New Town Needs Tamer
Become a champion tamer for a newly formed town, full of people eager to meet you.
Settle down into the tamer life, going out on adventures to tame all kinds of creatures and becoming acquainted with the people of the town.
Features:
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A number of creatures to tame.
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3 Alternative looks for each creature, plus 2 color schemes for each.
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12 Dateable characters.
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6 Zones to explore.
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A number of minigame moves for your creatures.
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Over 300 customization items for your character.
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3 Different UI styles for you to choose.
Expect to see more as development continues…
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Monster Sanctuary
This game is totally worth it.
If you enjoy the monster-taming formula from games like Pokemon (and others), but wanted it to be a little more “meaty” in terms of strategy, then look no further!
Why this game is great:
- 3 v 3 battles. This makes it so team dynamics are important. Instead of each individual monster needing to be a powerhouse of some sort, you can have monsters focusing on a variety of roles, damage / tanking / buffing / debuffing / etc. Playing around with team compositions is really fun.
– Real player with 209.2 hrs in game
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I would not recommend playing this game with a guide until you’ve finish the majority of the story - I feel that the exploration is part of what makes this a great experience.
I don’t write reviews very often, but I felt that this game deserves some merit that makes it stand out amongst it’s competition.
Initially I thought Monster Sanctuary lacked depth, as the first biome and battles felt slow and didn’t have much to choose from - I think it took about 2 hours to get to a place where I could appreciate the level of quality that this game presents.
– Real player with 94.2 hrs in game
Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
Full review (including score): https://youtu.be/YI-pcCdmMU8
Written review below!
These two may not be full-on remasters, but an enhanced port available on modern platforms is more than we have already.
Note: Trimmed review to fit character limit, check video for full version!
Gameplay
While I may have been familiar with this series, this would be my first crack at it. And I gotta say, I went in expecting something like Digimon or Pokémon (two games this franchise gets compared to A LOT), but got something completely different. It’s much less a full-on adventure RPG and more so a life simulator RPG.
– Real player with 30.1 hrs in game
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One of the best PS1 games is back after many years.
Monster Rancher is a great series and the 2nd game is probably its most solid entry. Released originally in 1999, the game stands strong and provides a good monster rising experience that was surprising for the time and one that you still don’t see this well executed nowdays. It has a lot of depth that, hopefully, may meet its full potential with the online features that have been introduced.
This port needs some work, but in no way it gets in the way to enjoy those two games. Also, Monster Rancher 2 has an added “fast-forward” option that really saves up a lot of time and allow you to rise quickly your monsters. The introduction of the “database search” is also a nice way to make the disc stone concept work today and allows everyone to get all the monsters that we couldn’t back in the PS1 era.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Siralim
I have to admit, I haven’t owned this game for very long, but I spend almost all of my free time playing it. I’ve just gotten past the tutorial sections because I spent so much time playing my way and just having fun in the maps and leveling up different aspects of the game before more advanced mechanics were added.
Pros:
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Great retro feel. The graphics really bring me back.
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Huge variety of monsters that there are innumerable customization options (although some will clearly be better than others)
– Real player with 140.3 hrs in game
Sandbox prodecularrly generated jRPG with no level caps.
collect creatures
hatch demonic version and nether version of them
craft and enchant weapons and armors
level up thosecreatures AND the weapons/ armors
areas always scale to your party of creatures
cast magical spells
game has a daily logon/ daily quest system and its not even online! That’s cool!
collect resources
get pissed off when you loose tons of resources in gambeling with dwarves
summonable bosses
0 story! Just capturing, collecting, fighting leveling… all packed into a 30.5 mb fun little game without end!
– Real player with 104.7 hrs in game
Siralim 3
When Zack Bertok of Thylacine Studios launched Siralim 2 in 2016, he was sure there would never be a sequel, at least not in the near future. He began to work on other projects, but the more he did so, the more ideas to improve Siralim 2 he could think of. What was supposed to be a simple expansion kept getting bigger and bigger… and Siralim 3 was born.
For those who are unfamiliar with this series, Siralim is an RPG with roguelite elements in which the player trains monsters to use them in 6vs6 battles, inspired by the Enix game Dragon Warrior Monsters. What makes it different from other such games is the fact that it is virtually endless, which allows players to enjoy the game for hundreds or even thousands of hours.
– Real player with 2273.7 hrs in game
Update 2: Still going strong on this game at 1392 hours. This game is excellent for being able to instantly walk away when you have something to take care of. Been using it as my side game while exploring in Elite Dangerous. The developer has slowed down on the updates, probably working on his next game. Ended up buying a copy for a friend who likes retro-styled indie games. He thanks you for Linux support!
Update: Still a good game at the 200 hour mark. New major updates were released since my review was written. More content and added an asynchronous multiplayer combat mode. You take your team and fight other teams out there. No player-to-player interaction except composing the teams, but I wouldn’t want more than that in this kind of game. The meat of the game is still in advancing incrementally through the realms, gathering loot, unlocking achievements (which increase the loot rate), and so forth. Still an awesome game.
– Real player with 1639.8 hrs in game
No!Ah!’s Ark
Fun game, limited scope, fairly simple to understand and enjoy.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
I liked the game very well, the story of the game is very short, but that’s it, the game is beyond perfect.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Siralim Ultimate
Hides playing time
Yeah I guess you could say I like it…
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Buy it if you:
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Enjoy spending an hour or 2 sorting through monsters and items to make a team
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Don’t mind “the balance comes from everything being overpowered” style games
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Like Pokemon but would rather it wasn’t made for 3 year olds
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Have crippling autism
DON’T buy it if you:
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Don’t like grinding
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Value your precious time in this mortal coil
BTW: I’m writing this before the first (? big update after entering EA so if anything’s outdated by then RIP.
– Real player with 802.5 hrs in game
Note: This is a review of the game as of patch 0.9.4 (I have removed/amended criticisms that are no longer relevant)
TL; DR
I definitely recommend the game if you are interested in casual play, monster collection, team building, or light grinding. I don’t really recommend the game if you are looking for a satisfying long-term grind.
Like
Graphics - Definitely an improvement on the previous games. A lot of effort has gone into improving the look of the sprites and tilesets.
– Real player with 619.9 hrs in game
Aeternum Quest™
I enjoyed my time. It’s a simple, charming turn based RPG that has an emphasis on relying on your captured monsters to summon in combat to mitigate your MP limitations and give you more options!
I’m not sure what to add really. It’s easy to be extremely critical with it though. Some of its secrets have such a high level of effort involved that they feel like they are paced as being far too late game to properly attract attention. Maybe I spent too much time grinding, but by the time I was close to finishing the card collection, I was already overlevelled. Several of the other side-quests have this kind of issue.
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Eternal Exodus
Story
Welcome to Hell, kid.
The afterlife isn’t what you expected. Sure, you can live forever here, but only if you stay in the good graces of those in power. And it’s looking like you won’t.
Luckily, you have a Subjugator: a forbidden wrist-worn device that allows you to summon demons.
Gameplay
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150 unique demons to catch and fuse
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Form a party of up to 4 demons at a time
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Fuse demons together to get a more powerful species of demon that inherits up to 4 of its parents' spells and skills
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Craft weapons and armor for your demons
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Sidequests to catch legendary demons
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In classic 90s JRPG fashion, you’ll encounter a variety of minigames during your quest
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Full English and Japanese support, with more languages coming soon
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Built in a custom engine on top of Unity
Heavily inspired by franchises like Shin Megami Tensei and Pokemon, Eternal Exodus has a series of mechanics that, while easy to learn, offer depth and complexity. Catch demons in the wild, and fuse them with demons in your party to create stronger species of demons.
Through skill inheritance, you can fuse demons to end up with demons who otherwise wouldn’t naturally be able to learn the skills you give them. Want a Clammy that can cast Heal-All? Simply level up a Whisper to level 8 so it learns it, then fuse the Whisper with a Skullray to get a Clammy.
Rune Factory 4 Special
The Peak of Farming RPG Game
Having played the game for countless hours in 3DS and the Switch, RF 4S is easily the best in the series and is the best RPG Farming sim out there, rivaling even Stardew Valley and easily outclassing the series this game is based on: Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons.
Besides as a Farming sim, the game is a great JRPG with nice and fluid combat, there are several weapon type which has different gameplay each such as short sword which is decently fast and will have 100% of your shield effect but it’s range is limited or dual knife which is extremely fast and have lots of DPS but the range is very short and you cannot have the shield benefit at all, my fav is great sword since it has a lot of damage and great reach but it’s slow and only have 50% of the shield effect, but you can use other weapon skill while benefiting the greatsword’s range and damage, yes you can use different weapon skill even if you’re not equiping the corresponding weapon but you’ll get double the MP cost penalty which is annoying early on but once you have lots of food to restore your MP it is not a big deal.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game
Full video review: https://youtu.be/9EKIHS4j-tI
Written review below!
I was a bit iffy going into this one. Harvest Moon type games have always been a bit hit or miss for me, but with Rune Factory 5 coming out soon, I figured I’d give this one a shot.
Gameplay
Despite the simple graphics here - RF4S is a bit of a beast in terms of content. Not only is there the farming stuff, but you’ve got dungeon exploring, this extensive crafting system, a large map to explore, and a dating and marriage system on top of that. Up front, it seemed like I would get lost in all of this, but the game actually does a really good job easing you into it through its request system.
– Real player with 34.1 hrs in game