Any good zelda-likes in the steam sale I should know about?
>>748937679Master Key and Pipistrello. Isle of Reveries just came out so it's not on sale, but it's good.
>>7489376793D or 2D zelda?
>>748937679Isle of Reveries
>>748937679Never played the 2nd game, but I enjoyed the 1st one
Just go play Alundra.
>>748937679This and pipistrello
>>748937679zelda like? You mean a heckin isometric souls-like
>>748938630Played the first one and it kinda sucked. >>748939049Review don't look great?
>>748940431NTA but Prodigal is decent especially for the price, Deaths Door is similar to a zeldalike and very cheap on sale currently and it's pretty good
>>748939049This game is far from good.
>>748937679Tunic is probably the best one.The dev is a massive woke faggot, but since you're a Steam nigger, that's right up your alley.
Play Anodyne. Impeccable atmosphere.https://youtu.be/sO9qYFMTk74
>>748943862I second Analdyne. Very unique atmosphere.
>>748937679>Zelda-likesIt's amazing to me how few things in this 'genre' remotely live up to what they're aiming to copy. Absolutely nothing seems to be able to create the richly designed worlds with strong real time interaction and creative progression that actual Zelda games have. The only thing that comes close are actually specific ROMhacks lie Master of Time.
Tunic isn't a true zelda like at all. In fact I'd say the parts that are trying to be zelda/dark souls are the worst bits about it. It's more an esoteric puzzle game.
>>748937679Binding of Isaac
>>748937679Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is a great adventure game like the LoZ games. I don't know if its on sale, but I will shill it any chance I get.
Beat Anodyne and it was extremely boring the whole way through, dropped Tunic a few hours in. Really dont understand the recommendations. Alundra has obnoxious puzzles, but moments of goodness and beautiful art. Mina was REAL good though, if you consider it a zelda-like
>>748949847> Mina was REAL goodOpinions discarded
>>748937679The GOAT
>>748950330It is though, there's a lot of variety in trinkets, a fun world, lots of bosses, the exploration's pretty dope. The only major complaint I've seen levied is the difficult scaling with how it gets easier after the first, but it's the same issue most zeldas have and they get a pass usually. There's built in difficulty mods to fix that. IMO the game comes the closest to an older zelda where you have a lot of free range to do stuff how you want, there's a large focus on combat but there's also a good amount of exploration/puzzles to break it up.
>>748950729*first couple bosses
>>748941610It's not bad either, just very basic (which I'd say is an issue with 90% of indie zelda-like games).
>>748937679-Tunic-Mina the hollower-PipistrelloAlso mina is essentially a modern day LTTP in terms of quality and cultural zeitgeist so you'll benefit muchly in the longrun from playing it
Deaths Door. It’s like Tunic but actually good and not extremely pretentious
>>748950439>time constraintsNo, now Alundra is a Zelda like that’s good, as long as you get the unworking designs version
>>748937679If you like Action and physics Puzzles, try pic related
>>748937679Elemetallis
>>748937679The best Zelda-like is still Blood Omen Legacy of Kain.
>>748937679Why do you niggas need to make everything about sucking gabens yachtpedo cock?I don't give a fuck if it is another 10% off "sale" but go play Prodigal.
>>748937679I have this one on my cart, has anyone played it? It's literally ALTTP from the looks of it.
>>748937679It's not on Steam, but Golden Axe Warrior for the Master System is top-tier. Might even be a better Zelda than the original Zelda.
>>748953168I love LoK but blood omen is a bit rough in the gameplay department
>>748939049>>748951278>>748953298You guys recommend the The Colorgrave Collection?
>>748937679Many great games, but nothing really replicating Zelda. Nobody has simply taken the structure, gameplay, and tone and just plugged in OCs. Death’s Door, Crypt Custodian, Hyper Light Drifter, Tearscape, Pippistrello, Mina, and Tunic are all enjoyable to differing degrees but not quite Zelda.>>748953160This one is close but was so amateurish I would not recommend.
>>748956443Have you played Airoheart? >>748954153
>>748956443Have you played 3D dot game heroes?
>>748956681No. Never seen it before this thread. Mixed reviews, probably not very good.
>>748956902Yes. Wish it was on Steam.
Tunic is fun, but it’s really not a Zelda-like. More like a game with Zelda-like aesthetics, then you start playing it and realize that it’s more of an isometric souls game and then you eventually realize that it’s a very unusual and esoteric puzzle game on top of that.Cool, but really doesn’t scratch the same itch as Zeldas do.
>>748957020You can play it on RPCS3 with 60fpsGive it a try anon, I was surprised how far along the PS3 emulator has come
>>748939049Prodigal is absolute dogshit made for Persona fags (redundant)
>>748937679Is Tunic even like Zelda? I thought it was far more puzzle-driven than a Zelda game and just apes its aesthetic to attract players.
>>748937679Elementalis and Isle of reveries are really good, its like playing LA again.
>>748937679Fuck steam just get a rom of spirtual warfare. I actually like it more than the nes zelda games despite the fact that it only has 1 90 second song that plays on a loop the entire game
In my limited experience, the premium clone remains Anodyne 1.
>>748957235No the fuck you can’t. I tried for HOURS to get that fucking rom working and it absolutely would fucking not. Unless they fixed it?
>>748940360I had fun with Death's Door
>>748954153I religiously search for Zelda clones once every few weeks and I have NEVER heard of this game until this moment. No one has ever recommended it on any archived thread or forum I’ve searched. No lists, nothing. Getting mixed on steam reviews means its dogshit as well.
>>748954594Its a janky mess.If you want a contemporary clone, Valkyrie Adventure is better.
>>748937679The strongest game that is not on Steam!
Closest we've got to a 3D Zelda
>>748962197WHERE IS MY RECOOOOOOOOOMP?!!!!!!!!!
>>748962273i tried playing it on rpcs3 but it keeps crashing which is a shamei guess i'll have to dust off the ps3
>>748962234Lying is a art. Not ignorance.
OkamiOceanhorn gamesvalkie 64Hob
>>748939049I enjoyed it, but calling it more than okay is a stretch. The monster girl designs are 10/10 though.
>>748937679Minishoot' Adventures. Basically a mix between the original Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and shmups. Not as challenging as a real shmup but still fun.
For whatever reason "Zelda-likes" never get the dungeons right. I get that level design is hard, especially for small inexperienced devs, but it's a shame.
>>748937679Tunic is like 4 yuros in key sites, btw.
>>748960334It's hard to say definitely with so few reviews without reading them, there might be some tomfoolery going on. I remember some game getting review bombed simply because some user had suggested metroidvania tag despite it not being one, and metroidvania fags flooded the game and got mad.
>>748964671>file.png>okamiTroll
>>748937679https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634860/Minishoot_Adventures/
>>748965249They forget that Zelda dungeons are both a series of individual puzzle rooms and a giant puzzle in itself, especially in the 2D Zeldas.
>>748937679aren't none of these actually like zelda?
>>748962234Absolutely, only the first game unfortunately
I’ve been told the Nier games are like 3D Zelda, how true is that?
>>748962460Try these settings, seems to work for meCore: SPU loop detection: true default: false SPU Block Size: Mega default: Safe Sleep Timers Accuracy: All Timers default: Usleep Only Video: VSync Mode: Full default: Disabled Write Color Buffers: true default: false Resolution Scale: 200 default: 100 Driver Wake-Up Delay: 380 default: 0
>>748966426Not at all
>>748961586Low quality bait use to be believableValkyrie Adventure is nothing like Zelda
>>748960187literal game for babies
>>748966426First NieR has one Zelda reference but the games don't play like Zelda much at all (unless you think every 3D action game is a Zelda clone because they were inspired by OoT).
>>748966426Automata is very inspired by OoT in it's design. I'd tell you specifically what kind's of things it copies, but that would spoil certain secrets you're supposed to discover yourself. Mechanically it's much more an action/JRPG than it is like Zelda despite this.
>>748966615A true Zelda-like then.
>>748937679The best Zelda-like on steam is Ocean's Heart and I've played a lot of them.
>>748966560Next up you will claim Golvellius isn't like Zelda either.
>>748968049How is that comparable to Valkyrie?Which is basically a run n gun
>>748937679Beyond the Mountains is free, give it a try.>>748962234I loved every second of the first Darksider, I played the other three as well but they are very different games.
>>748966560>>748968279Anon.....
>>748937679Draco and the Seven Scales
>>748968981Wait this one actually looks good.
>>748960109>>748966453
>>748968628I guess I forgot that one and was thinking of the sequelIsn’t that more like Ys than Zelda?
>>748939049i played it but ignored the cringe dating stuffthen i lost to a boss cause i got some questions wrong, then i immediatly uninstalled itit also has questionable gameplay choices like if you want the ability to run you have to rebuy it everytime you die
>>748957302this is very fun
>>748939049>near the start of the game you're given a fetch quest that involves getting items from people all over town, except that there's a shitty pointless day/night cycle that changes their locations and there's zero way to find out where someone currently is so it becomes the most painfully tedious bullshit imaginable>true ending requires you to be married despite the game not hinting towards this at all, as well as some of the girls not being valid romance options until the post-game, meaning that you can't romance them if you want to get it>the bosses are the most simplistic, boring dogshit and have 1 or 2 attacks at most besides the final boss, one of them can literally kill itself if you wait long enough>game makes a joke about how awful fetch quests are after you complete the first one, and then throws a second fetch quest at you later in the game without a shred of irony because fuck you>bizarre mechanics that add nothing, like the previously mentioned day/night cycle, not being able to heal outside of the town normally which isn't a problem because the game is piss easy, or food buffs that you can only have 3 of and are removed when you die because they needed some form of money sink>the Medusa monster girl that's literally front and center on the game's library banner isn't a romance option I'm actually in awe that this shit had an over 90% Positive rating, my standards aren't particularly high but I spent like $2 on it and I felt robbed. Literally get any other game that's vaguely in the "Zeldalike" umbrella, be it Pipistrello, Mina, Ittle Dew, Lenna's Inception, or whatever the fuck.
>>748964671>oceanhornIncredible story of the developing team.
>>748938675where the fuck do people even get PSX ISOs from nowadays?
>>748952731What's the difference?
>>748970786>near the start of the game you're given a fetch quest that involves getting items from people all over town, except that there's a shitty pointless day/night cycle that changes their locations and there's zero way to find out where someone currently is so it becomes the most painfully tedious bullshit imaginableTrue. It's an optional quest that adds perma run boots (should just be able to run from the beginning anyway.) It does remind me of the bullshit trading sequences in like over half the Zelda games though. >>true ending requires you to be married despite the game not hinting towards this at all, as well as some of the girls not being valid romance options until the post-game, meaning that you can't romance them if you want to get itThat's what back up saves and NG+ are for.>>the bosses are the most simplistic, boring dogshit and have 1 or 2 attacks at most besides the final boss, one of them can literally kill itself if you wait long enoughThis is true. There is a shit ton of post game content though, that's all higher quality. This shit is definitely mid as fuck though, I agree.
I'll vouch for Mina The Hollower too, I recently played it and I was blown away with just how good and complete it was.
>>748970786>one of them can literally kill itself if you wait long enoughit's ok when Kojima does it
Tchia and Yonder, it's like BotW but without fighting
>>748937679Tunic is NOT a Zelda-like.It's like saying Dark Souls is a Metroidvania.
>>748972716>It does remind me of the bullshit trading sequences in like over half the Zelda games though.That's clearly the intent, but they do it in a total dogshit way compared to Zelda. Like, in Zelda it happens halfway through the game so you'll already have mobility tools, you get to revisit old areas you've been to before, and most importantly NPCs will generally be in the same place as always. Here it's "Ok run around this town that you've just gotten to, you're slow as shit, and while you're running around the time will change so the NPC that you just saw might be in a totally different area now ok have fun". I feel like this is a consistent issue with the game, they're trying to copy Zelda in some way but they do it in the shittiest way possible.>That's what back up saves and NG+ are for.Most people wouldn't even consider making backup saves in a Zeldalike with 3 save slots, and the game doesn't even hint at this shit man, if I didn't google it I wouldn't have even known that there were alternate endings. And making it so some romances aren't compatible with it at all is just dogshit, what's the point of letting people have waifus then? And I can't imagine doing NG+ when the only thing you can do differently on your playthroughs is romancing different girls.>There is a shit ton of post game content though, that's all higher quality. You could be right, I stopped not too far into the post game because I felt like the game was just going to continue being more of the same. I shouldn't have to spend over 7 hours going through the game just to get to the part that's supposedly fun.>>748972996kek I fucking wish it was like The End. The boss in question is one that just bounces around the arena, and you have to knock it into some spikes. But it can also just crash into the spikes on its own depending on RNG, so if you leave it alone long enough it'll kill itself doing that.
>>748937679Under the Island.
>>748937679https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304400/The_End_of_Dyeus/I had fun with this, it can get pretty difficult though
>>748973550There are a bunch of different optional curses you can take that make the game more difficult in NG+. https://prodigal.fandom.com/wiki/Curses
>>748973337Dark Souls IS a metroidvania.
>>748973337Dark Souls IS practically a 3D Metroidvania though.
>>748959832Playing this game just made me feel "Am I missing something" the entire time. I got a few hours into the game but didn't know where I was supposed to go or do, so I dropped it. Maybe I'll try playing it again.
>>748962234Loved Darksiders. People seem to like 2, but I hate all the RPG shit. I'm glad they scaled it back in 3, but the first is by far my favorite.
>>748973975NTA but it's not.Dark Souls progression is completely different. You never unlock abilities that are required for exploration. Every move you have is made for combat. There are locks and keys but they are nothing beyond that. Dark Souls is descended from a long line of RPGs, and plenty of RPGs have locks and keys.
>>748974043Gameplay-wise Anodyne is kinda weak. I think being lost and meandering through the overworld is just sort of the point.It's a fun exploratory game but I'd argue it's not really a Zelda-like in a conventional sense.
>>748973937That's a lot more than I was expecting. I mean, if you enjoyed your run through Prodigal then I'm sure that those are great, but as someone who thought that the core gameplay loop was lacking none of those would actually make things more fun or interesting.
I there ANYTHING that is neither furry nor female protagonist???
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>>748937679No, if you want the real deal, you will have to buy the Nintendo Switch.
>>748964671That game was god awful. Do not let yourself be tricked into playing valkie 64 or oceanhorn
>>7489741262 is my favorite, million times better than any soulslop. Gigachad Death
>>748960187yeah i did too anon i just hate how everything with bosses and a dodge is now a "soulslike" metroidvania games are cursed with it
>>748970220eh, you get a permanent upgrade for it, but it's all generally dogshit because all other upgrades are temporary.i quit the second i finished a multi-item fetch quest just to unlock a second shop to BUY temporary buffs
>>748937679Prodigal. You even have to get laid to get the true ending.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393820
>>748975539>3D """"""Zelda""""""">real deal Lmao
>>748970786>the Medusa monster girl that's literally front and center on the game's library banner isn't a romance optionThis sucked even harder because she wasn't even subtle about being in to you, and even loudly wonders to herself if the other monsters in the monster world would have an issue if she "kept" you.
>>748956113I really liked the Claire a la Mode demo, the other games doesn't appeal to me though
>>748968981I just completed the demo and sprite work is absolutely terrible.
>>748977497>wind up with 3 or more shops for these buffs>every time you die you have to run around and go to each shop and remember which had which power ups>and one of the shops keeps triggering romance events for one of the girls whenever you enter it Seriously, what were the devs thinking?
Surprised nobody has mentioned Immortals fenyx rising
>>748937679There are plenty of 2D that are fine enough. Literally no indie dev knows how to make a 3D Zelda game though.
>>748970786The lack of monster girl dating in that game is criminal with how fucking Good the designs of the monster girls are.
metroid prime games play very close to a "sci fi zelda", besides warp songszelda games are more or less a linear metroidvania
>>748937679No. None of them have the quality of level design of zelda games.>>748952731>now Alundra is a Zelda like that’s goodIt has rubbish puzzles and the unworking designed patch doesn't fix the atrocious localization.Only way to play it is the original japanese version.>>748952781Environment traversal and puzzles are crap. Music is derivative.>>748954594lol>Might even be a better Zelda than the original Zelda.Except it came out in 1991, 5 years after zelda came out. It's nowhere near as good as zelda. And because it came out in 1991 it's actually competing with LTTP, which is a fucking cosmic joke.The Neutopia games are better than that piece of shit game.
>>748984549>None of them have the quality of level design of zelda games.you are a faggot and you suck dirty dickshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WqRhla6xykzelda is a pretty low bar to cross, its a simplistic kids game
>>748952781I came here to post this
>>748984854>having one bad puzzle and one bad dungeon across two games means the entire series is badOk anon. Why don't you post something that isn't the single webm that's been spammed to hell and back, if the puzzle design is so bad?
>>748973975>>748974467The secret sauce of Metroid and Zelda(and Metroidvanias in general since classic Zelda is also a Metroidvania) is that some keys are abilities/items that you can use besides the obvious use of opening a door.There's no such thing in Dark Souls. There's no Bomb, there's no Shinespark you learn, there's no double jump.
From the screenshots and footage I thought it was going to be like Nuclear Throne or Gungeon, but Trigger Witch is basically just a top down Zelda like Link to the Past except you use guns instead of a sword.
