Void Monsters: Spring City Tales
Mykel Flynn · 2018 · Indie, Adventure, RPG, Strategy, Open World
PC
Mostly Positive71% · 52
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About Void Monsters: Spring City Tales
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Hoping to escape your destiny as a monster trainer you left the home of your famous parents to find your own way in the world.
Within two years of leaving home your parents had been murdered and now you've been called back to inherit their failing farm.
With the farm heavily in debt to the bank, and with a burning desire to find and kill your parents' murderer the only option is to take up the mantle of monster trainer and the destiny you tried so hard to escape.
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Spring City Tales is set in The Prosperous Freehold: an area consisting of three distinct biomes. Spring City and the Marshland, the deserts of Blackroot, and the frozen wastes of Leskova. From the game's outset you can set off along your own path, exploring the world as you see fit.
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In a shadow-world parallel to The Freehold, live the Void-Monsters. These creatures can be dangerous but are kept in check by both the Rune Temples and monster trainers. As a monster trainer you can collect runes to summon these monsters from beyond the void, train them up, and get them to fight for you! There are nearly a hundred known monsters with more being discovered every day!
In The Freehold there are two financial powers. The Bank and The Purchasing Guild. The Bank loans money to many of the families that live their while The Purchasing Guild buys locally crafted items to export. Helping Kat, paying off loans, and supporting causes will improve the local economy, which in turn increases the payout for selling items to the Purchasing Guild. However it will also increase interest rates, making both your loans, and other Kats harder to pay off. Theft, violence, and general skuldugery will weaken the local economy, having the opposite effect!
Once the Kat have gone to bed, out come the thieves! By crafting thief tools you can choose to break into any house, warehouse, or shop and steal from them. Sometimes this may be for a quest or perhaps you are just looking for some extra gold. So long as you stay quiet you can make a lot of extra gold, but should you make too much noise the guards will come and you could end up spending your valuable time in prison!
There are thirteen unique crafting skills each with their own levelling system. Craft yogurts, cheeses, armours, bows, axes, weapon components, tonics, potions, thief tools, fairy eggs, magical gems, glass items, oils, and more! Grow crops and forage monsters for ingredients. Become an expert in a single field and make thousands of gold!
As the child of famous monster trainers your return has excited many people. Each morning you will get a visit from the postman bringing quests of all sorts: everything from the mundane worries of local Kat, monster hunts, thievery requests, begging letters, and quests so fantastical they will take you into strange and magical realms. There is also the matter of finding you parents' killer and avenging their death! Of course, all quests are non compulsory!
Hoping to escape your destiny as a monster trainer you left the home of your famous parents to find your own way in the world.
Within two years of leaving home your parents had been murdered and now you've been called back to inherit their failing farm.
With the farm heavily in debt to the bank, and with a burning desire to find and kill your parents' murderer the only option is to take up the mantle of monster trainer and the destiny you tried so hard to escape.
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Features:
- A huge open world to explore.
- Nearly 100 unique monsters to collect, train, and evolve.
- Choose from 10 playable characters.
- A dynamic economy influenced by your choices.
- Break into, and steal from, any house, shop, or warehouse.
- A massive crafting system with hundreds of craftable items.
- Hundreds of quests including an immense main storyline.
- Multiple ways to proceed and complete the game.
- 40 hours of scripted gameplay and the chance to play on indefinitely!
- A battle arena to challenge other monster trainers.
- Breed goats on your farm for milk, to craft battle cheeses and magical yogurts.
- An advanced weapon and armour socketing system.
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Open World
Spring City Tales is set in The Prosperous Freehold: an area consisting of three distinct biomes. Spring City and the Marshland, the deserts of Blackroot, and the frozen wastes of Leskova. From the game's outset you can set off along your own path, exploring the world as you see fit.
Collectable Monsters
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In a shadow-world parallel to The Freehold, live the Void-Monsters. These creatures can be dangerous but are kept in check by both the Rune Temples and monster trainers. As a monster trainer you can collect runes to summon these monsters from beyond the void, train them up, and get them to fight for you! There are nearly a hundred known monsters with more being discovered every day!
Dynamic Economy
In The Freehold there are two financial powers. The Bank and The Purchasing Guild. The Bank loans money to many of the families that live their while The Purchasing Guild buys locally crafted items to export. Helping Kat, paying off loans, and supporting causes will improve the local economy, which in turn increases the payout for selling items to the Purchasing Guild. However it will also increase interest rates, making both your loans, and other Kats harder to pay off. Theft, violence, and general skuldugery will weaken the local economy, having the opposite effect!
Thievery
Once the Kat have gone to bed, out come the thieves! By crafting thief tools you can choose to break into any house, warehouse, or shop and steal from them. Sometimes this may be for a quest or perhaps you are just looking for some extra gold. So long as you stay quiet you can make a lot of extra gold, but should you make too much noise the guards will come and you could end up spending your valuable time in prison!
Crafting
There are thirteen unique crafting skills each with their own levelling system. Craft yogurts, cheeses, armours, bows, axes, weapon components, tonics, potions, thief tools, fairy eggs, magical gems, glass items, oils, and more! Grow crops and forage monsters for ingredients. Become an expert in a single field and make thousands of gold!
Questing
As the child of famous monster trainers your return has excited many people. Each morning you will get a visit from the postman bringing quests of all sorts: everything from the mundane worries of local Kat, monster hunts, thievery requests, begging letters, and quests so fantastical they will take you into strange and magical realms. There is also the matter of finding you parents' killer and avenging their death! Of course, all quests are non compulsory!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the pixel art aesthetic, JRPG-style gameplay, and varied activities like farming, crafting, and quests that create a sense of exploration and progression. However, the game suffers from significant technical issues including bugs that can break quests, frequent crashes, tedious mechanics like excessive lockpicking and high random encounter rates, and grindy leveling systems that frustrate long-term play, making regular saves essential to avoid losing progress.
If you like pixel art / JRPG style games, this one is pretty great considering everything. I wanted to review some RPG Maker games and this one is amazing. Just make sure to save your game often, and if something totally breaks, reload it. PROS: - Lots of 'Stardew Valley' -like mini quests - Farming, but not intense like a farming game, crops grow magically in an instant - Lots of crafting and its needed to upgrade / pay off bank loans, also its easy to do not super difficult - Interesting plot initially, and different areas to explore, world feels large and mysterious / dangerous for a pixel art game - Overall visuals are appealing for this pixel art aesthetic (I like pixel art games) - Combat is normally boring in classical JRPG, this one makes it challenging so it's not too plain of combat CONS: - Some bugs, some lack of polish, didn't see any critical failures - Lots of encounters when you go into active encounter areas, will see lots of combat - Combat scales where ever you go, it's a time saver for fighting things your level, but 'easy' areas become more difficult as you progress1 found this helpful
Is a game where monster trainer who is a furry on quest for revenge1 found this helpful
I'm sorry but I just don't like this game It throws all this stuff in your face like job classes and tutorials, not to mention the few monsters in the game are so lame
seams fun but with 7 games and not 1 of them valued over $1.50 well, it says a lot about the developer and their skills.
This game has a lot of issues. It lacks polish. There are quite a few bugs, some preventing you from finishing quests, some places you'll get stuck, some areas/screens never get dark at night, some monsters are unobtainable... Too many chests to lockpick, the minigame gets old after a few dozen times. The rate of random encounters is high, you fight between 1 and 5 enemies and the chance of fleeing feels like 33%, resulting in sometimes having to try 4-5 times before succeeding and having to wait for all the ennemy attacks in between. It gets really annoying after 10-20h. Leveling up the monsters is long and grindy, crafting is nice but has a % chance to suceed (as low as 5%) which is just a waste of time in the end because you'll be reloading until it works anyway. I found a good chunk of the monsters to be ugly and the combat lacking depth and sufficient different animations. The game has a prominent lack of quality of life and visibility of information. There is no minimap and the area maps are items within a very long list of possessions without shortcuts, the inventory is a mess. No bestiary. You don't see enemy life bars nor their type, nor if damage is efficient... I dislike…
Really enjoying the game and like the concept, there is a few bugs the need tidying as the game will freeze every now and then so save often.
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