Hot game of the week: Pillars of Eternity

This week everyone is raving about Pillars of Eternity, a Kickstarter-funded RPG along the lines of old-school early 2000s classics like Baldur's Gate. Pillars of Eternity has been in the works for several years, and its release was hotly anticipated by many gamers who have fond memories of questing their way through hundreds of hours of dungeons, carefully balancing their party, and all witnessed through the classic fixed-distance isometric camera.

Pillars of Eternity is a big game, with potentially hundreds of hours of content, and that's not even counting any DLC that may be released in the future. There are countless NPCs to talk to, new races to interact with, huge amounts of lore to immerse yourself in, and well-written text-based cutscenes.

Styled after RPGs like Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, and Planetscape: Torment, Pillars of Eternity is hitting that sweet spot for modern RPG gamers everywhere!

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