Sculplings

I admire the creativity and the reading the description as well as how stupidly fun the game is. Keep up the good work, it is amazing.

this game is pretty great

"we love it so much heart we love you" "sculpings are hilllarious so much better than pokemon" "How did you make all of the sculpings out of clay tthaats so cool!!!" SINCERRELY Beeg Rainey & Beeg Marty (my kids) PS tyiuyluynuunoybhtgii8i88gg a 8ffn8ren8n8rcfb6bb (marty) PSS 6 7 (rainey)

Full of heart and good laughs. Lots of cute characters and great gameplay. Highly recommend!

I don't usually leave reviews, but then I saw this "Badly" Drawn Wizard. Honestly best wizard ever, gave me 1 stat point.

It's good! In an age where Steam games are ignoring the TOC and hiding undeclared AI use, Sculplings gets a ton of points for claymationing all of its assets. That isn't easy, and the resulting look is super charming. Sculplings' writing is similarly endearing, if you're not the type of person that it'll drive up a wall. It's hyper casual, whimsical, irreverent, but it's got some sauce. The tree evolution line having a choice between the moves "the axe forgets" and "the tree remembers" is maybe some of the best move naming in a pokemonlike, and a lot of Sculplings' mons have interesting niches or build options. I do think the roguelike format holds Sculplings back a little bit. If you simply crank the stats of your main mon and get decent coverage, you can usually sweep. On the flipside, some player moves do not feel balanced for enemies to have. The devil king's soul contract thing that deals 999 damage with seemingly no prereqs or downsides feels monotonous to deal with---you either have to outspeed and outdamage, or you have to chip it out and revive stall. In terms of progression, what Sculplings has is modest. It's not bad! But it didn't set its hooks into me and have me playing just one more run. Overall, if you like pokemon battling, I think you'll dig this. If you like all of the everything else in pokemon, it might feel a little bare. I do think this dev is worth supporting, though. This is a pretty incredible project for two people, and I'd love to see what they can make with more time and budget. Edit: I've messed around with some other starting pin comps, and Vampire + Absorb is sort of mandatory. HP recovery is too unreliable otherwise, and a lot of stat ramping strategies require a bit of an HP buffer. +1 stat at the end of each battle is sort of a runner up, since you can maximize value by starting a run with it, but even if you do it's still not quite good enough stat gain vs lucking out and getting it as an early drop. Also, a thing I have noticed is that move gains are semi random, and tend to repeat when you don't take a new move. So you don't have a clear, reliable build path for a given mon and you should never decline to learn a move because it will keep getting served to you otherwise. These are small gripes, but they do feel noticeable. 2nd Edit: The starter mon pool and first area mon pool should include all mons in the game. Otherwise you're really not going to experiment with other mons. Too much hassle and not enough ramp potential for the ones you pick up late. And as far as starters go, there's a *lot* of trap choices. I think the best pick is unambiguously the shyguy, b/c you can get magic attack ramping by the second half of the run and pair that with a multiattack, but I haven't really found a path to viability in the movesets of anything else. If you can cheese your stats it doesn't super matter, but you're better off making your ace a fully evolved stumpy if you get the egg yolk or bug. 3rd Edit: Badges increasing in cost as they rank up makes them kinda unuseable. They're worth the one point cost by the time they've been upgraded a few times, but they're never worth more than a point. Four points for like 4% poison chance and a rat is highway robbery compared to getting vampirism or stat gain or whatever. 4th Edit: Ehhhh I'm not grinding out beating King. It's pretty luck based, in that you need a ramping move or artifact early. If you don't have a mon that can statstick him, then he needs to not steal all your revives, or spam the team damage move on his 400 hp dragon, and his attacks need to miss sometimes when you've accuracy debuffed him, etc. It's better to just scrub runs until you get a workable start, and the game's not quite fun enough for that to be worth the timesink. I do think the rest of my play experience has been good, though! My complaints are all small, because on average the game is done really right. I'd love to check out what the devs do next.