Age of Decadence

Has anyone played this? Just got done downloading after I had bought it on steam sale. Seems cool. It's supposed to be very difficult which got me interested.

I got it but I can't even fucking play it. My GPU gets unusually hot even though it has about the same graphic fidelity a game in 2005 would've had and often the game glitches out and my screen goes completely black. Haven't been able to play more than 30 minutes or so.

Its not hard at all. Its just that the combat is RNG heavy so if you go that route, you'll be reloading saves to fish for better rolls.

We had close to a dozen back to back threads when it came out, and the general consensus is s'okay. Crafting is great, lore is next to mandatory. Specialize.

Don't throw the divine spear.

If you play a merchant you can't have bodyguards in a Role Playing Game because that's not how the GM wants you to play :^)
Appart from a few autistic choices like that it's pretty enjoyable.

How freely can this game be played?

Can you play as anything? ANYTHING?
Like merchant, whore, soldier, some uppity faggot i dunno know im fucking drunk but yeah i've understood this is the holy grail of m-muh roleplaying but how deep does it go as far as what you can choose to play as?

user, either learn to handle your liquid jew or sleep it off. t. somefag who's been drinking since yesterday on the account of slav chistmas

There are around 8 different backgrounds to choose from all of which have unique opening.
There are multiple different routes to play the game.
Its a short game but there is a lot of replayability with unique routes and you won't discover everything about the setting on your first playthrough.

I would but i have some friends coming over later and we are gonna play the shit out of shit like Heroes 3 & Worms but no way am i gonna be able to handle them sober!

Cool, how short we talking about? 5hours? 12? 20?

Easy up to 40 depending on whether you fuck up and need to restart how autistic you are. And godspeed.