Crystal Project on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Crystal Project is a rpg, adventure and jrpg game
developed and published by Andrew Willman.
Released on March 31st 2022 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 2,237 reviews of which 2,070 were positive and 167 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 11.59€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit), fully updated
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2000 Series
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Direct3D 11 support (feature level 10_0)
MacOS
- OS: 10.9 Mavericks and newer
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Linux
- OS: glibc 2.17+, 64-bit only
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2000 Series
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
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Absolutely loved my time with this game! Big recommend for lovers of job system RPGs like FF5 and Bravely Default, as well as RPGs with open exploration and loads of secrets and potential sequence-breaking routes like Guild Wars 2 and Elden Ring. PROS +This is a very gameplay-focused RPG where you always feel in control and actually playing the game. There are practically no cutscenes or interruptions, no long-winded dialogues, and menus and combat are very snappy and fast-paced. +Very challenging combat where practically every enemy, and especially bosses, have their own unique and interesting strategies that push you to build an optimal party and utilize all of your abilities to counter them creatively. No boring auto-attack with occasional cure to be seen here: use all of those crowd-control and buffs/debuffs! +An incredible sense of adventure as the game allows you so much freedom to explore how you want. The world is jam-packed with bespoke locations, high-quality dungeons and many secrets, including tricky shortcuts that allow for clever sequence breaking. Has an almost metroidvania feel as you unlock new movement/traversal abilities to get to places you couldn't before. +Loads of interesting builds to experiment with as you unlock new jobs and start to cross-class skills, as well acquire all sorts of unique pieces of gear that have useful properties much more exciting than just bigger stats. +The challenge is very consistent and not so easily broken or cheesed by overleveling or abusing stockpiles of items because of how the world is structured with certain rules and limitations, like items having a cap and only being usable on the overworld. +Despite being a challenging game, it is very forgiving and fair with generous saves, no loss of progress on death, access to respecs, and all enemy info is readily available to examine immediately so you don't need to trial and error sacrificial runs to even begin to form a strategy. +Has a very generous demo that lets you experience an exceedingly large portion of the game for free. +Has loads of interesting modifiers for not only an easier or harder time, but for crazy challenge runs, like randomizers for the job unlocks. CONS -If your main motivation to play RPGs is story, you will be hard-pressed to find it here. There is some intrigue if you look hard and recurring characters that pop-up occasionally, but the game is largely mute in this respect, dumping you into an empty field and saying "go". -Even overworld fodder enemies can have challenging attack patterns, so you'll be overwhelmed if you expect this game to be a relaxing grind where you can just auto-attack and keep your party in a favorite but suboptimal state. Such constant engagement can be uncomfortable or tiring for some. -The sheer amount of freedom allowed for exploration, having to purchase maps for each location and going blind until then, and the lack of concrete objectives can be overwhelmingly confusing and intimidating at times. -Similar to something like Breath of the Wild, the game starts you in a closed-off area for you to get a feel for everything. This tutorial period can be a bit boring and you could be shocked by the difficulty spike once they let you into the world proper. -The blocky Minecraft looking world might not be everyone's cup of tea, lacking a certain sense of majesty and feeling rather function over form.
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This is a really hidden gem. I don't know how this game hasn't gotten more word of mouth, but it is legitimately the best turn-based RPG of all time. If this developer ever reads this review, please make more in this genre, you made a perfect game.
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Perfect RPG for an RPG hater like myself. Specifically: * I'm not interested in story or dialogue. The game has minimal both. * I want combat to be interesting and not a grind. Here, it's similar to Slay the Spire in that it's almost a puzzle: The enemies broadcast their upcoming actions and you need to both plan and react accordingly, rather than just apply a broad strategy. (Sometimes the normal enemy encounters can feel a bit repetitive) * Traversing the world is actually interesting, and only restricted by your movement/inventory rather than plot triggers. * Skill trees and character customization are deep enough to be interesting, but simple enough to not warrant analysis paralysis. * Effectively no decision is irreversible, and no missables. If you ever want to pivot to a different strategy it's always an option, and just requires light time and resources. And there's no sense of "don't miss stealing an item from this boss" * You feel you can liberally use items. There's no sense of "save all your megalixers!" I can't imagine an RPG that's more in line with what I want out of an RPG. (Fully completed on Switch)
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This game feels like 50% JRPG and 50% platforming And 0% story, of course. Honestly I wish there was less platforming. The game doesn't do it well enough for it to be this core to gameplay. But still, it's a pretty good JRPG gameplay with a bit more depth than your average for that genre, and at a relatively low price.
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Crystal Project is a gem, but you won't know that unless you play the game from start to finish and look back. It starts out alright, seems like your classic JRPG and some jumping puzzles. The 2.5D environment feels odd at first but you slowly get used to it and start to enjoy its charm. As you progress, you can start to get overwhelmed by the size of the game and just how much you can explore. You also start to feel the depth of the character customisation and the depth of combat. Aaaand then it takes off..... When you unlock certain ways to move around the map more easily, the game becomes amazing. The sheer size will blow you away. There is CONSTANTLY a cave in the back of your mind that you passed that you could explore, or a mountain to be climbed. And as you explore them, you find more and more areas that you didn't know about. The more you explore at this stage of the game, the more you start to appreciate the world design and realise its not just the size thats impressive, but the thought that had gone into connecting the areas. Another praise worthy thing is that even if you find some aspect of the game tedious, and it hinders your enjoyment of the game, you are able to just change it. For example, if you don't enjoy platforming constantly, there is an autojump option. While it makes the game easier, it still doesn't trivialise the puzzles, and the journey, as it is a lot more about finding the route than making the jump. Overall, a great game - 9/10, probably too difficult to gain more mainstream attention but for those who enjoy these types of games, it may just be your new favourite game of all time. I personally enjoyed it enough to get 100% achievements on it, and this roughly took 50h.
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Crystal Project is currently priced at 11.59€ on Steam.
Crystal Project is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.59€ on Steam.
Crystal Project received 2,070 positive votes out of a total of 2,237 achieving a rating of 8.84.
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Crystal Project was developed and published by Andrew Willman.
Crystal Project is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Crystal Project is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Crystal Project is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Crystal Project is a single-player game.
Crystal Project does not currently offer any DLC.
Crystal Project does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Crystal Project does not support Steam Remote Play.
Crystal Project 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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Andrew Willman
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Andrew Willman
Release
31 Mar 2022
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