I’m playing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and am desperately waiting for the story to get interesting. It is an extremely slow burn. And with some fake outs I kind of lose hope of it ever getting interesting.
And I kinda hate the dialogue system. You can basically move around while talking and look at stuff and sometimes have a limited amount of time to chime in. Which is fine from a realism standpoint but somehow it doesn’t make the dialogue feel more realistic. Pair that up with some dialogue choices requiring you to be standing on certain spots and looking at certain things makes it much too stressful for a game that should be more like a relaxing point and click adventure.
Also, the security manager sold his shares right before making the public statement about banning Schlepp. Isn’t insider trading even more illegal than child slavery?
A bit late to the thread, but I wanted to add the Gothic games to the mix. They don’t hold your hand and are relatively grounded in reality (within their fantasy world). Controls are a bit janky and the English voices as well. If you can, you should play in the original German or Polish. The Witcher series was heavily influenced by Gothic, especially Gothic 2.
If they are too old for you, the Remake is slated for early 2026. A demo is available on Steam and GOG and should give you a pretty good overview of the atmosphere and the way the games work.
Just stay away from Gothic 4: Arcania. Totally different studio with none of the charme.
Is it possible that WOTC just utterly suck? Like even playing D&D for real at a table I always thought the wizard’s stuff was kinda boring. Every time our DM did something himself it was awesome.