Small Saga on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Beneath the streets of London, an angry mouse seeks revenge against the god who stole his tail. An epic RPG of miniature proportions!
Small Saga is a rpg, indie and turn-based combat game
developed and published by Darya Noghani.
Released on November 16th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 1,869 reviews of which 1,787 were positive and 82 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Small Saga into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, or 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or similar
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 500 MB available space
User reviews & Ratings
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While the game looks and plays like it jumped out of the SNES era, it's simplicity lets it down. The battles and exploration are so straight-forward they seem to resolve themselves, and there is little room for strategic expression. The art direction and pixel characters are incredible, especially as a solo effort. Sadly, the stiff animations don't do them justice. Small Saga is the product of a monumental amount of work from the solo dev. I feel bad for saying the game design didn't hold my interest. I'm giving it a recommendation for those whom the story and art alone will be enough to entertain. For what I played of the story, I did like the characters. There's an anarchic sense of humor I really appreciate. I took many screenshots of the humerous an imposing moments. For the RPG veteran, however, this is shy of a full package. I commend Noghani's work, even if I didn't see it all the way through. Also, the game glitched on steam deck and added like 38 hours to my playtime, lol.
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Spectacular. I've gone many months without being able to properly "click" with a game, resulting me in trying many of them, and inevitably quitting after a few hours, if I even make it passed by a few minutes. But as soon as I saw a clip of this randomly recommended to me on YouTube, I had a good feeling, and bought it soon after. 6.5 hours later I have completed the game and just, wow. I'll start with the good. The story and writing are fantastic. One game I was trying to play before this was Chained Echoes and I found the dialogue to be just a bit off. The ways the characters spoke didn't feel natural. In Small Saga though, the characters felt very real. Even when random slang was thrown in, somehow the writing just flows perfectly. If you like good writing, play this game. If you like these sorts of mouse world settings, play this game. The art style is also phenomenal. It reminds me a lot of Mega Man Battle Network. I don't remember personally playing any games that had the same kind of isometric, map floating the void-type aesthetic. I loved those games as a kid, so it's awesome seeing that style brought back to life. Not sure if it was an inspiration for this game, but either way, loved it. Fantastic pixel art all around, the character designs are diverse and expressive. I only have the tiniest of gripes. The lack of a running animation makes movement look a little awkward. One time in a cutscene, a character walked off into the void. But the cutscene then just reset and played from the beginning without issue, so it wasn't really a problem. The "defend to get back energy" combat system felt a bit clunky, until I realized it's pretty similar to Bravely Default or Octopath Traveler. Making defend a bit snappier would probably help. I can only hope the developer does update the game again and add achievements. Lack thereof was one thing that gave me pause prior to buying the game, but after trying the demo I was convinced it was worth completing now. Considering the game has a lot of small secrets, it would be great to be able to track and look back at my progress via achievements. If it can be made the achievements can be gained retroactively via a save when they are added, that would be even better. Though either way, achievements will warrant a second playthrough. I could keep writing and writing but I'll try to wrap it up. I'll be honest, if you're a gameplay-only gamer, this is not the game for you. But for us story gamers, you've found your next game. The full price point is admittedly a bit of a tough sell, so try the demo. If it grabs you, buy it now, but if you're not hooked like I was, waiting for a sale is ok. Also since I know it concerns some people, yes, the story is very political. But in my opinion, all of it is handled in a very nuanced way. Things that are obviously bad (discrimination for example) are clearly described in black and white as bad. But a lot of the discussion of politics and philosophy offers multiple perspectives, ultimately leaving it up to the player to think about what may be best both in the game's world and the real one. ANYWAY BUY SMALL SAGA 10/10
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Small Saga is an adorable little rodent-based RPG set in a world mirroring our own world in modern times, but is also home to little anthropomorphic rodents living in a medieval/feudal society. The game features a colorful cast of characters, skill trees and collectibles, some of which may spawn their own sidequests later on, should you stumble across the right NPCs. The game touches on some darker themes like loss, regret and vengefulness, but also provides good humor, some puns, references to historical figures and people and good worldbuilding, giving hints on how the mundane world of the rodent society works as well as giving alternative explanations for some historical events. The game touches upon some modern themes by having a diverse cast as well as featuring different locations ruled by rodents with vastly different leadership styles. So social commentary should be expected, which maybe flares up the clearest near the finale of the game as the motivation of one of the end game bosses. Pros: - Graphics: Pixelart. No matter if you're into pixelart or not, the game certainly is beautifully rendered and lovely to look at. - Music: The soundtrack is amazing, certainly another highlight of the game. And the "catchy song" of the game (in-universe) is a catchy song indeed, I still have trouble getting it out of my head. - Humor: From playful banter, over puns to meta humor and player trolling, like a mostly empty skilltree for a character we only control for a short time (and therefore can't fully max out the skill tree), the game has many ways to make one smile. - Worldbuilding: The rodent society has their own alternative explanations for events happening in the history of the human world, as well as their own, unique way of dealing with day to day live and their own words for manmade objects. - Chemistry: The characters work great together and have great interactions with each other. Neutral: - Story: The story is a revenge-driven plot interspersed by sidequests and story elements that are added by the other party members. While revenge-driven plots aren't the most original and the game follows the JRPG formula of hunting down a god in the end, it's still told well enough to remain interesting and entertaining. Cons: - Controls: This is a bit nitpicky: Personally, as a PC gamer, I'd prefered to play with the usual WASD layout as well as with the mouse (the computer mouse, not the main character), but navigating through menus utilizing WASD feels too confusing for me, so I kept the original arrow keys. It's obvious that this game was designed with a controller in mind and I'd recommend to play it with a controller, as I feel a controller would be a more natural fit for this game, than a keyboard. My personal thoughts: The social commentary especially near the end of the game felt a bit judgemental and a tad preachy for my taste, but apart from that, it came from a villain who we shouldn't necessarily agree or side with and most of the things being mentioned should be well known to us and should concern us anyways, so it's not that big of a deal. A bit more subtlety might have worked better though. All in all the game has a certain charm and made me like some of the characters a lot, while it made me despise some of the others, who may not even be villains, but felt otherwise too harsh or misguided by their own judgement. At other times, some almost oppressive rules of societies encountered ingame made sense in context to the setting. Especially the "Old Way". I liked the game a lot and was able to put solid 20 hours into it, completing it. It can be completed a lot faster, but I love to linger around, explore and do sidequests, which obviously stretches out the playtime a bit. This game certainly is one of those indie-titles that will linger with a player for the better or worse and it has found a permanent place in my memories and heart. This game might entertain Furries as well as regular folks alike. EDIT: Found and corrected a typo.
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The fact that this didn't blow up is a shame, I don't know if i've ever played a game as special as this. Mechanically simple but interesting, incredible character interactions and attention to detail, I'm like 90 minutes in and I think this game might be one of my favorites. Incredibly high recommend.
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It was fun. It pretends it's a classic RPG, but all of the fights are so simple and everything is so linear that it's closer to an interactive visual novel. You can 100% it in under 10 hours if you don't waste any time checking how NPC dialogue changes over time, so it might be a bit too short for some folks' preferences. If Steam had a points system, then I'd have to dock some for locking lore and world-building behind a very hefty PDF DLC price tag.
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Online players
6
Developer
Darya Noghani
Publisher
Darya Noghani
Release
16 Nov 2023
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