still selling or had remasters. 30 years ago is probably when I last played. Exile might even be one of the first games that teenage me ever "hacked". I didn't want to pay the shareware fee, so I edited my save file to move my character two spaces beyond the shareware gate. The story got really weird and fascinating after that. Good times.
I always enjoy Spiderweb Software's games.
They're not very character driven, mind you, pretty old school feel both in gameplay / encounters. And the video games themselves have an interface that's basically 30 years old despite many remasters over the years. You're not going to get character creation sliders for scars and tattoos. You're not going to get voiced text and narration.
But once you wrap your head around the format, the games are absolutely excellent in storytelling, consequences, and definitely satisfy. Excellent world building, things just make sense in-universe. Multiple ways to do things? Yes. Decisions matter.
Bonus: Computer specs and easy on the wallet (priced very reasonably for the enjoyment time).
Second bonus: This guy keeps his politics out of games, so if you want to be hardline against cultural marxism infesting institutions, you can buy their stuff directly from them without giving money to Steam or GOG.
You talking about the Exile games? Damn that brings me back. I didn't realize they were still selling or had remasters. 30 years ago is probably when I last played. Exile might even be one of the first games that teenage me ever "hacked". I didn't want to pay the shareware fee, so I edited my save file to move my character two spaces beyond the shareware gate. The story got really weird and fascinating after that. Good times.