Thirdmage
Thirdmage is pretty rough, but I can see it being decent with friends. I have seen a few of these action based magic pvp games pop up lately, but I haven’t seen one that feels very finished. Maybe Thirdmage will find its niche? Who knows.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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Played this game with a couple of friends, super fun!!! A bit buggy but with some minor fixes this game has great potential! Grab your friends and enjoy battling each other!!!
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Blade and Ham
There is a lot to like about this but the combat needs some work. Often when doing combos the character will go through the enemies making the combo miss. Weird hit detection. I guess that is why it is early access. There is a nice overworld map with some extra levels you can take on to get coins used to continue. Decent graphics and a good variety of characters. Hopefully the developer fixes the combat issues. I probably will not play anymore until it gets some patches.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
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The game has nice graphics, but in its current state, I strongly don’t recommend Blade and Ham. The game is NOT ready for release to the public. Blade and Ham has several big bugs & is very unpolished.
The game’s bugs are its biggest flaw. For example, you can’t save your progress (you start over at every new game). Plus, can’t take any pictures (doing so causes an error, the game ends, & you can’t exit the game either).
On a side note, Valve, please stop distributing crappy games that lack basic features. Such behavior just makes people want to go buy their games elsewhere, such as Epic Games. I wouldn’t even play Blade and Ham for free in its current state.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Way of Heroes
I didn’t like that I can’t find a way out of the mazes for a long time. But with a friend we played fun on joysticks. I hope they will add the ability to change the defense on the heroes.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
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Braveland Knights
Join the Heroes Guild and travel the path from a rookie to the hero of the kingdom. Head on a hunt for the vicious boss solo or with your friends. Your adventure will be randomly generated from hundreds of different events.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253610/Braveland_Knights/
Once you sign up a contract to catch the villain, you’ll head into an adventure. Each quest is created from hundreds of particular events, melding into a unique story. The Elves will reveal secret paths to you and the ordinary pub owner might very well turn out to be a werewolf.
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Become a knight
Energetic slasher in the best traditions of the old school.
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4 player co-op
Destroy villains solo or have up to 4 players on the same screen or online.
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An endless adventure
More than a hundred events will make each adventure one of a kind.
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Choose a fighting style
A heap of various weapons and equipment from ordinary axes to runic staffs made of dragon’s teeth.
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Rebuild the castle
Upgrade your guild castle to get bonuses before new adventure.
Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time
The game, although mediocre, is helped by the characters voice actors, charming personalities in game, and the good ol' Trigger magic.
The Labyrinth, especially online, is easily one of the more enjoyable aspects of the game. A mix and match of three witches that can be from each different team, alongside spells and cinematic sequences of Grand Charion, Shiny Arc, golden swords, or chemical bombs.
You can combo monsters by juggling them in the air with Amanda’s kicks, shoot them down with Constanze’s gun, or bombard with Sucy’s mushroom’s. The variety in the character’s base attacks can be boiled down to shooting from afar with the exception of Amanda, Jasminka, and Akko, but the visuals for each attack make one characters attack feel different from the other. Each character also gets their own special non-cinematic ability, such as Constanze’s Lazer Blast, and Diana’s Stormbringer. This, while not adding onto the actual quality of the game, adds a degree of excitement to see how each character performs their own attacks with their own personality.
– Real player with 129.5 hrs in game
After completing every sidequest and achievement (except for getting all decorations - never cared about stuff like that), I think I can recommend this with reservations:
If you are a fan of Little Witch Academia, this is a must-buy; there’s tons of entirely voiced interactions between all of the characters and a ginormous horde of other witches/students in the game.
If you are wondering if this is a good game beyond that however, well:
Pros:
1.) Lots of Slice-of-Life Fantasy School Adventure gaming. The sidequests (and main story quest) are long and sometimes quite detailed. Easily the best part of the game.
– Real player with 86.8 hrs in game
Malicious Mages
Malicious Mages is a capture the flag brawler – Choose from a various cast of magic users and battle it out against other players to capture the mysterious blue orb.
Everyone is after this glowing blue orb. Fight other players to grab the orb and bring it to your side of the level to win. Once you get it there, you have to place the orb down and protect it for ten seconds until you score.
What’s the gameplay like?
You play the game locally against other players, the levels are completely symmetrical and you have to move across the side-scrolling stage traveling from room to room until you reach your goal. 3D characters in a 2D plane
Each player has a very low health bar. It doesn’t take many hits to kill a player, killing them is just a way to quickly get them out of your way so you can keep moving to your goal. After you kill them, they respawn quickly ahead of you in your path.
The Side-Scrolling Camera tracks the player that currently has the orb. If you go off-screen, you will disappear and then respawn ahead of the running player’s path.
The level is broken down into different rooms. Once the running player with the orb goes into another room, the screen fades and the opposing player despawns and respawns in the next room.
Each player can cast powerful spells. Spells are considered specials, once you’ve gathered enough mana from breaking props in the level you can use them to give yourself an advantage or deal a terrible blow.
Base attacks are free. Players have a catalog of free combat actions they can do to attack the other player without needing mana
What’s the story about?
In modern times, a cast of magic users fight to gain control over a mysterious blue orb.
If they have control over the orb during a special alignment, they can use the orb to summon The Painter a god that painted the night sky. The Painter will then grant them very dangerous power. All of these mages have their own compelling reasons to gain control, who will come out on top?
Shodo
Note: This game is very much alpha. All features shown in gameplay are currently accessible, and playable. However it is still pretty buggy, so heads up!
Shodō is a VR game where players fight in a 5v5 battle of chaos magic, in the martial art of their own design.
In this universe you must work for your power. No cheap fireballs, no facerolling, no mana resource to constrain you.
The raw power of your Sigil is dependent on both how complex it is, and how accurately you can execute it in the heat of battle.
Build your magic art to match your personality - do you like fast paced, rapid attacks that overwhelm your enemy? Opt for flow casting, which minimizes casting time and maximizes attack rate.
Or perhaps you would rather forge a weapon no other can destroy, that will instantly kill whatever it touches - at the expense of an intricate, complex sigil.
Enter the world of Shodō and experience for yourself, psychic abilities that come at a real mental cost. Become the protagonist, the master of your art, and carve your path into the history of this environment of controlled chaos.
Blue fencer Resurrection
A 2D action game featuring the Action editor hero “Yashiyu”.
The castle of Demon King Santa has 8 stages full of powerful enemies.
Invincible dash slash, powerful slash, 6 types of sub weapons.
Make full use of various techniques to overcome the magic castle.
== STORY ==
The mysterious Demon King descended from the other world and led a powerful army to conquer the earth. Many races surrendered to the Demon King and those that resisted were mercilessly exterminated. When everyone was about to give up hope…….without any warning, a brave man appeared.
‘My name is Yasiyu……..’
The blue-haired man left that alone and set out.
The Demon King, who was about to unite the earth, was praying in the temple.
‘Come or Yasiyu let’s settle this.’
Putting an end to the repeated fate, that was also the purpose of the Demon King.
He is the star of hope, the one who saves the earth, the one who is destined to be a brave man. In the eyes of the demons he is a hardcore executioner.
== Game systems ==
The hero consumes SP when he uses the technique.
SP will recover over time.
The main character’s HP decreases when it is attacked by an enemy.
If HP becomes 0, it will be a mistake.
If the hero makes a mistake, HP and SP will increase.
Even people who are not good at action can clear it if they try without giving up.
If you make a mistake, the score you get will decrease, and the score will decrease over time.
Action gamers who are confident in their arms should aim for no mistakes and speed clearing.
== Controls ==
It supports Xinput and DirectInput gamepads, but menu display and shutdown can only be operated with the keyboard.
Please delete the recorded replay from Explorer.
Please select joystick movement in the controller settings.
Metamorphos
It’s a nice short Souls-like game that can be finished for around an hour and a half.
Graphics are great, but somehow not too optimized even if I set the quality at its lowest. Some animations feels stiff, but this is just nit-picking on my part.
Controls felt really clunky. I don’t know if it’s just me, or the game feels unresponsive. There are times that my character just stands still no matter how much I move my analog stick. The camera moves fine, but I can’t attack nor evade. Its really annoying since this always happens when I’m battling enemies.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
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🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
🔲 Normal
☑️ Hard
🔲 “Dark Souls”
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🔲 “MS Paint”
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don’t matter in this game
☑️ Good
🔲 Classic is always better
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece
- MUSIC -
🔲 Bad
☑️ Not special
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
- STORY -
🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing “Temple Runners” for the story
☑️ It’s there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
🔲 Epic story
- PRICE -
🔲♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Underpriced
☑️ Perfect price
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Arcane Domains
I feel like i should write a review about this game, but being quite unsure what to say exactly, i’ll just get to the essence =
is the game FUN?
YES!!!!!
thats all you need to know =D For the price of a Burger, i goit a very satisfactory Arcan beat-em-up experience
Recommended much 3
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
every popular, expensive, hyped game is a bloated attempt to achieve the idea it’s performing something original or unique. these buggy messes arrest everyones attention dulling them to accept a disproportional hi res lie of an experience. hundreds of people and millions of dollars are dumped into piles of light and sound barely keeping themselves together so everyone can feel good theyve participated in the newest thing. they didnt miss out on some crucial moment in history
this was made with 1% of the resources those other games inhale and excrete in obscure and fruitless ways. when a game is this solid it gets closer to perfection than anything winning awards or selling ad space. it’s small. it’s simple. it gives you the freedom to enjoy it in exactly the way you want
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game