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
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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
Nexomon
Do I Recommend This Game
The answer is YES!
–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
The graphics are pretty good from where they came from, as this game originally was a mobile game. The nexomon’s art and uniqueness was pretty good!
–-{Gameplay}—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
It’s a Pokémon-like game, but has a stamina system instead of a usage per move system. Definitely makes you think more of what you can do versus how many times can I do it. It’s a fun experience figuring out what work well vs what as it can make a huge difference in the big fights throughout the story.
– Real player with 68.4 hrs in game
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Oh man, a Pokemon clone ported from mobile made that originally had microtransactions? Sounds like a disaster in the making, but don’t write this game off so quickly…
There’s no doubt about it; Nexomon is very similar to older Pokemon games. While unique enough to have its own merits, there’s definitely a large overlap in target audiences. It may not seem fair to compare an indie game with a small team to the largest media franchise in existence, but it’s inevitable for any game in the creature collection genre. In the case of Nexomon, I find these comparisons are mostly favorable.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
Chainmonsters
Chainmonsters is a massive multiplayer online RPG where you catch, battle, trade, explore, and combine different types of monsters and abilities to create your own style of play. No game subscription required. Explore the vast lands of Ancora together with your friends on Steam, iOS and Android!
Key Features
Massive Multiplayer allows you to join your friends on an epic journey and complete quests and dungeons together.
Cross-Platform Play across Steam, iOS and Android.
Catch over 135 unique Chainmons with diverse traits, types and abilities. Combine into multiple Squads for various occassions.
Story-based campaign. Join the N-Corp agents and discover the mysterious disease that is affecting Chainmons across the land.
Dungeons and Raids challenge those that are eager to dive deep into the world and defeat special Raid bosses.
Dynamic day/night cycle not only alters the visuals but also has gameplay effects.
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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.
Mython Island
If you like Monster Taming games like Pokemon and Roguelike games such as Slay the Spire then you need to own this game. It blends the two genres so seamlessly that I can’t believe it hasn’t really been capitalized on before.
The game offers two modes, Story and Survival mode the former has you choosing a starting Mython and the latter you will receive a team of random ones. You have to manage your Mython through the randomly generated runs and pick different paths depending on what gets generated.
– Real player with 168.9 hrs in game
Mython Island is a game that I have been waiting for since Visionstead Studio’s first tweet about the game. The art style grabbed me, and the concept seemed cool: a roguelike monster taming game. Going into this game, despite it being EA, I had high expectations.
Mython Island 100% met my expectations, and the developer has exceeded my expectations when it comes to acting on feedback concerning the game.
One of the first things you will experience is the OST, and it is immediately enjoyable. The feeling and sound of the OST changes at different points during the game, but all of it is a cut above many indie games' OSTs!
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
Notemon
In Notemon you and your best friend (a Notemon) wash up on the shore of a small town called Nyoo Owtearowa. This town was a normal and peaceful place as the small group of settlers cleared some space to build their houses and started mining some stone for construction. But recently Notemon have been aggressive and the citizens of Nyoo Owtearowa are in danger! In your exploration of Nyoo Owtearowa you can befriend Notemon, build them a home, investigate the recent Notemon aggression, help the townsfolk and discover everything that awaits you in this delightful and mysterious land.
Gidday, I’m Nick from Croaking Kero, and I’m making Notemon.
I love turn-based monster-taming RPGs and with Notemon I wanted to fix the major problems I have with this genre.
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Instead of beating the monsters into submission, you build them a home and entice them to join your team.
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Battle moves don’t cost a resource (like MP/PP), but instead give the Notemon a cooldown until their next move.
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Health, stats and status conditions are all restored after each battle.
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No move overwriting. Notemon learn new moves as they level up and all the unlocked moves stay available forever. You can select up to 4 moves to be used in battle and you can change this selection any time outside of battle. Try as many strategies and combinations as you like!
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Non-linear gameplay. The game has a story but you’re not forced to follow it through a central plot. Instead you may explore the world at your leisure and choose how to engage with the story, if you do at all.
Notemon is made with PICO-8, a fantasy console with virtual cartridges. Normally PICO-8 games consist of a single 32KB virtual cartridge, but Notemon is the biggest PICO-8 game ever made, using 16 cartridges bundled together into a single file! Code and data for different parts of the game has been distributed between these cartridges and is automatically loaded during gameplay. Much of the data has been encoded within the cartridges to be decoded at load-time to create the NPCs and objects on the maps.
Planet Morph
From the creator of Color Soul: Memories comes Planet Morph, an Action RPG with a simple twist: every enemy you encounter, once defeated, is a creature the player can transform into.
The New Age Of Biology
Created by sentient robot beings called the ISS-RR, the player plays as the Alterux, a new advancement in scientific technology. With it, the ISS-RR can study any alien species they choose, as long as they get a sample of the creatures’ DNA.
Action, Adventure, Exploration!
With planets to explore and creatures galore, Planet Morph is an experience for everyone. Level up, unlock abilities, solve puzzles, and fight until your last breath. And, with difficulty modes, casual and hardcore gamers can change the gameplay just to their liking.
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Disc Creatures
Haven’t done everything yet, still missing a few creatures (~92% done) but i’ll share my thoughts so far:
Pro:
+A good roster of 200 creatures, with fun/interesting designs
+Varied Locations, having the colour scheme change according to locations is nice.
+A decent story, not all that exciting but did it’s job alright.
Con:
-Too little difference in stats for early game to late game/rare/hard to get creatures
-All creatures you get starts at lvl 1, so getting creatures at later locations are actually worse than getting them at the first point they are avalible, also makes the grind to get a creature you think looks nice discouraging.
– Real player with 132.8 hrs in game
One of the better monster collectors I’ve played in awhile. This game is everything I love about Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow both for the GameBoy Color and yet miles improved compared to both.
The overworld encounters make it feel like getting through an area is less of a hassle compared to the random encounters of the above games.
Having a huge skill pool for each monster to switch between makes it so you can deal with far more situations as opposed to the limitations of TMs and relearning moves in Pokemon games or inheriting skills in Dragon Quest Monsters games.
– Real player with 71.5 hrs in game
Fantasy Toonz: Embers of Creation
The Great Creator Raist, being as bored as he was, created 12 demi gods to keep himself entertained. They soon became bored themselves so they created a world with all kinds of races to keep themselves entertained. Filled with jealousy, but fearing rebellion, Raist manipulated the races into a false religion to fight against the demi gods. Raist then suggested the demi gods give their children magic as a reward for their loyalty and to combat this new false religion that was threatening the will of the gods. When the demi gods realized that the Raist was the one behind the false religion, they took all the magic from their childen and used it to destroy The Great Creator. Raist was destroyed and the embers of what was left smashed down upon the planet, shattering it into an untold number of pieces and destroyed most of the life on the planet.
Nexomon: Extinction
This is the best monster catching game I have ever played!
In case you only read the first line I want to stress that point more than any other. I tried to keep this review spoiler free. Just in case this a spoiler warning. I have had SO MUCH FUN playing this game and I want to make sure people wont miss out on this experience. Nexomon is as far from being “Just another Pokemon clone” as you can get. I will include some information for those who are undecided about Nexomon Extinction.
Now there are some similarities to other monster catching games but that is sticking to the genre. You need locations to heal your Nexomon. You need people to battle and strengthen your team. But the Nexomon team have included many unique elements to their game that I feel truly sets it apart from other games.
– Real player with 909.2 hrs in game
Nexomon: Extinction is a Pokemon knock-off, but a fairly good one I think that does enough to distinguish itself and make it worth a buy.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay of Nexomon Extinction is very similar to the main-series of Pokemon games. You go around the world battling Nexomon, of which you have a team of up to six on you, each of which has up to four moves. It’s not completely identical though, there are some minor differences. In battle, rather than having PP, moves all have a certain stamina cost which use up some of your Nexomon’s stamina bar. Personally, I prefer this system actually, first it’s a bit more realistic, for what that’s worth. It is also a bit more strategic since there is a drawback to using more powerful moves. They use more stamina, and that will limit the amount of moves total you’ll be able to use. There are fewer types than in Pokemon, also (9), and there are no dual-types. One thing that I quite liked was that you had a choice of 9 starters, one for each type. If anyone’s curious I picked the Noki when I played through the game, though I was torn between it, Mara, and Lume.
– Real player with 85.0 hrs in game