Fading Hearts
Before Fading Hearts i’ve played TONS of Visual Novels and Dating Sims. I knew nothing about Fading Hearts before I decided to pick it up not knowing what to expect. From the main store page it seemed interesting enough for the $10 I paid for it. I have to say, I was quite dissapointed to be frank.
First I’m going to go over what I liked about the game. The gameplay was really interesting and fun, definitely felt more closer towards a Dating sim. You get stats you can raise by doing various activities throughout the day and the stats (usually) have some effect on the game, such as how much money you get and beating certain monsters in the forest. There is a combat system, though not very in-depth, was entertaining for the first few times. And the game strongly encourages and is ment to be played with multiple playthroughs for all the endings, even including some cute dialouge at the end of each playthrough that provide hints on what to do on your next one.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
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This is a spoiler-free review.
This is a type of game that seems to have people that either really like it or just straight-up hate it. There’s also a lot of curious people that want to know if the game is worth getting, so rather than just tell you “Oh yeah, I like this!” I’m going to list all of the various things a person may like or dislike about the game.
First of all, this is NOT a visual novel. This is a simulation game mixed with RPG elements. A visual novel is a game in which you only point and click to get story to continue. This is NOT that kind of game. It becomes a simulation game when there are stats to alter and daily choices to be made. It infuriates me that so many people called this a visual novel, when it’s obviously a simulation game. Since you can go into a turn-based battle with HP & MP, level up, use a sword or magic, that’s the part that’s RPG-like. Although, I definitely wouldn’t call this an RPG, since the battling is definitely not the focus of the game. In fact, you don’t have to step foot in a battle if you don’t want to. You can progress the story without participating in battle.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Dreamland: Village Life
Dreamland: Village Life is a reimagined open world game inspired by classics.
Players arrive in a small village to farm, fish, go on RPG adventures, manufacture weapons, mine, dive, build bridges, explore the world, and make friends with cute villagers!
**The in-game’s time is fully synchronized with the real world.
You can experience changes between daytime, dusk, and nighttime, as well as seasonal changes.**
(Note: Currently, some of the scene and building assets in the game are licensed assets purchased at the Unreal Official Marketplace.)
The game was developed with Unreal Engine.
Persona Creation
In Dreamland: Village Life, you can customize your player persona’s appearance, including their sex, eye shape, eye color, hairstyle, and hair color. This helps you create your own persona.
Making Friends With Villagers
You can make friends with cute villagers, and can also chat with them as well as send them gifts and strengthen friendships with them. In addition, this game includes an mail system that you can use to receive mails sent by the production group. The villagers will also send you mails each day, and you can write mails to them.
RPG Battle System
Form partnerships with villagers and start a hair-raising adventure! This game’s occupations include a warrior, magician, reaper, archer, and priest. You can choose your own occupation!
Farming
You can put soil anywhere and make your own farm! Choose from a variety of vegetables and fruits. There are over 50 plantables in the game, ranging from age-old classics to the exotic and obscure native to Asia.
Fishing
You can fish in the river and sea, and this game includes more than 40 types of fish.
Raising Livestock
Raising livestock includes Gathering wool, collecting milk and eggs as cooking ingredients!
Mining Ore
Descend into caves to excavate precious ore. You can use the ore you get to make weapons.
Cooking
This game includes more than 80 types of ingredients you can use for cooking. You can farm, fish, raise livestock, and fight to get these ingredients.
Cutting Trees
You can cut down trees to get wood to make handicrafts and manufacture weapons!
Insect Catching
You can catch insects in a net. This game includes more than 50 types of insects that you can catch.
Weapons Manufacturing
Create your own weapons to use in battle.
Handicraft Making
During the game, you can get all kinds of materials for making a variety of handicrafts.
Research and Develop Potions
Research and develop HP, MP, and antidote potions for use in battle.
Excavate Relics
You can use handmade shovels to excavate relics located at spots marked on the ground.
Costume Change System
This game includes more than 100 types of clothing. You can buy any type you want at the clothing store.
Diving
Dive to the bottom of the ocean! You can choose a diving spot on the island, and unlock deeper levels of exploration. Uncover everything that the sea provides. You can collect seaweed and coral to cook and eat.
Rowboat
Row a boat with villagers, strengthen your friendships with them, and enjoy yourself.
Hang Gliding
Go hang gliding to get a bird’s-eye view of the world and visit more distant places.
Decorate Your House
Decorate your dream house. You can put whatever furniture you want in its rooms. Create your own space. Furniture can be bought from the store or you can make it by hand.
Build Bridges
Build bridges on both sides of the river to make it more convenient to get to the world on the other side!
Mini Game
During this game, you can also play an entertaining mini game.
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Sonzai
Sonzai is a 2d, action-brawler platforming RPG. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets. A new life, new people, new spirits. What are the threads that bind people together? What is the nature of magic?
Sonzai is an innovative hand-drawn action-RPG about life, magic, and relationships. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets; a new life and new people. What threads bind these people together? What is the true nature of magic? Thrown into a new town, form relationships with people around you. Sonzai is the debut game by trailblazing video game duo 2 Odd Diodes, hailing from Kolkata, India, and published by New York-based Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Taking place in a dynamic, living town filled with unique characters, each with their own lives and stories. The game embraces social links and relationship building that affect both the course of the story and the scope of the player’s skill. Visceral character-action combat with RPG mechanics means Sonzai brings customizable “rune” abilities and weapon load-outs to the table. Thus accommodating vastly different fighting styles along with the game’s more traditional life sim elements.
The game is wrapped in a beautiful, inky minimalist art style with precisely choreographed animations (every single animation frame hand-drawn), complementing a thought-provoking narrative about existence and magic, within a vast world filled with hidden lore to discover. While getting tangled in the lives of a colorful, diverse cast of characters.
Discover the secrets of a magical world
Explore a vast world.
Whether it is a burning town right beside Kumotoshi or a civilization underground.
Each new area has its own aesthetic and beings who reside in them.
Discover its rich history while also managing your high school life.
Engage in viseral character-action combat
Experience combo based action with deep customization.
Passive Runes give you strength if you can fulfil its conditions.
Actives Runes are devastating spells that you unleash on your enemies.
Modules are modifiers that you can mix and match, to fine tune your loadout
Form Relationships with the townsfolk
Each character you meet may or may not like a new face in town.
Form bonds with them and get tangled in their stories.
Get stronger through your relationships.
Kumotoshi is a magical town; a hub for young mages. Its outskirts are a dangerous place - infused with dangerous magical energy. As you arrive, in town as a new student, you find yourself ready to begin a new life. New opportunities and new friends await. However, what secrets lay in the shadows?
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VirtuaCreature (Legacy Version)
I’ve let my creature die 100 times, 10/10 would recommend for the loss of loved one simulator.
– Real player with 63.5 hrs in game
VirtuaCreature is a title that pays homage to the days of tomagotchi. It was built through an older flash engine so there are some limitations, but that doesn’t make it a bad game. You start with a blob. From there you can evolve it four ways. From there you can evolve it 8 ways. Evolutions are dependent on the way you train them, how happy they are, and what you feed them. There are 21 different creatures in the game. It’s nice that you have more than one save slot so you can try different evolution paths at the same time.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Wild Season
Played the game enough to get to the end of the first episode, the devs have their priorities way out of order, coupled with the fact that they clearly bit off more than they could chew, and you have Wild Season. The game we’ve all been waiting for. I found myself waking up, watering plants, then going to sleep until the next day, rinse and repeat. There’s really nothing else to it than that, sure you can go mining (the levels on the mine repeat themselves occasionally, including all the crap you left on the floor) but you cant use the ores to make anything like in HM games, you just sell them for next to nothing, better off spending money farming. Animals are broken, you can buy a chicken, and yes it will eventually lay eggs after it’s happy, but you can’t incubate the eggs, they disappear the next day, so if you want multiple chickens you have to keep buying more, which is against the point to begin with, you would never see your money back from that.
– Real player with 37.0 hrs in game
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I would like to apologize for my previous review, to those who aren’t satisfied with it and to those who doesn’t agree to what I wrote. After spending more time with this game, and figuring out a few stuffs, including how the save system works I’ve decided to revise my review, and hopefully this will correct my previous mistakes.
- Plot – The story starts slow, it does take time before you see how it unfolds. The first part is quite too long for an introduction, you’ll be reading many dialogue lines before you could get your hands on the game and start playing. You can see notification on the right that you have completed a quest, but there is no actual UI that shows what your quest was or what your current one is. But there is a journal that shows your progress instead. So far as I’ve noticed, there is an event or happening at least once each day. So other than taking care of your farm, you’ll have something to look forward to the next day.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
SunnySide
You’ve purchased your first plot of land in an aging post town in the heart of the Japanese countryside. Now, it’s up to you to create a homestead to be proud of. Cultivate the land, nurture your budding crops, and care for your animals. Use technology to keep in touch with new friends, access online shopping, and store your favorite farm fresh recipes.
Spend time getting to know the residents of SunnySide - old and new - all while balancing your newfound farm life. Don’t forget to take pause and enjoy the wonders of the Japanese landscape whilst discovering more about yourself and the world around you.
Modernize your farming experience with new technology that brings the classic, farming sim genre to the 21st century. Build solar panels, electric water pumps, contemporary machines for food production, and continuously upgrade your tech to improve your farming experience.
In SunnySide, we want you to enjoy all aspects of farming, especially in growing your own food. With modern technology, you can worry less about tedious daily tasks and more on living a life of balance.
With a focus on individuality, you will be provided with unique opportunities that allow for creative freedom and self-expression. Your avatar, homestead, and even your in-game cell phone can all be tailored to your preferences and desires. Customize buildings, layouts, decorations, clothing, hair, and more on your journey of self- discovery.
A proper homestead is self-sufficient, and your home in SunnySide is no different. Learn to collect your own water, generate power, grow and craft various food items, and cultivate your land to help support the local economy.
When SunnySide fully releases, you’ll be able to ferment your own soy sauce, slice tofu, grow and grind flour at the local mill, and craft artisan cheeses. The real magic of food, however, is what happens in the kitchen. Take produce a step further by cooking a wide variety of dishes in a kitchen you’ll be able to design and upgrade yourself. Nothing satisfies hunger like a home cooked meal after a long day’s work.
While a quiet life in the countryside is nice, life in SunnySide isn’t perfect. The locals have distinct personalities, stories, and issues which - through your decisions - can be uncovered. SunnySide has spent the last decade on a steady decline, but perhaps you’ll be the one to breathe new life into this desolate town.
Form bonds, join groups, attend events, and maybe even find someone special to share your days with.
Disclaimer: This game does not contain watering cans, shipping containers, incessant gifting, mayonnaise machines, and endless walking.
Vtuber Simulator : Vtuber模擬器
It’s a decent game. a bit too simple but it’s good value for the price. i had a few hours of fun. the English translations are really bad and sometimes it’s hard to understand what’s being said but overall it’s still playable.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
decent game. able to satisfy my never ending boredom and depression for 3 hours.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Luvocious
Luvocious is a RPG game from Syu-Syu where you travel across three different eras, and three different stories.
You start the game as a black puddy cat called Velvet, and from here you go and do the tutorial. Once done with the tutorial, you start in the “Land That Time Forgot.” Defeating the Jerk-O-Lantern will then give you access to three different eras: Modern, Fantasy and Futuristic. Which one you choose to play first is up to you; beating one era will help you to beat the next one. Beating all three eras will unlock a fourth; finish that and you’ve completed the game.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Never really been to much into these kind of games (RPGs) in general but I did had a lot of fun.
I played with the keyboard in the beginning but I personally found it a lot easier with a controller. Most characters were cute, interesting or funny. They all were unique in their own sense.
Besides struggling with the final end boss I pretty much was able to enjoy this game in all it’s glory (mostly), as the guide is also extremely helpful
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Mageo
WHY DOES THIS GAME WANT YOU TO LOG INTO FACEBOOK CAW CAW
FACEBOOK IS CRINGE CAW CAW
THERE ARE NO FEMBOYS IN LINGERIE ON FACEBOOK CAW CAW
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Dreams Of Adventure
This is a game that’s still being worked on, that’s clear enough to see. There’s bugs and glitches galore, but that hasn’t taken away from my enjoyment of it! It’s a fun RPG with a surprisingly large map and I’ve already had hours and hours of gameplay. It’s a REALLY open world game with a lot to explore. I’m playing the free early access version, that’s likely affecting my opinion, but since it is free I think anyone should just give it a shot.
– Real player with 23.2 hrs in game
Good game dude just keep going with that :D
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game