Almighty: Kill Your Gods
Getting to the point, this game is epic.
I didn’t buy it initially due to the high number of negative reviews. I read all of them at the time, including the positive. Then on a whim, i just bought the game…… and i’m so glad I did.
Honestly, 90% of the negative reviews i read, i have no idea what they were talking about. A lot of them logged more or less than an hour of game time. i’m not even sure they played more than 15 minutes and this game looks really big.
The cut scenes…. i love them. it’s a story based game. They don’t lag, they are mostly just the ancestor figure talking at you and they add a vital element to this complex “world” and story. i’ve just never been bothered by them. most are near the beginning of play as the early quests are made to set you up with getting to know the game which is really useful because there is A LOT to do and be done to progress. a few almost redundant explanations are given related to controls and standard gameplay, but they never get in your way, they are short and simply not on the level in the negative reviews.
– Real player with 102.1 hrs in game
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To my experience, the game is above average, but not very high. I can easely give it a rough 6/10 at best, or going a little lower to 5.5/10.
For an Early access, when it came out, the game was a mess, almost unplayable. With patches and some optimisations, it starts to run smoothier on my end. They also included some quality of life for an EA to get more stuff in the game itself. That’s the plus.
As for the gameplay, Almighty is litterally a HOARD type of gaming. You kill. You rescue. You Capture. You dig. You loot everything as you can find for your need and for your village and you extract your ressources to the Extractor Portals around the Islands you visit. That’s pretty much what the main gameplay mechanic is.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
OUTRIDERS
I like to think I’m a patient person, and I’ve waited a month to post this negative review. I honestly regret not doing it sooner. I waited because the game is genuinely fun to play, but at this point the issues are a lead weight on the other side of the scale. I can say that with 134 hours, I’ve gotten my $60 out of this game, but I had to actually “try” to get that value. By the time I was totally fed up, I was outside the refund window, so I kept going to get my money’s worth.
Pros:
1. When the game works, the gameplay is stellar. The blending of shooting and ability use throughout combat works really well. It is also visually entertaining.
– Real player with 134.6 hrs in game
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Ok, so the developers are being super open about problems and they just releases a 24 GB update. The game is so messed up that it needed an update 1/3 the size of the total package?
Crashes on start up. You double click your desktop icon and there is a 5 to 10 sec nothing happens. Now I had an SSD card drive that plugs in directly to my motherboard with a read speed of 2.5 gb/s. So the game starts with this beautiful graphic, a sweeping view of the game world. The the screen goes black. It stays that way until the first ad screen appears, maybe. Or it just stays black until the game loads a crash log. Which by the way adds a 340 mb file that sits on your drive every time it crashes. I cleaned out the crash dumps and there were 15.5 GB. They don’t tell you about that. Well anyway they said they fixed it, and well they were wrong.
– Real player with 131.8 hrs in game
Holomento
Holomento is an indie permadeath RPG focusing on the dangerous quest of passing through the mysterious Eventide Hollow – and rebuilding it step by step.
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Explore a hand-crafted open world featuring procedurally generated dungeons!
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Fight your way through Eventide Hollow – again and again!
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Rebuild the Hollow and release it from its ruinous curse!
EXPLORE
Holomento enables you to write your own story as generations of Travelers pass through a land desperate for help. Open shortcuts, reveal secrets, locate ancient relics, and build improvements to enhance the Hollow for future travels…
…or just invest into the Hollow’s Stonk Market (yes, it’s real) to enrich yourself – we won’t judge!
FIGHT
Due to the curse, travelling through Eventide Hollow is quite dangerous, with many enemies that you will have to deal with. Thankfully, Travelers are well versed in handling all kinds of weaponry, from swords and bows to handguns and… grenade launchers?
Discover a variety of traditional and nontraditional weapons. Upgrade your stats by collecting hundreds of different items, including special weapons, and utilizing item skills to bring destruction to the dark creatures of the Hollow!
Choose from a variety of starting classes! Each class begins with a unique set of items and changes how you will fight your way through the Hollow drastically!
REBUILD
Due to the curse, most towns in Eventide Hollow were destroyed. Now only ruins and corruption indicate what once was a beautiful kingdom. Those that remain are hidden in plain sight. Hope is the only thing left for the surviving inhabitants – but even that is vanishing.
During your journeys, you will have the opportunity to restore the Hollow to its former glory! Upgrading shops and homes, rebuilding towns, and improving the Hollow will help you on your future journeys.
All towns are upgradeable via their shops and storefronts. Each town has a number of common amenities that are uniquely essential to it. Upgraded towns will reward you with many benefits and also allow you access to the local Stonk Market! It allows you to invest in local businesses and grow your influence and wealth throughout the Hollow.
STORY
Eventide Hollow was a lovely kingdom where its people lived in peace. It was once a vast land with free roaming folks and expanding villages, but now it is filled with darkness, strange creatures, and guarded townsfolk. It seems peace doesn’t last forever.
A horrible curse was laid upon the land and Eventide Hollow fell into despair. The source of the curse was also its only protection from it… the Holomento.
The Holomento traps the souls of all who possess it, the mysterious book affixes itself to those who seek passage through the Hollow. If the Traveler dies, their soul is also added to the Holomento before it returns to its resting place awaiting the next traveler.
Once acquired, the book is tied to the soul of the traveler holding it. The Holomento cannot leave the Eventide Hollow and therefore any Traveler who possesses it cannot leave the land.
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Gunfire Reborn
Feels about time to recommend this now that it has hit version 1.0.
Gunfire Reborn is a roguelite that mixes FPS and RPG elements. Each hero has unique abilities, passives, and roles. You can play solo or with up to three others (4 players max) and the experience feels better with others in my opinion. Each run is procedurally-generated and you will learn patterns overtime. A typical run will see you collecting goblets to fill out your skill trees, scrolls to power up various aspects of gameplay, and improving your weapons.
– Real player with 304.2 hrs in game
It’s pretty good. If you like roguelites (roguelikes with significant metaprogression, so roguelites = roguelike-rpgs) like Hades/Dead Cells/Undermine, and co-op FPSes like Borderlands/Remnants/Destiny, then you should in theory enjoy this game a lot.
It has quite a few difficulty levels, a lot of guns that feel fairly good to use, and the opportunity to build up one of the few characters with unique abilities and upgrades, thanks to the help of many items providing permanent passive buffs. There’s 6 characters, and while the abilities they come with aren’t too oustanding or unique by themselves, the upgrades gives them the opportunity to differentiate themselves from eachothers.
– Real player with 257.9 hrs in game