Rogue Trader's Pretty Good

Owlcat Games did a good job making me feel immersed in the 40k universe, I felt like a badass Rogue Trader. The game and systems themselves have some flaws, which get more apparent the longer you play, but still overall solid enough that I've enjoyed my time with it.

This game is kind of a good middle ground between something like Baldurs Gate, and XCOM. The combat is more like XCOM - positioning is the biggest factor to consider. Then it has more rpg elements and exploration of places and interactions with people like BG.

My main source of disappointment stems from how easy every encounter is. From playing a different Owlcat game, I thought I had better select a normal difficulty, because I remember getting stuck on their pathfinder game. So I didn't choose a difficulty that had the warning attached, or the lowest difficulty with a warning can't remember which. Either way, game is way too easy. I don't even really have to make good use of my characters, as I can run around with 1 person and eliminate all the enemies and a couple turns, sometimes just one of my characters can clear the whole fight first round. So I pretty much have one or two unstoppable characters and the rest are Moral Support and don't get a chance to shine before everything is dead.

I've only lost a few space battles, i've been wiped 0 times in normal fights, as you explore you can do some optional space battles and if you hit up the wrong ones early, you can be outmatched to the point where you can't win it, and have to avoid that fight until you are more leveled up and upgrade your voidship quite a bit.

If you like a challenge, disregard the warning and go for a higher difficulty. I'm already almost finished with the game because I kept playing, thinking it would get harder as I progressed. That hasn't really happened, I don't feel any serious threats during my fights, winning is a foregone conclusion. I'm tempted to play through it again, on a much harder mode, but couldn't justify stopping halfway or 3/4 of the way through, to replay everything I had just done, so decided to push to the finish. I spent a lot of time reading through all the passive and active abilities you can level your characters with and trying to optimize my builds accordingly, but it feels wasted a bit since the fights are just too damn easy on the difficulty I selected.

Lots of reading in the game, but it's all mostly enjoyable reading for me as a fan of 40k. Decisions matter and feel impactful enough. Graphics aren't breathtaking, but you get used to it. Sound quality is great, enjoyable all around, chose some good musical scores and have some good voice acting etc. In general the game is really good, almost "Incredible" but feels like it wasn't quite finished all the way, but it's a long game so sort of understandable that it get's a bit thin toward the end and probably could have used more polish and balancing.

For fans of 40k, it's worth giving this game a chance, if you are curious - just do it.