Oneons: Prisoners
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A roguelite that plays with the concept of get to the final floor while maintaining a balance of health and energy.
What sets this game apart from others are the following
+It is very accessible on multiple devices (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen)
+Options for people who would like jumbo icons (visually impared)
+All assets are created by a single developer along with the level design
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
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A very short but sweet game!
Gameplay is very fun! Managing your energy while trying to survive, killing enemies and finding the portals to the next levels as fast as you can. It’s beginner friendly, in the beginning and becomes more challenging as levels progress, but still fun!
The artstyle is pretty nice.
Overall, it’s really good and fun!
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship
Short version: You can die in the tutorial. Hardcore! 10/10!!!
Long version: This game is the long lost cousin of King’s Field, if it was a sci-fi title made for the Virtual Boy. As such, those looking for shiny graphics and twitchy gameplay should stay away: the game’s unique art style looks blocky (although in exchange it works with a toaster, if you can read this you can play it), it’s a turn-based dungeon-crawled that demands patience to be played.
The sound effects are okay, nothing special in my opinion, but they do their job. The music though, it’s something else: It perfectly conveys the nightmarish, claustrophobic survival horror scenario that the author wanted to convey.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
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Laser-focused, ultra-minimalistic dungeon crawler. Think id’s mid-to-late 00s mobile RPGs (Orcs & Elves, Doom RPG, Wolfenstein RPG) their slim frame further stripped down of tissue so that the mere bone of combat, resource management and exploration remains. There are no crutches here, nothing placed at one’s disposal is superfluous or optional - one really must master what mechanics there are. Tutorial mustn’t be skipped.
The presentation is just as spartan yet equally put to just the desired use, minimal wireframe visuals supported by excellent soundtrack conveying this desolate, claustrophobic feeling.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
ZpellCatz: Pumpkin Prologue
Combat and movement are far too slow for a mouse and keyboard control scheme like this. I understand you can upgrade your equipment and become faster, but that still doesn’t mean anything when both you and your enemies have to come to a complete stop to attack. Honestly, the slow combat and movement feel forced to just to make it more of a grind. I don;t expect a lot of people are going to want to download or buy the full version if the combat is this slow.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
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ZpellCatz
You are a cat with magic powers, stranded on a cursed island. Spiteful dogs are lurking in every corner and a fateful evil is about to emerge from the darkness. ZpellCatz is a magical Action RPG set in a colorful fantasy world.
Play it your way
The best way to fight evil? Your way! Choose a combination of hero class and guild class to best match your favored style of combat. Let your cat look the way you want to by picking from a wide selection of colors and garments.
Build your hero
Enjoy a multitude of ways to increase the power of your cat hero. Manage two skill trees, loot items, craft items, enchant items, refine gems, find permanent stat bonuses and more.
Help the townsfolk
The residents of the Greencat Village have lots of problems that need to be solved. Do you prefer rushing through the story by completing main quests only, or do you take the extra mile to gain impactful rewards from optional quests? Your choice.
Der Geisterjäger / The Ghost Hunter
You know the expression “handling something with kid gloves”?
Yeah, Der Geisterjäger does - except its “kid gloves” are boxing gloves with horseshoes in them.
Basically, DGJ is a mecha dungeon crawler that not only isn’t afraid of being “unfair”, it actually incorporates savescumming as a canonical ability for your main character - something like precognition from Katana Zero, if you will. “This is only a dream” is a sentence that, if you, like me, are not a particularly sharp tactical mind, you’ll get used to seeing. A lot.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
Der Geisterjager is a lot like Der Geisterturm, but better in every way. More enemy variety, interesting environmental challenges, and new hazards to deal with that aren’t mines. Along with quality of life improvements you should expect from continued development.
The single most important change is the addition of the credit system, you gain money for killing enemies now and the credits allow you upgrade your RCS as you see fit at repair stations dotted about the dungeons, creating an agency that the previous two games lacked while providing a much greater replay value.
– Real player with 14.4 hrs in game
Seek Etyliv
peeks at hours played and messages begging me to stop
Okay … it’s about time I tell you exactly what you’re getting here beyond the minimalistic puzzle dungeon crawling poem reader described on the store page. (that stuff is all pretty on point)
You are getting a game with roughly 60 individual puzzles using around 10 different mechanics.
Among them:
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a clever set of rules for movement, pushing and smashing
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skeleton and zombie enemies with differing behaviour
– Real player with 56.0 hrs in game
If you think you’re clever and want to challenge your wits then this game’s for you.
Don’t let its simple visuals fool you, the aesthetic and user interface are one of the most satisfying I’ve ever experienced. Both visual and audio design are very polished and made with clear intent.
It’s extremely fair when it comes to the challenge itself, when you fail you’ve got no one else but yourself to blame. Every puzzle can be solved by thoughtfully planning ahead.
The game may appear short at first, but the Dungeon of Karanos provides more than enough playtime if you make it your goal to unlock all the player icons and name letters.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Sufoco
It’s alright
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Bad
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Dark Podval
Stars received: 1.6/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: grumpy walking puzzle, resembles with sort of a maze map completion
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Simple and fun to play. nice little time killer, with no worries about where you left off
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Happy Grumps
This is an incredibly cute game. Cute characters and cute writing. I just wanna make the clouds happy.
Game play wise, your objective is to get a direct line of sight on the enemies in each room, or indirectly by using the newly happy units to make others happy. The units move like chess pieces, and there are walls and other barriers that prevent movement and line of sight. The caveat is that you only have a certain amount of turns per level to find a key and defeat the boss. This means that the strategy comes from trying to use as few turns as possible to complete each room. This to me makes it feel kind of similar to match 3 games. You are trying to set up combos so you dont waste time moving things around individually. I think its pretty unique and fun.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Note about the “free product”: I purchased this but refunded it because a bug made it unplayable for me. As a courtesy I notified the developer, and he offered a free copy in exchange for some help finding and fixing the bug, which he was able to do quickly. This review was not solicited.
TLDR: It’s good. It’s unusual and a little confusing at first, but very much worth your time. Recommended.
Happy Grumps confused me initially (even after we got the bug figured out). It may not be what you expect, especially if you were searching on the “roguelike” tag. I think I’d call it a “chesslike”, since it’s played on a square grid with “happy” units which are under your control, and “grumpy” ones which you need to remove. Each room of the dungeon is one of these chessboards, and the number of turns it takes to remove all the grumpies is deducted from your total, which is kind of like hit points, fuel, and money combined.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Rift Wizard
The first thing you should know about Rift Wizard is that it has no unlockables, which already makes it better than basically every other commercial roguelike out there. Just install the game and go ham with all the (so far) 130+ spells and 60+ skills already available from the beginning, no holding the player hostage with the same old moronic reward cycle that deliberately vandalizes gameplay because developers are so terrified of players figuring out their game is boring and there’s actually nothing interesting to do that they have to hide all the (pitiful) content behind more hours of your time than the entire game could ever really provide.
– Real player with 146.4 hrs in game
Short version: Rift Wizard is an amazing and challenging puzzle roguelike that will repeatedly put your analytical skills to the test as you experiment with fun free-form build combinations and explore realm after realm full of interesting creatures and hostile wizards.
Long version:
There’s just so much strategy packed into an accessible interface with simple, intuitive controls and plenty of information at your fingertips, pretty much everything you need to succeed–if you’re careful ;)
Rift Wizard is EXTREMELY overwhelming at first because you really do have instant access to the entire spell and skill list, over a couple hundred of them, each with their own variety of possible upgrades that offer so many options for dealing with the wide range of threats you’ll face, from mapwide effects, to creatures teaching other creatures spells, to creatures spawning more/different creatures, to creatures growing more powerful when they see certain types of spells cast, to simply way too many to mention–lots of interesting mechanics out there, and the battles get really really crazy.
– Real player with 72.4 hrs in game