Aurora

Aurora is an 11 hour adventure RPG made in RPGMaker. Its strong points include a quick paced game progression, and an interesting story. There are occasional game crashes and disparate save points when in a wilderness other than the world map, but the parts repeated are not tedious or difficult. The premise of the story is the one where you wake up with amnesia and travel to various continents trying to discover who you are, while picking up companions along the way, then of course, finding out that you are the savior of the world, who must defeat an ultimate evil. The game progress is linear. On the world map, it is very obvious in which direction you should travel, while in area maps, there is a labyrinth filled with treasure, and these tend to be obvious as well, in terms of which direction to go. There is one exception with a map that apparently shapeshifts. There are no side quests that I could find. The world map is used to travel between areas, and these areas generally alternate between towns and wilderness trails. Party members are acquired one at a time, spaced nicely apart, and levelling up happens quickly with a lot of new and unique skills. Each town has lots of weapons and armour to buy. Your gold will usually buy a lot of stuff, but leave you missing some things. Grinding will help with this, but the battles are easy enough as it is. Random encounters will happen both on the world map, and in wilderness areas. Two or three rounds are typical in most cases. Boss battles take a long time, but are easy to beat, due to strong equipment and character skills. Overall, this game feels more playable than others of its genre, because it lacks any long drawn out parts. It is simple and fun until the end.

Aurora is a turn based Classic RPG that hits the spot when you're looking for something nostalgic. It's well written and well developed, and seems to have a nice length to it. I'd recommend it.

A roughly 11 hour turn based RPG, it scratches the itch for that old school vibe at an affordable cost. It took me a while to finish it, I really wanted to savor the experience. I'd recommend it for sure, it might be a tad rough around the edges at a few points, but it's pretty enjoyable and the price is very low for the hours of enjoyment it provides. It's a charming first project of an up and coming indi dev, and there's a lot of potential there.