Revolution: Path of a Weaponsmith
Alternate History
It is 1989, due to a breakthrough success of the so-called Star Wars space defense program the United States has become a sole state entirely protected from a nuclear weapon attack. Its influence has since spread over most of the world through both diplomatic and military measures.
USSR weakened by a devastating defeat in the Afghan War has been swiftly overtaken. Many large cities lie in ruin, others are being controlled by the US military forces. While the occupants are establishing control over the new territories rebels are gaining more and more members each day, many of whom have combat experience.
You play as a scavenger-trader whose main source of income is to search remnants of your home-town for provisions, valuables and sometimes even weapons. Sell your findings to make sure that your loved ones are kept safe.
Stealth-action
The town is being overrun by military, bandits, and rebels. You are often outgunned and outnumbered so direct confrontation can often be deadly. Use stealth and explosives to turn the odds back in your favor. Gather supporters to help you or force enemy factions to fight each other making a room for your next move.
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Disguises - got a clean kill on a guard? Take his uniform and try to look as if you know what you are doing, most of his colleagues will not pay too much attention to you. But beware, higher-ranking officers can notice even the smallest mistakes in your disguise and become suspicious.
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Weapon visibility - civilians can’t carry visible weapons, but you can still have a pistol hidden. Or you can just fold your AKMS and hide it in your backpack to take it out when it is time for a more radical approach.
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Visibility - people will have a much harder time noticing you in complete darkness, choose your path carefully or just get rid of those pesky lightbulbs.
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Noise cover - guards will investigate suspicious noises unless of course there is heavy machinery working nearby that will cover that silenced shot sound. Pay attention to your environment and use it to your advantage.
Inventory Management
Food and medical supplies are scarce and hard to find. You will have to look around abandoned and demolished city buildings to scavenge for valuables and provisions. Or you can target some of the better-protected gang or even military warehouses. Alternatively, there is always an option of taking things you want from other survivors by force. The choice is all yours as well as the consequences.
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Loot - search the houses and enemy corpses for useful stuff. Some things you will be able to use directly, others can be traded for what you need.
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Backpacks - equip larger backpacks to be able to carry more, but be careful not to overexert yourself, too much weight would slow you down and make you get tired quickly.
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Gear - want to see in the dark? Get night-vision goggles and take them on, but watch out as they will make you look suspicious.
AI
The world of Revolution is filled with different people: bandits, USSR and US civilians, US military and rebels and honestly they don’t get along too good. Firefights between factions are happening pretty often and sometimes even civilians can pick up a dropped weapon to join one of the sides.
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Factions - members of rival factions would be hostile to each, that is when they identify each other as enemies which is done by judging clothes and also a location at which they meet.
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Civilians will usually run away at the sounds of shots, but sometimes they can join
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No seeing you through the booshes - don’t you just hate it when an enemy is somewhere behind the bushes where you can’t see them but apparently sees you well and can shoot right through, well not here!
Difficult Choices
You will face hard choices every step of the way. Do I help the rebels or the occupants? Do I trade or take by force? Does this family deserve to survive, or do my people need their supplies more? Every choice you make will have a varying impact on the world around you, but remember not everything is as it seems and more often than not you will have to choose the lesser evil.
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Story - become part of the epic story in which you will have to make hard choices between sides where black and white are hard to tell apart.
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Branching dialogues - choose what you say careful, choices in the dialogues matter just as much. In many situations fight can be made easier or avoided if you talk to the right people
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Characters - communicate with many different characters each having its own personality and preferences.
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Cavesweeper
Been a fan of BankBank’s work from way back, some of the wildest games Ive ever played have pored out of this bountiful creative mind. Sally forth me if you wrong, but the Indie scene as we know it would basically not exist if not for BankBank…
As for the game itself, I find it to be a maddeningly enticing combination of the Minesweeper template with some of the greatest storytelling endeavors of the early computer RPG scene… Wizardry 4, Ultima 4, Ultima 7 and Wizardry 6, 7 and 8 have all left their indelible marks upon this curious little sojourn. Quests Galore in this game, a day without Cavesweeper is like a year without rain.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
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Cavesweeper is a weird combination logic puzzle / RPG battle game that hits this weird sweet spot in my brain. The logic puzzle is exactly the sort of Minesweeper-like constraint-solving mechanic that I can just sit and play with endlessly. But as the game progresses, the puzzle’s difficulty is ratcheted up such that it can’t be completely solved by logic alone, and you have to make tactical decisions about what risks you’re willing to take to gain information. I don’t get sucked into a lot of games, but once I start a Cavesweeper run I gotta see it through. I was pretty sad when Apple broke the iPhone version after an upgrade, so I was super excited to learn it had made its way to the PC.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Godsbane Idle
Godsbane Idle is a fresh idle take on games such as path of exile. It combines the hunt for powerful loot with idle systems to guarantee your progress even if time is short that day. It tries to stray away from linear paths and offers multiple ways to customize your equipment, skills and even more.
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Frequent updates introducing new mechanics.
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Equip the rarest items, artifacts and uniques to elevate your potential and efficiency to the highest levels.
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Alter items and optimize your equipment even further by unveiling and crafting powerful effects.
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Feed items that you deem unworthy into your heartcore to still its evergrowing hunger, progress even if the rng is not on your side that day.
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A multitude of upgrade paths and a gigantic skilltree with more than 700 nodes to become the incarnation of destruction.
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Use your destructive potential to challenge the mighty seraphim, rulers of ages past.
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Unfolding features and paradigm shifts offering new ways to progress.
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Hundreds of upgrades, empowering you even further.
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A very active dev that takes the community feedback to heart.
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Premium Currency that can be passively obtained at a fair pace.
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Spiral to Despair
Spiral to Despair is a blackjack style card game infused with RPG elements set in the depths of hell.
You will be facing demons across the hell to solve the mystery of your origin and unravel your story.
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Progress through story and clear dungeons by defeating monsters in the game of blackjack, loot items and valuables.
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Use potions and flasks in your encounters to enhance your abilities and stats.
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Enchant items, unleash legendaries and upgrade charms to get stronger.
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Unlock achievements by doing various tasks and progressing.
You can export your save to cloud server and access it from another devices and continue your adventure.
Path of Exile
TL;DR
This is a great game. Try it out, its free anyway.
Review:
Path of Exile is a ftp-Action_RPG game, released 2013 and being under continued development since then, having had multiple free expansions, leagues and content updates. It can be played solo or in a party with up to 5 other people on either soft- or hardcore.
Pros:
-Free to Play, only cosmetical purchases
-dark & gritty style fitting the story and lore
-insanely deep and varied skill system
-smooth leveling experience
– Real player with 3648.8 hrs in game
Path of Exile is an incredible game written by New Zealand developer Grinding Gear Games. The game puts you into the role of one of seven possible characters, each with their own story, that has been exiled from their homeland and is forced to try and survive in the harsh and unforgiving terrain of Wraeclast.
Graphics: 7/10
Graphically, the game isn’t absolutely spectacular. In fact, it’s dark, gritty and quite gruesome. It sets the mood extremely well and really gives the image of a dark, foreboding land where the people are oppressed and monsters and bandits are rampant. Some of the areas in the game can be quite disturbing and really set the mood of the game itself. Although, as stated, it is far from graphically superior, the graphics and the design work really mesh well with this game and set the tone the whole way through.
– Real player with 2307.0 hrs in game
Rear of Business
Far too early access, there’s nothing to do other than walk or run around lol
currently bad fps, can walk through props/objects. can also walk through walls/windows in many buildings.
not sure why you have weapons there’s nothing to shoot. i started with some grenades but not really sure why lol.
I’d be interested to see if the devs actually do anything with this game or if it’s just a failed project.
Unfortunately i’ll be after a refund..
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Tales of Finariel : Card based RPG
Forge your destiny through this card based RPG! Will you become a grand mage specialized in elemental powers or will you prefer the finesse of a very sharp blade? This choice is up to you. Come and explore the lands of Finariel, which are still full or mystical and unexplored areas.
Game features
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A medieval-fantasy RPG fully hand drawn.
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A card based system to chose your actions and attacks.
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Customize your fighting experience through the deck building system. Chose your cards and replay your battles with differents strategies.
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Upgrade and enhance your weapons and other items in various way, allowing huge customization.
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Do not follow blinding a class archetype. You can decide what your character should be like. Chose what skills you should be learning, will it be in the same area or completely different. You always dreamed of playing a mage wielding a big sword? Now you can.
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Enhance your weapon mastery, not by gaigning levels but by using it.
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Make your own choices and affect your destiny in this world.
Ouroboros Dungeon
I’m writing this review after about 5 hours of play time.
This game has received a fair amount of negative criticism. I read the criticism before buying Ourboros Dungeon. Much of the criticism is well deserved, but I’m still giving the game a thumbs up as I still enjoyed it and think it has potential if the Saulo expands on the game a bit.
Before I get into what I like about the game I want to echo some of the criticisms mentioned:
Space God mentions “Unfinished…None of the traps or other map features do anything.” Not being able to break objects is a bummer. At one point I got “stuck” in the middle of a broken table (broken already in the game) and wasn’t able to break my way out (I found a way, but it took a bit of movement, and I never ended up in a table after). There are what appear to be traps (the spikes coming out of the floor), but they’re already activated and you just go around the other side where it looks like spikes might shoot up (but they never do). Several areas have rooms where it looks like you might be able to jump across onto a grate to go elsewhere, but this isn’t possible in the current game.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Ouroboros Dungeon is a cute light-weight top-down dungeon crawler.
There are some weaknesses. The main weakness being, there is no character screen that explains what the various attributes mean, i.e. no way for the player to know the difference between +5 Attack and +5 Magic… Another problem is there are too many apparent objects that do nothing switches that don’t switch anything,
A bit more information and a few more meaningful choices would improve gameplay significantly.
That said at less than $5.00 the price was right,
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Stoneshard: Prologue
I seriously wish I’d never started playing this. What I presumed was going to be a sample showcasing a game’s potential over the course of an hour or so, turned into a five-hour grind through damn near impenetrable, unfair, procedurally generated dungeons and infuriating gameplay.
In this 2D, old-school, top-down RPG adventure prologue (essentially a demo of things to come), you’ll guide a middle-aged man out from his prison cell, into his vampire captors, and through a dungeon to freedom. But right from the off you’ll hit a barrier. Everything is incredibly clunky and fiddly - whether it’s accessing menus, using items, interacting with objects or even just moving around, nothing is immediately intuitive or flawless, and everything is a learning process.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
Stoneshard: Prologue, a free alpha version of the still to be released (at the time of writing this review) full version called Stoneshard. The prologue gives the player a great idea of what the main game will feel like, most likely and hopefully the finished product will be even better. Thanks to Ink Stains for this try-out version.
Only one character is playable, Verren the Seeker, who is locked away in a prison cell and has to escape his fate, in order to eventually retrieve the Stoneshard.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
WeeRPG
Hack and slash your way through this loot-rich ARPG with up to four local friends. Outfit your classless character to look and play the way you want. As you venture deeper, monsters get tougher and more numerous but the loot gets more epic! Tactical gear combinations and combat skill will determine how deep you can go. Return to your home base to upgrade or buy new gear, outfit your character, and then venture back into the deep.
WeeRPG is an ARPG supporting 1-4 local players, or play remote via Steam Remote Play.
Key Features
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Classless characters - combine gear to look and play how you want. Magic, attacks, and movement are all driven by your equipment.
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Four-player local coop - team up with your friends or family to take on the dungeons. Play remotely with Steam Remote Play.
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No permadeath - if you fall in the dungeon you will be resurrected at home with a slight gold penalty.
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Three biomes with unique gear and creatures.
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Tons of creature types.
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Hundreds of equippable items.
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Built for everyone - Deep gear choices and rewarding combat for skilled players, accessible and cute for younger players. Progress at your own pace.
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Randomized dungeons - Each dungeon run is unique.