The party-based RPG where you kick down doors and fight with music as a 3-piece band of idiots.
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You play as Faye, Ian and Briff, a 3-piece band of dysfunctional friends who unknowingly stumble into a cursed battle of the bands contest, where all entrants can attack with music and must fight to the death.
Kick down every single door you come across. If you're gonna rudely enter every RPG house despite lack of invite, might as well enter in style.
Customise the band with 9 musically-themed classes to choose from, each with their own attacks, perks and COOL OUTFIT. Inspire your bandmates as a BUSKER or recklessly deal huge damage at the cost of damaging yourself as a HEADBANGER.
Fancy combat system that focuses on MEASURE EFFECTS. What happens BETWEEN turns makes all the difference, combining real-time elements with turn-based combat in a way that we're ALMOST CERTAIN has never been done before. (It's been over a year since release and no one's said otherwise yet!)
Other features:
Roughly 15-20 hours of game time.
Late game dating segment.
Sew patches of band logos onto your BATTLE JACKET for extra perks in battle.
No Random Encounters! Monsters will be shown on the field for your avoiding leisure, and 3 different FIELD ABILITIES with which to avoid them.
Unique item system. Say good bye to individually stocking up on consumable items! Once you get a piece of MERCH, you keep it forever, and it simply costs STOCK to use, a refillable global resource for all your merch.
Original soundtrack that'll make you say things like SIIICK and OH RIGHT ON.
Incredibly rich world boasting a wide variety of colourful characters whose dialogue changes as you progress through the game. Every single NPC is unique, armed with their own dialogue portaits to express themselves TO THE MAX.
Even the ITEMS have personality. Say bye bye to the generic "health potion". Local NPC Barry Friendly is taking care of the soothing beverages around here. Sink into a warm cup of BARRY FRIENDLY'S TEA whenever your health is low. Maybe you'll even have the pleasure of meeting Barry at some point.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 53 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 52 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Funny, charming, and doesn’t overstay its welcome.
I would recommend this game, of the few hours I've played it's be very cute and enjoyable game. The art is cute, the world feels cozy and familiar while also feeling fresh and new when compared to similar games. The combat was quite fun, at least until I reached the Bass Basement... I'm not sure how much play testing has gone into this section of the game, but it feels like very little. The combat pacing switched from quite manageable to suddenly I was consistently in a position to be losing 100+ hp across all 3 of my team, as well as my entire bar being covered in debuffs (slows/pain) before my turn... I cannot say I've ever had a game cause me to do such a drastic 180 in terms of 5 minutes earlier I would have said 'This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rad!' to 'What the ♥♥♥♥ is this, I'm turning this off.' Post Edit Comments: ------------------------------ Turns out, at least part of the problem was improperly utilizing character swap to keep my blocker out in front and it was in fact .. mostly a skill issue. Still loving the story, and game overall.
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Its good! Unique gameplay. Great art and character design. Fantastic soundtrack. My only complaints are really to do with how slow the old school turn based battle system feels, but that's more because I'm not a fan of that kind of battle system and how much it can slow the game down in comparison to newer systems like Divinity/BG3.
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Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands
Right on
Funny dialog and gameplay, I wish the player was able to move quicker through old areas and towns but only ran into one bug, restarted and everything was fine.
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