Urrrggh, I really struggled with which way this recommendation should go.

There was a lot I didn't like about this game.
- Most of your time is spent running backwards and forwards across the same few locations, mostly doing almost-irrelevant busywork. I uttered the words "PLEASE let that be my last time here" way too often.
- I was expecting there to be meaningful tradeoffs to the acquisition of new flaws, to make character progression interesting - but no, it's all upside, and indeed effectively mandatory.
- What character progression there IS is, IMO, poorly designed. Early on, you earn skill points super fast, and progress along the tracks at a rate that makes it look like you'll easily max all the tracks by the end. But then later on it slows RIGHT down, and you discover late on that it's not possible in one playthrough to earn enough XP to maximise all the tracks, or even ONE track if progress them pretty evenly. So your choices are to become a jack of all trades/master of none that fails ALL the hard late-game skill checks, or to take a random guess at which ones you think will be important, and end up also failing medium ones in a couple of the dimensions in order to pass hard ones in the others. And there's no hints given to you that this will be the case, nor any respec option when you realise you got it wrong.
- With the one flaw that's actually gameplay-relevant - your starting one - you either want to push it a lot, or not at all. Moving from low Pride to medium closes a bunch of doors, and moving from medium to high opens a bunch; being medium is the worst of both worlds, but you don't really get warned about that either.
- The combat is simple, repetitive and easy.
- The voice acting is very inconsistent - lots of jarring accent changes/mispronunciations/incorrect emphasis.
- The ending was possibly the most disappointing I've ever experienced (and I played Mass Effect 3 before they patched it ;-). I can't say too much without spoilers, but in short, my character's faction wanted to set the world to rights, they achieved "maintain the status quo", and were bizarrely happy about it while I stared at the screen going "wtf!?".

Given all that, you're probably wondering why this review is a positive recommendation - and I'm finding it frustratingly hard to articulate that beyond "somehow, despite all of that, I still had fun". The story is interesting, I liked a lot of the writing, and there's just something about the fundamentals of being a thaumaturge that's unique and feels good. Like, if you step back and look at it dispassionately, "follow a trail to three objects, click them, and use the dialog option that unlocked" sounds pretty dull. Yet, somehow, it really WORKS. The way you get special insights from these objects that nobody else could, piece them together to figure out a secret someone thought impenetrable and use that against them - it somehow makes you feel clever and powerful despite it being trivial gameplay. So ultimately, despite feeling like I just wasted a lot of time, I have to apply the maxim "time you enjoy wasting is never wasted time" and hope that you'll enjoy wasting yours too! :-D

The more I think about it the more mixed my feelings get. I loved the atmosphere, the story was intriguing and I appreciate rpgs where the role of combat isn't a major factor. However the game felt restricted in its scope and gameplay. Finding Salutors wasn't organic, like it is shown how many there are to find and Wicktor finds them by walking in the same room with them. Midway through act 2 there stops being anything else to do and relationships I built up didn't have that much payoff. The more flaws that are collected should have more of an impact than only being stat boosts. Pride options come up in dialogue but other should as well and feeding the pride flaw should have more consequence then it takes the wheel sometimes.

Un bon RPG indé, bien plus long que ce qu'il laisse croire.
Assez original puisque l'histoire prends place à l'époque d'une Pologne au début du XXème siècle, une décennie avant la première Grande Guerre, une ère rarement étudiée ou mise en valeur.
La propre mythologie du jeu est assez sympathique et fait aussi écho à Persona sur certains points de vue, sauf qu'il s'agit de "Salutor" mais ils sont aussi inspirés de mythes existants. Pareil pour le mythe des Thaumaturges, intéressant, s'il y a une suite j'espère que les dev étofferont ce mythe, surtout qu'ils semblent être appelés par d'autres noms dans les autres pays.
L'histoire en elle-même est assez décevante dans le fond, bien qu'il y a un fond de révolution et de complotisme, on arrive un peu trop vite à nos fins, l'impression de tout résoudre en l'espace d'une semaine alors que rien que l'intro montre que Wictor a passé des années en exil, le mythe de Rasputine n'est pas assez exploité non plus, mêmes avec des quêtes secondaires intéressantes certains personnages secondaires sont trop en retrait.
Les combats passent de tactiques lors des premières heures à un véritable massacre dès lors qu'on acquiert les premiers passifs pour réduire la Concentration ennemi, mais ils risquent dans le classique du tour par tour, c'est satisfaisant mais il manque un truc.
La musique se fait assez discrète tout en restant dans l'ère du temps sans compter les gramophones.
Quelques soucis graphiques au niveau des animations (les personnages qui se pètent le cou pour rien pendant les conversations) mais autrement le jeu est assez propre et beau.
Le jeu possède son "syndrome de Revelio", à savoir spammer un clic droit comme un barbare tous les deux pas pour savoir ce qui est caché et le chemin pour aller à certains emplacements, c'est vite redondant, un effet élargie à plusieurs secondes serait plus fluide.

Dans l'ensemble un très bon jeu, qui a le mérite d'avoir plusieurs embranchements dans son histoire ainsi que différentes fins, en espérant une suite.