Spellstorm
A re-imagining of the classic game Magestorm, fight in an all-magic battle arena as an archon pulled from time and imbued with fantastical powers in an eternal struggle between the 3 Primal Forces - Order, Balance, and Chaos. Fueled by increasingly powerful magic, defeat your foes and their shrines in this three team FPS battle arena.
All Magic
This is the ultimate mage battle fantasy. Push the front lines as an elemental Magician, ambush foes with lightning as the Tempest, defend your shrine with a storm of swords as the Paladin, or deny your enemies by harnessing mana and the void as the Arcanist.
Well Tuned Gameplay
Each class has a distinct playstyle and feel allowing all four to make game-winning plays.
Unique Combat
This is not a Crowd Control Simulator. Combat is aggressive, tactical, and merciless.
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Dredgers
This is tough, because I love this game and it’s concept. It’s so fun! I have a lot of praise for it.
Unfortunately, I feel like I can’t recommend it at this time for two reasons:
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Missing basics like any type of saving, which pretty much everything I’ve played since the days of shareware has had, seems quite sloppy. The display of the amount of hours I’ve played isn’t really correct: most of that has been on pause because I didn’t want to exit and lose all my progress on the run.
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Do you know how my last run ended? No? Neither do I. Based on all the information I had, it didn’t make sense. Many key things are just not explained, so new players are going to go through several baptisms by fire, creating a lot of frustration.
– Real player with 152.5 hrs in game
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Pretty solid roguelike with emphasis on speedy playthroughs and choosing your next step, though that can be its weakness too. Its big selling points are the 30+ races and crazy class combinations which are very very satisfying to play with, as well as actual honest-to-god necromancy where you can have a zombie horde if you want. Or you could skip zombies altogether, dominate the minds of your enemies, send them at your foes, blow up their (animate or inanimate) corpses into a huge mess when they die and then revive them and your former foes as skeletons. Full crafter build is viable, and thats before we get onto races. Pretty much anything that spawns in the dungeon is something you can unlock and play pretty quickly. Only exception afaik is the slime MAN (you can be a regular slime) but I suspect that’ll be implemented in time.
– Real player with 61.1 hrs in game
Tournament of Armistice: Preliminaries
Select your Champion, and enter the Tournament of Armistice: Preliminaries, a one-on-one fighting game featuring RPG mechanics and abilities
Early Access coming soon, featuring four playable characters
Time-released Characters every few weeks as they’re developed
Play Against the AI on four different difficulty levels, with each one being progressively smarter at counter-play
Challenge your friends online with Player vs Player (PvP) mode!
Learn more about the Tournament, and the character backstories
Get the Soundtrack - over nine amazing tracks!
Who will be your champion?
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Grand Battle
Must buy if you like RPGs!
It’s nice to see a solid, well presented and very playable game of this type appear without the usual hype and fanfare, and get plenty of attention for its gameplay rather than its sexy heroine or Hollywood guest stars. These game has made it work. I can tell this is going to be extremely replayable. There is 10 heroes and you make a party of 4 at any one time. You also choose a starting hero and your first partner varies depending on who you choose.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
The game takes a little adjusting to but honestly is really enjoyable and reminiscent of a classic old school RPG. You can stat up characters, use equipment slots and seems like there are a lot of abilities just like you would expect. Not a huge story game but seems like a fun hack and slash.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
FINAL FANTASY III
I had actually been dreading this version of Final Fantasy 3, since Square Enix’s releases of mobile games on Steam have been very hit or miss, mostly the latter. So, I’m honestly surprised to find myself recommending this release, to the point it might be the best version of Final Fantasy 3 to date. This game has tons of smart changes that make this the most definitive way to play this game, the finest of the Famicom released trio. With a lot of nice QoL changes, this game plays like it has the best features of the 3D release and the original Famicom version.
– Real player with 112.1 hrs in game
Final Fantasy III is a NES game so ambitious it feels like a SNES game. While it has the tropes of old like the Dragon Quest combat, the party of blank-slates, and Vancian magic-system, it stands as a highly ambitious work that measures up with the classic SNES trilogy.
After the stinker that was II the series went back a step and took to making a bigger, better, and more original version of I. Four light-warriors, four crystals, but now twice the length in a world twice the size.
You have versatility. You can change your job at will. You can swap magic around instead of forgetting expensive spells. You could make a lot of weird party combinations work.
– Real player with 68.2 hrs in game
Magi
This is an old and fun game that used to be sold by the standalone developer. It’s a shame strategies are not still posted, for it can really be challenging to win. Music soundtrack is pretty iconic… I don’t think the developer supports it anymore but if you’re into magic duels then you’ve probably spent worse money than this.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
It’s “TUG-OF-WAR” with fireballs and techno-liches.
Other games come to mind, like
“Aeon Command” (space battles)
“Samurai vs Zombies Defense” (goofy samurai warfare)
and
“Puzzle Chronicles” (the illegitimate child of Tetris and Mortal Kombat)
These game elements are constant:
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try to hold the line
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manage your defences
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beef-up your attacks
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spam your enemies to death
In Magi, you start by opening magical “channels.” These channels enable your spells and strengthen them. Then, it’s a real-time battle as you queue-up spells for casting. It’s like the building queue in Starcraft or Civ… only it’s your shield spell, or a magic missile, or summoning an imp. As your mage is casting one spell, you have time to set up the next. And the next. You can plan a bit… or panic. Apparently, I’m still fond of panicking.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
FINAL FANTASY II
I’ve always loved FF2. I realize most people do not. But I’ve probably replayed it more than any of the others, honestly, due to how freely you can customize your party. It’s just so fun and satisfying to increase your strengths in any manner you wish, and this remaster makes that experience better than ever.
I hope I don’t get in trouble for this, but FF2 was the game that got me interested in emulation back when I was younger and perhaps not so scrupulous. This was before the game had seen an official English translation (in Origins). I had just gotten into computers and the Internet, and I loved Final Fantasy (the original, that is). I still have a printout of Zach Keene’s FF1 walkthrough (dated July 1996, if memory serves; printed March 2000/2001) in a stack of notebooks right on my dresser. It was on the early fansite Mysidia.com (Nintendotaku) that I saw a link to Final Fantasy Fever, and on that website I discovered what was then called “FF2j”. It all just sounded so cool, this game like my beloved FF1, that had never been released outside Japan. I just had to play it, and embarked on a frustrating journey to find the means to do so. Long story short, I was deeply engrossed from start to finish… sadomasochistic HP training, canceling hundreds of magic commands, and all.
– Real player with 85.9 hrs in game
The definitive version of a stillborn mess of a game.
If you’re reading this, I’m sure by now you’re seen review upon review calling out the terrible experimental leveling and progression system in the game. But how is the rest of the game? Can’t you just read a guide, figure out how to navigate the leveling system and then enjoy the game from there? Well, I’m here to tell you, the answer is NO.
I’m going to talk about the REST of the game that I rarely see mentioned. Outside of the leveling system, the game is pretty bad all-around, here’s a few of its most egregious faults.
– Real player with 35.8 hrs in game
FINAL FANTASY V
This version does not have the additional content found in the GBA and Mobile versions, but I still think it is a great experience.
The redone music is a real treat, and the upgraded backgrounds during battles are also very nice (especially in ExDeath’s Castle after the illusion is removed).
The colors and graphics are sharp, as are the new cutscene animations (ie. crystals shattering, etc.).
Some features included in all FF Pixel Remastered editions:
►Hold down B (on a Nintendo-type controller) to run, and in this game when you learn the Thief’s Sprint ability, it makes you run even faster when you do this. Granted, I find both of these can make your character run a little too fast, and you might make mistakes in some situations. For example, when you are trying to escape Castle Karnak before it blows up while getting every treasure chest and learning Aera and Death Claw on your way out, your character might dash past turns you meant to make. Update: This was patched on Nov 24, 2021.
– Real player with 103.8 hrs in game
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 77.3 hrs in game
Hellbreachers
Hellraizers is a new action-adventure platformer game from indie studio Omcor, creator of ace of space, set in a fantasy medieval setting.
The game meets us with a plot, atmosphere and, of course, gameplay. Everything in order.
The plot of the plot is that you acquired an island, knowingly knowing about the riches and treasures located there, but upon your arrival, a demonic incursion happened to your own island and now you, left penniless in your pocket, set off to destroy the heresy, demons and xenos that were waiting for you in the bowels of the island.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Not a bad game. Even on the hardest difficulty, I was able to run through the monsters and idly click on the bosses to destroy them. I didn’t feel any real incentive to collect the gems until after the game ended.
5/10 game for the quality.
9/10 game for the price!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Shattered Runes
Shattered Runes is a fast-FPS in which you fight your enemies with magic. Choose from 186 unique spells to shape your own playstyle and defeat your opponents.
Current features :
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186 magic spells : Each one has its own effect on the environment
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Innovative gameplay : Magic spells are composed by following particular combinations with your mouse position and pressed keys
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Simple class system : Build your own set of 4 favorite spells to use in game
Important note : The game is on early development stage, if you want to learn more about it, join the official Discord server (link provided in the game). Also, if you need help understanding some aspects of the game, feel free to follow the official YouTube channel.