What should have been a great experience is marred by some truly dreadful balancing. The game swings wildly from a walk in the park, to massive difficulty with no rhyme or reason.
The game balance assumes you are constantly save scumming so that you can buff up before non-trivial fights.

It also has the worst puzzles I've experienced in any game.

I stuck with the game far longer than I should have, getting about halfway through before the balancing finally made me uninstall it. What finally pushed me over the edge was yet another untelegraphed major encounter, where the boss could hit any member of my party on a roll of 2 (thanks to having +51 to hit) while most of my characters would only hit it on a 20.

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This is a fantastic cRPG. If you enjoy other cRPGs, you are very likely to enjoy this one as well. However, some parts of the game are really lacking. I have a lot of criticism, but I still love the game and I really liked playing it.

OwlCat's game-designers do not value your time at all. The game is filled with tedious routine, but thankfully you can fix it with mods. Several times I tried to play this game unmodded, but each time I was getting frustrated and giving up. Last time I finally came to a conclusion that other people must've felt the same way, and thus there must be mods to fix these problems. So, mods are a necessity, with them game really begins to shine. Do not try to play unmodded, it's a pain.

Here's the list of mods that I consider must-have.

- Toybox. This brings some quality-of-life features, e.g. highlighting nicknames of important NPCs. Also it enables back achievements (that are normally disabled if you play with mods). Also Toybox basically gives you root-access to the game, which might be really important in some cases, In my case, in the 2nd act I forgot to speak with a certain NPC (because there was no entry in journal, or maybe I haven't waited for enough time for this quest to progress, who knows). Anyway, at the very end of the game I realized that a certain companion quest got locked in a bad-end-state because of that. And, like, sure, I could replay half of the campaign just to fix it, but was it worth it? 50 hours are quite a lot of time just to get a better ending for a certain character. So I edited a certain variable, and it fixed the companion quest for me. Too bad i had to cheat to achieve that. Another example is that for a certain event I would need to arrive in a specific location at a certain week, which required me to skip several months of in-game time. Game allows you to skip time day-by-day, but it is way slower. With this mod it was done in a matter of seconds.

- BubbleBuffs. Buffing before every battle is a necessity, but it is freaking boring. Who thought that it is fun? Why is it even a thing that pre-buffing is mandatory? This mod saves you a lot of time by providing a hotkey for buffing your characters with spells that you've picked.

- AutoMount. Every time you enter a new area, you need to manually mount all your animal companions. Imagine how tedious it becomes when half your party has animal companions. Click your character, then click "mount" ability, then find and click your animal. Repeat for every melee character that has animal companion. This mod, however, auto-mounts your animal companions every time you enter a new area, and provides hotkeys for mounting and dismounting the whole party.

- Respec Mod. Allows you to respec your allies from the 0-level, as if they were mercs. It is quite important, because most of the NPCs have retarded builds that you cannot redo or fix. So normally you either play a sub-optimal party of characters with backgrounds and personalities (and suffer in combat encounters), or you hire mercs (and get no interesting dialogs, missing a significant part of the game). With this mod, however, you get both dialogs and optimal team composition at the same time.