Wishmere

One of the Early Access games I supported since day one. A gem of a brawler, totally recommended for anyone who loves the genre. There's a good choice of characters that each has their own sweet abilities/moves/combos which adds some freshness to the game. It also has replay value as well.

A brawler with a heart and brains. The combat that rewards you the more you put into it. I feel like you can really express your own style in this game. Pros: - characters with very different movesets - open-ended combat and combo system - good lore/story driven: if story is your kind of thing, there's character building in quotes and interactions when they win or lose, story mode is really fun. A lot of heart went into character lore - many types of modes to play with some stuff to unlock Cons: - controller recommended - going through the tutorial is a must: you can play out straight out the gate, but I'd recommend tutorial mode as it really teaches you what sort of game this is - some bosses are difficult (maybe too difficult) At first I played this game casually, but then when I brought this out to hang with friends this game became a competitive blast. This makes for a great party game and a versus game due to its versatility and drop-in-and-play factor.

Fun game. Pep seal of approval. FeelsGoodMan

good labbing game and VS game, not so much on the beat em up front imo

Game makes me wish Steam had a middling review option. Cool idea, decent execution, but unfortunately the game controls so badly that I cannot recommend it. It's not even a matter of tight execution, there are just horrible inconsistencies in move inputs. Any move requiring you to press two buttons simultaneously has a 50/50 chance of just performing one of those two buttons instead of the intended move, jump cancelling air normals has a similar level of randomness. It seems like the game expects you to hold buttons down rather than tapping them, as doing this makes these inputs much more consistent, but when trying to do a fast combo manually remembering to hold each button down for a second becomes incredibly annoying. If the horrible controls are fixed then I can recommend this game.

"Wishmere is a brawler-fighting game that gives you the power and creativity to fight your battles your way. " I tried this because of this claim. I'm not seeing it. What part of this gives me the 'way to fight my way'? Is it the 1% super meter gain I get per level only if in my very slow charging 'make this character at all functional' mode? Or the 3% super meter gain another character gets per level, except with no need to be in super mode, because ??? what the **** is balance? Or maybe the 'enemies deal less damage' the mage has, compared to the 'enemies deal less damage but with actual numbers and are also slowed' on the ninja. Which is also just a blatantly better version of another characters passive. Anyways, let's talk about meters. Game has a lot of them. - Health meter: you know this one - Guard meter: Used to block the maybe 1 enemy per screen who isn't stunlocked by mindless spam - Fate meter: used to cancel attacks hitting you and slow time - Edge meter: used to limit your 'edge' attacks; all in all an unfun, pace-killing addition that basically just means you can't press fun buttons until you stall long enough for it to let you - Super meter: Used for 2 attacks. …