1428: Shadows over Silesia
Shadows over Silesia is a dark action adventure game with fantasy elements, set in real medieval Europe. With true historical events in the background, you can mainly expect challenging puzzles and difficult battles, but also stealth passages and important decisions. You will come across possessed devil worshipers, sexual demons, and beasts from hell, as well as creatures well-known from European mythology.
Dark fantasy story
Europe is in the middle of religious upheaval and many preachers predict that the end of the world is near. The year is 1428 and the Hussites have just set out on their Silesian campaign. These heretics appear to be the biggest threat in the kingless country. But true evil of a completely different kind is lurking nearby and it does not intend to engage in religious disputes.
The game is linear and takes place during the entire Hussite campaign. It will be divided into thirteen chapters, with which you will be able to spend about 30 hours of playtime. You will experience everything from the point of view of the two main characters. Hynek, a grumpy Hussite hetman who doesn’t hesitate to swear or mess around with anything, and Lothar, a Hospitaller knight, a man of good education and manners who stands alongside his brethren in the front line of the Silesian defense. Each has their own motivations and views of the world around them, different equipment and abilities. Their fates will soon become intertwined. Will they face one another, weapon in hand, or forge a fragile alliance to stand shoulder to shoulder against a far worse enemy?
Isometric graphics
The graphics are inspired by classic RPG games. They are isometric, stylized, and a bit fairytale-like. The action often takes place underground, in the rain, or at night, which serves to amplify the dark atmosphere and focus, which is mostly placed on the contrast of light and shadow.
Challenging puzzles
The original puzzles you will come across on your dangerous journey will most definitely be challenging. Classic adventure games of the 1990s were a big inspiration. You will have to take advantage of your surroundings, look for objects, obtain information, and solve puzzles or encoded messages. Some problems can be solved in multiple ways, or they can be cleverly worked around.
Sneaking in the shadows
Sometimes you’ll have to blend into the shadows and sneak past enemies to avoid being detected. Following their patrol routes and habits will help you find the best path. Or you can try to quietly take them out, one by one.
Complex combat
The combat system is easy to understand but it takes practice to fully master it. Remember one thing: being outnumbered is a problem! If three or more opponents attack you at the same time, you will die! The key is to take advantage of their mistakes, wait for the right moment, and then attack. You will face not just knights, villagers, and robbers, but also various supernatural beings - and you shouldn’t underestimate them.
Diverse environments
During the game, you will move around on foot as well as in the saddle. You will visit various real as well as fictitious places in medieval Silesia. You will plunder villages, doggedly defend the city walls, and explore places such as secret dungeons, abandoned mines, or forbidden parts of monasteries. For example, you can look forward to visiting Röwersdorf, Nysa, the Brzeg monastery, or the Rabesberg castle.
Hidden coins
You will have the opportunity to search for two kinds of hidden coins. Only the best of the best will be able to collect them all. Not only will you fill your wallet with them and unlock unique achievements, but you can also occasionally use them to progress through the story.
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Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
This game… man this game…
The first time I played this game was when I was like 10. For that era, it had the most beatiful graphics i’ve ever seen in any videogame.
The gameplay can be portrayed as a perfect combination of Age of Empires + Paint. Yeah, not kidding. You actually play the game as if it was AoE and when you get into a fight, you draw shit with your mouse to attack. If you draw an inverted & you make an attack that takes time but is sure to fuck up the enemy, but it also takes all your stamina, leaving you defenseless for like 3 seconds.
– Real player with 239.3 hrs in game
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=== Story / Lore ===
(This point is not meaningful in multiplayer versus only games)
🔲 Masterpiece, had to cry
☑️ Great experience
🔲 Not a legend but okay
🔲 Unconvincing
🔲 Not available at all
=== Music / Soundtrack ===
(Based on music as well as ingame sounds)
🔲 Absolutely amazing
☑️ Beautiful
🔲 It’s okay
🔲 At least there
🔲 I have not heard anything
=== Graphics ===
(Based on the year of release)
🔲 Breathtaking
☑️ Very nice
🔲 Okay but nothing special
🔲 Well…
🔲 Good old DOS days
– Real player with 107.2 hrs in game
Siege of Avalon: Anthology
Really fun CRPG, as others have stated. Setting/Atmosphere is pretty on-point for representing a desperate band of defenders in an elongated siege, which only appears to be going further downhill. There are a lot of characters to speak with, most providing backstory or supplementary lore, with a few providing quests/offering to join your party after a certain point
IMO, you really have a good feel on your characters growth. Starting out as a complete amateur you have to take on what is essentially a suicide mission, which would have ended quickly had I not acquired the heal spell & prepared in advance, that sees your character fairly rapidly gain in proficiency in order to survive the coming perils. The AI companions have quirks (looking at you mage NPC that ran into a corner :P) but they do generally provide valuable assistance in engagements which would otherwise be extremely complicated, if not impossible
– Real player with 136.6 hrs in game
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Imagine my emotion when i found this jewel in the Steam Store. Let me tell you it was a wonderful surprise. Even if the game has some issues about the combat pathfinding, let me remember to you all that this game has been released in the early 2000’s. I recomend this game to everyone who loves long epic adventures with a lot of interesting characters, and days and hours of fun. This game can be played with three different styles to choose, either you can be a warrior mastering the combat skills, or a scout and specialize in stealth and archer skills or a magician dominating all kind of spells. You will also find companions along the story that you can also equip and provide with items and armor and weapons and all sort of gadgets, they will be valuable partners in your adventure. Im very happy that i found this game again 20 years later after trying it’s demo version in the early 2000’s. I was starting to loose hope about finding it again. But now that i found it here, remastered and reforged i just cant’t stop playing it. it’s very similar to Diablo II, but let me tell you, this game is a masterpiece of is time, More dialogues, more stories, the characters and merchants you will find in this game are so numerous and complex, with stories to tell, gossips, and stuff. It’s very rich in every aspect. Please allow yourselves to play this game. It’s a rare wander.
– Real player with 61.3 hrs in game
Tourney
I really enjoyed this one. I wish it had a sandbox type scenario without the time constraint.
Want to play more but don’t really want to repeat the main campaign.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
Theme park meets jousting!
It’s a good little sim game. There’s more complexity to the it that I thought it would have when I bought it - but it’s actually been quite fun for the last couple of days I’ve been dipping in and out. Well worth a punt.
Pros
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Good feel to it, familiar tycoon game mechanics, building, hiring staff and all that jazz.
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It looks nice, good art style and cute characters.
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Music is pretty good.
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It’s got some nice humour - you can see little thought bubbles from time to time with funny stuff people are thinking & the story is humor driven
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Magic Adventures
benar
– Real player with 54.4 hrs in game
Magic Adventures is a endless survival clicker game when you fight endless horde of enemy, and get stronger at each run.
Graphics (5.5 / 10) : This part is ok, the graphics are nice, but there only one place (the plain)
Gameplay (4.5 / 10) : Quite simple, but easy, just click to damage the foes, but no special attack or skills …
There different types of enemy, each have it own pattern.
You win gold for upgrade yourself and get stronger (HP, Damage, HP Regen)
The big problem with the game is that you start at lvl 1 at each new run, there no warp system for starting further when you start you become really stronger.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Bring Death
Revenge your loved ones - No matter what it takes, and no matter how much suffering you have to inflict!
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Travel the lands, to gather units and resources
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Build an army strong enough to defeat your enemies
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Tactical turn-based strategy
Astonia Resurgence
Astonia Resurgence is a great version of the old school Astonia 3 MMORPG.
For new players: it is an older game, so visually it might not be as appealing as some 4k games you can play. Howver it has unique leveling and stat systems that make it pretty enjoyable if given the chance. Stick around a few hours and you’ll find it’s quite fun. I still hop on old runescape for the sheer fun, not for the visual perfections.
As an old school player there are Some Nice Quality of life updates from the original such as su/gu and most things you pick up going directly into inventory, all the orbs( 10-RD99) now being located in an area in Aston. (Running orb alts used to be a pain).
– Real player with 1142.1 hrs in game
First of all I must preface that this game is a revamped version of a 30 year old game and through the decades there have been several attempts from other servers to bring it back to life.
Personally this is hands down the best version released to date. OW Astonia was a grind, and is not for most people since fighting and movement aren’t in 3D and there’s not really button mashing like some of the newer RPGs. That being said there are a lot of improvements to quality of life that have already been implemented since release and surpass other servers by leaps and bounds. I really appreciate the community and it does seem to be growing, a mix of knowledgeable OW players with new ones coming on. Developers are constantly adding Quality Of Life/New updates on a timely and consistent manner and any issues are quickly resolved. Suggestions are taken into consideration and implemented. I’d highly recommend joining the discord server as well as there is a lot of useful information for new players already pinned.
– Real player with 509.5 hrs in game
City Of Jade: Imperial Frontier
Not recommended.
I’ve played the game several times with varying strategies and each time failed to figure out a way to build a sustainable city. So after 18 hours of game play, and discussing with other friends who have played, I believe that the balance of the game is broken. I’ve tried to contact the devs but they’ve not responded.
– Real player with 50.6 hrs in game
no
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game
Inquisitor
Wow, I just finished this game after almost 200 hours of gameplay, (197 to be exact). The game does not necessarily take that long to complete but I really enjoyed it and wanted to explore every dungeon, kill every enemy, read every detail of the story and lore of the world, and complete every side quest. Honestly, it could probably be completed in 140 to 150 hours. This very involved, isometric, action RPG offers a lot for your money and has a very engaging story. It takes place in a fictitious continent strongly modeled after medieval Europe, with a theological system loosely based on Roman Catholicism. The name of Jesus is changed to “The First Prophet,” but there are crosses and crucifixes decorated throughout the game.
– Real player with 198.0 hrs in game
Inquisitor is an excellent game. It has its flaws but it has abundant strengths. There is some truth to elements of the negative reviews – it’s complex, it is difficult, it doesn’t have state of the art graphics, it doesn’t have redundant randomly generated ‘levels’ that developers are trying to pass off as a quality world, or randomly generated loot composed of mad-libs descriptions whose creation clearly lacked conscious thought, it doesn’t have many of the “features” of modern RPGs, like quest markers or path guidance or regurgitated info-spills, or immersion-breaking tweaks designed to appease the Modern Gamer, or cartoony goofiness that spoils an otherwise interesting idea. And for all of these things it should be celebrated. It looks amazing, like a much more detailed, hand-crafted Diablo, with a beautiful and mysterious world that is fully immersive, aided by the great writing and plot, and a focus on things more impactful than combat and loot.
– Real player with 162.1 hrs in game
Alchemist Adventure
Usually I don’t jump into early acces games, especially not when they’re out for just a few days.
However, the steam demo week introduced me to this game and I liked it! Couldn’t wait to continue once I noticed it was in early acces a few days later.
I really do recommend this game to other players, at least give it a shot. Important to note is that the devs are really open for improvement and suggestions/tips on their steamgroup
Being an alchemist with amnesia is, well, confusing. Along with the lead character you’re trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
– Real player with 37.9 hrs in game
Playing on Ubuntu 18.04 with Vulkan and Proton without any major issues. The one intro video doesn’t play properly (it’s the one that’s also on the store - with the great music) but all the cutscenes in game work fine. You can use Proton GE and even that plays fine too. Sometimes the game starts and shows a black screen, but hitting alt-tab or the super key will make everything show properly after that.
The game is pretty fun! There are lots of neat things find and lots of exploring and story. I personally like the story “memory” cutscenes.
– Real player with 33.9 hrs in game