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Lawless Lands

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89%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, graphics
89% User Score Based on 100 reviews

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Lawless Lands is a single player open world role playing game with fantasy, medieval, historical and dark fantasy themes. It was developed by Corrosion and was released on August 14, 2020. It received positive reviews from players.

Lawless Lands is an old-school role-playing game featuring a unique setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a dark medieval, low-fantasy world of epic proportions. Discover and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.

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89%Audience ScoreBased on 100 reviews
story16 positive mentions
grinding13 negative mentions
  • Deep and expansive open-world RPG with a grim, dark fantasy atmosphere and a rich story involving plague and war.
  • Highly customizable character creation and progression systems with meaningful choices impacting gameplay and alignment.
  • Active and supportive developer with responsive communication and frequent updates that address bugs and add content.
  • Steep learning curve with unintuitive UI, confusing mechanics, and limited in-game tutorials leading to player frustration.
  • Visuals are very dark and dull, with poor brightness options, making navigation and exploration challenging.
  • Combat can be slow and overly reliant on RNG, with some skills and magic feeling ineffective and encounters sometimes becoming tedious.

  • story

    64 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    25% positive mentions, 70% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions

    The game's story offers a solid, dark fantasy setting with a main quest that is engaging yet relatively short, balanced by numerous side quests that enrich the world and extend playtime. While the narrative and characters may feel somewhat generic or underdeveloped at times, the immersive exploration, branching quests, and player-driven choices provide a satisfying RPG experience. Minor issues like vague quest tracking and occasional bugs are outweighed by the depth of content and the compelling atmosphere.

    • “There's a main story that you'll need to follow at some point, but there's so much content, characters you can recruit, and stuff to do that will keep you entertained for quite a while.”
    • “The world map is full of the dark and gritty locations you'd expect from a dark fantasy game, and the game strikes a good balance between giving you hints on how to solve quests and holding your hand; there were times I needed to look closer and explore more in order to figure out what to do, but I never felt lost.”
    • “Many hours of gameplay and numerous side-quests that complement the main storyline make for an in-depth game and story.”
    • “In 12 hours I haven't learned anything about my followers other than what is written in their character sheet. The side content is everywhere but most of it is fetch quests. The main storyline is okay without being groundbreaking. Exploration is fairly fun but since you are already so rich and combat is so easy, it's being undermined.”
    • “The quests are also infuriating since, like any other RPG player, you accept every quest you come across and then forget where the quest giver is until you track them. Now to be fair RPG Maker games don't have sophisticated tracking to guide you directly to the NPC, but since the world is as large as it is, with most of the NPCs being mindless husks, it makes it a pain sometimes to even turn the quest in.”
    • “(The main quest does not go very far and the party members have little background).”

  • gameplay

    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    35% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 15% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a rich and expansive experience with diverse mechanics, side quests, and party management, showcasing the developer's dedication and a fresh setting. However, it can feel mechanically inconsistent and occasionally monotonous, with issues like unclear tutorials, imbalanced combat, and some frustrating survival elements. Overall, while complex systems provide depth, simplicity in some mechanics and lack of polish sometimes hinder the experience.

    • “An incredibly dense and interesting world with very fun gameplay.”
    • “The game offers a lot of interesting little quirks and items that can make gameplay quite different depending on the choices you make and what you do.”
    • “A survival dark fantasy RPG, you explore the large, yet streamlined open world with light survival mechanics while completing quests for various factions and growing your power/party.”
    • “Mechanically, it is a mess - battles quickly become monotonous, skills are pointless, and you can do more damage to ghosts with a sword than the 'kill ghosts' spell.”
    • “I've almost quit numerous times in the first few hours because the game poorly explains its mechanics and caused me a great amount of frustration.”
    • “I've tried researching gameplay trying to figure out how to select companions for combat but from what I've seen everyone automatically has them follow so I'm at a loss.”

  • grinding

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is generally slow, tedious, and unimmersive, involving repetitive tasks like earning money through monotonous work or exploring winding areas. While some players appreciate the minimal grinding compared to typical JRPGs and the potential for progression with patience, the overall experience can feel cumbersome due to limited save points and frequent trial-and-error. Companions and equipment upgrades help mitigate difficulty, but the grind remains a notable drawback.

    • “% by %, very slow, tedious and unimmersive process, but totally free!”
    • “You can't save everywhere (without money that is, which is tedious to grind).”
    • “You can try to progress in non-combat quests (like finding 13 piles of corpses ... I found 12 while trying to get my way through the town in 2 hours. Have I mentioned how tedious walking and winding through the town is?) or grind money by working at day and sleeping at night, circling between the free bed and the job, meaning more button mashing and more of this tedious walking, winding your way through NPCs, rubble, fences again.”

  • atmosphere

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    58% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its dark, gritty, and immersive medieval vibe, enhanced by evocative sounds and music that bring a plague-ridden, low-fantasy world to life. Despite some gameplay frustrations, the richly detailed, moody environment remains the standout feature, deeply engaging players and elevating the overall experience.

    • “The atmosphere and music are amazing, and exploring a plague-ridden low-fantasy world is a lot of fun.”
    • “Other than that, minor issues are vastly overshadowed by this grim but full world that's just dripping with atmosphere.”
    • “All in all, I highly recommend this game. The dark atmosphere, gritty realism, and storyline should be enough for anyone to consider it.”
    • “It's a fun enough game with the main selling point being the atmosphere and the promise of playing any way you like and the game responding to it.”
    • “They nailed the atmosphere: dark, dreary, moody.”
    • “All in all I highly recommend this game; the dark atmosphere, gritty realism, and the storyline should be enough for anyone to at least consider getting this game.”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback: some users find them overly dark and pixelated, making it difficult to see and detracting from exploration, while others appreciate the 8-bit, early 90s-inspired aesthetic that contributes to the game's grim, foreboding atmosphere.

    • “8-bit graphics are always a plus ;)”
    • “Very relevant for 2020, but also I just love the foreboding feeling that the game transmits through characters, graphics, quests.”
    • “The aesthetic is grim.”
    • “Poor graphics and everything is so dark that it is hard to see anything.”
    • “95% of the time the game is so dark I can't even tell what the world looks like when my character is stuck on something (I know there's torches but those don't last and they cost resources unless you find a fire). Movement is slow especially on the world map even with a horse, which is perhaps intended, but it's not like I would want to explore the game at a slow pace since the graphics aren't exactly pretty to look at.”
    • “For me, the graphics look better in the store page preview than they do in game; full size in game is really pixelated.”

  • music

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is widely praised for its excellent, dark, and moody soundtrack that perfectly complements the plague-ridden, low-fantasy world. It contributes significantly to the immersive ambiance, with sound effects and lighting enhancing the atmosphere unique to each location. Overall, the music is considered a standout element that enriches the player's exploration experience.

    • “The ambiance really stands out in this game - the sound effects, lighting, mood, and music all seem to be specific to each location - it's a really nice touch.”
    • “Fantastic soundtrack, with music very well chosen for the respective areas.”
    • “It rains quite a bit, the incredible music is dark and moody and beautiful, the people have lost all hope.”

  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is characterized by dark, gallows-style wit reminiscent of a well-crafted SNES RPG like Final Fantasy IV, delivering a clever and mature comedic tone.

    • “Beware the gallows humor.”
    • “This reminds me of a well-done SNES RPG, think a dark-humored Final Fantasy IV.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    Stability is generally solid, with only occasional minor glitches reported. Overall, the game offers a smooth experience reminiscent of classic exploration RPGs without significant technical issues.

  • character development

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users regard character development as a strong and appealing feature of the game, highlighting it alongside combat as a key strength.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users highlight the game's variable gameplay as a key factor contributing to its high replay value, making each playthrough feel fresh and engaging.

    • “Variable gameplay, high replay value!”
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2-2h Spent by most gamers
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Lawless Lands is a open world role playing game with fantasy, medieval, historical and dark fantasy themes. Common tags for Lawless Lands include turn-based, indie, trading, exploration, building and others.

Lawless Lands is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Lawless Lands.

Lawless Lands was released on August 14, 2020.

Lawless Lands was developed by Corrosion.

Lawless Lands has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Lawless Lands for its story but disliked it for its grinding.

Lawless Lands is a single player game.

Similar games include Waste Walkers, Wartales, Encased, Zoria: Age of Shattering, Legends of Eisenwald and others.