A Fresh Mix of Ideas That Spice Up a Tired Genre - Conquest Dark

Not...really sure how this "spices up" the tired genre it is. You get gear? That's...that's it? Just another Vampire Survivors clone.

I think PoE 2 is one of the best ARPGs mechanically that's ever been made. Both it and No Rest for the Wicked are pushing in the right direction where the ARPG is about gameplay and not just an elaborate slot machine. PoE 1 has become a bore for me once I hit endgame and I'm just deleting screens with a single button press. The gameplay gets replaced with efficiency and time management and system knowledge. And this is coming from someone with like 3000 hours in PoE 1 from alpha tests on. I will always love the game, but boy has the 'fast fast faster!' endgame design and demands from the community ground me down to dust. I always feel like I'm slowly alienated from the game's mechanics the deeper I get into the endgame every season.

These ARPGs youve been testing have been exactly what I've been looking for. I dropped like 6 hours on hellclock and have 100 minutes on this already. Thanks Splatter!

GFL2 has all my free time atm

Hae you reviewed Starsector?

In the name of all that is holy! Splat's playing a horde defense game? 👀

Game's looking good. I grinded Halls of Torment for a couple of days before completing most of it and getting bored. I'll probably do a similar thing here when it releases!

- I'm kind of surprised; I think this is possibly the first video from SplatterCats channel that I have not finished watching, I've been subscribed for years and always watch the entire video, some games are great, some are so-so, but this game, is so not it, I could not even get past 2 minutes I love SplatterCat, but this game is one step short of just pointlessly staring at the screen, sorry no disrespect but there is zero value in this game.

This game is more like Vampire Survivors than Diablo imo, with the options (including skip and reroll) that pop up with every pick up within a limited space with unending hordes that you auto kill.

We need a review of path of exile 2

excellent!

***This is the game Asmongold is a partner in. He loves it and I'm sure they take all his input to heart.

The long Dark has a lot of new content. When does the let's play happen?

Hey I noticed you can upgrade your gears rarity by spending your reroll tokens, while playing.

I saw this game and completely remembered Vampire Survivors, which I have on steam AND celphone. Already playing the demo, which is very cool. Looking forward to this game release! Thanks for another great finding and video! :D

I'm telling ya, take a look at bloodshed. It vampire survivor doom.

You see Ivan, when you shoot many boolet, you make many damage.

If you like ARPGs, have you perhaps thought of checking out ghostlore? Might be something you enjoy.

PoE 2 is a Hard pass for me. PoE (1st one) I've got a little bit over 1.2k hours I'm a bit ashamed of that number but I've honestly loved it since early/mid 2015.

There's 2 types of humans : humans and tids

Wow dude, that bad on the indy front huh?

"a genre filled with cash-grabs" -- my survivor game collection is full of $4.99 to $6.99 games. You mean the $70 launch titles, right? Like Skull & Bones? Suicide Squad? Or maybe the slightly cheaper Veilguard or Condord?

"A tired genre" that started two years ago. I agree. It was pre-tired.

its just survivors clone

I took Splat’s recommendation on Time Wasters. I feel like that game is the final evolution of this genre. Every other vampire-survivors-like pales by comparison.

kewl

Aww they censored characters. 😢

This game will burn my time. I know it will. Wishlisted.

Agreed about PoE2. Looooots of work ahead before it holds a candle to PoE1 imo. I'm afraid they will abandon the original if PoE2 somehow gets a lot of casuals to stick around and play through the slog time and again when leagues eventually happen.

So, basically, it's a barenones survivors title with f2p style content distribution? Core really needs some expansion then, looks way too boring if you played 2 bullet heaven games and 1 twin stick shooter. The game is really late for the party

As title says... Im tired of games like this. Theres many details you can change, but main premise - horde survivor, is already unplayable for me anymore

That complaint about PoE 2's combos reminds me of Final Fantasy 14 (the MMO) which did this to basically every class. Some are worse than others, but in general there's just too much muscle memory training needed to do these combos while managing actual game mechanics like positioning, and communicating with your party. It's an element that makes it less fun. I think Splat is an Everquest OG like me so we're probably both in that camp of not needing a bunch of random buttons to satisfy the adhd.

I never get tired of the genre but everyone is trying to do the same and seem like "we're not doing the same"
BUT if you can, please, just try to make some publicity for Magic Survivors (for mobile) i play it, offline, not much ads (only when die or want to have 1 free revive), its fking cool and awesome and they have been updating literally for free (most of their income must be from ads because i do not see people buying mana to unlocks characters)
i really recomend it tho.

comment for the comment god!

Wishlisted. We will see how this evolves when full version is out.

You won me with the "extra" feature. Wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't. Playing the demo, I agree that it's a very addictive game. Wishlisted.

HoT is def becoming more a foundational reference point to me when it comes to knowing if I'll like a bullet heaven now, more than VS.

I could use a tool tip here and there, but I like it so far. The major gameplay is simple to pick up, the crunching is quite crunchy, and the splatting is quite splattery, and you can definitely feel the progression as you do a run. If it doesn't exist in the full version yet... I would like some sort of a base, or something. The map so far has nothing but "dungeons" and upgrade spots, and feels like you're alone even outside of battle. I do like not having to travel so much in the dungeons. Having to stay in a small area makes it less irritating than other games, while having that good old 'nowhere to run' feel. A few extra skills might be nice, though. It feels as though I'm walking vaguely the same path in every dungeon.

if ggg add movement while attacking and wasd I'll go back to poe1

Ah nice the world map just like Rogue Genesia

Absolutely no interest in this game, but your review was excellent. I love the way you break down the pros and cons of each game while also giving an honest gut response to each. I enjoyed this review in particular.

The bleed mechanic seems really questionable, as it's implemented.

As shown, if you didn't pick healing, and you take one or two hits, you may just watch your health tick down with nothing you can do about it. Of all the questionable mechanics I've seen in games, that might be close to the most questionable.

Personally I've been tired of ARPG's for a long time, so this doesn't appeal to me but I hope it finds it's audience.

Was no one playing Crimsonland twenty years ago? All these comments about how it's a two year old genre invented by vampire survivors...

Yeah, I have to agree that a lot of the best Vampire Survivor-like games came out early in the genre's life cycle. Boneraiser Minions and Bio-prototype so far have been my favorites, though Halls of Torment was great, and WAND Project is looking pretty good too. They all tend to have good original gameplay loops and tweaks on the formula.

Boneraiser Minions has each "weapon" replaced with a different type of minion/pet that tries to guard you as you try to avoid death.

Bio-Prototype and Wand Project have modular weapon systems that let you piece them together like Legos to compound their effects and create fun original builds.

Pretty soon AI will be playing the game for you and normies will be clapping for it.

This Genre is absolutely tired.... While I've enjoyed 3-4 purchased over the past few years, they continue to release more and more copies that use nearly the same exact types of attacks with slightly different visual effects. The upgrades are always the same, small increases in % damage or % attack speed.... etc

Fun game as always, thanks Splatter👌

I like it, looks clean. You can actually see what's going on without spell effects giving you epilepsy

They seem to have updated the demo, the male is now a Human/Elephant Centaur XD

health and xp SHOULD NOT shoot towards you, but just be converted into numbers (like +1) and fade away, slightly floating upwards.
easiest way to avoid confusion, IN ALL GAMES OF THIS TYPE.