Road Stones

[h1] Магическая защита [/h1] Необычная Tower Defance. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877523795 [h1] СЮЖЕТ [/h1] Отсуствует. [h1] ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ [/h1] Игровой процесс представляет собой башенную защиту с подвижными башнями. В наличии 12 уровней с повышающимся уровнем сложности. Задачи в игре двух типов: - Не дать врагам пройти. - Одолеть сильного босса на уровне и параллельно отбивать волны противников. Наш маг перемещает башни за собой и может устанавливать их в любом доступном месте уровня. Также себе на помощь можно вызвать боевых юнитов, но они несколько бестолковы. Рядовые враги ходят по дорожкам, но есть и особые противники. Их как бы генерируют боссы и уже они бегают где угодно. Бывает, что заявляются посланники босса предыдущего уровня. Что интересно, иногда посланников боссов невозможно убить и их приходится избегать, типа как уклоняться от ловушек. (тучи от злого дерева). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877523146 Рассмотрим плюсы и минусы игры, подведем итоги. [h1] ПЛЮСЫ: [/h1] + Простая, но приятная графика. + Хорошее музыкальное и звуковое сопровождение. + Редко встречающийся подход с перемещаемыми башнями. + Интересно одолевать волны врагов и боссов. + Русский язык текста [h1] МИНУСЫ: [/h1] - Вообще не понял, как действуют юниты-помощники. По описанию, они должны бегать рядом с магом и защищать его, но они просто толкутся на поле. - Стандартными средствами не делаются скриншоты в Стим. [h1] ВЫВОДЫ [/h1] Небольшая, крайне приятная игра в жанре башенной защиты. Динамичные сражения, тактически перемещаемые башни. Хорошая идея с тем, что надо не просто отбивать атаки, но иногда и побеждать боссов. PS: Традиционно, полную версию обзора, со скриншотами, описаниями, красивым оформлением, можно найти в кураторе или группе. [code] Если понравилось - жмите палец вверх и вступайте в группу [b][url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RunnerStreams]RunnerStreams[/url][/b], у нас здесь обзоры, конкурсы, актуальная информация о скидках на годноту, раздачах и прочее. Подпишитесь также на [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6851324/]куратора[/url][/b]. [/code] Всем хороших игр!

The idea is ok, but... it needs polishing. - inconsistent graphics - especially with skills - lack of UI - lack of indicators - lack of settings - menu / pause menu - limited so much - no timer - no enemies counter - stars for the levels

Road Stones is more Russian shovelware from the GMS crapware pushers and review manipulators at HugePixel. This console ported tower defense game features a number of potentially interesting mechanics, like you only get up to three towers and you have to move them around yourself, while at the same time running around the screen collecting sparks so you can do your upgrades. A novel concept but wasted on these shovelware pushers as they did nothing with it apart from churn out a game that rapidly becomes a tedious annoyance by the second level. No wonder they had to pay people to write positive reviews for it. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs. A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", HugePixel has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 7 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. [b][quote][url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2017/01/18/steam-takes-down-art-of-stealth-after-developer-posts-fake-reviews/?sh=750e13e12354]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/quote][/b]This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product. Road Stones has the ridiculous price of $8 USD and it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. [b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b]Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.

I want to be very clear that this negative review is more about my tastes than the game itself. I only tried two levels, and everything worked fine. The art style was quirky, cartoony and nice, and the music was pleasant background fare. The controls worked fine, and there was nothing wrong with it from a production perspective. I gave it a negative review because it was tedious, and very hard on my hands. The core is loosely tower defense like, but the gameplay is the character (a mage) running around trying to dodge monsters and collect sparks of energy to get upgrades. In addition the towers, of which I saw three, (though you start with only one) constantly need to be moved around the map, also by the mage, making him a very busy boy. The upgrades include two types of units that can defend you, but they don't help with the tower defense aspect things at all, only coming to life when the little graveyards spawn critters who move towards you and interfere with your constant dashing about. The upgrades also power up the towers, and improve the mage himself, so hard decisions must be made, as each upgrade requires more and more sparks to activate. To be fair, I can see how this game might be fun for some people, but I can only review it from my perspective. I bought it expecting a tower defense game, and this really wasn't enough of one to be fun for me. So one thumb down. It works, but it isn't my cup of tea. If what I described sounds like fun to you though, you honestly might enjoy it.

дно росіянського геймдеву

[b] A fun game in the spirit of tower defense. We play as a wizard, move the crystal, which beats mobs, there are pumped perks. Under cartoon graphics with beautiful music. Done simply and well. [/b]

Well, here comes another tower defense from a developer that focuses on them. And he damn well succeeds! They are not long, but they have their complexity. I don’t know why, but I want to play the games of this developer in the evenings a little, to relax, so to speak.

A cool game in the tower defense genre with mechanics where we need to walk to put crystals and attack. Beautiful graphics are also there, as well as many levels to complete. Recommend for play

A beautiful and cool tower defense game. In the game you have to defend against different units by buying towers, which you can move behind you. I also liked the graphics and the music. I advise to play and have fun.

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