Best Character Customization Nonlinear Games on PC

Slime Dice

Roll Dice! Make Characters! Play Mini-games & Strategize Combat! Gather a team of your very own characters and defeat the monsters of Spegroon. Slime Dice is based heavily on both 2000’s era video games and board games. Combat itself also offers many decisions, both when creating your team, and while in battle. Roll dice to get special combos, or go for another strategy entirely!

Character Creation is where you’ll start the game, making your own character first. You can change the visuals, the voice, and even their default emotions! After that, you pick their stats. There are four different stats to invest into, and a large amount of abilities to select from. Mixing and matching these abilities, stats, and equipment is a big part of the game! Do this not only for this character, but up to a total of eight! Will you make a party of mages? Perhaps a pirate crew, wielding flintlocks and axes? Or, will you make a team based on characters from your favorite game/series? The choice is yours!

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Slime Dice on Steam

Devoul- Curse of the Soulless

Good story

– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

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A game to congratulate. The main character pulls you into the game either by the playability or with the story. The scenarios are diverse and wake up your attention - the music also. You can “play” with the time of the game and stay by the small games and quests inside of it. It’s fun. I love it.

I miss the times when games were made to leave something to the player. I miss games like this.

– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

Devoul- Curse of the Soulless on Steam

Troubled Passage

Troubled Passage is a Roguelike ARPG with a very peculiar combat system based on mouse swipes. This system allows for some interesting combat encounters that feel more engaging and rewarding. The mouse is an extension of your sword.

You are set to travel across five regions and reach an old port. There you will take a ship that will take you far away. That’s all you know for now. But beware, these lands are filled with undead creatures, traps and other nasty travelers. You should always be careful, even if you decide to share the road with a companion.

Character Creation

Choose your character appearance and select a trade. Trades are like character classes that defines with which types of weapons and types of damage your character is proficient with, gaining a buff when using that type of weapon.

Combat

Attacks are performed by swiping your mouse in a certain direction (up, down left or right). These swipes will trigger the combat skill that you have assigned to that direction.

There are multiple skills to learn throughout the game for each type of combat:

Unarmed

Onehanded

Twohanded (skills are missing at this point of development)

Bow (skills are missing at this point of development)

Loot

Troubled Passage loot system is built on the idea that “if they have it, you can have it”. No longer will you get disappointed if a heavy-armored-cool-looking enemy only dropped a knife and an apple. You want that armor! Well, good news! In Troubled Passage, enemies will drop exactly what they are wearing (stats included). You can strip your enemies of everything and claim it for yourself. This means strong enemies equals strong loot.

Companions

From time to time, you will encounter recruitable companions that can help you in your quest. They may be expensive, but they are a great help in dealing with enemies. All companions are randomly generated, and so are their motives.

Rivalries

Companions react to your attitude towards them. If they get mad at you, they can become your rivals and appear later on to seek revenge as a mini-boss battle.

Traders

Visit traders to buy and sell items. Blacksmiths will even allow you to forge your own weapon from a list of components and manage the weapon stats.

Random Levels

To ensure that each playthrough feels different, levels are randomly generated. So there are new areas to explore each time you play, and loot is distributed at random. There are still some “static” levels in terms of layout due to workload, but later they will all be fully random.

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Troubled Passage on Steam

BEVERAGE: The Last Call

BEVERAGE is a beat ‘em up roguelite for 1-4 players where drunken anti-heroes save the universe with the power of booze and friendship.

THIRD PERSON BEAT ‘EM UP WITH EPIC COMBOS AND UNIQUE WORLDS

Whack, kick, slice, and crush your way through various worlds, challenges, and bosses. Collect Shards of Chaos to strengthen your chosen hero with drinks, and reach the end to get back the Orbs of Order! Changing arenas and random drinks and challenges keep the gameplay fresh on every playthrough. You choose the path you want to take to face the boss!

1 TO 4 PLAYERS CO-OP ONLINE

Get your friends along the adventure online and kick some chaotic butt as a team! You can also show off your individual progress on your very own paradise islands for fun, booze, and parties.

EXPLORE THE TWISTED WORLDS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE

Lush forests oozing ogling tar flowers, fishing villages surrounded by toxic waste oceans, steaming automatons taking over mines… The universe is going through a chaotic transformation and only YOU can stop it. Prepare for twists at every corner!

FIGHT CORRUPTED BOSSES AND THEIR MINIONS

Survive through waves of hostile minions of Corruption who are ready to meet you in every realm. Destroy multi-phased bosses and release the Orbs of Order from their hold. As you make progress, so do they so never underestimate what’s coming next!

UNLOCK NEW HEROES, WEAPONS, ABILITIES, AND DRINKS VIA ROGUELIKE PROGRESSION

Choose your favorite out of the four heroes, unlock new weapons, drinks and abilities to personalize your fighting style and build. You have the freedom to choose your own path!

HAVE FUN WITH WELL-MEANING DRUNKS STUMBLING THROUGH AN EPIC TALE

Enjoy the strange new friends and epic twists in this feel-good tale that will keep you entertained for hours on end. You can look for hints of what is REALLY going on in this strange world, or just keep kicking asses of more and more epic opponents!

BEVERAGE: The Last Call on Steam

F-Team

Recruit your team of fantasy heroes and save the world!

As a rising entrepreneur in the world of fantasy security services, recruit and fully customize your heroes as you send them on various quests. Improve your heroes as they gain experience and level up. Train them in new skills and improve their equipment. Strategically decide which quests to take on and which heroes to send where.

If you have a quest, if no one else can help and if you can afford them, then maybe you too can hire the F-Team!

Game currently contains two chapters, The Bridge at Londoress and The Goblin Lands.

The Bridge At Londoress

Goblins have overrun the Bridge at Londoress and destroyed it, severing the path to the Goblin lands. From the stronghold nearby they send out raiding parties to ransack the land. Assemble your team of heroes, take back the stronghold and rebuild the bridge.

The Goblin Lands

With the bridge now secured, make your way through these rough lands to the Goblin Capital of Gunula. From there, escort the Goblin ambassador and secure peace. But beware, not all want peace between Humans and Goblins.

Combined these two chapters should provide between 30 and 40 hours of gameplay.

Features:

6 Different Character Classes (Fighter, Archer, Mage, Knight, Ranger, Barbarian)
4 races to interact with (Human, Goblin, Elven, Undead)
Tactical turn-based combat. Take command yourself or let the AI decide
Explore a huge world map 1600 hexes large with unique race-based locations and items
Manage dozens, even hundreds of Heroes
Over 80 skills to teach your Heroes divided amongst character class and race
Trade, loot and gather over 50 unique items
Main story-line quests along with various side quests to fulfill. Quest types include fetch quests, timed quests, elimination quests, garrison quests and more
Perma-death for your heroes until you discover the Undead capital of Kharbharam
Battle Simulator for quick, random skirmishes

Full Character Customization

Gender
Name and Avatar
Over 50 different hair, eyebrow and beard styles
Hundreds of different armor combinations (30 chest plates, 30 leggings, 22 upper bracers, 20 lower bracers, 19 gloves and 21 boots)
Add accessories such as shoulder plates, helmet decorations, elbow and knee plates, ear / nose / chin rings and more
Change skin color, facial hair color, eye color and armor color along with other color options
226 different weapons divided over 12 categories based on character class
60 different shields
Armor and weapons based on character class and level with unique weapons unlocked by skill training and quest fulfillment

Fight a wide array of unique enemies including:

Goblin fighters, archers, heavies and shamans
Undead fighters, knights and shamans
Cave spiders
Ice beasts
Brigands
Golems
Forest witches and guardians
More to come

F-Team on Steam

Song Of The Prairie / 牧野之歌

“Song of Prairie” is a farm simulation game. Farms, stories, exploration, and DIY are all things you can experience on this free and magical land.

There won’t be any restrictions on your behaviors in this land. What kind of life you experience depends entirely on you. Take action, this land is waiting for your exploration and construction.

Be the mayor!

By chance, you came to this town and unexpectedly became the mayor of it. As the new mayor, will you start a new life on this land, playing as a respectable mayor, or becoming an indifferent mayor? It will all depend on you, remember that it will all be your story.

Free pastoral life

There is a lot of content on this magical land waiting for you, clear streams, gorgeous wild flowers, interesting life and magical cows and sheep strolling comfortably on the grass.

Here you can enjoy a simple life of farming, clearing land, breeding animals, and fishing. You can also vigorously construct the town, recruit more people to join the town, build buildings and decorate the town. You can also experience the bonds with the residents, solve their troubles, listen to their past, and even establish an extraordinary relationship with the residents. And the exploration of unknown areas…

No matter what kind of life you choose, please enjoy the surprises this land brings to you!

●Free cultivation.You can grow more than 40 kinds of fruits and vegetables in different seasons freely. The growth rate of the plants depends on how good you take care of the plants. The plants that are carefully cultivated will grow faster, and the rain will also boost the growth of the plants.

●Fun and magical animals.Many magical animals live on this land, such as cows who grow stripes of the fruits after eating them, and even produce milk with certain fruit flavor. Moreover, riding animals that are close to you can also unlock interesting abilities of animals to help us on cultivation.

●DIY fun.You can customize the look of your character, match your favorite clothes at will, freely choose and change your favorite profession, and create a unique character.

●Construction and destruction.Lay out public facilities, change architectural styles, build farms, and destroy scene content. Experience the development of the town and feel the joy of infrastructure construction.

●Love and marriage. Try to make friends with the residents of the town. Each resident has different personalities and skills. You can get to know some of them better by dating, unlocking personal stories, or through heart-to-heart communication. When the residents have enough affection for you, they may fall in love with you or even get married, and the other half can accompany us to work together and interact with.

Song Of The Prairie / 牧野之歌 on Steam

Time Break Chronicles

Greetings one and All,

For those interested in this game here is my review on it.

Time Break Chronicles plays like an old school rpg game. Those who have played older rpgs would enjoy it but it’s not your typically rpg. Those fans of Final Fantasy VII or VII New Threat mods or Final Fantasy VI Brave New world would find great enjoyment in the challenges of this game. Most fights are about thinking. The balance of the game is rather well done despite how many characters you can choose from. As writing this review we are at 48 characters available. My highest loop on my best save is loop 20. This game is about planning stuff out. Learning enemies and bosses strategy and how they react to certain attacks.

– Real player with 194.0 hrs in game

Excellent game even in early access

It’s basically a JRPG meets rogue lite. You’re stuck in an endless dimensional loop and travel from node to node towards the end boss. Think Slay the spire map layout except horizontal instead of vertical. Entering a node drains stamina from each character in your party and lower stamina equals lower character stats

Your main character Claire is stuck in an endless loop in a strange dimension. From her own little pocket in this dimension, she travels the map, rescuing characters to strengthen her party while fighting a nefarious cult. There are 24 characters at present with more to come. While there is some overlap between characters, each offers unique abilities and you’re free to form your party in any way you like with the only requirement being that Claire is present. Claire has 3 forms, tank, dps and healer and while she is not as good in each role as more specialized characters, her jack of all trades and her ability to switch form at will even during combat, makes her very valuable

– Real player with 114.1 hrs in game

Time Break Chronicles on Steam

Tortured Hearts - Or How I Saved The Universe. Again.

I’m not much of a review writer, so I’m not going to do an in-depth analysis, but 150+ hours in I’ve become completely addicted to this game. As advertised, it’s old school in the larger sense of its design and flow, but it has elements and specifics that are entirely unique. It is difficult at first to figure out how some things work, so you do what pretty much all old school RPG’rs did: play for a while, figure out how things work, then start a new game for real. There’s a huge demo that can serve that purpose for you. This is not one of those games with 40 hours of cut scenes and an onscreen arrow pointing you to what you need to do next, where flashy graphics (that sometimes even work) substitute for game play. You will get quests that you will not be able to solve until well into the game, and you’ll have to stop and think about where you need to go and who you need to talk to. If you want a game that holds your hand and points you to every answer, this is not for you. If you want to solve things on your own, can handle some frustration and you value the game over flash, I think this is a great game for you.

– Real player with 990.4 hrs in game

Game has some great potential but just far too frustrating. I fully get the concept of trying not to “hand hold” to make the game more difficult, but so much of this game is just running all over the map just hoping you find the right person to talk to and trigger the correct speech line. The entire game is mostly just based on brut force.

Then there is the combat system. You have no control at all over what your team does in combat. To make it worse, the AI is horrible. You will find your team wasting mana casting a cc spell on an already cc’d enemy or casting the same spell over and over that the enemy is immune to. A strong monster will be one hit away from death and your mage will cast three straight buffs instead of killing the monster.

– Real player with 541.1 hrs in game

Tortured Hearts - Or How I Saved The Universe. Again. on Steam

Mead Crafter

I have mixed feelings about this game. There’s no options to change the gameplay window size, no options to save where you’re at (I wish this was made clearer in the beginning) so you’re always starting fresh, and the ‘detailed stats’ don’t actually seem to line up with the previous round. Sometimes it will say ‘I made all my orders’ on a game where I botched three, and then it will say I botched three on a game where I did fine and fulfilled everything. This seemed especially true around Month 25+

– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game

Mead Crafter on Steam

LAZR - A Clothformer

You wake up in a resistance safehouse, memory wiped clean. You’re told to fight for the rebels, and that’s all you know… but what if you could chose otherwise? Who are your friends? Who are your enemies?

Take Alpha City back from the Mega Corps in this action platformer!

Jump, dash, climb, and shoot your way through hand drawn levels with tight, responsive controls.