I haven't even made it to 30 minutes and I've decided to refund this game because it's very basic, not much fun, and nothing in it seems to be well designed or executed which surprised me a bit given its current review scores...

The noise they went with for characters "speaking" with one another sounds like a nearly broken horn honking quickly and at different pitches and it's simply nothing but annoying and it is 100% unnecessary. The dialogue boxes are huge, they zoom in and out in a very strange way when characters are talking, and they look really bad. The bulk of the dialogue I saw so far isn't engaging at all, and there are some pretty bad choices made with it right out of the gate such as the "bet" related conversation in the "tavern."

The graphics are a mixed bag. The bulk of the character portraits look wrong, something is off about them, but the combat graphics for the character are okay given the style they chose, however a lot of the background looks blurry or smudged.

The UI is a clunky, block mess and the default shortcuts are very strange. Space bar to move to the next character instead of TAB. Ctrl-e or something like that instead of space bar or enter to end turn. Makes no sense. Rotating characters in combat is also very clunky because you can only rotate them 90 degrees in a clockwise direction so if you want them to turn 90 degrees counter clockwise then you have to rotate them 3 times clockwise... not sure why they didn't put in a system to allow us to easily select direction with a single key press to orient the facing toward the mouse. It's super annoying because facing is VERY important so you will be adjusting this often since being backstabbed is a good way to take extra damage or get killed.

Combat is rudimentary at best, not well designed, and pretty dull. I did a couple fights and it just wasn't good enough to make me want to keep playing. There don't seem to be any zones of control or attacks of opportunity so you can just walk behind enemies with no penalty for prancing around in combat and get "backstabs" on them and they can do the same to you. Archers can only attack in straight lines along the four cardinal directions only, there are no diagonal shots allowed for some reason. Seems the same for some magic attacks and for melee as well. You can't rotate characters after they attack either, they just stand there with their back toward enemies. This forces you to play in a very, very specific way and it's not fun.

This game also does something I loathe - loot pickups in combat. These are only fine if there's a good in game reason why the characters can't take 30 seconds to stop and pick up whatever the enemies drop. It's not like I can't pick that stuff up after the fight when I win, and it's not like I need to pick anything up if I lose because I'm dead. The enemies in the early game also drop only a bit of money, no gear at all even when they're obviously carrying weapons and wearing armour, and it doesn't seem like I can equip anything either but I didn't bother to look into that any further because there was really nothing to make me want to keep playing after the first 20-ish minutes anyway...