Emberlight

After about 45 minutes of play, here's some points for the devs. >>>Reduce health<<<, too many damage sponges make fights drawn out. Rather than playing itself, would be more fun if each move had weight to it, and planning/strategy was important, would also force players to use f Able to buff foes, funny but annoying after the novelty wears off (Also possible for foes to buff allies, debuffs may also need fixing) Unbalanced combat- Stun lock on entire team, Boss werewolf indefinitely spawning minion wolves Haste too OP- means some pawns very rarely get a turn, maybe cooldown or limited use per fight? Feels too zoomed out, enemies placed too far from team and things like doors are easy to miss -Make sprites bigger? Overhaul gambling, maybe dice throw animation, or something similar? Turn order hard to find, could draw more attention to it Too easy to make characters OP, add point limit to skills or lock to individual classes, with gradual upgrades made available? -40 damage skill dealing 200~ damage per use, possible to due to stacked damage up potions/boosts -May be due to OP characters, but gathered too much gold, too fast. 30~ health potions spare after around half an hour Veteran achivement after less than an hour Buffs/Debuffs not obvious, maybe add text after infliction , animation, and/or visual effect (Like red mist for rage, or purple for fear) AOE attack missed at least 3 times in a row, unsure if due to accuracy debuff but may need rebalancing (Edit: Too many attacks seem to miss, not just AOE, highly likely needs rebalancing) Howl audio for wolves cuts off early Health potion button over door to previous area, clicking affects the door first, meaning trying to use a potion changes rooms. Do not buy this.

Too many crashes. Too many bugs. Story mode not implemented? Unclickable? Who can say - there's nothing in the game to tell you why. Gameplay is very light with little strategy. You can hardly see the characters against the backgrounds. Shame this, as there's a good game here struggling to get out.

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Character customization + dungeon crawling - controls = Create your party of 3 from a variety of customizations. Kill monsters, collect loot, level and buy goods at the store. Make sure to pay attention when you attack, cast spells, or heal because it can be on the wrong target.

2yrs and still unfinished and clearly never will be.. both story mode and multiplayer are grayed out. I'm glad I spent less than $2 on it.

Pretty cool idea for a game. Grind through fights, upgrade after each group of enemies, and then! fight your best creations later on as they became your enemies. The downside of battles is enemies focusing on one of my fighters. This does mean my fighter gets a ton of abilities to choose from after a won battle but, as another reviewer said, that can lead to a stacked fighter being left out of a battle. A slight imbalance? Or maybe I am playing it wrong. Sometimes I spent more time buffing my party than actually attacking the enemy, which slowed down the fun. I prefer to go all out. I felt a bit like I was fighting in an MMO. Also, the graphics don't really work for me persoanally, but I know a lot of people love this style. In spite of two small "negatives" I do recommend the game. It's easy to just turn on and immediately play. A great time-passing game where you actually have fun.

Rogue-like dungeon crawling, stat crunching. You control a party of 3 and kill monsters like usual, but you also have to absorb your enemies' powers, choose the ones you want to keep. Cool mechanic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjdxop_XOx4

I highly recommend this game for those in love with lore and deep mechanics! The game has a unique lore that at every update that the developers push (which is often) i want to break the lore. The game is designed for the most corrupt to win but that little voice on my shoulder says, "Dont be corrupt, Become the True Hero of the Story." Emberlight's Lore tells me on the other shoulder, "Shhhh its fine, the corruption isnt bad. I will make you stronger but I will need your body....." The dev team is fan-ducking-tastic with constant updates, bug fixes, and incorporating ideas into their game. Their ideas of the future span beyond this game but at the same time will incorporate the game at the same time. Every run is familar enough to feel comfortable but different enough to keep the crisp of challange. The only true knowledge you bring is who your final boss will be... Even if it will be you. I give the game 7/10. Enough depth to swim in for a long time, but if swimming by oneself might get lost in all the mechanics of the game.

[h1] <-- Review writen for [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752/] 3 Point Play [/url] --> [/h1] When it comes to reviewing a game like this, well, let's say it's necessary to play a lot. This game, after all, is based upon his replayability; you might see this on the Store Page: do a run, which usually takes anything between 30 minutes and 1 full hour and absorb your enemies' skills to use them yourself. After you kill the final boss for the run you were doing, there will be a fight between all of your characters which participated in said run, and the most OP one will survive, for this matter, it's usually the one you gave the most, or best abilities to use the one that will stand this test and get to move forward. The idea is pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of when I was a kid and me and my sister would play one of our favorite games, which was Black and White 2, a game in which you basically were a god, and for that matter, you had sort of a pet; before either of us knew the concept of grinding, we'd play with our god's pets, trying to teach them skills that would prove useful amidst our respective playthroughs. So, since I always liked the good side more, I'd teach mine how to cast little clouds which would rain down upon my crops and/or would put down fires that might arise in my town, and my sister, in the other hand, which favored the evil side more, would teach her pet how to launch fireballs. So, one day she was spamming fireballs in front of her pet, in order to teach it how to do them as well, and one of those fireballs flew too far, it actually flew so far, that by coincidence, it happened to fly just in front of the enemy NPC's pet, which in that exact moment, learned how to do the fireball skill, and procedeed to raid her village casting fireballs everywhere. This is pretty much the same deal; you try to achieve the best results, but end up feeding your enemy without actually noticing, or so at least that was it for my first run, in which the pyromancer I treasured the most, as my main DPS source, one-shoted the rest of my party just after killing the boss. I have to say that this is a pretty refreshing idea, which looks amazing on paper. But however, Emberlight, as much as it has a vision, has a fair share of flaws and lack of quality of life features that could easily be the stick in your wheel as you try to have fun. Remember, this is all about replayability (and now I feel it's the proper time to mention that besides the fact that I have one hour game time, I played like 5 runs, in offline mode since I've been without net for 3 days or so) and so, you must give players not only a really nice objective like this self-superation into over-powered bosses for the next run or so. I can see some players not picking this game up because of some things like it's presentation, which is serviceable, but not really good looking. Also, there are not many plot deviced to speak of. There's some lore here and there, and while these are interesting bits, I would have liked some random encounters featuring some sort of story-based texts, maybe some dialogue choices. I'm also not so sure about the big distance there is between your party and the enemies, I don't know, I just don't like it. Animations somehow seem to be out of sync, as magic-casters will wave their staves around, and archers will pull on their strings, but both of their missiles take some extra time after the animation to actually leave the character. I also had many situations in which I ended up buffing or healing enemies, as both buffs and heals can target and will affect enemies, and this can be really annoying. First run I, for instance, casted a Haste effect on the final boss, and then had to do a 10 minute fight in order to actually kill it, because it kept dodging my attacks and taking extra turns; I also had issues when using Ember Maidens, as these are mostly all about the heal and support skills, and not knowing who's targeted in the exact moment that you cast something, can be disastrous. There also should be a proper tutorial. This is an indie game, and this is pretty much an original idea. There SHOULD be a dedicated tutorial, and no, I'm not talking about the text walls you have on the top-right corner of the screen, but actually about a proper, hand-holding walkthrough tutorial that easies you into the main mechanics of the game. It's great taking some time to discover something by yourself, but since this is a game that greatly encourages replayability, there should be a solid foundation, the skill floor if you wanna call it like that, that will allow us to build upon it. I didn't even know, for example, there was actually a basic attack button, in my first run, that is. All in all, I have to consider this game as a gem in the rough. The ideas are there, the concepts are there, the mechanics are there, but as I mentioned before, it still has a long way to go, and requires a lot of polishing. In it's current state, I'm not sure if I can actually recommend it, unless you're a hardcore dungeon-crawler, roguelite fan; but I'll go with the "thumbs up" review in the hopes that it will continue to improve, and will reach its true potential someday.