GreedFall is a unique RPG game because it refers to older games such as Gothic or Risen. Despite its small budget, the game is quite large and I mean the entire content of the game, i.e. the plot, locations, weapons, characters and so on. The game has a dynamic, although classic combat system, we have a lot of different weapons to choose from, we also have spells at our disposal, there are also firearms, which in my opinion are very strong here and are good to play with. The plot and characters in the game are very well written. As for problems and bugs, I didn't really notice them, so it's good. In general, the whole game is a very good title and I can recommend it.

World creation good. Implementation poor. Story interesting. Dialogue and travel a chore. If you go somewhere early npcs don't react. Also you have to go from point A to point B only to go back to point A to have a discussion that could have been had before and saved all the needless travel. Even though this is an open world, it feels very linear. These two things took me out of the game, so not immersive. The game kept my interest enough that I finished it. But it really has no replay value. I wouldn't buy it again. Images above are not from the game. They are artist renditions.

I dont enjoy writing bad reviews. Game development is extremely arduous and I genuinely respect the efforts put in by all developers. I can tell that even with this review I'm giving it, the GreedFall devs made this with their entire heart. With that being said, Greedfall tries to do way too much, and falls short in almost every regard.

It tries to emulate the feeling of being a diplomat, of an RPG, a deep crafting system, rewarding exploration, satisfying looting, and ultimately spread itself too thin and made all of these extremely plain/boring if not downright irritating at times.

The game quickly turns into a walking/fast travel simulator. You're constantly having to go all the way across the map to talk to one person, only to turn around and have to go back to the original person again. The game sometimes remedies this by letting you instantly travel back to the location/person you need to, but this just highlights a more nested issue: the gameplay was just not there. Every single quest was either: go talk to several people and maybe choose one or two dialogue options, or go kill some things then talk to someone. And when I had to kill things, I dread it more than the run-back-and-forth dialogue. I see the vision of what they were trying to do with the combat, but in the end it was just downright clunky. The melee was boring and a click fest, with the enemies attacks being not telegraphed at all. I began to just accept that I'm going to get hit by every attack, and specced into heavy armor and two handed to mitigate them being able to attack me. Magic/traps were also just awkward.

The environment was by far the best part of the game. There are some really beautiful pieces of scenery in this game. But again, this is extremely quickly overshadowed by the walking simulator, placement of monsters every 10 feet that are downright annoying to fight, and the invisible walls. There were only 4-5 non-humanoid enemy types in the game, a handful of bosses, and thats it. Not to mention that endgame monsters were just the normal non-humanoid enemies but with more HP (=more annoying).

Facial animations/textures were jarring and ghastly, and the same handful of building were LITERALLY copy and pasted all around the map, verbatim. Cities were annoying to traverse over and over, and I honestly just didn't connect with any of the characters save for your companions/followers which had okay-ish stories.

The writing, dialogue, and voice acting was just not there either. Usually if a game doesnt excel in gameplay, it can excel in the story, in the lines written by the writer, but unfortunately GreedFall falls shorts of this too. The story was very predictable, and presented the player with obvious "correct" choices despite advertising that you're trying to navigate the journey of a diplomat.

All of this is not to even mention the bugs of all sorts. It felt like the game gave an illusion of all of its mechanics.

Admittedly, by the halfway point I was about ready to just call it a day and move onto the next game in my log. But, sunk cost fallacy kept me going.

The developers here just stretched themselves too thin. They tried to do everything, and in this case, they fell short just about everywhere. I wouldn't say the game is awful, but it genuinely had my wishing for the game to just be over about halfway through, which is, of course, not what you want your game to do.