Разработчик: Olipa Games
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About the Game
The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker is a medieval fantasy singleplayer adventure inspired by oldschool games like RuneScape and Ultima Online! Journey through a sprawling open world full of npcs with dialogue, level skills, fight varied monsters and uncover the story of Rothar Aercrest – the cursed lord to the remote woodlands of Imberthale. Increase your power by advancing 4 combat & 8 crafting/harvesting skills; craft, loot or be rewarded powerful items; unlock special attacks and spells which will aid your way in defeating the worst monsters that lurk in the remote corners of the world.
Variety of quests with deep writing.
Numerous weapons and spells to employ in strategic combat.
Large open world that rewards exploration.
12 various skills to level.
Customizable player houses to rest your weary bones.
Social multiplayer - meet other players in towns, taverns etc.
Tired of ‘epic tales’ of ‘world ending proportions’, Cursebreaker offers stories of human pettiness, revenge and greed - all the good stuff. In this game you're not yet another 'chosen one' destined to save all life from impending doom and gloom. Instead, you're Lord Rothar Aercrest - the feudal ruler to the remote woodlands of Imberthale. Or at least you used to be...
One fateful day your path crosses that of a dark wizard, Gabrius, who appears to be both tremendously powerful and frightfully malicious. Consequently you soon find yourself caught within a mortal feud between two powerful wielders of magic, all the while bound by a curse you desperately need to break free from.
If Lord Rothar is to know peace again, Gabrius must surely die. That might not prove to be such a simple task. After all, what is death besides a mere nuisance to the master of the Black Grimoire?
Character progression in Cursebreaker is tied to the various skills you can advance. All in-game interactions tend to give experience in your various skills, and gaining higher skill levels will unlock appropriate interactions, abilities and crafting options. Fighting enemies in close quarters, for example, will increase your Attack and Defence skills. As they gain levels, you unlock new passive and activated abilities, can wield more sophisticated weapons and armor, and gain access to new traits from the appropriate trainers.
The spellbook offers a large variety of both combat and non-combat utility. Finding and learning new spells may prove a challenge in itself, and casting more demanding spells will require preparation, such as gathering specific ingredients. Feel free to create your own playstyle by using any combination of ranged and melee weapons and spells!
The crafting and harvesting skills provide a variety of bonuses too. Gaining experience in woodsmanship through felling trees not only provides you with crafting materials for bows and such, but may allow you to pass through obstacles in the world and otherwise speed up your exploration. Skill in Alchemy does not only unlock potions, but also bombs and poisons!
Available skills in the game include Attack, Defence, Archery, Sorcery, Smithing, Crafting, Tailoring, Alchemy, Mining, Woodsmanship, Fishing and Cooking.
The game automatically saves your progress. In the event you fall in combat, you will be revived at your nearest graveyard, having potentially lost some of your valuables along the way. No worry, these can be recovered either by visiting the place of your death, or by paying a scavenger. Remember to carry restorative foods and protective potions to guard against dangerous enemies!
Although Cursebreaker is a singleplayer game, it provides an option for a social multiplayer; in other words, you will be able to see other adventurers online, but the interactions are limited to chatting and inspecting equipment only. It will not be possible to trade with them or otherwise engage in gameplay-related activities with them. You may adjust the online mode to apply to big cities only, to be always on, or to opt out of it entirely and play fully offline in case you don't care for it.
Two authentic players chatting.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 550 Ti or better
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
its a single player runescape game, so you can finish it......that being said.....it you enjoy the runescape game cycle, this will eat your life, you've been warned
Very cool singleplayer runescape-like. Not perfect but well worth a play if you're a fan of games like this
It's like RS but with big personalized story.
Waiting for mod support or playable female protag.
Player equipped gear drop mechanics should not exist in single player games. If you wanted mass group fights of NPCs you should've implemented some sort of threat mechanic.
Also it forces analytics with no opt out function. Check the config file in \AppData\LocalLow\Olipa\Cursebreaker\Unity\$id\Analytics. You can manually change the values but if you don't set it to readonly it'll change them back.
It's a singleplayer Runescape and it's a great game that clearly shows a lot of time and dedication went into it, but it is because of the game's lack of respect for time and dedication that I do not recommend this game whatsoever. Why? Because there are no manual saves, only autosaves that will overwrite your game.
I played the game briefly on my desktop yesterday. Then I played the game on my laptop today for 2 hours.
I log on later on my desktop computer, excited and ready to sink my teeth into the huge world that this game presents, and lo and behold, the desktop's cloud autosave of 10 minutes of gameplay OVERWROTE my save and the 2 hours of progress on my laptop. Now my cloud save is gone and I lost all progress.
This is absolutely terrible. There is no way to recover your saves.
My solution was to start the laptop, immediately turn off the wifi, copy the cloud save file from there to my desktop computer, and then play the game. If the laptop had connected once to the Steam cloud, then boom, erased.
Great game for the price
Never played Runescape, but played a ton of Ultima online 1999-2002. This game has the same type of feel and I was really excited playing it through the first several hours. Then I just end up stuck, enemies get harder as I level up. I'm lvl 16 with level 13 gear and a level 18 I have to fight for a side quest kills me in 3 hits. All of the quest that are currently available are like this. Not seeing a lot of good walkthroughs or strategy guides to help me through the game and I just don't have the time to dedicate it to get past anything else. Also the town ambient background noise is looped and has annoying noises that great the longer you are in town.
Trash game.
Map layout is TERRIBLE and clunky. Good luck navigating your way to the next side-quest, or even the main for that matter. Refunded after 2 hours. Not worth the $10.
Two thumbs up from me, this early stage game is the best one I've ever played, comparable to Free Runescape version 2.
This is a 'must try out' if you are a fan of quests, humor and skilling for Glory.
Kudos to the dev team
Cheers from GG
its like if runescape was SP and had a fromsoft player-esque ghost mechanic to show other people currently playing near you. ive only played 9 hrs at time of review but im going to be putting in a lot more. I've genuinely laughed from some of the humor which surprised me. Ive seen a couple bugs but nothing major. Character creator lacks a bit but i wasn't expecting too much anyway. So far, i can tell the devs care about the prjoject and hope they continue to work on this beautiful game. 8/10
I wonder if the guards in Haywind drop clue scrolls.
Played the prologue waited for the 1.0 release and I am enjoying everything so far, this is an awesome concept and the story is very enticing keeping me on the edge of my seat.
not as in depth as runescape skill speaking and absolutely needs more major expansion and qol updates but its already better then concord and half the games that released this year alone.
Better than Eldenring.
my type of genre
This game starts out pretty good, but has MAJOR problems with its end-game content that the devs seem to not care to even bother addressing. It released in an incomplete state and should've remained in Early Access, as I would've held-off my purchase of it if I'd seen it still in Early Access. They posted an update saying they'll be adding some more content to fill in the massive void of what's missing, but they've said NOTHING about the balance of Amarien Foothills, being the mountains in the end-game content.
I've been patient, I've waited for fixes and updates, I've reported bugs and problems, but I'm still waiting for it to be fixed! I did EVERYTHING the game had to offer, completed EVERY quest, explored every location, completed every achievement, ALL OF WHAT WAS AVAILABLE prior to going to the mountains. This includes completing the main story quest, but the only one exception to this is The Ghost of Greywall quest, as there's one overpowered fire mage immediately before the boss of that quest, so I had to return there later. When I did return there, I also found the final boss of that quest to be less than half the level of difficulty of that one fire mage, so that fire mage also needs to be rebalanced.
With that said, I also have the best possible gear that was available prior to entering the mountains, with the crafted items being of the exceptional quality, which boosts their stats almost an entire tier of gear. Despite that, I was only at a combat level of 43 when I first entered the mountains, and it's so unbalanced that the very start of that area requires you fight, and defeat, 5 enemies at level 55 each. Those levels make a HUGE difference, and when I first tried to get through them, I found I had to run away because they quickly dropped my health. When they stopped chasing me, I tried pulling them, which was working, but they started respawning by the time I killed 2 of them.
So, I left and returned at a later time, then retried pulling the enemies. This time, however, they weren't respawning, so I managed to kill them off. The area then seemed relatively smooth, despite all the enemies in it being level 55, but taking my time with them wasn't too much of an issue. At first. After getting through the initial quests in the area, when the region opens up, there are then ambushing groups of enemies that can attack you, and they have a LARGE range of travel. Those enemies are also broken to a point that they have sometimes spawned on top of me, and their levels can be more than double your own.
If you increase your level, those enemies increase theirs, too! The toxic community on the forums claim that their levels increase with how many of them you kill, but this is NOT the case in my own experience! Those enemies were scaling with my combat level after I found an area they didn't spawn in so I could grind through THOUSANDS of an enemy called a spirit horror, located in a crypt. By the time I was at level 63, those ambushing groups had increased to be level 149, and they were slaughtering me in 3 seconds flat! Those people on the forums also claim that healing spells scale with you, but THEY DON'T, or at least they don't for me!
All the healing spells I have were useless, and nothing I did worked. I had a healing mage mercenary on my side, I used every healing spell I had, I used the spells to boost my defenses, but it didn't matter, I was still killed. Repeatedly. Multiple of those ambushing groups can also spawn and fight you, with each group possibly having up to 5 enemies in them and using all 3 combat styles (magic, archery, melee). Teleports in the area are also disabled, and those enemies root you in place, so you can't run. Yet, regardless of the behavior of those ambushing groups, NO enemy should be allowed to scale with your level or be so high above you in such a location!
If an enemy scales to your level, it defeats the ENTIRE PURPOSE of levels in an RPG! You also can't get better gear without being in that area, and because of the void of missing content, you're forced to grind for experience books to raise your skills, hence those thousands of spirit horror kills! Those spirit horrors have a 10% chance to drop a key to open a chest for a chance at a book that grants 50k experience, and those spirit horrors have a 25% chance to drop a statue you need 30 of for another 50k experience book. It takes multiple books to raise a level after level 50, and you can get ambushed by those overpowered groups while opening the chest.
The game has numerous bugs, incredibly poor performance that barely touches the GPU, some settings are outright ignored (chromatic aberration is always enabled in the swamp and in caves, for example, and brightness does nothing in caves), etc., but the end-game is what kills it. It needs to be fixed, and the devs need to address the issues without telling everyone to go to Discord. We purchased this game on Steam, so pay attention to the Steam forums!
There are a few things that are a bit inconvenient or annoying but this game is still new and improving. I also would like to play even more before I make a statement on what could be improved. For now I will say that pathfinding when you click to go somewhere is not great. That needs to be improved a lot. The dialogue is cool to read but after I would like some narration like Runescape has.
I am hope this game is expanded upon.
good game, number goes up
I was really enjoying this game, but when it came to the attack on the marauder camp I was completely under geared and under skilled. I found this to a major flaw that broke the game for me due to NO indications were given at the level of the mobs and amount of mobs I would need some how bypass without an invisibility skill or a stealth skill or an avoidance skill, I had to battle through the ever spawning mobs just to get to the main door to the keep. While doing this quest I died and so I went back to try to retrieve my gear and died 21 more times just trying, by then all my gear was gone and the scavengers did not have it. Some of the items were quest items and I was unable to redo those quest to get the items back without starting a whole new game. This broke the game for me and because I had over 59 hours into the game there is no chance of a refund nor a chance for some Dev to come in and reload my quest items that were lost.
The second major flaw to this game is NO way to back up your saves so if something of this nature happens you can reload the backup. Do not waste your time doing the attack on the marauder camp until your character has level 40 in all skills and the gear to match it. Otherwise you will never succeed in this quest and have an extremely high chance of losing gear and quest items.
Here was my skills when I attacked the camp. Attack was 29 defense 28 Sorcery 30 Archery 23 smithing 29 and alchemy 27. These were not high enough you should be level 40 in attack and defense and sorcery and archery just so you can get to the boss.
I dont mind a grind but this is stupid. get all your skills to 25 then get a quest and cant continue your skills? I give, because I hear it only gets worse.
Sorry, I tried, but no. I can't stand losing my stuff upon death and starting over. I'm not looking to relive those old school crappy days like this is some online MMO. That mechanic died in a fire for a reason.
Also, not fond of running around for hours trying to get a better bag because the inventory management sucks a rat's behind. I don't care how many times you rework the inventory, stacking items should be a no brainer.
I thought playing games was supposed to be fun, not a tedious irritation. How do you want to spend the weekend? Hmm, let's see. Staring at 10 single meat slabs in my inventory, and calling the horse for the umpteenth time this session to bank the beef? Or stimulate my cerebral cortex with something more rewarding? If there are rewards in this game, you must have to crawl naked through barbed wire to get to them.
But the rest of you that love this infinite grind, have a blast. It was made for you.
Its a bit Meh. The side quests all seem to be fetch quests, the interface is quite clunky, graphics are very blocky with detracts from the atmosphere. Only one save which always fills me with anxiety for indy games where if it gets corrupted you would need to start over.
I did like the immediate post prologue story and it looks like it has potential and some good ideas but would need quite a lot more polish to make it a strong game IMO.
I absolutely love this game. Truly I like the grind in RPGs and considering this entire game is about that, I have absolutely loved it. If that's not for you, probably best to stay away as this is very much a game about getting big skills and big numbers. OSRS is one of the best comparisons I have on hand but that feels reductive as this is very much its own experience.
If you like farming, extreme farming this is for you. Don't be fooled by the hours played, most of them was farming skills afk. I could have been a very good game, but the tiresome farming of skills and lack of stacking items made it extreme time consuming. Story and quest is OK, game is solid in most aspects. Only had 1 bugs while playing, character got stuck. Last area feels empty, and not finished compare to the rest, due to few quests and lack of achievements. If you want hours of play cheap, then yeah, go ahead!
Awesome gameplay, draws you in for hours and there is always something to do. Expect to play for a long time. Inventory and crafting systems are great and you get a freedom to build any type of character. You can be a mage or a melee warrior or focus on a moneymaking skill like mining or fishing.
I absolutely adore this game! It gives me that feeling of something like Old School Runescape while having its own unique humor and charm. I've really enjoyed the quests and a lot of the dialog.
If you enjoy OSRS or even CRPGs of the past, I think you'll have a lot of fun here and the price is quite good as well.
I enjoyed the exploration and crafting aspects to this game. Not super difficult, but also easy to die to some enemies if you aren't paying attention.
Big time RuneScape fan, this game hits all the feels with a solo story. Loving it.
I really loved this game and dumped almost thirty hours into it over a long weekend until I didn't. There's a lot about this game to like. It's very, almost suspiciously, similar to Old School Runescape, but the combat just isn't balanced. No matter what level your combat skills are or what equipment you have, combat is always quick and ruthless. You either walk away unscathed or you get your ass kicked, no in between.
What killed the game for me though is that I got stuck on a named mob in a dungeon that could kick my ass in two or three hits. Which is whatever. But every time you die you drop a random set of items from your inventory, *even equipped items*. I lost my armor and a bag of all my tools and gold. I then couldn't get close to the bag to get my stuff back. The whiplash from collecting cabbages and acorns to that shit is just too frustrating for me. I'll revisit if they adjust combat to be more reasonable. Until then I'm good.
This game is great. While it is a single player game (You can see and chat with other players though), it delivers that old style classic Runescape flavor while at the same time standing on it's own, offering you a unique and pleasant experience.
It's not perfect, there's lots of running at some points, there's grinding, there's balance oddities, but the game never stops being fun, and there's always something else to go do instead.
As a final note I have only played the game on Linux and it's been a pain free experience.
Just recently, I accepted the fact that no other game quite captures the feeling of RuneScape for me. The wide open-world, tons to explore, individual skills laid out with their own progression paths, a point and click adventure, all wrapped up in this cozy and interesting world with limitless replayability. After 5,000 hours in OSRS, I have been wanting something new and refreshing.
To my surprise, I found this little gem by chance. I was a little hesitant at first playing through the intro, but wow. When this game opened up afterward, I was hooked.
The systems are easy to understand, combat is fun and straight to the point, the the world is charming and vast, and I can grind my skills while finding new ways to navigate the challenges I set for myself.
I highly recommend that if you have been a long-time fan of RuneScape, give this a chance. I imagine myself putting tons of hours into this game very easily. I can’t wait to see how this game grows.
This is the kind of game I had been looking for to relax when I'm too tired to play more demanding games. I love the chill music and the overall vibe of the game. Definitely a take your time kind of game that doesn't rush you into questing or progressing with the story.
This game is very nice, there are some small complaints about general QoL items that could be improved, but the devs appear to release frequent updates that address complaints that are voiced in their discord.
Really insane value for $15.
Ultima dude here. This rocks. Only requests I have are auto-sort on everything and less hiccups in world-loading.
it's a hit or miss game, not for everyone. Give the Demo a try first before purchasing the whole game.
Good story (but seems incomplete -at least when this review was published).
Combat is pretty straightforward, technically a stat check on both side.
The grind can be a bit too much for some, given a single player game where u can obtain everything without any in-app purchase, u either deal with the grind or find some work-around if u're busy or just want to progress with the story (like me) without semi-AFK grinding all the time.
A journey back into a classic RPG
In this old school open world game, exploration of the world is a crucial feature. The combat involves both real time action and tactical strategy. Different abilities and interactions will become accessible to you as your skills improve. The combat system has its challenges, but it also has its rewards. The game's plot is driven by a compelling story.
Pretty interesting game, has the RuneScape vibes for sure and it's fun
this game does have a lot of aspects osrs had. unfortunately the combat balancing has made this game very unrewarding. the attck and defense stat do not improve accuracy or defense like in rs. most of the stat changes you get are from armor, spells, or potions. as of right now its just not a very well implemented system.
This game is easily worth more than other games on the market priced at $60. I'm 10 hours in and I am having the best time. If you grew up on RuneScape, this will really do a lot for you, but even if you're just into fantasy RPGs, this is still a must try in my opinion. I can't say enough good things about this game. I love it so much.
Pretty decent showing for this finnish developers first game. If you've ever wanted a singleplayer runescape, then this is it. Is it perfect? No. Is it great? Yes. Should you play it? Absolutely.
Pros.
+ Has a real sense of discovery.
When you're starting this game out there's a lot skills, systems and places to explore. This is honestly it's biggest strength. It feels like a grand adventure.
+ Combat.
Honestly I'm just gonna list this is a positive and a negative. The games combat moves FAST. This games combat functions more like an ARPG like diablo, than a game like runescape. This alongside the 100 skill levels means combat encounters end extremely fast one way or the other.
+ The Grind.
You get to hit rock, chop trees and fish fish. Level goes up. It's runescape and I love it.
Cons.
- Achievement requirements. Some of the achievements are absolutely insane. Needing to kill 140 sheep? Why?? I think every achievement should be kill 10 of whichever creature.
- Combat. Honestly just read the pro above. There has been way too many times where Ive been one shot, needing to run back to get my items.
- Stuttering. So a lot people have mentioned this has gotten worse performance with patches. I have a really beefy system and Ive tried all types of fixes, but the game stutters quite a bit. The biggest change you can make is turn all online features off.
Anyway, if you've had your fill with runescape or you're sick of jagex, then I 100% recommend you give this game a shot.
also, Torille!
This game is so good. Perfect amount of grind, perfect amount of discovery, leveling feels meaningful, so many amazing small details, like the drop rates in the bestiary, are just the icing on the cake. Quests and story solid enough too. So much good going on here for the value.
A little grindy but a very solid old school style rpg, very much been enjoying it.
It really is like others have pointed out a single player runescape (with other players running about the towns if you so wish). It's great, chill, has a very nice atmosphere and really does capture some of the sense of adventure UO and RS have.
Good:
- Vibe / atmosphere
- Rewards come at a decent pace
- Story, while not stellar in writing, is a bit different from normal
- Music's nice! (YMMV heavily)
Bad:
- Persistent world without saving and loading AND a chance to fail quests unknowingly frankly fucking sucks. works mainly on Roguelikes and games with saving / loading so you can correct your mistake when you are just learning that you can in fact fuck up. Had no idea this had multiple choices and learned the hard way. Especially when the main quest is on rails at least in the beginning.
- Looting's a bit awkward
- inventory management feels a bit too clunky and unresponsive (not saying I don't like the way of doing inventory, I do. But why do I have resource bags which don't autofill??)
Not gonna say good nor bad about the graphics or the core gameplay loop, I love both, you might not. If you know what Ultima Online, Runescape and the like are, then you know if you like this or not. If you don't know, maybe check a gameplay video first?
8/10
I was always looking for a single player RuneScape that would provide the same feeling of adventure and game play without me feeling like I always had to constantly log in to keep up. Especially to ensure that my subscription membership was worth it. This game gives all of that and more! I am so excited for what the developers have in store for this game!
It's good. I have been looking for a casual game that takes itself serious but is feels like games of the earlier 2000s.
Good game, but ~20 hours is when the mandatory grind leaves the stratosphere.
The start is very addictive. You're unlocking all these skill rewards and you can pursue the ones you like or are relevant to your playstyle.
Then you reach Thornhill (the second major city) where now you need to level ALL skills to 25 in order to keep progressing. This includes the skills you don't find interesting, which will probably be about half of them. For example, if you're a physical melee + buffing sorcerer, you probably aren't that interested in grinding archery gear. Or maybe you just don't find skills like fishing interesting lmao. So, because you don't like fishing, you can't unlock new melee attacks or sorcery?
So, imagine yourself 20+ hours in ignoring the skills you don't find interesting, having to go back to grind 6 entire skills you don't feel relevant at all to your playstyle.
Hence, something to keep in mind, only about a 4th of the game is playable without extreme grinding. If you want more evidence, take a look at the forum where people are recommending basically macro botting in order to cross skill gates.
I found my playthrough before hitting this skill roadblock to be engaging and delightful. A big shame and large oversight by the devs IMO.
The Black Grimoire: Curse Breaker is an outstanding game that delivers an unforgettable, immersive experience for fans of RPGs and dark fantasy. From the very first moment, you’re plunged into a beautifully crafted world full of mystery, danger, and magic. The art direction and atmosphere are stunning, with every location—whether it’s a haunting forest or a crumbling castle—feeling alive with detail and history. The dark, gothic aesthetic perfectly complements the story’s tone, making each area you explore feel both magical and foreboding.
The gameplay is deeply engaging, blending classic RPG mechanics with innovative systems that keep combat fresh and exciting. The turn-based combat is strategic, with each decision feeling impactful, and the variety of spells, weapons, and abilities gives players the freedom to create their own unique playstyle.
I'm still early in the game, but WOW this is incredible and extremely underrated. It deserves a lot more players.
Absolutely love the skilling, the story is engaging so far, combat is fun, and the world design is pretty great. The achievement UI is fantastic, more games should have this!
Obviously this borrows a lot from Runescape and Ultima, but it also has a lot of it's own ideas that are implemented extremely well.
I hope more players give it a shot and the devs can expand on it or create a sequel.
Extremely disappointed that this game isn't more popular. Props to you guys for making an excellent game which in my opinion surpasses most AAA titles.
There are things I appreciate about this game, and while i played one of the Ultimas way back in the day, the lack of modern QoL features kills this for me. Too big of a time waster, with shallow quests and cumbersome crafting/inventory systems.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Olipa Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 91% положительных (479) |