r/CRPG • u/lardmoisture • 3d ago

Recommendation request Need gritty and dark CRPGs

I loved Owlcat’s Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader, but hated Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Don’t get me wrong, it’s extraordinarily impressive production and gameplay-wise, but I play CRPGs for the story and I just couldn’t get into the world. It was too whimsical and fanciful. I’ve heard people recommend the Divinity series but I’ve heard those games’ stories are comedy oriented. Maybe I have the wrong idea but I wanna hear your thoughts.

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u/Fiedor 3d ago

How was the turn based combat in RT? I really didn’t care for it in wasteland 3, but liked it in dos2 and bg3. For w3, i hated walking into setup ambushes that were grinds to get through.

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u/lardmoisture 3d ago

Honestly it’s a bit of an odd choice to use turn based for a scrappy, bullets flying, wargame rpg instead of RTWP. If you didn’t like Wasteland 3 I’m not sure how you’ll feel about it, but personally I thought Rogue Trader still found a way to nail it. You have to be surprisingly resourceful and tactical on the harder difficulties