GB Feature: Operencia: The Stolen Sun Review

Our opinion is that there really aren’t enough Eye of the Beholder-esque dungeon crawlers in the modern era, so with the advent of Zen Studios’ Operencia: The Stolen Sun, we just couldn’t resist taking a deep dive into the latest such offering. An excerpt from our three-page review:

Most skills vary in effectiveness depending on your target’s position, and very few of them simply do damage. The absolute majority of your attacks come bundled with assorted status effects, DoT effects, various buffs, and so on. They also all have an element associated with them. Using enough skills of a particular element gives you access to special party-wide abilities.

Using skills expends your Energy, a resource that doesn’t automatically regenerate in Operencia. Apart from some rare skills and potions, resting at campfires is the main way to restore Energy. Each rest consumes one bundle of firewood that you first have to find or buy, which can lead to some tense situations in the early game when your resources are limited.