
In this turn-based RPG, wield powerful legendary instruments, gather mighty riff attacks and save the land from Rick Riffson's devilish goons and musical hybrid monsters!
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Play as Rob, a friendly musician trying to restore harmony in an off-tuned world where wacky villains are corrupting music.
Rick Riffson, boss of the evil Super Metal Records company, is using the Battle of the Bands contest to extend his hold on every last note, chord, and song by trapping the best musicians with deceptive soul-binding contracts.
Embark on an adventure with Rob and his zany rock-loving friend to end SMR's plans. Stay alert during your journey: Riffson’s devilish goons, monster-instrument hybrids, and legendary musical animals will try to get in your way!
Explore this musical land to add sick riffs to your deck, and wield your mighty guitar to unleash powerful crescendo attacks in epic music battles!
Carefully composed by Ritual Studios, Fretless is a pixel-art adventure set in Rob Scallon and his friends' diverse musical rock world.
- Explore a musical world: discover whimsical biomes where flowers jingle, rocks really rock and beach waves have their own melody. Watch out for the percushrooms: they'll beat you up.
- Engage in rhythmic turn-based combat: orchestrate melodies of mighty musical riffs to bit crush your foes. Time attacks and blocks to the beat of the soundtrack, build your Crescendo, and unleash powerful rhythm-based special attacks!
- Fine-tune your strategy: Collect mighty riffs, add them to your deck, and compose the perfect bars to create unbeatable solos. Follow the beat of your own drum, whether it is high damage build, devastating musical effects, life-stealing combos, or even random chaos!
- Spice up your musical abilities with physical add-ons: Are you a metal-rock shredder or an indie-folk lover? Choose the best instrument and add bridges, strings, and more to match your own play styles.
- Band together for a wholesome ballad: embark on a story full of musical puns, zany characters, and Rob Scallon's coterie of music-loving friends
- Enjoy a hand-crafted Pixel Art symphony: progress through a visually enchanting world filled with gorgeous punchy animations and alluring scenery.
- Music is for everyone: from "simple" music enthusiasts to guitar gods, everyone can hit the right note at the right time! Whether you are already a fan of Rob or just looking for a fun lighthearted adventure, this game is made for you.
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Absolutely brilliant RPG that paces itself well, respects your time and makes an old style of game very fresh. Easily recommend
Fantastic game! Kind of a musical focused JRPG meets a deckbuilder. I'm not even a huge JRPG fan honestly but this game really stands out, incredible art and music, fun musical focused 'card' combat, good characters, enemies and bosses are cool to fight.. I could go on! It's not a particularly long game, nor is it super difficult, but it's absolutely rocking! Recommend to anyone really but especially if you're a fan of JRPGs, or even if you're not like me haha!
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian
Hours played at review time, across 84 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Loved the rhythm based rpg gameplay! The music itself was also really good. Rob has very goofy expressions that made me lol during battle. Only gripes were some random bugs (hitting x sometimes didn't display the next objective, an outline didn't appear over text when making a choice, annoying for certain questlines like the trading game) and there was surprisingly a lot of loading in between areas. Otherwise it was a short and sweet rpg experience that i'd recommend to anyone into guitar based music, rhythm games and turned based combat.
hearing my favorite guitar YouTubers make boss battle music was amazing. Rob, Rabea, Ola, Yvette, Davie504, and others I can't remember right now. The game itself was good too, it felt like when I played the old gameboy Pokemon games for the first time. Not a lot of replayability for me, but still a great game.
Fantastic time! Finished the game in ~7hrs with warmth inside and a stupid smile on my face :D
Great fun and just a love letter to music in general with a nod to the YouTube music community. Loved the fighting mechanics and the visuals. Characters and world is very charming!
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For a guy who has never been a big musician, Fretless was a blast to play! The rpg mechanics are some of the best I have ever played!
총 플레이 시간 6.3시간 굉장히 재밌게 했음 록 음악을 컨셉으로 해서 박자 맞춰서 딜 넣는 방식의 게임인데 내가 박치인데 깰만함 난이도가 쉬운 편이라 높이고 싶었는데 낮추는 기능은 있어도 높이는 기능은 없음 스토리는 그냥 별거 없었고 인디겜이라 그런가 곳곳에서 불편한 점들은 있었음 물건 파는건지 제대로 설명도 안 해놓고 확인하지도 않고 판매해 버린다거나... 필요로 하는 아이템들인지 안 알려주다가 팔고 나중에 가서야 알려준다거나... M 눌러도 맵이 안 뜬다거나... 도트도 별로 안 좋아하고 도트도 예쁘게 안 찍어서 아트도 장벽이었음 근데 이런 단점들이 존재해도 전투가 너무 재밌어서 엔딩까지 봤음 최근에 엔딩까지 가기 전에 다 식거나 겜 끄면 나중에 해야지 하고 안 봤는데, 전투 하나만으로 엔딩까지 보게 해줌 보스러시 안 하는데 이 겜은 보스러시가 있었으면 좋겠다고 생각까지 함 강추함 근데 세일할 때 사는 거 추천 근데 퍼즐은 안 넣었으면 좋았을듯 생각하는데 5초도 안 걸리는데 전투만 쉬어가게 해서 템포 뺏기는게 별로였음
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