ROGUERIA: Roguelikes X Tactics
IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Strategy game. Turn-based tactics. Fantasy themed. Dynamically assigned pre-generated levels. Several individually themed chapters. Nodal maps of linked locations. Skill-oriented combat encountered. Small number of tactical factors. Defeat end-of-level bosses. Time-limiting rogue-lite mechanic. Relics provided collective combat modifiers. More complex than it looks. Single-player only. No real deck-building.
– Real player with 33.2 hrs in game
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Full play through here (we beat it thank the lawd) once it uploads (cursor disappearing glitch 3:01:57) at : https://youtu.be/3uOyQDZvUsI
Game is amazing a super pleasant surprise I literally bought this to have steam points for the ox and it looked semi interesting. The music/sound effects/art style are super pleasing and keep the game really enjoyable throughout your whole play. The difficulty ramps up greatly in boss fights as you progress through the zones and the game will take quite a bit to beat I got to the third zone on my first play through and the boss graped me in the mouth. There’s different characters and upgrades you don’t get anything when you lose it doesn’t seem sadly, but there seems to be a lot for me to explore still. Some nice changes would be if you have enough movement to make an attack work if you could just use the attack and the character auto moves vs having to move then attack that’d be a nice quality of life change. Getting something unlocked for failed play throughs would be nice as well since this game gets really difficult
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
Stickman Clans
Stickman Clans - a new fun and addictive real-time strategy game with famous stickman heroes! RTS game in a medieval setting with elements of survival, you can control your army and individual warriors.
Get gold to recruit more fighters to your army. At your disposal: miner, stickman warrior, archer, Spartan, giant, and even a catapult. Upgrade your army by improving the skills and weapons of the stickmen. Strengthen your fortress. Get ready for the legendary battle of the stickmen. The outcome of the battle depends only on you.
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Destined to Die
I will admit. I did not like this game at first, it’s just repetitive with nothing new. However the more hours I played it the more involved I got to complete the game and all of it’s achievements. After my initial “this is boring” I really got into the game and made the decisions. I wanted to. This game involved patience and a lot of experimenting. I would however recommend for a little game that makes you really see the meaning of how some peoples lives go.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
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I like the concept of the game and how it’s sort of like a puzzle where you have to figure out what to do and what not to do. But I’m confused about whether or not this game has any real rhyme or reason to it. I would try out a specific routine and it would work one day, raising all my stats, but then I’d try the same routine the next day and all my stats would decrease and I’d end up dying. Following the tips the cat offers in the game didn’t seem to affect my stats too much either, maybe only for one day and then all my stats would decrease again. Overall, this game was interesting enough to keep my attention but it’s message and true ending are unclear for me
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Dust to the End
I’ve been playing this game since back in Early Access and I have to say it’s come a long way from where it started out. At first it was just a barren map where you could easily go “point A” to “point B” with a storyline that was alright but with a shoddy translation that would break immersion. Certain aspects for reputation didn’t have any point other than to just “be there” and weapons weren’t very different from another. Base Building and Raiding was just “push through and win” while trying to get as much loot as possible. And Keeping track of all your stuff and what industries were where was a mess.
– Real player with 269.9 hrs in game
Dust to the End is a squad-based, turn-based combat, semi-openworld trading game in a post-apocalyptic setting.
-manage up to 9 units and vehicles(with upkeep)
-multiple maps(or zones) unlocked by story progression(fixed main story)
-real-time travel movement on a free-roaming map, enemies are visible and can be avoided if you’re fast
-turn-based combat, some random encounters
-factions, town relations
-autosaves, multiple manual save slots
-sandworms, but no spice items.
Finally I played a good game after the longest of time. Was somehow shocked by how good it was. These Chinese developers have done an amazing job adapting the timeless classic Caravaneer 2 from Dmitry Zheltobriukhov into a far better looking and ‘noob friendly’ trading game with more depth(combat can get quite brutal), and they actually listened to player feedback unlike a lot of other stuck up indie developers out there.
– Real player with 141.2 hrs in game
Fifefer Island - Terrena’s Adventure
Fifefer island is a micro-economics game. This game offers a very unique and incredible way of learning economics. The story, music, voice-over,the art of the game and unique puzzles are well synchronized, which makes learning and game-play even more fun. This is the perfect game if you are looking for fun and learning in one thing. After playing the game you will not be disappointed. Highly recommended.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
Great game to utilize for differentiation. This game offers an excellent overview of new concepts that can be used as an introduction or to reinforce learning. Love it!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Tales Of Chandar
In the dangerous lands of Chandar the evil mage Haaraf have kidnapped the Princess. Mharak, the King of Chandar selected his best fighters and mages to get her back. The small, but tough group have managed to free her. But this is not the end, only the beginning: your goal is to get her home alive!
Gameplay
Tales Of Chandar is a mix of Turn-Based Strategy & RPG, where you’ll fight dozens of various enemies. Gain experience, level up your heroes, unlock their special skills and find out which of these are suitable for your playstyle.
Interact with strangers for side quests and unlock new characters who’ll join your party and help you on your journey.
But enemies and monsters are not the only one to fight with: you’ll have to pay attention to your heroes' thirst and hunger level, which will drop constantly as you’re wandering the lands. Place down traps to get food, and fill your bucket with water when it rains, or when you’ll find a lake.
You’re not satisfied with your currently selected heroes? Just find some wood, make a campfire and you can switch your party members.
Look out for treasure chests scattered throughout the world, and open them for valuable rewards.
Key features:
-More than 10 heroes to choose from
-More than 60 enemies to fight with
-5 chapters with bosses and mini-bosses
-Turned-based battle system
-RPG system with upgradeable attributes, unlockable special skills, and useful collectable items
-Stylish 2D graphics
-Up to 4 players local (hot-seat) co-op gameplay experience
Clouds of Rain
An excellent small RPG with nice graphics and very hard battles. See my Review for more …
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– Real player with 39.7 hrs in game
Pros
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Tough but rewarding combat system
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Hand drawn art style that suits the tone
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Exploration is engaging most of the time
Cons
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Some characters do not evolve much and the story starts quiet and not a lot happens
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Even though most of the story arcs get a resolution the game ends with a cliff-hanger, hinting to a follow up title but leaving some things unanswered
Let’s start off with the aesthetic look. I really appreciate the hand-drawn style and the effort of customise every visual aspect even though there are not many dynamic elements, like leaves, wind effect etc.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
Dark Cards
The other games by these devs are underappreciated gems, particularly Dark Mist, but also the better known Blood Card, both of which are fantastic. In this case, however, the devs have missed the mark, badly.
It’s worth noting up front that Dark Cards at this point is essentially abandonware… which is a good thing, in my opinion. Get the message that your game isn’t working, ask Steam to withdraw the game from sale, write this game off to experience and move on with your lives. Continuous microimprovements really aren’t going to be enough to make this game any better without breaking the entire thing down and starting again from scratch.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
I would not recommend the game in its current state.
The game’s idea is fun and all but at this point it feels like an unfinished product. This game requires a lot of polish to become a good game. the animations aren’t that smooth and feel a bit laggy, which can be seen in the few examples in the store page. I also encountered two bugs which broke the game and stopped it from responding to alt-F4 in my 30 mins of play time. Nevertheless I still believe in its potential so I will leave my review positive for now.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE
where do i start on this game’s review? heck if i know but i’ll try to leave it readable
the fun i have had in this game exceeds that of over 99% of rpg games i have ever played the combat is excellent its kinda like active time battle but each time you or the enemy gets their turn the atb bars stop increasing until everyone who has their atb bar around 10000 or so had their turn then atb bars resume increasing up to 10000 then those characters or enemies have thier turn rinse and repeat
the difficulty with the bosses is legendarily hard even by dark souls standards you will die a lot of times and when i say a lot I MEAN YOU WILL DIE A HEAP OF TIMES (assuming if you dont over power yourself because lets face it overpowered characters negating the challenge is less fun then stepping on the edges of lego pieces barefoot) joke aside the some of the bosses will take every single bit of knowledge you have from this game and any other similar role playing games to even have a slight chance take it from me i have been party wiped so fast i didn’t even have time to say darn i got shredded and owned lol (i party wiped so many times though not once have a rage quit because of the boss’s difficulty it happens because i made the blooming mistakes that made the party wipe happen oh for those fans of a certain super hard rpg game im not going to say who it is but all you need know is a certain npc appears from that series somewhere in this game when i saw them i was like nooo….. can it you are you really them? no blooming way its them (yes it was them i can tell because i played a good bit of that game series myself
– Real player with 292.1 hrs in game
Wowee I sure can’t wait to finally play the LOT2 Plus Disk with an English translation, sure hope no nerf hammers hit
! Byakuren
_ ! Byakuren:
All
! Sutra skills: 14% - 12%
! Skanda’s Legs: SPD buff (11+SLv)% - (14+SLv*2)% / No longer states the buff gets higher if she kills an enemy
! Sutra - Duplicating Chant: Overwrites target’s de/buffs with
! Byakuren’s - Applies a buff equal to (36+SLv*4)% of
! Byakuren’s buffs_
– Real player with 154.5 hrs in game
Roguebook
Wanted to hold off reviewing it until I beat +15. If you’re looking for a new deckbuilder, I’d recommend this one. I’ve played Slay the Spire, Monster Train, and a few others, and this one really made me want to thoroughly complete it. There is enough variety and unique combinations that really makes each run fun and challenging. It’s not perfect (I’ll talk about that below), but it’s worth the coin.
Positive:
*Gem system adds a fun element that makes some not so useful cards viable.
*The large deck angle adds more ways to build around bad cards.
– Real player with 150.8 hrs in game
I unfortunately can’t leave a positive review. I am a linux user. Before buying this game, I checked and saw that the game worked fine with steam compatilibity tools, so I bought it. The game was working perfectly. Then they added an update, which added some random visual bugs (slightly annoying but nothing major) as well as some random game crashes (around once every 1h30 of play for me, but since I’m slow and runs were about 2h30 that was quite annoying). Then the last major update hit, claiming some bugfixes. Cool. I do not experience any bug anymore since my game doesn’t even launch anymore. I’ve tried switching the compatilibity modes, proton versions…etc… to no avail, the game doesn’t launch anymore.
– Real player with 103.6 hrs in game