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Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits.
Chained Echoes is a rpg, pixel graphics and turn-based game
developed by Umami Tiger (Matthias Linda)
and published by Deck13 and WhisperGames.
Released on December 08th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 6,757 reviews of which 6,095 were positive and 662 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or newer
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon R9 200 or equal
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 900 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: MacOS 10.15 Catalina
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon R9 200 or equal
- Storage: 900 MB available space
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- OS: SteamOS
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon R9 200 or equal
- Storage: 900 MB available space
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS The game features beautiful hand drawn 16bit sprites. The whole game is absolutely gorgeous. The one thing I have a bit of a nit pick is that I wish that the character portraits had more reactions to what was happening, having them be just the single face didn't do much when it comes to more serious aspects of the game. Otherwise I think the backgrounds are amazing and kuddos to the people who created them. One thing I forgot to mention. I wish this game would tone it down with the flashes, I went to the options to disable it but it just replaced the white flashes with grey flashes. ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't The gameplay is one of the focus points of this game but also one that disservices it the most. The combat is incredibly deep and somewhat varied. It features a party swap system that I'd never seen before and makes your whole party very dynamic. However, the issue is that the enemies are way too difficult. They're very spongy and take way too long to take down. Sometimes even knocking out one of your party members in a single turn. I had to turn the difficulty down to go past some enemies and I honestly kept it in easy just to enjoy the story. If this team makes a new game I would recommend making the enemies easier and the bosses harder. A lot of the time the enemies were extremely more difficult than the bosses themselves. I liked how your characters gain levels via GS, while it's ok, it really had me focus on HP due to the enemies being difficult. The shard system is a good idea that even though it works, it was way too bothersome to have me, as a player, deal with it whenever I got a new party member or a new weapon. Simplify it or get rid of it altogether for the next game. I also wish that the skill menu was scrollable so I could have more than 6 skills per character. But it was fine honestly. I mostly kept a healer at all times in my party spamming AOE heals. The sky armor sections are fun honestly. I really like their combat mechanics with the gear system. I think that the way the gear upgrades is fine, however a lot of the times I felt like it was a waste of money because I'd find better gear than my currently upgraded gear and replace it. Thank you for adding an optimize button in the equipment system. ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf The audio is great, I never felt like it was off or odd, it managed to blend in correctly and it improved the game in the right way. ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma This is not a game for children. Maybe teens can appreciate it but I think there might be some complex topics. However, I think adults and teens can enjoy it just fine. ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer The only time I felt like it's sluggish was right after booting up the game and starting a dialogue, it seems like it's loading some library into memory to process the text and it freezes for two seconds but never happens again until after booting up again ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data Nothing to comment. It's a 2D sprite game, not going to be too big. ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls Like I commented before, I really think the difficulty needs to be reviewed, as I don't think this game lands as an extremely difficult game, but would of a casual JRPG with very fun combat. ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding Sometimes I had to grind for materials and money to keep my healing items and party fully upgraded, but in 10 minutes you can be maxed out because if you transition screens the materials respawn. ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life The story is the best part of this game. I won't spoil it or to into great detail but it makes sense in the universe it's trying to set itself up and doesn't disappoint. The biggest highlight of the game. It seems like most thread points are wrapped up. I think the story makes sense, and clearly points to a sequel, some games have some problems wrapping up the story but this was done tastefully. ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond It took me around 35h and I did most of the game content. It felt just right. Congrats on the developers :) ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money For 25€ it felt like a great price for the experience. ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs Didn't have any bugs. ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 Well worth your time if you want to experience a great JRPG made in Europe. ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template
Not recommending this would be a waste, just know that there are items that fall into both pro and con category. For example: No grinding: You do not need to grind whatsoever in this game. There is no necessecity and no big reward either. While it can be a good thing for some, for my case any turn-based rpg / jrpg needs to have a grind - reward mechanism. Level system: You level up by beating unique story bosses. Same arguments as above. Side quests: There are some, but there should be more. This is definitely consistent with no grinding approach of the game, which is again a pro but also a con. Overdrive system: While you fight, your team "heats up". Game randomly chooses some actions that lets that "heat" dissipate. This occasionally dictates how you should fight. It is a new system which I don't love but definitely an original addition. Sky Armor system: Uses same overdrive system with extra steps. Same arguments as above. Story: A story of different people somewhat coming together and sharing an adventure. While this is not a bad story and does have a lot of "plot twist" moments, it is sooooo complex that it gets tiring. Every bad person either has a sad backstory or good intentions, while every good person has an evil plot. It gets seriously tiring. All this demotes this game from a masterpiece to a good game for me. But maybe it will be a masterpiece for you. Either way, you wont regret buying it.
This is a strong "Yes, but.." game for me. The biggest problem with Chained Echoes is that it takes on more than it can chew. Everything is unfocused and scatterbrained. This applies to everything the game offers -- the characters, the story, the length, the areas, the mechanics. There's too much going on. I appreciate that there's a whole evocative world underlying the story that's being told, but it's too much to take on too quickly and leads to Proper Noun fatigue within the first hour. There are a lot of really smart gameplay choices in this game, but the best ideas are smothered by the volume of sub-par or average ideas. Chained Echoes seemingly aspires to be a "grindless" RPG, but there are so many fiddley grinding mechanisms to make your characters superpowered. Equip inefficient skills to level them up for future niche needs. Run around collecting randomly generated crystals to slot into your equipment. Two completely different modes of combat -- both of which are pretty good on their own merits! -- are bogged down by the sheer volume of accompanying mechanics and loot drops and characters and everything else this game has going on. Chained Echoes attempts to tell a multi-layered story with a vast cast of complex characters and scheming villains replete with twists and turns. But like everything else, there's too much here. I want to love these characters, but the story seems so concerned with showing me shocking revelations and convoluted machinations that it completely lacks heart. Chained Echoes is so caught up in delivering me "moments" -- cool portraits! great character designs! climactic scenes with thrumming music! -- but all of the epic storytelling is lost because every character is play-acting their roles instead of acting like people. Chained Echoes ends up being Plot Twist: The Story. This is a kitchen sink game. It's almost like the developers felt like they had one chance to pack as much into a single game as humanly possible. And I can sympathize with that instinct! But the result is something that is pretty decent but too unfocused to be great. I don't have the heart to not recommend this game. This isn't a bad game. There's a lot of fun and joy to be had here. This is a clear labor of love. But I have to imagine that we all have a very large backlog of games and I don't think this one rises so high above the rest that it demands your attention the way other games do.
Chained Echoes, the game that has often been called a love letter to Chrono Trigger, is really nothing like Chrono Trigger at all. Despite that, it is a masterpiece in its own right. If you want a great classic RPG to compare this game to, I would point at Xenogears instead. Chained Echoes has a wonderfully refreshing mix of ACTUALLY mature storytelling (I'm not talking about edgy gore and sex), deep mechanics, and addictive gameplay. Graphics and Presentation: It seems kind of strange to "review" the graphics of pixel art retro-RPG. I personally thing the game's zones and backgrounds are good, the human character faces look not-so-good, but the monster and mech designs are amazing. The art style brings us tons of gorgeous boss monsters and beastpeople, mechs and mobs. The UI is clean and the maps are perfect. The game looks great. Audio and Music: The sound design is fine, but the music is the hero here. I absolutely love the more melancholy compositions like the song that plays in the rainy capital city of the villain. The signature fanfare never gets old and I found myself humming along to battle tracks more than once. Some games nail everything about classic JRPGs EXCEPT the music. Chained Echoes knew how much us greybeards love compositions with memorable melodies and strong lietmotifs. Gameplay: This is why you play Chained Echoes. Wow. On the surface, you have a basic turn-based battle system. So what, right? Well, this is one of those games that gives you a limited palette and asks you to create a build that can beat the toughest bosses. You won't be able to use all of a character's abilities at once, but most of them are useful at some point. You will find yourself perfecting a good mobbing build, a good boss build, and a good build for your sky armor mechs (which use a similar but different system that uses parts to give your mechs different skills). It satisfies the need for deep and customization without the overcomplicated nonsense that can often make this genre seem like a chore. This is a grindless system similar to games like Suikoden (or Sea of Stars as a modern example). This kind of system provides the best challenge curve by making sure you don't overlevel fights. You can seek out some extra "levels" by doing completionist tasks on a grid called the Reward Board, so if you're not the best at this kind of game there is an option to be a little more powerful than what the game expects at any given boss. The game also uses an "overdrive" bar mechanic which is meant to make you play more strategically and not just spam the same moves over and over. I feel like this bar is successful at making the player think more and plan their moves more carefully, but it's also a bit of an obnoxious buzzkill. I don't HATE the overdrive bar...but if it wasn't there in a sequel I wouldn't miss it one bit. Story: (No Spoliers) Yes, this is a game for adults. It's dark in a very similar way to the Xeno series. It's not nihilistic or stupidly cruel either. The writers clearly understand human nature and relationships between people. They are skilled at writing twists that can be deduced by clever players, but even knowing they are coming don't make them any less satisfying (or horrifying). I will say this: Never have I had such a negative reaction to a main character in a video game that changes so radically by the end. Glenn barely even registers as a character at first, and that really shows the skill these writers have in weaving a tale. BUY THIS GAME IF YOU LIKE CLASSIC RPGS. This isn't one of those games that claims to be a love letter to the classics and comes up feeling empty and amateurish (looking at you I am Setsuna and Lost Sphear). This is more along the lines of an Octopath Traveler 2 or a Sea of Stars. In other words...a new classic.
Chained Echoes is a solid JRPG with gorgeous pixel art and good music. It feels like it takes inspiration from Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears, and others. It isn't just nostalgia bait, it is a fully solid game in its own right. I enjoyed it and it has earned my full recommendation. Unfortunately there are some shortcomings. I don't intend this to be harsh criticism. A couple of the game's systems are rather half baked, in particular the overdrive, equipment upgrading, crystals, and sky armor. It is much too difficult to juggle the overdrive meter. Too often I am forced between overheating, or making a sub-optimal move to placate the desires of the meter. There are items that exist solely to adjust the meter, but they otherwise do nothing! It would have been better if the overdrive items did a basic attack, heal, etc., to fit the type of skill they're filling in for. Enemy attacks raise my heat level too much, particularly when fighting more than 4 enemies at a time. Defending doesn't reduce the heat level enough compared to an enemy attack raising it. It does get slightly easier to manage later in the game when you have more skills, but I still think it could have been implemented in a more balanced form. Many times I'd come across a new weapon or armor while exploring a new area, but it wasn't worth equipping until I left the dungeon to upgrade it. Old, fully-upgraded gear is generally better than the new stuff that should replace it. Hunting for upgrade parts is a nuisance too, there are never enough. Equipment can be modified with crystals to get custom bonuses, but its a tedious system. First you have to get crystals out of a random selection, then you have to upgrade the crystals, then insert them into your weapons or armor. When you get a new weapon or armor you must manually remove the crystals from your old gear and transfer it over. A quick-swap from old gear to new would have made this so much simpler. Sky Armor is a neat system but it makes juggling the overdrive bar even more insane. You have to manage it by switching "gears" which are different attack modes basically. There are 3 gears and you can only switch 1 gear per turn of combat, so if you get overheated it could be as much as 2 turns before you can even begin to do anything about it. An NPC mentions 3 Sky Armors of historical significance, hinting that you may find them somewhere. I only found 1 of them on my 100% playthrough, so that was disappointing. There is an aggro/hate system that wasn't explained until some 25+ hours into the game. I had wondered why enemies always seemed to focus one or two characters at a time. New characters joined my party well into the second half of the game and I just wished they could have been introduced earlier in the story so they could be developed more. The ending was kind of abrupt and unexpected. I thought there would be more to do based on story events throughout the game. There are a few more instances where some polish could have improved the experience. After combat I get an alert that a skill has leveled up, great... which skill? I have to dive through the skill menu for each character, one at a time, to find the skill that leveled up and evaluate if I need to replace it with a different skill to level up. It should have said something like "Skill_Name is now Level 3." When a character dies they lose all their buffs, but negative effects such as poison persist and can instantly re-kill a recently revived character. A handful of lategame bosses have some cheesy combat mechanics that left me feeling really frustrated.
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Chained Echoes is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, Chained Echoes is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Chained Echoes received 6,095 positive votes out of a total of 6,757 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Chained Echoes was developed by Umami Tiger (Matthias Linda) and published by Deck13 and WhisperGames.
Yes, Chained Echoes is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Chained Echoes is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Chained Echoes is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Chained Echoes is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Chained Echoes is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Chained Echoes does not support VR.
Chained Echoes is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 3 DLCs available for Chained Echoes. Explore additional content available for Chained Echoes on Steam.
No, Chained Echoes does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Chained Echoes does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Chained Echoes 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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Online players
102
Developer
Umami Tiger (Matthias Linda)
Publisher
Deck13,
WhisperGames
Release
08 Dec 2022
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