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Wicky4D
It's fun to watch how your heroes become stronger, and maps which seemed impossible at first are then easy peasy. Once you have a few of them gems, except for the first three areas I did not find it to be 100% puzzle at all, because all skills can be changed by inserting gems into different sockets.
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โ˜•๏ธ Stephanie Bogard ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Wow, much, MUCH harder than what I thought. Too hard for me, actually.
Of course, it's not exactly comparable to https://igg-games.com/divinity-original-sin-enhanced-edition-pc-free-837914122-download.html, but I loved its turn-based combat, and I remember that every fight felt like a breeze in that game.
Here, it's another story. One mistake and you can't win the battle anymore. Get petrified by a basilik and it's all over. (You don't even get any spells in the first battles to counter this effect. GREAT.) Because of this, it feels much more like an unforgiving puzzle game than an "organic" turn-based strategy game.
The game has already reached 1.0 but I see that the developer still updates it almost every day, so wait and see...๐Ÿค”
Besides that, UI, graphics and music are great. Story is totally skippable.
Edit: After playing a few hours, I confirm it's 100% "puzzle" and has nothing to do with strategy, not even mentioning RPG. I uninstalled it already. It's horribly frustrating and a huge disappointment.
RECOMMENDED BETTER GAMES:
The game which plays the most like Druidstone is https://igg-games.com/breach-548511571-free-download-2.html, imho.
Battles are a bit similar, because just one wrong move and it could screw up your mission for good... If you like this kind of pressure, then you'll like Druidstone.
(Edit: not saying Into the breach is bad too. I actually enjoyed it much more than Druidstone.)
https://i.redd.it/ayys6agdkcp01.jpg
Other recent games I could recommend(Besides D:OS 1 and https://igg-games.com/divinity-original-sin-2-divine-edition-7323112351-free-download.html ) are https://igg-games.com/fell-seal-arbiters-mark-free-224718081-download.html(Infinitely superior if you want real strategic battles), all of the https://igg-games.com/shadowrun-512312323-hong-kong-free-download.html games...
Also, the X-com games, Wasteland 2, Fallout 1/2, Jagged Alliance 2, etc.
Personally, I prefer true strategy-RPG games in which I can still win against all odds, and not puzzle games in which every battle is rigged beforehand, and I'm basically FORCED to play a certain way, choose only a specific set of moves, etc.
(I still have great memories of the first Shining Force(1993) when I could end a battle even if my entire team was down, except the main character and Zylo... Damn that wolf was strong.)
TIP: focus on objectives and try to finish the mission FAST.
DO NOT focus on killing all enemies, unless it's the objective.
The longer you take, the more enemies will spawn, and it becomes impossible to finish a level.
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ari artare
its just so shame that Shinning Force didn't got any "remastered" lol
have you tried Advance wars via GBA emulator? That was a great game too
Of course you can't compare to X-COM 2 lol
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โ˜•๏ธ Stephanie Bogard ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Oh yeah actually I only played the Advance wars games on GBA, not NDS. I should really try someday. lol But yeah I really liked it. I even listened to the OST a few days ago. ha ha
In the same style, have you tried the recent https://igg-games.com/wargroove-free-download.html? It's really extremely similar.
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ari artare
Wargoove? new for me. definitely worth to try.
commence download now!
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โ˜•๏ธ Stephanie Bogard ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
It's SUPER hard.
I still think it's great, but I wonder if I won't give up on it.
I feel that if you do just one mistake, it's too late, and you can't win a battle anymore.
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Kaire le A
it looks like a multiplayer game to me. reading the comments i guess it isnt so im happy with that lol. will give it a try looks interesting.
dont forget to copy content of crack/plaza!
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Luke Cage
All it does is bring you to your steam account then it realizes you dont have the game and it just brings you to the page to buy it, am i missing something here?
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Hayonik
Yes, the crack.
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Luke Cage
well it wasnt in with the download i got so where would the crack be at?
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z114gate
Same here! Downloaded 2 different sources just in case but no crack with it
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Skeptical Doge
When installing the game, make sure this box is also checked, that will make the installer automatically copy and paste the crack in the right place for you, and the game will work fine !
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z114gate
Thanks buddy
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Skeptical Doge
You're welcome :)
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Gary Simmons
Having this error
NvAPI_D3D11_SetDepthBoundsTest failing
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Skeptical Doge
This should be fixed in the latest update. You can post a request for updates once per day here : https://igg-games.com/pc-game-738126637-request.html
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Gary Simmons
Need the lastest update
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cosmicman69
Hyvรครค Suomesta
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Skeptical Doge
The game's surprisingly enjoyable. However :
The writing is rudimentary. The music can be annoying. The characters are a bit... well...stereotypical ? And the story is also the same old stuff.
But. And this is a big BUT.
The actual game-play itself is solid, the tactics are meaningful, levels and abilities are well designed, graphics are on the pretty side, the learning curve is quite manageable, and the overall tempo of the game is quite chill due to replay-ability of levels.
So, the game's not very deep, but what depth it does have is very well crafted and i am overall impressed with it. Will buy on sale to support the devs.
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Tomato
I like big BUTs.
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Sign OfDaCreator
and i cannot lie
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โ˜•๏ธ Stephanie Bogard ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Agreeing with everything. This is a VERY good game.
Well, I wasn't surprised when I read it was made by the developers of Legend of Grimrock.๐Ÿ˜
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so in a few words
on a scale of 10 how much you give it?
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Skeptical Doge
worth trying / 10
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Ruhrpott Riot
Damn, only in english.
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Vlad Lime
i like it! gameplay: https://youtu.be/6FQRdRXAlcM
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RadeonProWXโ„ข
cool
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M Sober
So is this story-driven or gameplay driven? The "mission" description makes me think this is 80% gameplay and just 20% story ...
Which is obviously fine if you're into that. Just wouldn't interest me personally. Would be cool if someone could say more about this ..
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we need our 2 experts of gameplay :P
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Boneknock Grit
don't we need H element too ?
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Boneknock Grit
..tch...
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Xcom: Dota edition :P
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Boneknock Grit
hmmm it more like an old school turn base pc rpg back in dos day. yeah i still remember the golden day of diskette and password for play game that can only found in the big manual book that come with the game.
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Skeptical Doge
I was actually expecting u to post ur Early Access thingie, but surprisingly (in a good way) this indie game didn't do EA :D
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since i didnt saw the ugly blue tag on steam i dont see why should i post it here