It's an age old Classic RPG with next to no games that come close to it's play style (crafting,huge world, quests, turn based/real time combat, magic vs technology, etc)
I've invested hundreds of hours into it's addictiveness, though I would like to point out "Cheat engine" works extremely well with Arcanum
Actually you're right it does work incredibly well with Cheat Engine. I have two videos on YouTube for players about this, (I need to remake them) and even found a work around with the black and purple glitch screen issue that's pretty common now when people use the Alt-Tab for Windows 10 users due to the hardware updates.
+1 to this. I really wanna see what happens when you max out certain stats and just go for it
Honestly? You pretty much turn your character into the baddest mfr in the game. You still have to collect the appropriate gear so you don't end up as fodder for wolves, rats and so on, but it's pretty interesting.
Also I'm rather surprised no one in this post looked into Arcanum's community. Drog Black-Tooth is one of the most legendary players in that community, not active anymore that I'm aware of, but he's also made some patches for the game to help fix a lot of the issues in the game. He even found the debug console they removed from the game right before launch and turned it into a trainer.
I don't think it's around anymore, but Cheat Engine will definitely take care of everything you want or you can even use the character editor K G mentioned in an earlier comment.