Spoxel

[h1]Verdict - Interesting[/h1] [i]Spoxel is Terraria that promises extensive customization. Its full potential is sadly locked behind painfully boring progression and uninteresting gameplay. Poor polish.[/i] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34679419-Is-It-Okay]My Curator page, "Is It Okay?", where I judge games based on innovation and uniqueness.[/url] The unfortunate reality for Spoxel is that it inevitably gets compared with Terraria, whose excellent quality and long history makes Spoxel look pitiful by comparison. This is an unfair measurement, but one that has to be made: What does Spoxel provide that Terraria does not? Fortunately it does have a trump card and it is its customization system. This is twofold - there is weapon/tool/armor crafting, and spell crafting. The former allows you to assemble your own gear with an assortment of parts (crafted or collected), and its stats depend on what parts or gems you add onto it. You can also change its appearance. The spell...

On the surface, it's difficult to avoid comparisons with Terraria, but after a little while I saw the appeal in Spoxel. Its main strength (as far as I'm concerned) comes from the organic crafting system: The tiered materials that we've come to expect are there of course (wood - copper - iron - etc), but after the wooden tier, every piece of equipment can be combined from a number of different pieces with some unique bonuses and abilities. This is great for those who like to finetune their character stats and those who like to design things visually. Magic is similar - over time you unlock effects and properties that you can combine to make your own spells. The game does a decent job at rewarding exploration and experimentation. For example, I needed torches to light up the caves and dungeons I was going through. Soon I found enough research to unlock the "light" spell effect. I then created a spell that would light up the area around me so I wouldn't need torches anymore. Later still,...

Ever wanted to make custom spells, swords, shields and bows u can in Spoxel this game is easy to play even with friends u can even make a sword with a living shark and a blade.

At the time of this review, I have two hours in. So far, it's looking very similar to Terraria, which is a compliment and not a complaint at all. In fact, I was looking for a game that kept the aspects of Terraria I like and expanded on them. It looks like Spoxel will be that game. I'm really excited about the crafting and spell systems, which should bring many long hours of enjoyment, along with exploration and treasure hunting, which is something I really enjoy doing. The developer is active with the user base both on the Steam forums and Discord, which is nice. I know I'm looking forward to what is to come. I'll update my review when I have more time in the game. EDIT: 4+ hours in. I've found one of the dungeons, got a bunch of goodies, made myself a couple nice swords, found a couple of handy spells and I've just touched the surface of the game. I did notice a screen blanking bug in the snow/ice biome, where the screen would go light blue while I was moving around. I ha...

First one to review.. Spell crafting.. nuff said. Dug straight down, was not disappointed. :)

The melee combat is rather lackluster for a game like this. The spell creation system is totally amazing and in depth! The crafting in this game is well done and in depth. Overall though the combat even with using magic just does not work all that well and seems clunky. A better tutorial would also be a fantastic addition. I feel like this could be a great game but it is just not there yet and the clunky combat just makes me not want to find out what a great game it could be so at this time I could not recommend this.

This is a fun game so far, I have noticed that alot of things that people said were wrong in reviews have been resolved. Good solid foundation.. Only real beef is the graphics are a little blah... but its a small download and doesn't need much in the way of resources to run. Good Job!

Plays (and looks) horrible. I can appreciate the 2.5D style, but you can't have the models and textures look this bad at the same time. Everything feels clunky and slow, the jumping is horrifically bad. Just no.

There's a lot more of spoxel that I have yet to try out, but from what I've played already this is going to keep me busy for a while. Creating spells offers a lot of customization, where you can say how you want to cast it, what you want it to target, what you want it to look like, and a whole other string of effects after that. I can see this becoming overpowered but for right now it's fun and that's all I care about :D

This game is lacking content updates the concepts are ok but there are not any updates for 2020