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The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

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Quick resume

A story driven solo RPG inspired by oldschool games like RuneScape and Ultima Online! Explore a sprawling medieval fantasy world full of npcs with dialogue, level skills, fight varied monsters and uncover the story of Rothar Aercrest – the cursed lord to the remote woodlands of Imberthale.

Global score

85/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)

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    Pros

    • Nostalgic single-player runescape experience
    • Engaging story and quests
    • Meaningful skill progression and grinding
    • Large explorable world with secrets
    • Good value for price with many hours of content

    Cons

    • Limited inventory space and item stacking
    • Some pathfinding and ui clunkiness
    • Grinding can be tedious for some players
    • Minimal multiplayer and social features
    • Occasional bugs and early access rough edges

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report long sessions, habitual play, and high attachment with hundreds of hours invested."

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Minimal social connection; mostly solo play with limited local multiplayer."

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    • Growth

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      "Strong focus on learning game mechanics, character development, and improving skills over time."

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention during combat and progression; not designed for idle or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Relaxation, Story.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026