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Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Overture is a action roguelike, indie and rpg game
developed by Black Shell Games
and published by Plug In Digital.
Released on February 02nd 2015 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 1,252 reviews of which 949 were positive and 303 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 50 MB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated Audio
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Luck > Skill There will be a TL;DR at the end. ~ I’ll keep this as short and simple as possible - like one of the countless doomed runs this game promises. Overture is a quaint and essentially simple title that ticks all the boxes it really sets out to fulfill, but doesn't really have enough momentum to break away from its own mold. There’s only really one style of game that there is: an RNG selected level with an RNG bossfight at the end. Ramping difficulty while you travel to the final level. Some of the enemies are map/biome specific, but mostly are the same general foes with increases to their HP and damage. Loot is randomly distributed, with randomly generated results. Enemies randomly drop items and additional gold with XP rewards being dolled out randomly . The bosses choose their movesets randomly , with their efficacy being randomly generated. Is it fun? It IS for a while. Issues begin to pop up when it comes to limited replayability and the awkward Character system; where there are, admittedly, quite a few different ‘styles’ to play as and go through the randomized core loop alongside with… but some characters are much more effective than others. With the leveling system, pooling your coin into a few characters will make the game much easier on them while the other, less successful ones languish away and gather dust. The Steam page boasts of having 24 characters to choose from, but you’ll only realistically be playing with 4 - 8 of them while the others will languish away as experimental novelties. It may seem that the short-lived and novel experience of the title, the awkward loot/reward systems, and the issues with the character roster may be the result of some poorly implemented design philosophy, but in reality it’s the result of the same imperative that makes this product worthwhile to begin with. Overture is about gambling. It is, in essence, a gambling game. That’s what makes it disposable fun while also holding it back from being meaningful. Your skill expression as a player doesn’t really amount to much. If you’re excellent at bullet-hell shooters or kiting zombies in other genres, you may have an edge - but it will not inform your gameplay. What you do and the choices you make turn out not to matter all that much. You either get good loot or you don’t, enemies drop tons of gold or they don’t, there is an opening in the projectiles or there isn’t, a hundred enemies swarm you at once or they don’t, the boss uses the inta-hit dash or it doesn’t. You take a hit? Either it 100% kills you or it doesn’t. Things such as shot placement, combos, utility, placement, and timing are generally thrown out the window. All that matters is the numbers - and the numbers are chosen randomly. The most skilled player may boot into a map where there is lava and enemies begin swarming from all directions before collecting any items… a doomed run from the beginning regardless of how you may play. Another may get a grassland map and find powerful loot before encountering much resistance. It is a complete crapshoot. That’s sorta the great and the horrible about the entire experience. It’s fun to boot it up every now and again and put a couple of runs into characters when there’s time to kill. It’s an excellent “I have to wait for my game to update in the background” title that can sit on your hard drive without taking much space until you need it - but the rush isn’t very rewarding, and it is also quite involved. That’s really the greatest thing holding it back: it’s a lot of action packed fun, but it demands your constant attention without rewarding the level you have to put back into it. It’s neat to try out a necromancer and see how far you can go, but you will be distracted if you’re talking to friends, you won’t be able to pay attention to a lecture in the background, and - even though you’re giving the application as much of your mindfulness as a Valorant match may demand, you will never quite improve or feel a sense of pride in your abilities within the game itself. It was designed to be a quaint, disposable, and essentially light-hearted little RNG adventurer. It gets the job done, but there are better games out there - and over the years, you’re not going to put that many hours into the title. ~ TL;DR 5.5/10 Overture is a Competent game. It’s neat to boot up and have little randomized adventures, but there isn’t much reason to come back. If you’re into gambling in an RNG bullet-hell, this is your stop - otherwise get it on sale, try it out, then forget about it.
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don't get me wrong, this is not a classic bullet hell game, what this is, and what many other reviews seem to misunderstand, is that the lacking visual clarity is INTENTIONAL, this game is a visual auditory overload, and you will not be able to see what going on. it is a brutal shitshow where the game throws everything at you without pulling any punches. i original got a DRM free copy on humble bundle, and put in more then 10 hours, in that time i only made it past the first level a handful of times. you can go from full health to dead in a matter of seconds, and the game is not fair in the slightest, the point of this game is not to beat it, there is not end, no goal, you must simply endure.
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Overture is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
Overture is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 3.99€ on Steam.
Overture received 949 positive votes out of a total of 1,252 achieving a rating of 7.28.
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Overture was developed by Black Shell Games and published by Plug In Digital.
Overture is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Overture is not playable on MacOS.
Overture is not playable on Linux.
Overture is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Overture. Explore additional content available for Overture on Steam.
Overture does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Overture does not support Steam Remote Play.
Overture 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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