Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
THE LOVECRAFT APOCALYPSE IS TOTES ON.
The Old Gods are cold. Calculating. Ever waiting. Ever patient. Slumbering towards that day in which the cosmic apocalypse beckons.
And then somebody just has to pull a Leroy Jenkins and start the fun early.
Perry Hollycraft has been called out of “retirement” (i.e. the death plane known as the Dreamlands) in order to figure out what Old God did what, when, and why. The rest of the pantheon isn’t too happy that the apocalypse has been called early. With Gods fighting among themselves in a bid to take advantage of the situation, and the rules thrown out the window, Perry has more than their work cut out for them. Who do you trust (your party members, probably)? Where do you turn (the available hub areas)? How many endings in this game actually differ from one another (we cut it down from twelve to five, but mileage may vary)? Do your choices matter (it depends on how you define “matter” in the context of a video game)? When will this structure of questions end (now)?
To destroy humanity, they’ll need to save it.
-
All the DLC from the non-GOAT Edition! All the Outfits! All the quests!
-
The second game in the non-award winning series!
-
Broadcast in glorious 1920x1080!
-
A brand new, 100% deeper Argument System!
-
What’s more revolutionary than a silent protagonist for the first game? How about a COMPLETELY SILENT SEQUEL?!?! LIKE, RIGHT????
-
15 party members, ranging from Army 1 party to Army 1 NPCs to newbies!
-
More skill options and more attributes!
NOTE: Contains mild language and mature themes such as innuendo, drug use, etc.; nothing TOO explicit.
10% of all sales go towards St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Read More: Best CRPG Character Customization Games.
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
EDIT June 20, 2016: The New Game+ DLC is here!
The DLC improves the game a fair bit in my opinion. I am a sucker for dating sims, as my library can attest. This one keeps it interesting by not letting you date everyone at once, and having the characters actually mention something about it. Unfortunately, no one appears to be polyamorous, but there’s definitely more than just heterosexuality, which I know a lot of people look for in a game. The quests here are still just as ridiculous, but I grew even more attached to characters, especially ones I didn’t know you could recruit in the base game! It’s zany, keeps the humour, and lets the player in on the inner thoughts of various characters. Also university is always a fun setting to play a game in.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
Read More: Best CRPG Time Management Games.
Review with accompanying screenshots and video at Sinical Network
I received this game for free as a curator connect offer for my group Visual novel, JRPG, Anime, and bought the DLCs with my own money. Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim is a supernatural parody visual novel with RPG elements by Stegalosaurus Game Development. It features a female or male protagonist by the name of Perry Hollycraft who is tasked to lead the Deep Ones (subterranean dwellers living in a remote volcanic island) to conquer the inhabitants of Innsmouth, a small coastal town in New England.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
RealityMinds
Story
The underlying story is pretty good, since it shows the pros and cons of being motivated or dismotivated. It also hits close to home with the concept of falling into a spiral of pessimism. The translation is readable and does a decent job of getting everyone’s characterization across, but it still has some errors and is rough compared to a lot of other translated games.
Gameplay
The combat features no item usage and instead relies entirely on skills to maintain HP, MP, and TP. It seems tricky at first, but not having to worry about stockpiling items does significantly remove a lot of anxiety that comes with exploring long dungeons.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Read More: Best CRPG Drama Games.
Shivering Hearts
🎤Introduction
Shivering Hearts is a story-based role-playing game that’s based around the choices you make and what you say to people. The story is short and sweet, with humorous dialogue, a simple story concept to keep you hooked till the end along with some interesting characters all with their own situations and backstories. The problems occur when you try to get the different endings, despite some dialogue being different when you say something different, it almost always felt like I’d get the same ending.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
The Green Green Grass of Home.
Too Long; Didn’t Read: Shivering Hearts has created a visually beautiful world, with charming characters who’s designs help make them distinct and distinguishable. Its humour is well written, if a little too intrusive sometimes, and the stories, history that make up the town are fun to discover and learn.
But the game’s stiff art style, combined with the rather robotic movements and animations of the townsfolk, make the town feel quite empty and lifeless despite the creators' best efforts.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
A Fishy RPG
I received this game as a curator from developers to try it out and give an honest opinion about it. Well, this game is boring and pointless. Maybe somebody is gonna like it, I don’t. Also, there is a bug in the game that does not let you quit the game, so I had to restart my computer in order to get rid of it. I uninstalled it, and yet Steam was showing that I’m inside the game, and counting hours played…. And the game itself is, you go around and catch fish. And even though people say that pixelated games are now in, I had my share of playing Commodore 64 in 1980’s, why in gods name would I want to play something as ugly as this game? Even the pixelated games can look good. (Dungeon of the endless for example). This game is plane ugly.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
A small retro style mid 80’s arcade game
The Developer has tried for an approachable classic look, and considering the requested price tag has definitely aimed for a niche market.
Calling the game an RPG is a bit of a stretch but one does have Character Skills to grow and choose between which do affect how your interaction with the world goes down. This primary interaction, is an arcade interface fishing action with the prime directive being to discover more interesting and valuable 8-bit fishies.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
I´ve seen this game come up along with some others when I was looking for certain tags.
I looked at it but was not sure if it´s going to be good or not by the pictures you get on the shop page.
However, it got recommended to me and so I finally decided to buy it.
Started it without neither knowing what type of game it is (expected it to be a visual novel) nor what´s going to await
me anyways…
However… starting to play I can say this game is hughe fun. You meet a lot of different characters / creatures.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Golden Fall 2
Fun game!
Plays a little like roguelikes with its simultaneous turns but has nice, handcrafted levels.
Positioning in combat is important as you usually have to use choke points or corners to avoid enemies overwhelming you.
You have rudimentary ways to build your character.
There are 3 different attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence) and 8 different spells
(4 combat and 4 magic ones).
Also weapons scale with certain attributes.
Sadly there is no explanation how the system works in-game but the developer explains it in the community hub.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
First impressions : Great game! Well done game - love that it makes you think! This is turn based - can upgrade your gear (the levels have same lovable vendors but with different goods). Currently, I’m in the catacombs and got ambushed by some skeletons. Fun and quite challenging!! Looking forward to playing this game more and will update the review as I do!
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Damned Daniel
Overview
Damned Daniel is a wonderfully hilarious and vulgar comedy RPG from the Red Mouse Studio. It follows an alchemist known as Daniel who is stuck trying to turn his failing business when he’s given a mysterious tome that promises success with enigmatic costs. It’s a turn-based RPG and while the game struggles with the turn-based combat, it succeeds with clever writing that takes the player on a funny and yet, disturbing journey to help Daniel achieve his dreams of success.
(+) Pros
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
This game is hands down awesome just to start off with. For fans of RPG games I highly recommenced this game to everyone I knew as it has a story that honestly with leave you on the floor laughing until you can’t breath. The combat is fun, Engaging, and is literally teaming with funny hind jokes that you have to understand to appreciate. The amount of time and detail, love and care, and overall dedication to those playing it is easy to see in the world you are playing in. The creator filled the world with characters and details that will make you want to play the game a second time just to relive it all. The game play is like most RPGs in terms of basics but takes it a step up with extra attributes and beautiful art style. Please if you have good humors and I love RPGs do yourself a favor and buy this game !
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Kin’s Chronicle
This game is well put together and the catch them aspect is rewarding and unique. The monsters you beat you have a chance to use as party members. The Dungeon crawler Rpg gameplay is on point and fun
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
I downloaded the demo and I liked it a lot, so I bought the game. When I installed and started the game over, I got a surprise. When I used the first key I obtained, a message popped up saying that I wanted to keep playing, I had the buy the game as this was the end of the demo. So, I liked it but I didn’t get to play it.
In response to the developer:
Hang on second. It wasn’t just a message. The game would not let me continue. You should tell everyone that if they play the demo, they will have to wait until you fix it before they can play the full game.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Old Gods
Old Gods is an RPG with battles, puzzles, a beautiful game world and many interesting characters.
Fight your way through caves with lava, old castles or dark forests. But you won’t get very far on your own - only in pairs can you manage to fulfill the task of the creator and thereby possibly get your life back.
Co-op Game
The game can only be played with 2 players. You can play as a couch co-op or via Steam Remote Play Together.
Story
You wake up in a place called nirvana. An old lady wants you to transfer your soul to a company so that you can then be assigned to heaven or hell. You slowly realize that you may have died. But this is only the beginning of your misfortune. The machine that should assign you goes crazy and the video call with the rulers of heaven and hell escalates. Your soul roll tears apart and everything trembles. Your eyes go black and two voices ring out in your head. The creators have a special task for you: bring down the gods! You wake up but you are no longer yourself… you are two people now….
Characters
Mimi
Mimi is a truly rare creature. She can easily shrink so small that she fits in your pocket. Mimi also has a truly unique accent that she adapted during her summer term at the duck school. Without Mimi, you would not get very far on your adventure.
Next Character coming soon…