Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
This game fires on all cylinders. Combat is fun, Exploration is rewarding, Story is interesting, Humor is amusing. If you like rpgs and using your brain I can’t understand how you haven’t already played this game.
– Real player with 203.1 hrs in game
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A really great game if you love RPG. It is really complex and challenging. It also provide you with flexibility to finish the game, be it flexibility to develop characters, freedom to completing quests and puzzles through various ways, and also variety of combos to kill your opponents in battles.
Storytelling is good. The best part is the quest design, especially the early main quest in Act 1. Several mid-end game side quest will be boring but the main quest overall is still fascinating. I also love the humor in the dialogues and character interactions.
– Real player with 171.1 hrs in game
Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game is set in the Dresden Files universe, with characters and plot mechanics from the books becoming cards that work for or against you. Each book is its own set of obstacles, advantages, foes and cases that become the board that Dresden and his allies try to overcome.
If you are the kind of player that runs away from a challenge because of a bloody nose, Dresden Files is not for you. You will lose in the beginning, a lot. I know I did. To win takes elements of both skill and luck, like any other game with cards and dice. However, it seems the more I play, the luckier I get … hmm, that could be the skill factor of being able to recognize the better plays to make and better risks to take.
– Real player with 371.4 hrs in game
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This is very much a Marmite game, you’ll either love it or hate it with equal measure. For me its a winner, a game I can turn on anytime I have a few minutes to kill and don’t want to be bogged down in something more involved. and if you’ve played this game in its real world form you’ll appreciate all the Automation this digital rendition brings.
Pros: Its nicely put together and contains all the characters a Harry Dresden fan could wish for the mechanics of the card battles are easy to learn but difficult to really master which makes each victory one to be savored.
– Real player with 192.8 hrs in game
Gloomhaven
Need a break from the endless grind of looter-shooter games or from the stress of endless pvp?
Well look no further, because Gloomhaven has got you covered.
Gloomhaven is a turn-based strategy rpg that can be played solo or co-op. You work together as a team of mercenaries adventuring through dungeons and saving the city of Gloomhaven from evil (or maybe not.. depending on your choices hehehe).
It plays like a classic roleplaying game, such as pathfinder, or Dungeons and Dragons. This is a digital adaptation of a board game and offers both the full campaign with 95 quests from the original game as well as a new guildmaster mode with 150+ unique quests and some new bosses. There are 17 playable classes, with 6 starters and 11 that you unlock as you progress through the game.
– Real player with 1123.1 hrs in game
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So let me start this review by saying that yes, I do own the board game. I have a 178 hours into Gloomhaven, most of which I accumulated during Early Access playing the Guild Master mode. I am currently playing the campaign mode, and I have done the bulk of those hours, outside tutorials, in multiplayer.
I love this game.
So if you’re either struggling to work with a 20+lb board game and keeping a steady gaming group going, for me the challenge is my gaming group is almost always 5 people which is one too many. For reference, I do play a lot of board game digitally, Through the Ages, Carcassone and Ticket to Ride, to name a few. I also love Zombicde, Hero Quest (got the new edition this week), Vindication and 7 wonders to name a few physical games.
– Real player with 230.1 hrs in game
Space Food Truck
Mainly writing this because I disagree with what the majority of the negative reviews are saying, as someone who cranked out 40 hours of gameplay (split quite evenly between online and offline play) and who completed games on the hardest difficulty level. While I have ideas on what should contribute to a negative review, which will come later in the review, but let’s start by tackling the points I disagree with in the negative reviews.
I believe RNG gets the majority of the blame because a random event occurs at the beginning of every turn, and at every new planet, so it’s pretty much in your face all the time.
– Real player with 102.9 hrs in game
This game has the potential to be very fun. Myself and a few friends brought it and really enjoyed the game initially. But we quickly realised that this game is too hard, and not even hard in way that challenges you properly. We have been playing on mild difficulty, since the upper difficulty was seemingly impossilbe.
The game is hard beyond the player’s control, since much of the game mechanics are the result RNG. 90% of the RNG is bad! You receive negative effects that can see you wiped out very quickly. For example, we upgraded our shields to the max very early on, but in response, we started taking much more damage from RNG events.
– Real player with 44.7 hrs in game
Conclave
I have played through it completely once so far with one friend. I played a Forgeborn Vanguard and my friend played a Lumyn Runecaster. Classic Tank and Mage combo. No issues with co op at all. No server sync issues or displaying incorrect data.
Very seemless with seeing your other party members moves reflected right away. I can play on my phone in a web browser easily.
Game is good at providing info for you. Like if I have the Burn condition I can click on the fire symbol and get details what that means mechanically.
– Real player with 213.5 hrs in game
This is alike your standard fare of table top d&d but on digital platform. You can play this solo or with up to 4 friends. There is a find friends / find group function in game that helps find groups within your level. I tried playing with a group off the bat and will recommend playing with one, it is very fun to play with others!
The story writing is good, the text is well written. The game structure consists of navigating a few pages of descriptive text, making a choice among various options (as a group if playing with others, you can see what choices the others pick and the choice with highest vote is taken as the group choice) which either leads further into the story quest or in a battle. Battles are standard d&d turn-based style, every player must finish making his choice before the round ends, but without the need for any order; for example player 1 can finish his choices first or player 2 can do so first, as long everyone makes their choice earlier or later, the current rounds end and the enemy AI makes theirs.
– Real player with 44.1 hrs in game
HELLCARD
Hellcard is a cooperative roguelike deckbuilder that can be played in both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. The game takes place in the paper dungeons known from Book of Demons, but its main mechanics revolve around deckbuilding and fast-paced tactical turn-based card battles.
What makes HELLCARD unique and different from games such as Slay the Spire is that monster placement actually matters and can be used to your advantage.
In HELLCARD we’re planning to support co-op battles with up to three heroes facing Archdemon’s hordes. You’ll be able to descend into the dungeons solo, recruit computer-controlled companions or join your friends or strangers in their battles against the hordes of hell.
If the above features get you excited, be sure to wishlist the game now on Steam. Otherwise consider wishlisting anyway - who knows, maybe we will get you excited along the way!
About Return 2 Games series
Return 2 Games is a series of unique mid-core games inspired by the golden days of PC gaming. Each R2G title is a tribute to a single hit game from the ’90s: a reimagining of a single universal story for a brand-new audience, using modern means and innovative, often vastly simplified gameplay mechanics.
HELLCARD internally started as an idea for a new game mode inside Book of Demons (the first game in the R2G series), but we soon realized that it’s a much bigger design and that it should be executed as a separate stand-alone spin-off game. If you want to learn more about Return 2 Games or support us in the development of the series, visit the Supporter Pack store page. On release, HELLCARD will be a part of it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/706770/Return_2_Games_Supporters_Pack/
Book of Demons, the first part in the series is already here, be sure to check it out as it includes a free demo.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/449960/Book_of_Demons/
Also, be sure to check out Book of Aliens, the second book in the series and a tribute to MicroProse’ UFO: Enemy Unknown that’s also in the works:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1196230/Book_of_Aliens/
The Nightmare Cooperative
The Nightmare Cooperative is an interesting and fun little game. Despite being labelled a turn-based rogue like, it’s in fact just a proper Roguelike.
First Impression Video
Monsters move when you move, they move when you attack, and the levels and traps are randomly generated.
Despite having rather simple mechanics, the game has some rather good depth and difficulty. It’s not hard for the sake of being hard; it’s hard because of the actions you take and how to try to collect treasure.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
A simple, challenging and fun game, its turn-based and you can control up to 4 characters at the same-time which wont be a picnic, levels are small enough to fit the screen, and filled with enemies, traps, allies to recruit and pickups.
Pros
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Good character design, nice music and soundeffects.
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Plays nicely although its rough but its really about strategy and planning.
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about 4 dungeons, each containing 4 levels that can be beaten in seconds, but they’re hard and gets harder and rushing will prove fatal.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Braveland Heroes
the most unfair game of all times…
actually I like this kind of game concept, and it (could have been) isn’t a successful one.
However;
i. there is no info about the game. there are lots of hidden bonuses, which is not possible to find out. maybe by spending hunderds (!) of hours and figuring it out is possible.
ii. there are a few too much powerful characters (ex: Cook, swordsman) most of the time you face these characters. Or you pay huge amount of money (I mean thousands of money to get a full stack) and buy much more powerful character. and happily there are not many people doing it. So everyone plays with these two characters. So after a while it is frustrating(!)
– Real player with 269.4 hrs in game
Hi, i liked this one at the beginning.. but there are no challenges or progress after lvl 20.. You have to pay money or to grind everyday to be able to buy monster. The price for the Monster is increasing at the beginning it is only like 200 gold per Monster per day at lvl 1 and it is like 1200 gold per Monster if you reach lvl 20. You can do a little more money at lvl 20 than at lvl 1 of course but it is certainly not 600% more, its only like 50% more… The game hooks you up at the beginning saying:“hey it’s easy and fun” and after 200 hours of playing it says: “give me your money or you will stand still for a long long time”
– Real player with 232.7 hrs in game
Where are my Internets?
One-of-a-kind DYI-style indie board game, simple but challenging.
Contrary to what you may (and I did) think at first, it’s really hard to play with a single character; but it has a special achievement for winning exactly that type of a game. Some of the encounters are purely fictional, and it’s weird in a funny way to see this in a setting based around searching for (and actually installing) a satellite dish-provided Wi-Fi in some rural area.
All in all, funny little adventurous thing, best played in hot-seat mode!
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
Cute Board Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw8ASYH1YJg
[Disclaimer, I played this Solo, it is probably more fun with friends locally]
- Visually the game looks pretty adorable with cute drawn artwork that looks more or less like a hand-made board game.
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Far too RNG based. The entire game is based off pure luck, there is little to no real strategy or decisions for the player to make, every outcome is based on the dice roll.
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The gameplay is too simple and repetitive. You roll, land on a tile, fight a monster, if you win you get money or an item you can sell. That is about all there is to the entire game… if you land in the city you can pay to put up internet. Once you get enough money from fighting, and get internet in every town you win… I could not find anything fun, really lacks any real challenge.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Bombix
I don’t recommend this game because the bosses have op weapons that shoot through walls and freeze you so you can’t move and they do that every single turn until they decide to drown you. Maybe remove the broken icicles from the bosses then I’ll change my mind because that fucking Pirate that has come back for revenge always spams me with that shitty weapon. Thank you for your understanding, please fix your game. Sincerely, Riigniits 3
– Real player with 94.4 hrs in game
Are you kidding? This game is a joke, a bad one. First of all, it’s a cheap Worms rip-off, the game was originally named “Wormix”, and even had worms in it as playable characters some time ago. Of course, such shameless violation of copyright wasn’t unnoticed by Team17, the original Worms creators, so the developers of this game just decided to change some object textures and rename the game to “Bombix”. Second, the actual gameplay is frustrating and overall crapy experience, devs tried to make this heavily strategic game, but it came out as 50/50 between luck and skill, it’s like trying to play chess, but instead of chess figures you have jumping frogs everywhere that turn everything into mess! I’m just being honest here, don’t waste your time here, unless you want to feel crappy after playing this.
– Real player with 27.9 hrs in game