#The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk

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5 Strategy RPGs I Think You Should Play

Turn-based tactics, my love.

I play a lot of games, but some of my favourites include games like Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem. As a kid, those games gave me a lot of freedom in creating my fictional team of supernatural-power-wielding friends. And enough strategic importance that big number isn't always better (though it does plays a part).

Here are 5 strategy RPGs (I don't know how else to categorize them. Tactical RPG? Turn-based tactics?) that I played in the last year that I think y'all should play.

this one's a long one, folks.

Battletech

Played exactly a year ago today, I had a blast playing Battletech. enough to almost make it into my top 5 of 2023.

This game was my first interaction with lore from this universe and it felt like a pretty good jumping on point. It certainly helped when I played MechWarrior 5 at the end of last year. Narratively, this game kinda rocks. You've got a well-introduced main character and their nemesis and a long hill to push your rock up until you fulfill your goals.

strategically, the game is great. the main campaign quests it throws at you are pretty rad and sometimes does require knowing exactly what to do and with which units (and making sure you've got those units with you on drop).

What I really love about Battletech, and subsequently MechWarrior as a whole, is the mech customization. Unit optimization? Whatever you wanna call it. I liked scavenging for parts to make a mech, then equipping it with my most deadly weapons only to lose those weapons in combat. great times.

Wasteland 3

I didn't know what to think when I started played Wasteland 3. For me (I'm heavy into fantasy than sci-fi), it was pretty out of genre, setting-wise. it's post-apocalyptic modern and set in America (I really think it's important to point out that it's set in America). and it's not typically what I'm out to read.

what I did read was an incredibly written experience and really awesome narrative decision making along with solid mechanics. it was kinda cool to see my actions have consequences (which I looked up constantly because I knew what kind of game I was playing), like helping out a guy in Act 1 only for them to come back in halfway through Act 2.

and the skill tree was most impressive. for most of the game, it gives your team members well-defined roles, which I appreciated. and having narrative options tied to those, while I think is standard, was pretty nice considering I had to talk to NPCs with multiple characters to get what I wanted.

The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos

If you're more into Dungeons and Dragons rather than guns and mechs (like I am), here be the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk.

This one is more a classic one-to-one to Dungeons and Dragons and functions as a big dungeon crawl with an inn in it. meaning the combat mechanics were fleshed out and familiar for me! so it was pretty simple but the rooms do a bit to keep players on their toes with environmental hazards.

the story is straightfoward: get to the Dungeon Master so they can leave. oh but wait! the stairs aren't working! guess we'll take the long way around~! overall, the dialogue was pretty hit-or-miss (more misses with the comedy for me though).

Fae Tactics

Fae Tactics was a pretty big surprise in a lot of ways.

as another one of my honourable mentions for games I played last year, Fae Tactics has solid gameplay and story.

I actually really liked how the story plays itself out. you get bits of non-linear progression with every main quest you complete, meaning you can do most of the game in any order you want. I did do everything in my first playthrough, so it was cool to see different parts of the story connect, and the epilogues that I got in the end. and how the story evolves from one goal to another and how it resolves conflicts is pretty interesting!

moreover, I thought the dialogue for this game was pretty aight. it matched the mood of the game as well as the characters. it knew when to be serious and when to try to be funny.

mechanically, this game is less about customizing your team and more about completing combat with what you have, until you reach maximum upgrades (where you've got pretty obvious choices). capturing your own fae during battle is actually really important since it gives you more options moving forward.

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

This was one I've wanted to play but only recently got the chance! One of this year's first games for me, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga felt pretty good to play.

outright, the narrative I think needs some work. it's not the best, but it gets the job done. it's easy enough to follow and enough characters to like to get you through the game. surprisingly, or maybe unsurprisingly, I didn't like the main character's arc, though it does make a little sense in hindsight.

the best part about this game was the gameplay, for sure. creating an army and commanding it was so fun. there's so much you can do because of the freedom the game allows you in your units. there are items to change affinities, upgrade stats, give your squads more capacity (that's a big one), and so on. additionally, having a maximum 9 units (on average it's more like 6-8 units) per squad was creatively engaging.

one of the biggest things is the fact you can class promote/demote at will. the resources are only allocated and never go away, and you really notice it when you get the tech upgrades that reduces resource costs. and I think the game made the right choice in setting the strongest unit type (dragons) aside for in-combat stores only.

in battle, the strategy was pretty straightforward. the game often relies on sending reinforcements for increased difficulty. but otherwise, the maps provided pretty interesting problems for players to solve. and by the end game, you're commanding up to 20 squads per turn, which is kind of insane.

to recap!

Battletech is a great starting point into MechWarrior lore while being an awesome tactical game.

with a wildly different setting from the rest, Wasteland 3 provides the most dynamic narrative of the bunch with solid strategic gameplay to pair along with it!

for D&D lovers, The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos is pretty aight, especially if you don't have the funds for newer titles.

Fae Tactics was a surprise hit that strategy/tactical RPG fans will love!

and lastly, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is robust in tactics and will get you thinking about the best army composition.

Here's to more tactical games in the future! in fact I already have more lined up-

As always,

Enjoy gaming!

[sunnyyy-draws-stuff]

Here are the babes as a gift

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Review - Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master

🎮 Conheça Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master, jogo de estratégia que permite que os jogadores criem e personalizem a própria masmorra. 🎮

Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master é um jogo de estratégia que permite que os jogadores criem e personalizem a própria masmorra, desenvolvido pela produtora indie Artefacts Studio em parceira com a Dear Villagers. O game traz uma abordagem satírica aos jogos de gerenciamento de masmorras dos anos 90 que fizeram muito sucesso. O jogo oferece uma experiência única ao combinar gerenciamento de equipe com…

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Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master já disponível no Steam e Epic Games

O desenvolvedor independente Artefacts Studio, em parceria com Dear Villagers, lançou hoje o aguardado Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master para PC e Mac através de plataformas como Steam, GOG e Epic Games Store, com desconto de lançamento no PC de R$ 73,99 por R$ 66,59 durante uma semana. As versões para consoles PlayStation e Xbox estão programadas para o próximo ano, permitindo que os jogadores…

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Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master is out today on PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store

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Steam Next Fest - June 2023 Overview

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Free Games Roundup

On Epic (29 June 2023, 10am cst)

Experience an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic and visually breathtaking open world. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

On Indiegala (til ???)

Top Burger is an exciting fast food simulation game. You just opened a burger restaurant, let's see if you can put together burgers fast enough to satisfy your ever growing number of customers!

On GoG (til ???)

Hell Division is a third-person shooter where you pilot lethal drones. Become a pilot of an armed military drone and plunge into adrenaline-fueled action set in a cyberpunk city divided between two ruthless corporations. The confrontation is inevitable, the question is – will you prevail?

[emmanuellececchi]

About fanfiction and being a writer.

I've seen enough posts about people arguing if writing fanfiction is real work of art, if it is writing at all. I've even seen people saying it was illegal (copyright infringement) and that people should invent their stories rather than copying... and yada, yada, yada.

I was watching my kids play and here what I heard : one of them was Percy Jackson, the other was Hermione. They were playing sorcerers and they were using words from a videogame (the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk). The game they were playing had dragons and spiders and fishing pole (don't ask)....

And there you're asking me: uh... What's the link with writing?

Imagination. Creation. I am pretty sure telling stories is as old as humanity. Children from every age and place on Earth have used their imagination to create imaginary worlds. What is writing if not putting to paper/computer our own imaginary world, our own creation?

How many of our actual books are retelling of old stories? Grimm's fairy tale? Or any other fairy tale? J.R.R Tolkien inspired himself from mythologies, G.G. Kay writes Historical Fantasy from real moment in history. to name but a few.

When you are using your imagination to write something? Whatever the inspiration behind, you are an author, a creator, a writer.

I am deeply convinced about that.

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Naheulbeuks Dungeon Master

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[jaffre]

on the one hand: new dungeon keeper kind of game in a universe im already familiar with from french developers released november 2023 that seems kinda fun

on the other: its naheulbeuk

[dragonbleps]

Dad: "Guess what? theHunter: Call of the Wild is free on Epic Games."

Me: "Nice."

Dad: "No, you don't understand. I just bought that. On Steam. Because it was on sale. I coulda got it free!"

Me: "Oh."

Dad: "You know what else will soon be free on Epic Games? The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk... Which I bought. On Steam."

At this point he's mentally putting his face in his hands.

Me, trying to hold back laughter: "I'm sensing a pattern here."

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Reviews Master List

All of my reviews are linked below under the cut!

Game Lists:

Games I Played in 2021

A Year of Gaming, 2022

A Year of Gaming, 2023

3 Lines on 7 Games

(Florence, Bright Memory, Framed Collection, When the Past was Around, Tametsi, Turnip Boy, AER)

(Another) 3 Games in 3 Lines

(while true: learn(), Pikuniku, Alicemare)

3 More Games in 3 Lines

(Sword of the Necromancer, Nowhere Prophet, Dicey Dungeons)

3 Additional Games in 3 Lines

(Luna's Fishing Garden, SHENZEN I/O, Mini Healer)

5 Games I Haven't Finished

(Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Disco Elysium, Spiritfarer, Rain World, Railroad Corporation)

3 Cute DU&I Puzzle Games

(Cats Organized Neatly, Dogs Organized Neatly, Feed All Monsters)

3 Unique Rhythm Games

(Soundfall, No Straight Roads, Rhythm Sprout)

5 Strategy Games I Think You Should Play

(Battletech, Wasteland 3, The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos, Fae Tactics, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga)

Game Reviews:

A Little to the Left

As Far As The Eye

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Bread & Fred

Carto

Cassette Beasts

Cat Cafe Manager

Death end re;Quest

Dorfromantik

Edge of Eternity

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

Evan's Remains

Hexcells

Hollow Knight

Ikenfell

Islanders

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk

Last Call BBS

Littlewood

Love is Dead

Mary Skelter: Nightmares

Melatonin

Metal Unit

Neon White

Potionomics

SANABI

Tales of Zestiria

UNBEATABLE [white label]

Unsighted

A Note On...:

A Dance of Fire and Ice

A Short Hike

Ageless

Alt-Frequencies

ANNO: Mutationem

Assemble with Care

BALAN WONDERWORLD

Bear and Breakfast

Deep Rock Galactic

Dodgeball Academia

Dragonball Z: Kakarot

Dungeon Drafters

En Garde!

Epistory: Typing Chronicles

Every Letter

Filament

Frog Corral

Garden Story

Haven

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Here Comes Niko!

Hue

Jack Move

Lil Gator Game

Little Hope

Luck Be A Landlord

Minami Lane

Minit

Monster Sanctuary

Murder by Numbers

Muse Dash

Peglin

Rhythm Doctor

Risk of Rain 2

Severed Steel

shapez

Shellshock Live

Smushi Come Home

Sticky Business

Storyteller

Sunblaze

The Looker

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Timelie

TROUBLERSHOOTER: Abandoned Children

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I need your expertise, fellow gamers...

I need your recommendations on a new game to play.

I have recently gotten into isometric cRPG’s again and have played through quite a few at this point.

I have just finished both Pathfinder games and enjoyed them quite a bit, with Wrath of the Righteous (WotR) being the better of the two and one of my favorite games despite its many bugs they are still working out.

I have played most of the games on Xbox Game Pass. 

I really enjoyed Solasta. Besides WotR, Solasta was the closest I have come to recreating the pen and paper D&D experience.

Despite the previous two installments not really grabbing me, I found myself really engrossed in Wasteland 3.

I enjoyed Dungeon of Naheulbeuk, the Divinity series, the Pillars of Eternity series, Torment: Tides of Numeria, Planescape, Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate... Is there even anything else out there for Xbox along the lines of these games?

[the-after-eight]

Happy new year everyone ! May the critical rolls be success !

Here are all the characters I played in 2022, I am very grateful for all the fun I had with them !

@ptit-louis finished his campaign successfully !

@adelaide-lanshasaa has been introduced to my players for the beginning of the campaign "Old World Dissonances"

@salaad-dronnoc made it out alive of the Naheulbeuk dungeon

@captain-glucose & @captain-glucose-sidekick had their new costumes

@morrigan-sahar @noria-helveticus @lorelei-versengold are the characters I created in 2022

@tony-redrum defeated Keric le Zemmur and La Rumeur

I am eager to continue my Warhammer campaigns in 2023, as well as playing @hellwen-ward again. I believe that I will also play @e-calix pretty soon, and I will start working on an old game so that @noria-martinus-bittus party can get back on game !

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Thess vs Leaner Pickings

Bouncing through the demos again. The pickings are a little leaner than they have been the last few times, but I still found a few things of interest.

Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master: This is one of those ones where you’re building a dungeon for an evil wizard - it’s a pretty popular theme, particularly given how burned people felt by what EA did to the Dungeon Keeper mobile game. Honestly, while the graphics on this one were pretty good, I could have gone with less pretty graphics and more intuitive interface. It’s a maybe. It lives in Maybe-Land.

SteamWorld Build: Another colony sim, though this one’s a little steampunk-themed and largely involves robots. Kind of cute, and will probably gather dust on my wishlist for basically ages, but not something I’m chomping at the bit to own. Part of it is that I do already have an awful lot of colony sims...

Land Above Sea Below: This one’s a procedurally generated landscape sim of sorts. Kind of like Dorfromantik and Pan’Orama, but with a few different mechanics - for instance, the sea level rises at various points and the objective is to keep as much of your island as possible above sea level. This one’s a little more than ‘maybe’ - it’s the kind of Zen I really like.

Artifice: War Tactics: Little turn-based arena fighter kind of thing, very much on the tactical side. It’s not absurdly complicated, and challenging enough to be interesting and yet not so challenging that it makes me want to tear my hair out. This one’s another one on the “little bit more than maybe” list, and one I can probably leave installed because the demo seems to have a fair bit of playability that I haven’t explored yet. Well, it was only fifteen minutes; I just have shit to do today.

After a brief interlude to wander off to the shops (I hate the heat. I hate the humidity. Yet I needed things so off I went), back to the demos.

Fall of Porcupine: Last Days of Summer: Interesting game - puzzle kind of deal - but some of the interfacing is unfortunate and counterintuitive, and one of the main mechanics is hell on a touch-typist. Cute, but not a priority.

House Flipper 2: I do love the original House Flipper, and House Flipper 2 has a lot to recommend it. Just I’m not sure I can play it in its current state. There are a lot more moving parts to this one than there were to the original one, and with a first-person perspective game, that means one thing, at least for me: migraine. I played for 20 minutes and now I feel like crap. Yay. Also it’s very large and loads very slowly.

I think that’s probably enough. I’ve got a few leftovers from my last demo-trawl to look over, but not now. Now I’m going to see if I can kill this headache before it wrecks my weekend.

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Go "Back to the Futon" in October with the third and final DLC for turn-based RPG The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos

Go “Back to the Futon” in October with the third and final DLC for turn-based RPG The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos

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