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Steam Games - On Greenlight

Black Rune spotted some interesting games on Steam Greenlight:

Shadows of Adam:

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A new age retro JRPG with innovative gameplay for the modern era. Gorgeous art, music to remember, and a story you'll never forget!

Shadows of Adam is on Kickstarter as well.

Aselia the Eternal:

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Aselia the Eternal combines hardcore strategy gameplay with an epic fantasy storyline to create a fantastic experience for gamers of all ages. Travel to a fantasy world and lead an army of cute girls in battle against powerful enemies. With dozens of missions, hundreds of skills, three difficulty levels, and eight endings, Aselia the Eternal offers countless hours of RPG fun.

Minaurs:

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A stunning adventure with unique gameplay based on exploring and rescuing lost Minaur Nation scattered in various planets underworlds of the Minaurs Universe. A catastrophe has occured and now you are one of the few surviving Minaurs. Your quest is to rescue and reunite the Minaur nation.

The game has a nonlinear gameplay and it is unique for each player. There are various ways to achieve you goals in expeditions. Find your own way, find your own style. The game controls are easy; but to successfully finish your missions will demand full focus of your mind.

Travel to and explore hundreds of unique locations blooming with life. Game offers many interactive worlds on various planets with specific environments and wildlife. Conduct expeditions and explore these unique detailed ecosystems. Observe and use specific behavior of wild animals their various abilities and way they interact with their environment to your own advantage. Save lost Minaurs and fulfill special tasks. Gather and manage valuable resource as well experience. With help of the resource you gather and experience you collect build new and upgrade special abilities of your Minaur. You have a large choice of different abilities to learn and their further development.

Minaurs are a plentiful nation so prepare for a serious long lasting adventure… Minaur scholars continuously discover and develop their special abilities. New possibilities of upgrading your character as well as new worlds will appear with time.

The only thing left now for you is to begin! All depends on your abilities and decisions…

More information.

Oh wow, it seems like JAST finally finished translating Aselia ^^

The biggest thing Aselia has going for it is its story. After all it has an interesting take on the "ordinary boy gets summoned to a world of magic to save it" trope.

Also the replayability is high, as Aselia like a VN has several routes and some events are only available or doable in playthrough 2 and above.

The combat is fun especially once you have 2 or more squads to fill and command. Also there is an overworld on which you control your squads and several cities or special places to "conquer".

Its biggest problem though are some incredibly bad design choices, e. g. you can't tell your squads where to go in the next few rounds, making moving said squads rather tedious, especially when they are scattered through the whole map…

Another is the round limits: each "main" and some side missions have a round limit until which you have to complete it - this on its own isn't sth bad, but some of those are so short that you can't use any tactics and just have to try to win by brute force; also several of the side missions are only available during certain main missions, in turn further spreading your squad in the world…(and it takes rather long in the story until you get sth akin to a teleporter and even then it takes many rounds to be completed)

That is also the reason I hope that the second game will get translated, the story isn't as good as the first Aselia's but the gameplay is way better.

EDIT: what I forgot: it has a rather long Prologue which is fully VN, so without gameplay - on your 2nd onwards playthrough you can skip it but it is important for the story so unless you can sit through ~1,5h of illustrated audio book you will not enjoy this game ;-)