GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon
So, my first thought about this game was: “Hold up, Konami’s making games again?!”
Second thought was: “….and it’s a niche title and NOT a more recognised name.”
Third thought was: “…. and sh!t, it’s quite good! Even for early access! You guys OK down there at Konami HQ? Just that you’re acting like…… well NOT Konami.”
…In all seriousness though, taking the rogue-like approach to a metroidvania title is an interesting spin, and fundamentally, it works well. Gameplay leans heavily towards being more tactical and methodical than it does being stylish and fast. And since you have limited ways of healing, you’re forced to consider how best to dispatch your enemies while taking as few hits as possible. It’s not quite dark souls, just enough to keep you thinking.
– Real player with 74.7 hrs in game
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Writing this review while playing the v0.4.10 update (Nov. 4th 2021), and the game is in Early Access so take the review with a grain of salt upon further updates. I like this game and can’t wait to see how it evolves but at this stage I do not recommend anyone buying it right now, wait until it is fleshed out and hopefully perfected.
PROS:
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Beautiful artstyle, boss intros are honestly to die for and sometimes have me rewatching em cause they are so pretty.
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Good music that is nice but doesn’t get stuck n your head in a grating way.
– Real player with 69.8 hrs in game
Gods Will Fall
I will say this right off the bat this game is definitely not for everyone. This is not diablo don’t play if you cannot stand losing or think this is a simple button masher. (WARNING: This game was designed for a controller, although it is not impossible to play with a keyboard it will take practice, dont hesitate to reconfigure the keys to something you are comfortable with)
The basic premise is you have 8 randomly generated warriors and 10 gods to kill, to kill one you must choose one warrior to control and traverse the dungeon of said god and then face him in combat, be warned once inside there are only three endings. Victory, capture or death. The catch however is that on each playthrough the strength of the boss will vary each time, the boss that was super easy in your first playthrough might be the strongest in the next one, worst of all you have no way of knowing until you send someone inside and once inside there is no backing out.
– Real player with 40.7 hrs in game
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A challenging game full of charm and atmosphere. Note: I bought this on special with 40% off.
I finished Gods Will Fall last night and was pleasantly surprised at the fun journey I had just had. I bought this game despite the mixed reviews because I saw something in the trailers that just clicked with me and I think a lot of the negative reviews are there because the game isn’t what most gamers were expecting.
Yes the game has rogue-like elements and dare I say it, is a little souls like, but over all I think the game sets out to do it’s own thing in a way that put some players off because again, they weren’t expecting it.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
Ancient Abyss
Great game, needs more content. Also the notion of space in this game is not so intuitive, always there is a chance that you can stuck in some bush or wall or something else. There are still bugs in this game, for example It happened to me to stuck in a chest room, because some of the mobs disappeared, he made noise, but he could not harm me, that’s why I need to restart the game, I could do nothing with it. Overall game is good, I like the pixel art, mob design, main character design, music is good, it needs more diversity, for example two hands sword and one handed sword have the same effect the difference is color and speed, make it different please. I didn’t like that you need boots for passing long empty distances, make it a special skill or something, The gloves are not precise, it’s hard to predict where will you arrive using them. But game is beautiful and is full of potential.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
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This game is by no means polished, however it is fun.
Starting with the cons because I want to get this out of the way.
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I understand what they mean Zelda like, and while this game is not for zelda fans it does take a lot from zelda. The parts, but not the feel.
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This game has no art polish. It’s a bunch of nice looking art but none of the art shares the same style. You have hand drawn animation clashing against pixel art that’s clashing against 3D models in a very bizarre way that just looks weirder the more you look at it.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Ariadna’s Bane
Disclaimer: all screenshots, videos and other resources represents early development stage of the game.
Blacken Slash
Blacken Slash fuses tactical turn-based combat and fast-paced hack, slash and loot gameplay – and takes only the best out of both genres to create a simple, but endlessly rewarding gameplay experience where you fight, loot and repeat until you die. Play on your own and perfect your gear across dozens of runs and see which difficulty you can master – or compete with other players in an online leaderboard where you start from scratch each week.
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Minimalist – easy to learn
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Difficult – hard to master
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Short levels – short play sessions
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An abundance of items
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Various playstyles and builds
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Challenging achievements
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Weekly online leaderboard
Children of Morta
I’m a little mixed on this game overall. But I like it.
Children of Morta is an atmospheric-story-driven-diablo-lite-with-rogue-elements. But action rogue-lite works, too.
Premise: You’ll control the Bergson family, residents of Mount Morta. A threat known simply as the “Corruption” needs to be thwarted.
Structure:
You select a character and set off into a portal to fight the corruption. It has 3 main areas. Each harboring a spirit you need to free to aid you. Each area then has procedural levels within it.
! The last area is seems a bit inspired by the Dwemer Ruins of Elder Scrolls.. All the areas have a distinct feeling.
– Real player with 36.1 hrs in game
A hack-and-slash game with rogue-like elements, Children of Morta unfortunately didn’t provide me with any of the satisfaction associated with either genre.
I usually like to start with the positives but they’re scarce here. The pixel art looks excellent but even that is squandered in drab and uninspired levels, of which there are mainly only three types: a cave, a desert town and a volcanic industrial area.
The music, although competently made, sounded very unmemorable to me. None of the tracks were catchy or went beyond doing their job.
– Real player with 36.0 hrs in game
Flame Keeper
As Ignis - piece of charcoal, bringed to life by magic spark from ancient flame, your destiny is bring back energy balance in land corrupted by evil creatures.
FIRECAMP
Source of light, heat and life. Hated by borned in shadows creatures. You must defend what’s left of it and restore it to its former glory.
ENERGY
The whole land is filled with same energy that fuels eternal fire. Find it and bring it back to the source. But be careful. This same energy keeps you alife, so don’t give all back, keep some for further adventures.
GAMEPLAY
Complete stages and collect shards that will make you stronger. Use them to upgrade your hero and create own unique build fitted to your playstyle.
FIGHT
While exploring world you will find different creatures. Some of them are more dangerous than other. Find their weakness and learn how to fight with them using different abilities.
Enjoy your stay in grim and dark world, where Ignis is trying to sustain the eternal fire.
For Sparta
PROS:
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A decent variety of enemies. There are about 3-4 different skins for each monster, but they each have varying attacks and behaviours to keep things interesting.
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A large selection of craftable perks to potentially obtain.
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The controls handle well. Dodging and attacking feels responsive and enjoyable.
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Action-packed generally speaking. Enemies spawn in waves throughout a day, but if you take too long, the next wave will spawn in to keep you on your toes.
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Satisfying and appropriate sound effects.
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
Great little arcade game. It’s difficult and has a lot of random elements that can make it anywhere from challenging to near impossible, but with games being so fast/short and the ability to restart in a couple of seconds it’s not normally frustrating.
If you like old school keyboard bashing this is for you.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Lethal Honor Essence
Brutal, obscure, and punishing action-adventure roguelite with a dark atmosphere and gothic hand-drawn graphic novel art.
The player will be an agent of Lethal Honor, a secret organization in charge of investigating and destroying the paranormal files of the governments of the world.
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Strategic action-adventure game
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Roguelite gameplay
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Eight different biomes and eight different main characters with their own storyline and events
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Dozens of different abilities and combat styles
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Beautiful hand-painted gothic graphic novel art characters in 3D scenarios: EMBRACE THE COMIC!!
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Mature, dark and complex story
Leyline Knights
If you like Roguelikes like Hades, you’d enjoy this. A couple of patches can get it working well cause I did encounter a couple a couple of bugs (in fact I only stopped playing because of one). I didn’t quite understand what are the things you select before you start the “Dungeon Run” but its fun. Managed to fight (and not always defeat) a couple of bosses which from my experience in 1 hour of play were all different so that nice. Also I have no idea how you can get back with your gems, I wanted to buy some permanent buffs but when I died I always lost everthing (not sure if intentional but usually you get to keep a small percentage if you don’t make it till the end)
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
I’d recommend this game, it’s a nice action roguelike game with a nice replayability value through the possibilty of different builds.
Your goal is to climb the Great Tree to do so you’ll fight enemies through different areas and maps and fight your way against bosses.
You have access to numerous upgrades,items and combining various elements to help you through it and advance to the next level of an area.
You’ll encounter NPCs that will help you and tell you a bit more on the lore.
You can also tailor your playstyle with the purchase of upgrades and such.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game