Reception
Eschalon: Book I has generally received favorable reviews from gaming critics, scoring 75% at Metacritic from four reviews. Macworld awarded the game 3.5/5, claiming that "Eschalon: Book I is a great attempt at an “old school” role-playing game that’s worth playing, and definitely worth the download time." RPG Codex gave Book I a positive review and praised the music in particular, "It's a perfect soundtrack for the depicted locations, sets the mood properly and, while the number of tracks is quite small, manages not to become boring." A common criticism from gamers that Riegsecker himself admits is the shortness of the game, with most players finishing Book I in under twenty hours. GameBanshee selected Eschalon: Book I as runner-up for its 2007 "Independent RPG of the Year" award. In a September 2009 interview, Riegsecker also revealed that sales were 25% higher than originally projected, and that about a year after the games release they saw a profit. He also broke down the games sales by platform: 48% Windows, 42% Macintosh, and 10% Linux.
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