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5 RPGs You Should WIshlist from Steam's Next Fest | One Good Roll | MMORPG.com

Although Steam's Next Fest is starting to wind down, you can start to hear the faint whistle of the hype train as it starts to gain speed. Here's 5 RPGs from Next Fest you need on your Wishlist!

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FuryV

Was about to be a negative Nancy and say they all look crap... Then I checked out Dark Envoy, and it looks really good! Just my type of game. Added it to my wishlist, thanks.

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Scot

Great selection of picks, a couple there I have had my eye on for a while, but I never wishlist until they launch, otherwise I would get terrible confused as to when I should be checking out a game to see if it is purchasing time.

cheyane

Darkest Dungeon 2 the UI does not explain some of the controls and I got caught right at the beginning trying to find out how to help the people on the road. I tried everything like shift, alt or click and I gave up. Then I went to read on Steam and it was click and hold. My god that was not something I would have figured out. Why not indicate somewhere how to confirm an action like that.

All the action combat ones I didn't even bother with.

Viper482

Installed Ravenbound

First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"

Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.

Uninstalled Ravenbound.

Slapshot1188

Tried Ethyrial but the movement is beyond horrendous. Really wanted to like this one because it sounds like a game I would like. I even gave it a second shot with friends but they immediately uninstalled due to the movement.


One game that did hook me was Kingdom of Atham. It's described as: A multiplayer RPG game with survival aspects set in a fantasy world that is continuously expanding in the Atham universe. Fight and survive in a cruel world, build your home, and dominate your enemies… or your friends!

It's rough for sure. Graphics and animation are what you would expect from a 2 man dev team doing it after their day jobs. But the game is FUN. We have our own server and turned off PvP but really are loving the crafting and building aspects. Big patch any day now which is going to force a wipe but we can't wait to dive back in. It's early access, and it shows, so if thats not your thing then just wait. That said, the developers are very active and friendly and the game seems to be updated regularly (its been 3 months since the last wipe but many patches in between). I think it was $13 on Steam sale.

PS: For whatever reason the Demo is very far behind the main game as far as build number. Not sure if that will change with this patch. Just something to keep in mind.

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Sovrath

Viper482 said:

Installed Ravenbound

First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"

Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.

Uninstalled Ravenbound.

Ravenbound works very well without a controller. It's fun, the combat is very smooth. Also, to add, Darkest Dungeon 2 is a no brainer for me, I played the hell out of the first one.

Tiller

I liked Inkbound and Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore

I also checked out:

I Am Future
Full Metal Sergeant
The Last Starship

amongst others

Seem to be decent games

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Mendel

One of the demos not listed in the article was Uncharted Waters: Origin.  I liked the original couple of versions and thought to have a look at this one.  Way too much cutsey-mobile-anime for my likes, and seemingly excessively linear, too.  I watched (not played) the demo for almost 15 minutes before it allowed me to make a decision.  (Pretty much a blind selection of 1 of 5 characters, with next to no information).  This one has been getting lots of 'p2w' and 'gatcha' comments on other venues.  It was even a hassle to Quit the program.  It was removed with great haste and dispatch.

Mendel

Darkest Dungeon II looked very good as did Infection Free Zone, a tactical zombie combat.

I have to admit, I *loved* the idea of Next Fest.  Anytime I can get hands on a game demo (especially one close to release), I can plan my budget a bit better.

Gilcroix

Viper482 said:

Installed Ravenbound




First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"




Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.




Uninstalled Ravenbound.

I did the same thing.

Rockinw311

Planet of Lana demo was cute and enjoyable

Morfo2

Remali said:

I have wishlisted dark envoy and ravenbound
The rest I dont care about

Same here.
The other games just don't feel like anything special.

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maskedweasel

Gilcroix said:

Viper482 said:

Installed Ravenbound




First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"




Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.




Uninstalled Ravenbound.

I did the same thing.

I tried it with both a controller and mouse and keyboard. I feel like mouse and keyboard is a little better tbh. But they only give you an hour to play so I maybe I wasn't used to the controller enough. 

Great game though. Ravenbound and Inkbound are definitely day 1 buys for me. 

Viper482

maskedweasel said:

Gilcroix said:

Viper482 said:

Installed Ravenbound







First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"







Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.







Uninstalled Ravenbound.

I did the same thing.

I tried it with both a controller and mouse and keyboard. I feel like mouse and keyboard is a little better tbh. But they only give you an hour to play so I maybe I wasn't used to the controller enough. 

Great game though. Ravenbound and Inkbound are definitely day 1 buys for me. 

Baffles me why they would go out of their way to literally put it plays best with a controller at the start lol.

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Sovrath

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Nah.

I will be grabbing the System Shock remake, though.

I actually backed this and from the initial tests they gave people it looks promising. Especially since I never played System Shock.

maskedweasel

Viper482 said:

maskedweasel said:

Gilcroix said:

Viper482 said:

Installed Ravenbound







First screen: "Ravenbound works best with a controller"







Second screen: Forced to create an account to play a single player game.







Uninstalled Ravenbound.

I did the same thing.

I tried it with both a controller and mouse and keyboard. I feel like mouse and keyboard is a little better tbh. But they only give you an hour to play so I maybe I wasn't used to the controller enough. 

Great game though. Ravenbound and Inkbound are definitely day 1 buys for me. 

Baffles me why they would go out of their way to literally put it plays best with a controller at the start lol.

Yeah IDK. I think maybe the controller is better for repetitive presses, like you're going to be dodging and blocking a lot, but the mouse and keyboard felt more responsive when dodging to me. It might have to do with the camera positioning feeling less clunky. With a controller you have to constantly swivel the camera, but the mouse when using the M&K kindof does that automatically. 

I will also say that the reason for the online requirements is cause they do have a dark souls element where you can see where people died with tombstones and I think you get rewards for picking up their headstones. I don't know if that's the only reason but that's the only thing I saw that would make sense. 

Quizzical

Mendel said:

One of the demos not listed in the article was Uncharted Waters: Origin.  I liked the original couple of versions and thought to have a look at this one.  Way too much cutsey-mobile-anime for my likes, and seemingly excessively linear, too.  I watched (not played) the demo for almost 15 minutes before it allowed me to make a decision.  (Pretty much a blind selection of 1 of 5 characters, with next to no information).  This one has been getting lots of 'p2w' and 'gatcha' comments on other venues.  It was even a hassle to Quit the program.  It was removed with great haste and dispatch.

For Uncharted Waters: Origin to even exist is a weird story.  It's a remake of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, which originally launched in 1993.  The original game was made by Koei, a Japanese company that makes incredibly complicated games.

UWO is made by Line Games, a Korean company.  Apparently the lead developer specifically wanted to remake UWNH because it was his favorite game from his childhood.  So he got a license to do exactly that from what is now Koei-Tecmo after a merger.  So the result is a Korean MMORPG that is a remake of a Japanese single-player RPG.

While UWNH was originally a console game that you had to play with a controller (because that's how you played SNES games), UWO is available both for mobile and PC.  The UI in the PC version seems to be significantly redesigned from mobile, as trying to use exactly the same UI on a cell phone would make a lot of things so small as to be unusable.  The PC version is launching several months after the mobile version did.  That it is also available on mobile means that it's not going to push modern gaming hardware very hard, but that's about it.

The game seeming very linear is because the tutorial is.  UWNH was a very complicated game (just like basically everything else that Koei made), and UWO adds a lot more complexity.  To drop new players into the game world without any tutorial would probably lead to most of them being completely confused and quitting almost immediately.  Even having played UWNH quite a lot and knowing that UWO is a remake of it, I was still worried about how hard it would be to pick up the game and figure out what to do.  I haven't finished the tutorial, but I'd be completely shocked if the game is at all linear after the end of the tutorial.

As for the business model, the Korean version originally had a gacha for admirals, but the developers took it out after feedback from the players.  As for "pay to win", my understanding is that if you're into endgame port flipping, that is pay to win.  And if you don't like that, then so long as you don't antagonize other nations to the point that they lock you out of their ports, you probably won't need to care about it.  Apparently the game has both PVP and PVE servers.  I'd expect that player PVP would be significantly pay to win, though I don't actually know that.

While I haven't finished the tutorial (the game will wipe at the end of the demo week), what I've seen so far looks good.  If you want a remake of UWNH, then UWO is about what you'd hope for.  Some music, characters, features, plots, and so forth are lifted directly from the original game in ways that you wouldn't for a sequel.  But there are a lot of new features, too.  The game tracking various AI fleets moving around as you play is now supplemented by tracking other players doing the same.  The old sprite graphics are replaced by more modern 3D graphics.

For what it's worth, the original game is also available on Steam, but only in Japanese.  The English translation is not available on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628170/Uncharted_Waters_II/

Sovrath

cheyane said:

Darkest Dungeon 2 the UI does not explain some of the controls and I got caught right at the beginning trying to find out how to help the people on the road. I tried everything like shift, alt or click and I gave up. Then I went to read on Steam and it was click and hold. My god that was not something I would have figured out. Why not indicate somewhere how to confirm an action like that.

All the action combat ones I didn't even bother with.

Just went through the demo and had the same problem. I remember seeing something quickly but had to go online in order to work it out.

Their tutorial isn't very good "in the moment." It's almost as if you have to pull it up again to actually read what you need to do, not during game play.

Also just learned "there is no retreat" and "you equip combat items out of combat."

In general I enjoyed it but they need a slightly better tutorial. how about, in the above example, highlighting the choices and have text at the left that says "click and hold mouse over your choice" and have the text stay until you make your first choice.

For combat items "highlight" the extra slot, have the inventory come up and make the player actually equip a highlighted combat item before they can continue.

I love how the fights are animated and visceral.

Tiller

Archmage Rises was a deeper game than it looked

Blowfeld81

Inkbound has the potential to become my game of the year. Spend a solid 20 hours in this pre alpha and had about as much fun as I had back then with Monster Train.