I've also finished the game actually at around 3-4am because I didn't want to leave the game on a cliffhanger and having to wait. The game overall is really great and albeit there are some issues, in particular, with the fonts/readability and the confusing ending..overall it was a great experience. The price point for it was also extremely good (it's a steal at 14$) for 25-30hours of content. I hope this game sells well, because I would love more games from this developer. Thanks for the review Mort!

I swear, this man does not sleep. I think he has transcended into the omnisaia.

It is really nice to see how much the quality of reviews increased over the years, and how much detail and passion is put to the whole project. Love the channel and already shared it with many people

Played a lot of retro games but there's something about the art style that really nails the late 80s Commodore 64 style.

I'm playing SKALD right now. It's so awesome and I've been loving every minute of it

Skald is very, very good at mimicing the 80-90's RPG. I played those games back then and I am amazed at how nostalgic it makes me feel.

I don’t always find Lovecraftian vibes to be super accessible, but this looks awesome.

I see people br3inging up Ultima as a spiritual predecessor but I see alot more of the SSI Gold Box Games at play here like Pools of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds.. Looks like alot of fun and what a great time to be alive when we can replay games made in the spirit of those old games so many of us grew up with.

I backed the game, and I'm very happy with it. Honestly it has improved quite a bit over development. I hope to see more of small scale indie CRPGs, I would rather have a CRPG with good RPG mechanics than better graphics.

Ok, I'm sold, I'll try it out. Thanks for your videos!

I wouldn't have heard about this game if not for this channel. Picked it up and have been having a pretty fun time with it. Cheers.

It took me until now to realize that the blond companion is actually not a die-hard 80's dude rocking sunglasses, as I had assumed from the portrait in the previews

Man you beast. Game looks primising for me if it ever comes out on ps5 definetly day one for me

The pricing seems very competitive for an intriguing story. Great review!

Finished SKALD last night (not 100% of course, I am but a mere mortal unlike Mortismal) and I loved everything about it! A gem of a game

There’s so much about this game to love. I just hit my 100% tonight and I’m over the moon with it. I fell in love with the world, the lore, and the characters (Roland especially). I want Skald to become an indie franchise and if we can’t have that, I at least desperately crave a spiritual successor from the devs. Great breakdown of the game on your part.

I saw it for the first time yesterday and bought it right away. Haven't had as chance to sit down and play it yet and here you are with a 100% review. Madness.

Wow! Did not expect a review so quickly! Well done

thanks for what you are doing man; there are few games these days that are not recommended by you, that i play - i like most of the things that you seem to like and i believe you content was quite missing until you came up - so, thanks!

This reminds me of the SSI Goldbox RPGs I played as a kid.

Just picked this up and am having a blast! I do like that any text in green during dialogue or even in the menu is clickable and opens up definition pages for all the terms, even going so far as having new links inside those dialogue boxes in some instances. It really helped me in understanding what a lot of feats did outright.

Good Lovecraftian games are few and far between, I'll take what I can get. I have a dream that Larian will make a Call of Cthulhu CRPG, one day folks, one day.

Very fine crafted review. Watched with true pleasure.

Something you might want to review: Knights of the Chalice 2. CRPG/TRPG from 2 years ago, based on D&D 3.5. Recently started it, it's pretty fun.

Always a pleasure to discover gaming youtubers with a love for indie games.

Love this type of game to tryto recreate older title but more accessible, and more for me that never play this type of game, i think this will be one my fisrt to enjoy

Here's a couple tips for new players: - hire a mercenary early. Having an extra character in your party will make a huge difference in early game and you can build them to fit any hole you have in your party - be careful of positioning. Never let the enemy get on both sides of your character or they'll decimate you - backstabbing. If your rogue hits an enemy from stealth, they do a backstab, but also if you have characters on both sides of the enemy. Move your rogue around a lot and go for those backstabs! Speaking if which, stealth during combat is much more useful than stealth deploy! - find a vendor with cheap arrows and stock up your ranger! Those guys can do insane damage but they burn arrows which can get expensive. Better to have a stock of cheap crappy arrows than no arrows at all - don't be stingy with mana. It's pretty easy to recover in this game with potions and food. You'll find and cook way more good than you'll use so you can rest pretty often. It also refills during level ups - save your level up for combat. You can level up your character in the middle of a fight, fully replenishing health and mana. If you have a level up available, go bezerk in a fight, burn your spells, take crazy risks. Once that character gets low, level them and BAM, full health and mana

As a person with severe eyesight problem my biggest wish is ability to change font from pixel-like to normal type.

Hello Mortis. Thank you for your vids.

It's SOO difficult to make such a low bit pixel art good looking so huge kudos to developers because game looks great!

I LOVE that they included quality of life improvements as well as the retro look

Thanks for the video. There is day 1 DLC, but it's just cosmetics and the soundtrack, which, as the devs said in response to my last comment, is a banger. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

Crunchy is the new buzzword. ;) Great review as always. Good to see you give a Lovecraftian game a fair shake.

I just bought this game! Gonna do an Officer on my first playthough, seemed like a good face type character

I’m a simple man. I see a mort video I click said video

Great review! I've been playing this game for 3 or 4 day by now. Game is great and worth every penny and I agree with pretty much of what you said! I'd add a couple small complaints like some class balance, some encounters/areas being a slog (yes tower of ashes im talking about you), etc. I'd love to see something like in PoE1 and 2 where you and your companions can start out with the kind of weapons you chose for them. Found it kinda frustrating not finding the weapon type i invested feats into in the very early game.

I’d love for the classic Ultima games get remade with this level of design

Awesome review thanks so much Mortim!!

Hi Mortym! Been interested in this game for a while, and was awaiting your thoughts on it. Huge fan of both crpgs and cosmic horror. Thanks!

I think I'll have to pick this up at some point, thanks for the review.

Finally getting board of bg3, maybe I will pick this one up.

The best part is that while it looks retro, it’s not complicated like retro games. At no point was i fighting with the program itself, or trying to figure out how something works like I often experience in older RPGs.

I've been loving this game. The UI and font really doesn't bother me at all, but then again I used to play games like these as a kid so my brain is used to it I guess. :P

Oh wow. This reminds me as a kid playing the old SSI Gold Box Pool of Radiance and Dragon Lance early 90s. I’ll need to check this out

Bought it already, yet to try it out though. Looks awesome!

Been thoroughly enjoying this game on hard mode, just got to chapter 3. Only one minor soft lock bug that's avoidable. And dev is extremely helpful and active on twitter.

played the game after your review, good recommendation!

I will likely pick this up if I have time to do so. It certainly reminds me of the Wizardry games ages ago. Plus, Lovecraftian is always a bonus.

You're the man, thanks for making this review. Just finished my first *full* playthrough of kingmaker (such an insanely long game can't beleive it's just a single 100% blip for you in the grand scheme of games you've completed) and am gonna hop into this one this weekend

100% but didn't use CRT mode? :D Great review!

Thank you and have an amazing day

I feel as if he tones down the contrast on the background sprites, it would do a lot for visual clarity. But other than that it really does look unique.

I've been waiting for this game since before Raw Fury acquired it, years and years ago. I played the released demos across the years. I'm barely scratching the surface, because I'm very involved in a restart of Wrath of the Righteous right now. My biggest disappointment with Skald is that I was sincerely hoping this would have a 4:3 aspect support as I play most of my RPGs on my CRT equipped system, leaving the standard modern system to daily routine and my wife's gaming. This is seriously a labor of love, and scratches an itch for both my retro-RPG tendencies and my lifelong interest in HP Lovecraft's milieu. I sincerely hope this game gets some sort of DLC or sequel...

My main friction point is with the spells, having to roll a character over and over to understand what each school learns is annoying, where it says "learn 2 spells from x" i want to right click that and it gives examples. Especially because you can only get tier 2 spells at char creation if you choose the guild magos and pump all points into the school you want to check. Other then that, having a great time

it said I beat the game as a level 19 armsmaster in 150 days. the ending was kinda weird but I surely wont spoil it.

Great review.

I didn't grow up with a Commodore64 but I do enjoy this game a lot. Definitely worth it's price and then some.

This guy is an actual gaming animal

Annnnnd, bought. The art style was appealing to me but I didn't know a thing about the gameplay. Thanks Morty.

Killer game, strongly recommend!

I hope everyone gives this game a chance, it's really interesting, and even more so at that price

good to hear you enjoyed the battlemage; heard pure mage gameplay could be rough lol

As a fan of both Lovecraft and classic RPGs I will definitely be checking this one out.

I really wish this had controller support. Would love to play this on the ROG Ally.

I missed out on those C64 RPG experiences as a kid because I didn't have a disc drive, this is why I bought this game and I am not disappointed.

Thank you for this review. It is high quality and very thorough.

just beat the game. loved it. Gonna try another run with one of the DLC backgrounds and character portraits and try to find the attribute shrine people in Horryn this time.

I found that a lot of stuff in the feats screen could be clicked on to show more, though I didn't check everything. Also would like more classes as the range is quite limited.

liked, subscribed, keep up good work. Thx 4 this reviev

Visually it reminds me of ultima 4. Interested.

The main issue I was having with this one was feeling really I empowered in the early game. I know that's kinda the point, but in the first zone my mage felt nearly useless because they couldn't do anything after 3 or 4 casts. Sounds like it would be worth pushing through though.

I was waiting to hear your opinion on this game before buying it.

I bought this game because it was so cheap. I played 30 ish minutes until the prologue ends and i love it so far.

Beat the game last night absolutely loved it, weird in all the right ways.

Looking forward to this, does the creator talk about possibly doing a sequel or dlc? I know still early but curious if this does well he plans to expand on it.

I am certain that I will get this, but I wish that it had better Steam Deck support from the dev, as I almost exclusively play PC games on my Steam Deck. Custom inputs are fine but even better when it has native support.

Love this. Thank you Morty.

Have you ever played Darklands? It's an old RPG from Microprose that I remember being really cool at the time, could be a fun game to look at if you ever feel like covering some older stuff on the channel.

Sounds great.

It’s funny how a good review can make you buy something. I had no interest but as a fan of cosmic horror you sold me .

An excellent game. I agree with your criticisms but greatly enjoyed it regardless. It does a great job of capturing a sense of dread.

I just heard about this game and Morti has already completed it...

Well, I have already played these type of games in the 90's, and Im not into nostalgia, so I'll pass this one. Plus, pixel art is not my thing, despite having done a lot of those in my youth 😅

Good to know there's a level cap. Makes the XP bonus background useless, as it often is. I know it'd be a lot of work, but this is the sort of game that could have used a good classic manual laying it all out.

Guys, i hugely adore the art style of this game. Can u recommend smth like dat? I can remember loop hero and.... thats all i guess.

CRPG/SRPG gamers have been eating good.

Morty is a living legend

the combat is madness, can't see where is an enemy and where is not. Is this for people with OCD?

This game was dope as hell

How does this man do it?

Good show sir

Some games have "hidden achievements" and I always wondered how you managed to 100% them if you dont know what to look for, especially since you do your reviews pretty darn fast and have to figure them out pretty much by yourself.

I wonder if some people will make a mod to sharpen some of the visuals.

Interesting that you enjoyed the Battlemagos, when the general consensus (on the steam boards at least) seems to be that it's one of the classes that's just a straight downgrade compared to another class (the Guildmagos in this case), if not the worst class in the game. Namely due to giving up many of the best spells a Magos can get in exchange for very minor combat capability, that ultimately amounts to so little that you should still basically always stay back. You get worse combat bonuses than all the fighting classes, no multi-attack and would have to invest in both Str and Int, dragging your magic down as well. Heck, you're basically a worse combatant than the Thief (without Backstab to make up for it). The divine hybrid classes perform notably better and Ranger is so good it borders on OP (combat bonuses almost on par with the fighting classes, multi-attack AND free attacks, as well as its own magic school which borrows from arcane and divine as well as having its own unique spells and goes to tier 3). Can you shed any insight into what you specced that made you feel like your Battlemagos performed well compared to your other characters/companions? Maybe there's a build everyone just missed here.

I was really looking forward to this game, but unfortunately it was too slow to play on my pc.

Ok I'm loving the game but how do you destroy the mole burrows? I can see them, but when I use a shovel on them all it says is I find nothing. It's driving me insane.

What classes are everyone playing or planning to play? I’ve been stuck in indecision!

I just wish the graphics were a bit cleaner. Can't tell what I'm loking at it.

I want to try this but boy does the UI at 23:00 look horrible. Just a total mess visually.

It was a fun game.