Through the Helios
This game is sadly not in a working condition yet.
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Mouse Cursor doesn’t go away ingame
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No customization options whatsoever
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Getting stuck during tutorial and can’t progress
That’s pretty much it.
But keep working on it developers, your project has potential!
I admire every indie developer for their work and you have put too
much effort into the game to give it up now!
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Wardens
After having played this game extensively since I acquired it, I am posting this review in the hopes of addressing the points made in the negative review above, as the reviewer clearly does not understand the purpose of this game. This is going to be somewhat lengthy, will try to summarize at the top.
TLDR; Pro’s and con’s below. If you came here expecting standalone chess look elsewhere, if you are interested in a sandbox experience where you can create your own units read on.
First and foremost I would like to point out something that I believe is the reason for said reviewers negative perception of this game, and that is that Wardens is NOT chess. If you go into Wardens expecting standalone chess, you will be disappointed. At present the only resemblance this game has to chess is the movement and arrangement of the pieces (for now), and that it is played on a chess board. However, despite one of the default game types being Capture the King, Wardens lacks practically all other basic chess rules, such as en passante, castling, and most importantly, check. As your goal in the aforementioned game mode is to KILL the king, not checkmate him. This was done so as to introduce the concept of the abilities in a familiar way without overwhelming the player. As for the abilities being boring, I admit that I myself do not care for the starting decks. That is because those decks are more useful as templates, to showcase possible abilities and help you to make your own. So the abilities are only as boring as you make them. Granted the amount of things you can do at the moment is a bit limited, but there is a surprising amount of versatility with what is already there. With the tools currently available, I have created over 4 pages worth of cards, with varied abilities including, but not limited to, things such as a unit that when they have sufficient mana they and surrounding allies cannot be frozen, a unit that has an ability that grants permanent attack immunity until next overtake (akin to stealth), and a unit that allows allies to cast their abilities for free provided they have sufficient mana for said ability, although this requires (for now) compatibility to be integrated into the other units in order to work, as does my most recent unit, which will allow nearby allies to cast their abilities for 3 mana less. The list goes on, and it will only improve with time as more things become available.
– Real player with 74.6 hrs in game
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As a chess player, this looked interesting, but I can’t recommend it. It’s basically just chess, but the pieces have boring abilities, their movement is unchanged. Board readability is terrible, all the pieces (both yours and your opponent’s) look too similar and so everything blends together until you can’t figure out what is happening anymore. There’s no tutorial, and the AI you can play against is terrible, if you’re decent at chess you will easily crush it.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Traversing Traveler
A small cute game. I like the art style, fun story.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
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Full play through here once it uploads:
Review:
Cool Game the music is great, graphics are pretty cool and unique had like the n64 3d feel with some really nice character portraits and it has a nice overarching story throughout. My main complaint is the VINE THOUGH the vine is the DEVIL 100% in some areas it will give you the hardest time using it (Getting the back pack in the cave OMG! painful). The side quests really aren’t worth doing either they’re a pain in the butt and you only get like two lines of dialogue for doing them. I liked the jimmy buffet cameo too that was nice. Overall a pretty solid game would have been 100x more enjoyable if the vine worked consistently though a lot of the time he’ll start climbing it then hop off. I did have luck with it in the forest and snow area (Thank god!), but everywhere else it was insanely hit or miss. Also my Navi for whatever reason wouldn’t go to the nearest thing I had to collect usually it would get dead set on going to the furthest or the most difficult to grab so once you got to the most difficult place you would have to back track to find the other pieces if you didn’t get lucky enough finding them on your own. The Potions can also take a toxic amount of time to respawn I know the reason for the slow respawn is so you can’t cheese some of the puzzles, but it really is too looooooong. There’s also some fool in a green robe in the forest standing on a bridge who won’t talk to me and has constructed the most invincible invisible wall that on the tree house bridges not sure what he’s doing there besides being a jerk since he won’t talk to me.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Grim Seventh
shame it didn’t work out, game is better than a lot of junk out there. shame you couldn’t have kept working on it. Good luck iun the future.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
Grim Seventh I just heard went free to play. Having tried it now I have to say its a decent hack and slash, its nothing amazing or groundbreaking but gameplay is there and the art style is unique. Average free release but I like it enough to recommend it to anyone looking for a free indie hack and slash game.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Lichdom: Battlemage
I admire this concept. I was excited by it when I first read the description of Lichdom somewhere on the Internet. World certainly lacked a game where you could really feel like a mage, casting endless spells and wreaking mayhem around yourself.
You even feel wrong while playing it, because until now, in any other game, this kind of gameplay has only been available through cheating. You are basically immortal (in case of “death” you actually just despawn and spawn back at the nearest checkpoint), you have an abyss of magical energy that never exhausts, and you can just keep throwing orbs of fire at your enemy until it dies. Overall, it’s all you could only dream of if you ever chose to be a mage in an RPG. Do you remember how you had to sleep in order to restore your mana after killing every_single_enemy in Morrowind? Feels like nightmare now.
– Real player with 44.1 hrs in game
Gameplay / combat
Lichdom: Battlemage is an action RPG where you control a single character from a first person perspective. You are a badass mage on a personal revenge quest and you’ve got a wide range of spells to choose from.
You’ve got traditional fireballs and AoEs as well as grenade like “lobs” and “rays” that are short range constant beams. You don’t have any melee weapons but you can block, and if timed correctly, this will trigger a “nova” which damages everything in a radius around you. There’s also a very useful dodge move. There is no mana limit or cooldowns so you can cast as frequently as you desire.
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
Magic Thief
Become a Magic Thief in a new reinterpretation of the classic minesweeper game. Immerse yourself in the world of the magical Middle Ages, open chests, use charms and avoid encounters with mysterious crystals!
Magic Thief is a minesweeper like you’ve never seen him before. The cells are chests, wooden boxes and other vaults of jewelry, which our skillful thief wants to take away from the bad and the rich for the poor and deprived.
Features:
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Five game locations: taverns, dungeons, goblin caves, crypts of kings and magic voids
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Campaign mode and story quest events
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Changing size and shape of the playing field
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Classic mode for fans of the original game in Windows systems
Are you not afraid of difficulties? Don’t worry, the levels won’t be too easy.
On your way you will meet:
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Mimics cleverly masquerading as other objects
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Invisibles hiding from your search magic
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Teleporters changing their position on the map
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Antimagic crystals that block any interactions with the area around
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Anomalies generating a wave of energy that activates neighboring cells
And yet, your life will not be so difficult, as you take control of the magic of four kinds!
Use:
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Transfer Scope for cell theft
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Sensitive Powder for crystal search
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Rings of Time to make a move safely
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Time Shifter to correct your mistake
Never played minesweeper? It’s not scary. Inside the game, you will receive detailed training in the classic basics of the game.
Spellcaster University
This game straddles the line between game and simulator, and it might leave people looking for either one disappointed. I, however, love this game, so I want to talk about it a bit.
The gameplay almost exclusively involves making choices from a mostly-random selection. You draw from a deck or speak to a faction, and then you choose the option that seems to serve your needs best. You have a limited time to make these choices because the Lord of Evil makes you move along almost as soon as you get rolling. The overall idea is to emerge from the storm of randomness with a healthy selection of graduates who buff your stats for the rest of the campaign. Ultimately, you run out of places to hide, so you have to find a way to survive the final level.
– Real player with 74.8 hrs in game
Charming if a bit clunky Hogwarts Sim Tower, card-draw based room choices. Can generate different mana as resources, which allow you to draw more cards of that mana type.
The mechanics are enjoyable, and the game is a great calm, casual experience. The campaign could use a lot of adjustment, it can feel a bit arbitrary and the only real direction is either provided through trial and error or community written walk-throughs. There isn’t particularly a feeling of progressing difficulty or even a real link between the areas as you progress. Challenge cards (You can optionally set a challenge at the start of the campaign, and completing it will unlock the card for future runs) are a cool way to provide goals, but they feel like a side piece rather than a main progressing thread. Some functionality/depth seems underwhelming on it’s impact on the game. Cool ideas, but they don’t actually end up doing a lot for you if you spend time manage them (ex. get 3-5 school “houses”, set priority to different types of magic for the house, drop the people gifted in those types in those houses, stop thinking about houses. There’s rarely a benefit to tweaking house settings beyond the initial setup).
– Real player with 40.6 hrs in game
StoryArcana
The realm of Nox was created to separate magical and non-magical beings. Clay Quilt is an ordinary boy transported there and to attend Azufelt, Academy of the Arcane, as an exchange student. As the only one of his kind, he must learn what it takes to be accepted and stay true to himself!
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Relive life in a realm of wizardry
Become the only earthly wizard in the realm of Nox! Learn about this new realm full of magical creatures, wizard duels and puzzles for those with a magical mind!
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Balance Academics, Quests & Mystery Solving
Solve mysteries as you help out the locals in Noxrose City, earning money to upgrade your wand or cruise around on a new broom.
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Customize your wand and make it yours
Unlock new parts as you progress in the story or try your luck with a gasha machine in Noxrose City.
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Participate in side activities in your daily life
Find rare trading cards for Artimus and play against the other students attending Azufelt Academy. There’s never a dull day in the world of Nox.
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
A charming, hilarious and fun adventure with the perfect balance of puzzle difficulty. This point and click has my favourite puzzle design because they are not too hard to figure out, but also not too easy. The characters are unique, interesting and lively, and the graphics are gorgeous without putting too much strain on a computer (as a laptop gamer, I especially appreciate this as there is nothing sadder to me than a game I really want to play with specs that my computer can just about manage with lags). As in the first game, Wilbur is an absolute treasure, Ivo is as great a female character as ever and Critter is quirky, sweet and loyal. Nate has grown more likable in this game as well as gained a fair amount of depth and development.
– Real player with 92.3 hrs in game
If you played ‘The Book of Unwritten Tales (1)" you will probably enjoy this sequel. It brings back all the main characters from the first game and introduces a few new ones.
The textures and rigging are a little better than the first and the mechanics and walk paths are a little smoother but I still found that some of the walk paths (especially when you are switching between characters) are a little weird. You don’t have to do any pixel hunting because you can highlight all items that you can interact with so it’s hard to miss something. Some of the puzzles are not very logical to solve but most of them are reasonable.
– Real player with 61.5 hrs in game
DragonScales 3: Eternal Prophecy of Darkness
The caravan of mages has been slaughtered off by a mysterious spell. Only a wizard managed to survive: you. A DragonScales journey into a world threatened by the worshippers of Specktr’s sinister prophecy, a ritual to invoke absolute darkness and decimate the Gravity Kingdom. Your mental prowess is the ultimate bid for the survival of your race. DragonScales 3 is a casual, tile-matching game in which you combine colored scales on the board to collect special tiles, stars and prizes, defeat skulls and other monsters, solve tricky puzzles, and many more game actions! There are bosses too, showcasing a new approach to DragonScales battles. More than 150 levels await. Put a halt to the deviant aura of the Eternal Prophecy of Darkness!
Special features
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150 levels.
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Multiple challenges: basic scale combinations, scales which fall from their position, chasing scales, solving puzzles, destroying skulls and monsters on the board, and many more actions.
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First DragonScales game with ‘Gravity Mode’.
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5 boss battles with a new play mode.
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First DragonScales game with badges and secret stars.
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New array of magical powers. For instance, you can use ‘Improved Prescience’ to select a tailored set of scales to play, or even change completely the position
of all the scales on the board with the new ‘Confusion’ power!
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New story arc with Specktr’s cultists.