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Hi all, I tried searching Google for a subreddit this game but all the posts that came up were on this subreddit.

I bought this game months ago and was never able to get into it. Then I thought Vampire Crawlers and for some reason it gave me the urge to play this. And I'm glad I did because I've already spent 10x more time playing this time this game and grew to love it. But with that said I'm still lost.

This is the least important one and just a matter of curiosity... what is a DRPG and how does it differ from a regular RPG?

I managed to finish the first quest after exploring until I found the royal city. But now I've been given 2 new things to do and I'm wondering: how do I find them? The quest information is lacking so much it does nothing to help.

I know how to play the game, but I dont think I know how to play it right. Do you have any tips for a new player? Or rules a new player should follow?

Is the world big in this game? I understand it is separated by zones, but in my opinion that doesnt mean the world is small because of the way it's divided.

How come I turned on monster respawn, but not a single monster has respawned?

Do you have any advice on how to find where your quest updates are without consulting a guide or video game? Because that ruins the game for me. I only made an exception with the party building because I didnt know what combination of classes worked best.

I dont know if he's known around drpg space, but this youtuber has some great DRPG videos, not exactly reviews but videos with good narrative. Usually all dark fantasy/sci-fi related. His narrative made games that I didnt like that much seem like good games, all in a all a nice channel. If you guys have more recommendations of good channels with similar vibes can you recommend some?

I love this subgenre but there isnt much in terms of lewd or ecchi ones.

Closest i can think of is Omega Labyrinth

2027 release date

• Classless system with nonlinear skilltrees
• Roguelike loot system (randomized affixes, think "Diablo")
• Heavy faction system
• Rival parties in the dungeon
• QTE style additions to the combat
• Appears to have an Octopath Traveler style resistances system

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3830970/Starshard_Brigands/

IIRC this is the one the dev is using RPG Maker MZ to do it in, which I didn't even think was possible.

Heyo everyone, I've been scouring this sub on a daily basis looking for a game that scartch that itch, so I thought to finally post myself 😃

I'm looking for recommendations for blobbers or dungeon crawlers preferably similar to SMT: strange journey. I enjoy dark atmosphere the most and preferably party-based.

The most popular recommendations I see are Etrian Odyssey , unfortunately, the anime style is kind of making me hesitant to pick it up, additionally, I have seen a few gameplay videos and managing parties of 15 characters is not my thing.

Looking forward to any recommendations, be it mainstream or niche as long as it is on PC ( not strictly steam )

I've been enjoying playing Mary Skelter 2 (despite all the weirdness) but this game just goes on WAY too long. 46 hours played and I'm at chapter 6.

This is after 5 large dungeons each with 4 to 5 levels each. I like the layout, the puzzles but the game really could be done by this point and I wouldn't complain. The combat is okay but the boss fights really come down to luck and RNG.

Kinda general question, mostly I'm thinking about Wizardry inspired stuff.

Like I've been playing Class of Heroes 2 a bunch lately, (Need to do 1 as well at some point and a few others), and I never really know what I'm supposed to do in games like this in terms of replacement characters.

Making a second or thrid team is so extremely grindy, when leveling the main team is already really grindy in games like these. Just replacing a character when one dies leads to them being massively under leveled compared to the rest of the party, even if a game gives some extra for leveling new recruits there is often a cap that doesn't align with the rest of the party.

And thats even before accounting for how frequent instant death abilities are, and how rare items with death resist/immunity is. Or if not instant death than just occationally a map has a specific enemy varriant thats so much stronger than everything else, and escaping/running from it can take a few tries. Espescally when you encounter them early game before you have a collection of instant escape items/abilities. And even then figuring out what enemies are the dangerous ones are just big combinations of trial and error.

Is there something I'm missing? Cause it almost never feels good no matter the soultion I approch this issue with in Wizardry clones.

I love playing these games portable. I have a steam deck but prefer the lightness and feel of my switch 1 & 2. I have wizardry 1 remake, EO trilogy and persona and smt games (if they count). I used to play Eliminage original on the psp and loved it but it looks like that never made it passed Playstation. The Dark Spire was a favorite from the Ds as well as smt strange journey.

What I would really love is a might and magic 3 to 8 style game, or wizardry 8, but I know those won't ever be ported, sadly. I really do not like games like grimrock where there is no respawning enemies and positioning is king. I like old school D&D type combat in a dungeon.

Is class of heroes 3 any good? I played coh1 on psp and loved it (well except for the Japanese only voice overs, but I got used to it). I liked that it had unlocking classes and a unique mechanic with the game structure.

Any other games on switch 1/2 Tha are any good or is that about it?