Dark Side of Fate

RPG Maker strikes again! Dark Side of Fate 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. 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. It's a painfully generic bare bones RPG (sold as an "quest" game to make u…

Dark Side of Fate is a modest 2D action-adventure that blends exploration, combat, survival-inspired mechanics, hunting, crafting, and character progression into a compact experience. Developed by LTZinc and published by Conglomerate 5, it follows Noah, a forester whose seemingly ordinary existence becomes considerably more dangerous when he is forced to confront an ancient evil. The premise provides a simple foundation for an adventure that prioritizes gameplay activities and gradual progression over elaborate storytelling or cinematic presentation. A major part of the appeal comes from the freedom given to the player. Rather than constantly directing Noah through a rigid sequence of story events, the game allows exploration and optional activities to become important parts of progression. Different locations can be investigated while quests, encounters, resource gathering, and hunting provide reasons to continue traveling through the world. This structure works particularly well for players who enjoy setting their own short-term objectives instead of being guided from one scripted sequence to another. Combat introduces danger into what might otherwise have been a relaxed explor…

rip of zelda

not even worth 99c. Atari 2600 games play better than this. Almost looks like it's a failed project. Fighting is poor, no story line and direction.

Pure garbage. The combat plays like trash. If you want an action RPG of this kind, go get Ys I and II Chronicles.

clunky controls, no tutorial, no real story, just go from screen to screen and kill stuff. not the finest 2D rpg game. even for this low price i can't recommed