It's a walking and talking simulator. Walk, walk, walk...talk, talk, talk. You look like a musketeer...a walking musketeer. You walk up hills, down hills, through forests...cause every movie you ever watched that gave you these vibes had the hero...walking. I was so tired of walking at one point...in despair, I right-clicked on my companion to see if he would carry me. He wouldn't. So, I rage quit.

Greedfall has a lot of potential.

Unfortunately it often feels like it's still in Early Access. Much of the dialogue has the wrong PC gender in it, the subtitles are often wrong or misspelled, and the travel is a major pain due to extremely bothersome movement speed.

The story, however, IS worth playing through, in my opinion. It's an interesting premise, most of the companions are interesting (I love Vasco and Siora especially), and the world is a lot of fun and had me wanting to learn more about it. The combat is also enjoyable most of the time, and I appreciate that the devs allow you to interrupt your own attacks to input other commands so you're not locked into whatever action you first decided to take when you want to block an attack.

I recommend watching some gameplay to see if it's the game for you, and if you like story-heavy games and don't like grinding, I'd stick to the main questline more often than not. The side quests seem a bit rushed, as do some character relationships and quests (especially since it lets you do so many so early), but the main quests are pretty solid. Alas, I must stop typing because my kitten is attacking my much older cat.

TLDR : If you are interested in playing Greedfall, you can play it, but you should know in advance that it lacks polish in some areas.

Although I've ticked the “recommend” box, I'm a little disappointed with the game. I find it lacking in many areas, and that's a shame.

I'll start with the positive:
- Greedfall's universe is very interesting, and that's what immediately drew me in.
- The factions are, on the whole, quite interesting, and the dynamics of cooperation and/or confrontation that drive them are well understandable. Particular attention has been paid to the various native clans, which despite their cultural and visual similarities, have their own motivations. There is one drawback however, but I'll return to it in another section.
- The companions are all from different factions, which encourages us to regularly change them according to the quests we're doing. This allows us to benefit from additional information, and sometimes to have easier conversations with NPCs from the same factions as our companions.
- Although the island of Teer Fradee is not a true open world, and some of the scenery is repetitive (especially the buildings and interiors), the developers have taken great care to create the different regions and give each one its own “vibe”.
- The story is interesting to follow, at least for the first two-thirds.
- The system for upgrading weapons and armor is a nice touch, allowing you to continue using the weapons/armor you want as the game progresses without losing too much in stats. The visual upgrades are also nice, even if they're often the same from one outfit to the next.
- Side quests, while not having exciting objectives, (go to point A, talk to X, go to point B, kill Y, etc...), tell very interesting stories.

On the “mixed” side:
- The story runs out of steam in its final third, and unfortunately becomes far too predictable towards the end. There are no real surprises or “wow” moments. The game also suffers from the “Fallout New Vegas” syndrome, as the ending is rather abrupt and showed by Powerpoint slides.
- Although the factions are interesting at first glance, nothing concrete is done with them. Several of them are at war with each others in the lore, but apart from a few skirmishes (for some of them), there's no concrete change in their interactions.
- Our character occupies the role of a diplomat, but has little true impact on his own faction or others. It's easy enough to keep everyone happy, and I haven't come across a situation where being too supportive of one faction made me permanently angry with another. I literally lost 9 relationship points with the natives at one point in the main story, without any change in the dialogues.
- I'm supposed to believe that the Nauts are the only ones who can cross oceans? Has no faction been able to steal, this knowledge from them by espionnage or corruption before? And no faction has managed to master the seas, despite the fact that literally one of them is a scientific faction? As for the Coin Guard, I find it strange that mercenaries can work for all factions at the same time without causing internal tensions or conflicts of interest.
- The companions combat dialogues are too repetitive and will be engraved in your mind forever. Those who played the game know what I am referring to.

BUT despite these complaints, I enjoyed playing this game, and will play the second one. I understand that Spiders is not in a position to make a AAA game, especially since they seem to have some internal issues. I hope that some of these issues will be fixed in Greedfall 2, and that the choice to release the game in early access will give the developers the feedback they need to do so.