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The Deer God is a breathtaking 3D pixel art adventure that will challenge your religion and your platforming skills. It's a game about survival, reincarnation, and karma; all set in a breathtaking and unique 3D pixelized world. Feast your eyes on the beautiful lighting, day and night system, and vast landscapes.
The Deer God is a indie, platformer and pixel graphics game
developed by Crescent Moon Games and Cinopt Studios
and published by Crescent Moon Games.
Released on February 27th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 474 reviews of which 306 were positive and 168 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1.4 GHZ Dual Core
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 141 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: 10.6
- Processor: Intel
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Storage: 149 MB available space
Linux
- Processor: 1.4 GHZ Dual Core
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Storage: 146 MB available space
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I bought this game for nostalgia's sake cuz i remember playing the demo on my phone as a kid. It's... nice. I personally like it a lot, though i can't say the mixed reviews are unjustified. The game... is lacking. If you're just looking for a walking simulator with peaceful music and gorgeous graphics and some stuff you gotta kill occasionally then its a great game. Other than that... not so much. I bought this during a sale, and i definitely wouldn't get it for the full price... but its still a nice game. I don't regret buying it.
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You start as a hunter, staying up late and looking for a deer to shoot for an easy meal; two come along, a big stag and a young fawn, and you line up your shot! Unfortunately for you, wolves attack and lightning strikes you at the same time and the baby fawn is shot instead. You definitely died; but the next time your eyes open it’s directly into the floating form of The Deer God, and they look pretty miffed. Appalled by your accidental cruelty, they reincarnate you as a baby deer and the only way to become human again is to redeem yourself. Good luck? 3-7 hour pixel platform side-scrolling adventure game where you play as a deer. Start as a baby and stumble your way to adulthood, complete easy push puzzles to gain various power ups; and use them and your platforming skills to beat some simple bosses. There is a karma system in place, if you’re good other deer will assist you in fights and follow you, but if you murder too many bunny rabbits you get reincarnated as one next time you die. I didn’t experience any bugs, and while the game is pretty easy, you could still die in a moment of carelessness. The only thing “unbalanced” is the Hail skill, where you have a Hail AOE that lasts a couple seconds you can actually stack/spam; I recommend it against one of the last flying bosses. Overall, The Deer God is a fantastic game and I don’t understand why the current reviews are mixed.
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"Did...did I just make a baby? Dude, where the fuck is my baby!? ...yo, fucking snake just ate my baby! Oh well, back to being irresponsible" - Bob, while playing this game. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciH8GJo7ZBo&feature=youtu.be]Don't feel like reading all of this? Check out my review in video form here Pros: _Beautiful: I don't usually care much for artistic design, but goddamn this game looks good. The pixel art is well made with lots of details in both the environment and the characters. Colorful, too, with the ambient lighting and mood changing with the time of day. In short, it's purdy. _Great soundtrack: Don't know what else to say here. The music is good. _Interesting concept: You play as a deer hunter reincarnated as a deer by the deer god. Then you go and eat food to grow into a big deer then have deer babies. If you die, you get reincarnated as one of your babies. What I'm trying to say is the game is weird in the best posible way. _Tight control: the game feels great, jumping is nice and solid, and attacking is impactful. Cons? _It's... boring: Here's the part where the discussion happens for this game, or at least I hope. Mechanically speaking, this game is boring. You just run right, then run right some more. Tired of running right? Keep running right, then, until you're not tired of running right anymore. There's an inventory system here that doesn't do much, and a quest system that's pretty bare-boned. But does that matter? Now that's the million dollars question, isn't it? I feel a lot about this game the way I feel about Sunless Sea. In term of minute-to-minute gameplay, I cannot recommend this game in good faith. There's no game here. But somehow I don't feel like it's a bad game. I find myself strangely attached to it. For such a boring non-game game, it's... good. it's immersive, beautiful, and interesting. Overall, you'd like this game if: _You like pretty game with good music. _You like tight jumping control with lots of platforming. Cuz this game has tons. _You want to fulfill your lifelong dream of being a deer. Majestic creatures. Is it worth $15? I think from the first glance at the game, you already know this answer. If you the type of person that would like this game, then you're already at the checkout screen. If you're a more mechanic-minded person, however, this won't be the game for you. But for the cost of 5 cups of coffee, you might find yourself surprised at how much you like it. I certainly did. Shameless plugs time! Did you like my review? I do more than just that. I also have a YouTube channel where i do Let's Play as well as more reviews like these, but in video form. Come check it out here. My channel is small right now, but I play on making it a regular thing, so hit that subscribe button to see more content. Thank you!
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ENG: The game is visually appealing and a great idea! Action game, the player is only supposed to eat the food to grow, so can not exceed the new barriers. Player can open environment in order to move forward platformer like manner, in which fields in the game change every time you play. The game ends and starts from the beginning that after death, but you can compare the performance of growth or the distance to justify to you. Referral! :3 FIN: Peli on visuaalisesti ja ideana loistava! Toiminnaltaan pelissä pelaajan on vain tarkoitus syödä ruokaa kasvaakseen, jotta voi ylittää uusia esteitä. Pelaaja pääsee avaamaan ympäristöä siinä edetäkseen tasoloikka maisesti, jossa pelin kentät vaihtuvat joka peli kerralla. Peli loppuu ja alkaa alusta joka kuoleman jälkeen, mutta voit verrata suoritustasti kasvun tai etäisyyden perustella mihin pääset. Suositteluni! :3
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So far this game has been enjoyable, but to be honest there are some features (or issues) that have made gameplay irritating, I'll start off with the good bits- the pixal art, the music and the story. The scenery is gorgeous, it's been a long time since I've played a game that put this much thought into a pixel art game. The music and the sound effects are very good, there's been a pretty decent mix of relaxing music and more complex/energetic tunes. And the story has been entertaining, who wouldn't love to play a deer? So far, I have enjoyed the story but with just 2 hours of gameplay I haven't made much progress. As far as complaints go, mine aren't very harsh. Gameplay with the controller is good - intuitive and fluid. Later, I played with a keyboard and mouse for awhile and the controls were awful (weird key assignments and awkward movements). A menu screen to change key assignments would be very helpful. My other chief complaint is the learning system, there is essentially no guidance for this game at all. Attibutes menus and rules are not explained, I was 40 minutes into the game before I realized you could assign fireballs to the antlers. Just a " press Y to open attributes menu" would have been nice. Also,the permadeath, I hate it. I'm not hardcore enough for permadeath so the ability to save would be an improvement. I'd rather see permadeath as a hardcore setting instead of the default. But you probably shouldn't listen to me, I'm too old to be a gamer nowadays. I better stop typing and get my fish oil and prune juice for the day.
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The Deer God is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
The Deer God is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.
The Deer God received 306 positive votes out of a total of 474 achieving a rating of 6.23.
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The Deer God was developed by Crescent Moon Games and Cinopt Studios and published by Crescent Moon Games.
The Deer God is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Deer God is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Deer God is playable and fully supported on Linux.
The Deer God offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The Deer God includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
The Deer God does not currently offer any DLC.
The Deer God does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Deer God does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Deer God 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
Crescent Moon Games,
Cinopt Studios
Publisher
Crescent Moon Games
Release
27 Feb 2015
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