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The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
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.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “single-player RuneScape-style gameplay” (51 of 77 reviews) and “Rewarding skill and gear progression” (20); the most common complaint is “Slow, grindy progression” (18). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
51 of the 77 reviews raise this.
20 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Most people seem to compare this to Runescape. I personally never got into playing Runescape, so I cannot comment on whether that is accurate. But I can tell you that the game definitely has an old-school feel to the…”
11 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“I really love this game. As an avid Runescape player, I like having an alternative to it. An offline single player no membership experience. This game scratches that Runescape itch without me needing to be a member to…”
“So far I definitely recommend the game: pro: - very good atmosphere - nice soundtrack - good writing - good quests - satisfying sound design - satisfying skill progression - good crafting system - cool artstyle - not…”
9 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Most people seem to compare this to Runescape. I personally never got into playing Runescape, so I cannot comment on whether that is accurate. But I can tell you that the game definitely has an old-school feel to the…”
“Single player Runescape with a bit more here and there. Thought it was fine until I kept playing and got sucked in. Turns out I have over 100 hours now. Sign of a good game.”
7 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“If you enjoyed OSRS but think $15 a month for 1 character is absolutely absurd, why not spend $15 once and get this fantastic game? Yeah, it doesn't have the longevity of OSRS, but you're more than getting your money's…”
“I really love this game. As an avid Runescape player, I like having an alternative to it. An offline single player no membership experience. This game scratches that Runescape itch without me needing to be a member to…”
“Most people seem to compare this to Runescape. I personally never got into playing Runescape, so I cannot comment on whether that is accurate. But I can tell you that the game definitely has an old-school feel to the…”
18 of the 77 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“EDIT: Since people keep commenting before reading, most of my hours on this game is from the game running in the background, since combat can be trained with 0 input. I've wondered many times how a singleplayer…”
“This is surely a game a lot of people will enjoy. I was pretty excited to try it out, having fond memories of RuneScape 2 back when membership was only $5. Unfortunately I think a lot of those fond memories for me were…”
7 of the 77 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“permanently losing unique item's just ain't it for a "chill" rpg. Especially when the pathing for clicking a location on the map is this horrible”
“Its good, but a lot still needs tweaking. The gathering skills are a PITA to level and the pathing needs a lot of work.”
“A game heavily inspired by Old School Runescape, but with less content and more jank. This is an indie dev, so you need to be a bit accepting of that going in. Movement is click to move, and at times the path finding…”
6 of the 77 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“If you enjoyed OSRS but think $15 a month for 1 character is absolutely absurd, why not spend $15 once and get this fantastic game? Yeah, it doesn't have the longevity of OSRS, but you're more than getting your money's…”
“A game heavily inspired by Old School Runescape, but with less content and more jank. This is an indie dev, so you need to be a bit accepting of that going in. Movement is click to move, and at times the path finding…”
6 of the 77 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“EDIT: Since people keep commenting before reading, most of my hours on this game is from the game running in the background, since combat can be trained with 0 input. I've wondered many times how a singleplayer…”
“This is surely a game a lot of people will enjoy. I was pretty excited to try it out, having fond memories of RuneScape 2 back when membership was only $5. Unfortunately I think a lot of those fond memories for me were…”
“A game heavily inspired by Old School Runescape, but with less content and more jank. This is an indie dev, so you need to be a bit accepting of that going in. Movement is click to move, and at times the path finding…”
5 of the 77 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“games been abandonded seemingly ui is clunky grind is meh”
“So far I definitely recommend the game: pro: - very good atmosphere - nice soundtrack - good writing - good quests - satisfying sound design - satisfying skill progression - good crafting system - cool artstyle - not…”
Counted across 77 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“it's straight up single-player OSRS with some QoL and a plot.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“plays a lot like Runescape, sad thing is you cant play with friends. Good thing is no monthly fee like Runescape.”
— a player, Steam review · 119 hrs played“It wants to be fun, but the grind and progression walls just hit far too often and far too fast. Want to progress the main storyline? Go chop 1000 trees. Sweet you got that done and into the dungeon for the next boss fight? I hope you picked this one specific build and farmed a…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Fixed and Adjusted Silderglass Tunnel Rewards
The Silderglass Tunnel's end reward was not paying out as intended. It was meant to reward up to 10 Silderglass at 50% tunnel stability, but in reality it was capped lower than that. This has been fix
Game Update - The Silderglass Tunnel
Greetings, medieval adventurers! We are updating the game with a fancy new mining minigame and a bunch of other smaller changes and features related to XP-progression and online play . Additionally, w
Keybinds resetting bugfix
Fixed an issue where custom movement keybinds could reset to the default WASD controls after restarting the game.
Bugfixes & Small Changes
- Added a fail-safe to quest 'Gathering Power' to automatically progress the quest in case the quest failed to update after obtaining the required items - Fixed using single use abilities on cooldown
Lag bugfix
Fixed an issue with broken UI behavior that was causing noticeable lag when no UI windows were open.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Adventure · RPG · Crafting · Open World · Singleplayer · Fantasy · Archery · Magic · Third Person · Exploration · Character Customization · Lore-Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 260 |
| Official site | https://olipa.games |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 550 Ti or better Storage: 4 GB available space