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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura

7.2/10

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 21, 2005

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Review

A true RPG with great character development and role-playing along either technological or magical lines, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura is brought down by its outdated graphics and unexceptional sound and music, as well as its non-tactical and dull combat. Its concept and theme are very innovative, though, and due to its strong replay value, you'll probably want to play at least a few times.

News Guides

Val Hull
December 30, 2022

RPG Titles Ranked

As someone who has to, on a regular basis, deal with plenty of RPGs and their oftentimes unwieldy titles, I couldn’t help but appreciate this PC Gamer article that presents us with a new kind of ranking system created specifically…

Val Hull
January 19, 2022

Activision Blizzard Purchased by Microsoft

To show everyone they mean business with this whole expansion into gaming thing they’ve been doing over the last few years, Microsoft went ahead and purchased Activision Blizzard for close to $70 billion. And while for the RPG enthusiasts this…

Val Hull
May 20, 2021

How Game Designers Handle Encumbrance

Encumbrance in video games can be quite annoying, and as such, game designers are often tasked with solving this perceived problem. Now, if you’d like to know how exactly some of them go about it, you should check out this…

BuckGB
November 8, 2020

GB Feature: Chad Moore Interview

Given his pedigree of role-playing game contributions that have spanned over two decades of design work, art direction, programming, production management, and more, Chad Moore really shouldn’t need an introduction. But despite seeing his name attached to so many classic…

Val Hull
November 8, 2020

Chad Moore Interview

“An Unfortunate Affair a story by Sir Chadwick Moore,” reads one of Arcanum’s loading screens presented as a magazine cover. For years, I treated it as such – a mere loading screen. However, during a recent replay of Arcanum, that…

Val Hull
July 19, 2020

PC Gamer’s Best PC RPGs

The editors over at PC Gamer have assembled a fresh list of what they consider to be the best RPGs currently available on PC. The list includes over 40 titles, so there’s a good chance it contains something you haven’t…

Val Hull
November 4, 2019

George Ziets Interview – Matt Chat

During the previous episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show we got a sneak peek of Matt’s interview with George Ziets, a video game designer you may know for his contributions to Neverwinter Nights 2’s Mask of the Betrayer expansion,…

Val Hull
July 19, 2019

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time

The editors over at PC Gamer have recently put together an updated list of what they consider to be the best RPGs of all time. While by no means exhaustive, the list does feature plenty of RPGs of all shapes…

Val Hull
December 18, 2018

The Outer Worlds – Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky Interview

Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the creators of the original Fallout and two of the co-founders of Troika Games, are currently busy co-directing Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming first-person RPG The Outer Worlds. And in order to learn a thing or two…

Val Hull
February 5, 2018

Leonard Boyarsky Interview, Part 3 – Matt Chat

In the third and final installment of his chat with Matt Barton, Leonard Boyarsky talks about his days at Troika Games and all the issues Arcanum, Vampire: Bloodlines, and The Temple of Elemental Evil had to overcome in order to…