World Seed
NOTE: YOU CAN PLAY THIS FOR FREE @ https://worldseed.eu/
But I highly encourage purchasing on steam to support the developer.
This is probably the highest potential game I have seen in a while. The foundation is excellent and the developer consistently takes suggestions and feedback from the community. I highly suggest joining the Discord – https://discord.gg/7DMU3Qc
Pros
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Active developer
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Active discord and helpful community
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Build variety
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Build balance
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Appropriate risk vs. reward
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Simple yet meaningful progression
– Real player with 255.2 hrs in game
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Before reading this, do understand that its being developed by 1 single person and that this game is available for free outside steam, buying it here is simply supporting the dev and unlocking access to it through steam.
The game is a very charming timesink, it looks rather simpistic/minimalistic yet offers a good amount of depth and complexity.
The developer is extremely active as of writing this review, you can easily get a hold of him directly to ask for help or give suggestions in discord and he’ll give you time to actually listen and respond.
– Real player with 125.1 hrs in game
Desktop Dungeons
TL;DR Not a hack-and-slash
Quick and surprisingly addictive dungeon-crawler with lots of mazes, simple rules, high strategy and low luck – you only die when you’ve made a blunder, or backed yourself into a corner by poor planning.
This may seem like a simple hack-and-slash, but it’s not. There’s almost no luck and a surprising amount of planning involved. Each dungeon is like a puzzle, and might take 15-45 minutes to complete. You start each dungeon as a lowly level 1 character. Kill the monsters in a certain order and gain the power-ups at the right times and you will be able to defeat the boss-monster and thus “win” each dungeon. if you randomly charge in like a hack-and-slash game, you won’t maximize your powerups and you won’t have enough health to tackle the tougher monsters. Same if you spend the power-ups too soon. If you don’t defeat the tougher monsters, you don’t gain the experience-point bonuses to increase your abilities enough to tackle the boss-monster. As you complete dungeons, you can unlock other character classes (again, you start each dungeon back as level 1 and the layout of each dungeon is randomly generated each time).
– Real player with 435.9 hrs in game
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I was wary of this. I played a ton of alpha, even after I had unlocked everything and finished all the levels. It was a lot of fun, and I appreciated the minimalism of the game. I paid for the advance copy something like three years ago, played the game, then stopped and sort of put it behind me for a while.
Then, just a couple weeks ago, I saw that it was released on steam. While I thought about looking up my copy of it, minutes later I received a message saying because I paid in advance I got a steam key!
– Real player with 136.9 hrs in game
Dragon Fin Soup
DRAGON FIN SOUP
“A world of murders” - (2015)
Review is based on the Story Mode.
Game type: Tactical RPG with some roguelike elements (if you play in Hard Mode).
Newbies may consider the game as a hack’n’slash turn based. (trust me: don’t do this mistake, you will be frustated).
1st :issue which could potentialy ruin your experience
I absolutly discourage to play in hard mode (ie : you die once & it’s over) : If the game crashes (and it could) , savegame is potentialy corrupted and you will encounter crashes over crashes at random interval . As a result the game become unplayable (the game saves your progress NOT separatly, so you coudn’t choose a prior save point : that’s pretty stupid). Ohter reason the game is challenging.
– Real player with 243.4 hrs in game
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To sum up: It looks good but feels wrong. It feels like a casual game and a bad port and something that could be fun.
I hope the devs polish this a lot. The PC release needs to play well on a PC.
Let’s start with some basic things, controls. Though the devs have stated that the pc is their primary platform, they don’t play by longstanding pc conventions. What do you expect ‘esc’ to do in a game for pc? Nothing? Oh, wait, it exits menus, but does not bring up an options menu with load and save and most importantly - quit?! How about “alt-tab'? In full screen, nothing, nada, zilch. That’s not right. In a roguelike, dungeon crawler, rpg, etc, pushing the “i” key should bring you to your inventory. And it should be customisable. These are only a few of the issues. All in all it feels like a bad port made primarily for gamepads or touchscreens. I play with mouse and keyboard and have the option of a touchscreen. Touchscreen is too tedious and not precise enough for the action. Mouse and keyboard are awkward. Moving by mouse click will have you fined your hard earned gold when you accidentally cut down city trees (Protip: some things are worth smashing in town once you have some money to pay for it). Moving by WASD and QEZC for diagonals is much better, with enter for attacking the selected target, though that requires the occasional mouse use to point your character in the right direction. For a game that require precision to survive, the controls don’t always allow it. Then there’s the camera…
– Real player with 30.2 hrs in game
Dungeon Throne
TL;DR This game is a mix of Noita and Rogue Legacy, very fun if you’re on a budget :)
I feel like I got off on the wrong foot with this game. Originally, the game didn’t work at all for me which led me to leaving a negative review (Initial Review can be found below) and also refunding the game. The developer then got back to me within a few hours of my review telling me that he had updated the game.
All excited I decided to purchase the game again and give it a second try. All the issues I had previously mentioned, were gone. I played a couple of games and had a lot of fun. The enemies were neat, the room layouts looked fairly unique and the particle effects were really good. I played a total of 5 runs (Including the tutorial).
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
I played it for a little while and I can say its vey fun to play, I honestly like it.
It gets a bit lagy from time to time, but its a first realese so it’s not a problem.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Godstone
Godstone is a 2D roguelike dungeoncrawler, where you take the role of 5 different sorcerers, delving into the Ruins of Virithian to uncover the ancient Godstone. An intrument said to hold immense dark power.
But time is short, as a religious circle known as the Siratic Order hunts the Godstone as well, plotting to use it to end all sorcerers. Time is short, and you must fight your way through the ancient halls to get to the Godstone before the Order, or you and all your kind will be lost.
GAMEPLAY
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Explore Virithian: find secret rooms and hidden doors, leading to anything from spells to items to power-ups. Exploration is greatly rewarded.
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Forge synergies: Synergy is the backbone to power in Godstone. Unleash devastating effects upon your foes through combos with spells, enhanced by items and skills.
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Fight massive bosses: Test yourself in the battle against massive bosses larger than the room itself. With a final boss at each area including multiple minibosses, there is plenty of epic battles awaiting within the wailing ruins.
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Grow stronger each death: Upon death, you start from the beginning. However, whenever you die you gain points to spend in the Bloodtree based on how well you performed. With it, you can forge your own strategies, growing stronger each death.
Knight VS Giant : The Broken Excalibur
Camelot was destroyed, by the Giants. You, an unknown knight, just revived by Merlin, The Wizard. Merlin gives you an important task: Restore the Kingdom of Camelot and defeat the Giants. The only weapon you have, a broken Excalibur.
Knight vs Giant is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that combine Kingdom Restoration with Procedural Dungeon.
#### KINGDOM RESTORATION
While exploring the dungeon, always look out for others in need. They will help you rebuild the kingdom, or even better, help you power up. Some of them may have a special quest for you and offer handsome rewards in return
#### KNIGHT OF THE ROUND
Yes, you hear that correctly. Your Excalibur may be broken, Knight of the Round may be all dead, but not their power. Borrow their power, and store them in your Excalibur.
#### POWER SYNERGY
Choose the right blessing for your sword, some of them will have a synergy activated, and give you extra power for your adventure
#### ENEMY LEVELING
Your enemy also leveling up to match your skill. So, say no more to boring hack and slash games.
#### REALLY BIG BOSSES
Have you been bored fighting normal size enemies? Don’t fret, the big bosses here is so massive that they can break you with only a few punch.
Knight vs Giant is developed by Gambir Studio. We plan to release it in 2022 for PC and Mac, and hopefully on another platform as well.
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Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Update 8/26/2021: The game has reached version 1.0, and it’s still not fun.
Overall performance and stability have improved somewhat. There tends to be less lag when moving around, and autoexplore is quite fast. On the other hand, inventory performance has gotten worse. Opening the inventory screen can take a few seconds and switching equipment a second.
With the introduction of continuous buff spells, this is possibly the easiest version yet. Most buff spells now last forever at the cost of reducing maximum PP by a percentage. For casters this doesn’t matter too much since PP growth seems to have gone through the roof. For non-casters this doesn’t matter too much since they are killing things without spells.
– Real player with 92.1 hrs in game
Update: 04/23/21
Updated the Video showing off the current state of the game, as of Version 0.8.0.
Updated Gameplay! In-Progress Let’s Play video here: https://youtu.be/VRrMxf8hV-0
I record my playthroughs with Ultimate ADOM if you prefer a more visual format; take a look if you like.
I like Ultimate ADOM. I liked it during the Alpha, and I like it even more now. Much progress has been made, as more and more options are opening up, options like Limb Grafting! I shall be a Grafting God!
– Real player with 48.2 hrs in game
Karvan
A gigantic tree grew a few years ago, many are exploring it and exploiting the incredible resources that grow there, be the first to send a caravan all the way up, or die trying.
To do so, send a caravan with some troops to escort it and start ascending.
You travel the day and the night the resources appear. But the night, enemies will also attack you. And there are mercyless
Prepare your troops, place some defenses and when the fight start make your choice: protect your wagons or take risk and collect more resources.
If you survive long enough, you’ll reach a town. Yes you’re still in a tree and yes it’s big enough to fit a town, 7 towns to be precise.
In this towns you also need to do choices, continue and take more risk and resources or climb down and save your resources to build a camp that grants permanent bonus and try a new ascent with better stuff.
Karvan is a tactical roguelite game. The path to reach the top is generate procedurally as well as the hexagonal maps where you’ll fight every night for your life and for the glory.
Build your Camp
With the resources you collect in the tree you can upgrade your miserable camp into something more awesome and useful.
To reach the top, upgrading is mandatory. The upgrade are various and each one is represented by a new building, you’ll see your camp grow, from a little tent to a gorgeous castle.
Prepare the Ascent
At the start of each ascent, you’ll choose which wagons and weapons to take.
With the right upgrade in the camp you’ll access to better wagons, more troops and better weapons.
Prepare the Fight
After the travel during the day you’ll have to install your defense and place your troops. You’ll discovers the map as there are generate procedurally. Use the torchs to see further, the barricades to block annoying path that enemies could use.
Then choose the troops you want to fight and equip them with the weapon you’ve aquired.
Survive the Night
During the night, you can collect the resources needed to upgrade your camp. But a troop that collect is a troop that not fight.
If a wagon is destroyed or if all the soldiers of a troops is killed it’s lost for the rest of the ascent.
Manage your troops in real time, use their capacity, move them around and try to kill the more ennemies you can before they submerge you by their number.
Bless the Town
If you last enough night eventually you’ll reach a town. You can replenish your caravan and continue or abandon the ascent and keep your resources
In town you can buy mercenaries troops, sell and buy weapons, repare the wagons and pay a taxe to use an elevator to start the next ascents in the current town
The Endless Adventure
something reminded me of the game soul knight, only this is the PC version with an endless passage. in general, it is not demanding on the hardware of the computer, which is very cool. for 0.24 cents, you can kill a lot of free time.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Pros: It was half a buck, game was “released” 4 days ago (8/22/2021, I’m playing it late 8/26/2021).
Maybe more content is forthcoming? I bought it because it claimed to be “Endless” (both in the game title and in the description) and tagged as Roguelike (implying starting over has some “legacy benefit” carrying over from the previous games).
Cons: (Reviewing it as I currently experience it…) It’s only 5 levels (not endless), ends without warning (“descend the 5th staircase and get a giant “GAME OVER” message, then restarts at level 1 with nothing carrying over). Gold serves no purpose (no merchants). Item values have no purpose (no merchants). Inventory space fills up quickly so you either discard items or ignore loot. Found no use for magic despite potions to raise magic and restore magic all over the place. You can’t even see your magic points (literally pointless? LOL). Every foe deals 1 damage and every attack deals 1 damage to them. Weapons and Armor levels are pointless. Also, attacking things is really odd… it’s like the game barely responds to the mouse click and the instructions don’t tell you you need to actually click on the foe - just a very awkward implementation. You get two gold keys at start which open locked doors. You never get another gold key but encounter about a dozen locked doors scattered within the levels. You only ever encounter two enemies - a rat, and a bastard skeletal archer that mercilessly sinks arrows into you as you approach, killing you very quickly early on, even after quaffing the starting pack of health increase potions.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Wizdom
As a system to represent the world With a dungeon
based on RogueLike 、There are scattered towns and fields.Also, the battle system
is an active control system. In addition, by hack and slash and many enemys
Battle is also included.will proceed.Menus in real time you will be selected.
Overview
The resurrected Demon Lord Wizdom is everywhere due to its enormous
magical power, I made a magic dungeon of doom that changes
shape each time you enter.And hide in the depths, awaiting to crush
the adventurer.You must defeat the Demon Lord Wizdom to restore peace.
Major features
Wizdom is an RPG for realtime active roleplay game,
but it doesn’t require much action. Anyone can feel free to play.The main exploration is the dungeon, but not only that
It is also necessary to search for plains maps and residence maps.
The difficulty of the game is set to a high level, and the complete capture isIt’s getting harder.
Other features
Auto Generate Dungeon/ In some cases many enemies battle/NPC mercenaries (up to three)
/ bird view navigator/Scattered places(wilderness,town,dungeon,shrine)/Epic Boss Subjugation dungeon、plactice Beginner dungeon、and more