Zodiac Legion
Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG featuring lethal combat, squad management and strategic elements. Lead your heroes through daring raids and forgotten ruins, defend your land in a time of conquest and betrayal, and master the secrets of volatile ancient magic to restore a realm beset by the armies of undying fiendish sorcerers.
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Lead your knights in turn-based tactical battles.
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Explore ancient ruins and places of power, thwart the plans of enemy lieutenants, forge alliances, and restore the Zodiac Order.
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Smash your way through fully destructible dungeons.
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Expand and strengthen your stronghold, research new spells and craft powerful artifacts.
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Reshape the terrain to your advantage.
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Develop your warriors into mighty champions.
As the Grandmaster of the Zodiac Order, it will be your duty to restore this knightly brotherhood and rally its champions under the banners of the thirteen Zodiac signs. You will manage your domain, take important diplomatic decisions and train your warriors in the arcane arts. Enemy armies will invade your borders, forcing you to dispatch your knights on missions resolved through turn-based, tactical battles. Their superhuman powers will tip the scales in the face of overwhelming odds, but beware: many will not survive the ordeal. Yet exploring the secrets of necromancy may reveal that a Zodiac Knight’s duty need not end in death.
The work on Zodiac Legion began because we shared the vision of a game that would combine the tactical combat and strategic campaign of X-COM, with the fantasy aspects and dungeon crawling typical of most roleplaying games.
We decided to use the theme of the Zodiac because of its association with classical mythology, and due to its ties with distinct character archetypes, which served as the foundation of our class system. There are hundreds of distinct features and qualities attributed to the signs by astrology, which lends itself to a robust and interconnected system that has an impact on all the aspects of Zodiac Legion’s gameplay and storytelling.
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Commoners
You were nothing more than a commoner among others. Now, you must do what it takes to survive. Kill, slaughter and pillage to success as the kingdom you once knew has fallen and the harsh realities of life is upon you. Now without a home, you will find yourself struggling to fend off against once forgotten beasts alongside other humans. Your throat will bleed as it thirsts, your belly will yearn for crumbs. Be careful, as injury can mean death. Do as you must, no one is watching… or are they?
Commoners is a massively multiplayer online medieval role-playing survival game. With nothing but a small set of tools, venture about and build your way to the top and become the most feared player in a now decayed kingdom you once called home.
Wander about the island; hunt for food, gather for resources, fight your way to success. As you collect, craft new armor and weapons and better yourself for survival in this harsh world. Ask yourself, is this man or woman who stand before you friend or foe. Are you their friend, or are you their foe? Make moral decisions as you befriend or kill other players who may be able to help you or bring death to you.
Chop a tree, fish a fish, cook on a fire; build your first home, craft your first sword. Do as you must in this PVP, PVE old-school RPG inspired game. Your wealth and value in this world is directly tied to what you have earned and stolen.
Key Features
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Large procedurally-generated worlds – explore uniquely generated worlds to provide a different playing experience
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Immersive Experience: Realistic focused graphics and sound with minimal user interface to ensure an immersive experience.
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Cross Platform Co-Op PVP and PVE: Whether you play on Windows or Linux, play with your friends or with strangers as you work to survive in this harsh new world.
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Unique Creatures: Players are not the only being to be afraid of, there are creatures specific to day and night that will hunt you if they see you. Be prepared as those without the will and means to survive will become their meal.
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Intuitive crafting system: Forge weapons and armor, create food and drink
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House and Base building system – Create from the materials you collect and craft an expansive home to protect and store yourself and your items.
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GhostControl Inc.
This review need updating. The game has been updated and polished even further. Will update when I get around to playing it again.
In short:
Ghostcontrol Inc. is a solid and fun turn-based strategy ghost hunting simulator with very good humor.
Ghostcontrol Inc. style and feel is that of a casual and fun game (but not easy :) ). The graphical style, sounds and music are similar to Theme Hospital. Gameplay is sufficiently deep for a turn based game and incorporates a simple 2 AP system which makes the game flow nicely. Menus and action are understandable and there is enough amount of micromanaging to have variety. The story of the game is humorous and well written.
– Real player with 40.5 hrs in game
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Ghost Control Inc seemingly has everything going for it. It’s a game where you essentially play team manager for Ghosbusters! And it has a nearly-perfect blend of tactics and management gameplay! What could possibly be more fun?
Unfortunately, the game is marred by several issues.
Firstly, the art direction is uneven at best. Most of the ghosts have very uninspired designs that won’t stick in your mind like those of other franchises involving catching ghosts. Several of the ghosts are just recolors or slight redesigns of the lower level ghosts you fight early in the game, so they’re both boring to look at and repetitive. This also makes it slightly harder to tell what you’re figthing at times.
– Real player with 39.5 hrs in game
Anitons
Anitons is an vast world monster collection RPG featuring base building, farming and real time combat. Your possibilities are huge! Create vast farms populated by your monsters or experiment with breeding systems; maybe you wish to spend the whole day decorating your cozy woodland cabin or maybe you want to focus on growing and training your monsters? Anitons has got you covered!
Each one of 9 different types of Anitons has unique abilities and perks. Some of them make your travels easier, some help you with your base maintenance and others have really strong combat skills. You are free to experiment with the types, breed new Anitons or focus on evolving your favourite one!
The world of Anitons is divided into unique realms that are inhabited by different kinds of monsters. Pack up and explore gloomy caverns, enchanting forests or threatening volcanic grounds. Gather resources, build, farm different crops and customize!
Sometimes, there’s no other choice but to fight! Choose your Aniton and control it in fast paced, dynamic combat; to win, you’ll have to put your strategic thinking, accuracy and agility to a good use. Anitons have the ability to call out for their kin for aid, so always stay put and prepare for an unexpected turn of events!
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Creature collection and evolution - collect and evolve various Anitons or breed a completely new one. There are 9 Aniton types you can encounter and each of them have their unique skills.
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Real time combat - Control your Anitons in real time combat and use the skills you’ve taught them. Engage in exciting encounters that will test your strategic thinking, agility and accuracy. A fight with wild Anitons won’t always be a fair one: prepare to face dozens of enemies at once!
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Vast world - Explore a vast world in which you can find wild Anitons and many useful resources. At first getting by in the wilderness may seem challenging, but as you collect and evolve more powerful Anitons, you will find ways to grow in strength…
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Base building and farming - Grab nearby resources and set up your base! Create vast farms and maintain them with the help of your Anitons.
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Customization - Customize your character to perfectly fit your playstyle and Aniton squad. Unlock new outfits as you progress by completing fun challenges. You can also build and customize your mansion, complete with decorating your walls with pictures of your favorite Anitons!
Founders' Fortune
So, 40 hours in, and I think I own this game a review, As an avid Rimworld fan, I’m always on the search for colony building/town building type games. It was hard to know what to expect from this game, but the videos looked promising so I took a chance. My expectations were a Rimworld game, smaller scale in terms of pawns to control, with a 3d world, but many of the same aspects. After a few short runs of the game, it turned out to be not what I had expected. In fact, I was downright disappointed with the game. The survival aspects are very simplified, the crafting isnt as deep as I thought, some of the aspects like that storage piles dont do anything other than take up space and distance to build seems to have absolutely no bearing (no hauling).
– Real player with 115.1 hrs in game
I fell in love with this game pretty quickly. Hours pass by in a blink of an eye and my sleeping schedule is even more ruined since I bought it.
I’ve seen it described as a mix of Sims and Rimworld (which is what made me buy it, on top of my Sims 4 having gamebreaking bugs and fuck EA). It is.
Let me just say that this game gave me very strong Sims vibes for a non-Sims game. I’ve been looking for a Sims alternative for ages, and while this isn’t quite it, it fills that void in my heart better than any other “Sims-like” titles I’ve played.
– Real player with 54.5 hrs in game
Terafall: Survival
This game is still early in development and that doesn’t bother me one bit.
It allows for constructive criticism and new ideas to be implemented into the game.
That being said, I would recommend this game if you don’t mind the issues that come with Alpha/Early Access bugs.
I will have a much more thorough review once I have a significant amount more of gaming time. I’m very excited for the roadmap of the game. This has great potential.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
For what it is at the time, it shows huge potential. Looks like the devs are keeping up with pachs as of this time.(nov,2021) Price is ok cheaper then going out to eat. If you like survival, guns, and tec, give it a try it will be great when its finished
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
The Last Wulin
The game is simple and fun.
The game cycle is fight a battle, earn xp and money, use the upgrade your buildings to gain more warriors, equipment and modifiers to decrease healing cost or increase income and caps. Fight next battle. Repeat.
But each round the bandits get stronger so if you don’t pick the right upgrades, or put your warriors in bad starting positions, then you won’t be able to keep up. So while it seems very simple, there’s planning and decisions to make that cost. I played for 18 minutes and lost three times. It was fun, look forward to learning more about it.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Arcadia: The Crystal Wars
Arcadia: The Crystal Wars is an open-world, squad-based fusion of role playing and strategy, combining traditional RPG elements such as character skills, talents, quests, dungeons, and raids with strategic base-building, farming, and crafting. Explore the world of Arcadia in non-linear fashion as a single character, or recruit up to 20 characters and dive into the rich storyline while taking an active part in shaping the outcome of the Crystal Wars.
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Dive into the Quest Driven Story
Arcadia also offers a rich story that you can dive into at any time. The unique, hand written quests will take you from city to city, meeting unique characters, exploring dungeons and raids to retrieve artifacts, and helping to guide the outcome of the Crystal Wars as you see fit. Will you fight alongside Tech Commander Kyber, to rid the world of the Crystal’s corruption? Or will you seek out the Etir, to understand the Crystal at its' source? The choices you make will decide the fate of Arcadia.
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Explore an Open World
Looking for a non-linear experience? Then Arcadia is your sandbox. Just because the factions are engaged in the Crystal War, does not mean that you have to. Would you rather be a lone adventurer, seeking the challenges of dungeons and raids? Or a trader, developing trade routes and settlements and only using combat as a means to defend yourself? You have the freedom to make up your own story.
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Unlock Powerful Magic or Advanced Technology
As you explore Arcadia, you will undoubtedly encounter the power of the Crystal. Using special techniques, the power of the Crystal can either be consumed directly by your characters to unlock powerful magic or be harnessed and used as a power source to power advanced technology. Whichever you choose, your characters will gain new abilities as well as physically change. The more power they acquire, the greater the physical transformation.
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Character Customization
Each character within your faction has a set of skills related to Combat, Crafting, and Labor. It’s up to you how to train them and what talents they acquire. Do you want a solder, capable of wielding heavy armor into battle during war but also able to craft the finest armor in the game? Or how about a farmer, wearing light armor yet when combat calls wields the most power magic to heal your allies and decimate your enemies? The choice is yours
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Unique Character Races
Arcadia offers four unique character races that you can create and recruit into your faction. While each race has strengths and weaknesses in terms of starting skill level and rate of experience gain, the ultimate path of each character you control is completely up to you. Has a powerful Rhingar, who has trained with one handed weapons and shields to defend her allies, offered to join your faction but you need a armorsmith? So be it, recruit her and take advantage of her racial bonus in Armor Crafting, while also being capable of defending your settlements from attack.
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Develop Settlements
Whether you control one character or twenty, you’ll want to consider developing settlements to fuel your adventures. Perhaps you only need a single base camp, with a place to rest and to cook food? Or maybe you are ready to take an active role in the Crystal Wars and want multiple strategic base locations where you have farms to feed your troops and forges to craft armor and weapons.
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Explore Dungeons and Raids
It’s been said that great riches and power can be found in the most difficult of locations. Arcadia is no exception. Take up to five of your characters as you dive into one of five dungeons, each with unique enemy types and scripted boss fights or brave it all and take up to 10 of your characters to fight in one of five raids.
Cat Cafe Simulator
Featuring a Sims-inspired building system, randomized cats to take care of, an in-game camera & Instacat feature, and lots of yummy treats to cook & serve to your customers. Your duty as manager of the cat café is to find new forever-homes for the stray cats you take in. But you don’t have to let all of your cats go; if you bond with some of them you can choose to let them stay at the café forever!
The game is still in early development, with a playable demo version expected to be available in fall 2021.
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Build your café!
Populate your café with unique cats!
Take photos of your cats with the in-game camera!
Division of Labour
In Division of Labour, the player takes on the role of The Manager in a developing nation called Auriverde during a world ecological collapse.
The player manages the workforce and machinery of a factory, fulfilling contracts and earning profits for the Overseer Corp. Buying resources, manufacturing goods, managing the workers and facing moral and ethical decisions are the core of the game.
Compassion
The player has the option to make their workers more comfortable to improve efficiency, or pay them more to increase worker happiness. Events may occur where the player can do a favour for a worker, give time off for a holiday or generally try to help them.
Exploitation
However, Overseer Corp always demands larger and larger profits, and so balancing these becomes the core of the game. To make greater and greater profits, more sacrifices will need to be made and corners will need to be cut.
Storytelling
Along the way, the player will be presented with moral and ethical decisions regarding their works and the world at large. Whether it’s simply a worker who needs time of for medical reasons or an earthquake on the other side of the world sending migrants flocking to Auriverde for work and security, there’s always decisions to make.
Development Progress
A playable demo will be available very soon. To stay up to date with development you can follow our site. For now, consider adding us to your wishlist!