Guardians of Gridvale
Push enemies into water or set them on fire. Use the environment and smart positioning in this tactical, turn based RPG. Enemies telegraph their moves and an optional timing mini-game decides the damage of your attacks. Equip and level up your heroes and take control of the Guardians of Gridvale!
Use the environment
Push enemies into the water, blow up rocks to make shortcuts, freeze water to create bridges, stand on hills to extend the range of your projectile attacks or set grass on fire and enjoy watching the world burn.
Optional Timing based attacks
While dice rolls can be fun and all, missing that 99% shot can feel worse than a kick in the family jewels. The swingmeter let’s you use your timing and skill to determine the result of your attacks instead! Don’t worry if your reflexes sucks though. The Guardians of Gridvale never “miss”. Even botched attacks do some amount of damage. You can turn this off if you prefer a more traditional, random damage system.
Peek into the future
Enemies clearly show who they will attack and change their target as you make your moves so you don’t have to waste actions based on crazy guesses and hearsay. Plan accordingly! Enemy about to slaughter your fragile bard? Take the enemy out first or move the bard into the woods to increase her defense and mitigate damage.
Unique skill trees
Each hero has their own unique skill tree that you can tweak to suit your play style. Don’t like to play defense? Then turn your pacifist cleric into a bloodthirsty mass-murderer that leaves piles of corpses in his wake… Well, maybe not exactly like that but you get the point!
Go camping
All heroes need to relax and clear their heads a little between sessions of stomping baddies and what better way of doing that than going camping? Rest and tend to your wounds, hang out with friends or sharpen your weapons to make stabbing poor goblins an even more satisfying experience! It’s your camp and your heroes, so you decide how they should waste their time.
Other features
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Fast paced turn based combat. No need to go and make coffee while waiting for excruciatingly slow animations to complete.
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Customizable difficulty. Make the enemies frail like soft tissue paper or reduce their damage. If your reflexes are a thing of the past you can always make the timing mini-game go slower or turn it off completely and rely on random damage. I won’t stop you if you want to make the game harder either.
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Classic 2D perspective and old school pixel art. Grandparents generally can’t handle rotating cameras nor fancy “3D” graphics so I made a game that works for them too!
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A story full of idiots and stupid jokes. Who said that saving the world needs to be boring, dark and dull?
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Bubbleland
In Bubblelands you will lead a team of cartoon heroes - the brave bean brawler, the fluffy feline defender, and the outlandish onion with oseledets - through a series of tactical turn-based battles on a grid of hexes. Each hero on the team has a different potential use in battle, skill set and development opportunities. The combat rewards smart positioning and using skills appropriate to the situation on the battlefield.
On their way, the heroes may encounter characters who need their help and allies who will join their party and strengthen the team with their special powers. You can meet them later at the party’s camp, where the heroes can also improve their skills and buy upgrades.
Bubbles are what fuels the technology and economy of this land. However, one day the soapy resource ceased to flow from the taps and fountains. In the atmosphere of the apocalypse, three heroes set off on a journey through foreign lands to find out where the life-giving Bubbles have gone.
Tactical Yet Simple Combat
The game is rules-light, you’re not going to find long statblocks and hour-long battles here. You may just hop in for a few fights any time!
Simple Yet Deep Mechanics
Bubbleland is not crunchy, but you still have to think before you act. Cautious positioning of the heroes and planning your actions is crucial!
Deep story… Not Really!
The world and story of Bubbleland is colorful and fun to watch. Find out if fluffy cats, angry cucumbers and onion cossacks fighting each other over bubbles have any deeper meaning!
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Eldrador® Creatures
Good for kids under 10.
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
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Eldrador creatures is not a bad game, but if your looking for a complex battle system, then this is not aimed at you, i did play through the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ded0H1Mrdw&list=PL0i-inNt6h7-INFcuxlykQ-Lx7hIgUs_R and found the combat was weak, but it seems more fitted for kids then anyone else, the graphics are ok, music is fine 2. Value for money, for an adult the game is not worth the money as it is short, it took me 5 1/2 hour to do, but for a kid this will give them plenty of time playing the game, so would i recommend the game, it would be a no for adults but a yes for kids
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Forever and Ever
CUNNING STRATEGY AND THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP ARE YOUR GREATEST WEAPONS (BUT GUNS AND MAGIC HELP TOO)
Forever and Ever is an anime-inspired turn-based strategy game with billions of different heroes ready for adventure. In a world of heroes and villains battling for immortal glory, a strange storyteller falls from another world. As this mysterious bard, recruit uniquely generated future legends with diverse appearances, backstories, and personalities. Only your tactics and the bonds of their friendship can lead them to eternal fame and fortune!
CUNNING STRATEGY
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Build a team from 10 different character classes that support a wide range of tactics!
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Battle with action-packed abilities that can be customized to fit your strategy!
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Every fight is fair- win or lose based on your decisions, not how much you’ve been grinding!
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
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Discover procedurally generated backstories to reveal your heroes' past, personality, and secret ambitions!
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Forge friendships on the battlefield whose bonds will save them in clutch moments!
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You’ll never see the same hero twice! Forever and Ever features over 5 billion uniquely-generated characters!
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If they die, they’re gone forever (and ever)!
Whether your heroes are ancient defective gardening robots, magical animal children, zombified party addicts, or edgelords from the future, the journey starts with an interview! Learn about each candidate’s strengths, weaknesses, backstories, and personality, and find the heroes that are right for you. Maybe your team needs an Outlaw, a rockstar gunslinger who can’t stop dishing out damage? Or a Crusader, a bulky knight-officer who shields your team from harm with the power of THE LAW? Or a blasphemous Heretic, who dares to use their magic to protect instead of fight? These character classes and more await you in the world of Forever and Ever!
Guide these heroes into battle, and soon they’ll discover Secret Techniques: modifications and additions to their original abilities to expand your tactical options. Develop a fierce warband that fights with your personal flair!
Throughout their journey, heroes develop bonds and relationships that strengthen over time. These bonds show their true power in heroes’ most dire moments, and can save them from certain death. A Crusader and a Punk, once enemies on opposite sides of the law, now fierce comrades, push each other to fight beyond their mortal limits. An Exorcist shouts a word of warning to her wife, letting her dodge a deadly blow at the last moment. A Hermit heals his rival from the brink of death, and friendship begins to replace their antagonistic feelings. What story will you and your heroes tell?
Swords and Sandals Crusader Redux
I’ve played all the version of Swords and Sandals.
I like the franchise.
I also, suggested to some friends to buy the “Swords & Sandals Crusader Redux”
But there are major issues I have with the game, regardless of the bugs.
As I always say, bugs can be corrected, but fundamentals always remain.
My problems are mainly with the fundamentals that drive the game, if it makes any sense…
This review is more about addressing the fundamental issues I have with how the game operates and the design of it’s mechanics - most of all, rather than a suggestion not to buy the game. Because if you don’t have any problems with the issues ill state, then certainly go ahead and buy the game.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
I played this on version 1.0.5C so some of the bugs or rng stuff(I know Oliver - [game maker] must have add some of these) or locked features the game had to offer are no more. Just giving it a note.
SaS Crusader Redux - I never though any of the future Oliver’s games could beat my all-time favourite SaS2ER classic, but this one did it! It’s greatest SaS game to me so far, and I can’t wait to play every other game mode it has to offer in the future!
This game solves all the frustating problems the original Crusader had. One really good thing to say about this game to compare it to the original Crusader, Pirates, and maybe some other SaS games is that it’s totally not RNG(randomness) based, it truly feels like a strategy game to me, or just a game where simply human skill matters and is on top, not your luck, a good example to show that, is that I managed to win at #1st place all the knights tournaments in a row that I had during the campaign mode. This is fantastic!
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
Askara
Askara is a rogue-like turn-based tactics game, you choose how long each run takes, from a half an hour, to a few days if you want to! Multiple layers of mechanics mesh together to ensure that every run will be unique. It is easy to pick up, but will take years to master.
Game features
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Procedurally generated worlds, every playthrough will have a unique map
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Death is not the end, part of your experience carries over to the next run, you will unlock perks as you play enabling new strategies
Field of Glory II: Medieval
This is a fantastic game, but it’s not for everybody.
What it is:
The best generator of realistic tactical ‘battle narrative’ covering the period available on PC - wild swings of fortune, men uncontrollably pursuing and fleeing. The goal is to drive the enemy from the field, with morale and terrain being the key factors. It’s unforgiving, with an extremely high skill ceiling - though I at least found the series approachable playing against the AI at lower difficulties. The feel of tabletop wargaming, but with the computer adjudicating all the math, and obviously sans all the painting of expensive minis.
– Real player with 472.7 hrs in game
A terrific game. A wargamer’s dream. You have all the units, the great models (especially the knights), and the tactics. A very large multiplayer scene with zillions of official tournaments organised by Slitherine and competitions organised by players such as the infamous Digital League (see the Slitherine forum for news on all the competitions). This would be one of the best PC wargames of the decade in my view. And, there are plans for further DLCs covering the Crusades and Late Medieval period. The development and updates are constant.
– Real player with 263.4 hrs in game
Nautilus Epoch
On a small island in the Adriatic Sea lives a girl called Lily. Her world is turned upside down when she comes upon a strange sea shell. Upon making contact with it she finds herself in the future where the seas have all but vanished and fearsome creatures from the deep roam the surface.
In her dreams Lily is visited by a being called ‘The Wonderer’ who tasks her with restoring the seas, the only way to save her family. But in order to do so Lily must first travel through time, confront unimaginable dangers, befriend creatures of the sea and ultimately learn the truth behind all life on earth…
FEATURES
Inspired by titles such as CHRONO TRIGGER, TERRANIGMA, ECCO THE DOLPHIN AND ABZU, NAUTILUS EPOCH combines the best of story-driven RPGs with endless mysteries of the deep
A unique turn-based battle system based on BIOLUMINESCENCE, which allows you to learn special skills and interact with the world using the power of light
EXPLORE multiple time periods from the Cretaceous to Ancient Greece to modern times, all realized in a beautiful watercolour style
TEAM UP with and control a wide variety of characters including humans, sea mammals, and even merman
Detective Gman
mega cool game.
lots to do, tons to explore, banging soundtrack.
perfect 10/10
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
A breath of fresh air in the current gaming climate! Story and character based game kind of like Disco Elysium, albeit shorter. Big game world, a lot of interaction and different ways to solve the crimes. Some tips I would give to new players:
spec your character right away, you have like 8 points and you have to manually enter each one. A bit unintuitive but you can get the hang of it. Be sure to add your 2 new points after every murder solved. humor and charm go a long way when talking to NPCs.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
KeyHero
Keyhero Is A Puzzle Game.
In the game, the Key is your only tool for getting through obstacles.
After your character is blocked by a wall, you can build a bridge with keys. Wherever there’s a Key, you can get through. Accordingly, you lose the ability to move in the Key direction. There are also impassable flames, and portals that help you move over long distances on the map.
The goal of the game is to collect keys in all directions.
There are 50 levels in total.