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Hero By Chance A tower defense game, looks and plays like old flash games lol, still kinda fun though. Grade: C Warlord by Chance A sequel to Hero, some improvements to gameplay, character art, unit variety, etc. Both are pretty cheap, so they got that going for them, but if you were to be in the market for a game of this style, I'd recommend Duel Princess instead, way better all around. Grade: C+ Mortal Shell A fun Soulslike that has some interesting gimmicks. For starters, you can't customize your character or make builds, instead, the game has the shell system. There are four shells, your characters, they each have different stats and skills, so one is the all around jack of all trades, one has a ton of HP but almost no stamina, one has a ton of stamina but almost no HP, one is specialized on using skills. The shell mechanic also plays into death in this game, dying doesn't send you back to the last checkpoint, instead, you're kicked out of your shell, revealing your true form, in this form, a single hit kills you, but if you can get back to your shell you can continue, there's even a shell that allows you to unleash an explosion when recovering your shell. Normally you can only do this once per checkpoint, but there are skills that allow you to regain this ability after defeating some enemies. There are items that allow you to change between shells whenever, though this items are consumable so best use them with care. There's only four melee weapons, but each have a couple of upgrades that unlock skills, the mace was my favourite, skill 1 covers it with fire, dealing damage over time, while skill 2 does a powerful attack that explodes and damages all enemies around you. There's also one range weapon, the ballistazooka, a fun weapon that's pretty useful for dealing with enemies from a distance, but that takes forever to reload. Then there's the Harden mechanic, you can't block in this game, not in the normal way at least, instead, you use a skill called harden, which turns your body into stone, allowing you to block one attack. This can be used defensively, but I found more use offensively, attack an enemy, harden when they're about to hit you, continue attacking. The problem is that it takes a bit of time to get used to the timing and the cooldown. One of the shells can be built around using harden more often, the others sorta need to work around the limitations. There's also a parry, but the timing is hard to get down. The highlight for me however, is the soundtrack, or rather, the soundtrack pack that's available for free. This replaces boss tracks with songs from Rotting Christ. Not to say that the base OST is bad, it's just, kinda bland IMO, the Rotting Christ stuff is way better and still fits with the theme and atmosphere of the game, there's only one boss were I would replace Ze Nigmar with something like Demonon Vrosis or P'unchaw Kachun-Tuta Kachun. The usage of for the last boss was awesome. There were some issues though, some enemies are really annoying, specially the crossbow dudes, I had some bugs including one which forced me to restart the game. Some enemies would sometimes skip their getting up animation and instead just automatically teleport and hit me, other enemies would sometimes freeze after blocking with harden and the biggest issue I had, this game makes my GPU fans run at almost 100%, even after lowering a bunch of settings, fans still ramped up a ton. The hub area is also a mess to navigate, even a map doesn't help that much since everything looks the same and it's all a labyrinth. TL;DR: Fun Soulslike that's a bit rough around the edges but still worth it, Rotting Christ should appear in more games. Grade: B+