Entity Researchers

A delightfully surreal mix of Pokémon, XCOM, Roadside Picnic / S.T.A.L.K.E.R, and Hylics is sure to entertain those looking for a fresh experience. Affinities: - 150 entities to discover (151 minus 1?), each with unique artwork. - A fitting soundtrack; each entity type has its own track. - A perfectly intuitive user interface. - Many ways to progress, especially for those willing to experiment. Aversions: - Made in Game Maker, so has some typical engine-related bugginess (full screen problems, wrong resolutions, unresizable windows, etc.) - Somewhat grindy; could be a semi-idle game but is missing the ability to pause during a battle.

This game is very moreish. "Just one more run" Basically, Its kinda simple when you get in the flow of things, but i would say hard to master if you go straight on the hardcore route, some times you will get caught out because you didn't think ahead, that's my experience anyway, and the deeper you get into the dungeons, the longer you are going to spend optimising your loadout If casually playing, it does not make it any less enjoyable to play. The aesthetic though is on point, Its not just a LSD looking network, Its all made to feel alive with EIRINet, The random numbers of how many "users" are online, dynamic job list, and the random news articles giving a lot of life to what you imagine the world to be, its more engrossing the more focused you are on your next job. And even for the price i think its on point, So i can recommend that if you know you like this sort of game, it should be rather easy to get the value out of it. PS: It does work on steamdeck, but ideally i recommend you use the trackpad and controller hybrid setup as it might default to a standard controller on startup, Should be easy for most to set up.

An interesting mash of half-formed ideas wrapped around standard JRPG combat, with a light sprinkling of bugs. Grindy, but if you're willing to put up with that and learn all the mechanics, then it's worth a shot.

its rough. Refining materials over and over gives me a RSI. im not sure what part of this game is meant to be fun

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full disclosure, I refunded this game - as of level 10, this game isn't really fun because you just cast the same move repeatedly (unless your foe is weak to lightning in which case you cast the lightning move), I didn't get any additional moves even when I visited all the 2 star areas and scanned everything and a lot of the mechanics are straight up opaque, so I don't know for example what +25 affinity does and what it affects - meaning that the gearing system feels pretty :ech:. That being said, maybe it opens up more, or maybe it's just not for me. The artstyle is very good and it's really atmospheric. I did enjoy the QTEs too. I'm giving this a tentative thumbs up because who knows, you might stick it out more than I did and enjoy yourself.