Echo Generation
It’s the summer of 1993. You and your friends set out to investigate the source of a mysterious crash. Complete quests, battle monsters and level up your party to save your hometown from danger in a heroic tale of childhood adventures.
Save your Home Town!
There’s been no shortage of monsters, robots and evil bosses wreaking havoc all over town. It’s up to you and your friends to save your home from complete destruction!
Turn-based Combat!
Battle menacing foes with the unique abilities of each party member in turn-based combat. Level up your party with XP and new skills!
Gather your Party!
Explore new locations to chat with other kids and recruit new friends (and pets!) to build your party.
Features:
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Atmospheric story set in a small town in the early 90s
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Kids on an adventure to investigate the source of a mysterious crash
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Turn-based battles with monsters and mechs
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Experience points from quests and battles level up the party
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Intense boss fights with a mix of real-time and turn-based combat
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Charming retro art style with a stylized 3D pixel look
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Original soundtrack with electronic and synthwave music
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Betrayal Collection
I got this as part of a bundle on 90% discount.
In my opinion, even at full price it is worth the money. I have already spent many hours playing these 2 games. Both run perferctly on Windows 10, I had no problem whatsoever.
Betrayal at Krondor is a classic old school RPG, comprised of 9 chapters, a must play for RPG fans. The first 3 chapters and the 6th are open world, the others are limited to a specific part of the general map.
I enjoyed each chapter very much, the skills of the characters (e.g. melee) can be improved by reading relevant books available in numerous shops in various towns, by paying NPCs for lectures or by fighting enemies. Special skills, like haggling or barding can be constantly improved by bying items in shops or by playing the lute in taverns.
– Real player with 217.5 hrs in game
Betrayal at Krondor has some shortcomings. It looks like shit - not even “by today’s standards”, it came out looking like shit, with a horrible 3d world, and ludicrous actors in ren-faire costumes. It’s slow. It has no quest markers, and you have to write down everything you’re told, as there isn’t even a quest journal.
But it allows you to get out there into the wide open world, and do whatever. You want to wander in the entirely wrong direction, and get to the chapter 1 goal by going around the map? You’ll get your shit pushed in, but you’re free to do so.
– Real player with 61.5 hrs in game
Always A New Journey
Although progress was delayed significantly, work has resumed.
Always a New Journey is a very early development rpg rogue-lite.
Inspiration comes from a lot of 90’s jrpgs, and some new ones.
You’ll choose one of four characters to start, with four more that can be unlocked.
Take your chosen hero through random floors of the dungeon to unlock more companions, things to craft, and upgrades for your town hub.
Or if you get strong enough, maybe even reach the top.
Combat takes place in a side view turn battle system familiar to any final fantasy or jrpg fan.
Heavy emphasis will be put on making the battles difficult enough to require strategic thought. Just hitting “attack” over and over should hopefully be a terrible strategy after the 2nd or 3rd floors. A lot of fun mechanics are in place to give you lots of choice in battles, such as unique limited use abilities for main characters, the ability to charge up your attacks and buffs, and weakness protection that you will absolutely want to be breaking as much as you can.
Upon death, you’ll lose everything except for any saved coin. You’ll also keep any town unlocks, and if you’re a farmer there’s probably some fruit and veggies waiting for whatever new character you’ve chosen!
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The Tenth Line
A fantastic turn-based RPG experience that came out of nowhere. The game hooked me with its charm and then kept me with its surprisingly well-written dialog and character development. Every character has a clear reason to exist and be with the party throughout the story. There are many twists big and small that kept me glued to this game. I had trouble sleeping for a couple of nights over the course of my playthrough because of my desire to see how the story unfolded.
Like many have mentioned, the combat system has a steep learning curve. I have never played a turn-based RPG that requires such a great of amount of attention, pacing, and strategy as this one. The game starts out easy enough but ramps up the difficulty real quick, to the point where you may have to consult the manual and/or the disccusion forums to figure out how to play better. If you like your games to be challenging, you will probably love this, but if you don’t have enough patience to fail a few times before things click, this might not be for you. I spent four hours on a main story boss (I’m sure everyone who’s played this knows exactly who I’m talking about), but I had a real blast figuring out how to win (It’s worth noting that this boss had been toned down since I played). There is a story-only option that supposedly removes encounters on the way to bosses and makes bosses simpler. I think the story and writing alone makes this game easily worth it, so this is likely a good option for those who get frustrated spending so much time figuring out how to beat a game (though personally I think removing the hardship of the encounters makes the experience less epic).
– Real player with 109.4 hrs in game
Before I go further, I’d never heard of this game before seeing it on a friend’s stream and I have to say, it’s one of the best games i’ve played in a while.
Now, to go in depth and please note this is based on playing full on, not the Light mode…
This game is one of those few games that, when you complete the Story, you can’t help but continue to play more and try to do everything, even with this I find myself playing the story again and again, I enjoy the gameplay and story.
The game’s battle mechanics are unusual, but they actually work quite well imo, also having to consider your SP and which attacks are best for the battle at hand adds to the fun, through defending can be hit & miss depending on certain factors, such as your Training, Power Flow build and Whether or not you use a specific Character’s Super Defense. Of course, Replaying does make battles somewhat easier depending, but battles later can still prove somewhat tricky if you’re not careful.
– Real player with 69.2 hrs in game
Pamir Saga
“Pamir Saga : Part I - Cursed Legacy” is a game where you can feel the nostalgia of the 1990’s classic JRPG.
Introduction
Pamir opened his eyes at an unknown sanctuary somewhere. He has no choice because he has lost even his memory.
Feature
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In the traditional JRPG style of the 1990s, you can enjoy Pamir’s adventure for about 10 hours.
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Find 5 unique colleagues to overcome difficult dungeons and face powerful enemies.
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Perform requests from various NPCs that visit the sanctuary and earn unique rewards
Notice
The launch date of Pamir Saga has been changed to February 19. We’ve been delayed for another week to provide a better quality game. We are very sorry about your inconvenience.
The Sixth Faction
The Sixth Faction is :
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A game designed to be played in cooperation
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An innovative programming system allowing both players to plan their strategy simultaneously.
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A Heroïc Fantasy universe
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Epic turn-based tactical battles
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Deep gameplay (42 character classes, 6 skill schools) and an infinite number of possible combinations and strategies.
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A unique adventure that will lead you to meet the 5 factions that live in the game world
The story:
- You lead a group of mercenaries who, in the course of their missions, will find themselves involved in intrigues and confrontations that will push them into the very heart of the 5 factions.
The 5 Factions
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Holyght, bastion of piety and devotion
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Haurond, kingdom of honor and chivalry
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Acardie, democracy based on mining
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Callmagi, a powerful empire based on magic
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Freyjon, a grouping of nomadic clans
The Settlement:
The camp allows you to optimize your team and increase your chances of success for the following missions! Several buildings will help you achieve your goals:
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The tavern : recruit new mercenaries
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The market : improve your equipment
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The training camp: choose new skills
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The temple: blessing for the next fight
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The spy center: information about the next mission
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The command center: selection and preparation of his team
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Puzzle & Maze
It’s not good.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
COLLECTION of SaGa FINAL FANTASY LEGEND
Very solid classics JRPGs from the early days, no color, no hand holding, If you are fans of old JRPGs, don’t have a Gameboy and the games on hand I would greatly recommend giving this collection a try. A pretty unique combination of multiple concept rarely seen together in the same game. Swords, Magic, Technology and Monster all mixed together remind me of Phantasy Star. Each game are 10-15 hours or so depending on how well you handle the mechanics.
Final Fantasy Legend: Very rough game, you pretty much have to grind at the beginning and the end game jump in difficulty but the rest of the game is very fun. Having a monster in your party that can evolve depending on the enemy you kill and eat is a very fun mechanic. Weapons having a number of uses will be familiar to fans of Fire Emblem and I must say it works pretty well. Story and tower climbing concept are pretty simple but there are a twist or two.
– Real player with 34.0 hrs in game
I bought this game since it brings back memories and if you compare the price of all 3 back in those day and now, this is definitely cheaper. Only get this is you were a fan of this game.
Reason why I wouldn’t recommend this game is that it is simply a port over, no improvements whatsoever. Pre-ordering this gets some wallpaper but we don’t get everything that is in the promo video like the coloured versions of the bosses etc.
My controller didn’t work with this
Would be good if they had settings to remove the background wallpaper. it’s just taking up screen space pointlessly
– Real player with 31.2 hrs in game
Stand ‘em Up
Pretty straight forward type of game if you’re into Beat ‘em up games. It gets a little frustrating at first, but you’ll get the picture of the game. Can’t take screenshots though. No big deal.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Fun platformer about a famous Russian blogger who lived an ordinary life, shooting videos and gaining subscribers, but suddenly a strange thing happens, the audience of the channel decreases and everyone says that he has a double who pretends to his success. So our protagonist takes to the streets of his town to restore justice and get rid of crime. All we have to do is fight our enemies, get money for it and spend it on new skills or super-strikes.
The game will be remembered for its visual style, synthesized soundtrack and funny voice acting.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
American Isekai Prologue
Really enjoyed this demo. The game, despite being clearly identified as a work in progress, is nonetheless a fun diversion. I’ve been playing this style of RPGs since the Apple IIc version of Might & Magic II: Gates to Another World and the OG Nintendo Final Fantasy I. I really enjoy learning new systems and progressing the story at my own pace; this game gives me the same sense of wonder and control over my own destiny in the game that those games that originally captured my imagination so many years ago.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
so good wish it was longer but it is still a demo
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game