Wantless : Solace at World’s End

It's incredibly grindy. You fight what feels like the same combats over and over, making only tiny progress after each mission. Sometimes it's hard to tell if you've made any progress at all. It's too bad, since the underlying system allows for enormous customization. You build spells by combining a range/area of effect, spell effects, and spell cost. You can mash together all sorts of things, and create all sorts of specialization. I get the impression the game would be a lot better if there were a large, knowledgeable community out there talking strategies. Instead, every time I run into a wall where I simply cannot handle a specific unique patient, there's no one to offer advice. So I end up abandoning most of them, and never returning. The story is frankly disturbing. The "battles" you're fighting are inside people's heads, removing things from their minds. Sometimes this is good, like removing addictions, but fairly often it seems you're inflicting brain damage. It doesn't matt...

I wanted to like this game because I like tactical combat games. But sadly, I can't recommend this. Bosses (and to a lesser extent, rare enemies) are huge HP sponges. It's never been fun when a game add HP to enemies as a way to raise difficulty. It is possible to soft lock your game (or even potentially hard lock yourself). When the game forces you to fight a boss encounter, and will let you do nothing else. This means that if you are too weak, or have a bad build and can't reset, you're just stuck. Also, the game is very repetitive. It's just the same handful of small, flat maps with a couple of random tiles. What little story the game has, is very uninteresting. All of the game is about "going into the head" of a pool of random 3-4 people that are available each day. Every once in a while, you may get unique person with some bit of backstory. But it doesn't really matters. Nothing will hook you. It's just a transparent gimmick to make you chose what random rewards you want. Th...

This is a really good strategy game! I'm very impressed with the originality of the concept. The idea of a doctor for the mind using technology and skill to relieve all the negative emotions and feelings of their patients is totally awesome. Transposition! It reminds me a little of a Shadowrun cybercombat hacking process. Your avatar enters the patients mind, armed to the teeth with a variety of skills and methods to choose from. You design all of your skills in every way. Range, Effect, and Cost are all up to you. It reminded me of Morrowind's spell crafting freedom and variety, which is honestly the best ever, so that's one hell of a compliment from me. You must balance power with cost and build a skill set to work through the challenges of each quest. Each patient has a goal for you like defeat a boss, collect memories, or defeat a certain number of "monsters" all while trying to stay alive and collecting synapses to improve your abilities. The story-line was succinct and ...

A really enjoyable and very complex game. Frustrating at times, but then the best games are. I wish it had some DLC and/or mods. Well worth picking up if you fancy a bit of figuring out rather than just running in and hitting things.

Seems like an OK game, but it's just not for me.

Amazing Depth and Creativity

Fun turn based tactical game with a unique story. The game features a full tutorial that walks you through the first few stages and then you are on your own. Enemy AI is decent and offers a bit of challenge and overall the levels are satisfying to complete. The levels themselves are a fixed area where the player fights a set number of enemies with varying abilities, moving from one area to the next. Level progression involves battle and constructing new skills and acquiring parts and armour, etc. Over all I am really enjoying the game and would recommend it.

Fun game if you like tactical RPGs with deep skill customization (lots of abilities to craft and a massive perk tree). Each room feels like a strategic puzzle, though it can get a bit repetitive at times. The build variety is incredible. If you enjoy smart, challenging turn-based combat, this one’s a must-play.

Solid, feels almost like a turn-based Path of Exile. (Talent tree, configuring and crafting ~skills/supports, ~map modifiers, etc.)

Couple of hours in. Like it a lot. Not like a random game from a gamer perspective, but more like appreciation of how it's done game-dev-wise. World and activities are minimalistic but pleasant. Help is done as on-call window with search and filtering. Combat is very easy to understand. Craftable skills seem fun. And overall it's fun and interesting to play. I would highly recommend to take a look if you are making your own game/pet project, I think there are some stuff to learn here.