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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Released On: Jan 30, 2013
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
7.1
All Platforms
Deep, complex and infinitely satisfying, Tales of Maj'Eyal is the pinnacle of the fantasy roguelike as it exists in 2013.
Though I personally don't enjoy roguelikes, ToME is a marvellous game with bundles of class and race options that give the game an astounding amount of replay value. Coupled with the amazingly interesting lore and map design, ToME draws you in time and again.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 68 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
9% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
24% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 68 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
9% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
24% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
Brilliant I love this game. If you like roguelikes, nethavk, angband, or any of its variants or just rpgs in general, you must try this
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My need to commend this game is the reason I created an account here.
I have been solidly addicted to this game since I purchased it three months ago from steam. Easy to get to grips with but it also contains so much depth.. this is a game you'll continue to come back to over and over again.
The classes range from your typical rogue, warrior or archmage to things like Oozemasters, alchemists and many many more.
If you like deep rogue-likes, or have always wanted to try something a little deeper, I suggest you give this a go. There's a great community online which is always ready to offer advice, and you can chat with people via the in-game chat as you play.
Try it. Become addicted. Profit (but loose sleep;)
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Verdict: Ok game, for what it tries to be.
ToME is all about character-building and fantasy combat. It delivers well enough on the first account, with interesting choises and hard priorities. The combat becomes repetitive after a while, but it's ok until it gets booring.
ToME does not deliver an enganging story, personalities or anything of interest beyond combat and character-building. Nor does it attempt to.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal is tedious, repetitive, clunky, and bloated as a game, feeling as if it is barely held together by sloppy stitches. It is also visually an atrocity with an average plot. However, it makes up for this by presenting an enormous amount of long term strategic content and options to players, allowing for serious sessions of pondering and theorizing about optimization, values, and synergies. Overall, Tales of Maj'Eyal can be a magical experience at times, but all of its appeal is encompassed by the long term strategizing and not the short term tactical rewards.
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I've been genuinely trying to love this game for weeks and I've finally given up. I love COTW and I like roguelikes in general but after 60+ hours of gameplay I've realized that TOME is utterly pointless to bother playing with such poor difficulty scaling and random "gotchas" that ruin every single attempt to progress or even have fun.
A roguelike is supposed to reward critical thinking, strategic preparation, and careful planning. TOME does not. It simply kills every character that does not follow an extremely linear build path AND gets extremely lucky with the RNG AND is played very accurately and with prior knowledge of most of TOME's gotchas. Maybe that's your interpretation of roguelike, but it's not mine. In several games I had impossible battles blocking progress (once as early as the newbie area). Not difficult battles, impossible ones that were generated in such a way that my character could not possibly do enough DPS to progress or was artificially prevented from escaping, and progress was therefore essential to simply continue the game. Rod of Recall? Please girlfriend, you can't hide bad design that easily.
I can't believe people waste their time on this sort of utterly banal stat tracking/dot connecting, because I find it more than tedious: I find it personally insulting that the developer wants to waste my time this way AFTER he took my money. It's worse because the developer constantly advertises DLC on the main menu (sold on a 3rd party site you must pay cash to convert to fake game currency) and nags you if you don't create an online profile so the game can phone home every time you do anything.
All TOME did was waste my time while making me think that some fun was just around the corner. If I'd just keep at it a few more hours maybe the next char wouldn't get 1-shot from unseen offscreen. If I built my warrior just a bit better, a room of impossibly high lvl ice giants wouldn't mind lock me, preventing me from leaving the zone.
Nah. Deleted.
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The Game Is Too Spooky! There's Too Many Skeletons, Creepy Crawlies and ect!
:Screams with Spirit Escaping Soul:
The Game Reveals Itself Similar To An Dark Period. Not worth myself playing.
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Summary Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Jan 30, 2013
Developer:
- dark7god
Publisher: dark7god
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