Secret of Sardinia
Secret of Sardinia is an open-world adventure game full of mystery and mythology. Swim, translate, explore, and discover!
Ancient Mythology
Locate magical bottles that contain the voices of departed souls. Collect stone fragments to rebuild the Tablets of Ages – ancient writings which tell the forgotten lore of Sardinia. Examine the Tablets’ cryptic markings and identify hieroglyphics to translate its legends.
Fish-Fantasy
Control Sam the Sardine using a carefully-crafted swimming mechanic that lets you move with 360 degrees of freedom. Test your skills with trials scattered throughout the ocean to attain union with the sea herself and unlock new abilities. Master these techniques to avoid the gaze of the unliving, lest you decay.
Open Seas
The Sacred Basin. The Giants’ Grave. The Cursed Cavern. The Undercurrent.
Swim through four connected realms to find the answers you seek – and then travel beyond. Unlock entrances to hidden caverns revealed by the Tablets of Ages.
Features
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Fluid and customizable swim controls
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Four haunting realms to explore
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Hand-drawn, fully translatable hieroglyphic language
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Hundreds of collectible bottles and fragments
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Original mythology communicated through immersive voice acting
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Beautiful, original soundtrack
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Love of Dragons
Cute visual novel. Though some of the back story is not… Anyway, decent read. There are choices, but they don’t seem to matter much. Might suggest getting on discount.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Legends of Crystal
“Long, long ago, life can be balanced because of the Crystal, a core of the universe, which holds massive power. This leads the Demons to fight over the Crystal for the sake to be the strongest in the whole world. The war made the Crystal shattered and flung to all over the ages and timeline. It caused the universe to be in chaos. By chance, the fate of the world has been placed in the hands of a young man. Join an exciting journey through the storied lands across the timeline dimension. Discover a living, breathing world rich with lore and history, for assigned the Nusantara Legendary figure with summoning a creature from the power of crystal and to help defeat the demons who desire to rule the world in the future."
Legends of Crystal combines the best parts of Japanese-style roleplaying games with the best parts of western RPGs, as well as including elements of visual novels and adventure games to create a truly unique experience. Atmosphere, emotion, and surprise lie at the forefront of Nusantara’s story, driven by deep and accessible characters, each with his or her own past, their own desires and their own motivations. Relive the golden age of the RPG with a game that both pays homage to the past greats, as well as blazing its own trail.
The game progresses through missions where the player gathers their characters around different timeline dimensions on maps to defeat opponents, collect the parts of the Crystal, rescue civilians, and complete many other interesting objectives. While fighting, characters can gain experience and level up, allowing the player to build their units over time and grant them interesting abilities with various characters include diverse role-playing classes.
Combat in Legends of Crystal is done in classic turn-based style, allowing you to read the flow of combat and think a few steps ahead. unique mechanics with brings a target skill to the summoner. If used during combat, the Summon acts on behalf of the summoner. The target becomes an ally, may become a target and may be damaged and/or killed. Strategy is crucial as carelessness is heavily punished even against the most common of enemies. Boss fights take this to another level, pushing your tactics, team composition, and character customization to the limit, each fight demanding deeper mastery of the battlefield than the last. Harder difficulty levels are also available, turning boss encounters into intricate deadly puzzles for you to solve.
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Immersive Realm: A world with a classic storyline that will play with advanced interactions, visual effects, and a variety of dungeons.
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Awaken The Summoning Power: Collect Summon creature from the power of crystal and awaken summoning skills with defeated boss and the hidden boss monster inside the adventure.
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Classic Old School Adventure: Your quest will be packed with adventures, puzzles, and secrets to discover.
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Discover Combination Skills in Combat: Recruit Characters from adventure to discover powerful combination abilities, each with their own effects.
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Strategic Planning: Configure your characters’ skills into a combo with some state effects that reaches their maximum potential inside the battles.
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Classic Turn-Based Gameplay: Classically inspired turn-based combat with random enemy encounters, made amusing
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All Playable Characters Follow the Typical “Job Class” Style: Customize heroes with unique stances and techniques
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Return to Nangrim
Return to Nangrim is a dark first-person fantasy adventure with survival and RPG elements embedded in an epic dwarven lore. Craft, explore, and survive an abandoned and hostile world. So, grab your axe and shield and go on an epic journey that will take you and your animal companion into the ominous depths of an ancient mountain.
Cold winds howl through the abandoned caverns of Nangrim. This forsaken place holds nothing good for those who dare to pass. Now you must survive down in the depths of this ancient dwarven mountain city, and discover the fate of the Stonebeards in their last days.
MAIN FEATURES
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Explore epic locations and unveil their secrets. Collect, combine and craft items, and interact with the environment to progress.
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Find and forge weapons to defend against the dangers that lurk in the dark. Not all creatures have left the mountain fortress.
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Become a master blacksmith. Learn to forge like the dwarves of old.
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Brew legendary beers and cook delicious dwarven dishes in the tavern.
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Your torch is essential: it is not only a flame to light your way but also your primary weapon of defense; keep it close when the darkness closes in.
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Hammer or axe? Both are unmerciful tools against the evil forces. Forge and upgrade them to unlock their full potential.
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Use Hilduir, the runic language of the dwarves, to piece together the story, puzzles, and culture of this long-forgotten nation.
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Procedural elements guarantee a different gaming experience for every player.
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Experience deep and extensive fantasy lore with tons of side contents, collectibles, and hidden items.
Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
~T.S. Eliot
I really wonder why they keep re-releasing this game… I mean, OK, PC port makes perfect sense. I’m all in for video game preservation and there’s no better way to save the certain title from being lost in history than releasing it for personal computers. Every single game should be playable on PCs. Just because PCs are the only platform that stays with us no matter what. But seriously, since the very first voiced (and censored) port of this game was released in 2006 (the initial uncensored Windows version came out in 2002), Utawarerumono was released for six different platforms. Six… different… platforms, Carl! It also got both manga and anime adaptations. So, here’s my question again – how in the freakin' world did this game get so much attention? And the answer is… I honestly don’t know.
– Real player with 80.1 hrs in game
TL;DR: Fun game, would recommend, I will get the sequels. Surprisingly fun game play and an enjoyable story, though not as great a story as the reviews I’ve read here make it out to be.
Long Version:
First, the story, since that is the meat of the game, and also what people rave about. The game is very much a visual novel with tactical combat elements included, rather than being the other way around. The story is engaging, there are enough hooks to keep you interested even during the slower areas, things hinting to the player that a larger game is afoot and your (forgotten) past is almost certainly important to these at first seemingly unrelated events. (The primary character has amnesia, partially for story, partially to let you ask world building questions that any normal in-universe person would know, but that we the player are obviously clueless about.) I will say that for the most part I really enjoyed the story, there were a surprising number of moments that really got to me, where I was right there with characters, feeling their moments of happiness or pain, victory or defeat, anger and sorrow. It is for these reasons and the general story arc itself, which kept my interest, that I will pick up and play the next two games in the near future.
– Real player with 55.0 hrs in game
Alder Forge
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An Adaptive Turn-Based RPG, and an easy-to-use Combat System.
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A Story-Driven Adventure through the eyes of the 5 Members of your Party.
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A Cast of Characters with their own stories and a unique world, handcrafted and built for your enjoyment.
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An easy-to-use Camp Menu and Crafting System with equipment, party, and skills management.
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Special Skills for each Player Class, unlocked either by solving mysteries, finding new Anima Stones, or just Leveling Up.
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Plant harvesting and Alchemy Craft made simple to help you easily acquire usability drinks during or out of battle.
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Fight, Explore and Walk the path of heroes in the world of the Alder Forge.
The Alder Forge story is set in the western part of the Ertheryan Continent, the game will take you during its 4 chapters to the Duchy of Elysia, the Kingdom of Royne, the Mighty Kingdom of Orvys, and the Atlas Court (The seat of your employer). In your adventures you are going to face a dark plot that will try to engulf the continent and break the two centuries lasting peace, meanwhile, you will discover that nothing is ever simpler than that while facing the complexity of human behavior and the lines that draw good and evil in each character you encounter throughout your journey, secret organizations, political entities, and other groups, each has their agendas and plots, meanwhile, the 5 protagonists will be in the center of those events.
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Adriel: Party Leader, known by his intelligence, pragmatism, and powers, Age:21
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Mirabelle: Anima Caster, funny with a massive appetite, but serious when things get heated, Age:13
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Cassandra: Heavy Arms, and the strongest defense of the team, Age:21
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Leo: Archer and a disciple of the legendary Dead Eye, fun and quick to spot threats, Age:22
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Fiona: An Elysian Knight, serious and unforgiving, she’s equal if not stronger than Adriel, Age:21
The Alder Forge environment was carefully designed to convey the world you will engage and invest your time in, but it is also full of enigma, hidden secrets, and backstories, each element placed, sculpted, and handcrafted is there for a reason, The Fate of Ertherya is now in Your Hands.
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
Siege of Avalon: Anthology
Really fun CRPG, as others have stated. Setting/Atmosphere is pretty on-point for representing a desperate band of defenders in an elongated siege, which only appears to be going further downhill. There are a lot of characters to speak with, most providing backstory or supplementary lore, with a few providing quests/offering to join your party after a certain point
IMO, you really have a good feel on your characters growth. Starting out as a complete amateur you have to take on what is essentially a suicide mission, which would have ended quickly had I not acquired the heal spell & prepared in advance, that sees your character fairly rapidly gain in proficiency in order to survive the coming perils. The AI companions have quirks (looking at you mage NPC that ran into a corner :P) but they do generally provide valuable assistance in engagements which would otherwise be extremely complicated, if not impossible
– Real player with 136.6 hrs in game
Imagine my emotion when i found this jewel in the Steam Store. Let me tell you it was a wonderful surprise. Even if the game has some issues about the combat pathfinding, let me remember to you all that this game has been released in the early 2000’s. I recomend this game to everyone who loves long epic adventures with a lot of interesting characters, and days and hours of fun. This game can be played with three different styles to choose, either you can be a warrior mastering the combat skills, or a scout and specialize in stealth and archer skills or a magician dominating all kind of spells. You will also find companions along the story that you can also equip and provide with items and armor and weapons and all sort of gadgets, they will be valuable partners in your adventure. Im very happy that i found this game again 20 years later after trying it’s demo version in the early 2000’s. I was starting to loose hope about finding it again. But now that i found it here, remastered and reforged i just cant’t stop playing it. it’s very similar to Diablo II, but let me tell you, this game is a masterpiece of is time, More dialogues, more stories, the characters and merchants you will find in this game are so numerous and complex, with stories to tell, gossips, and stuff. It’s very rich in every aspect. Please allow yourselves to play this game. It’s a rare wander.
– Real player with 61.3 hrs in game
The Dreamwalkers
The Dreamwalkers is a 2D Visual Novel/Point-and-Click Adventure Game in which you can project yourself into the world of Dreams.
You play Morgan, a student in History of the Arts in Paris, who’s life is about to be turned upside down. Along his journey he will meet new friends, whose fate will be into your hands.
Features
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5 acts of an hour each. Perfect for lunch break diversions!
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Highly replayable: the story is divided into 3 mutually exclusive branches, each focused on the relationship between Morgan and one of the Dreamwalkers.
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Romance: will Morgan fall in love with this Dreamwalker or just be friend? Your decision!
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8 different endings depending on choices you’ll have to own up (and no Mass Effect-style: some endings will depend on choices made earlier in the game)
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Explore Dreams: scenes in the world of dreams can be explored in point & click phases to discover more about the universe.
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Original Universe: inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception, we created a world where myths and reality intertwine.
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Backgrounds and characters drawn by talented artists.
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The original music is a symphony in 5 movements created by a composer and played by an orchestra!
An Odd Tale
This is the best game ever made.! ! ! ! ! ! ! !?! !? ! ! The bugs are perfectly okay the story is amazing and dialogue is great!!!!??@?! I think that the music in the game is the best ive ever heard anywhere .!!?@! ! trhe songwriter must be sexy and his brain must be so fulll of amazing stuff !!@!#$! aanyways play da game and buy the soundtrakc its really cool
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
It took me less than 5 minutes to fall out of the map, and establish myself as a world record speedrun any% fall out of the map world champion. I love this game, when is the sequel?
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game