Marine Quest

My friend who I play Counter Strike with said if I post a review on Marine Quest and it gets 100 likes and 20 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 4060. So im just gonna leave this here. Help me bro

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"Marine Quest" is an extremely badly made Java game (don't laugh, this was really done in Java... ok... laugh a little, it is funny). So being made with Java the quality is godawful. It's a clunky turn based "RPG"-lite with an underwater pixel theme and all the qualitiies of a failed 1990's browser game. Whew. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the ga…

This feels very incomplete. I think that is about the nicest thing to say in favor of this game. If you're looking for what not to do then this should be referenced heavily. No story or guide/tutorial. Can't select enemies so if you're going to lose then you just have to wait it out because there is no escape option. Automatically forces full screen and has no visible exit game option, so pulling open the task manager to force it seemed to be about the only choice. You do eventually get an enemy you can defeat but as others have stated the buttons are far less user friendly than they should be. There is no victory readout so tracking your exp and money earned is done by checking the stats page. With as expensive as the first upgrade is though you've likely run across an undefeatable enemy or two. I will say at level 2 you can defeat everything in the starting zone by using the correct order of attacks. That begs the question of how does one progress to the next stage though as there is no obvious counter like get to x level or defeat this many enemies etc. I can't speak to if it saves correctly because I will not be loading this again to see if it did save. Anyone that runs across …

2/10 TBS/RPG with underwater fights vs fish TLDR: the main problem is not even the stub gfx but the glitched buttons which rarely react to clicks Good: + free + fine music tracks (though it's only a couple of them here, and they get repetitive) So-so: +/- you have a melee attack and 3 different spells. Though there are no tooltips to see their effects, only the mana cost Bad: - terrible UI. And not just the huge buttons with ugly pixelated font... These buttons simply rarely register clicks. Maybe it's my 4x monitor for which the game was designed? Though I tested clicking in different sub-areas of the buttons, and the chance of them reacting was equally low everywhere. Maybe the game just processes clicks incorrectly Ironically, the banner on Steam is the best thing about this game. Microsoft CoPilot is good at generating pixel graphics. [table][tr][th][i]I'm a Steam curator, you can [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43946907-Friendly-Nerd/]follow me[/url][/i][/th][/tr][/table]