I unabashedly love Dungeons & Dragons – when Baldur’s Gate 3 was announced earlier this year, I squealed like a child. It’s why, when I got to see an hour-long demo of Solasta: Crown of the Magister at Gamescom 2019, I was blown away by how well it replicates one of my favorite tabletop experiences.
Based on the Open Gaming License SRD for D&D 5th Edition – the publicly available ruleset that lets designers build new experiences on the DnD 5e engine (and gamers to play D&D for free) – Solasta is a classic party-focused RPG with turn-based tactical combat (similar to what you’d find in something like X-Com or Wasteland 3). What’s unique is how it integrates the concepts and mechanics of a tabletop game into the digital realm, and in some cases the clever ways in which it has to tweak those dice-rolling norms to fit into pixels.
Source: IGN.com Solasta Is the Best D&D Game I've Ever Seen and It's Not Actually a D&D Game