The graphics are nice not super fancy, but pretty nonetheless. The dialogue options generally serve the function of providing the player with more background information about the setting, although sometimes dialogue will enable you to talk a potential enemy out of a battle. You have several dialogue options to choose from during conversations, but your choices don’t have an impactful effect on the storyline. The cutscenes are nicely interwoven with the gameplay, and the pacing is good. The story is being told through cutscenes, which will be triggered by reaching certain objectives during gameplay (for instance: killing all enemies on a battle map, or walking to a certain location), or by talking to NPCs. After that, you’ll cut to your group of adventurers, who all have a story to tell. The game starts out with a nicely animated introduction, explaining the setting. They won’t be able to take it off again and will get mysterious instructions from the crown, which your party will follow as a guide to their adventures. One of your party members picks it up and seems to be mesmerized by the crown, and puts it on their head. Your group discovers that fairytale monsters really exist, and while seeking to prove the existence of these strange creatures, you’ll encounter a mystical artifact an ancient crown. First, you’ll start in close proximity of the city, but as you progress with your investigation, clues will lead you deeper into the badlands. Your task is to investigate strange incidents. They become deputies for the ruling council of a large human city, located close to the badlands.

The effects of these mysterious happenings are also felt on the outer edges of the badlands, which is where your adventure starts.Īs a player, you control a party of four adventurers.

The land here got twisted, and strange things are happening deep within the badlands. The location where this disaster happened is now known as the badlands. This apocalypse caused a rift that brought humans to this world, but also gods, which didn’t exist before the cataclysm. The world was ruled by a mighty High Elf empire, but this empire came to an end in a mysterious magical apocalypse. Once upon a time, humans didn’t exist in this world. The world of Solasta uses the ruleset of Dungeons & Dragons’ 5 th edition, but the setting has a unique backstory. Solasta: Crown of the Magister has been developed and published by Tactical Adventures. This release version is much more polished and adds some cool new features to an already good game. We’ve previewed this game in its Early Access phase, when it was limited to the main campaign, with several factions not yet unlocked.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a Turn-based RPG based on Dungeons & Dragons’ 5 th edition, but with a unique setting and storyline.

Solasta crown of the magister review