Evil Wizard
Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG featuring metroidvania elements and carefully crafted pixel-art environments. As a defeated villain who barely survived a tough fight, you’ll have to face an army of so-called heroes to recover what’s rightfully yours. Rediscover your powers, infiltrate your own castle, unleash devastating spells, and purge your ancestral home of these miserable excuses for an enemy. Are you ready to get your hands dirty? It’s time to be the bad guy for a change!
A quest fueled by revenge
Face off against hordes of enemies, avoid deadly traps, and solve challenging puzzles as you reclaim the halls of your castle from the heroes that now live within it!
Metroidvania-inspired Design
Explore carefully-crafted locations and navigate intricate levels. Use your skills and elements to interact with the in-game world and unlock new paths.
High-Paced Skill-based Combat
Deal devastating melee blows, unlock earth-shattering spells and dash around the map to crush your foes. You’ll be in full control of every battle!
Elements and forces To Master
Control the power of fire, ice, void, lightning, and earth. Mix various elements to unleash devastating attacks and exploit your enemies’ weaknesses!
Unique Enemies and Boss Fights
Fine-tune your character to defeat increasingly more challenging enemies. Choose among dozens of upgrades as you get ready to vanquish an array of bosses, each with their own skills and combat style!
“There are songs that still tell the tale of the heroes’ most daring deeds. After a long battle against the Evil Wizard, the castle he called home was sieged and swarmed and the wretchful minions that served him for generations were slain by the dozens. While the corrupt villain himself managed to escape, the day marked an amazing victory for the forces of good…”
Or did it, really?!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592100/Evil_Wizard/
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Devoul- Curse of the Soulless
Good story
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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A game to congratulate. The main character pulls you into the game either by the playability or with the story. The scenarios are diverse and wake up your attention - the music also. You can “play” with the time of the game and stay by the small games and quests inside of it. It’s fun. I love it.
I miss the times when games were made to leave something to the player. I miss games like this.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Alice Escaped!
■ About
Alice Escaped is a 2D action and exploration game. Follow the advenctures of the two girls Usada and Kotora who wander into a strange world of grimoires, chasing after “Alice”.
What awaits them there are mysterious characters based off of Alice in Wonderland: the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and Humpty Dumpty – but are they really the enemy? And why does the White Rabbit guiding them have a zipper on his back?
Finally, who is the enigmatic girl hiding Alice in the deepest part of the world? Just why do they find themselves trapped inside, and– Oh, you’ll need to find out the rest for yourself!
■ Battle Action
The key to this game is the stylish tag team battle system! Swing Usada’s giant hammer to pulverize your enemies with powerful melee attacks, or use Kotora’s submachine gun and bombs to take enemies out from a distance. Switch between the two to chain impressive combos!
Taking out enemies builts up your Chance Gauge, which can be used to perform supporting attacks and devastating ultimate attacks. (feature not included in the demo)
The intensity builds in boss fights: whittle down their shield gauge to break their shields, letting you unleash a flurry of attacks. But beware – they’ve got a variety of powerful attacks to hit you back!
■ Characters
Usada & Kotora
Two friendly girls who have wandered into a mysterious world
White Rabbit
A strange rabbit with a zipper on his back who calls himself “Usamura-san”
Cheshire Cat
This cryptic feline appears before Usada and Kotora and enjoys testing his skills against them. Maybe he has another goal than just getting in their way…?
■ Story
One summer’s day, Usada and Kotora go to the library to do their homework. Kotora seriously gets to her studies, but Usagi has her head up in the clouds. She wanders over to a bookshed deep inside, and brings back a big, thick book.
“I found this interesting looking book!”
Kotora looks back at her quizzically. Suddenly, a slip of paper falls out from the book. The letter reads:
“Look for Alice.”
As soon as they read the words, the two are enveloped in a blinding light.
Features
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Character illustrations by the talented PicPicGram (Ninja Girl , Japanese School Life )
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Developed by illuCalab (A Magical High School Girl )
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Two playable characters
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Two difficulties to choose from
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Elderand
The game has a heavy focus on skill-based combat, which means reckless explorers will be punished time after time. Do not fear, as your timing and positioning will improve once you find your battle style.
Choose a look that suits you best with character customization options that allow for varying skin tones, hairstyles and colors.
Become the most powerful warrior by leveling up your character’s attack, magic, and other stats to take on the unforgiving beasts of the land.
Discover, buy, and collect a myriad of items, including unique relics, potions, weapons and shields. Bargain with shopkeepers to gather even more loot and upgrade your character.
Journey to distinct lands filled with ancient mysteries to unravel. Slay lethal creatures, find hidden passages, and befriend strangers from the Errant Breach to Omulore. While forging your path through the world, remember one thing, curiosity is your greatest ally.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1413660/Elderand/
Sunrise Tragedy
Story
After the onset of the Goliaths, humans and vampires take refuge inside an old, abandoned cathedral, where they attempt to live in harmony. The cathedral, once used as a monastery by a long-dead civilization, is not quite as safe as foolishly dreamt.
Gameplay
Sunrise Tragedy is an Action-RPG featuring fast-paced, stamina-based combat. Explore a vast cathedral with interconnected areas full of terrifying monsters. Unlock new abilities, called Vampiric Powers, which can aid you in combat and in exploration.
Engage in brutal combat with powerful foes. Dodge the enemy’s attacks with invincibility frames and make your own attacks when the timing is right. Use different moves depending on the situation to either stun the enemy by depleting their stamina, or go in for the kill by depleting their health.
Level up your stats in whichever way you desire. Use a wide variety of weapons, costumes, accessories, and spells to customize your own way of playing.
Interact with various NPCs to gain upgrades and buy from their shops. Form bonds with them to gain items and hear their philosophies amid the impending apocalypse.
This game also features an elaborate alchemy system, allowing you to brew potions that fit your build. You get a set amount of potions per spawn, and you decide the effects of the potion by choosing the ingredients. For example, a magic build may want to trade some health regeneration for MP regeneration, or in some areas you may want to include a cure for poison.
ASTLIBRA Revision
Genre
Side scrolling 2D action RPG
Features
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Trading, exploration, long story in chapter form, battles with huge bosses, rare equipment.
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Various strengthening elements, exhilarating and flexible combat, item synthesis, etc. Estimated playtime: 40+ hours
Story
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The main character is separated from his childhood friend when his village is attacked by a demon.
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When he comes to his senses, he finds himself in a world with talking birds and no humans.
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This is a full-length story about the many adventures of a young man who is tossed about by time and fate, but faces them with true courage and kindness.
What’s new in Revision
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Wide screen, high resolution support, multi-language support, various useful functions added, and
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Changes to the specifications of the possession technique, addition of a tutorial demo, and additional events.
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Gorgeous graphics by illustrators Shigatake and Ryubuchi Haku
Witchcrafter: Empire Legends
In Witchcrafter: Empire Legends you play with elemental magic in a systemic playground.
You will be able to master a total of 8 elements: 4 main and 4 derivative.
Fire propagation, water simulation, air flow and terraforming - use 4 elements magic spells to your advantage.
Interact with both enemies and environment!
The war-torn empire contrasts with the young witchcrafter’s peaceful home.
Estel will get mature along his journey for a stone desired by everyone.
You will face both kind and deceptive folks, each with diverse beliefs, past, motives, relationships and worldview.
Shape the story with your decisions!
Emporia is a beautiful and diverse, yet dangerous and monster infested land.
There are places of old rituals and mysterious remnants of forgotten civilisations, waiting to be discovered.
It’s full of references to slavic, ugarit and nordic mythology and best fantasy books.
Immerse yourself into this world!
You experience the story full of legends, myths and epic moments, as well as earthbound, folk tales. Embark on a journey and meet variety of enemies and friends with division not always as clear as black and white.
You are Estel, a young, orphaned adept of witchcrafting, who rises far to the west in an isolation with his patron, Trismegistos, who is learning you witchcrafting.
Meanwhile, Mordon, a necromancer and an emperor of the southern Navia is invading your lands - Emporia with an army of mutated, undead monsters. He is desiring a mythical stone called Xerion, that could allow to control the matter freely with a hope to revive his loved ones, that were killed because of his decisions.
Trismegistos, your step-father is the only withcrafter able to stop him and thus Mordon kidnapps him.
You need to find your father and stop the mad necromancer from obtaining an unpredictable source of power!
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
Join Aletheia and a vibrant cast of characters as they race to discover the secrets of the Steam City of Canaan. Clobber armies of Clockwork golems and hunt horrors that slither through depths once forgotten. Thwart the twisted schemes of Canaan’s corrupt overseers, the nefarious Comitium. Fight for mankind’s survival and reveal the dark and dangerous truths riveted into the very foundations of the Steam City.
Step into the shoes of Aletheia and tread the path of the Soldner, an elite mercenary of Irkalla who lives one job at a time. Take up the sword and gun, combining a slew of melee combos and deadly gunplay in staggering feats of skill that will leave your enemies reeling.
Chase down a frenzied mutant charging through the grimy stalls of the Irkallan Black Market, leap across the molten pools blazing in the eternal furnace of Fornax, and fight off hordes of blood-drunk Raiders that prowl the fathomless depths of the Scrap Sea in search of their malignant god.
Canaan is vast, and inside its swirling steam lie innumerable mysteries waiting to be unraveled. After a routine job goes awry, Aletheia sets out on an epic journey to uncover ancient enigmas threatening the very foundations of the Steam City. Challenge powerful new rivals and catch up with old friends as you carve your path through Canaan. Take on side jobs to earn a bit of extra scrap and delve into a history lost to the vagaries of time.
Or maybe you’d just like to wash down your worries at Vincent’s Pub and listen for a rumor or two…
Dash, dodge, and double-jump to keep out of harm’s way and stay in one piece. Wield a furious and fearsome array of abilities and grow stronger with each foe you defeat. Spend experience points to unlock new skills and trade scrap for accessories to customize your build and go toe-to-toe with some of the most formidable creatures to ever lumber beneath the copper sky.
Hear that? The clang of a hammer stinging blood-red steel… The sinister murmur of heresies rushing through ancient pipes… Riddles echoing through vaulted halls of marble and madness. Sounds like fate has a job in store for you, Soldner—it’s time to earn your scrap.
“Thine trembling works of Reason naught but ingots gleaming darkly by the light of a cindered heart—for what art thine flesh before the mother’s touch of flame?”
- Dreams of the Steam Saint Anais, XXXIV, iii
Obsurity
This was odd.
The developers nearly had something really interesting going but the chance was forfeited.
What was good:
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Boss Fights (not that last one though)
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General combat mechanics
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Art + Sound design
What could be improved:
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UI both in and out of menu
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Sometimes getting stuck on/behind decorative objects in levels
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Various small translation errors
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I alone experienced two bugs, one with the first key door and the other with the eyeball boss getting stuck in the wall via shield bash
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Obsurity is an attempt at a (top-down?) 2D Souls-Like, and actually does the job pretty well.
• The game is fairly difficult at places, especially in the
! Obsurity portals (due to a ton of enemies), even though Atari’s power seem to be maybe too powerful, since you can literally cheese the game by being both too far for enemies to see you, and kill them at the same time.
• Other than Atari’s power, Santinel’s powers are proven to be quite useful, needed even, if you want to enjoy the game to its fullest potential.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Watcher Chronicles
Oh, ye poor gamer, I pity thee… for in your journey through Steam, you have found yourself on a dark page where the straight way is lost… You can not turn back, for you’ve found the suffering you yearn for… Prepare thy thumbs and trigger fingers for your penance has begun…
Purgatory has been invaded by an unholy threat. A group of fallen ones called “The Watchers” now seek to transform it into a new hell. Lost souls must unite or face utter annihilation…
Features
Fast Skill Based Combat - Challenging but fair souls-like combat with tight and finely tuned controls. Dodge, block, and slice your way through enemies.
Large Interconnected World - Explore every crack of a purgatorial realm filled with secrets and game changing loot in a non-linear fashion.
Powerful Magic - Incinerate enemies with waves of fire, lightning, and void or summon the horde with powerful necromancy.
Unique Weapons - Giant swords, blade staffs, scythes, polearms, and more to discover and master. Weapon types all have different move sets that completely changes up the gameplay.
Robust Streamlined RPG System - Carefully upgrade your hero to match your play style and build out your own unique character class. Discover 100+ upgradable armor, weapons, and rings to specialize your build.
Relentless Bosses - Battle over 20+ finely tuned and challenging bosses that require careful planning and significant skill to take down.
New Game Plus - Keep your gear when finishing the game and continue the journey with increasingly harder difficulties.
Oh and you will die… a lot…
Now go forth gamer… Existence itself hangs in the balance… Hit the Wishlist button and the first step of your long journey has begun!
