Strange Seed

自分で好きな生物を作れるのはいいんだけど、戦闘の圧倒的つまらなさと無駄に広いマップ移動が単調すぎて無理。

looks like a ps1 game, runs like crap (I have a pretty good machine, I know a ♥♥♥♥-ton about graphics, this is not a skill issue) and is pretty much a tech-demo, not an actual video game

People will say this looks and plays like a terrible version of Spore, but they're only partially right. This is a love letter to E.V.O. Search for Eden on the SNES through and through. This is actually far more fun and balanced than EVO. Yes, this looks like it was made at a weekend gamejam with stock assets and a barely above minimum UI, but there is a wonderful beauty in the jank. The simplicity and smoothness of combat makes even deaths and restarts quick and simple. Bosses have checkpoints right before them. Places are only accessible if you explore thoroughly and with various body parts and sizes, and the world never feels empty or boring (ok, except the great plains, that's a whole lot of nothing). Is it worth $15? ehhhhh? It's beatable in a day, probably only a few hours if you don't spend hours trying to explore with suboptimal stats like I did, but it's got a lot of content to experience and quite a few challenges to overcome, with few of them being mandatory. But overall, yeah, it's real good. Also if you're intrigued, go find EVO somewhere, it's really good, just realize that it becomes a SLOG well before the end. As I said, this is far more streamlined.

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ok so no hate to the devs game is aight at best it is by no means great it is playable but there are so many better games to play that are like this. as a tip for you devs make the game less liniar and combat more interesting then just walk up bite and walk away add something like a dodge harder enemys and make combat faster then the upgrades feel meh make eachpart have more impact and are easyer to get like in spore as im gonna guess that was the main inspiration also the cartoony border really is just to much makes it feel like the game is ment for 2 year olds wich it might be but then atleast make a difficulty setting or something

If your a fan of Spore you will love this game as it takes the combat aspect of Spore and the combination of creature parts that help with stats and abilities!

needs to be more refined but kinda fun

Very jank there are a lot of spots where textures are incomplete or objects lack collision. That said I have really enjoyed it so far which is better than most games. The game is like if you played as John Carpenters The Thing It is alot like Cubivore or the 2nd/3rd stages of Spore. You kill. You eat. You evolve. You get better at killing obtain more forms to solve puzzles. The puzzles give you lore or more powers to play with.