Abomi Nation
I’m still in the midst of my first run, but I adore the charm this game has. The combat is very enjoyable, and there’s a decent challenge even on the normal difficulty setting. A big selling point is just how customized you can make each run. Difficulty, permadeath, which Abomi join you, all of it can be influenced at the start of a new run, and the game very much encourages you to play it multiple times. No two runs are going to be the same!
The cutesy style of the game greatly contrasts with just how dark this game can get sometimes, though. There’s regular references to death, dying and killing, and your team members actually talk about it when somebody dies. It’s not the most complicated game - if you’ve played any recent Pokemon title, you’ll grasp this game pretty easily - but it’s good fun, and each trek on the island is a brand new adventure. I’m very impressed that this was mostly made by one person! And we’re getting new Abomis every now and then, too, which adds to the fun! I do look forward to what might get added to the game in the future, but for now, I think I’m going to go ahead and hop back in!
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
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A good concept for a game but poor execution. The design aesthetic itself is not a problem, but the naming conventions and designs are… inconsistent and kinda cheesy. The gameplay is slow and the framerate is bad so the game feels like it takes forever while you’re not even accomplishing much. Fights are very matchup dependent which means they snowball based on who is your lead Abomi and the typing chart is unique so you really need to learn it before you attempt the game seriously. The UI is kind of shoddy and requires a lot of button presses and doesn’t allow for mouse/keyboard play which is odd for a game released for PC.
– Real player with 39.4 hrs in game
World of MiniMonsters
WORLD OF MINIMONSTER is a game of creature collection. You must beat 20 levels to reach the boss in the final showdown. (This can change each game).
To be able to beat the final boss, you should level up your MiniMonsters. What better way to do it than with potions?
POTIONS - Buy potions to make your MiniMonsters stronger or change its stats. But you will need gold to buy them, then…
LET’S GO ON ADVENTURES! - Each level has 3 different adventures, 2 easy and 1 not so easy. While you are overcoming adventures, you will get gold and new potions for your MiniMonsters. You will need to have specific MiniMonsters to reach the victory. So, you should manage your group of MiniMonsters as better you can.
Are you ready to FIGHT? - Beat 3 different MiniMonsters in each land to reach the next level, but be careful! Maybe the last one is a Gold Star Minimonster (like a little boss with a special skill).
How to FIGHT? - It’s very important to know that each type of MiniMonster has different strengths and weaknesses. Light gets a bonus when fighting against Nature. Nature gets a bonus when fighting Mechs. Mech get bonuses when fighting against Dark, and Dark get bonuses when fighting against Light. You will also be interested to know that each MiniMonster is linked to an element. So Water gets bonuses against Fire, Fire against Earth, Earth against Air, and Air against Water. These elemental blasts are very powerful but will consume energy.
BATTLEGROUND - Select your battleground to get more bonuses for your MiniMonster. Each battleground will help one type of MiniMonster. Thus, it is essential choose your battleground well.
GAMES’S FEATURES:
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68 MiniMonsters (64 playable)
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13 Different potions
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35 Adventures
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16 Battlegrounds
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9 different skills that change the fate of the battle
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Random music for the main panel and battles
Have you already chosen your favorite MiniMonster?.
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Labyrinth of the Witch
Labyrinth of the Witch is a simple roguelite/dungeon explorer game originally for Android/iOS that was ported to PC. This paid version has all of the characters that you would’ve needed to purchase, and has no microtransactions or other mobile shenanigans.
Positives:
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Simple and easy to learn. The “Puzzle Dungeons” are a fun and interesting way to learn all of the mechanics of the game.
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Cute and colourful pixel art
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Addicting gameplay
Negatives:
- Repetitive music. What little music is here is decent, but gets repetitive really fast. I ended up muting it after half an hour.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Written for 1561’s Thoughts - Honest reviews, for busy people.
Labyrinth of the Witch is a simplified dungeon crawler like DragonFangZ with a cute art style. It removes the frustrating aspects while keeping the randomness and challenge! 7/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TnnEhV-4_o
– Real player with 2.3 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
Adore
With the latest update, Adore is in the best state it’s ever been, and keeps me coming back to play in a way the original gameplay loop, while innovative, just didn’t manage to accomplish.
To those out of the loop: before the Welcome Home update, the play loop of Adore was structured more traditionally ‘roguelike’ in terms of run progression, with a groundbreaking summoner/moba-like combat system, but relatively light on the ‘creature collecting’ part of the game, simply because that' difficult to incorporate in any roguelike. There was a metagame hub where some creatures (not many) could be ‘stored’, essentially, and the only way to get new ones ‘stored’ was to start runs with empty party slots and capture new creatures, which you could then choose to bring with you or not when the run ended/failed. There was an element of ‘trading up’ through a run to a degree, starting with a few keeper creatures and some filler, and then capturing/releasing others as you went to keep pace with the difficulty curve (which, let me not forget to mention, is surprisingly steep and still is. not unfairly so, but definitely unforgivingly so). This resulted in some awkward tensions, such as situations where you could theoretically capture a new creature (that would then have full health) to replace your trained up creature that was at critical health to keep the run going, but would result in giving up the ‘keeper’ creature etc. It had phenomenal per-run gameplay and combat mehcanics, but had self-admitted struggles making the roguelike and creature collecting parts of the game - the blending thereof being what makes Adore so innovative - play nicely together. As a result, it was primarily a ‘roguelike with creature collecting elements’.
– Real player with 37.8 hrs in game
I came back a second time to edit my review after almost a year of not playing.
TLDR: This is a genre-defining title, and the devs are CLEARLY on to something.
insert sound of audience clapping, whooping, and throwing roses
Wow you guys have done something incredible with the soundtrack. The music is a sincere joy to experience, in fact when I came back it was the FIRST thing I noticed/remembered. I thought to myself “I cannot believe how good this music feels to listen to, like calm in your soul.” Every zone’s track brings me this internal feeling of ethereal serenity in my soul. I mean FFS guys, I could feel the music in my chest. I heard it with my heart, not my ears. Y’all obviously LOVED making the music for this game, and as a musician myself, I feel that that passion is what has made this game so wonderful.
– Real player with 29.1 hrs in game
Monsters of the North
Key Features
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Befriend monsters and get to know them
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Battle enemies in turn based elemental combat
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Choose what monster gets to speak to new recruits
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Build monsters relationships with each other and follow their quest-lines
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Permanent death and high stakes, monsters react and grieve for fallen allies
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Replayable roguelite runs with a continuous story
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Online Multiplayer Battling vs other players
Story
In the ruins of humanity, intelligent and speaking monsters roam the Nordic landscape. But something is rumbling in the deep: an ancient being has awoken and is preparing to extinguish life in the North. One human and a party of monsters are the only things standing in it’s way.
Accessibility
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The game is blind accessible, with Screenreader support and descriptions for monsters and visuals
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Super Cane navigation
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Contrast Options
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Scaleable Text
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Rebindable Controls
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Difficulty modifiers
Necromancer’s Gift
Rescue your dog from a Necromancer that hates humans and find the meaning behind the title of this game. The Necromancer’s Gift.
Build your team
Build a team of 5 creatures out of 100 by capturing and evolving them as you get closer to the final battle with the Necromancer. Be careful. Death is permanent.
Battle
Battle your way through 1v1 battles where the abilities of alll your creatures influence the battle. Each creature can hold up to two items, and learn a variety of moves.
Plan Ahead
There are 5 floors, made out of a variety of rooms, like battle rooms, event rooms, and even shops. They are procedurally generated, and each floor has different floor abilities that modify the gameplay enough to keep it fresh. At the end of each floor, a floor leader awaits you.
Make the game your own. Customize how you want to play, what you want to encounter and try again. And again. And again.
Do not despair. You are not alone.
Alcheverse: Shadow from Gladview
The map of the island of Gigax is generated from scratch every time and it’ll be hard for Lumpy to complete his journey! In the map you’ll find ingredients like the Tentacle or the Star Shard, fight packs of Corrupted Alcheverse that will attack you, meet strange individuals like the Merchant or King Paxton, who will offer you extravagant trades!
Craft your Alcheverse by mixing different ingredients together and unlock all recipes. Each of these powerful creatures has 10 differents statistics that influence their performance in battle and an unique skill that gives each of them a characteristic play style! To get the most out of your team you’ll also need to use the Sinergies wisely. When two or more Alcheverse share a common ingredient you’ll gain a Synergy bonus that improves the creatures statistics!
Position your Alcheverse in the most strategic way and let them fight for you: automatic combat allows you to focus on the strategy rather than the reflexes. Unlock powerful Synergies to overcome the hardest fights! Beware, the game is challenging and it will take you time to learn all the best strategies and combos!
The town of Gladview is in danger! The greed of King Paxton led to the creation of the Corruption: a failed alchemy experiment that infects everything it touches! The Master alchemist Gullio was also Corrupted, and he’s the only one that can fix this mess! You are Lumpy, the alchemist apprentice that will make the journey to the Volcano of the island of Gigax to rescue Gullio. Will you be able to save the master and end the Corruption?
Dino Zoo Transport Simulator
Its a weird game, and it is what it says but nothing more a “Dino Zoo Transport simulator”. The game has 3 gamemodes. You can drive a truck but the controls are a bad/stupid.
The Price
[ ] Normal price
[x] Wait for a sale
[ ] Dont buy, only get if its free
[ ] Never Get it
Gameplay Time
[ ] 0/10 minutes
[x] 10/60 minutes
[ ] 1/3 hours
[ ] 3/5 hours
[ ] 5+ hours
Fun
[ ] its amazing
[ ] its not bad
[x] okay
[ ] mehhhhh
[ ] staring at a dot
Buggs ?
[ ] what are buggs
[ ] No
[x] a few
[ ] they are there
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
Tremendous! Made me sign an EXECUTIVE ORDER to begin a new branch of the military DINOSAUR FORCE!!! AMERICA WILL BE READY TO FIGHT THE DINOSAURS!!!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Shawarma or Shaverma
Shawarma or Shaverma - a rogue-like game made in 2D hand-drawn graphics in which you need to help Shawarmyonok Gennady .
From time immemorial, people tormented themselves with the most righteous question - " Shawarma or Shaverma? “. Nobody could answer it and this mystery remained unsolved, but now the world meets a hero! Shawarmyonok Gennady ! Nimble and nimble, always ready for new adventures, he will solve the riddle and punish the nasty fast food! Get ready, the adventure has already begun.
You have to feel yourself in the role of the hero- Shawarmyonok Gennady . Open the cells step by step, behind which ingredients for shawarma can be hidden, various improvements that will help you fight harmful fast food (various burgers, pizzas are your main enemies). Conquer all fast food and finally find out the answer to the question " Shawarma or Shaverma? "
Features of the game:
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Vivid graphics
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Rogue-like rpg with shaverma
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Humoresco shawarma
*Comics
