Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
At the time of writing this I am at 353 hours played. My first play through of this game was clocked in around ~130 hours. This is with out doubt, one of the best video games I have ever played and for at least one of the characters had me experience one of my most cathartic moments in gaming.
Story: Takes place ~1,000 years after the first Divinity Original Sin game. I didn’t play the first and you don’t really need to to enjoy this game. You’ll pick up on some story things here and there if you read about it. You’re a Source (powerful magic) user and using source draws in the void (bad things) so you are sent to an island to ultimately die off. Story follows you through different areas in the game with different factions fighting that you can side with. Picking your character from a prebuilt gets you added story (one of the 6 listed below).
– Real player with 356.2 hrs in game
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- View on Price -
☐ It’s free!
☐ It’s freem̲i̲u̲m̲
☑ Worth full price
☐ Grab on a sale
☐ Overpriced
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☑ This is literally one of the most played games
☐ The game is quite approachable for a wide audience
☐ Some will love it, some not so much
☐ This game is more for a niche audience really
☐ I’d love to meet all 15 of you who play this game
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☑ Game is released and polished
☐ Game is… well, it’s released
– Real player with 286.1 hrs in game
Tenderfoot Tactics
Tenderfoot Tactics is an open world turn-based tactics game where you play as a band of goblins exploring a vast archipelago, getting into cool fights and pushing back a malevolent force known as ‘the fog’.
The fights are cool because they’re all about manipulating and dramatically transforming the battlefield. You can smash craters and crack ravines into the earth, fill them with water then electrocute, boil, or even ice the water over to cross it. You can grow movement-hindering (or enhancing!) brush then set it alight to toast your foes (or your tender toes). You can even infect enemies with a fecund poison that, on death, spawns a ‘bog body’.
– Real player with 79.6 hrs in game
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TL;DR: great combat and character advancement, ‘meh’ everything else. The combat and advancement carry the game and justify its modest price tag, but if that isn’t enough for you look elsewhere. A gem if you like small-scale tactical combat. Bonus: plays perfectly in Linux via Steam Play.
At its heart this is a classic turn-based, grid-based tactical roleplaying game. Combat and character development mechanics are reminiscent of Final Tantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in all the best ways, though less ambitious (as befits a much smaller game).
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game
Age of Fear 4: The Iron Killer
As with the other Age of Fear games:
Great Story
Great/Challenging Gameplay
Unique Characters
Perfect Music
It also now has many performance bug fixes so everything is extra smooth.
If you like strategy, this is a must buy.
– Real player with 70.5 hrs in game
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In my opinion weakest title in the series for two reason:
Just one campaign, so it’s quite a bit shorter than the others
The new faction doesn’t really feel at all central to the story. Sure you field naga units but the story is entirely centered around humans with the faction just being randomly attached. It could just as well be orcs or possums and nothing would change.
Still the game is good enough to give it a thumbs up. If you are looking to enter the series for a first time I’d start with the others.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
Aurora - Hidden Colors
Great little RPG, fun story, good graphics worth a sit down and play all the way through once it is finished and has more then one chapter. everyone needs to play this little gem. The only thing i came across was setting it to English had unfinished translations witch is ok for an unfinished game.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Dragon Throne Battle of Red Cliffs
The game follows a civil war fought in medieval China. The three campaigns allow you to assume the roles of one of three warlords, and your commanders gain experience and acquire new powers and extra health as the story goes on.
Before the carnage is unleashed, though, the familiar rigmarole of setting up an economy awaits. Chop down trees, harvest grain, mine stone, breed the horses.
You must recruit peasants to build a base of operations, then create an army to crush your enemies.
Dungeon Scavenger
RECOMMENDED : Ratings 8/10 (Very Enjoyable, Great price to enjoyment ratio).
Dungeon Scavenger was a really fun and enjoyable Rogue-like dungeon crawler that I enjoy very much.
This game provides an interesting twists the the regular rogue-like dungeon crawler, using many different game mechanics. There is also great replayability because the user can chose to play one of 8 interesting classes, which are extremely different in all aspect. There are also 4 different difficulty mode and the “Impossible” difficulty is as the name suggest : it’s impossible to play it directly. The challenge is to support your character in the impossible mode with money and other resources from your other character. I spend many hours farming “skill point potions” using my other characters and then sending them over to the character in impossible mode.
– Real player with 99.2 hrs in game
TL;DR: Simple and relaxing dungeon crawler that can see you putting in dozens of hours on a single class run, let alone twelve of them.
Dungeon Scavenger is one of those gems of a game that fully embodies the old adage of ‘less is more’. Although the forward face of the game makes it seem like an outdated slog, in practice it proves to be a highly enjoyable experience.
Gameplay consists of moving a highlighted square across a randomized grid layout with encounters that differ every time you rest and/or reset the dungeon through events; whereas combat is simply pressing buttons with the goal of maximizing damage output and minimizing damage taken through the use of class-specific spells and enhancements to increase your strength or hinder that of your enemy.
– Real player with 68.1 hrs in game
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
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
FPS Tactics
Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this game exists
do not buy!!!
its so laggy stuff load as you walk up to it, there no instructions,
thing MOOOOS like a minecraft cow,
looks like a fps but not really you cannot shoot it dead, only can have one gun at a time cannot find ammo after you run out your out, even after you respond no new ammo,
you have to place the 4 agents so that they can defeat the monster you cannot,
and after that the game is over,
These are all the assets you could get from HB Unity 2 bundle,
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Bruh
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Hexmet World
In Hexmet World you can create your own unique world.
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Open world!
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Hexagonal grid allows you to create a unique biome!
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Various building options allow you to create a unique civilization!
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Improved system of any strategy!
The large number of resources gives the feeling of complete control over the gameplay.
You are expected by:
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Metals
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Minerals
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Wood
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Electricity
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Food
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Army
… And much more!
Play it your way! A unique system for the creation of your own civilization. Defend your world from opponents, attack foreign lands!
Build your army in space and enjoy the atmosphere of an endless universe.
Every step moves you to victory!
Monster Tribe
Monster Tribe fuses strategy combat with rpg systems, item collection and dungeons filled with puzzles to pull the player into its world. But ultimately, this is a game all about exploration. The island of Akama is vast and wild, reclaimed by nature over many years. There are mountains, beaches, forests and mines, along with some scenery much less familiar. Remnants of vast ruins can be seen all throughout the land. In order to explore these strange - and sometimes dangerous - lands, you will need the help of the Ateyan. By binding your spirit to these creatures, you will be able to uncover the many secrets Akama has to offer. You will use the Ateyan to battle your way through the wilderness, and along the way there will be many unique resources to collect. Your tools will help you scavenge for rare ores and logs, and forage for food in the trees and beneath the waves. Resources will be a huge aid to both you and the Ateyan that choose to follow you, allowing you to unlock special fusion forms and power up your party. Once you feel ready, the player can take their team of Ateyan to one of the many Towers present throughout the island, to try to tackle the strange and mysterious dungeons and puzzles that await them there. Beyond these epic challenges lie answers to the mysteries of the past, and possibly a way forward for the people of the present.
In a vast ocean landscape, a lone island sits. This island is called Akama by its people, and it is a very special place. It is the home of not only its native people, but also strange creatures called Ateyan. The Ateyan appeared on this island through a magical Rift, and continuously draw energy from it. Using this magical spirit energy, the Ateyan have manifested wonderful powers of all kinds.
The player will embark into the land of Akama and relearn the secrets of the past. Along the way, you will use the unique powers of the Ateyan to restore a balance that had been tipped a long time ago, and reveal truths about the island, the creatures, and the people who inhabited it long ago. There is much more to the history of this land than the stories that have been passed down. Will you journey to the heart of this world to see them for yourself?
Battling is a key aspect to Monster Tribe, and so we put the utmost care into making sure we got it right. Battles are fought with teams of Ateyan on a small grid battlefield, with each team occupying their own side of the field. There are many complex elements to the way these battles play out, but we have done everything we can to make sure that they are not only deep, but accessible and fun to play through. Below we will detail many of the nuances of the battle system for those hoping to dig their teeth into the meat of the game.
Akama contains many biomes filled with spaces for all kinds of different creatures to fill unique niches in its ecosystem. But, it seems that besides fish and a few birds, no animals live on the island. Instead, small balls of light roam around the wilderness, barely even visible to some - and not at all to others. They are called Ateyan, and according to history they are much more than they appear to be. In the ancient past the Ateyan appeared, through what is only referred to as The Rift, and they exploded in population and diversity all through the island. For many generations they lived alongside the people of the island, and there are descriptions of all kinds of magical, powerful creatures capable of incredible feats. But it seems somewhere along the line the Ateyan and the humans drifted. The Ateyan remained on the island, but only their spiritual essence could be seen; those same strange balls of light. The rest of their existence fell into a space between this world and the world of the Rift, and there the Ateyan could continue their lives without the disturbance of humanity. It is in this form that they stayed. Now, even their very existence as anything more alive than the rocks and rivers - has come into question. As the player will discover upon beginning their journey, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Monsters to find and train
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Puzzle filled Dungeons
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RPG levelling and resource management
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Quests
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Hand-crafted world
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2 player local vs. mode
