Eschalon: Book II

I got this on sale for $5, and after playing it for over a dozen hours, I'm already thinking it's one of the best "indie" computer RPG's. It's like the older Elder Scrolls games, but with Ultima-style graphics and interface. It has a freely explorable world that is viewed in a 3rd person, top-down perspective. Resolution is limited to 1024x768. But I actually dig the graphics and interface. What I dig even more is...

17 found this helpful, 2013-03-29

After witnessing a mysterious murder, you get unwillingly involved in an epic quest full of intrigue, swords and magic. Eschalon: Book 2 is a good successor for the first installment of the game, with extra spice. The RPG system remains mostly unchanged, with minor tweaks only. This time around you can enable handicaps (e.g. cannot save when enemy is around) for some extra challenge. However, I found that the game...

5 found this helpful, 2021-08-26

(Follow my curator for more reviews like this) I reviewed the first game here recently. I had some issues with it, but played the sequel right after - and it's a clear improvement in pretty much every way. It simply has more of everything and feels a lot more polished. The most obvious difference is that it's a little longer. The first game took me around 9 hours to finish. This took 13. The world is larger, there...

4 found this helpful, 2026-02-24

8-9 / 10 This is a great rpg and great series, if you enjoy turn based RPG give this a try its alot of fun CONS: Game mechanics promote not using your levelup points until after you've bought skills, not a fan of power game favoritism, if you don't mind this aspect its easily a 9 rating My reviews are always based on the following -I only play hard or impossible -I don't save/load scum, live with mistakes -I...

51 found this helpful, 2013-11-26

My favorite Eschalon game by a rather large margin. It builds on the systems, abilities and lore of the first game well, and improves on that core in all ways. (And gives plenty of clever methods to exploit the populace financially if you invest a few points in the right skills!) The vast terrain to explore and many points of interest in Book II made for the longest section of the game and I enjoyed taking my time...

3 found this helpful, 2020-10-16

Eschalon: Book 2 is a sequel to Book 1 and therefore similar in everything it does. There are minor improvements, like faster walking, higher resolution, more skills... but nothing of great importance. Eschalon is a turn-based role-playing game series with astounding graphics and sound. Unfortunately gameplay is a bit slow, even for an ultima-like game. Doing almost anything in this game is fun but one thing:...

22 found this helpful, 2014-05-02