Solasta: Crown of the Magister Reviews
Despite its linear story, Solasta offers the best implementation of the 5E ruleset to-date. Roll for initiative!
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is undoubtedly a love letter to a traditional Dungeons & Dragons tabletop experience. While I’m glad that the game is finally available across all modern platforms, minus the Switch, this game is probably much better enjoyed on PC via Steam than PlayStation 5. The mediocre performance, lack of accessibility features such as increasing text size, and the absence of cross-platform play and local co-op makes the PS5 version a hard recommendation.
Solasta: Crown of the Magister overall is a quite fun experience that makes sure players can enjoy every aspect of a D&D campaign without needing previous knowledge. I wouldn't say it's the most groundbreaking execution, but I do feel this game is a perfect start for someone interested in any campaign where they can just be a half-elf ready to shoot people down. It's a fun journey for you to enter the universe of D&D and more accessible to most than the old ways of gathering around a table with pen and paper.
For all its flaws, Solasta: Crown of the Magister is still a wonderful take on a D&D style game
Solasta faithfully recreates much of the experience of a fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons adventure with a focus on satisfying combat.
Overall though, in spite of the snags I hit, Tactical Adventures mostly did a really good job with the story and the combat in Solasta. It succeeds in pumping some life into a genre that hasn’t been catching my attention for a while. Some of my points might come across as a bit harsh, but I want to stress that it was still a very good experience most of the time. It might need a little love that it’s almost certain to get post-release, but I can still recommend this game for fans of D&D style RPGs.
So overall, Solasta: Crown of the Magister does an excellent job at bringing a tabletop experience over to the digital realm. While it may not be perfect, that’s more of a detail as it’s still being worked on with new features to come down the line such as the Dungeon Maker and a Sorcerer class to add to the already existing six available. Will more come? That’s to see down the line but for now? Solasta offers hours of brilliant tabletop goodness all from the comfort of your chair.
Solasta is a fantastic D&D experience and I recommend all fans of the 5th edition to give it a shot. Though it may not impress visually, the gameplay will captivate fans especially since the developers enhanced it in a very imaginative way. If you're looking for a bit more D&D in your life, this is the way.
Review in French | Read full review
Solasta: Crown of the Magister tries to be the most authentic D&D adaptation in the video game form and it achieves that in spades. The whole thing may seem a little bit on the cliché and conservative side of RPG design but all the parts have been put together in such a good way that this adventure becomes quite thrilling to go through.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a tactical RPG uses rules of Dungeons & Dragons 5e to work. It is a role-playing game with an interesting campaign and very diverse characters, although scarce considering it only uses half of the dnd 5e player manual. Graphically it is not any wonder, although it has very beautiful places and in general it looks quite good. The biggest problem would be that it is not in Spanish. Fully recommended for a role player or tactical RPG lovers.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is not only what you see, but what it promises to be. Its implementation of the D&D 5.1 rules is excellent, and although the history of the campaign will not leave a mark on us, it will offer us hours of essential fun for lovers of role-playing games. The best, moreover, is yet to come, because there is no doubt that the community will honor the publisher included and acquire Solasta: Crown of the Magister is to acquire, as one who acquires the game manual, not only one adventure, but many future ones.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While Solasta: Crown of the Magister suffers from lackluster visual presentation, the tight gameplay and excellent dungeon editor make this a game that fans of the genre won't want to miss.