Hatchwell

Very charming adventure game, inspired by the early Zelda games. You have to save the people of Hatchwell from some evil force that spawns monsters all over the place, by finding six crystals in mysterious dungeons. Most of these dungeons are very well designed, with plenty of puzzles and unique enemies and bosses. Especially the water dungeon is amazing, and comes very close to the clever design of the Zelda games. The inhabitants of Hatchwell will also give you quests, and there are lots of secrets to find by exploring the environment. Not everything is perfect tho; the last two dungeons are repetitive and the music sounds best when turned off completely. But for the first game of a single developer, Hatchwell is a great achievement. Recommended!

I'd say this game is good and has potential to be great if certain things get fixed in the future. If you can look past some minor bugs / glitches that might happen while you play, it's a decent game. [b]Enjoyed:[/b] - Gameplay is solid, simple yet effective, feels good to move around and hitting enemies. - Sword attack is not a stab move - thank you so much for that. - Character creation is simple yet very cute for a simple game like this. - The little portraits of envrioment and objects give a nice flare to cutscenes and dialog. - Bosses have decent ways to be defeated, but require a few tries sometimes - You can pet your dog. - [spoiler]The battle in the town was very creative and fun way to see if you know your way around it.[/spoiler] [b]Nitpicks:[/b] - The game is mostly hard at the start due low health pool, 3 hits and dead, no half hearts or anything of sorts. - Seen a few different enemy designs, but most of them die with your sword alone. - Some of the music has been just the same theme, but with a slight variation, it could have been ok if the loop wasn't so short... the dungeons can take a bit of time to get through so hearing a 10 sec loop isn't really nice... - Some puzzles have a right way to be solved and doing it another way might cause you to get stuck and have to re-load your save (thankfully you just start at the entrance) - Pet AI will just ram spiky enemies killing itself, then makes me feel horrible, my poor boy. Yes, you can change to passive but i think it could at least not do that lol. - The game kept starting in window mode and changing controller settings isn't very intuitive. - You cannot pet the dog. But anyways, I liked it, especially after looking at the credits and noticing only a few people worked on it, Good Job! Ain't easy to make a game. Thank you!

A fun little zelda-like, very charming. Love how you can have an animal companion.

Cute as heck. Don't forget to water your plants.

Review after some main dungeons (From non-native English speakers, peace :V). *Steam record time may not be accurate to actual gameplay length time, since everyone plays differently (I share the game with my sibling). What I like (Nice little things): *Some customization of player character (Legend of pet & myself ;) ). *Selectable pet system ("Activate" auto collect mode within limit, can expand more, with [spoiler]pooping[/spoiler] everywhere as result). *Dungeons similar to earlier Z*lda style, such as the action adventure genre (simply kick a** with some puzzles, and always get stuck in every dungeon). *Some nice exploration too (Start with the amazing of [b]rolling[/b] simulator). *Very cute & unique 2D art style (Totally free of 3D motion sickness, me almost want to puke after 5 minutes in any 3D games :'( ). Neutral (Hmm): *Bugs and Glitches that bundle with nowadays games (Forever free of charges). However, the devs are willing to fix them, and they are always active in Steam community (Thumbs up). *Side quests can easily "miss out" after some playtime. Maybe next time a warning before hand? Or side quest reappears later? (I want to collect more green thingy) *Some items can't be purchased after certain time (Such as [spoiler]bomb & escape rope[/spoiler], which may prevent some "way" to continue explore). What I hope/wish for future project/big changes/sequel etc (Ohhhh): *Pet system include enemies (I want those red slime). *Maybe more main dungeons (But this is difficult to plan & create). *More side quests (Nice distraction from main quest). *Journal for listing main quest and side quest for player to refer (Always losing memory after each dungeon). Enough said, I do recommend this game for player who like the combination of some action and puzzle. At least I am satisfied with the earlier discount purchased (Thank you for reading/scrolling :) ).

This is a good game. A cute adventure with a lot of heart. "Zelda like" would be the easy way to describe it with the standard dungeon > new item progression, all completely centered around one town and it's inhabitants, all of which have changing dialog and their own small moving stories along the way. Nothing too ground breaking but every part enjoyable. Bosses stood out as each had their own unique setups. Menu controls can be a little odd to get use to at first but that's hardly an issue. Writing this review mostly because of my own shock at how unknown the game is for it's level of quality.

I don't recommend because the controls are janky and awkward. If it weren't for the controls being like that I would recommend this game. Also there is stuttering with full screen so I had to play in window. Not a fun game to play because of the controls.