This is Backlog Roulette, a series in which I randomly pick an unplayed game from my backlog and play it. As always, you may click on images to view larger versions.
When presented with the disturbingly organized spreadsheet of games that I own, the digital dice selected Antharion (bizarrely stylized “AntharioN”, but I won’t keep that up), by Orphic Software. A quick search through old emails revealed that I actually backed it on Kickstarter back in 2012 — a time when this brand of isometric, turn-based role-playing game was rare — but the campaign failed to reach its funding goal. Orphic Software immediately launched a new Kickstarter campaign to fund development, but I didn’t pledge to that one. I did, however, purchase the finished game in 2017. That’s a couple of years after its 2015 release, so I’m guessing I saw it on sale. Since then, I’ve eyed it in my spreadsheet on several occasions, but always ended up picking something else to play. Now that the dice have selected it, I decided to finally give it a go.
