Dead Cells
Heartily recommend this game to anyone who’s got the time - you’re likely to want to spend your entire days playing once you’re on a roll! The visuals and animations are outstanding - a unique one for nearly every weapon or skill available, lots of fun ways to customise your combat style, very enjoyable and fitting soundtrack, an engaging story that keeps you fighting even if just to see more lore, always a new challenge, something to up the difficulty; and the constant updates that only bring more to explore! On top of all that there are tons of hilarious little interactions between the player character and the world. Truly, the love shines through.
– Real player with 169.6 hrs in game
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I took my time reviewing this for some reason, but dead cells is by far one of my favorite roguelites/likes if not my favorite. The way it plays can be sooo fast pace and clean, the music is top tier, sound is top tier, area design also top tier, the game as a whole is just really well made. Although the Boss Cell aspect gets a little repetitive, the satisfaction of beating that final one was immense and felt so rewarding. I definitely recommend to any new or veteran roguelite player
– Real player with 138.2 hrs in game
Dead In Time
Is a hardcore action with a non-trivial level generation system. Each enemy that you meet on your way, is deadly and unique in its own way. Control time, use a large arsenal of weapons and uncover the secret of time.
I always did not like the idea that after the death the player should start all over again. In Dead in time after the death of the hero, you find yourself in the next generated world, where new enemies and traps await you.
Each enemy in Dead in time is unique and deadly in its own way. Due to this gaming experience in each of the worlds will be different.
All the mechanics of leveling in the Dead in time is realized through the items that the hero finds on his way. Each item has its unique skill and has the ability to raise its level. All items above the first level will remain with you after the hero’s death, but will lose one level.
Control time to create “arches” to attack in combat. Also, you can slow down all enemy objects and accelerate yourself, thereby gaining an advantage in combat.
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Random generation of environment, items and enemies.
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After the hero’s death, you get to the next randomly generated world, and do not start all over again.
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More than 150 different rooms.
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Each world is different for its unique gameplay and enemies.
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Control time to gain advantage in combat.
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Become stronger using items and weapons with unique skills.
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Over 85 different enemies.
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Participate in optional events to obtain rare items.
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Pharaonic
Pros / What’s good?
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The Egyptian theme is an eye-pleasing hook, and consistent throughout most of the game. The Serket armor set looks like something from monster hunter and the Ishtar set has this silly blue-pink paint job going on.
Combat is challenging, tactical almost. To Some attacks cannot be blocked, only dodged. Some cannot be dodged, only blocked. These attacks have ‘colored trails’ on them: red is unblockable, blue is undodgeable. Parrying - I found it new that you could parry enemies blocking with their shield in order to get them to drop their guard.
– Real player with 116.1 hrs in game
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Pharaonic is a game that has drawn many comparisons to the Dark Souls series with its action RPG features and the hacking and slashing. Honestly, I have not played one game of the Dark Souls series. I wanted to give Pharaonic, an indie game, a try because I was captivated by the art direction, the stunning environmental design, and the stunning background design. It is a side scrolling game with a steep learning curve, tough enemies, and a fantastic setting in Ancient Egypt.
The story of Pharaonic is set in Ancient Egypt and you play Dagi, a prisoner who tries to escape from prison to find out what happened to The Red Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt in the year 440. You get to escape with the assistance of a mysterious woman. This is where your journey truly begins, as you are almost fully naked and armed with a basic sword. The plot is not very deep, but the focus of the game is on combat. There are many enemies and the battles are very difficult. I died many times but was rarely frustrated. I quickly realized that getting killed was mainly my fault and it was a matter of understanding my strengths and weaknesses as well as understanding the strengths and weaknesses of my enemies. Your defense, like dodge roll, block, and parry, is just as important as your offense because taking a few too many hits will result in certain death.
– Real player with 47.5 hrs in game
OmniFootman
The Good
.fun combat style that reminds me of the (souls like) genre but it has fresh and flashy moves that add a little somthing to the combat
.large amounts of customisation despite being in early access (both unique powers and classes mad by having the right powers)
.the variety of areas and permanent upgrades mean that you will progress inch by inch to that final elusive victory
.a new take on the rogue like genre where on death you can keep a few of your powers from your previous run
…its just fun to play
– Real player with 37.6 hrs in game
+I like the grafix
+Controls are tight enough
+Rogue-Souls-Like
+Fun game in general
-Ugly menus
-As far as I can tell all assets are from the unity store (type in polygon)
-Weird control mapping (talk with b wtf)
-Terrible sound design
-You cant deactivate the damage numbers, they are ugly and unatmospheric and what is the point when enemys have health bars anyway?
-Procedual Generated but maps are almost the same every time
-Slight screen tearing and no vsynch option
-Glitched out a couple of times (cam kinda got stuck in the wall and i got crushed on a good run - painful)
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
Cycled
Just beat the first (and second?) boss and while this feels like really early to judge the game, Cycled has a lot of charm and I want to see how it develops.
The game, at it’s core, relies on changing the enviroment, enemies and player character every few seconds. This means you’re always in a rush to do what you need in time - sometimes just kiting certain enemies that will soon transform into others who might be more convient to deal with. It’s fun to pull off some combos with both character’s you’re controlling such as by attacking and then summoning your other character right at the end of a wave, then quickly attacking again and summoning the previous character for a final hit.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
What Dark Souls is not:
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the hardest game of all time
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in any way polished (even in the remaster)
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remotely functional as a game
What Dark Souls is:
- one of the most interesting, inventive, atmospheric action RPGs ever created
This is my favourite game of all time, but it’s not for everyone. It’s less about tight, high-octane action and flashy spectacles and more about atmosphere, exploration and trying to make head or tail of a game that does a lot of things and refuses to explain any of them. That or just breaking the game’s mechanics until you ascend to godhood.
– Real player with 510.9 hrs in game
The first dark souls game. ‘Remastered’ Note, I don’t agree with them taking down the prepare to die edition.
Pretty good PVE and fun but imbalanced PVP.
PVP is a backstab fest and heavy armor/poise is meta. You’ll sometimes see Mask of the Mother, Havel/Giant armor and great club using tryhards who will kill you in one backstab. Backstabs are very latency and connection based. However the PVP is still a blast when fighting people with more normal builds. It’s flawed but good fun.
PVE is the more well done part of the game. Only complaint really is that you start off in New Game plus once you kill Gwyn, you don’t have the option to not go into new game plus like in Dark Souls 2.
– Real player with 223.7 hrs in game
Lost Sector
Survive
Equip gear and venture out into an unsettling, destroyed research facility in the far future. Fight your way through the ever increasing difficulties of a changing environment, overrun by hostile creatures to clear the path through the sector.
Upgrade
Collect new modules and abilities, either by taking a risky route, advancing deeper into the facility and gathering rare items, or by taking a much slower, less rewarding, but safer approach. Upgrade your gear in the saveroom before venturing back outside and become powerful enough to defeat the final boss before the sector becomes too overwhelming.
Return
Lost Sector is a dangerous place which will lead to various deaths. Master the combat and learn more about how to overcome the hostile environment and the weak points of its mutated dangers. Unlock new weapons and items each run and slowly discover what happened.
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition
Short version :
One of the best RPG games EVER made, that’s coming from a gamer who’s played over a hundred RPG titles in his life.
Dark Souls - 9.5/10
_Long Version :
Darks Souls….. so much to say about this game.
The game throws the player in a very difficult world, not just by gameplay standards, but plotwise as well. The story / lore is depicted in such a way that it’s never speaking to the player directly, but rather to your character, it never breaks the 4th wall by directly telling the player what to do and how to do it, only the basic attack move buttons are given to you at the beginning, and from then on, you’re completely on your own for the rest of the 50+ hour journey. Unless you get a co-op partner that is._
– Real player with 254.2 hrs in game
TLDR: Yes.
Dark Souls has issues.
While most entertainment experiences go out of their way to encourage your interest, it feigns indifference to your attention.
Introducing itself via bizarre and meaningless cut scenes you find your protagonist in a pretty dull dungeon. “Oh look, a man with a sword viewed from third person” you observe with a mounting sense of déjà vu. “No doubt I have a healing potion and a sense of manifest destiny somewhere in my bag too” and reach for the reset button/cyanide pill. But Dark Souls IS different - not that it is keen to show off. Like Usain Bolt winning the Dad’s race on sport day mumbling something about how he probably jumped the gun, Dark Souls’ initial coyness infuriates and astounds with equal measure.
– Real player with 242.8 hrs in game
Remnant: From the Ashes
Good game, but beware of over-leveling! The more you level up, the more the threats level up and the harder the whole game becomes. If you have an elite or boss who’s always killing you, look to your gear and/or tactics. Leveling up to beat the challenge is NOT the way to go in this game. Just something I learned the hard way.
– Real player with 126.0 hrs in game
This game overall was a very nice pleasant surprise , A third person shooter with a few of the ‘‘dark souls’’ gameplay mechanism like rolling around to dodges but controls that just work much better with a mouse and keyboard.
the game is not overly difficult outside of a few specific boss battles , the challenge is very well balanced and you can always crank the difficulty up if you find it too easy also.
checkpoints are common and you always have one right before a boss battle so even if you die you rarely have much to redo and you also don’t lose currency when you die.
– Real player with 106.3 hrs in game
DARK SOULS™ II
Everything is fair
– Real player with 236.0 hrs in game
The souls series is one of my favorite series ever, and this game is no different. ignore the hate for this game, its a good game, its just a 9 in a series of straight 11’s, one of the games has to be at the bottom and it just so happens to be this one, but that does not make it a bad game. I would recommend this game to all, including souls vets who have never played it and anyone new trying to get into the series.
– Real player with 182.3 hrs in game