This is the game I

Dont listen to the haters. Been playing this for a year and its still awesome. This is a lovingly crafted, astonishingly deep game that both pays homage to the RPGs of olde and leverages its independence to bravely shatter old boundaries. The realism is incredible, even as the level of fantasy gets turned up to 11. You wont find any of the cartoony crap thats all the rage right now across the App Store. Instead youll find deep, overlapping magic and combat systems, and compelling characters with well-crafted dialogue and real-world attributes that you almost never see in the genre, like crude language, recreational drug use, racism, religious fanaticism and sexuality.

Its not perfect: the stronghold is conspicuoulsy unpopulated even when developed and frustrating to navigate because of all the load screens, certain features like taking prisoners are barely developed, the expansion packs come slower on the App Store despite its great success here, and the in-app purchase screen is primitive and hard to use. And none of that matters. A few hiccups are inevitable for a game with such daring breadth and scope. And the best part is, it shows every promise of expanding and improving for many long years to come. Off to a great start with Game of the Year, and things have definitely improved even more with the expansions. The first one is good and the second one rocks. Bravo Obsidian. Cant wait to see where you take us next.

Ben Keller about Pillars of Eternity