Astral Throne

I enjoyed it. An average campaign for me ran around 13 hours. The variety of abilities and characters is well thought out and adds to the replayability. On the other hand the maps are mostly going to be the same thing over and over. I do feel like the game lacks a bit of polish as there are a few frustrating player experiences. For example, when a unit is next to a wall and has a fight, the fight is obscured and seems to run more slowly. Also, sometimes clicking on something (like a "Starstruck unit" which is a type of debuff) will make it so that you can no longer resume the normal flow of the game without a workaround of clicking something else like the unit list.

Really fun Fire Emblem-like roguelite. It can use some balance updates, but it's still great in it's current state. Now, I do recommend this game, but it's not nearly as replayable compared to other roguelites. I'm not saying that you can only play it once, but that it will get old within 5-15 playthroughs. This is because once you have figured out a map, your moves for that map will be similar across all playthroughs. You won't encounter each map on each playthrough (aside from the 3 "boss" maps), but you encounter them often enough that it gets old fast. I don't think this is a fault of the game, it's just the nature of how a game like this plays out. If they tripled the number of boss maps and doubled the number or standard maps, it would go a long way towards increasing the replayability. Still, I think most will get 20-40 hours of enjoyment out of this game, so I would recommend it. I certainly had a blast playing it and I'll probably revisit it in a year when I've forgotten wha...

50 hours and only just now finished my first play through (on the hardest starting difficulty). I really can't be bothered with creating an actual review since I am so tired from staying up on late nights. So many cool things about this game. Each play through makes the story more clear, exposing the heartfelt moments in a sea of strategical war crimes. There are moments of surface level motivations specifically with a certain boss level, but it is almost completely off set by the two other boss story telling. The dialogue changes with each play through as long as you take a new combination of starting characters, and boy do they have a catalogue. Favorite character design visually is the italian women for obvious reasons (also helps that i like the italian language representation) Favorite Story Character is the retired butterfly monarch character (I won my run with her *Very strong*) This game is a 9.5/10 The music i sang with constantly and never needed a new switch...

Short but very fun FE inspired game. Would recommend

good game if i could move my units refunded though

Parroting a few other reviews, I wish there was a sideways thumb on Steam. I only played <2hrs of Astral Throne before refunding to let it cook a little longer so take this review with a grain of salt, but I do think the bones are really good. The combat system is a streamlined and smooth copycat of Fire Emblem, the unique characters all feel good, and I actually really like the low-poly art style (though the mismatched overworld map is jarring). But even in <2hrs playtime it already felt a little repetitive, and the UI is usable but pretty painful on controller (playing on Steam Deck). These are solvable problems, and I see the next planned update is meant to address map variation. One of those games I'll check in on again in a few months, before getting burnt out on what's currently there

Absolutely everything I would want from a roguelike SRPG (I remember enjoying other SRPGs, but feeling like I'd prefer if they were more short run-focused so that individual mistakes weren't eternally impactful, and this delivers that exact vibe in strides)!! The in-battle strategy feels good, and it's satisfying planning out a route to take through each map, but my favorite part is really making decisions on level-up and during downtime to build characters. I feel like it's very natural that a few of your militia come to get a bit luckier and stand out above all the others and it kind of builds this, like... character to them?? Since the militia are drawn from a pool, and you're likely to see them again on future runs, I feel excited when I see them again... and that's awesome!! They literally only get a single unique line each and yet the gameplay feels emergent enough for them to have special places in my heart. Aside from that, if I could add anything, it'd probably be more maps....

Pog

Really fun fire-emblem like roguelike!