About This Game Vampire of the Sands is a punishing action dungeon-crawler with roguelike elements. Resurrected by a necromancer, you are sent into the dungeon to assassinate The Vampire. Although your body is fragile, there are many tools at your disposal to beat the odds. Utilize:Items in the dungeon are to be treasured. Carefully manage your use of the mundane and magical to ensure you come out alive.Brawl:Fight monsters, each with their own separate personalities. Discover their true nature and exploit their weaknesses.Die:See how far you can get with only a single life. Feel your blood pressure rise as you get further than ever before!Upgrade:Unlock runes which allow you to upgrade your character. Choose carefully to synergize with your preferred playstyle, or go for unique and fun combinations for a challenge.Explore:Delve into the branching dungeon in any order you want.Return:Vampire of the Sands is fully complete, but will still see improvements and content updates. User feedback is welcome! a09c17d780 Title: Vampire of the SandsGenre: ActionDeveloper:HomphPublisher:Black Shell MediaRelease Date: 17 Jul, 2015 Free Download Vampire Of The Sands .zip vampire of the sands download. vampire of the sands. vampire rocks sands centre. vampire of the sands runes. vampire lynsay sands series know what? its fun and its less than a dollar right now, so if you like roguelites do yourself a favor and pick this one up.. I picked up Vampire of the Sands while it was a part of the Black Shell Media roguelike bundle and finally got around to giving it a try. Unfortunately, it's one of the games in my library that I wish I never played. Even more unfortunate is that I want to like this game, but some frustrating design choices and bugs made the learning process not fun.Pros:+Art style is unique and engaging+Skill-based combat with varied weapon styles and a dodge mechanic+Several visually unique zones, and dozens of enemies+Rune system is interesting and serves as a form of overall account progression usually not seen in traditional roguelikes+Relatively short game lengths coupled with the boosts you get from runes mean that deaths don't set you back too much in terms of time spent playing, and the permadeath mechanic seems fair (or it would if the other game mechanics worked, but more on that below)Cons:-The hunger clock (or Soul clock if you're so inclined) is poorly implemented. It's a pretty standard and straightfoward clock: your Soul bar will deplete gradually as you play the game, and defeating enemies gives you a small number of souls. There are also soul "container" items similar to those in Dark Souls that provide you with a chunk of Souls immediately, and defeating branch bosses will always reward you with Souls. With the wealth of other difficulty mechanics at play (as well as the fact that VotS is a real-time game as opposed to a turn-based one where this particular type of clock tends to work better) I find it a little baffling that the devs decided to include a hunger clock at all. There are a lot of other directions the devs could have gone in when designing it, but unfortunately they played it safe and went with a relatively genre-standard variation that ends up not jiving well with the real-time pacing.-The combat is clunky. To name a few gripes I have with it: weapon hitboxes can be very hit-or-miss with multiple enemies on screen, some weapon effects fail to trigger at all in combat (such as the Mace's knockback effect), and the dodge\/tumble is just as likely to get you killed in combat as it is to save your life. The controls in general feel kind of clunky, especially movement.-Difficulty. I'm no stranger to the roguelike genre (5 DCSS ascensions, 2 ADoM ascensions, thousands of combined hours in Brogue, ToME, IVAN, FTL, etc.) and games with steep learning curves can be some of the most rewarding to learn how to play. I don't really get that feeling with VotS though, mostly because it's hard to tell when you're playing well. This is a blanket problem with a lot of 1HP roguelikes due to the difficulty that comes along with balancing them, and when I was attempting to learn VotS I found myself being killed so often with so little explanation that it was hard to gauge if I was making any real progress. There were several times that I was killed by a mid-flight projectile the instant I loaded into a new branch, or a unique enemy would pop up onscreen and I would die a second later.-Bugs with combat. Enemies would very frequently shoot off projectiles after they had disappeared from the screen, weapon hitboxes would phase through enemies seemingly randomly, weapons would occasionally only hit objects underneath enemies (monster spawns, traps, decorations, etc.) and deal no damage to the creature on top...the list goes on.To summarize my above points, Vampire of the Sands is a conceptually interesting game that unfortunately is marred by a host of design and technical issues. If, despite all of this, you still want to give VotS a shot, I would highly recommend waiting until it drops under $1 again, because it just isn't worth $5 in its current state.*NOTE: Review was edited for grammar and to expand on some of the listed cons. I could have sworn I already posted a review for this game but for whatever reason it's not here so here goes. I guess I would say this game is an "arpg" action roguelike playing game.The game wasn't ever in Early Access, which I believe would have help with alot of the initial bugs and gameplay problems but for whatever reason the game was released as a finished product. There was some trouble with controller support and a few other minor things but most have been patched. The dev listens and is working on the next patch as I'm writing this and it should be updated around the end of october 2015. Ok so on to some gameplay mechanics, it definitely has permadeath and procedural level design but also has collectables (ruins) that enable you to add permanent bonuses of your choosing once you've collected enough coins. These "ruins" can drastically change the game and make your character much better and well equipped to handle this games harsh realities. There are cape's that act as armor and also have specific traits\/bonuses. Plenty of weapons and throwables to mess around and kill things with. If you play on "hardcore" mode there is a mechanic called "soul level" that basically acts as a timer and goes down gradually. If you don't keep moving and collecting more "souls" then you will eventually die if your "soul level" reaches zero. There is a "ruin" you can get that does away with your hunger for "souls" but it takes up alot of your "ruin" inventory space. The difficulty would turn alot of people off but the dev is adding a "normal" mode that does away with the "soul" mechanic altogether which is the way I prefer to play the game. Normal mode will allow players to experience all the game has to offer while making the game much more forgiving. As of now the game is 50% off so if you're interested in the game at all go ahead and get it cuz at $2.50 it's worth the gamble and worth it to support an indie developer. If you enjoy action roguelikes I recommend this game and believe it will only keep getting better with every update. So it's a super unique game with alot of cool aspects and a dev that is actively making the game better, definitely worth a look. ;). When I first saw this game, I avoided picking it up because of a certain highly-rated review that described it as overly difficult and unfinished. Most of us rogue-lite fans have played amateurish games before and been disappointed, so it was easy to write this one off as yet another project where the developer released an abortive attempt once they'd become fed up with working on it. I let the game linger on my wishlist for at least a year, and probably several, before finally deciding to take the chance. And I couldn't be happier that I got it. It isn't one of the best games of all time, but it's very fun and unique, and the fun \/ price ratio is extremely high. Far from being impossible, it's actually fairly easy to beat, especially with certain characters and runes. My first victory was after maybe around an hour of playing, and I'm not an expert gamer. But you can't rush into things haphazardly, and you also have to learn to adapt to a system that is unconventional in many different ways. At it's heart, the gameplay and skill types are quite similar to old NES-era games. This is a game about memorizing enemy attack patterns, developing appropriate responses, learning the game's system (player attacks, items), and repeated precision control. Many action roguelites have arenas or boss rushes so that players can practice without having to work their way through a run, but in VoTS, you can practice in an arena against regular enemies. And it's a good idea to do so, since everything is deadly here. But although everything is deadly, there is also always a strategy, and often it requires thinking outside the box, or taking approaches that you wouldn't normally use. For most bosses, you want to be decked out with the right items before you go after them, so the order that you proceed in a run depends on what you find along the way. Because of the soul system, you do tend to spend less time exploring, unlike most similar games. What makes this game so fun is learning how to handle challenges that at first seem overwhelming. You start out learning to do basic things like time your attacks and dash-retreat, but this quickly becomes insufficient, and if you expect to be able to get far in a run with such basic techniques, then you'll fail repeatedly and get frustrated. Instead, you have to learn when to attack and when to ignore enemies, when to spam wand attacks and when to use invisibility to avoid encounters, what bosses to go after based on your items, and what to expect from dungeon layouts. To me, perhaps the highest joy of gaming is being confronted with a new system, and gradually learning how to use it and accomplish your goals. By that standard, VoTS is an _excellent_ game. This game _does_ come across as low-production. The interface is clunky and sometimes awkward, and it's missing a lot of polish. Most of the time when I kill the final boss, it takes me a minute to determine whether I won or lost, since there's just a small text popup either way. There is no story, no tutorial, and I didn't see any way to tell how many coins runes cost. But the game has an enormous amount of heart, and the core mechanics are elegantly designed. In some ways, VoTS reminds me of some ARCEN games. This is a game for players who enjoy learning new systems and won't qq when traditional approaches prove ineffective. I definitely recommend it.. Very difficult, not imbalanced, requires a bit of hard work and dedication. Overall very fun way to pass time.. If you like Binding of Isaac, Magicka, and MMORPG skills then you will like this game :3 and dying alot ;-;
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