VitaDragon's Crown thrusts you into a fantastical medieval world packed with labyrinthine dungeons to explore, vile monstrosities to smite, and nearly endless online adventure. Your mission is to dive into the dank underworld, uncovering treasure and strengthening your mettle as you unlock the secret behind the ancient dragon threatening the world.Metrico twists the business world against itself with atmospheric puzzle action gameplay centered around an overload of infographics. The beauty of this aesthetic now challenges you to escape it, as players proceed through a unique infographic world. Metrico utilizes the unique PS Vita-enabled controls in interesting new ways to further challenge the status quo.
PS4Road Not Taken is an original puzzle game about life and loss that takes place in an ever-changing forest, in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm.An innovative platforming game, Fez allows players to manipulate 2D platforming worlds in three dimensions - with a quick tap, you can spin your flat world around to give you a new perspective and all-new gameplay area. Find hidden items placed on the opposite side of solid walls or bring a platform from miles away to right underneath your feet with just a simple spin of the world. PS3Players take on the role of 'Prophet' as he returns to New York in the year in 2047, only to discover that the city has been encased in a Nanodome created by the corrupt Cell Corporation.
The New York City Liberty Dome is a veritable urban rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers. Within the Liberty Dome, seven distinct and treacherous environments become known as the Seven WondersProteus is a minimalist game of pure exploration and sublime discovery in a musical wilderness environment. There are no challenges and no goals other than those set by the player.
A reactive audio mixing system allows the player to explore the environment as music.
Game Details Developer: Spry FoxPublisher: Spry FoxPlatform: PC (reviewed), PS4Release Date: August 5Price: $14.99Links: When the game designers at Spry Fox named their latest puzzle game after Robert Frost’s most famous poem, we didn’t expect much depth or inspiration from the source material. Frankly, Frost’s The Road Not Taken, while sweet and lyrical, hides little under the surface to work with, particularly from a gaming perspective. Pick between one of two roads? Even text adventures gave players the choice of north, south, east, or west.Thankfully, the game’s title is misleading, at least at first blush. ’s hand-drawn world and puzzly play rarely boil down to obvious, binary choices. The game revolves around a really refreshing spin on the well-trodden “match three” puzzle genre (which is to be expected from the designers who pulled off a similar, stellar feat in 2010’s ).But there’s a point to the game’s name. As players get a feel for RNT’s pace—with randomly generated puzzles, a constant flow of new things to interact with, and heavily ramping difficulty—they slowly come to grips with the game’s very difficult core.
Not in terms of how hard or clever the game is, mind you, but the fact that this is a puzzle game about death, disappointment, and family. Spry Fox treats that somber quality with elegance and simplicity, meaning the game is a wonder to play, but rarely do puzzle games ( Tetris, Candy Crush) include death as a major feature.
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RNT stands out because of how it embraces that design choice, a fact that really makes all the difference. Why won't this deer stay still?!You don the robes of a mysterious ranger who happens upon a depressed village in need your help. Every winter, you are asked to wander through a perilous forest (seen from a top-down, 2D perspective) and find the little boys and girls who’ve gotten lost there.You do this with a single, magical power: the ability to pick up and throw most any object you come in contact with, no matter how heavy or thorny it might be. Throw a rock to get it out of your way; throw a child at a parent to fulfill each year’s saved-children requirement; throw similar objects at each other to complete challenges. / In The Road Not Taken, players can pick objects up and throw them in that same direction, at which point they may collide with other objects or creatures and transform into another object—in this case, a very, very useful axe.This power comes with a couple of catches, which play into the game’s puzzly aspects. If you pick something up, you’re forced to pick up any object you’re adjacent to (up, down, left, or right) at that time. If you walk while holding something, you typically take a point of damage per step (sometimes more).
And when you want to let go, you must toss all objects in the same direction you originally lifted them in.Anyone who has played Spry Fox’s other masterful match-three game, Triple Town, knows how brain-twisting and addictive it can be to work out such positioning challenges, only this time, players must do so while controlling an avatar, as opposed to dropping Triple Town objects wherever you please. (Essentially, it’s a puzzle-game version of navigating a crowded hallway or room, only you’ll say “excuse me, pardon me” to objects that often won’t budge.)Challenges aren’t as simple as “combine three bushes to make a tree.” You’ll have to perfectly arrange your steps and throws to get similar objects to land next to each other, at which point they will either transform into useful objects or unlock doors. In the latter case, objects have to stay in that position, which means they’ll either become a barrier to your other steps and tosses, or—in the case of living animals like deer—shift around on their own if you do things wrong. It's not fair, but it's okayAll of this wraps around a “roguelike” center—meaning the game’s puzzles are randomly generated, and they mix and match 200 creatures, obstacles, and items, most of which have been designed to interact with each other. For example, lead a goat to a room that’s cluttered with obnoxious flowers, and it’ll eat them up—but then it will poop and fertilize an even more annoying, fast-growing plant (which you just might need to generate to open a locked door, so long as it doesn’t grow in a way that blocks your progress).Frustration will set in early, as your first few playthroughs will probably end with you getting stuck because of a new-to-you object. For example, one of the game’s seeds will transform into an unmovable boulder if you throw it; damn, wish I’d known that first.
Luckily, your in-game journal logs every object and creature you encounter—and additionally, the recipes for how they all interact. Road Not Taken launch trailerChildren will often be left to freeze because of such I-didn’t-know failures. Eventually—and repeatedly—your own character will suffer the same fate, and the game will record the efforts of your lifespan before it rewinds time and revives you at the village’s first year again. You’ll lose any items you’d collected, and you’ll restart at the game’s easiest difficulty level, but your journal will remain, along with any “banish” options you’ve unlocked (meaning you can tell the game’s random-puzzle generator not to include certain annoying creatures of your choice).Through it all, townspeople remark on the grim lives they lead and offer thanks and sympathy for your role in their snow-stricken village. Between their carefully crafted brief bits of dialogue and the game’s hand-drawn, children’s-book aesthetic, RNT will suck you into its challenging, somber setting; by the time you’re hooked on the unique puzzle challenge, you’ll realize you’ve been playing a grief simulator.It’s easy, then, to attach personal meaning to how RNT plays out. I reached a point in the game where I trapped a lost child because I didn’t understand a new object.
I said to my screen, “It’s not fair.” All of a sudden, I broke down in tears. That wasn’t the first time in my life I’d said that in a moment of random despair.Afterward, all I could do in the game was remember why that happened, remember that I now knew how to craft items, make the most of firepits, counteract annoying creatures, and play the game better as a result.
I knew more random things would appear and frustrate my progress, but I pushed forward, feeling a little smarter, a little more prepared. I appreciated that as a game design decision, and I valued that for other reasons, as well.I continued to lose and find sad moments, coming back to the game’s first year again and again, but I chose the right road more often each time, enjoying weird moments and recipe discoveries along the way. In that sense, RNT has proven a much more special puzzle game than any I’ve played in a long time. That doesn’t forgive its roguelike hiccups, particularly via later-year puzzles that lock players out by simply being way too hard, but it does make such weirdness more forgivable (plus, the game's mix of well-made random levels and occasional made-in-advance rooms is pretty delightful from a sheer puzzle perspective).This is no light-hearted Candy Crush by any stretch. RNT offers a hard road to travel, but players looking for a steep difficulty curve and a puzzle game with hours of new things to discover will be delighted by this sad adventure.
The Good. Unique, enjoyable twist on match-three puzzling. Procedurally generated levels are quite clever.
Gorgeous, hand-drawn aesthetic sucks you into somber settingThe Bad. Those rare moments when a random puzzle locks players out. Steep learning curve requires dedication, which puzzle fans should prepare forThe Ugly. The game can be depressing by design, so be warnedVerdict: Buy It.
Lately, we’ve been doing a ton of playtesting of, particularly with fellow game developers. If you’re ever looking for brutally honest feedback, other game developers are a good place to start!In general, the feedback has been pretty positive: people love the game’s basic mechanics, art and audio. But one big issue repeatedly crept up in many of our playtests: people weren’t sensing the depth of the game and weren’t feeling a strong sense of progression. This blog post is all about how we’ve been fixing that.:-)I like to think of Road Not Taken as an iceberg floating in the ocean: a tiny percentage of the total game is visible above the surface when you first start playing, while the vast majority of the game lies unseen, waiting to be discovered.A large part of that depth comes from all the unusual creatures and objects you can encounter as you explore the enchanted forests of the game. Another large part comes from all the secret tools and boosts you can create if you know what you’re doing. For example, if you combine the right number of red and white spirits lurking in the forest, you can create a useful magic axe.In our previous playtest builds, none of this was surfaced to the player.
Since Road Not Taken is a roguelike, we simply expected players to assume that they would encounter different and/or more challenging objects and creatures as they progressed. And we expected players to stumble upon a few of the simpler crafting recipes in the game, and consequently realise that there must be many more recipes just waiting to be discovered. But neither of those things happened, so we realised we needed to do a better job of communicating with the player.We’ve taken several steps to address these issues.
First and foremost, we’re adding a “book of secrets” to the game, and we’re introducing it to the player during the very first mission. This book is basically a giant progress meter, in addition to being a very helpful reference guide.When you start out, it contains just a few entries, two of which are simple-but-useful crafting recipes. This unambiguously signals that crafting is something you can and should do. More importantly, the book tells you how many new objects and secrets you have yet to uncover (i.e. “2 out of 100 secrets found.”) This is an unmistakable signal to the player: you’re just getting started! Get to exploring!There are already dozens of secret crafting recipes in Road Not Taken, in addition to dozens of forest objects and critters, and we hope to add more over time. The book of secrets is, in retrospect, an obvious way to make it all comprehensible to the player.This sort of problem is common in game development.
You build a robust system, expecting everyone to love it at first sight, and then grapple with the brutal reality that people either don’t understand the system and/or don’t understand its depth. Your tutorial might need work. (We’ve gone through at least a dozen iterations of the Road Not Taken tutorial and probably have a couple more left to go before it’s good enough!) Your metagame might be poorly surfaced. Your UI might be confusing. The list goes on and on. There’s only one cure to these illnesses, and that’s lots of playtesting, iteration and polish.
There are a bunch of other things we’re doing to give new players a clearer sense of progression. For example, one interesting thing about Road Not Taken is that your character has a maximum lifespan of 15 years, and each mission you embark upon consumes a year of your life. This ties into one of the main themes of the game: trying to live the best possible life in the limited time you have on this Earth.In earlier builds, we never actually informed players of their lifespan limit until they died after 15 missions. This caused new players to feel like the game was somewhat aimless at first, and later upset them when they unexpectedly kicked the bucket!So now we signal your limited lifespan in a bunch of ways. After each mission, we explicitly tell you: “X years remaining.” (14 13 12 etc) And NPCs comment about the passing of time. There’s a rather foreboding doctor in town who likes to make not-very-funny jokes about your dwindling lifespan. It’s hard not to get the message.;-).
You can, of course, die before you reach your limited lifespan. This game is a roguelike, after all! We’ve found ourselves tuning the difficulty up over time as we realise that encountering a steep challenge is half of what folks like about a good roguelike (the other half is a deep sense of discovery, which this game has in spades, and which we’ve accentuated with the book of secrets that I mentioned earlier.) High difficulty and death in Road Not Taken are, in their own ways, a signal to players that this game is not going to hold your hand. You need to play carefully, and you need to learn the game’s secrets if you want to survive.Okay, that’s all I’ve got for you today! As always, we really hope you’re enjoying these little insights into the development of Road Not Taken. If you have any questions about this post (or anything about the game, in general) just leave me a comment! I’ll do my best to give you a decent answer.:-)PS.
If you’re planning to attend PAX East in a few weeks from now, we’d love to meet you! We’ll be there showing off Road Not Taken (with a playable demo!) and we’ll be giving away a beautiful free poster (see below) to everyone who plays the demo and signs up for our newsletter! Please come by, say hello, and take a free poster home with you.:-). Here are some answers to your questions (using my teammate Daniel’s PS blog account since I can’t figure out how to log into mine, doh!) i really like games that I can keep going back to, so how many missions can we expect and how different are theyLike many other roguelikes (think FTL and Don’t Starve) the missions in Road Not Taken are procedurally generated.
There is effectively an infinite amount of content, limited only by the number of unique objects, creatures and terrains that we create. We’re going live with dozens of objects, creatures and terrains and if the game is at all successful we’ll follow up with updates that add more content. But even with just the launch version you should be able to play for dozens of hours without getting bored.:) are you able to carry over crafted items/objects between each character life spanA very small number, yes. But for the most part, when you die, you start over.
After your 15 year lifespan is it like starting the game againFor the most part, it is like starting again, though we’re considering some new features (maybe before launch, maybe in an update after launch) that will tie your lives together. And like I mentioned earlier, you do leave behind a few objects when you die.Also, bear in mind that it’s actually very hard to make it to year 15. The odds are very high that you’re going to die many, many times before you successfully reach the 15th year of your life.
what is the release date, seems like ages from the games announcementWe’re shooting for sometime this summer. We care more about making a good game than we do hitting a particular release date.:-).
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That's what a rogue-like game is pretty much all about. You die, and then it's over. Luckily you can usually found one of those stone cups/altars in the level, pay 2 rice or berries and it'll save you if you die, basically turns back time for you to redo the year. It does make it more difficult by taking away all your charms, but you get to keep your relationships and continue on.I finished the 15 years on my second try. In later levels it becomes easier to get loads of energy if you learn how and what to combine. That's what makes the game fun, it keeps throwing more stuff into the mix for you to make combinations with. Throw stuff together and see what sticks.
I've finished 6 careers already. Here are some tips.The biggest tip for this game, is to know when to bail. You are good when you've saved half the children. Dying would make you drop charms. Sometimes, it's better to save the charms than to revive from a shrine.There is an alternate ending. It's not much, but you will need to have a perfect career to unlock this alt ending.If you are trying for a perfect career, learn the importance of ghost girls. These are made using 2 red spirits, 2 white spirits, and either a shoe, backpack, doll, or bone.
Ghost girls count as 1 child.If you are trying for the vegetarian trophy, note that all stews, including the fearsome stew counts as meat.If you are bad at puzzles, or are trying to conserve energy, there is an easier way to deal with the rooms with the immovable stone blocks. Combine two evil raccoons. These are made when you toss a placid raccoon. The two raccoons will turn into a stone eater, and will clear the room.Another workaround involves a tree, and the mortar. Toss a mortar by the stone blocks, then toss a tree. All the blocks plus the tree will turn into a stone seed.Four white spirits turn into a stun potion.
Use it to stop those pesky deer.Wolves bite when cornered.Wolves turn into foxes. Toss a fox to a wolf.Two imps turn into a frog. These are edible. Three imps turn into a parent.Five white spirits give you a crow. Use them to eliminate a pesky item from a map.Five red spirits give you a potion of duplication. Use this on a rare item, such as rabbits. It sadly doesn't work on children.When dealing with villagers, know what items they prefer.
Green=good.After you finish a career, you will see a tombstone. Combining three of these makes something really useful.Always take advantage if sunshine. Sunshine occurs when there is a bonfire in a map, when there are sufficient deer, or when there are sufficient flowers. Energy for moving stuff is negated in a sunny map - except when moving usually immovable blocks.Three hives gives you honey. A fork of eating alone doubles energy regen from honey.
Three placid bees give you royal jelly. That recovers 50 energy.Do not toss a red spirit beside a bunny. You will have a bad time. Unless you have a bonfire in the map.Yetis are large, but they could be cleared by tossing a bonfire next to them.These are all the tips I can think off right now.
PM me if you want to ask for advice.Edit: I forgot these advice. These are really important.Try to never carry an object. Toss them across the map, this conserves your energy.You can bail from a year below half children saved.
You cannily do this once per career. Otherwise, it's a game over.Once you're below 10 energy, all spirits will turn hostile. Doom spirits take away 3 energy.
Angry spirits and very angry spirits take 15. Angry spirits also attack you for 30 energy. It's an.okay game. I beat it once but that's about it. I broke a little inside after my first win when I got tons of bonus equipable and passive-effect items for the next life and I was like 'aww yiss finally some progress'. And I lost ALL of them.Also the game is way too random and way too buggy to be enjoyed fully.
I had to ban wolves form the forest EVERY. Just to make sure their appetite won't screw me over. There is a challenge and there is just plain bullcrap when you take two steps into the room and half of the deers are dead, and you can't progress further, and there was no way to prevent that.EDIT: Also BUGS! And not some hard to notice/hard to replicate bugs.
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Obvious ones. Like the fact that you still have access to the menu after you die (which can glitch the game), or the fact that items effect last to the tutorial mission of the next life (that can also screw you over if your previous life had difficulty-altering items equipped). While the game is good, it feels very poorly tested sometimes.
I enjoy the game, but I can only play it during breaks when I'm not playing other games. Even then I can only tolerate it for 30-60 minutes. I got to a stage I was one child away then I saw a blue flower. That shit was a weed It completely blocked off everything and kept multiplying. It managed to make it to other paths and somehow covered the entire damn area.I think this was Year.3. YEAR 3, I mean damn that shit was overly difficult for an early level.The game itself it still pretty fun though I wouldn't have bought it even for a couple bucks, if it weren't for PS+ I wouldn't have touched it.
I will never beat it, but I will keep coming back to it in the future for a little fun. Like Strider and Resogun, time killers. Here is the problem with this game: the in-game tutorial/information sucks. Even after you have discovered the secrets, you still don't have easy access to any of the information.
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For example, the menu of what combines into what is (1) not in alphabetical order or grouped in any logical manner (as far as I can tell) and (2) does not tell you the properties/uses of any of the items or combinations you have already discovered.Neither of those two things are acceptable. There is no reason for things like fire not to say 'removes all lifting costs for the room,' 'causes 1 damage when touched or lifted.'
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That would fix 80% of the problem I have with this game, which is that I need a wiki (that doesn't really exist) to explain to me what the things I have already discovered do.
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