Beastmancer

I want to recommend this game because I think the fact that one single guy made it is amazing, but there are far too many shortcomings. If there were a neutral I would pick that. The description promises unique skills for monsters, but unfortunately the skills are all pretty similar and there aren’t many in the game. There is zero motivation to level up monsters, but rather just get new ones in each area, and once you get to the legendary monster point in the game you are overpowered and can just run to end game. There is a lot of grinding and the game plays very slow, and I don’t mind this if the rewards are there but they just aren’t. The maps are boring and its’ basically the same 5-10 monster models running around in circles across all of them, one in each area that may or may not reflect the battle itself. Good loot is hard to come by. The dialogue is excruciatingly slow and cannot be skipped. There are just a ton of improvements that could have been made. It’s not a bad game, but I can’t say it’s good. I’d go for something else.

---{Gameplay}--- 🔳Try not to get addicted ☑️Very good 🔳Good 🔳Nothing special 🔳Ehh 🔳Bad 🔳Just dont ---{Graphics}--- 🔳Masterpiece 🔳Beautiful ☑️Good 🔳Decent 🔳Will do 🔳Bad 🔳Awful 🔳Paint.exe ---{Audio}--- 🔳Fascinating 🔳Very good 🔳Good 🔳Decent ☑️Not too bad 🔳Bad 🔳Earrape ---{Audience}--- 🔳Kids ☑️Teens ☑️Adults ☑️Everyone ---{PC Requirements}--- 🔳Check if you can run paint ☑️Potato ☑️Decent 🔳Fast 🔳Rich boi 🔳Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Story}--- 🔳Doesn't have 🔳Something isn't nothing, I guess 🔳Not greatly told ☑️Average 🔳Good 🔳Will make you cry a lot ---{Playstyle}--- 🔳Almost never the same in any two people ☑️Varies a little bit from person to person 🔳Weapon AND character classes 🔳Weapon OR character classes 🔳Creative AND Survival 🔳Creative OR Survival ☑️Melee AND Ranged 🔳Melee OR Ranged ---{Difficulty}--- 🔳Just press a bunch of buttons ☑️Easy ☑️Significant brain usage 🔳Easy to learn / Hard to master 🔳Not so easy 🔳Difficult 🔳Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- 🔳Nothing 🔳Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks ☑️Isn't necessary to progress ☑️A bit grindy sometimes 🔳Average grind level 🔳A bit grindy 🔳Insanity ---{Game Time}--- 🔳Long enough for a cup of tea ☑️Short ☑️Average 🔳Long 🔳Depends on you 🔳Endless ---{Price}--- 🔳Just buy it ☑️Worth the price 🔳Wait for sale 🔳Maybe if you have some spare money left 🔳Not recommended 🔳Don't throw money into a rubbish bin 🔳Can't beat free ---{Micro-Transactions}--- 🔳EA 🔳Mobile Game(Necessary if you don’t want to wait 15 weeks to construct a toaster) 🔳”Premium” Currency AND Normal Currency 🔳”Premium” Currency OR Normal Currency 🔳Quick way to advance 🔳Fortnite(Skins/Emotes/Etc) 🔳Only to show off big time 🔳Level DLC ☑️None ---{Bugs/Glitches}--- 🔳Never had any ☑️Minor bugs/glitches 🔳Few bugs/glitches 🔳Can get annoying 🔳Ruining the game 🔳The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs/glitches ---{?/10}--- 🔳1 🔳2 🔳3 🔳4 🔳5 ☑️6 🔳7 🔳8 🔳9 🔳10 This game has a lot of potential in many ways. As it stands right now, it is worth the $10, but not much more. The gameplay is fun! It's really kind of my weakness. Monster collector, grid-based combat, and an interesting story. There are really only three major downfalls. 1) This game is pretty short. I have 22 hours in it, I got all the achievements in two plays through, and I even did some significant grinding the first run through since I turned on perma-death mode. I didn't want to lose any of my monsters! This leads directly into the next downfall. 2) There is very little replayability. I've done my two runs, now I feel like this game will sit in my library indefinitely. It's a bummer, because I really would love to play more. Maybe a sequel? Please? And 3) Once the game is over, it's over. You get the best monsters toward the end of the game, and you start to feel really powerful, then BAM! Game's over. You don't get to play with those monsters anymore. I would love to see a sequel that solves these issues: longer story, more reasons to play multiple times, and post-game play. With that being said, this is definitely worth the price, and if you can catch it on sale, that's an even better reason to pick it up.