Lie of Caelum

Reminds me a lot of Xenosaga 1 but in a school setting.

RPG Maker strikes again! "Lie of Caelum" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This is your usual high school anime club dropout RPG Maker asset flip fan-fiction, but it's got a sci-fi theme instead of the usual fantasty theme about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend. Also, it uses one of the different modes from RPG Maker instead of the usual top down Final Fantasy ripoff engine that's most commonly used with these fan-fiction asset flips. Otherwise, everything is the same, and the writing is pure cringe as the developer tries as hard as possible to be as edgy as a fourteen year old can get. It's so, so cringey. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 6 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? I think you should give this one a miss. Although it's free, your time and storage are valuable resources, and the market is filled with superior options.

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Edit: Game crashing bugs fixed. Didn't check if the achievements are fixed too, someone else can confirm. Plenty for finishing the game. This game is....a lot. It's a massive world being presented with far too little time and game to do it. It's 30% xenosaga I and 20% battle school anime. Now that doesn't add up to 100% because it's not REALLY a full game. On the other hand, xenosaga is absolutely massive so I can't really complain given how much smaller the team is. Large chunks of the game are shadowy foreshadowing and edgy adults beating up kids that are going to need future games for proper payoff. The gameplay does serve its purpose for such a runtime, but a full length game probably needs more variety in the kinds of techniques you can pull off so that there's more choice beyond filling special meter and not dying. It's got a lot of minigames. Probably too much. If the effort was focused onto just the card game, you'd have a better paced, smoother experience. But if you're experienced in RPGmaker subtleties, there's a few flaws here and there. Lack of explanation for some mechanics and some odd number balancing make high difficulty a bit of a pain. There's plenty sidegrades, as long as you can deal with the load times to get them.

Very impressed by the overall package and polish of this game. Xenogears set in school is something that feels tailor made for me. Excited to see the sequel currently being worked on.

Dev robotlar. Teknoloji büyüyü kötüye kullanıyor. Ülkeler arasındaki çatışma. Bir grup kaderli bireye katılın ve Caelum gezegenini halkının prangalarından kurtarın. Bu Bilimkurgu JRPG'de güçlerinin ardındaki gizemleri keşfedin ve hayatlarının içinde yaşayın.

Depois de jogar até onde deu, hora da análise. O jogo é interessante e tem potencial, mas logo depois do começo apresenta erros que te impedem completamente de prosseguir com o jogo. Vi que há reclamações no fórum quanto a esse bug desde 2024, com resposta dos devs em 2025 que iriam fazer o patch para arrumar, mas que estavam mais focados em desenvolver o novo jogo.... Faço essa análise em abril de 2026, e até agora o bug permanece. Com isso, o jogo está injogável. NÃO RECOMENDO.