Luctus

It is an extremely short action-adventure side-scroller with some. The story is a basic coping with loss story, nothing new. Music is great, but the rest is just.... Fights are looking complex, but I mostly used fireballs and slides. It was fun at first, then just boring. My main problem is the price. For a 1-1,5 hour long game with no replayability, asking 10€ is too much. The game should be 5€ top. There are free-to-play indie games with similar or longer gameplay. 6/10. Thumbs up because it is a first-time developer's game and to show some support, but I can't really recommend it.

Congrats to developers. Musics and art were great.

storytelling and combat mechanics are surprisingly well balanced

Recommended. A compact two-to-three-hour 2D action-adventure with genuinely excellent pixel art, a duality-driven melancholy fantasy plot, and stance combat that rewards deflection, judged fairly on its own short terms. The two-stance system (melee and ranged with parry immunity, dash frames, and killing archers with their own arrows) is genuinely fun, the meditation heal is forgiving, and the rune-cipher puzzle, shifting syllables across a table the player must actually decode, is a rare stroke of literacy-as-mechanic. The falling-ceiling platforming chase after the second boss restarts entirely on any miss, the right-trigger heavy attack's enormous wind-up makes it near-unusable, and the skill tree nearly maxes out two bosses in. Occasional input-eating freezes need a menu restart. None of it sinks a handsome, bittersweet short.

Luctus is a 2D pixel platformer with hand-drawn cutscenes, telling the story of Nora, a fire mage who embarks on a journey to bring her sister back to life. The game creates a melancholic atmosphere, but the story is fairly short — it takes about 1.5 hours to complete. There is not much content: just four bosses, two puzzles, and one escape level. If the puzzles seem difficult, the developer included hints to help you progress. Nora’s main weapons are a fireball for ranged attacks and a fire lasso for melee attacks. She also gains new abilities as you progress in the story. Killing enemies and bosses gives upgrade fragments and potions, but the drop system has a problem. In two playthroughs, I couldnt get enough items for the “Drink 10 potions” achievement because always fewer than ten potions dropped in total. Overall, the game leaves a more positive than negative impression. It’s worth trying on sale, especially if you enjoy short pixel platformers. Follow Curator : [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/44793303-The-games-that-I%2527ve-played/] The games that i`ve played [/url]

I didn't like it much