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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2094270/Lightracer_Spark/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256922336/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1673837346 quote:Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide all living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies, break through the shackles of time and space towards the center of the universe, and grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations. Combination visual novel/strategy game, though mostly leaning towards the former. What's released is only the framework/first chapter of a proposed series, the rest to be released as DLC. 55 Positive reviews, 14 Negative reviews. Most of them are in Chinese, but the only 3 English reviews are all positive. I really love the concept of this one, enough to overlook its flaws, but I can see how this remains off most people's radars. Jossar fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245560/Roots_of_Pacha/ quote:Discover, gather, and farm vegetables and herbs. Explore the surrounding wilderness to find animals to befriend and domesticate; fish the shallow and deep waters to see what lies in their depths; and mine the darkest caves filled with mysteries and secret powers. It's a prehistoric-themed farm/life sim. Can't see the reviews because Steam is exploding on me at the moment, but rated Mostly Positive. 10% off sale for release.
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City of Beats Rhythm-based Roguelike. But in the sense of it being useful to follow the beat, not strictly mandatory. I played the demo and was of mixed minds about it, but figure it's still worth reporting here. World Turtles  City-builder on the back of a giant space turtle. For those of you who liked the concept of The Wandering Village but wanted a different implementation.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876890/Wandering_Sword/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256969733/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1694757714 quote:Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be. 383 reviews, 74% positive... but I can't read the negative reviews, which are mostly in Chinese, and supposedly revolve around UI/gamepad problems. All the English reviews appear to be uniformly positive. 2.5D RPG. I hesitate to call it Octopath Traveler in Wuxia China, because so far it's been a much more traditional RPG revolving around your singular experience (albeit with recruitable party members), but those are definitely the aesthetic vibes it wants to give off.
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 Planet S quote:Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction. 90% positive out of 847 reviews. Described to me as "a simple version of 'Anno meets Dyson Sphere Program'", as one might expect from a small indie dev team. Tried it out and it's not really my thing, but it just released in full and is free, so worth taking a look if any of that sounds interesting to you.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1807090/Wantless__Solace_at_Worlds_End/ quote:Wantless is a fast-paced Tactical RPG set in a dystopian future. Fight off torments inside your patients' minds using a deep skill-crafting system and innovative combat mechanics. Utilize your environment, confront horrors made manifest and walk the fine line of morality in a dying world. One positive review. Played the demo a couple of NextFests ago and it seemed fun, or at least fun enough to be worth mentioning.
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Roots of Yggdrasil https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256995947/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1706116551 4 reviews (maybe 8? Steam's interface is glitching). No official rating given, but manually looking at them, all Positive. 15% release into Early Access discount. quote:Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your buildings deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world? Lands somewhere in between The Islanders/Dorfromantik and Against the Storm on the puzzle-y/roguelike city builder spectrum. Plans for its Early Access to be a relatively controlled thing ending in approximately 6 months, so what you see is mostly what you get. I really liked it during my play of the demo during one of the NextFests and at a little over $11, it seems worth grabbing.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131620/Dominion/ quote:Expand a small kingdom to a mighty Dominion! Play the Spiel des Jahres winning boardgame beloved by millions around the world. Discover the game that defined a genre, Dominion was first to popularize deck-building and remains a staple of tabletop. This is the officially licensed implementation. 86% out of 1,177 reviews. Apparently a version of the board game Dominion (the deckbuilder, not to be confused with Dominions, the strategy/wargame) just got released on Steam? General consensus is it's okay, if maybe a little bit too compact of a UI. The two big problems seem to be the with multiplayer servers occasionally dropping and the price of the expansion packs, with people arguing in the comment section as to whether they're highway robbery or justified by being cheaper than the physical version. But the base game is free, so it's worth checking out if you're into this sort of thing.
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https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256931504/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1708631716 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/ quote:Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne? 2 user reviews, not yet rated. Modern remake of the 2009 game, done with the blessing (or should that be curse?) of the original developer. Appears to have more depth and be slightly less complicated than said original. Emphasis on "slightly."
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Millennia 63% of 587 reviews. quote:Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures. C Prompt's (under the Paradox publisher house) take on the historical 4X is here. Reviews are all over the place on this one - It's not that people agree on it being a mediocre game. More like a civil war in the comments on whether or not you hate it with the burning fire of a thousand suns for being too much like Civ/not enough like Civ/the graphics suck/the multiplayer functionality sucks or you don't really care about graphics or multiplayer and love it as a sufficiently interesting take on the genre whose mechanics click into place once you "get" it. If you're somehow still on the fence, I'd recommend watching one of the dozens of content creator videos that Paradox sponsored and deciding from there whether you like the game or not, as that's probably the best way to figure out what the experience is going to be. Jossar fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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To be fair, unless Hades 2 turned out to be a complete disaster that destroyed Supergiant utterly, it was always going to be good enough for at least a positive review just by virtue of being "more Hades".
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100150/Shadow_of_the_Depth/ No reviews yet, since it just dropped into Early Access. But I played the demo and it seemed like a pretty decent top-down roguelike/lite.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2131010/The_Land_Beneath_Us/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257022838/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1715601651 The Land Beneath Us, 27 reviews, 100% Positive. quote:The Land Beneath Us: A turn-based rogue-lite dungeon crawler rooted in Welsh mythology. Unleash skill combos and wield stylish weaponry in Annwn's Underworld. Conquer the Seven Lords, save The Creator, and retrieve vital Soul-Tech. It's kind of like that one Crypt of the NecroDancer character that doesn't have to follow the beat being turned into a whole game, but with having to manage weapons based on the directional keys added into the mix.
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