Stoneshard is easily top 5 best RPGs on Steam. A brutally honest, complex, and masterfully crafted dark medieval fantasy that does not care about your feelings. This game will frustrate you, it will punish your mistakes, it won’t hold your hand, offer you mercy, or give you any kind of modern gaming comfort. If you’re used to casual, brain-dead games where the UI plays for you, walk away. Stoneshard is a dark and unforgiving RPG made for grown-ass people who enjoy suffering their way into greatness. Every dungeon you beat feels like a personal triumph, every death, a lesson. The atmosphere is incredible, the combat system is deep, and the build diversity is insane. I’ve put over 200 hours into this game, tested every possible build, and reached the endgame with all of them. They all work. The game is shockingly well-balanced for something this flexible. Now for the flaws: It’s SLOW. Like, painfully slow. I refuse to play this game without speedhack, 3x or even 5x, enabled t...

i can't recommend the game to new players currently. recent changes have made an enjoyably difficult game into an unbearably punishing experience. players with hundreds or thousands of hours played will write essays about how the reworked morale and sanity systems are manageable with proper play, but fail to consider that those hundreds or thousands of hours of experience with the game are what make that possible. i loved the morale and sanity systems before this rework, as they created all sorts of cool stories and involved an appropriate amount of management from the player. in the new system, you must spend 70% of your playtime nursing a dozen different meters in order to be allowed to have very short bursts of experiencing the entire rest of the game, before you have to go back to nursing the meters yet again. i think it is fixable, but i can't recommend it until then.

There's a lot to enjoy about this game, but trekking across the same terrain, over and over and over, because you died to the same pack of mooks, isn't one of them. The way retreating works, every space you move, your enemies get to do the same, and also take a swing as you retreat. In essence, this makes it impossible to get out of a bad situation. You can't cut your losses and come back for another go. This wouldn't be such a problem, but the restrictive save system means you have to redo the same walk out, the same clearing half a dungeon, over and over. If sleeping rolls were plentiful, even if they still took up almost half your inventory space, it could be manageable. As it is, you can't exit a dungeon and save, you have to go all the way to your nearest town, often a solid 15-20 minutes of clicking or tapping, to pay, rest and then repeat back out to the location. Kingdom Come: Deliverance at least had Saviour Schnapps, so you could save on the go with a bit of forethough, but S...

Honestly I am just waiting for the custom character to come out before I play the game again.

If I die one more time losing 2+ hours of progress I WILL DELETE THIS GAME Why can I not save anywhere, portable beds are expensive, gear is expensive, levelling takes too long, making mobs hard to approach to get better gear. If you throw away a quest contract or letter you pretty much lose the entire playthrough, wish I knew this 10 hours ago. Frustrating and unsatisfying game

Game is very hard. Not much inventory space. Very realistic. But not enjoyable for me ... I'm here to relax, enjoy my time, not challenge myself. If i want to challenge myself, i go to the gym, same work, but REAL RESULTS. Also, maps are too small. Choose your priorities wisely :) The base concept is my thing, but not the difficulty.

I bought this game years ago. Its still in early access. Combat is alright outside of that game is lacking. Its fanbase and its developers are serious HARDCORE gamers and dont like systems that make stuff convient like a functional working save system. While yes save scumming takes away consequence not everyone is always willing to just lose hours of progress. I dont recommend this game mainly cause of the massive time its spend in early access. Now I didnt spend like tons of money buying this game so I dont feel like I wasted money but it also hasnt been a satisfying product to buy. The fun I had with it was short lasting updates are painfully slow. Its not fun supporting a game like this's development when you can hardly see any development.

Endless early access. Slow game development. I've been waiting for version 1.0 for several years now.

Still no character creator, it was announced since the beginning, the devs know that people want the CC badly and they will even mock it and think they're better than anyone else for that. They promised it since years and it's still not out, I simply and completely regret ever buying this game now. I'll change this negative review into a positive if they release it this year maybe.

Unlike the game's competitor, Doors of Trithius, this still doesn't have a complete campaign yet. However, the amount of content currently is more than enough to keep you occupied, and it's fairly fun. However, it's not very replayable in my opinion due to the amount of grind it takes for you character to get on their feet.