Recent reviews by Xilil

Everything that made Original Sin 1 is in here, plus loads of extras that add to the experience.

Character development now allows for much more flexibility. In OS1 it was pretty hard to make some original combos like a battlemage because of the way skills and attributes worked. Now it feels like characters are much more customizable to whatever crazy combination you want to have.

The graphics are also a huge improvement. The PBR-rendering makes everything look stunning while preserving the nice aesthetics of the first game.

The single player Act that is available to Early Acces offers a lot of content. The replayability is also quite high. There are quite a lot of ways to complete your goals, which will make every playthrough a bit different.

The only problem that I think this sequel still has, is that sometimes it's hard to find the content for your level. Because of this you sometimes end up just running around looking for those level 4's you still need to kill to level up.

I thought PvP was going to be kind of nice, but that is quite the understatement. The PvP is one of the best PvP experiences I had in a long time. There's so much depth to it, while still keeping it fun. This is were the additions in combat from Original Sin 1 really show their beauty with Source skills and tons of new surface combo's like blessed fire. I just hope there will be a matchmaking system eventually because the server browser isn't that good in my opinion. People try to put up private matches in public, so everytime someone joins they instantly kick them.

Which brings me to my last complaint, which is that the game visibility of single player is the same as the visibility of multiplayer. This means that if you want to play single player, and right after that create an arena lobby, you have to change the setting every single time.

In conclusion I think it still has its flaws which is normal ofcourse, but at its current state it is already a beautiful and fun game.

This game has been marketed as a game in which you explore universes, upon which other players can then find your planets aswell. Later on the developper said that the chances of this happening were extremely small though. The main selling point of the game has just been ignored throughout the development of the game. Reports that discoveries are vanishing dont really help this. Everything we were promised has just not been delivered.
For example big space fights would also have had a prominent role in the release, while this rarely every happens and the ones we get are just NPCs shooting each other with their small ships. In previous gameplay trailers we had been shown giant ships batlling each others.
The game also runs extremely poor for its graphical quality. I run this game on a GTX 960M and can barely get 25 fps on lowest settings which is unacceptable for a game like this in my opinion.