The Last Roman Village 2
After Marcus Aurelius death, it is time for his son Crassus, to prove he is a worthy heir and leader. The mighty and once invincible Roman Empire is no more, and in its wake are enemy forces attacking from all sides in hordes. You can guard the walls by fighting and defeating enemies, such as skeletons, undead, goblins, trolls and what not! Build your village defenses, train and upgrade soldiers, do whatever you can do to preserve the village. The game has wide variety of bosses, and a lot of new features that will make the gameplay very intriguing. Explore the extensive map with lots of new lands and surprises (some good and some bad.) Find and help your friend Brutus, who can join your journey to destroy once and forever the evil forces surrounding your village. On most of the map zones you can find artifacts and treasures that will bring lots of new abilities and upgrades. Atmospheric scenes and intriguing story is our hundred percent team effort to create a game for game lovers who love to try something different with lots of great features, and variety of options to choose from. Gather your courage, wisdom, strength and lead the last roman village to safety and prosperity.
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I, Gladiator
Tags: Comat Arena & Smashbroesque
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Functionnal but underwhelming combat arena experience. The arena mechanics with crowd pleasing and gory kills is not well implemented enough and you are left with a restrictive third person hack&slash that is easily outcompeted with proper hack & slash Japanese titles or the richness of western open world games with similar combat.
Button Mashing FIesta that hints at a more refined system of skill and rewards related to combo making and crowd pleasing. The implementation is hit and miss, there is only one combo to speak of and about half a dozen special moves, and it is easy to find AI gaps to exploit or stick to a simple attack and defense formula that will win most encounters with enough patience and grinding at the health of enemies. If you get bored and try to innovate the enemy might start a combo of its own stun lock you and force you to restart which disincentivizes you from doing that. Rewards and progression and poorly thought out, and feel mostly pointless, equipment does not carry over from fight to fight, and the in-arena merchant is often absent. It might be that the actual character sheet is tied to the Pay to Win model of the phone market and was simply ripped out for this port, it wouldnt surprise me. In terms of granularity of control, responsiveness and overall fun factor of the combat I found infinity blade on the Apple Store much more fulfilling that this.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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Quick review for now (because this game needs it, and steam users in general need it due to there being a lack of good action ‘fighter’ games)
– This game is Great!!!
One of those rare ‘well-rounded’ games, where everything from the story-line, to the music to the graphics to the gameplay are all ‘good’ or better.
There’s nothing here that will ‘stop’ you from enjoying it.
It even has online gameplay against other people! (Though that’s not it’s strong point so don’t buy it just for that).
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
Pax Romana: Romulus
Hello All, after playing the game for a few hours (44.5hrs) I feel I can give PAX an honest review. The game is in Early Access so content is limited but the story looks promising with many possible directions. Starting off you will struggle managing Energy & Hunger needed to perform actions. I found farming, cooking items into meals, and then selling end product enabled me to build coin to buy animals and other raw materials. Farming isn’t fast and takes time but I was able to grind through it. Early on you will want to focus on mining for Turquoise to then have turquoise crafted into rune stones. These then are used to activate the rune portals to traverse the map between the different towns. Harvest wood/stone in between your crops growing. There were some bugs with different features (crafting recipes/beehives) and the Devs responded fast to resolved them. Feedback on issues and ideas were warmly received. Many games I have played you read from other players how Devs don’t care about it’s community. Locus Ludus does at least hear you an have responded. Is PAX the greatest game you’ll ever play, maybe not. Could it use more content, yes! PAX is a game that won’t give you everything and will make you work for it. It is a struggle to start until you get a better understanding of how things work (Energy/Hunger management). Berry bushes & mushrooms found while you’re out collecting resources (wood/stone) was something i overlooked early on. Due to hunger consumption you might want to save those consumables for when you decide to go out resource collecting. Going into options and turning on “sprint always” might help speed things up as well. You don’t die if energy\hunger depletes, you just walk very slow. I found using hunger items food/potions at your homestead really isn’t needed. Yes, you will move slower but you’ll find farming & tending animals takes time which wastes\burns your hunger meter. Once your established you can then consume meals\wine you craft as you feel the need but always make sure to buy enough seeds or regents prior to the next harvest. Also, be sure to take into consideration the cost of materials versus the profit of the finished product. It’s not worth buying\growing something that gives 4 gold profit if something else that you can grow/craft gives you 14 gold profit. My basic strategy in playing is like so. Plant crops & manage animals, collect (Wood/stone), harvest crops you grow, craft items (Cook food from grown crops, craft wine & cloth, smelt ingots, collect honey), sell end product. After completing the stories quest chain sadly there is little left to do. I’m grinding out the achievements but past that I’m just waiting for more content, At it’s current state I would give PAX a 7 out of 10. PAX does have potential to grow into a really good game if the Devs stick with it.
– Real player with 46.3 hrs in game
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I really like the concept of this game and I think it can grow to become great. But the risk/reward aspect is broken. More importantly, the effort/reward aspect is broken. The game has a lot of potential. There are a lot of unnecessary actions/clicks forced on the player due to the limitations of gamemaker. This game does not reward ANY of the standard gamer types - Highly impatient, Impatient, Easy going, Lazy, Lazy as Fk. These types of games will succeed only if the game rewards all the gamer types in some way. It is possible to pull off but requires a lot of thought.
– Real player with 33.9 hrs in game
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood
**“I thought my work was done. I was wrong. Once more, I must venture into the fray. By recruiting enemies of the state, we arm those who have been disarmed by the Borgia. The greed, the corruption, the tyranny my enemies have spread will burn to the ground. From the ashes of vengeance, a new Rome will rise.”
―Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Launch Trailer.**
It has taken some time for me to complete this one, yet here we are: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is the third game in the series, and the second part that follows Ezio’s storyline. There is a reason that this game is a fan favorite, since it contains the allure of the previous game, yet brings in various new features and a truckload to attend and discover. If you have enjoyed the previous game, you’ll love this one. Renaissance Italy is yet again here for us to roam in, with one glorious city at our disposal. It seems that the old saying was true all along: all roads lead to Rome.
– Real player with 94.0 hrs in game
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is the third installment in the Assassin’s Creed series and released only a year after the second game, a cycle that would become the norm until after Syndicate. Could it better the excellent ACII despite such a short time in between games? This is what I think of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.
Amazingly, it did just that in a number of areas. I always used to tell friends that they could be released every year if they maintained the quality and Brotherhood was the first of many to back up that statement. The graphics quality is a step up from ACII, with excellent character models and colour palettes. The city of Rome and the other areas throughout Italy you briefly visit are beautiful, as always. Jesper Kyd also returns with another enchanting soundtrack. Much improved. on all counts.
– Real player with 82.4 hrs in game
Asterix & Obelix XXL 3 - The Crystal Menhir
It’s a very good and fun game for coop for two kids or a parent and a kid. Even though the coop experience is diminished by poorly thought way of handling camera when the two heroes are far apart .
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- great graphics,
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- great sound ,
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- great level design , alternating between quests, puzzles , fights
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- good dialogues ,
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- good story,
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- dogmatix is adorable and fierce!! ,
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- fun fights with many options
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- Fakeusnewus , Econimicrasious and other funny characters
– Real player with 203.4 hrs in game
I have been a huge fan of Asterix since my childhood. Played XXL 1 many many times and 2 sporadically and loved them very much.
This game is a disgrace to Asterix (XXL). The developers didn’t attempt to make a 3D game like the other two games have been and made some random “mobile top down” game for the quick cash grab. The menu interface is even ripped off straight out of the XXL 2 remaster. No effort put into it in any way.
The game looks nice, going for the collectibles is very fun and bringing back a specific Roman from the very first Asterix comic (and animated movie) is a great touch. I think that is about all covering the positives of this game.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game
CHARIOT WARS
Watch intro which lasts 5+ minutes and cuts off before its' conclusion.
Start my first race, the AI pull ahead.
The AI swap positions with each other off screen.
Catch up with said AI, and they are in a perfect line, no swapping of positions.
But, still shows AI swapping positions on the side bar?
Insert confusion.
Pass some chariots - shows me in last position.
Pass all chariots, cross the start/finish line first, tells me I lost.
Insert more confusion.
Restart race…
The AI start climbing up the scenery and doing doughnuts.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
After getting this game as a gift, I now want to pay my friend for getting it. I also want to pay him for getting himself a copy because I now have a seriously dangerous urge to get into a car crash. This games CPU has an IQ worse than its fps as they will slam the walls cheeks harder than Jordi El Nino. The worse thing about this though is the 5 minute intro. The only reason we all played this is because of the lore. 11/10
PS if you’re into 500cc mario kart, this is for you.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Ryse: Son of Rome
fun game that holds up today even though it was just a “tech demo” when release. decent story, solid graphics, and mediocre gameplay. plays like a simpler version of the batman arkham series. the only downside is that campaign is very short (4-6hrs) and the combat is repetitive. still, worth checking out since it plays like an extended action movie.
– Real player with 60.8 hrs in game
Contrary to what the game’s title might leave you believing, the protag’s name is not actually Ryse, but it’s actually Marius. Some characters do tell him to rise from time to time when he’s being a lazy slacker falling asleep in the middle of a war, and the subtitles use an i instead of a y, but that’s just semantics. I’d also consider the “Son of Rome” part to be a little inaccurate since a city can’t conceive people. Although people can be conceived inside cities, and Marius’s daddy-o, Leontius sure laid down the pipe on his wife Septima. And we have confirmation that he did so at least twice since Marius has a sister! I might be going a little off track here, so let’s get down to the game itself.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
Ludus
Bought this game with the bundle, probably only paid about 4 bucks for it. Still not worth it sadly. Really cool idea and foundation, but too damn buggy. I’ve lost progress so many times from the game not saving (or only part will save). For instance, I fully geared out my main Gladitator with top tier gear, finished playing for the night. The next day, both my money and the gear was just gone. If you log out with money invested in the trader, it too will disappear. I’ve gone into a tournament with my main Gladiator, and he just didn’t spawn in the arena. His opponent phased through the door (where my glad was supposed to come out of) and went off screen where he slowly killed my gladiator. I just exited out and loaded back in to keep him alive but of course that means all the money i had in the trader disappeared again. Just so many bugs with this game, which is sad because i actually really like it, but its damn near unplayable. Buy at your own risk, or better yet, just don’t buy it.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
I like the overall concept of the game but this game is broken in so many ways that it kills all desire to play it. A few examples were all my family members died within the first three days of the game. The fishing system is utter crap please dear god take out the random key strokes that are needed to catch a fish. Another issue I ran into was my gladiators got stuck in their shacks and there is absolutely nothing to be done. We will see what the Devs do to patch the product over the next few months but as of now don’t waste you money.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
The Last Roman Village
I got the chance to play the demo of this game as an early build thanks to the awesome guys over at the Twin Stone Studio, for letting me play and produce some game play footage it was a pleasure to play in such early game. The music of the game is beautiful and easy on the ears, The format of waves is very fun and will get harder, The artwork is outstanding colourful and amazing very easy on the eyes, This game is very family friendly and has easy to get to grips with controls, The game play is very smooth in all this game to me has got everything I could ask for.
– Real player with 48.0 hrs in game
Penultimate final review updated early April 2020 (I’ve still got some updating to do as this review is based on the early ‘work in progress’ version, plus I’ve repeated myself in several places. I don’t know when I’ll be posting the final version, but it will be eventually.)
In Brief:
The Last Roman Village is a strategy defense game that gives freedom to develop a whole Roman city from scratch and to wisely choose the way to defend it. The game allows players to experience a variety of options and creativity. Side scrolling defense games are one of my favorite types of games (next to Breakouts, Shmups and top down TD games). You can see a few videos of game play HERE , HERE , HERE
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
The Frogs
Dionysus, the god of wine, is feeling somber. He’s turned some pirates into dolphins. He’s thrown a king or two into a cave. And now some other king in Thebes is talking smack. But none of that has cheered him up. It’s the playwrights the kids listen to these days.
Mumble poets and people using automatons to speak their lines… he’s sick of it. Back in his day the likes of Euripides could tear apart a stage and leave the crowd screaming for more. He’s decided it’s up to him to set things right.
The Frogs is a point-and-click adventure game based on the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. It’s a hodgepodge of ancient wit, Pythonesque animation, Renaissance artwork, and public domain classical music all wrapped up in a ball of irreverent humor from a mind way too influenced by the likes of Terry Practhett and Jasper Fforde.
Still out to sea aboard the Cleisthenes and having just read Andromeda, Dionysus is pumped and ready to get back to his theater in Athens so he can get to work improving the world of the arts for the good of everyone. But we all know it can’t be that easy… he has to go through a lot of content to make it worth the asking price.
Features
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Innovative Point-and-Click Interface
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Ancient Humor Circa 405 BCE
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Choices That Matter
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Multiple Solutions to Puzzles
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Renaissance Artwork
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Classical Music
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Hidden Optional Content
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Tons Of Interactive Elements and NPCs
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References So Niche You’ll Wonder Why I Bothered
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Multiple Endings Whether Aristophanes Likes It Or Not
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What’s He Gonna Do? Come Back From the Dead and Get Me?
