Final Foe

Final Foe

Final Foe is an isometric fantasy arena that challenges you to slay waves of monsters in a mysterious dungeon. Single player and co-op modes. Modifiers and boss rounds. Survive and fight to the end, until the last enemy is killed!

Main Features

  • Atmospheric medieval location.

    The old cursed dungeon with several gates awaits you, from which numerous enemies arrive. You can also find dangerous traps that will come in handy to eliminate enemies

  • Non-target combat system.

    This system works for both players and enemies. This means that any enemy attack can be dodged.

  • Campaign mode.

    You need to destroy enemies round after round, including a short tutorial and several boss battles. As you progress, the difficulty increases. And at the end you will find the most powerful enemy - the final boss.

  • Survival mode.

    This mode is one endless battle, during which more and more strong enemies appear. The goal is to score as many points as possible for killing enemies. Especially sophisticated players can choose the Ultra-difficulty level. This will allow you to get 3 times more points, but will require dodging any damage, since the character will only have 1 health point.

  • Various enemies.

    Endless living dead, terrible knights, insidious magicians and many others, about whom you can find out when you meet. Different enemies have different characteristics. Some are weak and slow, some attack from a distance, and some can get so angry that it will be impossible to stop them…

  • Bosses.

    As you progress through the Campaign mode, you will encounter several bosses. Fighting some of them will require special skill from you.

  • Skill tree.

    The development of your character will take place by learning skills in the skill tree. At the moment, there are 3 intermediate and 4 advanced character classes available. Each of the advanced classes has unique active and passive abilities.

  • Cooperative multiplayer.

    It is much more fun to destroy crowds of enemies together with your friends. This feature allows you to play in a team of up to 4 people.


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Final Foe on Steam

Anima: Gate of Memories

Anima: Gate of Memories

Despite some bugs, none game breaking, and some occasional balance issues, this is a good game, with a very appealing artistic direction, great soundtrack, and a story which does not start very strong but builds up pretty finely over the course of the game.

The game isn’t all shiny though. The voice acting, overall, is quite weak, although some character do stand out of the bunch positively, and the gameplay can be a frustrating mess sometimes as you will be ganked a lot, and have to deal with quite a lot of projectile spamming.

Real player with 33.5 hrs in game


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ARCANE RAISE - CURATOR PAGE

Intro:

I’ll start by saying that I absolutely love this game, it’s a brilliant piece of true art. There are some glaring issues which could be attributed to having a small indie dev team, thus forgiveable. But those flaws could easily be forgotten as well because of the beautiful soundtrack, amazing level-design, very challenging gameplay and a deep story with multiple endings which all have different in-game paths.

Real player with 31.4 hrs in game

Anima: Gate of Memories on Steam

Death Cathedral

Death Cathedral

Death Cathedral is a very challenging action RPG with tons of strategy elements.

You’ll need to build a powerful army of the living dead with enemies' flesh and bones within 15 days to kill the devil lurking in the deep end of the cathedral.

The battles in Death Cathedral contain not only realistic sword fighting, but also dashing and gorgeous skills. Parry, dodge, or roll - cope with different attacks in various ways. Observe and master your skills during combats and keep confronting stronger opponents.

A wide collection of characters:

More than 40 playable characters, each with a large number of well-designed and extremely vigorous attack actions.

Decay system:

You are controlling corpses of flesh and bones sticked together with black magic. Every exploration increases the decay of the body. The dead warrior collapses when the decay reaches 100%. The increase in decay is irreversible and you can only reduce the increase by applying “preservatives”. Be aware of the team selection ahead of every run!

Roster building:

You’ll constantly lose your warriors due to the decay process. But on the other hand, you’ll be able to create new corpses with flesh and bones of the defeated enemies. This means that you won’t be able to lay back and win easily with the same team over and over again. In order to lead the team forward, you will have to adapt to changes and achieve dynamic balance.

Resource management:

There’re all kinds of resources to accquire in Death Cathedral, which are essential for exploration. However, you can’t always have it all. You need to understand what’s really urgent and make your choices accordingly.

Unforseeable adventure:

You will encounter not only enemies but also facilities to aid you, and make you pay at the same time. Be aware not to backfire yourself by interacting in wrong scenarios.

Countless equipments:

Equipments offer not only boost to attributes, they also grant powerful specialties to your warriors. To make full use of the specialties, your lineup, enemy’s attributes, the area and many factors are under consideration. Specialties may also affect the items and facilities you use.

Immersive atmosphere:

Six distinctive areas can be explored, offering a solemn and dark medieval fantasy landscape.


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Death Cathedral on Steam

Garden Story

Garden Story

Note: I received Garden Story as a birthday gift.

I am really enjoying my time with Garden Story- while it’s not a perfect game by any means, and could use a bit of polish in some minor areas, overall it’s charming, addictive and well made. I’m not done yet, but I’m looking forward to finishing the game- it’s basically a cross between a zelda game and a basic farming game. The game tends to lean much more heavily into the adventuring than the home-steading, so play with that in mind.

Things they did well;

Real player with 42.0 hrs in game

Garden Story is a pretty nice game; a relaxing Zelda-like I still enjoyed a fair amount, but it is not worth 20 dollars.

I believe that it is “an action adventure game in denial.” It sounds like it wants to be something a bit closer to Stardew Valley, but it definitely failed there. The gardening is a very basic and secondary aspect of the game. You prepare the spot, plant the crop, and go do other stuff while they grow over the course of a few in-game days. You don’t even need to water them. It is about typical Zelda-y things, adventuring and fighting, but it is trying to specifically not center too much around those aspects, and ends up hindering the only real content it has.

Real player with 33.2 hrs in game

Garden Story on Steam

Dreamland Prison

Dreamland Prison

Dreamland Prison is an action RPG slasher game with dynamic combat. You play as Ares the young man who get’s involved in demons game. Your main goal is to destroy Leviathan’s strongest servant Archdemon, only by doing it you can save hundreds of people in white sleep.

Story

A mysterious disease - white sleep takes place in the Arai city. People suffering from it fall into a deep coma and a mysterious birthmark appears on their hands. Several days after the first case of the disease, hundreds of sick people die simultaneously in one evening. After this event, more people get sick the very next day, including mother of our main character - Ares. During a visit to his mother in the hospital, Ares falls asleep. He awakens in front of a powerful being - Beliar. The demon explains to Ares that he became his player in the game against the second gamemaster Leviathan. To save his mother and hundreds of people in white sleep Ares must win the demonic game.

Combat

We chose a combat system in which all attacks are area of ​​effect, thanks to which we can simultaneously slaughter hordes of enemies. As you play you need to avoiding monsters area attacks as well. The fight will become more and more spectacular and interesting as our character grow. Stronger enemies will have more and more deadly skills.

Key features

  • Fictionalized quests and captivating story

    Play as Ares and sink in an immersive world full of dozens of different tasks.

  • Get into a conflict of interest

    Two demons are playing with your world - are you able to survive their demonic game?

  • Takeover the power of Ezares

    Explore a beautiful handcrafted world!

  • Deep character development

    Strengthen your character with attribute points, choose from a wide range of skills and face hordes of enemies.

  • Hundreds of items ready to be equipped

    Equip your character with legendary item sets and take on Leviathan’s most powerful creation.

Dreamland Prison on Steam

Dungeon Siege II

Dungeon Siege II

Dungeon Siege is a series of action-RPG, where every chapter feels very distinct from others. You can see the evolution, but there is so much diversity, that people who like DS1 may be strongly against DS2, DS2 fans might be opposing DS1 and DS3… At least, it is not that hot, as “apple vs. droid” holywar now.

Dungeon Siege II made much to expand all that was good in the DS I - the system of character development, an interesting setting of fallen and reshaping empires - just like from known history, only with magic, demons, and angels… To add pathos and glory, you know.

Real player with 161.1 hrs in game

Update 04-24-18:

Another special thanks goes to Killah not just for providing us the the expansions to DS2 & DS1 but also fixing the no mouse cursor issue in fullscreen and not being able to play the DS2 Broken World expansion in 1366x768. It is awesome to have someone work so hard to keep this legendary title running on newer systems.

I still own the physical Deluxe Edition of this DSI & DSII and was very excited to see them reach steam so that I can access and install it no matter where I might be in the world. I have probably put roughly 3k hours or more into this game alone.

Real player with 119.8 hrs in game

Dungeon Siege II on Steam

Dungeon Siege

Dungeon Siege

Dungeon Siege 1 is a very simple game in terms of gameplay. Meditative action without guts covering the whole battlegroud, plus some actions with your items, such as changing your equipement, reading a few books, and walking through the game in a rather thin corridor…

…would say someone and, despite that description works, that won’t be true in placing the accents.

Most noticeable part is the party work. Every character has only a little of story, but… you can play from a point of view from any of them, just as with your hero - you can even give a boot to your created character and beat the rest of the game just with your conpanions without hero! You can specify their roles, formations in groups, actions of each other like “to seek and destroy anyone” or “not to fight even when attacked”. It reveals you some interesting cases, nearly impossible in other games, such as “you are a healer, all others are stunned, so you run around, heal one, but get stunned instead, so he runs around instead, trying to rise someone else”… or “companions form a group around dragon by themselves, so you don’t need to correct their formation at all”. Yes, there were flaws, like, the big parties could not by themselves stand together on a lift, so you have to move some of them. But it’s still amazing how simple and at the same time workind that solution is, so you can imagine, how it was 17 years ago!

Real player with 100.4 hrs in game

[My steam total is much less than I’ve actually played since you can play offline without Steam connection. EDIT: Game is of quite sufficient length. Longest mazes I’ve ever played.]

Fun game from 2002. I started as a huge Diablo 2 fan. I’m catching up and enjoying the era of now-cheap RPG/action games before upgrading my system to run more modern games. Just so I don’t spend before I really need to. (currently a Radeon X-600) This includes the Dungeon Siege series + Fallout, Torment, Torchlight 1/2, Baldur’s Gate, Titan Quest, Morrowind, Oblivion …before hitting Skyrim, D3, etc. Bottom line: In many ways, this fits in the older era. – So, those are your ganeral Action/RPG + hack/slash comparisons.

Real player with 96.8 hrs in game

Dungeon Siege on Steam

Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan

Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan

For lack of a better words to describe what this is, this is a JRPG. It also draws on Shonen genre of manga. It has a structure similar to many of the older japanese RPG games. This is a very vague term to use though, because there are a diverse set of games under that category. Regardless, if you have played that sort of game the gameplay outside combat will be immediately familiar. It even has overworld bits where you walk a tiny sprite between towns.

Finally, I say it is Shonen because it is reminiscent of a certain kind of manga and anime for young males. You pretty much play African Goku. You do not pilot increasingly larger robots but you do sorta gain Stands. Whether that appeals to you or not is a matter of personal preference. If you like badarsery, this game has you covered. Very powerful people perform superhuman feats and have very flashy duels after frankly talking about why they have to fight. A young man discovers himself and his place in the world. Lessons are learned. It is that kind of tale.

Real player with 83.6 hrs in game

The story follows young prince Enzo Kori-Odan who is to become king of a peaceful little country Zama, although he is doubting his skills in the first place. On his coronation day he is also marrying his beloved Erine. Future looks bright and full of happiness, what could go wrong? Everything.

Zama finds itself under attack in an attempt of coup d’état and despite great effort from Enzo in defending his people he is defeated. Nama, teacher and master of Enzo, saves the newlywed young couple from the worst case scenario. The king and his queen, who stood by his side, are then exiled. Both of them are for the first time away from Zama and are confronted with harsh unforgiving reality. The difference between Zama and other countries surprised them. World and people around them are full of misery, cruelty, hate and so on. They have to become more powerful to be able to come back home victorious. Their travels across the land will test them, put them on the edge of their strength, to see if they can become the truthful King and Queen of Zama.

Real player with 36.1 hrs in game

Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan on Steam

ANCIENT SOULS

ANCIENT SOULS

It’s a Souls like runner game. You can explore the level, unlock new rooms. You will dodge the traps and fight against the different enemies. You will face Bosses in every level of the temple.

You will need to master the sword technique of Divine artifact “Tyrfing” and learn the way of Allfather. You have to improve your connection with the elements and upgrade your Holy amulet “Brísingamen” with the souls of the fallen . After that you can face Thor and you can release Fenrir from his chains.

You can play demo version of this on your phone for Free

ANCIENT SOULS on Steam

Crystarise

Crystarise

The player becomes a guardian god apprentice girl,

We aim to rise up a sky island while going back and forth between the extremely vast field that continues to be automatically generated and the island that serves as the base.

First, let’s get down to the field to collect resources.

In an isometric 2D world, monsters, items, dungeons … various things are reflected on one screen.

Combine shooting and slashing actions to defeat monsters and get resources.

Once you have the resources, produce a variety of things and customize the island to your liking.

Crystarise on Steam