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The game takes place in chapters, during which the player can an explore an area, interacting with NPCs, engaging in combat and completing quests.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Jarrett |date=2024-03-04 |title=The Thaumaturge Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/the-thaumaturge-review |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref> |
The game takes place in chapters, during which the player can an explore an area, interacting with NPCs, engaging in combat and completing quests.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Jarrett |date=2024-03-04 |title=The Thaumaturge Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/the-thaumaturge-review |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref> The player can engage human foes and supernatural ones in turn-based combat, where they are able to use the abilties of ghostly salutors to win brawls. Each salutor represents a human flaw, Recklessness can break enemies' focus, but at added risk to yourself, while Pride does damage to foes and heals Wiktor simultaneously. |
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Revision as of 03:01, 5 March 2024
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| Developer(s) | Fool’s Theory |
| Publisher(s) | 11 Bit Studios |
| Director(s) | Karolina Kuzia-Rokosz |
| Composer(s) | Agnieszka Wlazły, Sebastian Syczyński |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S |
| Release | March 4, 2024 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Thaumaturge is a 2024 isometric role-playing game developed by Fool's Theory and published by 11 Bit Studios. The player controls Wiktor Szulski, a detective that returns to a supernatural Warsaw in 1905 to investigate the mysterious death of his father. The Thaumaturge released in March 2024 for Microsoft Windows, with versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S set to release at a later date.[1][2]
Gameplay
The game takes place in chapters, during which the player can an explore an area, interacting with NPCs, engaging in combat and completing quests.[3] The player can engage human foes and supernatural ones in turn-based combat, where they are able to use the abilties of ghostly salutors to win brawls. Each salutor represents a human flaw, Recklessness can break enemies' focus, but at added risk to yourself, while Pride does damage to foes and heals Wiktor simultaneously.
Reception
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | PC: 74/100 |
| Publication | Score |
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| IGN | 8/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 82/100 |
The Thaumaturge received "mixed or average reviews," according to review aggregator Metacritic.[4] Rock Paper Shotgun praised the characterization and writing of the protagonist, "this feeling of never quite fitting in anywhere provides a fantastic stage on which players to role-play Wiktor as they see fit".[5] While feeling the acting could be hit or miss, IGN liked the historical setting of The Thaumaturge, "The constant push and pull between the occupiers and the increasingly more disgruntled citizens is something Wiktor’s supernatural adventure is constantly butting up against".[3] PCGamer criticized the combat as dull, "fights are uniform enough that you only have to buckle down and strategize against bosses, which are few and far between."[6]
References
- ^ "The Thaumaturge has been delayed to February 2024". Destructoid. 2023-11-15. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
- ^ "The Thaumaturge for PC delayed to March 4". Gematsu. 2024-02-12. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
- ^ a b Green, Jarrett (2024-03-04). "The Thaumaturge Review". IGN. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
- ^ "The Thaumaturge". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
- ^ Editor-in-chief, Katharine Castle; Castle, Katharine (2024-03-04). "The Thaumaturge review: a knotty detective RPG brewed in a rich, historical melting pot". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ published, Maddi Chilton (2024-03-04). "The Thaumaturge review". pcgamer. Retrieved 2024-03-05.