It's a very traditional Piranha Bytes RPG where you want to get lost. With lovely quirks and story telling.

Caveat: I am a fan of every game in the series from Gothic to Risen 3. This one has a few different things like guns, easy teleport options, and monkeys, but its pretty similar at the core.

It's well written, well acted, the graphics still hold up IMO, and it was a lot of fun to play again. I had forgotten it enough to enjoy it all over. I wish they were still making games like this.

This game is an unplayable abandonware.
The menu loaded but it was simply unable to start a new game, it just ended up freezing on a black screen.
I applied some fixes such as PhysX reinstall, .ini edits and file verification. After that at least it started and played the opening cinematic.
Then right after loading into the tutorial room it CRASHED MY PC into a complete power down - shut down.
Maybe one day GOG will patch this to a working condition in their games preservation program.
THQ Nordic and Steam obviously don't care they are selling broken ♥♥♥♥ that can potentially damage your hardware.