Death Cathedral
Death Cathedral is a very challenging action RPG with tons of strategy elements.
You’ll need to build a powerful army of the living dead with enemies' flesh and bones within 15 days to kill the devil lurking in the deep end of the cathedral.
The battles in Death Cathedral contain not only realistic sword fighting, but also dashing and gorgeous skills. Parry, dodge, or roll - cope with different attacks in various ways. Observe and master your skills during combats and keep confronting stronger opponents.
A wide collection of characters:
More than 40 playable characters, each with a large number of well-designed and extremely vigorous attack actions.
Decay system:
You are controlling corpses of flesh and bones sticked together with black magic. Every exploration increases the decay of the body. The dead warrior collapses when the decay reaches 100%. The increase in decay is irreversible and you can only reduce the increase by applying “preservatives”. Be aware of the team selection ahead of every run!
Roster building:
You’ll constantly lose your warriors due to the decay process. But on the other hand, you’ll be able to create new corpses with flesh and bones of the defeated enemies. This means that you won’t be able to lay back and win easily with the same team over and over again. In order to lead the team forward, you will have to adapt to changes and achieve dynamic balance.
Resource management:
There’re all kinds of resources to accquire in Death Cathedral, which are essential for exploration. However, you can’t always have it all. You need to understand what’s really urgent and make your choices accordingly.
Unforseeable adventure:
You will encounter not only enemies but also facilities to aid you, and make you pay at the same time. Be aware not to backfire yourself by interacting in wrong scenarios.
Countless equipments:
Equipments offer not only boost to attributes, they also grant powerful specialties to your warriors. To make full use of the specialties, your lineup, enemy’s attributes, the area and many factors are under consideration. Specialties may also affect the items and facilities you use.
Immersive atmosphere:
Six distinctive areas can be explored, offering a solemn and dark medieval fantasy landscape.
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Demon Skin
Challenging but enjoyable action platformer with a heavy rpg curve. The combat system is a unique approach, using a stance system which enemies also use in return. The visuals are fantastic, controls could be a bit clunky at times but nothing that overly affected the gameplay. Worth a go!
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
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Demon Skin
Demon Skin is a fantastic new Hack&Slash game that implements a challenging yet interesting combat system. Demon Skin seems to be trying to combine its unique new combat system, lore, and the overall character-arch to put together a fascinating mixture of dark aged souls-like experience.
Although the game is very early on in its age, and certainly not without its flaws, from where I stand it seems to be in capable hands, constantly trying to polish off the rough edges, which is very comforting to see.
*– [Real player with 6.4 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198329404521)*
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## Vikings: Age Of The Axe
#### GET READY FOR A LONG VOYAGE
Gather warriors, take your weapon and get on your boat to sail through the sea. Choose one of many available locations to raid and go ashore.
#### PLAN YOUR PLUNDERS
Before starting the raid, it is worth sending a patrol to discover the location of enemy troops and buildings. Choose your targets order and plan the battle to minimize losses.
#### FIGHT TO THE DEATH
Slash, throw, thrust and chop to win in the deadly combat. Use a variety of weapons, kill quietly or eye to eye and do everything to not be the one left on the ground.
#### TAKE YOUR TREASURE
This is the purpose of your efforts - break in, grab everything valuable, loot the dead and burn what you can't take with you. Exchange gathered wealth for better equipment, skilled people and get ready for further battles.
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## Grim Dawn
This is one of the best Action RPGs ever made.
You will not regret buying this, especially on discount which occurs pretty often.
The developer, Crate entertainment, supports this game even now, even when everyone thought the game reached its pinnacle of updates and polishing, there was a patch with tons of pages of fixes & changes for the better recently.
No microtransactions, no stealthy practices, this developer is simply what every other developer should be. And every expansion is massive and adds tons of content for the price.
*– [Real player with 660.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198069063023)*
To me the most atmosphereic of the ARPG games. I am weird but I just was never into D2 very much and I had the disk version and got the missing DLL bug after about 6 months..
But back to GD. Of course there is a grind. And I use that word properley because you are gonna have to do the same areas more than once to handle other areas. not too bad though. The sound is great, I LOVE the music but some dont. The effects are top notch imo. The graphics are gorgeous imo. But I dont own any next gen games so…
*– [Real player with 364.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059740220)*
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## There Is No Light
After a global catastrophe, the remains of human civilization built a new religious society among the ruins of the desolated underground. They have forgotten the light of the sun and now are blindly following the New God — The Great Hand. Once every few years, The Hand comes down to the people of the Central Station and takes away the chosen newborns to the world hidden behind the gates of the Sanctuary. The Hero embarks on a dangerous journey through this hostile world to find a way to open the gates and bring his child back.
* #### Atmospheric pixel art world
A vast, detailed and beautiful pixel art world to explore.
* #### Unique combat system
Adjust your fight style for every foe and boss by switching between 4 main weapons on the go.
* #### Thrilling and emotional story
A deep and touching 30-hour long storyline about a family, war and redemption awaits you.
* #### 70+ Types of enemies and bosses
Be prepared to slaughter hundreds of dreadful monsters and bosses!
* #### 1000+ Dialogues and Karma system
Non-linear narrative helps to build a branching story with meaningful choices that will impact the world according to the player’s decisions.
* #### Useful skills to upgrade your weapons
A massive skill tree for every weapon allows you to build your own fighting style.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/)
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## Luminyte
### Written for [1561's Thoughts](https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633900/) - Honest reviews, for busy people.
Luminyte :: lo-fi prison break, strange creatures, and mysterious notes :: gather keys and escape each room. Use light to drive off monsters. Replay on death. Not for me but seems well made. 6/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZUzTzCqG0
*– [Real player with 0.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198060750851)*
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## Medieval Remembrance
You have been tasked by the Pope to crusade against pagans in Old Prussia. As a Knight of the Teutonic Order your goal is to bring Christendom to the region and destroy the Romuva religion entirely. Build fortresses, slay herds of zombies that have risen from the dead. Destroy Romuva priests and altars. Most of all, do this while playing with friends.
Features:
–Hack and slash game featuring a survival mode and horde mode.
--Multiplayer, local coop, and single-player support.
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## Demonicute
There is no plot or deep meaning here.
There is only you and the mechanisms that want to destroy you.
Beware of red things.
Good luck.
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## Nevermore: The Chamber Door
In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is faced with a creature that enters his room and remains on the bust of Athena, goddess of wisdom, thus placing himself above reason and logic. The crow speaks only one word, "Nevermore", which the narrator interprets in different ways to answer his own questions.
In THE CHAMBER DOOR something similar happens, but before Athena a door opens, a portal to another world of creatures and demons of nightmares. While the dark-feathered raven contrasts with the marble of Athena, of light and darkness, life and death, our hero is taken by something above reason, making him enter that door with the certainty of the unknown.
THE CHAMBER DOOR is a game of introduction to the NEVERMORE universe. You will be introduced to fluid combat mechanics and endless possibilities. Aggressiveness and agility is the basis of combat, you will be rewarded in a combos ranking system where your variety of blows is your greatest weapon, but beware, NEVERMORE contains dangerous creatures and any mistake can be your last.
As you progress through the game, you'll craft exclusive mirror cards to build your character according to your combat style. Each card can bring new abilities, new mechanics or even improve your stats.
When passing through the CHAMBER DOOR you will face hordes of varied enemies in an arena system, at the end of each level you find a passage to proceed to the next one. As you defeat these hordes, you will eventually come across more powerful entities and stronger bosses.
If you fail and get defeated, you will return to the first level, however, in a roguelike system, you keep the souls you captured in your last adventure to evolve your charms through the statue of Athena, thus becoming stronger and more prepared to advance further more on your next try.
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## The Sole Survivor
This is hilariously bad.
A whole minute of white screen with helicopter sounds, followed by some of the worst gameplay I have encountered.
The skeletons are wildly gyrating like each one of their limbs is animated separately to just go wild.
I would be impressed if I wasn't so annoyed at having purchased this.
Definitely avoid.
https://youtu.be/vrprCBtS6Pw
*– [Real player with 0.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198019816374)*
This game is great. I played for a while and had a lot of fun. It's a tough game so you have to stop playing first but everything else is fine. The story of the fall of men is very good and mysterious. The forest and graphics look great. The enemy has changed a lot. There are skeletons of goats, wolves, dogs, wolves and crocodiles. There was also a great time of Pharaoh. Exercise feels great. This game is great. I give it 9/10 instead of 10 because it is very difficult game!
*– [Real player with 0.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198869791898)*
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