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Artifact Adventure Gaiden

82% positive of 52 Steam reviews

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Released
2018
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by bluffman. Published by PLAYISM.

About the game

Experience the Game Boy-like design and 2D open world of this retro JRPG. The choices you make are all up to you, and they may end up providing invaluable help in the future, when disaster strikes... Embark on an adventure in which you sew the threads of your own future.

Tagged by players

  • RPG
  • Action
  • JRPG
  • Action RPG
  • Retro
  • Medieval
  • Multiple Endings
  • Choices Matter
  • Fantasy
  • Story Rich
  • Exploration
  • Adventure

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Incredible, intricate, cool and fun. Artifact Adventures plays like nothing else. I'd been a fan of the series since the first one, which had traditional JRPG framings hiding a pretty intricate series of decisions and consequences, where choices matter. That's all still here, but this one brings action combat, which plays like an elastic, frantic game of Joust. Extremely fun so far. From what I've seen, there's also…

    4.4 h played when written. 44 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Hello Friends, Today I will review the game Artifact Adventure Gaiden. This is actually a sequel to a game called Artifact Adventure. Although the original game was more challenging, I found this game to be more fun than the original game in the series. There is some difficulty on how vague the quests are, but this method is to emulate older games styles. One thing really good about this game is depending on your…

    27 h played when written. 11 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Extremely disappointing versus the first installment, which was a great retro JRPG experience. Walkaround/menu controls are frustrating. It frequently auto-detects a nearby person and makes you talk to them instead of searching the square you're facing. The sound is very grating, and yes I know it's intentionally supposed to feel like a Game Boy game. Combat is a slog. Feels like a Diablo potion spam, but sometimes…

    52 min played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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