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Affogato is a RPG featuring a unique 'reverse tower defense' mechanic. Play as a sorceress managing a café in Arorua. Meet customers from all walks of life, hear their stories and travel into their minds to help them defeat their inner demons. Experience a city life that exudes magic and excitement.
Affogato is a anime, jrpg and female protagonist game
developed by Befun Studio
and published by Spiral Up Games.
Released on August 17th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,062 reviews of which 884 were positive and 178 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam with a 40% discount, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570, 1 GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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An overall very entertaining game. Poses a good difficulty level without being frustrating. The characters were cute and the storytelling was endearing. Some of the achievement grinding was a little frustrating especially with the calendar progression where if you don't interact with certain characters enough it's impossible to finish every side quest which requires multiple playthroughs to get every character arc. Overall good game for people who enjoy visual novels and strategy
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The parts that are polished are very polished, but I think it might've needed more time to cook. So, Affogato is a Persona 5 like where you run a coffee shop and invade people's minds to banish demons as a cozy side gig. Fights are done as a "reverse tower defense," basically routing a train of little summons around a map to kill enemy towers and hit objective points. In between fights, you progress your relationships with confidants and brew coffee in a VA11 Hall-A kind of way. The game has decent writing, wildly impressive full voice acting, and great art. The art for different drinks even changes based on the ingredients you add---not just based on which recipe you're going for, but based on things like adding extra milk to a latte. It's neat. However. A lot of the people who order drinks just order an americano. During some of your confidant conversations, you get into fights and play a battle. In others, you get into a fight and the game pauses like you're supposed to play a battle and then unpauses and keeps going, skipping past it. Likely because they didn't code it before the game shipped. Stuff on the critical path is mostly fine, but the game difficulty shoots through the moon when you enter the second act, and this feels like something that could have been smoothed out with testing and refinement. The way battles work also feels a bit scuffed on a fundamental level. You can only deploy characters based on penta, a currency that *does not* increase unless you're using a power or items or pickups to actively increase it. This means that you don't really have a choice about who to deploy. You deploy Heirophant first, because they're the class that generates penta. And then the whole rest of your gameplan needs to orbit around figuring out how to efficiently farm penta. Heirophant can only gen so much per deployment, so you need to unsummon and redeploy them at a premium, and the whole thing plays kinda like if Arknights was actively experiencing an economic crisis. The extent to which you can advance your units is also pretty limited. Levels matter a lot, so you need to power level Heirophant immediately, but then the level cap is 10 so exp kinda just becomes a measure of "can you use your new unit." Very quickly, it becomes worthless to play units that aren't maxed, and a lot of units are quite bad. Wheel Of Fortune can randomly hit you with a status effect that drains your penta, and that makes it not just unplayable but an active lose condition if you deploy it during a match. I'm not all the way through the game, and I think it has plenty of charm, but I also think it's best to remember that this is a deeply indie production even if its art and VA are punching way outside of its weight class. It's worth it on 25% sale or better, but if you crave smooth gameplay above all else you might have some friction with it. Edit: It's got gacha game difficulty (pejorative.) Stages are either way too easy, or they're hard in a boring and flat way. You get obliterated by a mechanic you had no way of knowing you should expect (when this enemy dies, it deals inescapable max damage in an aoe, so you have to use gate switches to let a single non-critical friendly unit into its area to sacrifice detonate it), and the correct path is to reload and do something finnicky and annoying to deal with the mechanic. You don't really have enough useful unit types to get creative with your deployments, and you're so constantly throttled on penta that there's functionally one right way to clear a given stage. If the stage is hard, you have to reload a few times to figure out what it is. The joy of an rpg is in expressing your style as a player through play. "There's only one right way to play play that way" makes it into a logic puzzle instead, and not a very good one because it's trying to be an rpg. 2nd Edit: So, one of Natalie's later missions. It's obnoxiously hard. Having maxed units is a minimum, you also have to have perfect timing on every action, and even then you'll lose 15+ times in a row trying to figure out the order in which the game wants you to progress through the switch puzzle. But fortunately! The answer isn't to try and solve the puzzle. You can't. You just need to full send it, deploy the Wheel Of Fortune, and hope that it will proc positive effects instead of negative ones. I think it's not unreasonable to have some complaints about this. 3rd Edit: Here's a stage with a big meaty enemy right at the start gate. He takes soooooooo long to chip through with just your starting character. Don't you just hate how long it takes. But now you're finally through him, right into two more that take even longer to chip through. Don't you just hate that soooooooo much. Okay now you're through them right into an inescapable landmine that oneshots your squad. Restart the stage and spend five minutes chipping the hp off of three unskippable tanks again. If there's a reason for this other than wasting the player's time on purpose, I can't really guess what it is.
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Great dev first game. Unique gameplay with decent character. A few writing flaws and weird pacing but for a first game a great experience.
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Affogato is a very charming little game. The reverse tower defense gameplay is quite nice, although I only ever found one strategy that worked. I'm afraid that the depth that the developers wanted to put into it fell flat (Looking at you, Sun). The tima managment/ life sim aspects are... there. On normal difficulty, I haven't found rent or affection a real problem, since money is plentiful. The only limiting factors are time slots and social stats. If the game was longer, it would be a real problem, but since the game is 15-20 hours long, it doesn't feel like you're wasting too much time. The writing is good for the most part, although the numerous pop culture references missed the mark on me. The overall story is good, though. Overall, I very much enjoyed playing this, and I very much recommend it.
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A really fun game, especially for someone who loves this magic cafe setting (which isn't a huge audience but I'm a part of it!). The writing is really fun and voice acting (I played with chinese) is really good. The combat can be quite janky sometimes but it gets the job done, some map can be a bit challenging but I wouldn't say it's a frustrating game. I haven't managed to finish all the side stories in a single playthrough and I think you are not able to do so. I also wish there would be a bit more ways to brew coffee than just serving in some specific story moments. I would love for it to be a part cafe sim, but game is fun as it is nontheless. Overall - a truly one of a kind great game with a few flaws. I would definitely buy a sequel! Postscriptum: I forgot to mention that the music is truly magnificent!
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Affogato is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam.
Affogato is currently available at a 40% discount. You can purchase it for 9.89€ on Steam.
Affogato received 884 positive votes out of a total of 1,062 achieving a rating of 7.92.
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Affogato was developed by Befun Studio and published by Spiral Up Games.
Affogato is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Affogato is not playable on MacOS.
Affogato is not playable on Linux.
Affogato is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Affogato. Explore additional content available for Affogato on Steam.
Affogato does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Affogato does not support Steam Remote Play.
Affogato is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Befun Studio
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Spiral Up Games
Release
17 Aug 2023
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