Bonfire

This is one of those rare Early Access cases where the game is actually fully playable, polished and not ridden with random bugs. I've actually played the demo before and I could continue my progress right away, the whole experience feels really thought out and honed. Love the ironically depressing vibes, finally something fresh. Anyways, if you like games such as Darkest Dungeon (but also card collecting games like Slay the Spire) but want to try something quicker / more 'casual', this is a great game for you. And it already feels like a finished product, I wonder how it'll play when it's fully released.

Bonfire is a game about the bleak gloominess of the end of the world that manages to have a lot of character and be incredibly charming despite its subject. In terms of gameplay, Bonfire borrows ideas and concepts from rogue-lite genres - like the endlessness of its gameplay loops - without emphasizing the finality of loss and defeat that other games might focus more on. The combat is turn-based. Choose three characters (there are five now, ten planned) to go on an adventure, explore a dungeon, or take a journey to a new land. Each character has three actions - one they can do on themselves, one they can do on an ally, and one they can do against an enemy. You can also equip "rune" abilities that give additional combat options or passive buffs. Whenever you embark on adventure, you can also take a certain amount of the items you have accrued from previous forays. It's worth noting that the developer appears extremely receptive to feedback and genuinely invested in improving an already great game. This is a complete experience with a lot of challenges to offer already. If you enjoy games that are tough, challenging, and encourage failure, but you are also tired of leading cadres of faceless mercenaries rather than characters with personalities - hopes, fears, loves, and wants - then you owe it to yourself to try Bonfire.

I played the beta a lifetime ago, and the full game is even better. It's as polished as a full release, it's only missing some content. The game is a roguelite that can be played in 5-10 minute sessions, where you're puzzling away how to best save resources across 3-5 classic RPG encounters in a row. It features some metagame that's intertwined with a gloomy story. It's not very deep nor it needs to be. Throughout the story you unlock abilities, characters and game modes, so it feels more like a long tutorial to prepare you for endless mode. There are several quality touches here and there you'll appreciate if you know your gamedev, and they're much appreciated. For example, the GUI goes away on the main menu if you idle for a while. In summary, good game to tinker with RPG encounters played in short bursts while you're watching a show or listening to a podcast. Less hands-on than Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon while retaining most of the depth, and that's a good thing.

[h1]Follow our curator for similar games[/h1] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/ Tactical RPG + fast paced + Casual Darkest Dungeon = Explore maps with random events, investigate, journey, and raid points. Do quests, balance money, health, food, use items and runes to kill mobs.

I have just started playing this game and I know that I will soak into it. Money well spend, good tactical indie game.

Want to recommend it for potential, but can't at this stage. Will check on it again in future. Pros: -Good potential for a strategic rpg game about optimisation and timing -Artwork and sound make a nice atmosphere -Runes and items Cons: -Same party (wiz / warr / priest) each time -Animations are soo slow sometimes, you move from one screen to the next and everyone stops to have an unskippable conversation about what to do next. Also when you get gold, you have to watch each individual piece of gold go from the ground of the monster you just killed, to the top right corner of the screen, again, unskippable. Also heroes have a chat even while you're looking at the map and you can't click on the next map area until they've finished. Nothing in options to skip text or animations either. -Your character loses max health in each battle, meaning you need to finish the battle as soon as poss, meaningi you really only have a narrow way to play each battle, trying to optimise the damage you do vs the monster's stats and various abilities, using motivation timing as well, yet.. -Some battles you get crushed by a repeated boss ability and lose a hero who cannot prevent or outheal it fast enough, and then you simply can't win because you need all three heroes, unless you have ressurect item, etc. Using items also uses up a hero's turn, not always a good thing.

No real plot, story, or interesting characters, so skip this if that's your priority. Dialog is so slow and cumbersome without moving anything forward. ("There's evil out there"/"We have to keep moving," kind of hollow cliches that say nothing) So that leaves us with gameplay... Easy mode is so easy, it feels like I"m just going through the motions rather than playing a game. I kicked it to high difficulty, but the simplistic gameplay doesn't equip the player enough to rise to the challenge of jacked-up enemy hitpoints. It's just brutally hard and I got stuck without food to deploy. The mage guy left my party in disgust when my party kept getting slaughtered. When I should have re-encountered the mage in the wild and had him rejoin, the game was bugged, and instead I encountered the lady pyro... When the lady pyro was already in my party. So there's 2 identical characters (one in my party, one on the right side of the screen) speaking the same identical dialog about reluctantly returning to me. No story, no character, un-fun gameplay, and bugged to boot? I wouldn't recommend playing this game for free.

Extremely well executed and cleverly designed indie game! We surely need more of these!

Bonfire is the closest thing we have to a deterministic non-position-based Darkest Dungeon! I played hundreds of hours the old version, and this version is looking to be beautiful! Don't be fooled by the cartoonish graphics! It is HARD and pretty tense! Food management is a cool new factor emphasizing the grim-dark situation, but in my 2.3 hours of gameplay of the new version as of now (and having to starve a lil bit due to no food) I think it would be cool if it were a lil bit easier to get more food, maybe even for a lot of gold! The dev is still balancing this, but IMHO the combat and class combination is already Darkest-Dungeon level awesome!

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