Slime Dice
Roll Dice! Make Characters! Play Mini-games & Strategize Combat! Gather a team of your very own characters and defeat the monsters of Spegroon. Slime Dice is based heavily on both 2000’s era video games and board games. Combat itself also offers many decisions, both when creating your team, and while in battle. Roll dice to get special combos, or go for another strategy entirely!
Character Creation is where you’ll start the game, making your own character first. You can change the visuals, the voice, and even their default emotions! After that, you pick their stats. There are four different stats to invest into, and a large amount of abilities to select from. Mixing and matching these abilities, stats, and equipment is a big part of the game! Do this not only for this character, but up to a total of eight! Will you make a party of mages? Perhaps a pirate crew, wielding flintlocks and axes? Or, will you make a team based on characters from your favorite game/series? The choice is yours!
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Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Update 8/26/2021: The game has reached version 1.0, and it’s still not fun.
Overall performance and stability have improved somewhat. There tends to be less lag when moving around, and autoexplore is quite fast. On the other hand, inventory performance has gotten worse. Opening the inventory screen can take a few seconds and switching equipment a second.
With the introduction of continuous buff spells, this is possibly the easiest version yet. Most buff spells now last forever at the cost of reducing maximum PP by a percentage. For casters this doesn’t matter too much since PP growth seems to have gone through the roof. For non-casters this doesn’t matter too much since they are killing things without spells.
– Real player with 92.1 hrs in game
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Update: 04/23/21
Updated the Video showing off the current state of the game, as of Version 0.8.0.
Updated Gameplay! In-Progress Let’s Play video here: https://youtu.be/VRrMxf8hV-0
I record my playthroughs with Ultimate ADOM if you prefer a more visual format; take a look if you like.
I like Ultimate ADOM. I liked it during the Alpha, and I like it even more now. Much progress has been made, as more and more options are opening up, options like Limb Grafting! I shall be a Grafting God!
– Real player with 48.2 hrs in game
Knight Eternal
Fourth game in the series. Even though the third one is my favourite, this improves on all aspects except writing, which has always ranged between tolerable and terrible, and music, which to be fair I muted 10 seconds into the game.
Your characters get a skill tree, which is a nice touch and offers more options. Considerably easier to deal with resource management, like mana, a quality of life much needed. Tactics, even the same ones from the previous game work better, stats are more meaningful and in general combat as a whole feels more refined. Unfortunately the difficulty doesn’t keep up with all these changes that make you life easier and let you better tailor your party to your preferences, that’s why I still prefer the 3rd one.
– Real player with 32.5 hrs in game
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I’m not good at leaving reviews, so I’ll just lay out my thoughts.
I liked that the battles went pretty quickly.
I really liked how this and finding light have mechanics similar to the Final Fantasy Legend games, if I remember them correctly.
There was a large amount of abilities to use and I was always excited to find a new one. Items that gave a lot of abilities were particularly coveted by me. I did wish there were more abilities, but the ones that were available had enough variety that I never felt bored by them.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Pingers
I think , the game is very interesting and fun
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
A simple, fun, addicting game. The music really stands outs! I would recommend for those who are looking for something to play in between other games, or with your friends locally.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Plague Breaker
Was addicted after 5 minutes. Beat the game on hard with all characters and I don’t normally play these types of games but this was fun attempting to unlock as much as possible. Don’t pass this up if you enjoy rougelike games.
– Real player with 24.1 hrs in game
Plague Breaker is a really cool roguelike game based on games like castlevania. It’s got a cool class system that I enjoyed, item pickups similar to Issac, and level and item randomizations. It’s a pretty fun game and even has co-op. A few of the class choices can be traps that don’t work well if you aren’t paying attention to the items you have or don’t have likely access too based on your difficulty, but as long as you avoid that, most play styles you choose can adapt fairly well.
I requested this game on keymailer because it looked awesome and it was.
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game
Iron Age
Iron Age is a First-Person hack and slash with random item mods and semi-randomized dungeons. A classic dungeon crawling experience.
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Hitbox based melee combat
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Procedural generated dungeons with several bosses
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Randomized loot attributes
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Delve while avoiding deadly monsters and traps
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Customize your character’s appearance
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Build off a branching skill system
Dinky Dungeon
Dinky Dungeon is an absurd arena shooter game with a (relatively) charmingly ugly style. All the sounds in the game are recorded and engineered by a single guy and a cat. Yes, finally I found a chance to give a role to my cat in this game!
Story
You and your grandfather start a dungeon business for trapping evil creatures away from the town. You are the muscles and your grandfather is the brain. You have to deal with the problems whenever your grandfather calls you. You can be sure that he causes a lot of problems. There will be 21 levels with different quests, while you improve your small dungeon with your grandfather.
Gameplay
It is mostly kill whatever you see on sight. But at the start of each level you will be given some quests. For example: kill 30 goblins, dismantle the traps, protect the crate shipment, solve the puzzle mechanisms, slay the goddesses or bosses, destroy the nests.
As you kill creatures and complete the quests, you will earn experience and you will be able to improve your character.
Giants, minotaur, skeletons, trolls, goblins, bandits, falcons, slimes, lich lords are some of the enemies you will encounter with.
List of features
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Scenario mode with 21 levels, and endless arena modes
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Absurdly unique and fun arena shooter gameplay
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Remarkable graphics and sound effects
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Character progression with various abilities and weapons
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Various enemies with different features
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Boss fights
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Lots of quests
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Live leaderboards and achievements
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A hell of a grandfather
By Any Means Necessary
All in all a very good game, especially for its price.
You basically play a big campaign within a world that seems to be far bigger than what you see. And even if there aren‘t a lot of areas, there‘s much to see and you are getting rewarded for exploring.
You play 6 different characters, which you can interchange within battle. Every characters has a unique set of skills, while there‘s still room for customization by using scrolls, that give them additional skills or attributes. You find the scrolls by exploring or doing side-quests.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
great game, if you like 2D rpgs like final fantasy you are gonna love this game.
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
I love this game, but not the bugs. The Temple of Apshai is definitely a retro/nostalgia game for 70/80s gamers – or those who want to see what the first “legitimate hit” RPG game looked like. Unfortunately, they simply released the IBM version of the Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1985) without dealing with the bugs. The Trilogy features three different dungeons with four levels each. I’ve put 9+ hours into the game and unfortunately discovered a bunch of bugs. The biggest? It fails to track your experience, so while you gain money and weapons by killing monsters and retrieving treasures, you don’t get better at fighting. This becomes immediately apparent when you run into the tougher Level 3 and Level 4 monsters.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
This version of the game is broken an unfortunately that seems to have always been true of the DOS build. Issues:
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No experience is ever earned meaning character progression is completely broken
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Combat is broken, the enemies do very little damage. Temple of Apshai is a punishing game and it’s fairly common to die without a proper build and paying attention to health.
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The item values are broken. For example, there’s a Copper Ingot in a hidden room on the first level that’s normally worth 20 silver - this version gives 450 silver. With the combat system broken as well, it’s trivial to walk in, pick up that copper ingot a few times and have enough money to get maximum equipment. That’s not supposed to happen.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Zippo
For its price, overall, its a cool, short but fun and challenging game. The effects, the variety of skins and trails make this game very polished. Would recommend if you like games like Geometry Dash and Celeste.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game