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
WinterBringers
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569360
About
WinterBringers is an epic ‘Hack&Slash ‘em up’ following your own custom created hero as they appear in a mysterious temporal village with only one way in and out - the Azure Portal. Create your hero from a multitude of race and class combinations such as - Sun Elf Rogue, Fomorian Voidwalker or Goblin Cultist! Then, embark on an adventure of hacking, slashing and looting as you upgrade your hero with powerful weapons and armor on your quest to stop the Pale Knight!
Key Features
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Create!
Build a hero from a variety of race and class choices and unlock more options as your progress through the game.
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Upgrade!
Slay your enemies and complete quests to level up your character and unlock powerful weapons and armor to equip.
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Explore!
Choose your own path as you embark on the ultimate quest to stop the WinterBringers! Plot your course in the campaign and save the Broken World!
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Unlock!
Unlock a multitude of armors, weapons, races and classes use in your war against the Pale Knight.
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Crystal Project
Explore the world, find Crystals, and fulfill the prophecy to bring balance to the land of Sequoia.
…Or maybe you’d rather spend your time collecting neat equipment and artifacts? Or tame strange creatures and fill out all the entries in your archive? Or perhaps you’d rather hunt down every monster and conquer the world’s toughest bosses. Or maybe you’d rather travel to the farthest reaches of the land and uncover the world’s greatest mysteries.
The choice is yours, as it should be! Or is it? They say that those who stray out of line will be punished, killed, or worse. Maybe it’s for your own good that you stick to collecting Crystals, just like everyone else. But where would the adventure be in that?
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No random encounters!
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Manage Threat to control which party member a monster will attack.
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No hidden information. Preview turn order, damage, and probabilities like in TRPGs.
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Discover and unlock new classes.
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Assign sub-classes, pick passive abilities, and equip all kinds of special items.
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Invent unique team compositions, or stick to the MMORPG Holy Trinity.
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No missables!
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Seamless transitions between zones with no loading screens anywhere.
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Uncover the mysteries of the world all on your own.
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Metroidvania-style progression.
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No invisible walls! Try to jump and climb anywhere you want.
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Overcome platforming challenges to discover neat loot… and other stuff.
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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.
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!
STROLL
STROLL is a top-down dungeon crawler, set in a dystopian world. From your safe haven you will rebuild society-one stroll at a time. Explore fallen cities, deserted suburbs and eerie forests, as you look for other survivors, materials for crafting or maybe a shiny new gun.
Phantom Hysteria
Phantom Hysteria is a 1-4 player, online co-op paranormal investigation and banishment game. Take on ghost-hunting contracts with your taped-together equipment as one of four playable P.I.N.E characters. Hone your skills for your designated class, utilize an array of equipment to decipher your clues, and use that to identify your contracted apparition.
Choosing from a variety of thrilling maps, you and your team will be required to do everything you can to document, and then eliminate the entity from this plane; if you manage to banish it, you’ll have a satisfied customer and a job well done. Afterward, it’s on to the next contract. But, if you are unsuccessful, something from beyond the mortal coil may be waiting to enter this world…
Phantom Hysteria’s Early Access will have four playable characters, four maps, and four entities available at launch.
“The Paranormal Investigation and Neutralization Experts guarantee results in no less than one night. With state-of-the-art equipment and field agents with expertise in lore, UrbanEx, technology, and show business, P.I.N.E will deliver a cohesive report on the ghost and its activities upon payment. All additional services will cost extra.”-CEO Michael Evans
It was supposed to be a simple job. Get in, get footage, get results. But the things we call paranormal, these ‘entities’, are lingering manifestations of fear, sorrow, and fury. The reason they linger is the same reason they are hard to exterminate. Whatever happens, be sure you keep the red light of your camera on. The camera should be live, even if you aren’t.
The entities in this game are influenced by the events of American history. The entities you hunt as P.I.N.E agents are connected to the fabric of who we are as a nation; it’s up to you to unbury the worst horrors of the American south, even if it means giving up your life in the process. From antebellum houses to abandoned sanatoriums, investigators are guaranteed a road trip of a lifetime.
Minds without bodies, feelings without souls. Entities linger on the edge of our reality, reaching over from the other side to manipulate the physical world in terrifying and lethal ways. To properly approach hunting these entities, certain clues will reveal how these entities manipulate the world; and you.
Phantom Hysteria’s missions put four P.I.N.E field agents into your control. Each agent has multiple customization options and dialogue that are unlocked through play. Agents of P.I.N.E have backgrounds and aspirations that fuel how they interact with every mission; but much like the ghosts, they have secrets that bleed into the world. Everyone is running from something.
P.I.N.E doesn’t mess around; but if they did, it would be within their southern United States headquarters. P.I.N.E’s warehouse is available for agents to access their accolades, outfits, and career information. Agents can pinpoint their next move, train using the warehouse’s Paranormal Investigation Training Center, and purchase their consumables.
“WARNING-REDACTED”
Regardless of who you choose to play as, agents of P.I.N.E will be offered a selection of careers to choose from at the start of the game. More missions lead to further experience in that career, but investigators are free to change careers between missions for any reason.
*** Engineer
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Media Specialist
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Communicator
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Investigator
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(Soloable) Jack of All Trades**
Careers will not only assist in your exploration of haunts but allow you to further capitalize on the entities you find lurking within.
When every crucial detail of the entity is recorded, the real mission begins. Consisting of multiple phases, haunts will task you with challenging objectives that bring out the survivalist of you and your team. These objectives will assist in your attempt to banish entities from this mortal plane; but missteps in doing so could risk releasing something more dangerous onto the world…
Irongate Arena
Continue your family legacy into new and exotic lands, but first prove yourself a worthy commander to the men who have pledged fealty to you. Battle in the proving grounds where humans are not the only fighters trying to knock you on your ass! Will your reward be glory or death?
If you have the strength, journey through the desert where if the heat doesn’t kill you, something or someone venomous just may. If you have the will of a warrior those deadly and toxic creatures may join you and take up your cause of vengeance.
To make it in the harsh, icy, North you must be a wise in deploying the right strategies to defeat your enemies in the Arena. Vikings, elves and witches can be so cold, but not cold enough to turn down a little coin to join your ranks, if the price is right.
Put your team skills to the test and push their limits in order to survive the Inferno. Hotter than Hades itself only the most vile creatures dwell here, along with the strongest arena fighters. If fear has not run your men out, then you may stand a chance, otherwise see yourself cut down by powerful beings capable of wielding great strength and abilities.
You must have strategic cunning when facing Lord Asshat, so that you may reclaim honor to your surname. Will your become the champion your father was or will you fall before your enemies?
Mirage Online Classic
The game has one of highest toxic community I have ever seen, those people publicly admitted to using bugs to take advantage of the game instead of reporting them, the content is very short right now and there is a balance issue as well as it needs a lot of quality of life improvement.
The game in overall is based on action combat even thought there is a tab targetting that allows to use special class ability.
The leveling has absolutly no reward, only equipments matter, killing rats will give you more exp than doing dungeons.
– Real player with 1542.9 hrs in game
The game is pretty fun, still lots of content being worked on at the moment that’s yet to come in the game and there isn’t much benefit in playing hours and hours per day to the point it starts feeling like a chore so you can take your time with the game and be patient, go at your own pace. The community and people in discord are friendly and helpful as well, don’t hesitate to ask for advice.
Some people have been writing reviews about Zeus saying he’s toxic, but after playing for over 300 hours and frequently with all of the other active players, this hasn’t been the case at all and he even changed my name for free with the exception I was new, which wasn’t an offered service. Both the devs are nice people and they have a discord you can join to talk with the community and make suggestions for the game which they are very open to.
– Real player with 314.3 hrs in game
Tenderfoot Tactics
Tenderfoot Tactics is an open world turn-based tactics game where you play as a band of goblins exploring a vast archipelago, getting into cool fights and pushing back a malevolent force known as ‘the fog’.
The fights are cool because they’re all about manipulating and dramatically transforming the battlefield. You can smash craters and crack ravines into the earth, fill them with water then electrocute, boil, or even ice the water over to cross it. You can grow movement-hindering (or enhancing!) brush then set it alight to toast your foes (or your tender toes). You can even infect enemies with a fecund poison that, on death, spawns a ‘bog body’.
– Real player with 79.6 hrs in game
TL;DR: great combat and character advancement, ‘meh’ everything else. The combat and advancement carry the game and justify its modest price tag, but if that isn’t enough for you look elsewhere. A gem if you like small-scale tactical combat. Bonus: plays perfectly in Linux via Steam Play.
At its heart this is a classic turn-based, grid-based tactical roleplaying game. Combat and character development mechanics are reminiscent of Final Tantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in all the best ways, though less ambitious (as befits a much smaller game).
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game