Dungeon Lords Steam Edition
tl;dr - Dungeon Lords: Steam Edition is Dungeon Lords done Diablo 3 style. Fun enough to finish, but not what I wanted.
Based on my tastes, I should have gone with the Collector’s Edition of the game. If you’re more like me and like building the perfect character to face a challenge, or “roleplaying” a certain build even if it’s not the best solely for flavor and challenge - head to Amazon and buy a used copy of the Dungeon Lords CE. It’s not available digitally (believe me, I looked), and while I’ve never actually played it to confirm, I understand it’s much more “oldschool” in how it works. The CE doesn’t support widescreen resolutions, but then the Steam version doesn’t really support them either - any resolution over 1280x1024 makes the minimap “radar” style skill/spell worthless as it’s misrendered far off-target. A big bummer for a first-time player who doesn’t want to use a walkthrough.
– Real player with 71.3 hrs in game
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Dungeon Lords is a classic. I wasted countless hours as a kid playing Dungeon Lords CE and I’d do it again in another lifetime. It was a hell of a buggy and incomplete mess, yes, but it was extremely fun. However, this Steam version isn’t the same guy, not quite. In fact, I feel like this game got updated to be more streamlined, to appeal to more people and get more income out of this game, and it’s visible in several aspects.
First off, they changed the character creation screen and I think it looks worse. Less detail and information, and looks a lot more streamlined. I wouldn’t mind this if the original gave more info on the creation screen itself and if they didn’t make another mistake, that being changing how the skills and stats work. In the original, there wasn’t much to go off of because it wasn’t a thorough game and you mostly figured everything out for yourself, so stuff like speed and damage wasn’t explained further than “I kill X enemy in Y amount of time so that means I do Z amount of damage”. However, the original had you level up stats and skills via spending XP points, in that you could have 500K XP points at some point in the game, and a single skill point could cost 50K to level up. You had full autonomy over your own growth. In this update, some skills go up with use(defense skills don’t) and you can spend skills to partially level up skills(e.g. 1 skill point = 50% to next level), and you also get individual points for stats. This completely changes how growth works in the game as you only really need to use your points on SOME skills and you can upgrade the others via usage. The individual points for stats is a good idea but you get 3 per level and it seems like their effects have been drastically reduced for balancing reasons.
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game
Ascendum
Control both Holy and Shadow vessels at the same time using a controller or a keyboard and use their different interactions with golden objects to overcome challenges. However, don’t separate the twins too much! They are connected with the spiritual bond and one cannot go far away from the other. If you don’t want to play alone, bring a friend, and enjoy the game as a Co-op adventure.
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Solve mind-bending puzzles
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Defeat scary bosses and overcome difficult platforming sequences
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Master the control over 2 characters at the same time using a controller or a keyboard.
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If controlling 2 characters at the same time seems hard or confusing, bring a friend to help you and enjoy the game as a Co-op adventure, where teamwork becomes a key to success.
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Play Co-op with 2 controllers, in an old-school way, using one keyboard or Steam Remote Play Together feature.
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Help twin vessels solve and fight their way through 5 different zones.
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Hand-painted zones, from grassy and peaceful hills to the depths of the scary caverns and spiky hellish lands and even to the nearly destroyed landscape that defies laws of gravity.
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This adventure contains 60+ levels, with most of the levels containing multiple parts and puzzles.
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Enjoy the game’s amazing soundtrack, containing relaxing, haunting, scary, but also inspiring tracks.
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Collect over 20 collectible pieces and uncover the story of this strange world
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Magicka
Do you like magic? Do you like killing monsters? Then this is a game for you to play. I’ll try my best not to spoil any of the story, since the game’s highlight is the story. You have a choice of 8 different elements you can combine into a spell, including Magick, which I will get to. Many of these spells have different effects and can be used differently. If you become experienced, you can perform these spells without an issue. The 8 different elements are water, life, shield, fire, lightning, death, earth, and snow. Already you can imagine some of these elements have opposites and combine into different elements. You are exactly correct. For instance, water + snow = ice. Also an example of opposites are earth and lightning. Earth and lightning cancel each other out. You can use these different spells you come up with in many different ways. You can use it by just using left click, you can press shift + left click to apply it to your melee weapon (which I will explain later), and you can apply it to yourselves by middle clicking with the scroll on the mouse. You think that’s it in combat? NOPE. You start off with a staff and another weapon which you use by clicking shift + left click, that’s also how you use the spell you apply to it. You can find different kinds of staffs and other weapons (which most are melee) that have different effects. Then, there’s the Magicks. These books can be found in the different levels. There’s a certain amount in every level that does things that you cannot do with normal spells. I’ll leave it at that. The combat capabilities alone shows that this was well thought out.
– Real player with 132.5 hrs in game
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Magicka is a wonderful game full of challenge, joy and an interesting plot as well as lore for those willing to see through the light-hearted nature of the game. the mechanics are solid and fluent to move through to the point where movement within the game becomes so second nature to players so quickly that you’re playing fluently by the second level for myself and the majority of people I’ve played with.
Missions are thoroughly enjoyable with destructive magic and magical combinations which make you feel truly powerful and a good balance of characters with great connections between characters. all named characters vital to the plot are memorable for either their battles or personalities respectively. The game feels like it gives the player all the power from the start whilst maintaining a great learning and difficulty curve which allows for learning and enjoyment of game mechanics.
– Real player with 117.9 hrs in game
Dungeon Siege III
Dungeon Siege III is an action R.P.G. developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Square Enix. For centuries Legionnaires have protected the nation of Ehb until they were betrayed and all but driven to the brink of extinction. Years later, now that evil has returned to Ehb the people turn to the few remaining Legionnaires for the protection of the past. As an heir to the Legion will you accept this plea for help? Dungeon Siege III is the latest entry in the beloved long running classic roleplaying series from Square Enix. It is worth nothing though that this title is quite different from the previous games in the series.
– Real player with 67.5 hrs in game
Awwwh “Dungeon Siege III”… I can’t have a clear opinion about you. No, wait. I have…
First of all: Dungeon Siege I & (especially) Dungeon Siege II were one really big part of my gaming history while I was a kid, I loved them! So, I was really excited when I heard that a new “Dungeon Siege”-game will come out. But then I saw the negative reviews of how disappointed the people were… so I waited for a sale and grabbed it, with good conscience. The whole series only cost me 5 bucks - so I left out my daily dosis of coffee and pizza… nevermind.
– Real player with 44.3 hrs in game
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
This game fires on all cylinders. Combat is fun, Exploration is rewarding, Story is interesting, Humor is amusing. If you like rpgs and using your brain I can’t understand how you haven’t already played this game.
– Real player with 203.1 hrs in game
A really great game if you love RPG. It is really complex and challenging. It also provide you with flexibility to finish the game, be it flexibility to develop characters, freedom to completing quests and puzzles through various ways, and also variety of combos to kill your opponents in battles.
Storytelling is good. The best part is the quest design, especially the early main quest in Act 1. Several mid-end game side quest will be boring but the main quest overall is still fascinating. I also love the humor in the dialogues and character interactions.
– Real player with 171.1 hrs in game
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Ah, yes. Styx. You know, I’ve never actually finished the original. Got about halfway, then lost interest. So this game already did better in that regard, since I’ve not only gotten all achievements but actually enjoyed it enough to keep playing after. So what can you, a potential buyer expect?
Let’s get the obvious things out of the way first. It’s a stealth game. Not a stealth-action game like Dishonored. Pure stealth, which means that you’re not meant to fight fair. The combat system is very basic as a result, and on the highest two difficulties it’s outright disabled. If you get caught, you either flee or turn invisible.
– Real player with 106.3 hrs in game
After almost 75 hours of play, it’d be hard for me to say I didn’t get my money’s worth, but while I had a blast (most of the time) playing Styx: Shards of Darkness, I think it was frequently in spite of the game rather than because of it.
Shards of Darkness is a stealth-focused, third-person action game with some great, sprawling maps that often had many paths to your objectives. The main character, a chatty, 4th-wall-breaking goblin named Styx, has a ton of unlockable skills and tools up his sleeve that offer a lot of replayability, despite most of those maps being reused two or three times. The game is at its best when it drops you into a level with all your tricks and leaves you to yourself to find your way. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some hyper-annoying bugs and poor design that will account for the vast majority of your deaths and reloads.
– Real player with 77.7 hrs in game
Akita: King Pig Thinks Pink
Akita: King Pig Thinks Pink is a 2D adventure-platformer metroidvania with hand-drawn animations, for 1-2 player local co-op.
Explore a fantasy world full of secrets and enchanting creatures, fight monsters and solve puzzles. You will have the help of different allied characters with unique abilities, and you will also be able to equip yourself with items, powers and weapons.
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2D hand-drawn animation set in an enchanting fantasy universe.
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For 1 player or 2 player local co-op, you can enjoy it on your own or with the adventure partner you want.
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Metroidvania style exploration, while solving puzzles, discovering secret areas and objects, and facing multiple enemies.
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A story with surprises and touches of humor.
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Universal language, completely textless. The adventure is told through icons, vignettes and animations.
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Varied and charismatic enemies. You can find more than 50 different types of enemies.
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Skills System: based on allies with unique abilities.
Braveland Knights
Join the Heroes Guild and travel the path from a rookie to the hero of the kingdom. Head on a hunt for the vicious boss solo or with your friends. Your adventure will be randomly generated from hundreds of different events.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253610/Braveland_Knights/
Once you sign up a contract to catch the villain, you’ll head into an adventure. Each quest is created from hundreds of particular events, melding into a unique story. The Elves will reveal secret paths to you and the ordinary pub owner might very well turn out to be a werewolf.
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Become a knight
Energetic slasher in the best traditions of the old school.
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4 player co-op
Destroy villains solo or have up to 4 players on the same screen or online.
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An endless adventure
More than a hundred events will make each adventure one of a kind.
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Choose a fighting style
A heap of various weapons and equipment from ordinary axes to runic staffs made of dragon’s teeth.
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Rebuild the castle
Upgrade your guild castle to get bonuses before new adventure.
Conclave
I have played through it completely once so far with one friend. I played a Forgeborn Vanguard and my friend played a Lumyn Runecaster. Classic Tank and Mage combo. No issues with co op at all. No server sync issues or displaying incorrect data.
Very seemless with seeing your other party members moves reflected right away. I can play on my phone in a web browser easily.
Game is good at providing info for you. Like if I have the Burn condition I can click on the fire symbol and get details what that means mechanically.
– Real player with 213.5 hrs in game
This is alike your standard fare of table top d&d but on digital platform. You can play this solo or with up to 4 friends. There is a find friends / find group function in game that helps find groups within your level. I tried playing with a group off the bat and will recommend playing with one, it is very fun to play with others!
The story writing is good, the text is well written. The game structure consists of navigating a few pages of descriptive text, making a choice among various options (as a group if playing with others, you can see what choices the others pick and the choice with highest vote is taken as the group choice) which either leads further into the story quest or in a battle. Battles are standard d&d turn-based style, every player must finish making his choice before the round ends, but without the need for any order; for example player 1 can finish his choices first or player 2 can do so first, as long everyone makes their choice earlier or later, the current rounds end and the enemy AI makes theirs.
– Real player with 44.1 hrs in game
Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale
Finished it years ago and neglected to review it - like most games in my account. Not as bad as some say, in my opinion, but probably not the best either. Lower your expectations (if you ignored the negative ratings) and you might actually have som fun. Strange minor bugs once in awhile but nothing gamebreaking that I know of or experienced personally. No major technical issues either. I actually liked Daggerdale, despite its shortcomings, and I still do. My biggest complaint would be the fact that you cannot remap your keys without some tweaking in the ini or through the use of software such as autohotkey. Very annoying even though I got it to work in the end.
– Real player with 51.8 hrs in game
To start things off I will say that most of my hours playing this game was on the xbox 360.
And I have beaten it a few time on the 360.
STORY:The STORY is simple but not bad.
GAMEPLAY:The gameplay is a hack and slah type but has other types of sords and bows to chose from.
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:::NOTE If you are buying the game(PC version) for the brand and nothing els then dont bother because,there are a few hoops to jump through to get the game working right.
What do I mean?
The PC port is awful and shet and the devs have long forgotten about it BUT there is hope.
– Real player with 48.1 hrs in game