Realms of Magic

Damn, I bought this thinking it'd be great on the Deck, but it has no controller support and the developers won't add it. Apparently they're working on a remaster that will support controllers... Reminds me of Starbound, both games would be amazing with controller support.

Medieval Starbound. Focused more on skill and combat based progression, it tickles that Terraria/Starbound itch pretty well. Worth buying full price, ***completely worth*** buying on one of the many sales. Not much to elaborate on: there's 2D combat, crafting, building, sort of village making (bare bones), an easy skill tree, a story, side quests, and treasure to find. The game never felt like it was missing anything or under-baked. If I had to have any gripes, I'd say the gear progression feels a little off kilter, and combat is very easy, but the design and backbones of a very fun and solid game are present. I'm taking my time with messing around with all the game's facets, and will probably have it be one of the few games I 100% for posterity. Totally hyped that the developers said they want to make a sequel/remake after they finish their current project!

Для меня игра хороша всем, кроме отсутствия русской локализации, Прошел её с большим удовольствием но не рекомендую для ру комьюнити не владеющим английским языком. Долго просили локализацию, Даже просили дать доступ к файлам для собственной локализации.

IT takes Guts to CHUD

other than a few glitches with achievements this game was amazing. Taking aspects of terraria and mixing it with skilling worked great. I did almost everything you could possibly do in the game. I really enjoyed it.

One of the better crafting systems i've seen in a game with a huge tier ceiling of gear and a lot of loot unique to specific parts of the map. The way exploration works is you have a huge map with tiles. You select a tile on the map and each and every tile is its own level, making for an incredible amount of world to explore. The tiles except for towns and dungeons are fully destroyable top to bottom and you can build anywhere except towns and dungeons so about 98% of the game is your open world to do whatever you want in. I've done a small handful of quests and most gave me access to dungeons which are cool, all with their own secrets to hunt down which is a ton of fun and now i'm treating it more as a open ended adventure as a nameless adventurer and largely ignoring the story and quests because exploring and building my house and farm is satisfying. I have almost all of the map unlocked, I'm raising too many chickens and pigs, and my garden takes 30 minutes to farm every rotation because there really is no limit to how big your base can be, it can even stretch across every map on every tile if you wanted it to which is massive. Finding NPCs and bringing them home from the wild is pretty neat since it lets you build your own village basically. I'd like to see more diverse mini biomes and area hazards like lava pools in the next game so you can't just dig straight down and have to put in more thought to navigating when digging but that aside, this is a load of fun. The rain and thunderstorms are very atmospheric and fighting in them gives a nice immersive rush. If you like terraria or aground then give this a try, it has a lot of the same feel to it. They aren't the same games but those two and this game scratches a lot of the same itches that so few others even begin to scratch. Beware the zombie sheep.

The game can definitely draw you in. The quests are decent — they’re not too simplistic, but they’re not particularly impressive either. The NPCs’ sense of humor is a nice plus. There are plenty of skills and character progression options, interesting biomes, and decent, fairly undemanding combat. After playing Terraria (both vanilla and modded), you get the impression that there isn’t enough variety when it comes to crafting items. That’s pretty much the only downside.

Occasional bugs, but not many. Although I did get a game breaking bug near the end. My fault really, as I didn't keep frequent enough manual saves. If you do that, you probably won't have problems. I still enjoyed my 40 hours. There is enough build diversity to justify another run, so maybe I'll do that. Game is simple, but fun. Crafting is DEEP and the base building is flexible and enjoyable. It's a really good example of this type of game. Oh, and fire magic is OP.