Heroines
its a game
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
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Good design, challenging gameplay
The game starts off with a well scripted intro. It presents what’s at stake very well and got me hyped to explore the world.
Music choice is really good, as is the character design for most of the characters. Level design is visually appealing and I had fun from beginning to end, apart from occasional frustration with a couple of bosses.
But it isn’t flawless by any means.
Positives:
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Good level design, character design, skill animations and music
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Challenging
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Miasma: Citizens of Free Thought
A great classic strategy game…
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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I’m really enjoying my time with this game!
It’s hard to believe it came out so many years ago and yet holds up so well today!
I’m still making my way through but can’t wait to see where the story goes!
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Midnight Wave
Midnight Wave is a samurai cyberpunk tactical action RPG with immense customization, narrative choice, and innovative gameplay mechanic combinations, set in a world full of katanas, mega corporations, and elemental powers. Inspired by legendary classic titles such as Fire Emblem and Super Smash Brothers and more recent games like the Mass Effect series, Midnight Wave invites you to take part in a total genre mash-up adventure like no-other!
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Innovative Combat: Plan your attacks on the tactical map, then battle them out in a platform fighter duel! No more RNG percentages. You control the action.
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Old School Aesthetic: We’ve got pixel art vibes that’ll make you drown in nostalgia!
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Narrative Choice: The story is yours, say what you want, do what you want, and make difficult choices that shape the world.
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Characters and World: Everything is fleshed out! Explore and learn more about characters and the world, and watch as they react to your actions.
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Customization: Customize all of your characters! Not just their equipment, but their appearance, class, and skills too! Unlike other games, in Midnight Wave tactical sprites, portraits, and platform fighter sprites all change appearance accordingly.
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Elemental Combat: Wreak havoc on the battlefield with the elements! Freeze your enemies, burn them alive, or blow them away! Manipulate the environment to your advantage.
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Local Multiplayer: Enjoy local multiplayer with up to four friends! Choose your character and fight head to head in platform fighter combat.
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Tenderfoot Tactics
Tenderfoot Tactics is an open world turn-based tactics game where you play as a band of goblins exploring a vast archipelago, getting into cool fights and pushing back a malevolent force known as ‘the fog’.
The fights are cool because they’re all about manipulating and dramatically transforming the battlefield. You can smash craters and crack ravines into the earth, fill them with water then electrocute, boil, or even ice the water over to cross it. You can grow movement-hindering (or enhancing!) brush then set it alight to toast your foes (or your tender toes). You can even infect enemies with a fecund poison that, on death, spawns a ‘bog body’.
– Real player with 79.6 hrs in game
TL;DR: great combat and character advancement, ‘meh’ everything else. The combat and advancement carry the game and justify its modest price tag, but if that isn’t enough for you look elsewhere. A gem if you like small-scale tactical combat. Bonus: plays perfectly in Linux via Steam Play.
At its heart this is a classic turn-based, grid-based tactical roleplaying game. Combat and character development mechanics are reminiscent of Final Tantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in all the best ways, though less ambitious (as befits a much smaller game).
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game
Cascade Tactics
Cascade Tactics is a tactical RPG full of interesting and interactive abilities. You are a novice mercenary in a war-torn world. Hire your team, choose your classes, upgrade your equipment, and see how long you can survive.
Whether you want to hack your way to victory with powerful soldiers or strategically maneuver in the battlefield to maximize your profits, you can enjoy Cascade Tactics.
Features a Dual-class system with interesting synergies.
A Commander can issues commands to other units. A Ninja can attack twice with his weapon. When a character’s two classes are Commander and Ninja you can issue commands to other units to attack twice.
A Sentinel can guard tiles with his weapon. A Pyromancer can deal damage to an area with Flames. When a character has both classes, he can guard locations with Flames: casting it anytime an enemy walks on the tile.
An Archer can add any magical ability to his weapon attack. A Necromancer can raise a Skeleton if the target of his ability dies. When combined, you can raise a skeleton upon killing a target.
A Lancer can add cast time to his weapon to deal more damage or add cast time to a spell to increase its area-of-effect.
Interactive Mechanics:
Status Effects are linked (or channeled). Deal damage to the caster to stop the status effect.
Many actions take time before they are executed. This gives the opponent time to react. Deal damage to the caster to stop the action. Move / Push / Teleport units into or out of danger. Protect the target with another action before he is hit. Change the target of the caster with Silencer’s Redirect. These opportunities allow the battles to feel fun and interactive.
Forever and Ever
CUNNING STRATEGY AND THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP ARE YOUR GREATEST WEAPONS (BUT GUNS AND MAGIC HELP TOO)
Forever and Ever is an anime-inspired turn-based strategy game with billions of different heroes ready for adventure. In a world of heroes and villains battling for immortal glory, a strange storyteller falls from another world. As this mysterious bard, recruit uniquely generated future legends with diverse appearances, backstories, and personalities. Only your tactics and the bonds of their friendship can lead them to eternal fame and fortune!
CUNNING STRATEGY
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Build a team from 10 different character classes that support a wide range of tactics!
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Battle with action-packed abilities that can be customized to fit your strategy!
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Every fight is fair- win or lose based on your decisions, not how much you’ve been grinding!
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
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Discover procedurally generated backstories to reveal your heroes' past, personality, and secret ambitions!
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Forge friendships on the battlefield whose bonds will save them in clutch moments!
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You’ll never see the same hero twice! Forever and Ever features over 5 billion uniquely-generated characters!
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If they die, they’re gone forever (and ever)!
Whether your heroes are ancient defective gardening robots, magical animal children, zombified party addicts, or edgelords from the future, the journey starts with an interview! Learn about each candidate’s strengths, weaknesses, backstories, and personality, and find the heroes that are right for you. Maybe your team needs an Outlaw, a rockstar gunslinger who can’t stop dishing out damage? Or a Crusader, a bulky knight-officer who shields your team from harm with the power of THE LAW? Or a blasphemous Heretic, who dares to use their magic to protect instead of fight? These character classes and more await you in the world of Forever and Ever!
Guide these heroes into battle, and soon they’ll discover Secret Techniques: modifications and additions to their original abilities to expand your tactical options. Develop a fierce warband that fights with your personal flair!
Throughout their journey, heroes develop bonds and relationships that strengthen over time. These bonds show their true power in heroes’ most dire moments, and can save them from certain death. A Crusader and a Punk, once enemies on opposite sides of the law, now fierce comrades, push each other to fight beyond their mortal limits. An Exorcist shouts a word of warning to her wife, letting her dodge a deadly blow at the last moment. A Hermit heals his rival from the brink of death, and friendship begins to replace their antagonistic feelings. What story will you and your heroes tell?
SAD RPG: A Social Anxiety Role Playing Game
Fascinating concept for a game blending the RPG elements with the unusual nature of the trippy neo-psychedelic art style. I expected nothing less from the same creators of NO THING. Love the unsettling feeling of entering different areas of the game, and the soundtrack does not disappoint either. People need to also realise that the reason they keep getting warped back to “Bone Street” is because you went the wrong way and need to try and different route to find where you need to go!
Do not get discouraged, and remember to check your menu and inventory. Also if you have not previously played NO THING I would recommend maybe even playing that first before this game. (though not required for story reasons or anything).
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
From the creators of the cult classic No Thing, Sad RPG follows in the same aesthetic style with a new game play loop. There is classic RPG mechanics for battling anxiety attacks, as well as No Thing-esq levels in your TV or PC. I have not completed the game, but so far I am liking what I see.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
P.U.G.S. Agents
P.U.G.S. Agents is a classic 2D Top-Down adventure in the 80’s style with completely new heroes. Two agents of the secret organization P.U.G.S. must solve the mystery of the mysterious explosion at the local factory S.N.A.C.K.S. The suspicion of Arch-Evil Jamnior arises and the agent KGB (Kiss & Good Bye) is seen near Fazita Fazinova.
In the game you will be able to relive the chilling adventure in the hearts of pugs, meet the heroes of different races, and what’s important to find the dog’s snacks.
Control agents, solve puzzles, use pugilistic equipment, discover the true nature of the pugs agents!
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Pug thrilling 2D Top-Down adventure
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Pug agents cooperation mode
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Quests, Puzzles and minigames
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Twisted storyline with different races heroes
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Special PUGS Agents suits, tools and devices
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and secret of the Snacks
Guardians of Greenheart
I am appreciated for the high-difficult enemy that required careful planning to ensure victory with minimum cost. The art is beautiful and the story is straight to the point.
However, over the first hour of my playtime, the grinding has became too much. In the very first battle, you will be pitch against a big bad enemy that can one-shot (in which it did) your character should you had not debuff them. Beating that big bad was hard, but that okay, no problems.
However, when that very same kind of big bad which would reappeared in the next dozens of battles, the game became too much monotone and boring, for by the 3rd battle, you have already mastered what combo should you use.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Nilspace
