Fortress of Hell
Fortress of Hell is an RPG Maker game, but one intended for a mature audience. Its heroes are all grown up, frequently vulgar/cynical, and there will be plenty of sarcastic remarks.Also the theme of the games is quite depraved. While I’m not well versed in the state of RPG Maker games in the 2010’s, the combat system in this game seems fairly good, rewarding the use of buffs and debuffs, and requiring some management of TP/MP. You won’t be able to simply spam skills and spells even in normal mode. Thankfully most of the enemies can be dealt with mere weapon attacks, once your party has leveled up a bit. The progression of the heroes contain numerous points, where you have to choose one talent out of 3 or 2. The description of the outcomes are sometimes too vague, so you might end up with an underwhelming upgrade. Not that it matter that much, on normal difficulty the game can be easily completed even with subpar choices.
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
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Aldorlea Games surprised me here with a much darker, even mature, themed game as we are used to from them. And it’s a pleasant surprise. It’s certainly one of their best games.
The story may be cheesy as hell but… cheesy in a good way. And yes the game is dark but it’s also spiced with a lot of humour. The dialogues are, off course, cheesy but that fits very well here.
Obviously a lot of thought and effort went in to this production. The castle just looks wonderful, a lot of attention was spend to the decoration and the looks of each screen and it shows: it’s one of the better looking RPG Maker games out there. Aldorea once again proves that you can make a pretty looking game just with stock material.
– Real player with 7.9 hrs in game
Bouncer Story
So if you like light resource management games you will enjoy this game. I played it for almost 4 hours straight yesterday and the time just flew. I did finish my first playthrough in this time so it is a short game but fairly priced around 5 bucks cause it’s pretty fun.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
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My playtime: 5h (based on Steam, finished the game, Kiss of Death ending)
Intro
Bouncer Story tells a story of you, a bouncer, who suddenly amassed a lot of debts in a single day from gambling. The thing is, you’re in debt to the mafia, and there’s no telling of what they will do if you can’t pay the debt in time. You’ll have to use your wits to earn a lot of money while paying for rent, debt, and skill points to survive the harsh job as a bouncer.
Pros:
- Multiple endings
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Hero must die. again
At the time of writing I have 16 hours of playtime and played through most of the game with 36/57 achievements. I will generally outline the game but wont mention anything specific regarding its content in case you are concerned about spoilers.
As the store page says the game is set in a stereotypical JRPG-setting with a hero going up against a demon lord, except in this case they both took each other out and now the hero, our protagonist, has been brought back to life for five days only and has an opportunity to “put his affairs in order”, bringing us to the actual game.
– Real player with 75.3 hrs in game
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Achieved the true ending to this game earlier and I gotta say… I’m pretty damn sad there’s nothing left do in this masterpiece FeelsBadMan (I mean yeah, I have 2 achievements left, but they’re the worst ones…). Wish I could go back and play it for the first time again. This is genuinely one of the best games I’ve ever played (and quite likely it’ll be my GOTY, we’ll see). The concept is just too genius to sneeze on, honestly. Gameplay is damn fun too, tbh (and dare I say pretty relaxing); I never really found myself getting bored with every playthrough I did. And the fact that you’re pretty much guaranteed to discover something new on pretty much every playthrough you do makes it all the better tbh (so yes, it’s not always the same)…well, unless you just want to zoom ahead to the true ending, which you’ll most likely need a guide for (here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2011817995) .
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
Princess Maker 2 Refine
I’ve played the original DOS version and this new version - Refine.
What I liked about Refine:
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New Japanese voiceovers.
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The music sounds much better.
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New text makes it easier to understand some of the courses/work easier. I first played this game as a child and had a difficult time understanding the terminology in the DOS version. As a result, a child may have an easier time understanding this.
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The Art is less grainy and more refined; somewhat brighter. The flowers in the vase change by the season – which I thought was a nice touch.
– Real player with 133.8 hrs in game
Princess Maker 2 Refine can make a lot of princesses but not much of a game.
Story
The story of PM2R is near non-existent, but on purpose. You are a wandering swordsman who saves a kingdom from a demonic siege by defeating the demon lord. Ever thankful for your rescue, the king gives you a home, a butler, and a yearly stipend. The heavens bestow a child of their own upon you. Already age ten, you are tasked with raising her for the next eight years of her life. The story is wildly open-ended from here, as there are dozens upon dozens of endings, but none are particularly impressive; amounting to nothing more than a few short blurbs about the kind of person your adopted daughter became when she left your home. The sheer number of possible endings and permutations of those endings are far more impressive than the quality of them.
– Real player with 123.2 hrs in game
The Evil Farming Game: Replanted
All screenshots are of alpha builds, and are subject to change.
What have you gotten yourself into now?
When Richard, the town farmer, finds himself at the center of his wife’s murder, it’s up to him (or you) to figure out what the hell to do.
You live on a small island village, with friendly people, law enforcement, and your wife.
Everyday starts the same, harvest yesterday’s crops, give them to your wife, and plant some more. Forever and ever, maybe sometimes you head to the market to pick up some tools.
But one day, that all changed, late at night, you lash out at your wife, and kill her. As you feel her pulse stop, you have no idea what to do. Will you turn yourself in? Or will you hide, stealthily avoiding punishment.
Make your choice in the First Part of this 2 game duology.
Meet friendly faces! Make friends, make enemies! Make your own story. With endless possibility to how your scheme will end up, there is no way you’ll make it out of this scot-free, as you’ll have more than just your wife, taken away from you.
Replanted is primarily based on the “Evil Farming Game” myth.
Woodsalt
I’m a fan of adventure games, and this didn’t disappoint me. Intriguing storyline and fun graphics. The mid section of the game allows you to explore and interact with the world on a daily timeline with new things to discover each day. I found this engrossing, getting to know the characters, the environments, and the challenges the society was facing. However, if your goal is primarily to complete a game quickly you would probably find this frustrating. The pace and excitement picked up in the latter stages as you closed in on whatever ending you gameplay had led you to. I spent 9 hours absorbed in the game from start to finish, and am now looking forward to starting afresh to see how different decisions will change the ending.
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Target Audience: Those really open-minded with imagination and looking to help a small developer
Summary:
I’m not going to beat around the bush: Woodsalt has major structural problems from a story perspective, leading to a very uneven experience that unfortunately does not live up to its high price of admission. The sci-fi story does have a few characters that do an alright job of making you relate with them in the side stories, but an inconsistency in what time is spent with what characters and how they impact the main story ends up really making it suffer. Certain events don’t make sense in the big picture of the story, and it doesn’t help that the nature of the game’s one side versus another and playing both sides as being possibly right has a glaring weak spot that destroys that idea toward the mid-end of the game. Again though, it’s the inconsistencies of the events of the main plot that feel like they have big chunks missing that really makes the game’s story suffer here. You just don’t believe what’s happening in front of you, even with the sci-fi nature of the game. The characters, especially those like Gi, just make you wonder if conflicts were inserted for the sake of conflicts being needed.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Confess My Love
There are awesome games, maybe published years ago, with two reviews on Steam.
And then there are games like this one that have 3.000 reviews.
I think that everything revolves around some kind of Japanese fanboyism.. like, similarity with manga and anime.. fandoms.. forums.. I don’t know xD
This game though is definitely good, I’m replaying it for another time these days and I thought it was worthy of a nice review.
(It happens that the 95% of the reviews are actually written in Chinese XD)
Even though it isn’t the usual visual novel.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
I highly recommend this game! It’s free to play, with multiple endings; you will get the most out of this experience if you play it all in one sitting. Although the concept is really nothing new (a tale of unrequited love and the anguish it can cause), the game presents this concept in a unique way. I would love to see this game expanded upon because it really leaves you wanting more.
The sprites are adorable and the sound/music really helps set the tone. The writing, despite a few grammar errors here and there, is simple but adds realism in the dialogue between characters (and the inner thoughts of the main character). The humor is a nice touch, which juxtaposes very well with more disturbing elements later on. This game doesn’t rely on blood or jumpscares to frighten you. The sense of fear is cumulative; like a chill slowly running up your spine which gradually increases as the game progresses. If I had to compare it to another game, I would say it reminded me of “Hello?…Hell…o?”
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Dark Hero Party
You know…a good portion of Kagura fans are into hardcore stuff, me included obviously, but HUGE warning…I’m at the part when shit gets crazy and wow this is depressing. I’ve played all types of cheating and NTR games from Kagura Games but it usually had a light tone where you can just enjoy depravity at its finest. This is an entirely different beast. I had to exit the game without saving because it was a little too much for me. After I calmed down, I do what I usually do in really hardcore stuff and emotionally disconnect from the characters and just enjoy it but damn if I wasn’t used to compartmentalizing then this would be waay too much for me. I give a thumbs up because it’s definitely delivering what it said it would _
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
“Justice without strength is helpless? Experience what the ending of waiting for the player who has lost everything is…(´・ω・｀)"
Additional patches can be found on the official site if needed
Dark Hero Party. The original version was released at the end of 2015, which was made by U-ROOM . Like other nice Kauga Games projects, there is a slightly delightful twist on the title name for the global release. Its genre is NTR RPG. NTR(NeToRare) means that heroines of the player have been taken away physically or mentally by others, so the preference for the game itself probably depends on the taste of the users!ヽ(=´▽'=)ﾉ
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age is a kind of game that is becoming increasingly rare: a deeply immersive single-player RPG with an interface clearly designed for the PC. It’s easy to sling around the word “immersive” at any game that looks pretty, but DA isn’t messing around - the world of Ferelden shows a unified sense of design and depth that blows even famously vast games like Oblivion out of the water. Coupled with consistently excellent writing and across-the-board quality character design even down to relatively unimportant NPCs, the game truly does feel like it’s reacting to your choices dynamically from the very beginning, and how you play your character can have amazingly subtle effects on the way the story unfolds.
– Real player with 466.3 hrs in game
Still the Best Game in its Franchise…
The first game I ever had on Steam. In fact, this game was the reason I got Steam in the first place. Bought the game upon it’s first day of release and I have been playing on and off over the years. Shame, I played this at least 3-4x the amount of hours it says on my profile offline, and I’ve not lost my interest in the game one-bit.
Rating(s):
Visuals & Graphics: 10/10
- It was very innovative during it’s time. I can remember all the HYPE it received months before release. Considering today’s present standards DA 1 Graphics is already a bit dated, but I will rate it accordingly to the time period it actually got released, and for that time’s standard’s it was one of the TOP.
– Real player with 416.7 hrs in game
Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening
Dragon Age Origins Awakening is in no way an anomaly. It does what is expected from an expansion pack, adds a little here and a little there, rehashes everything that was in the original and doesn’t add anything new or major. And, like most expansion packs, stand alone or otherwise, it is only worth it for fans of the original as taken by it’s own merits, it’s not much of a game.
Awakening starts you off short after the end of the original Dragon Age, you can choose to either import one of your old characters or just from scratch. The latter option gives you an Orlesian Grey Warden background which adds plenty of interesting dialog concerning your heritage throughout the game. Importing a character however, yields almost no interesting dialog throughout the game and even in places and with characters that you original play through should have had a profound effect on you will find that nothing changes regardless of your actions in Origins. This leads to a highly disappointing experience for those of us that have actually played the original and like to think our choices actually mattered, if only in terms of storyline.
– Real player with 71.3 hrs in game
If you were a fan of Origins, you would like this, featuring your gray warden and a whole new cast of colourful companions (and Oghren.) This Expansion deals with the aftermath of the war, and you need to quell another darkspawn uprising. I didn’t find the game as compelling as base, but it was entertaining enough.
However, I wouldn’t really recommend getting it as is because it’s as expensive as the main game but with only a quarter of the content. And don’t play this if you haven’t played the main game either.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game