Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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A party-based RPG about a 3-piece band of dysfunctional friends who, upon signing up to a perfectly normal battle of the bands contest, become cursed with an unusual power.
Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands is a rpg, 2d and jrpg game
developed and published by Deathbulge and Five Houses LLC.
Released on August 08th 2023 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 497 reviews of which 493 were positive and 4 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.12+
- Processor: Quad core 2GHz+
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04+
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support, 64-bit
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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Pros: -Very unique combat system - even the ITEM system is unique! -Endearing cast with genuinely funny humor -Plenty of content... 20+ hours for me over multiple sessions for 100% -Large arsenal of skills, both basic and special -Interesting story Cons (Mostly nitpicks): -No way to pick specific measures, so (for instance) a debuff that could be easily dispatched requires more resources to deal with than really necessary -Enemies are spongy as heck, and boss fights take FOREVER -Some parts can be slogs, either because the enemies are obnoxious or the area is humongous... or both
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It’s clear how much thought and effort went into building the world the game takes place in. It’s funny, vibrant, and full of personality. The music is great, the mechanics are an interesting twist on the JRPG format, and the story was very engaging with a huge cast of great and memorable characters. I’m a fan of the comics that preceded the game, but you don’t need to know a thing about them to enjoy this game to the fullest. Highly recommend.
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This game is criminally, offensively, underrated. I bought this on a whim because I liked the style and visuals. Jesus H. Christ, that was the best whim I've ever had. All the music is incredible, the combat style is unique, and the visuals are more stylish than anything I've ever seen. If you have twenty dollars to spend on an rpg, you'd be hard pressed to find a better use for that money than this game.
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Great game! Not underrated, but not very well known. A quick list of things I liked: - The right amount of complexity for light hearted but engaging play. As someone who likes very fun, punchy RPG builds but doesn't like balancing dozens of stats and hundreds of pieces of gear (as is often the case in party based RPGs), this game has a combination of clear archetypes and mechanics that feel fun and engaging to play with while not being too overwhelming. Although I definitely had balances I leaned a bit more towards, I did multiple full team shifts over the course of the game as I unlocked new stuff, and I didn't really feel like I'd ever "solved" it. I only approached that point near the end game, and even then the final boss was a challenge. - Unique, inventive mechanics. I don't think music bar RPGs are going to be a new genre or anything, but I think pivoting your game around a small, unique mechanic that you've clearly thought about a lot and polished, and then building more traditional design on top of that makes for a memorable experience and a sense of freshness for your players, as they try to apply their genre knowledge to a new situation. Very fun idea, very cool to make builds around. - Great, unique art. I think with the current standard of what "good" game art looks like, it might be easy to say that this game's art is very simple/loose, but in my opinion it is a very refined, well tested style built on years of the dev finding his voice with webcomics. I think it's a general style group a lot of us have seen on Instagram, Twitter, or more dedicated webcomic sources if you're into them, and I think seeing that kind of art transferred to a game has worked very well for Dealthbulge. Great slapstick, great visual gags, characters that are easy to grok and fun to look at. - Pretty solid playtime for an indie RPG. I don't personally like valuing a game just based on a dollar to hour ratio, different games can affect you in different ways in different frames of time, but a type of good game experience I like to have is being able to say "Oh, I spent the weekend playing X, I can't wait to get back in and finish it". It was a good, satisfying journey that I was able to invest almost 30 hours into, and spent that whole time feeling things out about the game. Wasn't gone too soon but didn't overstay it's welcome. For $20 I thought that was great. - Funny writing. This goes back to the webcomic thing, but this is very clearly a game made by someone who has found a fair amount of success doing comedic writing. The humor is not necessarily for everyone, but I really enjoyed it. I'll say real quick that the one thing I didn't like, but is also relatively genre standard, is the amount of backtracking and wall hugging I had to do to find all of the game's secrets . I'm largely a completionist, maybe not to the point where I need every achievement, but especially with functional collectibles or upgrades I'm usually trying to get everything. There's a pretty regular cadence of hidden stuff in this game, but sometimes I reaaaaaally had to grind, checking every nook and cranny of every big labyrinthine place I'd been before to get this one little thing I missed. That was a bit of a slog. But again, pretty common in lots of games. Oh, uh, and I work in games but the title "Deathbulge" always makes it weird to bring up in conversation or try to post about on the company slack. However I still recommended it to a lot of people 1 on 1. 😅
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The writing is awesome, humor is on point, story is interesting, can't remember the last time I enjoyed reading every bit of text in a game this much. I spent a really long time on the "dating sim" going through all the possible options, and I still can't decide which one I liked the most. Combat is excellent, the twists to the turn-based formula I'm used to really makes the game stand out from many others. The level design is decent, the art was beautiful and I really liked that even the hidden chests had some cues on their whereabouts if you paid attention to the details, but other than that nothing that stands out too much for me. Only complain I have is how annoying some of the beats (enemy drops) were to get, at least you can get some drop chance boost gear later on. And also an attack that instakills enemies, that one helped a lot. I admit that I only bought this game because I used to read the webcomic (if you're reading this Dan, please start posting again, I miss your comics), but I got way more than I was expecting, this is a bargain for the price and completely worth the time.
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Developer
Deathbulge,
Five Houses LLC
Publisher
Deathbulge,
Five Houses LLC
Release
08 Aug 2023
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