Reviews - onomastikon

How I wanted to like this game! Sadly, it is broken beyond repair, I have never been able to play a single scenario to the end. 2 points for effort.

This little product has fantastic voice acting, good characters, very well-written monologues and pretty good dialogues too.
It is, however, very quirky, so that one wonders if this would have been a much better short story; as a "game", it doesn't do quite as well. A nice, refreshing try at expanding the adventure genre, with well-written texts, this merely suffers from having not enough to "do", and having you have to "do" it in a very idiosyncratic, eclectic order devoid of any logic. In this way -- but thankfully, in this way only -- does it not meet up to its rabbinical standards. A short and pleasant digital short-story-***-game encounter.

Excellent game of tactics, fun in SP and well-balanced for MP. By far the single best free strategy product I've ever seen.

This is a charming retro-style game which does a lot of things well for what it is.
No one would expect overwhelming media experience (graphics or sound) from an old-school roguelike such as this, and so you shouldn't either, because they aren't there. That's ok, I play with the sound off.
There are many little options and quirks that make many of the labyrinths varied enough to be stimulating even after the 20th playthrough. But not all. Some of them are downright frustrating, and not because they require you to think, but precisely because they do not.
Bugs and frequent random crashes in the windows version detract 2 points from my score, and a vastly suboptimal UI detract a further point. Otherwise, if this game runs smoothly for you, this might be a pleasant little distraction for a small sum of money. But as polished and clever as some free games out there (such as Battle for Wesnoth) this is not.