Through Rust We Are Returned
When I play a game I want a good story without having to constantly mash the keyboard in fights. This game has a compelling story revealed in the form of character memories. The game play is unique, you use the memories to determine the order of combat bonuses. It is fun and not difficult to play. I hope to see more from Chaos Crew Productions!
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
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Full Playthrough w/ Both Endings and reading:
Review:
This game is definitely more of a visual novel than a strategy RPG, but it’s pretty well done. I really love the mechanics of equipping memories to adapt and customize your characters it’s really cool, the big problem though is that the battles are mind numbingly easy it’s pretty much a rush down there’s not much strategy required at all. I did enjoy it’s visual novel aspects though it’s a pretty dang story the end through me for a hot minute as I was trying to figure out who was who and what was going on, but it has a really dope cyberpunk victorian take on sociopolitical struggles it’s written pretty well, there’s not many typing errors at all. Definitely recommend it’s a well done free to play my only complaint is I wish the combat was a bit more strategic it seems like they give you certain memories so you can make a tank character, but there’s no reason to might as well just go flat damage and blitz.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
RAVE Asylum
RAVE Asylum is a turn-based roguelike RPG set in a Cyberpunk city filled with punishing enemies and engaging combat. Your tactics and team compositions will be tested as you fight your way through unimaginable foes. A rift has opened and the city has descended into chaos. Can you stop the aberrations and close the rift? Will you stop her before it’s too late? Or lose the city to insanity.
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Prevent the city from descending into madness. Manage the city’s sanity to prevent otherworldly creatures from spawning. When sanity levels are low, you will have to fight aberrations from another dimension to regain control!
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Optimize your team. Customize your party based on your experience from previous battles. As you play the game, you will learn the strengths and weaknesses of your foes. Fully customize your party with a wide variety of classes and skills to improve your chances in the next Run.
- Utilize the Overdrive and alter the tide of combat! This energy pool charges during combat. Each character can tap into this pool to unleash their own powerful abilities!
Hitman’s Overdrive
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Though death is permanent, there is a chance to recover a DNA blueprint if you manage to defeat the enemy. This can later be used in the Lab to clone a copy of the character.
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Earn Techs to make every mission unique. These passive abilities acquired via elite battles or special encounters aid your team and help shape your experience..
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Explore a beautifully, hand-drawn Cyberpunk universe filled with unique player classes and challenging enemies.
Different Districts
Neon City
Sewer System
Mech Ruins
more to come!
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Explore the dystopian cyberpunk future of 2231 as you command a company of shadow mercenaries working for the highest bidder. Cyber Knights wraps a world full of consequential story choices and significant character development around a rich core of classic and new mechanics. The game combines tactical elements like stealth, hacking and tense combat with strategic features like base building, contact management and in-depth squad customization. Cyber Knights invites you to jack in and explore a unique cyberpunk world and the immersive, human stories of your merc team in the dark future of 2231.
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Turn-based Tactics: Deep and tactical gameplay using a turn-based, gridless third-person combat simulator. Cover! Overwatch! Recoil!
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Dynamic Cyberpunk Story: Unique interwoven narrative with depth, meaningful player choices and hundreds of hours of gameplay. Create your own story reminiscent of pen and paper cyberpunk RPGs
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Sophisticated Missions: Combine stealth, hacking and combat across multi-stage missions. Gain pre-mission advantages from Contacts
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Endless Builds: Experiment with endless combos of Jobs, cyberware, weapons and gadgets to build the perfect team
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Evolving Characters: Your team evolves as the story, your choices and battle leave lasting wounds, add Traits and threaten to strip their humanity
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Safehouse Base Building: Construct a custom safehouse and upgrade rooms such as weapon shop, hund kennel and medical bay.
Cyber Knights strikes a unique tone with a futuristic setting that has passed through the messy near-future to arrive at dystopian 2231. Man-made environmental disasters have ravaged our biosphere. Artificial consciousness has been created, subsequently murdered, and then strictly outlawed at a global level. Megacorporate colonies and research stations dot the solar system from Venus to Jupiter. Quantum computing has radically altered the digital landscape and the very meaning of privacy and digital security.
The game’s threaded stories originate from both inside and outside your team – weaving together threads from your hired mercenaries, criminal connections and history that just won’t die. These stories operate on three interconnected and at times overlapping levels – personal stories (your team), contact stories (your employers) and event stories (city-wide).
And every choice you make and mission you run will impact your character’s permanent Traits, changing them in both subtle and big ways. Their stories and your choices combine to create a unique narrative for every game, every Knight and every team.
The second game our studio created, Cyber Knights RPG, took hundreds of thousands of gamers on an gritty cyberpunk roller-coaster, trying to get rich or go down shooting. The classic Cyber Knights has always had a huge following within our community and we are xcited to come back to the world and stories we started creating there so many years ago with an all new game, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint.
We’re weaving together the genre’s classic themes with the unique setting and history of Cyber Knights to create some of the most cutting, gripping and human stories we’ve ever told. Betrayal, sacrifice, trading away humanity for an advantage, living fast and dying young, revenge and testing the bonds of friendship and trust – it’s all here under the New Boston dome.
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Metroplex Zero
In 2280, Eurasica is ruled by cutthroat hyper-capitalist megacorporations. Only you can thwart ZantoCorp’s attempts to reestablish a dark tyranny. Metroplex Zero brings a new take on roguelike deckbuilding with it’s party-based RPG-style combat.
Visit powerful locations
To resist capitalistic tyranny, you’ll need to power up. Choose your route carefully, different locations give different benefits; upgrade your champion, recruit powerful units, upgrade cards, gain passive bonuses or duplicate any card in your deck.
Strategize to fit your playstyle
With five heroes to choose from, each has its own unique and surprising gameplay. Before each battle, scout your enemies and pick the ideal 36 cards to take on your foes. You are never forced to bring any card you don’t like into battle. During your run you will be able to acquire new cards, equipment, and augments. You can get special surgical implants, level up your heroes, and manipulate corporations into giving you very nice shopping discounts.
No playthrough is ever the same
You’ll never play the same deck twice!
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Over 250 different cards, allowing for a blend of various playstyles and builds
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Over 70 unique game-changing augments
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5 heroes each with very different gameplay
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Level up your heroes multiple times in every run
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Choose your own level up perks every time you gain enough XP
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More than 20 unique random events
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Over 30 different enemies
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.
七虹传 tale of rainbow 7
In “tale of rainbow 7”, you will lead a special bounty squad to take adventures in the cyberpunk-like sci-fi world. This game is a story-driven , turn-based tactics, squad-based rpg game.
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non-hardcore turn-based tactical battle system, like xcom
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making new special partners in the game world
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pixel-art cyberpunk-like sci-fi world
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story-driven, and include elements of equipment, skill, etc
Conglomerate 451
Hey guys,
TLDR: If you like dungeon crawlers, especially futuristic (ala Starcrawlers) there is a good chance you will like this game too.
Conglomerate 451 is set in and under (water) a cyberpunk style city. Actually my favourite map is the ‘entry’ cityscape. I love the look and the rain/water effects are pretty nice. Would liked to have had missions based in an offshoot of the outdoor area but currently all missions are enclosed. After the tutorial mission you can skip this part and head straight to the mission, which i do not recommend as buffs and map hacks and shopping can be done in the city and can make the mission itself more rewarding and easier.
– Real player with 114.7 hrs in game
*** this Review has been updated after the developer addressed some of the issues. It’s good to see that they are listening to feedback and including suggestions in their process****
This game. . . First off, I haven’t played as much as it shows. I leave games on overnight etc. so. . . I’ve played a little over four hours. . . too long to get my money back and just long enough for this game’s deep flaws to become unbearable for me. I can’t recommend this game to picky gamers. Here’s how it broke down for me:
– Real player with 83.1 hrs in game
M.E.R.C.
This game has a great concept, but game play is not so great.
1. Game Saves - You cannot save to another slot. You current save is your only save! So there is no going back before a mission. There is no quick save, so if you in the middle of a mission and have to leave the game. You will automatically fail the mission and have to start over.
2. Character Models - Not a large variety, 6 distinctive looking character (4 male / 2 female). Would not be bad if you was not allowed to get more that 6 characters on the team. For me, when you have to replace an injury teammate with look alike, just a different name, it takes away from the game.
– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game
tl;dr - Cripplingly boring and repetitivw. fun for the first 1.5-2 hours. After that, overly redundant and simple. Especially once you get better gear.
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difficulty: So, not having the options to change the difficulty does make it rough at the start, since you can easily go into a mission you are not ready for. the “threat assesment” isn’t so much a warning of how much damage the enemies do so much as it’s a heads up on how many enemies you will encounter. ….
Controls: A bit odd, but not clunky as lots of people describe. Just not typical. but can easily perform maneuvers.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
Project Martians
can’t re-read (tutorial) objectives, save game ended up broken mid tutorial but at the start?
it seems more of an early access proof of concept than anything.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Clumsy controls, a broken tutorial, and not much to recommend it.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Tactical Vanguard Saga
Nice game sofar,, but right now it seems only the first Mission is playable, it will not let me continue to the next Map after the 1st intermission.
For a Game that lasted less than 30 minutes 4€ is a bit much, hope it will bne updated in Future with more Missions.
For now sadly i cannot recommend it
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
A slightly-edited worked example of TShadowKnight’s SRW Engine MV, featuring some unique assets but just one stage that’s all of 15 minutes long. So, this is blatantly unfinished crapware trying to get money out of people by promising a game but then not actually creating the game.
Can’t recommend buying this for any reason.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game