Monsters of Mican

There's a lot of passion on display with this game, and I found the retro PC game aesthetics to be quite charming. I did find it very busy though, and often times couldn't fully understand all the information the game was providing me with. [b]FULL VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNl1BmcV__Q[/b]

Monsters of Mican is a goofy turn based RPG with interesting level design, creative mechanics, and a whole lot of puns. The game has riddles, secrets, traps, an interesting story, and you can even befriend the various monsters and visit them in the monster glade or unleash them against other monsters. Outside the regular story, there are several optional dungeons with mazes and secrets to solve. As well as a large variety of different loot and character classes so you can really customize to your preferred playstyle. Overall it was a charming little indie title that made for an enjoyable 15 hours, and I recommend the game for anyone who enjoys a good light hearted dungeon crawler.

- So fun to play, rating 100/100

This game reminds me heavily of the old might and magic 6, 7, 8 and 9. If you loved those games you might like this game. The start may be a bit hard but, as were those games, when you reach certain level you start to be very strong. If you want a game to explore a bit, be a bit over powered as the game progresses and you acquire and master skills, and kill a lot of critters in different gruesome ways, then the game will appeal to you. While the game tends to be linear, the areas are rich and varied, the monsters are interesting and the ui is well done enough to not be an issue despite the big number of skills you may have. I liked the history as well, even if it may seem an excuse to kill a lot of monsters. Finally the game in my opinion has a perfect duration, since at 20-25 hours, it is neither too short nor too long.

I'm going to be blunt and upfront about something here before I say anything else about the game. This game is [i]jank[/i]. However, it's jank in the way that random shareware dungeon crawler you'd grab off of somewhere like Tucows or Softpedia in the late 90s was. I mean this in an absolutely, totally, without a hint of irony [i]good[/i] way. Yes, the graphics don't inspire much in the way of confidence. Yes, the music is all MIDIs (or at least sounds like a 90s MIDI track). Yes, all the sound effects sound like they were made by the dev making random noises with their mouth. But... this all [i]fits[/i] with the style that I (hope) the dev is intentionally going for. They all work together to make an experience that, quite frankly, has been lost to time. This is especially true in this day and age where indie titles have a lot more spit-shine polish than indie titles did some 20-odd years ago, and this pretty much nails that experience. The dungeon levels (so far) haven't been all that big, but they've had some minor puzzle solving - nothing too brain-busting, but amusing so far. The writing has been rather nice - granted, it's also filled with puns and dad jokes (my friends and I have certainly groaned at some of the enemy names when I've streamed this), but it has made me laugh more than once, which is more than what a lot of games do these days. The combat, however, is a bit unbalanced, as I've taken down the last few bosses without much issue (but then again, this is taking a lot of inspiration from the Enroth trilogy of Might and Magic games, which were hardly balanced in and of themselves). Although I will admit that the game weighs how damage is calculated against resistances better than a lot of modern RPGs. As a fan of the later-era MIght and Magic games, I do like the skill system - and how it provides a nice secondary means of character development. You (or at least I could) definitely feel a nice increase in power once a character jumps up in skill tiers from expert to master and so on and so forth. Granted, this may all level out in the end, since I am getting to a point where the numbers are getting much bigger than the were at the start. The enemy variety in this game is rather large, from what I've seen and a lot of the weirder variety of enemies are definitely in the "this came out of a fever dream" territory. I do appreciate that the traits for enemies are randomized to a degree, so that keeps me on my toes instead of just mowing through the same enemies over and over and over again. I can't wait to see what else this game has in store for enemies considering some of the stuff I've seen in screenshots and on the loading screens. Overall, if you're looking to recapture the feeling of playing the aforementioned janky (in a good way) indie shareware RPGs of the late 90s, then go for it, you won't regret it. But if you don't know what I'm talking about, I would still recommend this game, with the caveat that it's going to feel a bit off, but still be rather enjoyable despite that. It's not like some of the more jankier RPGs I've seen on here where it falls apart the moment you look at it funny (because this game is spending too much time looking at the player funny).

The UI is so poorly optimized it ruins the game. It is VERY clear the devs are amateurs with no experience creating games. I mean "WASD" LOL ummm... Nope. Might as well be a side scroller.

One of my favourite games.

Had a lot of fun with this in my time so far! It's a very charming world filled with secrets, and the party building and combat both have a ton of depth. It's harder than I'm used to, I don't play games like this, but it's also more accessible than it might seem at first glance. The creator seems to have done the majority of the sound effects and music himself, so a lot of the monster barks are really fun and silly. It's a really enjoyable game to spend time in!

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Played an earlier version of this game on Epic Games Store and put 15 hours into it. It had some quirks and overall was a very silly experience. This really is the product of a single human being. Why else create a blobber in this day and age if not for the love of the game™ After I finished Monsters of Mican, I played Might and Magic 9 and that game is dog water.