The Kobolds Left Behind

[h3]REVIEW[/h3] This game is REALLY BORING [h1]CRITICISM: THE RED LIZARD DIES ([spoiler]SPOILER[/spoiler])[/h1] When the red lizard dies at the end I didn't feel sad because I only knew them for like 15 minutes and the game kept trying to tell me I knew all these lizards for a lot longer, it was super Tumblr writing and the person who wrote this felt weird If u want to play a sad game look elsewhere!!!

In my personal opinion, this game is not good. Entire Review is a spoiler, so be warned. [/Spoiler] Graphics: The game's graphics are alright. Not as bad as a unity asset flip, but about rpgmaker quality. The character's sprites are pretty good, but the confused ones are wonky. Gameplay: It's nothing too intricate. Just some simple puzzles, deduction, and combining items. But that's not the point of buying this game. Setting: You may be asking why this is a category? It's because this game is a weird hybrid of fantasy, that will occasionally throw modern elements such as radios or magazines your way. That's not even including the literal spaceship. Story: Oh boy, sit down young chap, because this hopeful to be writer is about to smack down this game so hard, whether that's justified or not. The story is simple, the dragons took a bunch of their kobolds, and left all the others so they could go to space for reasons that are never explained. And since unlike other fantasy settings, these kobolds are summoned creatures, their magical energy reserves are running out. You have Erika, who is clinging onto the faint hope that her "Queen" will come back for her. Niels, who is a stubborn, magic-wielding kobold. And then Bomb, the plucky, chaotic one. So as you progress, the protagonist, Sophie, bonds with these little critters. Erika overcomes her naive thoughts, and decides to follow Sophie. Niels reveals he hid a letter to Bomb from the Queen, which would've told her to get on the ship. Bomb forgives him, stating she never would've abandoned them in the first place. But how does it end? Well, you eventually make it to the vault full of treasure, but the little kobolds are almost out of energy! So, Erika sacrifices herself to reveal...an empty vault. And then after some dialogue, she vanishes and dies. The front page character died for an empty vault. So sadge. So, Sophie talks to and hugs the two remaining kobolds, before leaving. Niels and Bomb then destroy a crystal holding up the dragon queen's island, crashing the last remnants of this bygone age into the sea. They either die in the explosion, or shortly afterwards. Sophie makes three small markers for the deceased trio, and leaves. My problems: The game is too short, clocking in at only 1 hour. It doesn't give you enough time to understand the world, these characters, to get to know them. The ending is bonkers, killing off 3 out of the 4 characters of the entire game. I get it, sad ending, but personally, I think sad endings are not done well most of the time. Overall: I just found the game very lacking, to the point where I think calling it a game is a bit of a stretch. But what do I know? [/Spoiler]

The game is too short, the padlock puzzle is poorly designed. dont buy the DLC its not worth the money for what little ya get outa it. 100% achievements in 2.2 hours. and that was with trying to fully explore for dialog and brute forcing the lock puzzle. if you happen to like kobolds than the story was somewhat okayish for five bucks i guess?. but its got practically no replay value and its far too short. and i did not particularly like the ending. could have been a better story if there were a way to get a happier ending.

If you are looking for a emotional story with characters you can fall in love with, you should consider giving this game a chance. I will say straight off the bat if you're looking for a happy story you wont find that here, it does have its fair share of humor but this game covers more serious topics like abandonment (Listing only the most prominent I felt during, but there is other heavy topics covered in this game), so have a supply of tissues to hand before you start!. The game isn't long but I feel that isn't a problem, I have 100 minutes on record and have 4 achievements left to get, so I got more time then I was expecting!. The art style is part of what sold me on this game, the characters are well made and the art matches the personalities really well, the levels are well thought out and easy to navigate, I found it pretty simple to figure out where I was suppose to go next. I even found my self exploring and naturally found where I was suppose to go, and the items I needed to progress. The puzzles where nice and simple and didn't detract from the main draw of the game which is the story. The solutions came naturally and didn't require endless amounts of pushing buttons until you brute forced your way through it. The story was impact full and stuck with me throughout the day after I finished. In fact, I still find my thoughts drifting back to the story, so to say it has won a special place in my heart is putting it lightly. The sound worked well and the music added to the ambiance of each scene and level as you explored!. Now I do have to sing the praises of the voice acting, it was so well done and I feel it brought the characters and the story to life. The actors brought so much emotion it added another level to an already very emotional story. To sum up all of my experience's while playing this game: Its a short emotional story with very appealing visuals, lovable characters that are given more depth thanks to a very well written story and brilliant voice acting and all of this topped off with well designed levels, a light garnish of jokes and well placed sound effects and music. The secret ingredient I think (and I can only assume otherwise it wouldn't be a secret ingredient now would it?) is the amount of heart and soul the dev/s put into the game. EDIT: Just played the game again and can confirm that it works wonderfully with no extra setup on the steam deck!

[h1]Sad kobold game[/h1] What you see is what you get! A fun romp with a couple of quirky kobold buddies. And then tears. Gameplay consists of walking around, searching for and picking up items to help you advance forward, and solving simple puzzles. Standard adventure game fare. But you're not here for that, you're here for the story! Our kobold heroes are instantly overly attached to Sophie, our protagonist, which is understandable! It's just what kobolds do. The nicer ones, anyway. But I did not expect the same to happen in return, which felt a bit strange. Sophie goes from uncaring to loving very, [i]very[/i] quickly. I suppose it was due to the game being quite short, a little over an hour or so? This makes it somewhat difficult to care about everyone and what is happening to them. What is there is pretty good, but there just isn't enough time to develop the characters and their relationship. Art is great, gameplay is good, voice acting is quite nice, and the music gets the job done - but I found it to be the one of the weaker parts of the overall presentation. All in all, good game! Wish there could have been more, and also wish there were more like it!

I'm really enjoying playing this, the story has great mixes of all elements (trying not to spoil), i think the characters are fantastic and they remind me so much of cartoons and shows I watc and , sci fi and fantasy books I read. The voices are just amazing and fit it so well. I've not encountered any bugs, so for me The Kobolds Left Behind is technically sound for me I'm running this on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, through steam play with GE-Proton7-24, and it's all working fine for me. I could gush on about this for ages , but this really is the best newly released video game that I've played in quite a while, and it's very refreshing to see that good, well made, well written and well designed fun experiences are still being made. While writing this i'm listening to the soundtrack, and I realise I could just have this playing on in the background for ages, taking it all in. Kobalds pulls are your strings and I was really happy with how well written the story is.

This has no right of being so gut wrenching. It is perfect.

Can Aggressively Stab Everything in Sight (Unsuccessfully).