Vambrace: Cold Soul

This is not an adventure-rgp game but primarily a repetitive rogue-like with a backstory that is extremely hard to make any progress in. Not at all what I expected from the website description.

Not the most in-depth combat, but it you enjoy DD strategy and want more JRPG like narrative then check it out.

Gane is good, but interaction with inventory, characters and equipment is clumsy.

It's a good game. Fun, glad I don't have to grind, but because there's no exp, characters feel very replaceable. Good enviroment, feel interesting to explore, but combat feels pointless without character growth.

I got this game for free, and have spent about 10-15hrs, not yet finished the main story. Please take the negative part of the review with a grain of salt, since I believe it's not a big team that develop this. Gameplay: + Simple to understand + Roguelike (have to repeat coz of wrong decisions lol) + Not too grindy (but still need some grind) - Limited itemization / char customization. Char can only grow in power by upgrading 1 item. No level, no skill tree, no equips etc - Limited enemy type - Both caused the battle to be repetitive. The same char, the same enemy, the same strategy Design: + Beautiful in its own way + Distinct races & cultures with their own back stories - Cramped. Your party would eat up half the screen and I can't see "the world" - Repetitive maps. Each area of the map has a different functions (e.g there's a market, casino, apartment, prison, factory) yet they don't look very distinct. The color is just dark grey everywhere. The furniture is unremarkably different. The rooms & layout in each map are just the same from a set of randomly generated rooms. Story: + Some decision making that could change the story (haven't finish this so can't comment much on story) Side quest: + Fun and side story is quite intriguing - No side story that impacts main story. Just NPCs doing their own stuff It's a nice game I hope they improve on what was done here in their next release. And I do hope they release something.