Eastward

Eastward

This game is a brilliant! I The world is so attractive that you want to spend hours in it and explore every corner of it. It was with great pleasure that I communicated with each NPC. Dialogues gave me so much emotions. I can’t remember the last time I smiled so much while playing. What about music, it’s sheer delight. She immersed me in the days of my childhood. And I really felt like a little carefree boy.

This is the best game in the last year. Recomend for everybody!

Real player with 39.9 hrs in game


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Gameplay-

☑ Very good

☐ Good

☐ Nothing special

☐ Okay

☐ Bad

Graphics-

☐ Masterpiece

☑ Beautiful

☐ Good

☐ Will do

☐ Bad

☐ Awful

Audio

☐ Amazing

☑ Very good

☐ Good

☐ Decent

☐ Not too bad

☐ Bad

Audience

☐ Kids

☑ Teens

☑ Adults

☐ Everyone

Story-

☐ Lovely

☑ Good

☐ Average

☐ Not great

☐ None

Difficult-

☐ Just press a bunch of buttons

☑ Easy

☐ Significant brain usage

☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master

☐ Not so easy

☐ Difficult

☐ Dark Souls

Grind-

☐ Nothing

☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks

Real player with 30.1 hrs in game

Eastward on Steam

Lila’s Sky Ark

Lila’s Sky Ark

Lila’s Sky Ark is a vibrant action-adventure game set in a psychedelic world, filled with strange characters, puzzles, intense fights and secrets.

One morning Lila and her friends, Mr. Kiepchen and Doctor-Father-Sir, wake up to find themselves facing a grim foe: The Conductor and his generals who have invaded the sky island to take all that is magical and musical.

You must unite the island’s spirits and craft powerful weapons using alchemy to fight back! Use Stone Souls, Titan Eyes, Infinite Branches, and more weird items to fight off rabid animals, hordes of the empire’s soldiers and fierce bosses with more heavy metal than you can stomach!

Features

  • Craft powerful weapons using alchemy recipes.

  • Battle rabid animals and hordes of pink soldiers.

  • Fight brutal bosses in intense battles.

  • Instead of a boring sword, Lila can throw around all kinds of things that she finds on her way: rocks, barrels, sheep and more.

  • Four lively areas filled with wild encounters, challenges, and puzzles.

  • A quirky cast of characters.

  • A hidden story of loss and loneliness.

  • Lila’s Sky Ark tells the prequel story to Resolutiion, where cyber-thriller meets Alice in Wonderland: the first Cradle, the original Dreamer, and the birth of the Red Code Universe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1573390/Lilas_Sky_Ark/


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Lila’s Sky Ark on Steam

Mercury Abbey

Mercury Abbey

【1】Retro pixel style with impressive lighting and shading

The game uses pixel sprites, with characters drawn in a classic American comicbook style. Fossil halls, greenhouses, hedge mazes, botanical gardens, underground cave systems…scenes appear one after another, presenting a visual feast. Unique lighting and shading technology creates an engaging atmosphere and a wonderfully immersive experience.

【2】 Classic cultural elements meet a unique worldview

The game embraces the spirit of early suspense novels, interspersing classic cultural elements throughout the story. Adopting an overhead world view, the world is composed of anthropomorphic animal (furry) characters; the social structures, folklore, and ethnic relations of this world are all waiting to be discovered by players!

【3】Engaging story

Strange things seem to happening one after another at the mysterious mountain sanitarium, and the curse of the alchemist family is spreading. Legends, midnight societies and ghostly patrons are just a few of the curiosities to be investigated, but maybe the mystery runs deeper than once thought. Gather clues and delve into the mystery to discover exactly where this story will go…

【4】 Lots of items and achievements to collect

Discover a large number of collectable elements along the way, including character information, folklore, objects, copied notes, photos, and even intercepted gossip. The game also features a variety of achievements, with certain choices and actions unlocking them. Fortune favors the bold.


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Mercury Abbey on Steam

No Place for Bravery

No Place for Bravery

No Place for Bravery is a 2D top-down action RPG which weaves together high-quality visuals, a stirring soundtrack and intense combat moments into a deep and affecting tale of moral dilemmas and personal reflection of choices. YOUR choices.

The game will focus on parries and fast-paced combat. Making mistakes will be punishing and you’ll experience a lingering sense of fragility while facing the dangers of Bravery’s world.

Thorn, a retired warrior plagued by nightmares, stumbles on an opportunity for redemption after finding clues to his daughter’s disappearance from long ago. With the company of his disabled foster son, Phid, it will be up to the player to decide how far Thorn will go, not only to rescue his daughter but also to fulfill his ambitions.

The story of Bravery carries a strong message on the role of parental figures and the consequences of their choices in a troubled world. This message is informed by the developers' personal life experiences, and the game aims to impart these real, resonant feelings with competence and depth.

Thorn is a competent warrior in a world where people like him perish all the time. Under your control, Thorn will have the capacity to kill and survive from the word go, but you should expect to find Thorn’s fragility starkly reflected in your own series of likely defeats.

A captivating blend of the low fantasy setting, highly detailed pixel art, and beautiful hand-painted textures makes this decrepit world croak with breathtaking life, as Thorn carves his path through it. Every second that passes in No Place for Bravery pulses with an immersive, intense atmosphere that you’ll feel in your veins.

No Place for Bravery on Steam

Swag and Sorcery

Swag and Sorcery

If you have the stamina for moderate grinding and clicking, appreciate highly detailed pixel art and love having limitless options to gear a party, Swag and Sorcery might be the game for you. It’s not quite a clicker, though you’ll do a huge amount of clicking and wonder why some simple quality of life options don’t exist. It’s also not quite a turn based rpg, since you’ll just watch your party walk on rails through turn based combats with no real control and minimal options for affecting the outcome.

Real player with 64.4 hrs in game

Okay so there is a bit to unpack with this game.

TL:DR is: Has mobile game trappings, extremely grindy, shallow combat, meh story.

The longer version:

The game has quite a bit of potential, though much like Graveyard Keeper, leaves a lot lying on the table. If you don’t like idle games, or games that have LOTS of grinding, then I would suggest not reading the whole of this. This game is likely not for you. If you love grinding in games (like me) then there is a lot that this game brings to the table.

Real player with 32.7 hrs in game

Swag and Sorcery on Steam

Adventures of Isabelle Fine: Murder on Rails

Adventures of Isabelle Fine: Murder on Rails

AOIF:MOR is a fun story driven mystery/puzzle game where you take the role of an interdimensional detective. Good casual play driven by exploration and discovery.

Puzzles are solved by performing actions in a specific order and collecting clues.

Dr. Sherlock Who on a scavenger hunt.

Real player with 7.2 hrs in game

Great game 10/10 isabelle is a great companion and really makes the story richer

Real player with 6.7 hrs in game

Adventures of Isabelle Fine: Murder on Rails on Steam

Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils

Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils

STORY

Help Belle and Chime, her lovable pet of questionable origins, recover her kidnapped boyfriend from her nefarious rival Bonnie. Not only has she stolen your beau but the bunny-eared necromancer has spread a curse and scattered her undead minions across the region to cover her escape. Crack the curse and stop the spread of the dead!

FEATURES

  • A delightfully energetic original soundtrack paired with beautifully hand crafted pixel environments

  • Secrets and magical artifacts hidden throughout the game

  • Mages

  • Delicious baked treats that grant you special powers

  • A colorful cast of characters and daunting bosses

  • A light-hearted narrative with some surprising twists and turns

  • The ability to play the game multiple ways with Adventure, Arcade and Malice mode

Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils on Steam

Demon heart

Demon heart

Demon heart - бродилка, сделанная в рисованном стиле. Графика простенькая, но стильная, нопоминающая игры, сделанные на RPG Maker. Хорошая фоновая музыка добавляет атмосферы игре. Завязка сюжета довольно проста - победить демонов, которые обитают на пяти разных островах. В общем за первые 2 часа игры - мне нравится. Посмотрим, как будет дальше.

Real player with 3.3 hrs in game

Demon heart on Steam

dungeon & heros

dungeon & heros

Rage-quit inducing.

I spent nearly 4 hours just trying to figure out how to play the game on the “easy” difficulty.

Poor translation.

Constant debuffs from element system.

Pretty much nothing carries over if you are defeated.

Buttons that don’t do anything when clicked.

Constant errors popping up.

Seems like an Alpha that was never play-tested.

Real player with 3.9 hrs in game

Bad translation, the font looks weird, the game play is questionable and you can’t leave the map to retreat and heal without permanently losing stamina.

Real player with 0.6 hrs in game

dungeon & heros on Steam

Flap Demon

Flap Demon

A difficult precision platformer where your only form of movement is flapping.

Your demon wife isn’t feeling well and has asked you to pick up your daughter from school. Your daughter happens to go to school up in heaven, so it might take some time to fly there. Avoid dangerous obstacles like lava, brambles, saws, lightning, and sliding penguins on your quest to pick up your daughter and be a good dad.

Flap Demon on Steam