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Tried a neat looking Deep Alchemy Dungeon demo, it was mentioned in an upcoming rpg thread.
Reminded me somewhat another game i played on itchio that is now also coming to steam with a name of Sulphur Memories: Alchemist, only this one is an action rpg with some dark souls influences.
Rather than direct combat this game is more focused on navigating dungeon filled with instant death traps and monsters that will require crafted potions to overcome. Stuff like throwing an ice potion to pass through the fiery corridor or using a fire potion to burn away the wooden door/tough monster.
Found this game... not terrible but also not for me.
Gave a try to another little game called Grim Tides which was on my radar for quite some time.
The core systems of the game and character building are not too bad but i found it a bit too grindy. Too much time is being spent on using the same 2-3 abilites against the same enemies over and over again. Also, found lore/plot text to be too long and as such i didn't read it.
Last game i tried recently is Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game which is a free-to-play chinese game as you would have likely guessed from the name.
Despite the "free-to-play chinese card game" part this game is actually an unexpected gem.
The core of the game is creating your deck, watch how well your deck does when your character dukes it out with other cultivator and adjusting your deck after the fight by adding new/exchanging old cards or sacrificing them to increase your cultivation rank until you a hit a breakthrough and unlock a next tier of cards.
There is four different sects with their own set of cards to choose from with multiple character in them to try out. Quite liked that one character from 5 elements sect who is focused on wood and water element cards, played with her in a roguelite mod and my final build ended up focusing on stacking the wave effect(deals extra damage each time a character perform an action) as high as possible and finishing the opponet off with a card that deals extra damage based on how high the wave effect is before this wave effect even triggers. All in all, plenty of cool builds to try here.
I can give a few recommendation of what i enjoyed or found interesting at least:
-Doom 2 Re-Build-T + Nobody told me about ID
-Duality + Extinction Warrior: Typhon
-Pagodia or Scythe + Demonsteele mod
-DBP57 Shatter Realm + Spawn: Path to Damnation + Project Malice enemy mod
-Netronian chaos + Bungle in the Jungle(this WAD actually comes with the mod)
-DBP52 Havoc in creation + Halo: Doom Evolved
-Remain 3 + Project MSX
-DBP12 Into the Storm + Combined Arms(Past Linked) + Malefactors Enemy mod(Revenants Archviles are extra annoying in this mod tho so past the early levels might be better without this mod)
-DBP58 Immortal Warfare + Call of Doom: Black Warfare(recently dev made a new version of the mod called Call of Doom: Tarkov, might be worth trying with this one)
-DBP40 Funnelcake Apparitions + Showtime!!!
-El Viaje de Diciembre + High Noon Drifter
-DBP36 Aquatic Wonder + BYOC mod(Gumboald)
-Waterlabs GZD + Pvt.Stone
-Doom 2 In City Only + Highway Acceleroid Booster
-Lunatic + Combined Arms Gaiden
-Auger Zenith + Psychic mod(didn't actually play it that way but i think this mod would fit perfectly)
Reminded me somewhat another game i played on itchio that is now also coming to steam with a name of Sulphur Memories: Alchemist, only this one is an action rpg with some dark souls influences.
Rather than direct combat this game is more focused on navigating dungeon filled with instant death traps and monsters that will require crafted potions to overcome. Stuff like throwing an ice potion to pass through the fiery corridor or using a fire potion to burn away the wooden door/tough monster.
Found this game... not terrible but also not for me.
Gave a try to another little game called Grim Tides which was on my radar for quite some time.
The core systems of the game and character building are not too bad but i found it a bit too grindy. Too much time is being spent on using the same 2-3 abilites against the same enemies over and over again. Also, found lore/plot text to be too long and as such i didn't read it.
Last game i tried recently is Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game which is a free-to-play chinese game as you would have likely guessed from the name.
Despite the "free-to-play chinese card game" part this game is actually an unexpected gem.
The core of the game is creating your deck, watch how well your deck does when your character dukes it out with other cultivator and adjusting your deck after the fight by adding new/exchanging old cards or sacrificing them to increase your cultivation rank until you a hit a breakthrough and unlock a next tier of cards.
There is four different sects with their own set of cards to choose from with multiple character in them to try out. Quite liked that one character from 5 elements sect who is focused on wood and water element cards, played with her in a roguelite mod and my final build ended up focusing on stacking the wave effect(deals extra damage each time a character perform an action) as high as possible and finishing the opponet off with a card that deals extra damage based on how high the wave effect is before this wave effect even triggers. All in all, plenty of cool builds to try here.
As of late i love using gameplay mods together with various WADs in order to create a pseudo total conversion of sorts.
I can give a few recommendation of what i enjoyed or found interesting at least:
-Doom 2 Re-Build-T + Nobody told me about ID
-Duality + Extinction Warrior: Typhon
-Pagodia or Scythe + Demonsteele mod
-DBP57 Shatter Realm + Spawn: Path to Damnation + Project Malice enemy mod
-Netronian chaos + Bungle in the Jungle(this WAD actually comes with the mod)
-DBP52 Havoc in creation + Halo: Doom Evolved
-Remain 3 + Project MSX
-DBP12 Into the Storm + Combined Arms(Past Linked) + Malefactors Enemy mod(
-DBP58 Immortal Warfare + Call of Doom: Black Warfare(recently dev made a new version of the mod called Call of Doom: Tarkov, might be worth trying with this one)
-DBP40 Funnelcake Apparitions + Showtime!!!
-El Viaje de Diciembre + High Noon Drifter
-DBP36 Aquatic Wonder + BYOC mod(Gumboald)
-Waterlabs GZD + Pvt.Stone
-Doom 2 In City Only + Highway Acceleroid Booster
-Lunatic + Combined Arms Gaiden
-Auger Zenith + Psychic mod(didn't actually play it that way but i think this mod would fit perfectly)
At the very least, I managed to blind one of them with an aimed punch to the eyes.
