The Sand Dunes

The Sand Dunes is a third person brawler with a supernatural/magic spell theme as you use a complex array of spells alternative fire modes to kill a variety of enemies, choosing the right spells to get past the resistances of the various enemies. Environments are fairly simple, sometimes minimalist/low poly. There's also third person 3D platformer gameplay required to negotiate some levels. This seems very much like a genuine indie/amateur game rather than an asset flip or a cash grab. Significant thought has gone into the different spells/weapons and secondary effects. The technical implementation is quite good for what it is, gameplay is fairly smooth and comes across generally well polished for an indie/amateur game. While somewhat spartan, the visuals are also very good for an indie/amateur game. I'm a little on the fence on this one because it is free and it's a genuinely developed game, but I also found some elements of the gameplay to be more frustrating than fun, for example, you need to switch between abilities and spam secondary fire modes at the same time just to get through the tutorial level. This is only fun insofar as having a migraine is fun, and that's …

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Could be fun for someone, but the difficulty is just too tight for me even at the tutorial level. Problems with UI is something I understood since it's rather difficult to make industry standard UI. Though the one thing I wish you change is the text color. Even with black outline, the bluish still not much in contrast and hurtful to my eyes when looking at them. The concept of the game is quite good considering it's similar to a certain big name game. So might need to simplify the gameplay a bit more along with difficulty adjusting and give players some leeway in defense, for example increase the shield duration to have more protection time. I have to be honest with my feeling that I couldn't recommend this game to anyone at this stage. I hope you continued to work on better games, and good luck on your journey.

[h1]Before I played The Sand Dunes, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

i only got to the first area. you can equip up to 6 spells and in the tutorial you are given 4. each spell has 3 abilities, 2 of which have long cooldowns. the third ability gives a passive effect and has the longest cooldown, at least out of those 4 spells. the game isn't easy and there's too many things to keep track of. the first level is mostly just plain red with some valleys. you can double jump extremely high, making the terrain pointless