Monsters Domain
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1505940/Orc_Warchief_Strategy_City_Builder/
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Your objective is to stop any visitors to your Monsters’ Domain. Start from simple monsters and skeletons and with time build up your defences. You can play any monster from your army and give them specific orders to follow. Every killed hero makes them stronger and gives you an opportunity to equip them better or develop new skills or monstrosities. You can reanimate fallen intruders or collect pieces of your slain warriors and research new ways to use it.
Develop your preferred Style. You can focus on specific Style or mix them together to create a unique army of loyal Monsters. Choose from Necromancy, Vivisection, Mutation, Runes, Elixirs, Talismans, Forge, Techie, Strategy, Roguery, Drilling or Sorcery and different schools of Dark Magic.
Grow your beasts and monsters, make them unique or identical with others to unlock specific skill trees, upgrades and abilities. Combine unique equipment and skills and create your Bosses or Swarms.
Styles are complex systems focused on specific areas but combined with others allow to create more powerful weapons and upgrades. The vivisected finger of the mage combined with some elixirs can be a very powerful upgrade for your simple skeleton. Reanimated corpse of a fallen hero with some fresh mutations and newly forged weapons can make a really nice new Boss for your realm.
Loot all you can as bodies decay and some treasures can be lost to nasty imps or other thieves. Store you treasures as a lure for visitors or forge them into powerful objects. Every piece matters. Study new materials and runes, develop schematics for your traps and devices, collect limbs, flesh and bones for your experiments and new creations.
Learn and experiment. The way your monsters kill new heroes can be entertaining but also eye opening. Develop your Strategy and new Roguery tricks. Teach your zombies to play dead (sic!) or Drill skeletons to fight in formation. Experiment in your Forge with loot and spells and combine them into unique crafting materials.
Do all you can to defend you Monsters’ Domain!
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Familia
This game is the beginning of a new epic, in the short 16 hours I have played it all I can think about is where this story could go, and where it will take me. Playing the base game was immersive and wholesome to say the least. From reuniting a family of strong warriors to fending off a tyrannical empire, it is a rollercoaster of emotions that leaves you wanting another ride time and time again. And thus, Plus Mode offers to suffice until the next leg of the journey is developed. With new loot, harder bosses, and a dense lore to dissect. I can not wait to begin another adventure with these lovable characters and delightful soundtracks.
– Real player with 51.9 hrs in game
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Excellent RPG with heavy influences from old school JRPGs such as Breath of Fire, Final Fantasy, Suikoden and more. It pays homage to the games that inspired it but never gets too heavy handed with the tropes. Pixel art is excellent and the world is beautiful and alive. The combat system is standard RPG fare and is smooth and accessible to the player.
Only issues would be to make sure you have an SSD because I suffered major framerate drops because of my HDD loading speeds. However, this did not impact my review of the game. It was still playable.
– Real player with 38.0 hrs in game
Hiragana Katakana Ninja
Description
This game complements your Japanese language studies by offering a fun way to fixate the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries.
You play as a Ninja and your mission is to strike the opposing Ninja carrying the correct banner. Can you master all three paths ? Once you lock in your answer, don’t forget to use your Ninja invisibility to avoid striking the wrong Ninja!
Includes
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Three game modes: Hiragana, Katakana and Hiragana & Katakana
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Ninja Invisibility
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Over 200 syllables for you to master
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A streak of 10 correct answers will earn you another life
Reinvigorate your Japanese learning today and become the true Hiragana Katakana Ninja!
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Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
I don’t recommend this game.
I actually pre-ordered this, as I’m a huge fan of the old Xuan Yuan Jian Series; I enjoyed Gates of Firmament even though the combat was very bad, the story made up for it. I played this game in Chinese (audio/subtitles, which don’t have a text skip option so you have to wait for audio tracks to finish playing or skip the entire cutscene).
In-Depth Explanation:
XYS series has always been well-respected for it’s plot development, the gameplay has been on and off (with the migration to 3D gameplay basically killing all elements of FUN because this studio seems to not really have the skill to manage 3D development). So let’s start with the plot, your character starts off as a caretaker of his sister, the advancement of the story is closely linked to this situation, thus the entire game can be summed up as “hero tries to save the sister”. This is the entire plot of the game. There is no over-arching goal to defeat evil, save the world, learn about other cultures, visit other countries (which was common in other XYS games), this game is just “save the sister”. This plot is delivered through a strict on-rails story advancement.
– Real player with 48.9 hrs in game
The franchise of Xuan Yuan Sword has a long history, its ever-lasting life could go back to 90s, if Final Fantasy is well known from Japan, then Xuan Yuan Sword is that well known from China. It’s its 30 years anniversary now, with Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy franchise also from Domo studio, the shiny two famous titles were widely recognized within the RPG genre in Chinese gaming community. As folks say, “the Two Great blades are the guardians of Domo.”
XYS VII is the 13th instrument of Xuan Yuan Sword games. It also brings some big changes along its release, e.g the first time in the entire franchise being an ARPG game with open world(previous titles are turn-based on). Although there are 12 titles before this one, you don’t need to play its ancestors to understand the story. Though all Xuan Yuan Sword games are based on Chinese dynasties history and mythology, but each one’s story happens in a different time, there aren’t any close connections between each other, only sharing the same universe as a whole.
– Real player with 42.3 hrs in game
Setting Sun
Setting Sun is an Co-op Rogue-lite Dungeon Crawler.
It’s set in a universe during the Japanese Edo period where Yokai roam the world freely.
The land is in turmoil because the Shogun rules with an iron fist.
A couple of wanderers answer the call to help mankind and fight the source of the corruption together.
THE SHOGUN’S DOMAIN
Traverse through a randomly generated room-based dungeon covering multiple zones on your way to the castle.
Several different types of rooms can be discovered on your way to the boss like enemy rooms, healing rooms, gamble rooms,…
THE SHINTO PANTHEON WATCHES OVER YOU
You have a chance to discover Dragon Shrines in the dungeon which will allow you to alter your abilities for that dungeon run.
So each time you start a new dungeon run you can try out a different build.
REBUILD THE VILLAGE
Aside from the dungeon the game also contains a village.
The village is like a sanctuary for the player where he can roam around before and after dungeon runs, talk to NPCs, buy upgrades, craft gear and more!
When you first start the game, the town is pretty abandoned.
But along your travels in the dungeon, you have a chance to find new characters to recruit to your town which unlocks new features.
For example finding Masamune on your travels will unlock the blacksmith in town and will allow you to craft new gear with better stats.
THE WANDERER
Multiple classes are planned but the first playable class in Setting Sun is the Ronin.
A Ronin was a Samurai without a master. An expert in the art of sword fighting but one who chose not to honor the code of the Warrior and thus considered “on his own” or a vagrant.
MAIN FEATURES
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Slice your way through a procedurally generated dungeon
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Master a skill-based fighting system
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Learn the ways of the Ronin class (and several other classes planned)
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Fight the Shogun’s army, thiefs, Yakuza and even Yokai
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Try out different builds each run by discovering new blessings
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Play the game solo or couch co-op
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Recruit new allies and bring life back to the village
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Unlock new buildings and features in town
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Find new patterns to craft different gear sets or cook new Sushi dishes
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Enjoy a unique trapanese soundtrack
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Take a relaxing bath in the hot springs
If you like what you see, remember to
Trial of Two
Play squash with your fists to destroy your foes!
Trial of Two is a local co-op beat ‘em up game with powerful, physics-based martial-arts combat. Its setting is a procedurally generated dungeon also known as The Dojo. It’s a place that has been built to find the strongest, fastest and most disciplined fighters in the world. But most importantly, it has been built to forge the strongest bond of trust and power between any two friends who dare to enter The Dojo together.
Features
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A couch co-op experience for 2 friends kicking asses
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An ever-changing dungeon and permadeath for a new challenge every run
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Intelligent fighting A.I. that will crush your spirits
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Most accurate martial arts-based squash simulator on the market
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Cute voxel art
In the Demo
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Co-op campaign in the first biome of the Dojo
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Versus mode for 2-4 players
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6 different moves to mix-and-match your individual fighting style
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4 different enchantments to enhance your moves
In the full game
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3 more biomes to master in the co-op campaign
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More rooms, more moves, more enchantments
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The true ending for those with an iron will