Dark Quest: Board Game
“Heed my warning well my friends… A new evil has risen in the far east, a sorcerer and a student of chaos magic has arisen and now looks to the west to use his newly found magic. We must send word to the tribes and gather our best warriors. Some of the magic we will face is new even to me. It will be necessary to call upon some old alliances if we are to make stand against this evil. I will guide you in this journey but much will depend on you.”
– Elder
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• 16+ heroes
• 60+ monsters
• Heroes level up and have more cards and traits
• 80+ cards
• Procedurally generated board, each time you play a random world will be created
• Roguelite experience where you create a party of heroes and play until you win or die
• Persistent world where actions have consequences on subsequent runs
• Survive the skull of fate and the sorcerer’s magic
• Collect treasures such as different items, faces, skins and other cosmetic rewards
• Play multiplayer with your friends
• Controlled random numbers using a predictable random number system
• Heroes have party synergy, likes and dislikes that will affect the dynamics of your party
• Story and Lore
• Unique art world that looks and feels like a board game
• Fallen heroes can become captured and you will need to play a special quest to rescue them
The ultimate tabletop game, unlike anything you have ever seen before!
Dark Quest
It’s a game of your imagination
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Elminage ORIGINAL - Priestess of Darkness and The Ring of the Gods
This is a really fun first-person dungeon crawler RPG (blobber). It is heavily inspired by the early Wizardry games, especially in it’s character progression and combat. The main quest has an straight-forward structure to it and there are plenty of optional quests to do as well. Some of the environments could get visually repetitive, but that’s not what you play blobbers for anyway. There were some dungeons that weren’t very interesting mechanically and felt kinda barren and ones that were completely optional as well. This game is also not too punishing for a blobber, so it might be good for beginners. Overall, this is an easy recommendation for blobber fans or for people who want to get into blobbers.
– Real player with 81.1 hrs in game
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This is a great wizardry-style game. Full disclosure, I totally understand this game isn’t for everyone. But I enjoy it for what it is. It’s a great homage to classic CRPGs. I do like how after the initial dungeon the game becomes open ended. Though it can be difficult, it does give you a lot of options for characters and equipment.
Elminage is very old school in comparison to modern rpgs but the menus and navigation are really well laid out. A lot of older CRPGs suffer from clunky interfaces and thankfully Elminage does not have this problem.
– Real player with 65.0 hrs in game
Equilibrium Of Divinity
Well I like it so far. To me its like a Tales of Ma’Jahael with a group and crafting and tactical combat rather than just bumping your sprite into the enemy sprite. Don’t get me wrong, ToME is a great game with plenty of depth, but..I HATE the sprite thing. Is this game fancy or flashy? Not at all, but the basic tactical combat makes it feel more like a pen and paper rpg than the aforementioned game.
Will edit review with more in-game time
Learned how to edit my own portraits and avatars, which is easily doable with gimp skills.
– Real player with 77.8 hrs in game
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I must say this game kinda snuck under my skin as I slowly realized it had more to it than I thought at first. You party is build as you want, 6 in a group and no classes. now it gets even better.
You are lost in a maze of connecting portals to different maps, (lands) and with each layer or portal you enter thru, you will get points to add to your characters build.
As in;
Weapons - mace, dagger, etc.
Professions - alchemy, tailor, 8 types.
Skills - lockpicking, linguistic, perception, 3more.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
Keen: One Girl Army
Remember the obligatory ice puzzles in obligatory ice dungeons in all sorts of action-adventures, where your character only stops moving when they hit a wall or obstacle? Well this decribes Keen’s overall gameplay in a nutshell. But it’s not like that navigation ever gets annoying. The levels were designed in a way that this kind of traversial becomes only hard when it’s meant to be a puzzle, otherwise the path you can choose is usually obvious and after a short time you almost forget about the restrictive movement.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
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First off, I need to say, Keen: One Army Girl is such a beautiful looking game.
You’ll play as a delightfully cantankerous 8-year-old named Kim, taking on & fighting a variety of enemies in a turn-based sliding puzzle with an intriguing story you want to learn more of. Kim can only move in a straight line, stopping only at the end or until something blocks her.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Oneons: Prisoners
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A roguelite that plays with the concept of get to the final floor while maintaining a balance of health and energy.
What sets this game apart from others are the following
+It is very accessible on multiple devices (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen)
+Options for people who would like jumbo icons (visually impared)
+All assets are created by a single developer along with the level design
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
A very short but sweet game!
Gameplay is very fun! Managing your energy while trying to survive, killing enemies and finding the portals to the next levels as fast as you can. It’s beginner friendly, in the beginning and becomes more challenging as levels progress, but still fun!
The artstyle is pretty nice.
Overall, it’s really good and fun!
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Ring of Pain
3.5/5 : Card battler heavy on the modern “roguelike”: you die a lot, over and over, but your deck improves slowly (I’m going to start calling them neo-roguelike since rogue had no such advancement). Very pretty and novel UI. Weird story. I’ve played it all the way through and I don’t have any idea what I’m supposed to get.
The worst part of the game and the reason for the low score: YOU CANNOT STOP PLAYING without losing the run. It’s the worst no-save game I’ve seen in a decade.
Full playthroughs take hours, but if you need to stop, you have to leave the game running or you lose all your progress. Not only no save, but no saved position. I have had to leave the game running for days because I had a great run going but then had silly things come up like work, sleep, cleaning, or making dinner. Perhaps the RING OF PAIN name is supposed to reference how terrible this designed defect is?
– Real player with 511.8 hrs in game
Alright, I’ll do my best to keep this review neat and concise. I will preface by saying that I tried the closed beta of this game.
Ring of Pain is a Dungeon Crawler Card Game where the player chooses to go left or right and attack monsters. You have stats and manage item slots with items found across dungeons, progressing deeper and deeper into this “ring” until you reach the end. You have Attack and Defense, Speed to determine whether you or the monster attacks first, and Clarity, which manages how much healing you get from potions, Curse chances, and additional Souls (currency) is acquired per monster kill. Item slots are individualized, meaning if you find a weapon, it goes in the weapon slot and if you find a new weapon, you have to make a choice of either chucking your old one for the new one or keeping the old one.
– Real player with 78.6 hrs in game
Stranger of Sword City
********** 2nd & Final Update after taking a 3 years break **********
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ratings 10/10
This is a game that I have played and reviewed 3 years ago. At that time I spend about 100+ hours, but did not really finished the game. I reach a part where the game became too hard for me, so I stopped sometime in Jul 2016.
Now 3 years later, I felt a strong urge to replay old classics and replayed this game from the start (cos I forgot how to play this game after 3 years break). I felt in love with this game, and played it non stop for many many hours. This time I went slowly and changed classes many times so that I can get the best abilities of each class.
– Real player with 397.5 hrs in game
It was my first Dungeon Crawler and if I am asked if I feel remorse for buying it the answer is a clearly :NO. I love and hate this game at the same time.
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Story: I just love it. It starts mysertious and keeps this feeling/vibe up till the end.
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Characters: I love them and it broke my heart a few times trough the story. But you can understand why they act most of the time while you play trough the story.
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Music I love the music. It fits the battles, overworld and the base.
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Graphic/Design Just gorgeous. The game is just beautiful. I love the style of the Characters, base and the world. The Monsters look really diffrent than every other game I have played before. Nothing is the same and the style reminded me of “Dark Tormentum” (great game try it)
– Real player with 277.6 hrs in game
The Depths of Tolagal
A round of applause for the developers here! They succeeded in creating a tough as nails rougelike that challenges you measure ever step and I do mean EVERY step but (for the most part) only punished the clumsy or the uninformed. I have died several times by virtue of approaching a hallway and accidentally alerting an extra orc or two and promptly getting my teeth kicked in. I have come to realization that the tactical aspect of the game is actually a good bit deeper than rpg aspect of it. Level progression unlocks triats as opposed to a solid stat boost across the board. Many of the traits simply open up intersting opportunties which require you to adjust your playstyle in order to gain an advantage. So overall I would say this game is TACTICAL rougelike more than a classic rougelike rpg.
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
Beta tested before the game hit steam.
The studio may not be updating anymore, but the main dev (matt) that responded to beta reports was responsive and helpful.
Fun game, gets tough at the the second to last and last map and really makes you question what load out you wanna run in terms of skills and weapons so yes, it’s worth the price. It’s pretty fun and once the difficulty ramps up you have to think about choices even more. What skills you need, more inv space, throwing weapons, push back weapons to make the enemies waste a turn, etc..
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
The Legend of Bean
The Legend of Bean is a rather good RPG/adventure game on the RPGMaker format.
Not quite innovative, especially the storyline, but with a fair gameplay. At no point I felt lost like not knowing where to head to.
I appreciate that after the main quest is completed you can still travel through the whole game world in order to defeat other bosses and eventually get a 100% achievements.
I don’t care if the grammar isn’t perfect, I’m not expecting the same language level as in a book. Dialogues are perfectly understandable and that’s enough for that kind of games.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
The Legend of Bean is a nice, short and funny little RPG-Maker game.
While the English tranlation is poor, it’s still understandable and quite funny. The game comes at a cheap price and is worth what it’s asking for.
You play with a group of three people, and the battle system is quite uniqe. It’s fast paced, so you can do the battles really quickly. It took me about 9 hours to finish the game. After clearing the main story, you can still keep on playing, fighting some newly spawned bosses, some of them a little challenging. The good thing is, you don’t need to grind a lot, there is a merchant that sells big bags of experience!
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
CasterLords
Note: This game is in development. Some graphics are currently placeholders. Thank you.
WIELD THE POWER OF THE CASTERLORDS
CasterLords is a single-player deck-building game about powerful warlocks caught in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth.
You are placed in a fantasy world and presented a challenging gauntlet of enemies to overcome, armed with a custom-built arsenal of magic spells, weapons, and ancient artifacts.
FEATURES
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Many simple rules combine to make tactical gameplay.
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Discover and collect new cards along your journey and use them to fine-tune your deck!
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Procedurally-generated campaigns with dozens of scenarios, no two playthroughs are alike!
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The final boss of each campaign is your character from the previous one, who will fight you with the same deck you built to get him there!
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Five CasterLords planned at launch, with more on the way - each with multiple unique decks to change up your playstyle!
CHOOSE YOUR CASTERLORDS
A powerful mage obsessed with the pursuit of forbidden knowledge. Nazrun’s unique cards heavily focus on casting magic spells, trading survivability for raw power.
Ka’ri spreads her seeds of flame to burn away the old world, and in her wake, new life blooms. Her unique cards have lingering effects, and she can transform into her beast-form for a burst of power.
This ruthless assassin uses poisons, toxins, and traps to dispatch her opponents. What she lacks in magic, she makes up for with an arsenal of weapons and items. Stack combos are deal devastating damage!
An honourable warrior who treats the lowly denizens of Eawyn with respect and dignity. His unique cards boast flexibility, offering a balance between power, defense, and magic.
Harness the powers of destruction and reconstruction with this Lepisian warlock! Her unique card’s can break cards down to their core components and then rebuild them into new forms.
STORY
Deep in the mistfallen valleys of Eawyn lies the green, mossy ruins of an ancient shrine; a long-forgotten portal to some other world or some other time.
Every so often, a CasterLord will appear from this sacred portal, perhaps brought into this world by some benevolent spirit or banished from their own world by a fearful deity.
These CasterLords may take different and strange forms, but each bristles with overwhelming power and is compelled to take over the kingdom.
Sitting on his gilded throne, the Immortal Emperor towers above the realm atop his twisted iron fortress. The shadows of hundreds of vanquished CasterLords burned into its walls, will you be able to defeat him and unlock the secrets behind the mysterious appearances of the CasterLords?
ADDITIONAL INFO
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The Demo lacks many quality-of-life features, such as Tooltips, History and Interactive Tutorial - we plan to implement these and more when we get funding.
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Demo includes up to 250 cards.
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Final game estimated to include more than 1,000 cards.
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If we get enough support, we can include even more CasterLords and Steam Workshop integration, allowing players to create their own cards, and CasterLords!
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Provisional PEGI Rating: 12 (Fantasy Violence)
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Developed by H. Hochkins, a games developer with 8 years experience that specialises in card games.
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No microtransactions or loot boxes. Every card and character is unlockable via game progression.
Please wishlist & follow CasterLords on Steam to help support our project! Thank you!