Cupid’s Palace
Cupid(You) are in the chaotic depths of Hades. You seek help from the GODS of Olympus, to help unite with your beloved Psyche at the fantastical Cupid’s Palace. You must tactfully leap and jump, to avoid falling into the depths of Hades. On Your journey, You can choose to smell the roses, activating the singing of The Love Faeries. You can also play music by strumming the guitar to entertain yourself. You can and will unite with your beloved Psyche.
Cupid’s Palace has 7 elegantly designed levels for viewing and listening pleasure. The Game has 7 unique music tracks. This RPG is styled beautifully with magical Greco-Roman art influence. It’s a joyful, weird, fantasy experience. It’s an excellent game for game players to enjoy.
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CountryBalls Heroes
For this review I’m considering three things:
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this is a new game (so bugs are expected)
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the developers are indie so they might take longer to patch and update the game
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if this game is on your radar you probably enjoy polandball/countryball meme comics.
So, I want to start off with the negatives. Nothing I hate more than reading through a review, getting hyped for the good, just to see some stuff that’s a deal breaker for me. We’ll start off with bugs/design issues:
SAVE GAME BUG
Probably the worst bug in the lot. It basically makes saves a pointless feature. Basically, if you load a save game all/most of the settlements disappear. They disappear from the map, from the quick bar to the right. Essentially destroying your save.
– Real player with 50.5 hrs in game
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As an old Heroes 3 Fan, CountryBalls Heroes was a must buy for me.
Graphics are nicely drawn, animations are ok and the music is nice too. Nothing spectacular, but not bad either. I like the basic idea of HOMM 3 meets political incorrectness and the game has humor and charme. I got some chuckles here and there.
The gameplay is 100% HOMM 3, but a bit simpler and more shallow. You build your base, ride around the map with your hero, fighting for resources, producing more units until you’re strong enough to attack the opponent.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
Legends of Astravia
Lost within the turmoil of Astravia’s past, you and your companions must find a way to unite its people before the Cataclysm brings about another age of ruin.
Features
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Exciting, timer-based battle system that relies on quick decision making. The twist: you control the timer; no more waiting for a bar to fill up or for turns to pass.
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A varied cast of playable characters, each with unique combat styles and unique abilities to help you craft the perfect team.
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Vast, explorable world filled with dungeons, caves, and towns. There are challenging puzzles to solve and treasures to find in every corner of Astravia.
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Avoidable enemy encounters. Choose your own playstyle instead of being at the mercy of randomized, repetitive gameplay.
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Modular skill system that allows you to swap abilities between characters, so you never feel locked in to a particular “build”.
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An engaging story supported by varied side-quests. Alongside a fulfilling main quest, meet characters all over the world with their own side-quests and special rewards.
Story
The world of Astravia is in conflict; severed by unrest between mysticians and humans who fear their magic. Once seen as heroes, the flow of time eroded mysticians’ feats into myth, and so anyone who shares their likeness in the present day must instead hide from the ruling country of Valica and its brutal knights.
Thus, the wandering mystician Oliver must tread with caution as he escapes the woods of a Valican territory. Spared by a mysterious assassin and at a loss as to how he got there, the stakes are raised even higher when Oliver realizes he must pass through Valica’s capitol in order to find answers about his own origins.
#### Chapter 2 & 3’s synopses will be revealed prior to their release.
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Dusk Warlocks
This is such a wonderful and fun pvp game! There are dozens of combat styles to choose from so your experience will never go stale! It’s beautifully illustrated, easy to get straight into and 0 downtime between matches! LOVE IT!!!!
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Pretty good game if you like Naruto style fighting, but it needs more players
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Neon Dimension
Looks like I get to write the first English review for Neon Dimension, which is a simple asset-flip/mobile tier Arkanoid/Breakout ripoff, only they somehow managed to have even worse graphics. They chose a very lazy retro neon background and instead of bothering with any art for the bricks, they just have numbers.
I never saw such laziness. On top of the lazy art department, the gameplay is really poor quality stuff, not even close to as good as Breakout. But wait, it gets worse, they want a laughable $10 USD for this lazy bundle worsening shovelware. Impossible to recommend.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Awful
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Legends of Solitaire: Diamond Relic
This is a lovely mix of solitaire and mini games. Graphics are crisp and clear, control is smooth. There are 20 levels, with 10 rounds, interspersed with mini-games. At the end of the level there’s a turn-based card battle. You need X amount of stars to unlock the next level, but if you don’t have enough you can go back and replay individual rounds. You earn up to 4 Stars per round, with 4 being perfect and 1-3 based on how many cards remain. Coins are earned by clearing tiers, removing cards with coin icons on them and matching same suit cards. Coins can be spent in the shop for power-ups. You can “equip” a maximum of 5 power-ups, but some of them are passive and won’t use up slot space. Various Obstacles are added as you progress, and you need to find special cards to deal with them. There are the usual wild cards and you get 1 undo per round.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
You will be playing this game for A LONG TIME! Especially if you are going for all quadruple stars. So good work on making a really, really, really long content card game! Oh and nope… At 10 Hours… You still wont be done. At 10 Hours… I am only half way done!
There are different modes… So if you don’t like the “Up, Down”, you can pick from two others. Difficulties? Yes! But I think they only affect the “special card” drops. Eventually you will see this game so much that anytime a character appears on the screen… Instead of their names, it will be “Oh hey, that’s Queen!” Or “Hey! That’s the number 2 card!” So don’t over do it. Play at your own leisure.
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game
Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic
This is, by far, my favorite VR game- and I have a LOT of VR games- so this review is going to be long, but I feel like, even though this game is popular, it still isn’t getting the praise it deserves.
The VR market is, in my opinion, oversaturated with zombie shooters and fighting games. There are a few RPGs, but they don’t really let you do anything off the path they set out for you. They’re like rail shooters in an RPG format. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed games like Mage’s Tale and Asgard’s Wrath, but they lacked the thing I look forward to most in VR, free will. It blows my mind how lacking the VR market is in games where you can just do whatever the hell you want, it’s the perfect platform for experiencing life in fantastic ways. For this reason, I see Waltz of the Wizard as VR’s golden child. It may be “short” as far as having a to-do list, but no other game I’ve played has been so immersive. I get to be me, but me as a wizard, doing whatever I want to do, exploring and discovering without worrying about anyone trying to keep me tied to a story line where I’m only allowed to discover things when they say I can.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
This game is mostly just a tech demo, and there is a free version out there you can play with instead. This one is very cheap, and it is the tech demo that sold my family on VR. My dad said “Its fun, 400$ Well spent son.”
We named the skull Bob, I don’t know his real name nor do I care, my first thought was of the Dresden Files talking skull, so that’s what we called him.
The games concept is pretty simple, you are a wizard, likely one that has lived for a long time, with a fully stocked pile of ingredients and a cauldron bubbling away on the desk, if you show Bob an item he will explain what it is, in a dark and spooky reverb voice.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
All Haze Eve
Interesting, short, puzzle-solving type game. Great for casual players.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
I wanted to like this game but I feel neutral about it. Worth maybe 50 cents and only play it on Halloween. It says that there are no alternative endings but I bet there are depending on what you choose to be in the beginning and I would say that your choices matter, because there was a lot to intereact with that did NOTHING, but I tried everything with everything and you are forced down the path so there is only one correct path (because it’s forced) so it just leaves you feeling confused and incomplete once you “beat” it. Maybe those other interactions are for replay with different character choices but I wasn’t entertained enough to waste my time with it again yet alone 2 more times. :/
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle
I don’t usually write reviews for games, but there’s so little written about this one that I feel it’s my duty.
TL;DR: The game has issues, but it’s totally worth the very small price.
Let’s start with the good:
I’ve played loads of puzzle games, and this one is particularly beautiful.
Parts of the pictures move, even when the puzzles are in pieces. It really adds something to a jigsaw puzzle game that takes it up a notch. For example, on the train puzzle, there is a foggy window where you can see the blurry landscape pass by.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
ASMR Journey is a very well-crafted and inspiring puzzle game, it is calm, immersive, has a good soundtrack and the graphics have a unique and discrepant trace of everything I have seen, it is calm in the exact and interesting point with the hostory that holds you as you play, I found it completely relaxing and well-crafted.
The only negative point found was the lack of more puzzles to complete, as I would like to play more and more, but in any case it already yields a calm and comforting experience.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Runo
Awesome little Indie Game with some Firewatch Elements. I love the atmosphere and all the little Infos about the Finnish Mythology. Really well made even if it’s a little short. Apart from all the nice textures and Finnish Landscapes I have to say that even with the slithest sense of an adventurer you get out of bounds really easily. If you just play the game the intended way it’s already fun but exploring the outer worlds is really interesting too ;)
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
It’s a short and funky game about Finnish folklore.
Honestly, it’s worth playing for the old Nokia with a camera magically strapped to it alone.
It’s free, you learn some Finnish words and folklore and get to read some colourful heartfelt writing about what seems to be a common topic to reminisce about if you’ve grown up in the area.
Also, it has some janky interactions due to Unity, don’t go out of your way to try and break the game, just enjoy it :)
(the game can be finished in under an hour, me breaking it made me lose time lol, heed my advice)
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game