Flint: Treasure of Oblivion Reviews
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion is a good-looking adventure with enough pilfering, parrots and peg-legs to pacify all the pirate purists.
It’s tough to recommend Flint, though. While I did enjoy combat well enough, there was no real payoff for it. I didn’t care for why I’d win in battle or what that meant for the characters and the overall story. If you’re looking for a deep narrative adventure, this is probably not the game for you right now, but if you’re really itching for more strategic turn-based combat, or just really love the pirate setting, maybe consider giving Flint a try.
With more development time, copious patches, and some decent tutorials, the good game hidden deep inside Flint: Treasure of Oblivion could be dug up and unearthed. But for now, that treasure remains hidden, with only a map inscribed on the back of a wooden peg leg to try and find it.
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion is a game that undoubtedly required way more time in the oven. While its engaging story, captivating presentation, and the charismatic pirate captain James Flint pull players into the adventure early on, the experience is marred by a horrendous interface, clunky controls, poor tutorials, and the subpar execution of several mechanics. As a result, the game is hard to recommend except to the most dedicated tactical role-playing game enthusiasts willing to overlook its many glaring flaws.
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion has an interesting concept by exploring Captain Flint from the Treasure Island novel. But the execution here makes it hard to recommend; ranging from minor issues and frame drops to confusing game elements and a lot of pointless wandering around the maps make this one feel like it should have just remained lost at sea.
Its niche setting and multitude of combat options make Flint: Treasure of Oblivion best suited for methodical turn-based fans and pirate enthusiasts. This is a game you’ll either be frustrated by or fall in love at the helm of this classic pirate tale.
A very pleasant and engaging adventure, Flint: Treasure of Oblivion reaches the goal without distorting the genre and not inventing anything particularly new in the scenario of tacticians with RPG elements. Shuffle the cards on the table by taking inspiration from Baldur's Gate 3, inserting the dice mechanic and, in the meantime, detail an intense story polished to reach as many players as possible. If you haven't read Treasure Island, you want to get closer to Stevenson and then buy this toy here, then this adventure could give you unexpected emotions.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Flint Treasure of Oblivion is a pirate adventure with a successful atmosphere and tone, full of visual details that make it more authentic than many other privateer adaptations.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion feels like an incomplete game with poor storytelling and little to do. At about 10 hours to complete it's certainly not worth the $25 asking price. If you're looking for real-time exploration and turn-based combat, look elsewhere. Games like Divinity Original Sin 2 or Baldur's Gate do everything Flint wants to do but exceedingly better. If Fantasy isn't your jam, check out XCOM.
A well-made SRPG with a full commitment to its piratical inspirations, even if it takes longer than it should to learn systems and control patterns.
Flint Treasure of Oblivion is a SRPG lite that puts the story and characters at the front, but leaves much to be desired in the gameplay and quantity of content departments. If you really love pirates and strategy RPGs can still be a decent choice, but the price is very high at launch and the game is very rough on a technical point of view.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Embark upon the dice rolling seas in this tactical RPG pirate game.
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion is certainly an interesting attempt to create an engaging RPG experience, both in gameplay and the rare setting for this genre. Board game enthusiasts can find this game worth playing, yet more casual RPG players might be turned off by its complicated battle and deck building, spiced by the amount of randomness.
The day after finishing the game, I couldn't remember what it was even about. That should be the perfect summary of an RPG adventure called Flint: Treasure of Oblivion.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Though the combat system works just fine, the UI, the story, and overall controls drag the game down significantly.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
A pirate's life for me
Flint: Treasure of Oblivion as I said is only 5 chapters so it is short, but was actually quite a decent albeit campy dive into the swashbuckling journey of Captain Flint.
Though I enjoyed the adventure, a bit more polish could elevate Flint: Treasure of Oblivion from a fun experience to something I’d wholeheartedly recommend for everyone.
Flint Treasure of Oblivion is a game with ambitious ideas that are undermined by uneven execution. Its blend of tactical combat, exploration, and storytelling has the potential to shine, but the lack of depth, polish, and accessibility hold it back. The visuals and soundtrack do add some glimmer of hope at times and fans of pirate-themed adventures may find moments of enjoyment. So if that is you, then I may give the game a whirl. But for new players to this style of play, it might be better to walk the plank.
Whilst the narrative presentation and audio are solid, backed up by a suitably swashbuckling atmosphere, the awkward meld of cumbersome interface and too much being left to chance means that Flint: Treasure of Oblivion unfortunately never quite finds its sea legs.