Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest

This was honestly quite a fun game, it's a shame that the modding community never took off since the dev's took the time to implement Steam Workshop features and an editor to make your own missions.

It's a tactical turn-based game with a hint of puzzle elements to it for some of the battles.

Despite some negative reviews lamenting on the puzzle side of the things, claiming it's less tactic and more puzzle, needing to use optimum skills and items, I didn't find it that way at all.

There were plenty of different abilities you could unlock and choose from every time you levelled up and you could create many different tactics to make use of that synergies well.

I'm by no means an expert tactician in these types of games, I actually find myself quite bad at them, needing to reload often. But as a person who usually opts to play on the easiest difficulty mode to get through games quicker, I usually tend to play turn-based tactics games on normal, and I didn't have too much trouble on that difficulty with this game, beating it with my sub-optical character builds and completing most missions 100% with all their bonus objectives complete.

Obviously I didn't do them all, but that wasn't my goal. If I really tried, I'm sure I could've done it without too much hassle.

But I play games mostly for their story, not a challenge, that's just the type of gamer I am.

In the story department, it wasn't a bad story at all, not a particularly good one neither, though. The dialogue felt a little stiff and off at times, it gave me the feeling that it was perhaps written by someone who isn't a native speaker, so maybe some translation barriers there.

But I managed to find enjoyment in its simple story and what character development there was. But if you're playing this with the story, don't go in with too high expectations. It's perfectly serviceable and the turn-based combat was actually pretty fun.

I'm glad that I played this game.

Fun "little" game with surprisingly complex battles. Highly recommended if you are fan of isometric RPGs and Turn based.

Genuinely surprised how good of a time I had with this game. Druidstone is a Tactics/Strategy RPG that combines an amalgam of ideas from across the genre's history and sub-categories and STEEPS it in the energy and writing of Your Roomate's Dungeons and Dragons Game. So much is thrown together and at the wall in such a short runtime for this genre that I've come away with very few truly bad things to say.
Its tactics gameplay is overall quite strong, combining elements in equal measure from a more traditional Strategy RPG (Character Progression, flowing maps with mixed objectives and ganks/twists) and the more recent trend of Strategy Puzzlers (simplifed hit point system, undo-ing moves, heavy emphasis on micro movements and manipulation). I thought it came together quite well, with just enough give and take between playing the game's game and feeling like I could break the game over my knee with clever build ideas.
The whole package is really elevated by its its feel: the rawness, long shots, and occasional baffling misses that come from a smaller team making this.
This is felt especially in the writing: simultaneously bland on its face and occasionally quite striking; oscillating between nonsense, cliche, offensive, and confusing until all I feel is a general and perhaps misplaced charm.

Wow! I'm late to the party, but this game is great. I recommend skipping the tutorial and getting straight to it. I let this sit on the shelf for quite a while after losing interest during the tutorial back when I first bought it, but I'm glad I picked it back up the other night and jumped straight in. I'm definitely hooked now and excited for the play-through. I love the art style! Having a blast. Thanks Devs.

Fun game, cute story, and pretty good vibes. Had this one sitting for a little bit, but I'm glad I finally checked it out.

Really wonderful game. Great combat.
Perfecting every mission makes it very puzzley in a good way but you can just blast through the game like an rpg and have a good time.

This game is a gem which is highly underrated. It is a turn-based game with good graphics, easy to play, flexible character upgrades etc. I can't stop playing once started.