Arelite Core
Arelite Core. My review!
Story: Traditional RPG with terrifyingly powerful supervillain who wants to bring about utter destruction of the world. You play a blacksmith who has made up his mind to journey across the world seeking out all other Master Blacksmiths to learn from - you want to become the greatest Blacksmith who ever lived. Oh, and it just so happens the most powerful sword in history is needed to kill the supervillain and guess what Blacksmiths do? CREATE SWORDS! Along the way cities are razed, friends die, levels are gained, and fun is had.
– Real player with 62.0 hrs in game
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Arelite Core is the story of a humble blacksmith named Karden, who over the course of a journey to learn more becomes a hero. Very much like Die Hard, Karden does not set out to be a hero but takes up the mantle when no one else will. The story is very robust with many twists and turns.
The gameplay harkens back to jrpg’s of yore while fixing some of the old mistakes. There are generous skills to invest points in and weapons to forge. The relics you find can set off an eureka moments and totally change how you configure your party and their approach to battle.
– Real player with 29.3 hrs in game
Dungeon Tactics
A retro style party based RPG smashing together concepts from several of my favorite games!
Build a party of 6 characters combining active, passive, and reactive skills from 40 different classes.
Explore the dungeon to protect the people of Airi from the secret threat contained within.
Avoid many traps set in place to hinder your progress.
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E.X.P.L.O.R.™: A New World
Really cool and fun dungeon crawler.
The visuals and interfaces are clean and easy to understand. Gamepad support is great and many details like targetting, minimap edge markers and item comparison are just done so well, you really get a sense fort he dev’s passion for this project.
I hope to see more from this dev and I relly hope that this game gets the attention it deserves.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
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An interesting little blobber.
“E.X.P.L.O.R…” is a true labor of love from developer Beem media. If you’ve played any other classic blobbers (EOB, Might and Magic, Grimrock, etc) you’ll get the picture pretty quickly. Some things that set E.X.P.L.O.R…apart are that it is a much faster playing type game. No grinding, no heavy stat management, no 100+ NPC’s to keep track of. It’s a fairly light playing game, but a good choice if you are in between epic RPG’s and want something a bit quicker to play in between. The gameplay and graphics are much nicer looking in the actual game then what the trailer video depicts. Visually, it’s a hybrid of a cartoony-comic style and traced looking caricatures. I’d say the closest comparison would be to “Sword and Sorcery”, but much simpler gameplay. Progression seems to be fairly quick in the game and will keep you playing a while without getting bored. As I’ve gotten older, incessant grinding has been a turn-off for me in games. “E.X.P.L.O.R…” does a good job of mitigating that problem.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Everblood Arena
Everblood Arena is a turn-based roguelite tactics arena battler with a heavy focus on procedural generated items and character builds. Get your team of fantasy warriors and take part in 5v5 tactical turn based battles. Rise your way up the ranks and claim the greatest prize, the Everblood Cup!
item randomization
Item randomization is a huge part of Everblood’s design philosophy. A huge array of spells & modifiers exist and items through a myriad of algorithms will mix and match these so that each piece of gear comes with it’s own skill tree & modifiers. Make tactical choices between leveling up your character’s Strength, or leveling up his Fiery Sword of the Helmsplitter to unlock it’s epic quality rank 3 spell.
This doesn’t just stop at items though! Character’s will also be randomly generated, with a small variety of races, each containing their own smaller skill tree’s with lots of attribute randomization.
Our hope is that this focus on randomization and creating a rogue-lite atmosphere will add lots of replay-ability and create dynamically changing character builds.
a Roguelite?
We intend to add roguelite elements to Everblood, with characters sustaining meaningful injuries (and potential death!) from getting knocked out in combat, we expect players to have to recruit new hero’s as theirs die, slowly adapting their tactics and equipment to fit the strength’s of their randomly generated character team. Our hope is that each run of Everblood will be a multi-hour affair, with difficulty changing drastically based on your starting roster & the generated teams you come up against
Irongate Arena
Continue your family legacy into new and exotic lands, but first prove yourself a worthy commander to the men who have pledged fealty to you. Battle in the proving grounds where humans are not the only fighters trying to knock you on your ass! Will your reward be glory or death?
If you have the strength, journey through the desert where if the heat doesn’t kill you, something or someone venomous just may. If you have the will of a warrior those deadly and toxic creatures may join you and take up your cause of vengeance.
To make it in the harsh, icy, North you must be a wise in deploying the right strategies to defeat your enemies in the Arena. Vikings, elves and witches can be so cold, but not cold enough to turn down a little coin to join your ranks, if the price is right.
Put your team skills to the test and push their limits in order to survive the Inferno. Hotter than Hades itself only the most vile creatures dwell here, along with the strongest arena fighters. If fear has not run your men out, then you may stand a chance, otherwise see yourself cut down by powerful beings capable of wielding great strength and abilities.
You must have strategic cunning when facing Lord Asshat, so that you may reclaim honor to your surname. Will your become the champion your father was or will you fall before your enemies?
The Phantom Keeper
The Phantom Keeper is a monster-collecting RPG where you are a fallen Soul tasked with catching and training creatures known as Phantoms. These creatures are the lost remnants of emotions that come from the living, and you must take up the mantle of Phantom Keeper in order to harness their power and protect the Souls of this ghostly world!
There are many Keepers living throughout Akeron, although the art of Keeping has become an ancient art - you must travel this realm to train under them and master your true power! Master each emotional type in order to strengthen yourself and your team, and to stop the legion of evil Souls known as the Revelationists.
The game features:
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Single Player story campaign
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Action command turn-based battle system where you fight alongside your partner Phantom
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5 realms of Akeron to explore
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80+ Phantoms to catch and collect throughout Akeron
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Complete original spooky soundtrack!
Wizardry 8
This game is a solid bargain even at today’s full price or higher.
Negatives:
Graphics are badly dated, but this kind-of disappears as you get into the game. They are adequate to show you what is going on so you can choose strategies and tactics.
When starting the game, the screen remains black for an unusually long time. This can lead new players into thinking something is wrong and pushing Esc or other keys to try to “unstick” it. This can ruin the game loading. Just be patient and the game will load reliably every time.
– Real player with 1235.9 hrs in game
I want a modern version of this.
I played grimlock and did not like the puzzly stuff.
w8 the puzzels make the game easier. They dont generally block your progress.
the character construction is pretty deep.
the party integration is pretty deep.
the party fight mechanics are pretty deep.
they all fit together creating enough variety to change the way the game plays.
the content of the game is sparse and has a sort of empty feel….but that isnt a bad thing here.
what happens is that subsequent playthoughs are faster.
– Real player with 911.5 hrs in game
Heroes of Yore
Looking for a casual way to prove dominance amongst fabled legends? I was. Ever want to make a team of mythical villains destroy the prudish icons of old? I did. Have you ever wanted Paul Bunyan to feed Grendel flapjacks?… well, me either on this one, but it is as awesome as it sounds. This game was just what I wanted! It is a casual, easy to learn, but challenging to master. I have not fully beat this game yet, but am working on it! I will slay them all!
Since this is Early Access, I am really excited to see what (or who) else the developers come up with!
– Real player with 15.7 hrs in game
Heroes of Yore is a turn-based strategy/RPG in which you put together a squad of public domain characters and fight to win in single or multiplayer mode.
The basics are straightforward, and it’s evident that the game aims to be user-friendly. You simply select four heroes from an ever-growing pool and engage in combat. On the left, your party, and on the right, the opponent. The battles are turn-based, which means that each side performs actions for all four heroes. Attacking is simple, just select the attack and choose a target. Because each hero only gets to perform one action, the order doesn’t matter. So far, everything appears to be easy.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
Of all the dungeon crawler games that followed the template set by Wizardry (grid-based, first-person perspective), Might and Magic is probably the second most important one in terms of renown, forging its own path from the very first game by basically using the ideas from Wizardry but offering something different and unique.
Where Wizardry was a dungeon crawler, Might and Magic games were basically world crawlers that emphasized exploring a large overworld at the expense of in-depth and intricate dungeons. Might and Magic does have them, but they are often simple structures with few vertical levels and really there to throws lots of monsters at you, not get you lost in them.
– Real player with 36.7 hrs in game
This game is that little nugget of gold you find in the lees. First thing I thought when I fired it up was Might & Magic 3,4, and 5-arguably my favorites. Imagine if MM had a really easy interface and user friendly controls. The menu swapping is nice and fast, simple clicks to rearrange and sort. The game play isn’t tedious.
-The good-
You can tell the art (despite the lack of animation) is quite nice and does a good job to capture that old fantasy wonderment. It’s pixeled but the graphics are just it’s painting on the car. It’s pretty colorful and you can easily tell what things are. Pretty good variety of character portraits for both male and female.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Rapture
Classic roguelike game, many characters available, a lot of different abilities, power-ups, encounters. Every run of the game is different from the previous.
Very challenging fights, you need to carefully organize your team and your moves otherwise it will be very difficult to win, there’s also an easy mode for more relaxed games.
Really nice soundtrack, I hope new tracks will be added in the future!
– Real player with 24.5 hrs in game
Do you like turn based action? Do you like Rogue-Lites games? Why not mash them together? That’s what you get in this incredibly addictive and fun game. There are plenty of characters to choose from with vastly different playstyles, allowing for many way to experiment and different ways to play. It’s honestly just tons of fun and I highly recommend it!
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game