Star Renegades

TLDR; I think it has a great loop even though personally it takes too long for a run to finish. I spent way too much time playing this game. I stopped close to achieving the true end a few months ago and finally jumped back in to close the chapter once and for all. I got very disappointed with the ending and felt happy that I am free instead. I did not try the harder difficulties because it effectively nerfs a disable mechanic, and I do not want to waste half a day just losing the run. I have unlocked most of everything important by the 4th or 5th run because the base progression is not very useful, equipment unlocks add unnecessary clutter to RNG while you can unlock 1 or 2 characters per run. In the beginning you will unlock some of them as you recruit them but later on it becomes a relationship meter mechanic, essentially offspring and variations. In order to do that, sometimes you have to use characters that are pretty useless until you get the appropriate equipment. As with any game of this genre, there is a meta and it is often empowered even further by RNG equipment drops. One of the characters can essentially grant everyone immortality while healing to full after e…

Good visual and unique art style, awesome music and cool SFX, fun dialogues and lot of humor. To hard to play, as for me.

great game only played 3hrs but loving it

Overall: 5/5 start Really good story driven turn based roughlite game. Good graphics, sound and playability. Gameplay: You start off with you in the party and pick up more characters along the way. Unlock a few hidden ones as well. Characters have an affinity mechanic between them, so as you camp you can spend points to level those which in turn gives you more combos and hidden bonuses. There are a variety of upgrades, weapons and accessories you can equip to give your character more powers and abilities. The gameplay is very linear but suits this game story and type very well. You do have some choice in terms of how and which battles you approach, so its not entirely liner. The battles are turn based, which means you have to plan ahead and make sure your character abilities work well with each other and execute combos where possible. The battle systems are easy enough to understand and menus are well designed and dont confuse. The enemies are varied and its fun to have a roster of enemies you kill as they get eliminated from a sorta world enemy gallery. I havent died in the game yet, but I believe you just end up repeating the run. Much like fight, die, rinse, repeat but …

Just a good Roguelike

In the first hours, Star Renegades has managed to do everything poorly. The dialogue is repulsively horrible and intensely frequent. The tutorial is one wall of text after another. I subtly object to their use of the word "crit" to mean anything that hits the enemy before their action; that's just weird, relative to how any other game ever made featuring fantasy combat would use this word and this would have been a perfect place to use some fabricated sci-fi jargon, since they insist on referencing "zub zub" creatures *and their excrement* in the first few minutes. The camera is headache-inducing, as it abruptly zooms in on the action (that could have been seen very clearly from where it was) and needlessly bobs as if being held by an unseen character when idle. I moved around the map, which isn't any different than a series of nodes with a reward and/or enemy at each location, and the passage sealed itself behind me before I had interacted with the reward at that location. Why? Why would I not be able to retrace my steps? No time passed, no enemy was chasing or responsible for it being cut off. It's absolute nonsense. Furthermore, every landmark I interacted with did *…