Monster Alchemy

One of the best creature collector games on steam, by far. Not THE best, but one of. I cannot believe this is only early access, as I only encountered very minor bugs during my playthrough and there is SO much content. Overall rating: 8.5/10 Pros: - Large, sprawling maps with different interactable environments and small puzzles. - Super in-depth creature summoning/ variety, cross-breeding (flawed, I will explain later), and decent rarity mechanics. - Well thought out crafting, non-boring resource mining. - Variation to gameplay mechanics. - The balancing is perfect, in my opinion. Mid: - Cross-breeding has many "secret" variations. However, these secret variations must either be found out through scrolls, word of mouth, or testing them... One by one. At first I was doing that, testing them, but then I had so many creatures that it was too much of a chore. So I would recommend streamlining this process more, it's just too time consuming even if it does add a mystery factor. - The music is boring and does not enrich the experience much. - The pixelated graphics are a downgrade from the detailed 3d renders in some of its competitors. Cons: - In a few situations, the exit was blocked and I couldn't progress due to not meeting the requirements of the resource to mine, so I had to just let the enemies finish off my character so I could respawn. - Maze-like navigation is a little too frequent, and sometimes I'm finding myself wishing the environments were more open. - There is a story and NPC dialog, but there's no player agency, the story is mediocre, the character dialog is not charismatic or very funny, and there's not much coherence. I would recommend redoing all of the dialog in a better, more charming way. Bugs: - When mining resources, companions will sometimes run off to the middle of nowhere to mine something you didn't ask it to. Concluding remarks: The game has very good bones, and a good bit of meat on it too. I outlined many ways in which the game could be improved, but I'm overall satisfied with the current direction of it. One more thing I would probably add is "unexpected" crossbreeding, so that you may get a surprise result on rare occasions. Additionally, it would be nice to add minmax features, such as a skill tree, consumable boons, or equipment boons - but understandably, that would require adjustment seeing as how the game is currently at a perfect balance. Anyways, recommend buying this game if you like creature collectors.

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It is a cute game don't get me wrong, love the pixel art and the unique fusions for each of the monsters... but honestly I just think its slow and not worth 20 dollars for the content that is right now in the game. There really needs to be more here which sucks since this game looked very interesting at first.

[h1]《怪物炼金术》游戏测评[/h1] [hr][/hr] 游戏画风非常好看，像素画风加上光影系统有着不错的表现，配合轻快的BGM使得游戏氛围感十足。 游戏开场简单交代了游戏背景，因为前任炼金师不知去向，所以让主角前来调查，随后就是经典的三选一宝可梦开局。在选取了伙伴后我们根据指引前往了炼金塔，并且第一次体验了游戏最核心的玩法“炼金术” [hr][/hr] 炼金术花样百变，通过不同素材的组合搭配来试着召唤出不同的怪物。当然素材也可以用炼金术制作。并且你可以把两种怪物融合成一个，是不是有小时候玩赛尔号融合精灵的感觉了？（融合会变成一级注意） [hr][/hr] 在完成了最基础的新手教程后便可以自由探索世界，游戏地图是3D加2D的设计，并且有昼夜循环系统，以炼金塔为传送点，在地图上收集资源、道具，以及与NPC触发剧情。 游戏的资源需要使用你的怪物来收集（帕鲁这个苦），并且不同的资源需要拥有对应属性的怪物，同时也可以用于开路，当然有属性肯定也有属性克制这种东西。 [hr][/hr] 战斗则是类似宝可梦的回合制战斗，合理应用属性克制来击败对手。就算战败也没关系，只是会送回塔内，大胆的去挑战吧（不能通过战斗来捕捉怪物，怪物只能通过合成获得） 在地图上可能还会有地域的大门，进入后是类似以撒的玩法，探索不同的房间，需要找到钥匙前往下一层，直到通过地域。 [hr][/hr] 目前游戏的主线尚不明确，简单来说就是有一个叫做正教团的组织，他们敌视炼金师，前代炼金师的失踪可能就与他们有关，并且刚遇见主角就抢走了他身上的神器，目前来看是游戏的大反派。 [hr][/hr] 以目前的内容来说，游戏鼓励玩家不断试错，去合成去试错去开盲盒，一个厉害的怪物能让游戏难度下降一大截，也鼓励玩家去探图，在地图的各个角落都有宝箱和配方，这两部分应该就是日后的主要玩法。 [hr][/hr] 当然夸了这么多并不代表本游戏已经十分完善了，作为还在测试中的游戏还有许多地方需要优化，下面来说说我在游玩中遇到的不好体验。 [hr][/hr] 首先是合成的自由度其实没想象中的高，前期啥东西都没有，所以开荒的时候只能跑图收集道具，资源获取方式不够清楚，有些常用资源玩了好一会还是不知道从哪里获得，地图上的怪物看见你就会追，并且能追很长一段路速度也不慢，跑图的时候会很烦。不过本游戏现在还在更新中，相信制作组能优化和增加游戏玩法。 总得来说这是一部美术出色，玩法多样，潜力无限的游戏，独特的画风加上炼金术世界观打造了这款游戏特有的韵味，但是目前确实内容较少，感兴趣的玩家可以等官方的更新路线实装后再来试试，相信不会让你失望。 [quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45932802/]欢迎加入: 小红瓶游戏评鉴组[/url] 关注小红瓶，回血在当下[/quote]

A wonderfull combination of diffrent mechanics with a gorgeous pixelart 2.5 Artstyle. A very good balancing of mechanics and gameplay with fitting difficulty. It`s fun to try and find the recepies by yourself before you can find them in the world or buy them from the cities. The music is a bit to repetitive for my taste but it is early access and so far the dev did a great job. Keep it up please :3

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