The Shrouded Isle

Great game with an interesting premise, cool design, and fun lore. Only downside for me is that I don't feel it has much replay value once you've achieved all the end scenarios.

I'd give it a mixed review. Conceptually it is interesting enough, and it highlights disturbing aspects of religions that doesn't get discussed often enough. Gameplay-wise it is rather limited in it's offering, both in depth and play hours. Visually, I like it's resemblance to "Darkest Dungeon", though it does feel bare-bones in its overall presentation, particularly the lackluster animation. Like Chernobog it can be both forgiving and harsh. Forgiving in that you can run resources points and relationship points down to it's absolute minimum, and you don't lose immediately, you're given another season (round) to bring them up to threshold; which is usually doable, unless the deity (RNGesus) feels like being a dick and increasing the threshold of the particular resource you're at rock bottom of. Harshness mostly comes from RNG, especially at the start when most virtues and vices are unknown, and there are too few revelations provided to make actual strategic decisions - you inevitably gamble by sending a bunch of unknowns into the council. By mid-game though, most virtues and vices are known, and you shift to repeatedly do the chore of sending the requested individual to your god. By end-game you run out of actual big sinners to sacrifice, and now are doing a different chore, which is mostly keeping relationship points up with houses because they get angry that you sacrificed minor sinners. 4 seasons in 5 years make for 20 rounds; the game isn't really long, but it does get dull from mid-to-end-game when you are not so much making interesting decisions, but simply reacting to who the deity commands to sacrifice, and to what resource/relationship points is low and needs boosting.

Excellent interesting game that makes you think. Is challenging and rewarding for thinking several steps ahead. Would recommend to anyone.

You would need a paper and pen to track all the stats the game is not tracking for you. It goes too slow and repetitive.

Good.