The Unexpected Quest
Note well: this is not really a combat game. If you’re looking for hack-and-slash, try elsewhere. This is a puzzle/strategy game, with resource collecting an essential feature. Yes, you fight monsters, but it’s not complicated; it isn’t meant to be. It’s your strategic abilities that come into play here above all; analysing each level for priorities is important, and so is deciding how to use your resources.
That said, I really like the cute characters and their quest against oddly comic undead. I love the strategic gameplay–for everyone who said ‘this is too easy’, there’s someone like me who prefers it on a more laidback level than (e.g.) Dark Souls!
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
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Approximate amount of time to 100%: 6-10h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1, there is chapter selection
Has it been in a bundle: No
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
How many people have completed this game at the time I’m writing this review: 2 on Astats
– Real player with 9.9 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.
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Mythic Prelude - Concept Demo
Lucky me gets to write the first review for Mythic Prelude - Concept Demo. Despite being flagged and published on Steam as a full game instead of a demo (perhaps an error by the developer when publishing), this is definitely just a demo and not a complete game.
Mythic Prelude is a template flip from the godawful GameMaker Studio game construction kit. The developer took a template for a 2D top down Zelda style retro pixel brawler, filled out the detail, slapped a few asset flipped sprites and low effort retro pixel backgrounds on, and then dumped it on Steam. GameMaker Studio is a terrible quality “game” construction kit, so it’s no surprise that games “made” by copying + pasting templates from it are likewise terrible quality, and there’s no exception here. Game construction kits aren’t meant to make professional products, they’re meant to educate and teach people about some aspects of game making, and to make demos to pass around to friends.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Survival RPG: The Lost Treasure
This is a nice simplistic adventure and survival game. I enjoyed it very much. It is rough or simple, but I like it very much. Actually I have played the two sequels, too. I hope for more in the future!
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Quite good crafting adventure. Lots of crafting materials to gather and plenty of secrets to find. The game doesn’t look like much from the screenshots but it’s pretty good. Fighting mechanics could have been a bit better but it’s not bad. It is not a farming sim like stardew valley. It’s a crafting RPG. You pretty much get all the crafting materials instantly .. just lying around and respawning quickly. You kill enemies by swinging your sword. You can craft better weapons and armor as you get deeper into the game. Does not have hunger or similar mechanics for survival so the game allows you to take your time exploring. Looks like a mobile game ported to PC but keyboard or even controller should work ok with something like Joy2Key. Not bad for it’s price. I’m looking forward to the other games in this series that the developers have lined up for 2021.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Your Show Has Been Cancelled
This game just keeps going. At least as much content after “finishing” the game as before. Really well put together 3!
– Real player with 104.5 hrs in game
I was not expecting to wholeheartedly enjoy this game as much as I did. From the amazing soundtrack to the laugh-out-loud humor (not even joking) to the real sense of growth in power as you progress, this game will remain near the top of my list for indie games for years. Best of all, you can feel the passion from the creator with every line of dialogue.
If the price is a bit daunting for you, I’d definitely recommend it on sale.
Overall I’d give this game a 8.5/10 - a game I would highly recommend, and I hope to see more from this developer in the future.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Artificer: Science of Magic
Don’t be fooled by the superficial similarities to Don’t Starve, this isn’t an open-ended base-building survival-crafting game; it’s a narrative puzzle-adventure with a mixing of interesting and innovative survival-crafting mechanics.
On release, a number of the puzzles were quite obscure and didn’t have particularly apparent clues - since then the game has been patched a number of times and the progression is a lot clearer than it was, but if you’re expecting it NOT to be a puzzler, you’re probably going to get frustrated still. You’re also likely to be disappointed that the game kinda just stops once you’ve “unlocked everything”, because it’s telling a story rather than being an open-ended “see how long you can last” type of game.
– Real player with 27.9 hrs in game
The game starts out quite fun. The art style is ok and you’ll be discovering recipes working mini games to research monster parts after you’ve killed them. It’s interesting.
It plays similar to “Don’t Starve” without the hunger aspects.
But like the “Don’t Starve” series the developers want to you to enjoy discovering the game and avoid hand holding as much as possible.
…this is where the issues being to show up.
You WILL…run into some pretty solid brick walls in progression of the game.
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game
Barbarian
Barbarian is a low poly survival game, with a souls like combat system, where you can dodge, block, and parry attacks. This system is in place, to make combat more exciting and intense.
Parrying
In Barbarian, you’re able to gather materials, craft items, build homes, make farms, level your character up, have animal mounts, and explore the game in a free roam manner.
Barbarian will have 2 different game modes, normal, and hardcore. In both normal, and hardcore mode, your character progression will be saved. However, with hardcore, you will lose your character progression on death. This will be more for those hardcore gamers, who want to play a more difficult game.
Note
Barbarian is currently in it’s very early stages, screenshots shown are subject to be changed, and same with more information being added here in the future. For updates on the game, you can check out our YouTube channel for Dev logs.
Chronicles of Sarval: Bridges of Koni
The game positively surprised me, the best aspects are:
GAMEPLAY: very simple and intuitive
CHALLENGE: innovative and different because combine the 2D arcade adventure with a simple puzzle.
SOUND: very well crafted and takes the player into a complete immersion
PLOT: complete, makes the player curious to reach the end of the game.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Great game, it made me nostalgic with this game.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Ingredienta
Alchemy
Create potions using completly original, logic-based alchemy system. Mix ingredients to achieve (un)wanted reactions. Calculate required aligments and discover new magical effects. Follow recipes or find new ones. Transform elixirs into mixtures and draughts. Master the Art of Alchemy!
Adventure
After ages-long sleep, enter world of Ingredienta as next reincarnation of Great Alchemist. Explore randomly-generated fantasy lands to gather various ingredients. Overcome obstacles using your handcrafted potions. Fight with powerful foes and find hidden secrets. Experiment in in sand-box envoirament. Make wolves fly. Start your great adventure now!
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
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