Barter Empire

There is the good and the bad about Barter Empire. The Good: -The Story seems to be pretty decent especially for a RPG maker game at this price. -There is a whole lot of things that you can do. -Enemies level with you - Good and Bad - this keeps all battles on a fairly level playing field as far as challange goes, but it also means that bosses or dragons are about the same as lower tier creatures. The Bad: -The organization of items and inventory is really very bad. If you need to use several items at the bottom of a list you have to open the item menu each time and scroll down to the bottom. The mouse also interferes with scrolling. -Game ballance is very poor. Early on, before you get a full party the battles can be challanging. Once you have a full party then as long as you use a potion when your health gets low then every battle is pretty much the same. -Battle mechanics seem to be poorly designed and ballanced. There are several skills that I have never used as the ba...

DO NOT BUY THIS Short - I can't recommend this game to anyone who values grammar or has any taste in art when it comes to character portrait design. Long Barter Empire is a pretty grand idea for a game company I've never heard of. Crafting, Farming, Economy, Adventuring, Marriage, Adoption, Open-World, etc. are a few of the things this game tries to tackle and in my opinion doesn't do very well. Let's begin with Crafting. Crafting is partially wonderful, partially. In order to craft new items you must level your crafting ability. That is something you see in a lot of games and is not an issue. The problem is that some levels take a ridiculous amount of items to get enough experience to level, and you must craft every item individually. No mass-production here, if you need to craft 40 of X to level, you have to sit there for 5 - 10 minutes playing the crafting minigame to craft each one. Mainly this is monotonous and gets old really fast. Farming is SUPER EASY. If you imagined any...

I'd like to say beforehand that I do think the game has potential, yet Barter Empire has several major flaws that impact game enjoyment quite negatively. Firstly, the story starts off rather generically: you are a girl dropped off by blue people, recued by an old man and his dog and awake to find you've lost your memories. He sends you off to a nearby town to meet up with Maxie and the pooch comes along to help. Lets skip the rest of the story for now. Along the way you'll run into several characters with a ! mark over their heads, these generally have something to say that is relevant to main- or subquests, or to one of the various 'foraging and crafting' spots. The latter essentially boils down to getting a tool, going to a spot and then pressing a button that will let a little script run its course to determine if you get goodies or not. There are many scripts in the game and some of them might be considered the good points of it. Sadly there is a lot more in terms of bad points...

Great game! -Classic RPG-Maker style with a lot of things to do ( Smithing, Alchemy, Fishing... A lot more! ); -Each one of the principal skills have a leveling system, so be prepared to spend some time on cities; -Battle system remember a lot Final Fantasy 5. The monsters are not that cool-looking, but dont look that bad too; -Your enemies level up, just like you. So, dont expect to have an easy time when fighting; -Some Harvest Moon features, like planting, milk cows, gather eggs from chickens, have a family; -Dont finished the game yet, but, so far, the history is good and the characters (there is a lot of them) are Intriguing and funny ( especialy that zombie ). Really worth the price for such a good game with so many things to do!

Pretty good game, however, be prepared for some monster fights that are just.. misery to get through- wolves and ghosts for example. Wolves have this goddawful tendency to spam "Roar" Which will stun party members for 1-2 turns... at around 45-50% rate Ghosts spam sleep and debuffs. Those fights also take forever. Update: Any fight where there is a ccing mob.. Kill the goddamn cc mob before it fucks you over ;_; Cc mobs I am aware of: Old Zombies, Ghosts, and wolves. Edit 2: Wow, the final boss fight was... a little underwhelming, so long as you have a good amount of AOE damage. The hardest (well, most frustrating) fights in the game are definitely the ghosts and other mobs that super cc your party. Edit 3: So anyway, the game is roughly 8 hours of play time if you just skip some of the minigames and other things to do.. and after one beats the final boss there is very little that seems worth doing. While the game is definitely a fun little diversion, I would reccommend against t...

Ok i bought it for you guys. Never, never buy this : it opens in a stamp screen and you cannot see anything, the intro is spamming you, yes you can read all the team names ... well you will become mad after the first minutes. If you have not saved, gl, you will have the same opening again. First combat ; nothing, totally bugged, it resolved without me seen anything, clicking as mad on space or backspace, no effect. Succeeded to open it in full screen by clicking right on the window. Ahh noticed you can open the option with the F1 key, hope it can help people having yet bought the game. Playing it is not so bad if you have solved all above. Combats remind me my firsts games in the 1990'. I spent 9 euros to tell you that, thank me and have a better luck. Really, you think this to be sold on steam ?

Fun RPG Maker RPG with lots of crafting, exploration, thieving, land ownership, and stupid jokes. The mobs level up with you so there isnt really a grind, which i like but this may put some people off. Will update as i progress

!!!Awesome Game!!! If you ever played Harvest Moon and liked or loved it, then you will like and love this game too. There is just so much stuff to do in this game... Pros: For its price this game can easily be worth more for what you can do. Not even the $25's, 30's, 45's & 50's dollar price games can be this good sometimes at there prices - What are you waiting on, get the damn game now!!! Cons: Only thing I see wrong with the game is that your reading my review and not playing this freaking good game - get off your high horse and pay up!! Chop Chop!!

Well alright so this game is a bunch of good but their is one major issue, the resolution, when you start the game its in a little screen, while its possible to read, after all its about the size of a Nintendo Gameboy Advanced Screen so its possible to read, its hard, the fact that you cannot adjust the screen size or the resolution is major down for me, but like I said for the rest its a pretty good game, but its a tad confusing, it takes a fair amount of trial and error to figure out how stuff work, but when you figure it out all seem pretty good. Anyhow I'd say it need to be updated with a Option Menu, like most game even the old SNES ones to some level, and that Menu need a Graphic option to allow to change resolution, now I did find its possible to turn the game to full screen, but the issue is when you do that it stretch the image and thus isn't the best of options. So yea, once that issue will be corrected this game is going to be golden, well from what I have seen up to now a...

Haven't played at length but reading the first review I've seen on this list... it pretty much nails it... Though.. I tried playing with the controller and it didnt seem responsive.. maybe I missed something. Anyway.. for value.. this is a great game... with retro feel :) Neat crafting system with xp attached. umm... anyway... yay? also.. old boots.. 10/10 would fish repeatedly UPDATE: Something to Know. I had what I believe to be a full party. And I continued to recruit people. I could not switch to these party members ... nor could I switch to them at all. Had: Malice, Roxo, Khali, 9ineLive, Jerich.. in my party.. Yet I had another join Stella. I looked everywhere I could in the menus but could not switch to Stella.... Few minutes later.. I have to recruit a crew.. and I finish with that and wind up recruiting 3 more... Saddie, Nexo, and I cant remember the others name. Go sailing, have a fight Win battle.. says Stella levelled up. wait what? yes... Stell...