Irongate Arena
Continue your family legacy into new and exotic lands, but first prove yourself a worthy commander to the men who have pledged fealty to you. Battle in the proving grounds where humans are not the only fighters trying to knock you on your ass! Will your reward be glory or death?
If you have the strength, journey through the desert where if the heat doesn’t kill you, something or someone venomous just may. If you have the will of a warrior those deadly and toxic creatures may join you and take up your cause of vengeance.
To make it in the harsh, icy, North you must be a wise in deploying the right strategies to defeat your enemies in the Arena. Vikings, elves and witches can be so cold, but not cold enough to turn down a little coin to join your ranks, if the price is right.
Put your team skills to the test and push their limits in order to survive the Inferno. Hotter than Hades itself only the most vile creatures dwell here, along with the strongest arena fighters. If fear has not run your men out, then you may stand a chance, otherwise see yourself cut down by powerful beings capable of wielding great strength and abilities.
You must have strategic cunning when facing Lord Asshat, so that you may reclaim honor to your surname. Will your become the champion your father was or will you fall before your enemies?
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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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Last Blossom: Roleplaying tabletop based scene
IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Proof of concept or partial tutorial of RPG rule-set. Single scripted encounter given digital form. Made using Unreal Engine 4. Uses 8-bit audio. Simple turn-based ranged, melee and magic combat. Pre-determined characters and NPCs. Low replayability. Limited teaching instrument. Stylized low-poly graphics. Mired writing/translation. Singleplayer only.
ACHIEVEMENTS: NONE.
STATUS: COMPLETE. YET INCOMPLETE.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
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I Loved It. It’s one encounter, 3v4, but it was so much fun. Really helped fill that D&D itch I’ve been having. If you like table top and want a combat situation then get this and play it!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Ruin Hunters
Ruin Hunters is a turn-based tactical game where players must lead a party of three heroes. Wander into the deep of the dungeons, defeat enemies, gather treasures, while your party grows in power.
Features:
▪ Turn-based combat (position your heroes, and choose the right skill for attack or defense)
▪ Use the environment (use it for cover, attack, or just simple push the enemy to it)
▪ Level up your heroes (learn new skills, talents)
▪ Momentum points (some skill generates points, some needs points to cast, but when the hero reaches the maximum momentum, he will be able to perform stronger actions with the skills)
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™
(Review after 3 hours)
This game is an interesting mix of a lot of different types of games.
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Turn-based combat: Think Banner Saga, Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon or Into the Breach. Into the Breach is probably the closest comparison as the combat mechanics involve quite a few different buffs/debuffs/combo potential. Slay the Spire is pretty close but without the roguelite element of constructing/tuning your deck.
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RPG: There are main quests, optional side quests, a sandbox-like open world where you can loot random chests for a few gold and crafting materials. The gear/equipment system is deeper than expected. You can improve your characters' gear through fight rewards, purchasing it from vendors or upgrading what you have. Upgrading comes in two flavors, the typical upgrade all the stats as well as an “enchantment” system allowing you to augment gear with specific stats.
– Real player with 118.0 hrs in game
Game info : All done, achievements/etc.. highest difficulty.
Added more pros & cons & info :
++ Lore
++ Characters
- Art direction
++ Content ! more than enough if you are like me and rly want to go through everything.
- Well done turn based gameplay & combat system !
++ If you play on high difficulty, you may want to use your brain & your eyes to inspect ennemies tactic and adapt compared to other similar game
++ Multiple RPG component that sometimes lack on those kind of games (Enhancement, gear, rune, skill point) that allow different build
– Real player with 92.3 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.
Dark Bestiary
Summary
Progression / Customization: 10/10
Combat: 8/10
Economy: 8/10
Difficulty: 7/10
Graphics, Story: N/A (Game isn’t about graphics and story)
New player tips
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Freedom to choose
Dark Bestiary’s best feature is that you are free to choose any combination of skills, talents, attributes, items, enchantments, gems, etc. to create any build you want. The selection at character creation only gives you a few initial abilities to work with and doesn’t matter long term.
– Real player with 195.7 hrs in game
It plays just like an ARPG, but turn based.
It has attributes and a lot of stats, unlockable skills, passives, talents, gear with random affixes, item sets, legendary items with special effects, it’s got it all.
There is a story but it’s short and irrelevant, you can continue playing after the story ends, in increasing difficulty “Nightmare” levels.
There are no puzzles, thankfully so. Although there is a minesweeper-like minigame you can do for treasure chests if you need a break from killing stuff, which is surprisingly fun too.
– Real player with 50.9 hrs in game
Eterna: Heroes Fall
The learning curve can be VERY FRUSTRATING! However even with just at level 20 I am getting just to see the depth and magnificent grace, flow, and subtleties of this excellent game! truly worth every penny of the price!
– Real player with 188.7 hrs in game
very fun turn based rpg game, highly recommend! Interesting, diverse and powerful loot to hunt for and many skills so can build your character numerous ways.
– Real player with 140.3 hrs in game
Heroes of Shaola
this game needs to be played at least twice to find all hidden areas. great storyline with many questions and political overtures. the bestiary list is a great idea. what it does need is the ability to run without using key. Some parts are very dark esp in caves and hard to see the creatures, There are plenty of chests etc and other places to get items and gold and side quests to help. Overall all it is a great game and looking forward to the follow up in the series.
– Real player with 63.6 hrs in game
Fun game. Looking forward to the sequel.
– Real player with 14.1 hrs in game
Shargad: First Blood
“Find Khalid, the Healer of Nekkisari. He will tell you the truth, the truth about you!”
These were the last words spilled out of his father’s mouth. Abbas had an urge to follow the old man’s request and decided to leave his village to find the Healer. What he could not realize though, was that the blood he bore is indeed a legacy, sourcing from the ancient corners of the history of Shargad.
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Story driven 2D Turn Based RPG.
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Sidescroller quest scenes where you can find loot and encounter various enemies.
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3 Cities/Towns where you can meet companions, interact with NPCs, buy and sell items.
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Daily Professions where you can get bonus rewards by playing mini games.
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20+ unique classes to play as, including 3 classes - Skirmisher, Warden, Herbalist - of main hero Abbas in the party of max 4.
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Bunch of unique skills for each class and perks to modify the skills for customization. Synergetic party compositions.
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Permadeath for companions. Mortal Blood mode where permadeath is applicable even for Abbas.
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Permanent (Racial, Cultural, Class) and Temporary (Mental, Physical, Sicknesses) Traits to effect attributes and playstyles of heroes.
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More than 50 enemies to face with, each with unique skills and traits.
Bosses: Deadly but not unbeatable.
Animals: Hunt in the wilderness to gain loot and exp.
Undead: Well, undead!
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40+ character states (bleeding, callous, feebleminded etc.) which are all unique on their own.
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Various dmg types: Physical, Magical, Pure.
6 Magical dmg types (fire, earth, water, air, dark, light) which can be mitigated by resistances but can not be dodged unlike Physical dmg.
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Fame system which changes the behavior of NPCs and companions towards Abbas.
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Set in the fantasy world of Shargad, a home to various races, cultures, cities, heroes, magic disciplines and more.
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Inspired by Mesopotamian Mythology for the gods pantheon, various mythologies and cultures which is the basis of this organic fantasy world.
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Strong narrative connections to Shargad Saga Book 1: The Thunderbringer, written by Semih Erdogan and first published in 2017 of which you can find the first 5 episodes in a pdf given as a free dlc along with the game.
