Eremidia - Archivist's Curse

Eremidia - Archivist's Curse is a free tactical role-playing game that combines traditional fantasy adventuring with a chess-inspired approach to combat and party management. Developed by Crescent Sun and published by YSY Softworks, it takes place within the mysterious Great Library, where the player becomes involved in the dangerous Hall of Pawnsmoor and the unusual games of its Chessmaster. Rather than presenting chess merely as a visual theme, the game incorporates ideas of pieces, positioning, tactical movement, and carefully constructed teams into its progression. This gives the adventure a recognizable identity despite its deliberately traditional 2D RPG presentation. The central objective revolves around surviving the Great Library's challenges while gathering companions capable of helping the player escape. Exploration is therefore closely connected to character progression. Venturing through areas such as the Dark Alley can lead to new allies, equipment, resources, encounters, and information concerning Pawnsmoor itself. This makes exploration more rewarding than simply walking between mandatory battles. Searching thoroughly can improve the player's tactical possibilities…

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Doesn't work properly on Linux machine :( Lags like it's a AAA game on max settings :( I give up :(

For something free this is worth your time.

Eremidia is a completely-free gacha-esque roguelite-ish JRPG with pseudo-tactical combat. That description probably stands on its own, but I guess I'll elaborate anyway. The basic structure of Eremedia has you exploring "bookshelves" in a grand library in a node based fashion, like a somewhat less-restrictive Slay the Spire. You can encounter enemies, treasure chests, random events, and mini-bosses on each floor. At the end of each floor, you'll usually find a new party member to recruit (up to 75 in total) and a new artifact to craft. After a floor, you return to the library, heal up, change up your equipment and party members, and go back to it. When you feel ready, you can try to take on the main goal of the game -- defeating the Chessmaster's challenges. And that's it. There's really not much of a story here, you're just grinding and beating challenges until they are all done. Luckily, the combat is quite fun. Allies and enemies each get their own 4 deep by 3 wide grid to fight from. Weapons and skills all have different ranges and AoEs, so positioning of allies and enemies is crucial. All of the characters I tried over my 20 hour play time were quite different from one anot…

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