User Reviews

Character development is extremely slow and leveling up is very difficult. Naturally, you can't step into other parts of the map because you don't have enough levels. The turn-based battle system is extremely difficult and slow. I even had to install a mod to speed up the clunky animations in the game. There is an unfair system in dialogs. The results are randomly determined by the npc, usually with a rock, scissors and paper system. After reading so much dialog, researching the map, talking to NPCs, everything gets messed up. The main quest and side quests get mixed up. Even though what to do is indicated a little bit in the texts, this is very, very insufficient. You can't understand what to do and where to go. You just wander around the town. The section where you can look at the list of available missions in the game does nothing but confuse everything even more. I think it is very difficult to finish the game without any help from anywhere unless you look at the walkthrough and follow it. After all, what's the point of playing a game if you can't finish it by looking at a guide? You need to spend hours having fun without getting bored. I don't have time to waste my patience for this game. In short, the game has an unbalanced system within itself. It bored me so much that I couldn't continue any further. A game that started well became a hopeless case for me later on. When you compare this game to the second game, it doesn't feel like a sequel, nor do you realize if it was made by the same developer. The only similarity between them is their names and they have nothing else in common. It's a very amateurish job by Larian. They got over their inexperience when they were developing the second game, but I wish they would have released big updates later on that would have fixed the first game because I was really curious about the story. Even if I somehow finish this game, I can never consider it a successful game regardless of the terrible experiences it gives me. This is a really bad and unsuccessful game.

Disclaimer: I didn't finish the game - after few days of playing I found out that it's not getting better, so I dropped it. I hoped that would be the case, because the scores this game got. I stil don't see any reason for it to be scored so high.

Writing in this game is awful and lacking in this department should be enough for avoiding any RPG. It's adolescent humor, simplistic, cliche plot, dialogs that don't matter, but for some reason were not cut - it all really put me off. It was either boring or cringe-worthy. Random basic isekai anime has probably more character development and clever wordplay, not to mention more surprising plot-twists. I honestly didn't believe they went the way they did and laughed - there are probably worse ideas than their's, but it doesn't really play in D:OS favor.

There are good ideas introduced in the game, but they often are spoiled by how the game works (ie. Talking with animals or telekinesis).

Visually it's decent, nothing groundbreaking. It's ok, if a bit oversaturated and heavy-handed with contrast in brighter areas. Music is boring and generic tho.

I played a lot of cRPG, some titles multiple times, so it's not like I hate the genre or setting. There are great cRPGs out there and D:OS is just awfully overhyped trash heap with a shiny gem here and there. This would be such a waste of time, if I had to play it solo.