Demonheart: Hunters
If I loved the first one deeply, this sequel disapointed me so I cannot recommande it, even if I enjoyed so much the prequel.
The good things :
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We find back everyone, Ari, the Raze and Brash. I though we’ll meet Tunes another time as we see ihim n the trailer but he takes no part in the new senario.
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Nothing change for Bright, she can still be good or bad, defiant or kind and can flirt with the recurent characters from the prequel.
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All characters had kept their original personalities and way to speak, Ari is still a kind witch loving everything speaking about demon, Brash is still the cold obsessional knight deeply in love with you, Raze is still a childish demon looking for attention, but they also changed and it feels like they matured with past adventures.
– Real player with 58.8 hrs in game
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Initially, I wasn’t going to write a review for this game. I expected to play it, like it, and move on because I generally have a hard time explaning why I like things. But this is a very difficult case. Something I’m really struggling with after playing Hunters is this thought: was Demonheart actually bad all this time and I refused to notice because I… liked it?
After playing through this game 4 times going on 5th, I find that I have less and less good things to say about it. So let’s first get one thing out of the way. Do I recommend you buy and play Hunters? …Yes. Even yesser if you have played the prequel and liked it. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have fun on my first playthrough. I would be lying if I said I hated the addition of combat, exploration and flower gathering for ability upgrades on my first playthrough. No, I actually loved all of that. On my first playthrough. Which took me somewhere around 8-9 hours to complete with me taking my time, exploring everything, disarming each and every trap, picking every single flower I could find and killing all the mobs I could reach with my shiny poisoned daggers.
– Real player with 37.2 hrs in game
A Void Contract
The hell, the void, or the freedom.
A Void Contract is a story-driven rogue-lite RPG about an unfortunate warlock who ends up in hell. Wash sins by fighting hordes of fiends while a Void at the bottom of the demonic city will slowly drain your soul. Meet the consequences of damned artifacts' thoughtless use. Explore 3 circles of the ancient demonic city each with its own architecture and dangers. Forge new contracts with the devils. Some of them might want to kill you, some of them might like you. Use them to your advantage and get out from the hell!
… Or embrace a new shape granted to you by a demon realm and start a new life.
Core features:
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Dynamic battles
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Legions of demons to fight
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Enemy champions will hunt you
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Damned artifacts shape your appearance
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Skills choice freedom
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Randomly generated locations
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The immersive hand-drawn art style
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3 unique designed city parts
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Protagonist gender choice
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4 romanceable characters to meet
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Lust for Speed
It’s a Street Racing game with a Date sim elements.
Features:
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Customize your Ride!
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Take a part in Drag Races!
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Earn money to upgrade your Car!
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Earn Reputation to Date the Racer-Grils!
Please WISHLIST the GAME, if you Like it!
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Small Sister
Well worth the 43p The conversations are terrible, the activities are limited, but it is extremely funny and will easily keep you amused for several games. Don’t bother comparing it to the Sims, it is not at all intended to resemble it. It is just a simple EQ game where you survive by manipulating the other players. You should do a multiplayer version, you would make a fortune out of it, but in the meantime, that was extremely amusing and very good value.
Bit glitchy at times, but the computer handled it with a bit of patience.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
i wish there was a neutral option for reviews on steam, because i have a hard time recommending this. i bought this on sale for $0.49, and it was entertaining and worth what i paid, but i can’t say i’d pay full price for it. wait for it to go on sale.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Boyfriend Dungeon
5/10
I really want to highly recommend this game but the reasons I’m about to go into, I can’t. I would, however, say get this game if you like a short but pretty ok dungeoncrawler one shot.
TL:DR
Pros:
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Dungeoncrawling aspect done well
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Beautiful art, beautiful characters
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Diverse cast
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Interesting characters
Cons:
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Shallow glimpses into the characters and finishes right as you start to care
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No replay motivation (save for wanting to see dialogue)
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Only 1 female dating option
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
“We’re just too hot for this old rickety thing to handle."
Verona Beach – a chill place to spend the summer. Especially in a rent-free apartment previously occupied by your cousin. Kind of him to offer you the space, even if he’s one of the most obnoxious and interfering people you’ll ever meet. But hey, families – can’t pick ‘em.
But you can pick lovers, and that’s part of the reason you’re here. See, you’ve never had a date. Not even once. Your cousin, under some duress from your mother, has been assigned your wingman, but it won’t be long before you’re able to make connections at your own pace.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Tales of Aravorn: Seasons Of The Wolf
This game is an RPG and a Visual Novel .
Or call it a story-driven RPG - much the same thing, imo.
I believe people too often think about this as a sequel to Loren, the Amazon Princess. It is Not.
But it is similar in game play, in many ways.
ToA really deserves it’s own place in your game library.
What do you get if you choose to play ToA, Seasons of the Wolf ?
1. A nice fantasy story, with surprising twists and turns .At times disturbing.At times beautiful.
2. Turn-based tactical combat , easy to learn, fun to play, difficult at times, especially on hard - which is a must difficulty setting throughout the game, if you want all achievements . (But hard is not impossible - take it from me, I managed to do it, and I am a huge fan of normal in most games ). Go for “nightmare”, if you truly want a challenge.
– Real player with 259.2 hrs in game
This was a very good, fun game, but I’m going to approach the review assuming people have played its spiritual predecessor, Loren: The Amazon Princess, as there are some notable differences even though they take place in the same world.
The developer was upfront about making this a departure from Loren–less emphasis on romances (they’re still there, just not as many options for all the PCs) and more emphasis on tactical combat. And resource management, at least on Hard or (I can’t imagine) Nightmare difficulty. I played on Hard, which would not have been my 1st choice, but did it b/c, oddly enough, a great ### of the Achievements you only get by doing so.
– Real player with 108.3 hrs in game
Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
I am a huge fan of the Valthirian Arc flash games on Kongregate, and I will sink hours into them, creating stories for my students and being really eager to see how they grow and evolve- I truly love those games. So with flash no longer being supported after this year, I was thrilled to discover I could buy the next iteration on steam and show my support for the developer.
Coming in with this high expectation, I was deeply disappointed. Playing through the game, you can see the seeds of fantastic ideas- a Game of Thrones style division of kingdoms, diverse maps and styles of missions, unique student classes and trees. However, none of these ideas come to fruition, and are stunted by a number of bugs in the game itself. There’s no personality to the kingdoms until the ending cutscenes- and no bonuses or reason to ally with any of them other than using their missions for leveling your students. The maps become highly predictable and tedious, and the random generator was constantly giving me strength based students - and without individually clicking on each recruit, no way to scroll through recruit options- so my teams were terribly unbalanced. Which, I discovered, didn’t matter at all, so long as my students had high level weapons, which I could use to artificially boosts student stats in their weak area (You’re dex based? Take a dagger that adds 200 strength). At the same time, I had no idea of those stats affected them (why does a Knight or Scout need MP? Does Dex boost attack speed for all classes? Does strength boost my Mage’s attack power, or only their intelligence?). Moreover, besides their special ability, I don’t understand the differences (if any) between the top tiers of students- why would a paladin be more useful versus arc draconus of the same level? The difficulty systems means nothing after the first chapter, because one or two star missions can be just as difficult as four stars, which can also be pitifully easy. This is frustrating because when I (am FORCED to, as opposed to previous systems where you could stockpile Fame for the next requirement) graduate my high level students, it’s really hard to get my new apprentices up to a workable level when the only options for grinding exp is the two “training” missions that don’t award XP for completion (and you earn a pitiful amount for defeating every creature on the map). These are things I could learn to live with, even enjoy, but the game itself is terribly bugging. If my students level up on the mission, there’s a good chance they glitch and cannot attack or interact with items, although I can control and move them, which makes the game think I can still finish the quest when I can’t. Several times the game crashed when I loaded it and started specific missions. Many of the arrows that allow you to scroll through menus don’t actually work, and I have no way of scrolling through my buildings, rooms, or floors. The list goes on.
– Real player with 49.1 hrs in game
I backed this on Kickstarter and they delivered a decent product. It’s not a terrible game. It’s just middle of the road and you could probably be playing something better.
The game play loop has you level up heroes, make a skill choice or two, and then change to an advanced class and start leveling up again. Every “semester” you’re supposed to graduate at least 1 student in exchange for getting a ton of money and “fame” which allows you access to the advanced classes. As the game goes on, a character’s max level for different classes gets higher which gives them access to more abilities within that class. You’re encouraged to graduate characters at max level, so you need to be earning your graduates a lot more experience as the game goes on.
– Real player with 31.0 hrs in game
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