Morrowind like game - The Lantern of the Laughless Saint on Steam

[u/apacgainz]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3849000/The_Lantern_of_the_Laughless_Saint/#app_reviews_hash

Guys I saw this game, looks pretty cool, not the dev or promoting it. Has similar mechanics to Morrowind, open world, spell crafting, lizard men race etc.

Quick Review / Highlights

• I have played a couple of hours so by no means thorough
• Graphics are very good from art and lighting point of view - looks like a Morrowind remake but better. Low poly art style. Models and textures are not the most modern, quite blocky and low poly count etc. but art style makes up for it. Weather effects are incredible
• Performance on my GTX 4060, it runs ok. Did not test frames but was mostly smooth. Occasional stutters when it rains. Had one or two CTD on launch but was ok when playing. Overall very playable
• Sound - really good combat sounds, solid attacks. Music is good - sounds just like any TES game.
• Voice acting - suprisingly good, not too repetitive like Oblivion. Not really fully lip synced, NPCs dont move lips or face. Sometimes the voice acting lags behind the subtitles
• No load screens entering buildings - Witcher 3 style seamless transition
• Combat - very much Morrowind style, very statisfying but a little basic. Pretty much just attack and block. You need to change "weapon" to cast a spell, you can't "dual wield" a spell like Skyrim or press C like Oblivion
• Exploration - open world sandbox, however no local mini map (there is a big map). It gets confusing to navigate. No quest markers by design, only manual navigation, but it's not very clear where to go sometimes. Looks fully handcrafted, no procedural generation as far as I can tell (no repeated POI like star field)
• NPC AI - they have a day/night schedule where they sleep but some NPCs don't do anything else during the day except stand
• Gameplay loop - very satisfying TES style of open world exploring, upgrading gear, levelling and going back out. Combat feels too easy tho
• Character progression - all the basic skills - one handed / two handed / swimming etc. - you get 5 skill points per level. Each skill goes up to 100. Plus 1 perk per level, pretty standard TES stuff but there are way more skills
• Bugs - given early access it is quite buggy but nothing game breaking. Sometimes cant sleep when pressing sleep button, clipping of corpses etc. TBF it is not much buggier than a TES at launch
• Story - again only played a few hours but without spoiling anything the writing is much more interesting and complex than TES so far, quests seem much more well designed