Heroes of a Broken Land

Fun, nostalgic time! I'm obsessed with CRPGs and this one has all the bells and whistles: 1) Addicting combat loop 2) Hard to start but satisfying to master 3) Each class matters/no class feels useless 4) If your party dies in a dungeon, you can make a new party to rescue them at any time. 5) Retro graphics (think Wizardry) 6) Unique enemy types (ghosts and glimmers in particular) 7) Beautiful world map 8) The crystalized god in the starting town is a unique idea and designed gorgeously 9)Custom portraits and name customization lead to some good times (and funny screenshots) Cons: 1) Game is prone to glitches; I've had a newly hired party member just vanish from existence for no reason once or twice. Reloading my save never brought them back. 2) The story is bare-bones (not really a deterrent tho). 3)Towers can start to overstay their welcome after the first 2 hours. The dungeons/caves are well-paced and can be beaten in 30 minutes to an hour but the towers take around an hour and a half longer than that so enemy encounters start to feel same-y. Overall: 7.5/10 Recommended for CRPG fans and dungeon crawlers! If you like Etrian Odyssey, Wizardry and other …

I imagine there is a good game hidden in here, for those with the patience to figure out how it works. I fumbled around for an hour, trying to figure out how to progress. Needs a tutorial or at least an accessible player's guide. Going for the refund.

gooooooood

A decent dungeon crawler with simple, yet solid mechanics. It gets very grindy and somewhat repetitive, but if that's your cup of tea, then go for it.

Cute, cool, but the gameplay is too simple. It's boring.

If you can look past the janky UI and simple low res graphics; this is an absolutely great game. I love the mix of overworld exploration and turn based dungeon crawling. I'm pretty sporadic with my gaming sessions and this is a great title for both big sessions and 15 minute tea breaks alike. Thanks to text_garden on tildes.net forums for the recommendation, without which I never would have found this gem (the thread I found via websearch looking for hidden gems from the summer sale, I'm not a member/associated with the aforementioned website). PS for linux playing, while apparently it is natively supported I had to enable proton compatibility to actually play it which has been solid.