Wastenauts
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Wastenauts is a cooperative collectible card-crawler about making do with what the robot apocalypse has given you. Grab your friends, jump down to the surface, and fight back enough machines to make rent this month.
A Dungeon Crawler Dressed as a Card Game
Take on the role of misfit mercenaries and explore decks packed with ‘bots, gear, and a ton of scrap. Your unlocked cards are the tools you’ll use to make your way to the boss. Unlock and upgrade power ability cards, blueprint cards to craft in a pinch, and augment cards to boost your stats.
A World Worth Salvaging
Humanity has fled to cityships just above the planet’s surface, but we still need fuel, food, and valueless family heirlooms. That’s where you come in. One good shove off the side of the ship and you’ve already started your mission. Don’t worry, I’m sure another ship will come by to pick you up. Eventually.
A Fully Cooperative Experience
Team up in groups of 1-4 in fully online co-op, and choose your loadout smartly to ensure maximum combo potential. Matchmaking and custom games are both available!
Alpha Features
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A cast of unique characters each with their own abilities, gear, and emotional baggage
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100+ cards to unlock, including that one rare card that’s pretty build defining
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Adventure Mode - we bring the deck, you bring the monsters. The harder you make the game, the more rewards. If you win, of course.
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A leveling system complicated enough for the most die-hard min-maxers
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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Makings of a Hero
SteamWorld is a franchise of vaguely connected games, each starring a friendly cast of robots. The latest entry – Hand of Gilgamech introduces a stark departure from the usual futuristic setting, venturing instead into the land of fantasy. Meet Armilly, an adventurer aspiring to at last become a member of the local heroes’ guild. Good heavens! The village has been invaded by an evil army and all of the heroes have been kidnapped. Such a tragedy, if only there was someone desperately longing for a worthy quest to finally prove themselves. It’s high time to gather your trusty companions and make this one count.
– Real player with 41.6 hrs in game
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On my first playthrough I went with the Legend difficulty and I was not disappointed… Mostly. Also, quick note, I got the game half off so my thoughts are based around what I got for that price.
Starting with things I liked/loved:
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The Art is beautiful.
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The Characters are simple but lovable.
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The Music I find to be very pleasant to listen to.
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I love the opening and ending sequences, I wish there were more of these.
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The Ending Song, while short, made me smile. I love it.
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The card game mechanic is pretty solid. Deck-Building is fast and easy, chaining cards together for combos or allowing for an additional helpful card to be played is really fun, and while I didn’t use a lot of other cards, I can definitely see some ideas on how to use them for other play styles so I like that there is multiple options on how to play.
– Real player with 38.5 hrs in game
Vesper: Ether Saga - Episode 1
- Try the demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1759290/
Vesper, the name of the heroine
A combat system combining role-playing, card games and strategy games.
- Role playing game
Start with the heroine Vesper and win new allied units with unique abilities. Level up your characters, unlock new skills (active and passive abilities), and improve them …
Objectives to be fulfilled, gain experience … Results at the end of the fight!
- Card Game
There are 3 types of cards
Unit Cards - Summon your allies into battle by exchanging Ether Crystals.
Action cards - the abilities specific to your heroes.
Arcane Cards - Collectible cards that will give you various bonuses!
- Strategy game
Unleash your ULTIMA
Plan your own strategic moves to face your enemies, using the range of diverse combat units available. Keep moving to avoid certain enemy attacks. The layout of your units is important. For example, short-range physical attacks will have more effect on the front line. But beware, this rule can also be used by your enemies.
Comics/game: An original story based on a new series of comics
The entire comic will be readable in the game, not in the usual comic format but in a version suitable for reading on screen! These cut-scenes will punctuate the series of completed missions.
An episodic game
The game and the comic book tell the same story: Episode 1 in the game is the same story as Volume 1 of the comic book. As each future episode is released, you can resume your game from where you last saved to continue the adventure with the content that you have already won!
Explore the universe of Etheria
As the story progresses, you will unlock areas on the world map. Each location will offer a number of missions to complete in different difficulty modes.
Physical DPS, capable of melee attacks (sword and spear) and precise aiming range (dagger and wheelblade). Her abilities are all of the darkness element.
Full Tank, his abilities can grab the attention of enemies and defend your characters.
More versatile, both tank and physical DPS, Lubikai is a leader, able to call on his fellow sorajis for reinforcement.
& More to come…
This episode will have 8-10 playable characters. In addition to the heroes, you can also have basic units to help you in combat.
Face a multitude of enemies, exploit their weaknesses and adapt your tactics to beat them all!
Some of them may be called in as reinforcements in combat (under certain conditions) but will not be controllable.
A floating world that surrounds the crystal tree
“All is one”. Three words to create a universe.
If all is one, then you are not external to the universe; you are the universe.
From this belief was born the world of Etheria; the crystal world tree that breathes soul into matter.
In a body on loan for a limited time, life seeks itself and raises its consciousness by going beyond its limits.
When the moment of death comes, the world is not the same as it was before. Just like the soul that returns to Etheria is not the same. Infinite, eternal, in perpetual change. Without change, there would be no life.
Soul, conscience, spirit … Whatever name you give it, don’t get lost. Charged with its experiences, it transforms the universe.
The part of the world you’ll explore in episode 1
All souls return where they came from: ETHERIA, the crystal tree.
The siege of Valestiel
Vesper, nicknamed “Amazon of the Knights of Nyx”, is a courageous and determined young woman, able to wield ethereal magic. She provides services to Prince Crimson Nyx. They fight together for the kingdom of Sylvaestris, in a war that has lasted for several years against the Soraji nomads.
Vesper & Crimson
But the dark forces from Vesper attract the attention of Ekklesia. This almighty religious institution will call upon Redgrave, a ruthless inquisitor of the Aurora Crux …
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Questr
I found QUESTR to be very entertaining. It is not much as a game, but what it lacks in gaming substance it makes up in content.
You start by inviting people to join your quest party. Many of the people lie on their profiles and some characters hate your other members so much that they quit right away.
Every quest has multiple events in which you need to select one characters idea how to solve them. For example you encounter a vampire. Will you send a) the Vegan to talk to him about being vegan b) the drunk to talk about drinking c) or the bro who says he got this as he had to watch vampire movies with his ex. Results might not be what you expect.
– Real player with 29.8 hrs in game
Questr is an RPG parody of dating apps similar to Tinder.
In a similar fashion, you swipe left and right to build the perfect RPG team. Every potential party member has likes and dislikes, levels, costs to hire, and personality traits as well as their own class, guild, and ancestry.
Personality traits determine the outcome of encounters throughout each quest. Beating an encounter raises morale, while failing lowers it. Party members also interact with one another between encounters, further raising or lowering morale depending on how well personality types get along and whether or not you paid attention to likes and dislikes. At the end of a quest, the morale level determines if you successfully complete it, giving you a reward and the possibility of having party members continue to quest with you.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown
Having a narrator for a game can go so wrong …
But this game does it well! Charming narrator, music, and table-full of scenery and figures.
Excellent, excellent game if you worry about motion sickness (VR sickness). No chance of that at all.
This is not a full-body participation game. But as a game laid out in front of you to sit at and control – I find it one of the best! I forgot I was in VR, and the index controls are intuitive (close your hand to grab; open hand to let go). This is like playing a pirate-themed D&D game, moving figures, rolling dice, but it all happens beautifully and automatically in front of you. Pieces get knocked over – sometimes by other pieces taking their turn. But everything rights itself moments later. Even that part is funny and charming to watch.
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game
Great and charming D&D tabletop RPG.
Could be compared with Demeo, as this is also 3rd person, turn based, grid movement, with cards to use on each turn… but its plenty different with ToT being clearly superior in a lot of ways, but also not without its drawbacks.
Table of Tales is a bit different, a bit more in depth story and mechanics wise…. its Narrator tells a story, and voices different characters, there is a bigger story than “big bad lives there, kill it because reasons”.
A full playthrough took me ~4hrs listening to all the dialogue (that can be advanced by pressing grip) and it has some replayeability, as there are a bunch of choices during the adventure that change the storyline.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
A Legend In Zormore
A tale of courage and friendship. Catch creatures called Zelds. Raise them. Train them. Use them for battle! You will be aided by your deck of cards, built around your own strategy. Can you overcome the challenge and save the world?
Features
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Explore the huge open world of Zormore.
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Catch, raise, train your Zelds.
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Equip Mods to them… and yourself, to obtain a bigger power to defeat your opponents.
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Build a Deck of cards you will use in battle.
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Play Online against a Random opponent or crush your own friends ;). 1v1 or 2v2 Battles.
The Zelds
More info coming soon…
The World
More info coming soon…
The Cards (Your Deck)
More info coming soon…
The Story
More info coming soon…
Cardnarok: Raid with Gods
Been looking around for some indie games and found this little gem. I love the theme and ideas behind this game especially with the choices of heroes from mythologies of all backgrounds.
The combat definitely requires strategical thinking, planning and careful calculation in order to level up fast and build decks that work with your team. At current state it’s quite playable and no bug that bricks the game experience.
The developers have been patching updates aggressively and that is a good sign.
– Real player with 189.3 hrs in game
Interesting take on the genre
The core loop is:
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a string of StS-like maps
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connected by a monopoly/Game of the Goose-inspired overworld
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coupled with Rogue-lite Metaprogression
The combat is pretty standard with the caveat of 3 characters (with somewhat varying abilities) in “tag-team”
The Deckbuilding part follow the newer trend and allow the player a high degree of control over the resulting deck
Overall the game could use more polish and some extra content, but it’s a solid buy if you’re a bored deckbuilder.
– Real player with 27.6 hrs in game
Chrono Ark
Definitely a game with balancing issues, some runs feel easy you can make it to the end without any issue. The abilities you draw end up being very useful and actually carry you through… then some runs every random mob will just one shot half your party. The game literally has random mobs that do more damage than any character can possibly have the max health of.
For instance a level 3 healer character in the second zone has roughly 27 hp. There is a chance you will fight a 3 mob battle that can do roughly 40 damage per turn. They may not do the damage abilities but if they do you’re just S.O.L. Its insanely frustrating that every single aspect of the game is random chance but you need all of them to work perfectly in your favor to stand any chance.
– Real player with 111.8 hrs in game
Chrono Ark is a roguelike deck builder with solid gameplay and pleasing visuals and audio.
You start out with a party of two that expands to four as you touch the campfires at the end of stages,
with each stage having interactables and non random encounters that you can fight for loot.
The game has plenty of replay value with the large roster of 14 playable characters (about half of them have to be unlocked), each having about 14 skills + too many equipment to count.
As a further boost, playing the game drops a resource that carries over into the hub that you can spend to unlock upgrades as well as equipment and skills.
– Real player with 107.6 hrs in game
The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse
This is an amazingly fun game. The first chapter of 5 is free but the rest will cost you. Not sure if they’re worth the asking price but when they’re on sale, definitely worth it.
The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse is a turn-based RPG where the skills you use are based on a deck of cards. Every piece of equipment you use (weapon, armor, and 2 accessories) will give you access to a different set of cards and sometimes a special bonus (or negative effect). So there’s a lot of strategy in what you decide to equip. On the same page where you choose your equipment is also a skill tree. Everytime you level up, you get to choose one perk - all passive.
– Real player with 81.7 hrs in game
The Huntsman : Winter’s Curse is a surprising gem in a fairytale universe, totally worth its price in my opinion. The first book is free to play : a perfect way to make your own opinion about it. And since this is a fairytale, your steam wallet will magically decrease in order to purchase the season pass. Remember : magic always comes with a price.
This game is so much more than a Visual Novel, I just fell in love with its unique type. The story is about Elisabeth, a stubborn girl who used to live in a farm with her father and decides to leave her village to start her own adventure. Her brothers left home years ago and it’s time for her to look for them and discover what happened. During her journey, she will meet many good or evil characters / monsters. Many dangers await but sometimes, fear and inner self are the worst enemies.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
TwilightStar: Heart of Eir
Alpha Demo is now available!
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This version of the game is an Alpha and will contain bugs. Please check out the Community for a current list of known bugs and help us find more!
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They can range from mild to soft locking the game.
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It doesn’t cost you anything to play the demo, so play as much as you like
The Game:
Meet the single-player RPG you’ve been waiting for! By combining our favorite elements of the classic ’90s RPGs that have influenced key players of the studio, with their tactical action Turn-Based Combat systems, dynamic party structures, challenging dungeons, and strong, semilinear story-lines; then merging them with newer modern mechanics, like a more extensive and interactive open world, action RPG game-play and base-building capabilities akin to modern survival games.
Eathral is crumbling.
The Stryah crystals that shine like starlight, imbuing the planet’s surface with mystical and powerful magicks are turning black, and pockets of chaos are sprouting all across the continent. But in the reclusive village of Homaran, a tentative peace is sustained amongst its people.
Eir lives simply with her guardian, Maris; her life plain but fulfilling. Until he is brutally murdered at the hands of the Caelki, a dark sect who live in service to disorder and the worship of an insatiable god, long since forgotten to legend, much like the origins of the Stryah crystals Eathral has come to so desperately rely on.
With her closest companion, Kira at her heel and a mysterious book written in a language she does not understand, Eir sets out on a quest to find answers that will reshape her destiny and change everything she knows about who she thought she was. Taking refuge in the hands of her allies and a planetary ancestral power that roots itself deep within her, Eir must learn to wield the might of the goddess Clavarai, in this tale of magical discovery, devotion, betrayal, and adventure.
Heart Of Eir Features Highlights:
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Semi-Linear Storyline with Side Quests
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Party based Dual Combat Systems (Choose between Turn-Based or Active Motion)
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Realms CCG Card Game Minigame (Multiplayer coming)
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Dungeons with Complex puzzles
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Character Skills like Weapon Enhancement, Cooking, Fishing
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Mounts and Fast Travel Abilities
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Semi Open-World Exploration
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Traditional jRPG Style Overworld Map Travel
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Build your own unique House and Village in Sanctuary
Heart of Eir is a game that is sure to captivate you and keep you playing over and over again. While the story pulls you in with a deep and emotional tale, the rest of the game gives you a place to explore and be creative. From its array of extra Side quests and dungeons to a whole island where you can invite NPCs to join your village and the open ability to craft your very own home, collecting things from all over Eathral to decorate your house. The game offers New Game Plus features as well that carry over from your last playthrough so you not rebuilding your home all over again or dungeons that aren’t available in the first playthrough because your Stryah Affinity isn’t quite there yet. Each playthrough will be a unique experience, unlocking different areas. Travel with Eir and her companions and experience the magical world of Eathral in TwilightStar: Heart of Eir.
#### Disclaimer: Heart of Eir does not REQUIRE the need to sign up for a DragonClaw Studios Account. Steam makes us put that there. The account is used for Kickstarter Rewards and Multiplayer Card Game Sync to your Mobile Device. If you have no interest in either of these, there is no need for an account.