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Turn Based Lovers - On The Radar - September 2021
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Gwendo
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Two huge RPGs 5 days apart… Pathfinder and Encased.
I've played a few hours of Encased in early access and I liked it and it has a great potential, so I decided not to play it anymore and wait for the full game. I'm looking forward to it, but since I've already played it quite a bit, I think I'll start with Pathfinder: WotR. It launches today, so that makes sense. But if it turn outs too buggy, it will be put on hold and I'll play Encased.
In this list there a couple games I'm curious about, but they couldn't have a worse timing to launch. I think the sales of the first weeks aren't as important for smaller developers as for the AAA games, but I hope it doesn't discourage them to keep supporting the games and keep making more. There's no way I'll buy those games any time soon, with Pathfinder and Encased being big and time consuming RPGs.
I'm curious about THE LOST KING OF AVALON, GAMEDEC and ASTRIA ASCENDING.
I've played a few hours of Encased in early access and I liked it and it has a great potential, so I decided not to play it anymore and wait for the full game. I'm looking forward to it, but since I've already played it quite a bit, I think I'll start with Pathfinder: WotR. It launches today, so that makes sense. But if it turn outs too buggy, it will be put on hold and I'll play Encased.
In this list there a couple games I'm curious about, but they couldn't have a worse timing to launch. I think the sales of the first weeks aren't as important for smaller developers as for the AAA games, but I hope it doesn't discourage them to keep supporting the games and keep making more. There's no way I'll buy those games any time soon, with Pathfinder and Encased being big and time consuming RPGs.
I'm curious about THE LOST KING OF AVALON, GAMEDEC and ASTRIA ASCENDING.
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Carnifex
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Look at all those upcoming joys! It'll likely be next year before I get to any of these, something to look forward to.
Besides the obvious Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Encased and Gamedec (this one, to an extent), I also liked The Lost King of Avalon.
I don't think I'd heard of it until now, but there's a demo on Steam. I'm downloading it now.
Let us know if you liked it, please!
I played it briefly. It's somewhat simplistic, but I think it has a certain charm. You start with just the character you create and then find or hire up to 3 companions. You can choose your gender and class, but Paladin is the only class available in the demo.
The map seems to be decent size, but you can only see a certain number of hexes beyond your location. There are a good number of castles, towns, and various kinds of dungeons scattered about. There are random encounters, some of which you can see on the map, and sometimes you'll see other parties fight each other.
There isn't a lot of strategy to the battles though. You can move once and attack once, and you can't attack diagonally. There are various perks for the different classes.
You should check it out. The demo is a fairly small download.