Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Give it at least one try.

User Rating: 8.5 | Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura PC

By snared04 | Review Date: August 4, 2009

I picked this game up a short time ago, LONG after its original release, and was very happy with what I found - for the most part.

The depth of character design is amazing, especially for the time when it was released, but even today. You can do SO many things to your character, and you had BETTER design them well to start, or you're not getting very far.

And on that note, I will say that this game is UNFORGIVINGLY hard. Learn to quicksave and quickload (ctrl+s and ctrl+l

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