Siralim 2

I like it a lot. Good entry into the series. Better than the first game, and this game also has some advantages over Siralim Ultimate.

Just like with the first game, whoever decided on the walking speed should be fired.

Siralim 2 has deep customization to appeal to different play styles, a ton of content, and is easy to learn. To complete all the content requires quite a bit of grinding, but if you just want to complete the main quest the game is more manageable and still fun. Siralim 2 is a beautiful gem of a game and worth the price.

Siralim 2 is a creature collector dungeon crawler roguelite, like the first game but with a bit more direction. Instead of aimless dungeon diving, you get a boss fight every 5 or so levels with a bit of story, like about as much of a story Borderlands 1 had, but that enough to keep me interest till the need to power griding appears. The UI is improved, Getting monsters no longer need 3 cores, but just one. Every shop/person of interest is on one floor, easy to find. In my 7 hours of playing, I seen way more creatures then my 7 hours of the first game. Greatly improvement of the original. Hope the third game continues that.

For the Monster Collecting genre fan who is also a diehard completionist, Siralim yet again delivers an amazing experience.

Siralim 2 is a turn-based, party-based game which boasts immense diversity in pretty much everything it does. There is also a strong breeding component furthering the collection mechanic. There is a short campaign, but for the most part it seems designed to facilitate near-endless play. Diversity may be found in creatures (same creatures in your 6-man army as well as your foes), artifacts (each creature may hold one), spell gems (each creature may hold one), main character development and on, and on. Pros: [list] [*] Great flexibility in everything. You can build things just they way you want (eventually). The way the core systems interact is very nice. [*] Mechanism by which you level-up your character is interesting (you need to do favors for gods, which amounts to basically interacting with objects/winning fights.) [*] Team building is fun, though initially you are greatly restricted by the creatures you have access to. [*] There is lots do to outside of combat (crafting, breeding, leveling up artifacts, tinker with spell gems, leveling up your main character). [/list] YMMV: [list] [*] There is no structure in what you are supposed to do. By the time the very short main campaign has been completed, you have barely scratched the surface of things you can collect/upgrade/accomplish. After a while, you feel you are like playing just to play, with no real goal in mind. This may be fine for some, but this lack of purpose is what ultimately led me to quit. [/list] Cons: [list] [*] Core fighting experience starts out nicely, but ultimately becomes trivial. Soon you are fighting just to grind. You want the fights to be over as fast as possible (a design element the game seems to encourage), to level up, to collect more, to increase your favor with gods and so forth. Lost in this is the fact that the grinding grows old at some point. Most fights are over before they begin by equipping gems which activate at the start of the fight. [*] No support for mouse. [*] You are limited in your ability to breed by "Power Level". I actually kind of like this system, but it is too restrictive in its implementation. [*] Any need for deeper strategy and tactics may be overcome by simply breeding what seem to be exponentially stronger characters, as a function of their "gene strength". [*] The main action takes place in "realms". There are plenty of diverse objects to interact with in the 15 different realms (each led by the a different god). However, for the most part, this interaction is nothing more than bumping into the object and possibly then bumping into another object. [/list] Siralim 2 is a wonderful world with lots to do. I was engaged for a great many hours. Unfortunately, I was found with no purpose to continue playing beyond collection once I finished the somewhat short campaign. I grew bored of the combat and wasn't compelled to catch 'em all. That said, if you are remotely interested in party-based, turn-based games combined with collection, then Siralim 2 is for you. I got it for like 3 bucks and at that price it is a steal. As an aside, it seems Siralim 3 is much more of the same, so I probably won't be picking that up. My guess is that Siralim 3 is better than Siralim 2, so if you are new to the series you may wish to just start at Siralim 3. Overall: 7.5 / 10