The Unlife of Gorlak

Excellent and very cute life sim JRPG about being an undead dragon. A single run is around an hour, and there are multiple endings and builds to try out. There's lots of lovely bespoke pixel art, and the music is excellent as well; I especially liked all the "escalation" tracks you get for progressing far enough in the expeditions. The dialogue is also very charming, and the expedition bosses at the ends of the first two areas were particularly funny. Great stuff! Really hope this game finds its audience because I would love to see more of these characters and this style. Only real criticisms I have are in terms of UI legibility and it's not a serious hamper to the game anyway so. I just wish shopping and looking at what skills/attributes do was a little easier.

Needed to take a fat nap after i finished my first playthrough because I lowkey got so tense and giddy throughout the story. This one is for the pathetic fantasy gays who like dramatic dragons.

Oh, I am having a blast with this. Passionate, fun, cartoony take on necromancy, AMAZING art style, fun combat that is balanced juuust right on normal mode, and a delightful MC that, just like me, gains stress when he stays indoors too long. This is just a perfectly tasty smorgasbord of dungeon crawling, sim management, tabletop adventuring, and JRPG combat that tickles my brain perfectly

[i] Mmhmh. [/i] Gay dragons, i love it. Also very cute drawings from White

A fun, short, replayable RPG that sidesteps certain pain points I have with the genre. Compared to most other RPGs: - No unrestrained grinding due to the limited time mechanic. You only have 30 days to buff yourself up for the final boss! - Random battles are unintrusive. There's no overworld movement that gets interrupted by random battles, you just choose whether to trigger the next dungeon encounter in order to progress. - Every dungeon action feels meaningful. You potentially get a stat buff for each battle win, but you can instead get penalized and are forced to end the day if you lose! - Multiple endings because you're supposed to replay it and try different builds. Also, the writing is consistently fun. Gorlak is such a goofball despite wanting to be a intimidating villain. I want to kiss him on the nose.

Built on a great foundation of rebuilding your strength to face a former rival and executed in a way that has a ton of variety, great writing, and fantastic art. I love how many different ways you can approach encounters and I'm looking forward to digging in more and gosh maybe helping Gorlak hold someone's hand