Eschalon series (first one is free on GOG)
Balrum

Balrum combat is awful and boring, but if you suffered through all the nuvernum games maybe you'll be able to handle it.

>>3935319
Balrum is pretty comfy. Just don't pick a wizard/magic user as your main class.

>>3935312
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Exiled kingdoms, tho I eventually dropped it because I was tired of walking around and buying endless teleport scrolls

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Of Blades and Tails, if you don't mind the furfaggotry.
It plays like a roguelike but is not one, the map and quests are hand made. It's mostly a dungeon crawler, there are a few towns but the interactions there are pretty basic, you will mostly be exploring the wilderness, fighting monsters and dungeon diving.
Most bad reviews are subhumans bitching about the difficulty, it's really not hard if you can spot basic synergies and skills that are clearly better than others and don't YOLO it into packs of monsters without a plan.

SKALD if you can look past the fugly undecipherable graphics.

If you can stomach the controls, Nethergate. They feel awful for the first 20 minutes but then it just werks, and you have an onother solid avernumlike

>>3935312
Knights of the Chalice

>>3935359
I found it pretty bad and boring

>>3935362
And inconsistent writing, extreme liniarity and absurdly overrated and overadvertised soundtrack that is plain mid.
It's very easy, even on harder difficulties. It embraces all the slog of the olden days with retardation of the modern era. None of the good from each imo

>>3935312
Realmz

Play the Exile series aka Avernum when it was good.
Also Nethergate by same dev.
You're not going to get equivalents/competitors because modern indie devs are exceedingly lazy and only chase popular trends with simple premade engines. Which is hilarious given how straightforward and simple the Spiderweb games usually are designed.

>>3935383
>Realmz
>>3935505
>the Exile series

Came to say these.