Astra Hunter Zosma

Amazing! It's polished, it's fun, it has an excellent story, fun combat with a surprising amount of customization, and a collectathon aspect. And it's FREE?! Downloading this is a no-brainer.

Has a Zelda/Tower climb feel to it. Battles are fun and the puzzles are entertaining. The music won't get stuck in your head, but its decent. The writing isn't its strong poin, but it gets the job done. If I paid 10 USD for this I wouldn't have been disappointed. One of the best free games I've played.

Haven't finished yet but I wrote this to get people interested elsewhere and wanted to leave a positive review: This is from a dev I've seen games from before I had any access to Steam, so, easily forgot, but happened to recall now that I have a Steamdeck. As far as I know all their games are free and this one is relatively recent. The game: It's a pretty colorful and friendly 16-bit style game about a foolish treasure hunter who keeps searching the same old ruin over and over hoping to find something new until... It may be relatively simple but it's got its own ideas to make it stand out when it comes to battles, classes, and your little creature buddy you befriend. First, you chain moves together via ap to increase the power of the next attack. including items. You earn and equip multiple jobs for Zosma each giving him extra moves and options to chain together, some have to start the turn, others may end or have other rules, the weaker ones tend to generate a resource for the more powerful ones. Your little buddy acts automatically but can be customized via feeding and allocating skill points into what you want him to do, 0 zero skill points means he won't ever use it. Special team up attacks can be earned as great AOE finishers of a chain, but this can only be used once per battle. We also have decent options when it comes to difficulty; easy, normal, hard, an optional dungeon to be explored between chapters, and options to lock XP and money gain to avoid over leveling for those who want to maintain challenge. We also do some treasure hunting via small optional riddles, they are all fairly easy so far, but nonetheless satisfying. Overall as a free game I started on a whim it's been great and though I'm not finished if it keeps it up I'd easilly continue to recommend to fans of lighter RPGs.