Garden Tale
Entertaining enough. Very short. Fun to pull off a full room clear or near full room clear with bonion combo. Still very short. :P
Recommend but for me on sale is the way to go. I am accustomed to more hours for my money though I am unsure I would thumbs up it had it been substantially longer.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
I had high hopes for this game as a fan of turn-based strategy, but those hopes were quickly dashed. The only thing Garden Tale has going for it is the artwork, though some suspect character designs (Meryl) manage to tarnish even that.
Garden Tale prides itself on a trap system revolving around Bonions, exploding vegetables that can harm both enemies and allies. The videos and images show large-scale chain reactions that seem exciting and fun, similar to games like Disgaea or La Pucelle. The videos, however, lie about these possibilities in a shameful way, including fabricating combos for show on maps that, in practice, aren’t possible to pull off. Indeed, one segment of the advert video shows a combo on one of the first few maps you play on, with a starting point that would require a long-ranged attack. The problem? There aren’t any long-ranged attacks, particularly not at that point in the very beginning of the game.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Pest Control
I see some potential in this game, every week updates make it better and better. If you are fan of crafting and turn based games you should love it! Specially if you like humor and good in game art. I’m really excited to see the full game!
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
7 hour of headache try to get started in the game i’m so mad and confuse still after the update i wish i would have got a refund…..
Edit it took me a long min to figure out the game but now that i got the hang of it its a pretty fun game…but when you have to pick a person to go in the box to battle is not easy there need to be a better way to pick people when battle
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
For the People
Worth it if it’s on sale, it’s very short but good. The translation is weak at times, which can make it confusing what decision you are supposed to be making. Also the mouse cursor freezes/lags if you move it faster than a snails pace but you can’t enable hardware cursor or the game doesn’t even start. Maybe just my rig.
One thing that is poorly translated that I wish I knew before playing: on the map where you exchange resources with other towns is a number in very large font that says “the party has given you an order, X days til dispatch”. It means the party is requesting that number of metal from your town and you want to have it on hand when it reaches “0 days til dispatch” then it will be subtracted overnight. Dispatch as in you are sending the metal to the party. I spent a few hours experimenting with save scumming just to figure this out, thinking it was a bug and my resources were just disappearing!
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Read More: Best Time Management Visual Novel Games.
IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Stylised visual novel. Narration oriented Choose Your Own Adventure. Heavily scripted story. Bureaucratic simulation. Aspects of social management. Laced with political intrigue. Communist/Coldwar era aesthetic/ambience. Contains several endings. Designed for some replayability. Requires lots of reading. Single-player only.
ACHIEVEMENTS: A GOOD MIX.
STATUS: COMPLETED.
WHO FOR/WHEN TO BUY: FOR FANS OF THE SUBJECT MATTER. A MINIMAL SALE AT LEAST.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Long Live Caesar
Long Live Caesar is a Turn-Based Strategy/RPG/brain-twister where you play as Gaius Julius Caesar, who must uncover all conspirators in the Senate, Magistrate and Legion. Dark days are coming to an Empire - senators weave intrigues, the army going to rebel, and the Roman citizens expect strong-willed decisions from you. Can you resist the impending threat and save Rome?
Famous historical characters of Caesar’s era can help you in that trouble, or they can stop you. Be careful. Can you get everyone of them and unite under the banner of SPQR?
Choose your decisions wisely, expose enemies and reward friends. And remember only you can judge will Caesar survive or not. Rewrite history with Long Live Caesar!
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Detective, Strategy, RPG and brain-twister in one game. And all of it - in Ancient Rome!
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Exorbitant level of juicy pixel violence
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Roles of the conspirators are randomly distributed at the beginning of each game, which makes each passage unique
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Many historical (and not so much) events will give you definition of replayability
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Every you desicion is unconditional and irrevocable. You cant reload to your past step. You should meet them face-to-face
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Black humor and references to some modern pop-culture personalities
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Pixel Graphics and atmospheric soundtrack, that bring you back to 90s
Nilspace
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
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
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
I´ve seen this game come up along with some others when I was looking for certain tags.
I looked at it but was not sure if it´s going to be good or not by the pictures you get on the shop page.
However, it got recommended to me and so I finally decided to buy it.
Started it without neither knowing what type of game it is (expected it to be a visual novel) nor what´s going to await
me anyways…
However… starting to play I can say this game is hughe fun. You meet a lot of different characters / creatures.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Together in Battle
Together in Battle is a strategy RPG and team management roguelite with vibrant procedurally generated characters and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; deal with random events; watch your characters grow together.
Premise
You’ve arrived in the island kingdom of Dese with a secret mission to enter the gladiatorial games and find loyal fighters. Hunted by an imperial praetor, you must maintain a low profile even as you find yourself drawn into intrigues that will decide the fate of Dese itself.
Recruit and manage charming characters. Stay stocked on food, make payroll, and keep your characters practicing. But beware: they have feelings! Let their friends to fall in battle, and they may become depressed. Let morale fall too low, and you’ll risk resentment and desertion. Keep them happy, however, and they will grow close to one another, form fond memories, give nicknames–even share their special combat skills! With skill and patience, you will emerge victorious…together in battle.
An evolution of the lauded Telepath Tactics combat engine
With a deterministic core that never wastes your time, combat in Together in Battle nonetheless features dizzying tactical depth:
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Backstabbing: strike from behind to avoid counterattacks and score a huge damage bonus!
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Elevation: claim the high ground to boost your effectiveness and hinder the enemy’s!
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Knockbacks galore: shove and throw enemies into water, lava, and chasms; off of cliffs; or into each other!
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Destructible environments: bust down doors, blow up walls, hack through bushes, chop through barricades! If you can see it, you can smash it.
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Create new structures on the battlefield: build your own bridges and barricades; freeze water to form ice bridges; set traps for enemies to wander into; place explosives to detonate at an opportune moment.
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Defensive terrain: take up position in tall grass to gain a defense boost–or hack it down to deny that same advantage to the enemy.
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Extreme turn flexibility: move a character, move a second character, then return to finish the first character’s turn. An unlimited undo stack lets you redo it all if you don’t like where everyone ended up!
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Clever AI: face enemies that use the terrain to their advantage, take advantage of weak positioning, and compete with you for dropped items.
Tons of content!
You won’t see everything Together in Battle has to offer in a single playthrough–every game offers a new experience. TiB includes:
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6 playable species
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24 base classes with branching promotions for a total of 72 distinct character classes
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multi-classing
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more than 150 skills
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dozens of random events and side quests
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hundreds of thousands of possible procedurally generated weapons and pieces of armor, including unique and personal weapons
Deep procedurally generated characters
Every character you recruit has distinct traits, personal histories, beliefs, hobbies, and secrets. You’ll never get the same character twice.
These differences matter: a baker will use food to produce cookies and cakes you can eat or sell; a jokester will do funny impressions to boost morale; a hunter will boost your stocks with wild game; a blacksmith will repair the group’s weapons. Dancers are nimble; sailors are good swimmers. Some characters are prone to depression; some, to self-doubt. Some self-soothe with long walks or prayer; others undertake long-term projects like growing vegetables, crafting dolls, or writing novels. Learn what makes each character tick as they grow and form powerful bonds of friendship!
A campaign creation suite
Together in Battle comes with a campaign creation suite to let you build your own full-fledged SRPG campaigns!
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Build characters in the character creator!
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Sculpt battlefields and place armies in the map editor!
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Compose cut scenes in the cut scene editor!
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Write branching dialogue trees for both battles and cut scenes using the dialogue editor!
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Create new skills for your characters to use in the skill editor!
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Craft new items and equipment for players to loot in the item editor!
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Need ideas? Let the game roll up full-fledged characters and battles for you to edit (or simply use as-is)!
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Construct your own scripts, then assign them to items and skills for whatever custom effects you can dream up!
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Mod support for custom music, sound effects, character classes, AI profiles, and more!
One Military Camp
Design and manage a military camp, as well as its essential facilities for the sustainability of life there. Set the layout of buildings where your soldiers will train their physical and tactical abilities. Eating and resting are very important too! So take it all into account to achieve a profitable and efficient academy.
Every recruit is born to serve the country, but only a few are the best for your camp. Following requests from the army, you will have to check the fear in the eyes of your soldiers before choosing them to join the camp.
Each training course will transform regular soldiers into highly specialized ones. Check the attributes of your ensigns and set them in the right path for their born specialty.
Affirmative! Training and maintaining soldiers is expensive, but you can make it a profitable business. Managing as a real tycoon will turn your camp into a money-making machine by completing government missions.
Upgrading buildings will allow you to improve the training of your soldiers. Having many strong soldiers will help you to face all the missions. Enjoy blowing stuff up? Don’t forget to build the Bomb Defusal Training building!
The war is constantly evolving, so stay ahead of the curve. Each mission will require specific soldiers. You’re not thinking of sending your best divers into a land battle, are you?
Templar Castle Builder
Let us take you for the medieval adventure with The Knights Templar the fearless monastic warriors known as the “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ”. They left imposing manor houses, castles and fortresses they constructed in the 12th and 13th centuries could host crusading kings one week and withstand enemy bombardment the next. As a player learn how to build manage and defend the Templar Castles, build the military and financial power of the most influential military order of Christianity.
They were called Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon but in fact Templars made a vast fortune trading everything from grain and wine to political prisoners and slaves which made them one of the medieval world’s richest organizations. As a player you will learn how to multiply that richness, invest it and manage.
Being the payer you need to learn how to invest , multiply and defend the property of the Templars Order. Buy the land if you can’t, rob and plunder to increase your Templar territory. Be merciless, reach your goal over the dead bodies of your opponents. Supply your castles and control the commercial trails, be a shepherd for pilgrims. Train your garrisons to be invincible.
Finance and organise the crusades, capture the castles and towns, gather the treasure. Remember Templars built scores of impressive piles all over Europe and the near East, with clusters especially in France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Given the profusion of myth and legend swirling around the order, it’s not surprising that the structures still intact today can come with titillating extras—think titles, ghosts and legendary hidden treasure .
Take care and preserve the treasure long rumored to be buried somewhere in Templar Castles. The stories of the unbelievable richness led to the downfall of the Templars order. As a player you will witness how they built their wealth, how the constructed undefeated castles and where they have hidden their legendary treasure.