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A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.
Arco is a rpg, turn-based strategy and action-adventure game
developed by Franek, Max Cahill, Bibiki and Fáyer
and published by Panic.
Released on August 15th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 7 languages: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 1,504 reviews of which 1,456 were positive and 48 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Arco into these genres:
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: i3 2GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- VR Support: no
- Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.2
MacOS
- OS: macOS 11 Big Sur or newer
- Processor: Apple M1 or 64-bit Intel
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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This game is amazing, maybe the most underrated game I've come across The turn based gameplay is satisfying and fun - you are always looking forward to getting more and more exp so that you can move along in the skill tree to advance your characters skillset The story is fantastic - it never overstays its welcome and moves along at a great pace with a really varied environment and map that your characters navigate through. It also does side quests really really well, they are pretty fun and you often stumble across them accidentally based on what actions you choose to do, or from little pieces of conversation you overhear 10/10
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I'm going to be honest. I am an absolute sucker for games that explore cultures I'm not familiar with. Arco was always going to be at least a bit of a hit with me, just by virtue of showing me something I don't usually get to see. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497013937 Arco is an action-adventure RPG. Set in an alternate (but not too alternate) fantasy version of the old west, Arco follows a series of indigenous protagonists as they embark on quests, battle monsters, and confront the changing reality of their world. And I love it. Unabashedly, unashamedly, I love it. The very first quest of the game follows an indigenous child named Teco. He and his family have journeyed from their homeland to repeat the pilgrimages their ancestors have always traditionally made. However, once they arrive at their sacred tree, they find it's been occupied by colonisers, making it impossible for them to get there. Throughout the quest, the player is shown how Teco and his family have adapted to the colonisation of their land, how they've maintained their traditions, and how what we understand to be the inevitability of colonisation is not inevitable. If anything, we're presented with a world in which the past continues to live alongside the future, and where identity remains deeply meaningful, even as the world seeks to destroy it. This is a game about colonialism that not only takes the perspective of the colonised, but ensures their voices and perspectives resonate. This isn't a horror game or a tragedy. This is an adventure in a changing, fantastic world, and I cannot express enough how much I love it for that. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497014165 Where the game truly excels, however, is in how the message of its story resonates in its mechanics. Arco's combat system is a turn-based tactical system, with players having a variety of abilities and items that they can use to defeat enemies. Each character's abilities are different, giving each storyline a very different feel and strategy, ensuring that the combats never feel stale. However, it's the game's guilt system that makes the combat truly interesting and unique. Throughout the story sections of the game, the player is confronted with decisions. Depending on the choices they make, their character may feel more or less guilt. Rather than being solely a character-informing feature, though, guilt manifests in combat, with malevolent spirits hounding the player throughout combat, forcing them to take actions they might not otherwise have done, or to move more quickly than is necessarily wise. Trauma itself becomes a mechanic in Arco. It's highly effective, both at making the player consider their actions more carefully, and at reinforcing the overall story. This is a game where the past informs the future, where time and consequences blend together, and where we are the product of the decisions we've made. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497013719 Arco is unlike any RPG I've played, both in terms of its setting, and in how it works the setting into the very mechanics of the game. It is a gorgeous, glorious testament to the power of storytelling and what video games can be as narrative tools. Most importantly, though, it is an example of reframing the story. This is an indigenous story, framing indigenous peoples as the arbiters of their own destinies within a changing world. It reclaims the western for those too often framed as the faceless villains, and it's wonderful for it. If you enjoyed this review, check out [url=https://www.jannekeparrish.com/game/] more of my reviews and [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44626948-Loons/] my curator page. Thanks for reading!
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If you were scrolling the reviews to see if this game is worth it, just buy it. You will not regret it. This game is STELLAR. RPGs tend to use a lot of tropes, but the biggest trope that people tend to borrow from is fantasy (typically tolkien-esque fantasy). Arco is a BRILLIANT game that invents its own kind of fantasy. Instead of borrowing from the fantasy tropes of Tolkien, which in turn borrowed from the mythos of european legends such as Beowulf, Arco uses Mesoamerican stories and legends, and the worldbuilding is colored with the perspective of the oft-neglected victim side of the colonial wild west. The encounters all paint a wide and storied picture of what the wild west of the colonial era was, and the game doesn't shy away from the distinct brutality and cruelty of the events of colonialism. There are (fictional?) clans, such as the Iyo and Kanek filled with myths and traditions and holy magic. I've heard that your choices matter a lot to the outcome of the story, though I haven't completed multiple runs yet so I cannot verify whether this is actually true. What I CAN say, however, is that the writing is extremely well done. I consistently forget where I am when I'm playing this game. It just sucks you into the world. It feels so real. The gameplay consists of navigating dialogue choices, exploring scenic 2D pixel vistas to find items and complete quests, and quasi-real time turn-based combat encounters. Each "turn" plays out a couple seconds of real time and then the game freezes to let you make a choice on what to do next. The combat has this feel of physicality where the elements on the screen interact with each other organically - bullets might set off environmental traps, which in turn hurt the player or enemies on screen. It certainly isn't the standard turn-based fare of selecting a move and rolling a dice to see damage output. You can see exactly how you take damage and how to fix it. It's much less about numbers and more about spatial reasoning. The combat is accelerated with ghosts that move even when everything else is frozen, forcing you to get out of your own head and make moves. In summary, the combat is very good!! The soundtrack is phenomenal. Light acoustic fingerstyle guitar follows your journey during the moments of peace, while heavier rock strengthens your resolve during more intense combat encounters. There's a push and pull to the experience that is underscored by an evocative traditional-sounding soundtrack. It's really good. If you saw the trailer and liked what you saw even the tiniest bit, GET THIS GAME. You will not regret it. Much love to the devs, you've got something really special here :D
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Thank you to the developer(s). This is a beautifully crafted experience. It's worth your money if you enjoy quality story telling, decision making, turn based and real time combat, and pixel graphics. Gorgeous game that kept me engaged from beginning to end.
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I think the initial promo videos/snippets I saw of this game didn't really communicate how many systems, places, and characters eventually come together to make something quite substantial. But not too big or overwhelming -- even at its most open-world-rpg-ish, it still has the look/feel of a cute interactive clockwork diorama. It took me about 16 hours to play, not being completionist. Any game more than a few hours long tends to start generating "life is short" thoughts for me these days, but I don't regret this one. The last few hours were a compelling ride to the end. The theme helps a lot -- from the characters to the music to the locations, not much of the aesthetic here has been run into the ground yet by other games. And of course the pixel art is top shelf. FWIW I played this on the Steam Deck. _Almost_ perfect there. One game crash when I did something weird/unintended with the user interface, and one place in a long battle where the music flaked out and made glitchy sounds.
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Arco is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.
Arco is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.
Arco received 1,456 positive votes out of a total of 1,504 achieving an impressive rating of 9.16.
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Arco was developed by Franek, Max Cahill, Bibiki and Fáyer and published by Panic.
Arco is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Arco is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Arco is not playable on Linux.
Arco is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Arco. Explore additional content available for Arco on Steam.
Arco does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Arco does not support Steam Remote Play.
Arco 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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9
Developer
Franek,
Max Cahill,
Bibiki,
Fáyer
Publisher
Panic
Release
15 Aug 2024
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