Разработчик: Astronomic Games
Описание
Something very important was stolen from the council – a high value item required for a new device that could bridge the gap between the physical realm and the realm of phantoms. Who did this and why is unknown, but the city guard hired two mercenaries to find and retrieve this item in return for a hefty sum – Agela, a young, somewhat brash, and quick-witted archer, and her smarty pants imp sidekick Ingus.
Agela and Ingus will have to infiltrate their way into crime-ridden slums, as well as a whole host of underground and treacherous locations in order to get the job done. On their journey they are guided by a phantom ally, Angadani, who appears from time to time to update them with useful information. A simple fetch job quickly becomes more complex as more factions become involved and set their eyes on the precious item. It's more than they bargained for, but to Agela and Ingus, giving up is not an option!
Features:
- Not your typical fantasy setting. Medieval look and non-human races, but more with a modern day dynamic – gangs, crime-infested slums, city councils instead of kings in castles, and science instead of magic.
- Strategic turn-based battle system which includes skills with unique areas of effect.
- Fully voice acted
- Weapon and Armour upgrading – find specific items which can be used to add a variety of stat bonuses to your equipment, but do so wisely, because each weapon and armour has a limited number of upgrade slots.
- First part of a larger story
- In addition to story mode, challenge yourself with consecutive battles in arena mode
- Two difficulty modes: Normal and Brazen
- Puzzles to solve and secret areas to find!
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Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: WindowsR 7/8/8.1/10 (64bit)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.10 or better
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or better
Отзывы пользователей
[quote]Warning: Broken Game![/quote]This game has design/implementation defects that will render this unplayable for many gamers. The game fails to launch and while the "developer" provided a workaround (instead of fixing the problem!), the workaround doesn't work. The developer is aware of this and chooses not to remediate the problem. If you decide to buy this game anyway, be aware it may not work.
Renegade Grounds: Episode 1 is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction.
If the game did work, you would find that, as with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development.
Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.
Renegade Grounds: Episode 1 didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. All achievements have been attained at 25% rate, which implies the players who did play the game finished it, but given the very low peak player counts, *most* gamers didn't bother playing it and just uninstalled the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game, although part of this could be explained by the game being fundamentally broken.
Astronomic Games/New Reality Games/Mihai Morosanu have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. An example of Astronomic Games/New Reality Games/Mihai Morosanu doing this is Vogue, The Explorer, which is really "3D Game Kit", written by the actual developers, Unity Technologies. Also, Totally Mayhem, which is really "Full Game Kit - Hammer 2", developed by XForm Games.
It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk.
Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state. This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience.
The developer is deliberately and unethically trying to scam gamers into paying them the gamer gouging price of $5 USD for a game they know is broken. Don't give it to them.
[quote]Developer Response![/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the Developer Usage Rules for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says:
[quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote]
The developer complains that it's unfair for me to point out that they are scamming gamers while they continue to unethically attempt to mislead gamers into paying for broken products. Unfortunately for the developer, the facts speak louder than their trite denials. The best thing about facts is they're true no matter how developers whine about them.
Let's break it down.
- The game doesn't work.
- The developer knows.
- The developer hasn't fixed it.
- The developer hasn't removed the broken game from Steam.
- The developer is still trying to get paid for faulty goods.
[*]The developer furthered this unethical behaviour by placing the broken game into Groupees Build-A-Bundle #65 and Bunch Keys Bundle #31
None of that is "accidental" from the "developer", "New Reality Games". And as always with my reviews I look into these people, and when you turn over rocks, you find worms. In fact, "New Reality Games", the people behind this scam (yes, charging money for broken goods willingly for profit at the expense of gamers is unethical and can be classified as a scam) worked closely with Mihai Morosanu/or use that account as a shell account. They are known asset flippers and have previously taken other developers work and put it on Steam in an attempt to scam gamers and get paid for someone else's effort. The evidence, clear as day, is linked above, and the developer is completely unable to refute it (or they would have instead of just whining about it being unfair when people point out what they are doing when they know they are doing something wrong).
Now it could be that the "developer" here is just a close associate of these Russian asset flippers... or just another shell account for the same Russian guy. Who knows, it's up to gamers to be the judge. I can't confirm or deny it, just trace the connections through support email addresses and other metadata linking the Steam shell accounts used by Russian asset flippers. Same guy, or just someone who decided to go into profit sharing business arrangements with Russian asset flip scammers? That shady business choice alone would be enough. Gamers should be informed when developers behave unethically, as the developer is proven to be doing here (supported by the evidence I've supplied).
While game reviews are about the games (and this one is wholly defective), gamers should be informed because when you buy a game from an unethical developer, you put your money at risk. Be safe out there, and don't judge shady developers by what they say, but what they have done.
Given my review got locked for a while, it also seems the developer made an unethical attempt to silence the truth and get my review banned simply because I shed light on their unethical behaviour. Didn't work, the truth prevails.
I like the weapon and armor upgrade system its quite fun, interesting characters, navigating is a bit annoying with mouse but its nice to be able to use just a mouse.As a rule I wont even buy episodic games anymore, seems they rarely get finished but there does seem to be an episode 2
yes
I found this very boring. No real story, just missions (aka kill them)
No, do not waste your time or your money, if I was to rate this game on a 1-100 scale I would give it a 38/100 and if they were to add more chapters, it might get a 40/100.
It isnt even worth a dollar because its simply too basic, as if someone kept all default settings on an RPG auto-generator.
The story, combat and upgrading systems are as basic as the graphics and voice acting, nothing memorable and nothing about the game stirs up any sort of nostalgia. It simply isnt charming, memorable or even a little deep and I cannot recall having felt more let down by how basic a game was since I beat Dragon Warrior 1 again as an adult.
I am not even going to say the game has promise, because there isnt an area where they showed even the slightest hint of greatness.
Well, that's just another cute little story with a lot of rooms to discover and enemies to kill. I liked how the development of weapons was created , I never seen such stuff for a long time, the voice acting is pretty good as well. So bad that it had finished on the most interesting part and now we have just to play it in our fantasies to find the answers of this game...I hope that someday it would be finished at last...till than, good luck))
There's something quite charming about this game and I have to admit I'm enjoying playing it. I have ticked the recommended box but I do have some reservations. I was enjoying it so much I decided I would see what other episodes were available or forthcoming only to read in the discussions page that the dev has put episode 2 on hold while they work on some other game. I feel a bit disapointed because when I buy a game with episode 1 in the title I expect there will be an episode 2 and really it isn't guarenteed. I'm now reluctant to continue playing this episode in case I get invested in the game only to be let down. I know the dev says they will get back to it because they have invested money in it but I have learnt on steam that once a game gets shelved, they often remain shelved no matter what they say.
I thouroughly enjoyed that one. I thought I would break a bit the game while I played on the higest setting and the game gave me all the misery it could muster against me.
Nice place to experiment a voiced game. It is a dungeon crawler and I thought it would be linear and what made it different is that the character don't level up. All is tactical with equipment maintenance and abilities and not that much money to get by. I noticed in some cases the loot was randomized. You have to be careful where you save and sometimes chose to give a long walk and make breathe your characters before the next encounter.
Also, folks who are now knowing the creator of the game might know there is also a politic intrigue behind the curtain so it is something that works on many levels.
I would recommend it; it grows very fast on the player.
Compared to the companies other products like City of Chains and Mercury: Cascade into Madness, this feels really amateurish. If you just like killing monsters with minimal world interaction and people to talk to and places to to explore, then this might be for you.
Tags: Topdown - RPGMaker & Party RPG
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Unfinished Episodic. Attempt at production values still comes short. Narrative falls flat despite trying. Stiff fetchquest scripting. Trashmob encounters.
Pros:
+An attempt at a half decent sword & sorcery setting with forgettable but servicable text
+There are character abilities to use that are unique to them sort of, just a tweaked magic system really
+Xbox360 pad worked
+Voice acted
Cons
-Bland boring city level design, fake choices funnels you down linearity with non interactable environments and locked doors.
-Scripting is stiff and you are often stonewalled in progression until you find trigger X buried somewhere
-Combat is all repetitive trashmobs where you constantly go through the same ability cycle
-Leaves huge sidebars and does not fullscreen correctly. Maximizing window leads to increased blur.
-Voice acting drones on and is easy to tune out or want to skip.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Astronomic Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.12.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 50% положительных (10) |