Recent reviews by Vapporw

A Nostalgic Classic, But...
I played the original back in the day (Flash and PS2), and I was hyped to revisit it on PC—only to be met with the most barebones port imaginable.

No graphics settings (but it's HD). No meaningful gameplay tweaks nor settings. Nothing. It’s literally the same game, two decades later, with basically zero quality-of-life improvements. The port isn’t broken, but it feels a little bit like the devs hit "Export to PC", made some tweaks and called it a day. If this had dropped a decade earlier or cost $5, I wouldn’t even complain.

Play Together Mode? More Like "Give Me Your Keyboard" Mode
Co-op works, but for some mystifying reason, the second player must take control of your mouse and keyboard—even if they’re using a controller. I’ve played a lot of games, but this is the first time I’ve seen that issue.

Short but Brutal
If you’ve played it before, you can probably beat it in under two hours or less. New players? Expect pain. It’s not as punishing as Cuphead, but it’s not forgiving either—everything kills you instantly, and offscreen bullets have a personal vendetta against you.

Final Verdict
The game itself? A timeless, chaotic masterpiece.
This PC port? A little bit lazy, a little bit overpriced, but at least functional.

Wait for a sale unless you’re drowning in nostalgia. That said, the art style has aged very well, and the gameplay is still a blast, so I’d still recommend it… just with caution.

• If you have or had any interest in the original PS1 Digimon World, then you should really consider buying this game. If the game is on sale, then just go for it.

• You will need a controller. Preferably one with Xbox button layout. There is a mod for Playstation button layout.

• Select "Easy" for less grinding.

• Start by following the story at the beginning. You can wander around, but can't do very much without story progressing a little bit first.

If you have ever played the original Playstation Digimon World on PS1 and liked it even a little, then chances are high that you'll also like this one. This game is more casual, with an actual story, and has more endgame content than the original. If you don't know about the original Digimon World, then you should watch some gameplay to understand how this game works. This review is mostly for those who are already familiar with the mechanics.

At the beginning, it's a little annoying that you can't really freely choose the path you want to take, since recruiting Digimon usually requires certain progress in the story. If you see recruitable Digimon "too soon", then they just say something like "go away", and you can't fight them. Later you can more freely choose where you want to go and who you want to recruit, so this annoyance lasts only during the early game.

• The new version is more casual and explains most of the things quite well. This was the biggest question in my mind: does this game require the same kind of reading guides and trying to figure out what to do? You should be able to finish the main game without guides. Endgame probably requires tips about how to make your Digimon more powerful.

• Two Digimon make the game more exciting, and you can either level them up at the same speed or have their lives desynced. Then you can benefit from higher training stats and fighting rewards since those are determined by the more powerful Digimon. Keeping care of your two Digimon is easier than the one in the original.

• There are many quality-of-life improvements, and at the later stage of the game, you have quite a big collection of evolution items, ways to modify Digimon stats, hints about evolution requirements, and the possibility to block evolution into Digimons you have already had, and so on. You will eventually also get access to reliable ways to make your Digimon live longer or die sooner.

• You will get tamer points that can be used to permanently unlock various new skills and boosts. In the original game tamer points only affected how much stats new Digimon inherits after reborn.

• After recruiting certain Digimon, you can upgrade your city/buildings using materials.

• There are a lot more recruitable Digimon than in the original.

• There are also new endgame bosses and dungeons that offer more challenge for those who want it.

You basically need a controller for this game. Battling with two Digimon is actually quite well thought out, and I don't have any complaints about controls with the controller. If you don't have a controller, then you will have a tough time.

• If you dislike grinding then select "Easy" because "Normal" just overall requires more grinding. Naming should be: Easy = Normal, Normal = Hard. Comparing to this game the originals only setting was Hard/Very Hard.

• If you want to get all achievements then you need grind a ton regardless which difficulty setting you choose.

• Tip: this is not mentioned anywhere in the game but fighting freezes in-game time so fighting wild Digimon will eventually give you better stats compared to using gym which uses one in-game hour per session.

There are some minor annoyances, but there are also some great quality-of-life mods at Nexus that made this game more enjoyable:

• Always Running: You run a ton during the game, so faster running speed is very nice to have. I had it doubled. You will probably save some real-world hours just running back and forth. Faster running speed technically gives a better chance to avoid wild Digimon, but there are very few Digimon that you can't dodge with default speed, and when those few faster Digimon appear, it shouldn't really matter anyway.

• Camera Distance: Having larger camera view is godsend with larger Digimons that otherwise block the whole screen. It's also generally nicer to be able to see more surroundings. Try to disable depth of field in case of lag.

• Instant Care Menu: You open this menu million times, and it is just a lot nicer when the menu open in an instant without delay.

• One Hit Resources: Grinding resources shouldn't need more un-needed clicking. Click resources once and get them. Hope this was the default behaviour.

• Static Minimap: This should be built-in option, but at least we can stop spinning map with mod.

• Battle Stats Multiplier: With default settings, this will provide actual Easy mode, offering more stats when grinding. Endgame requires you to grind a ton, even with Easy, so instead of repeating the same basic actions for several hours, you can optionally save time and grind for an hour or less for the same results. It doesn't make stats free but makes grinding more rewarding.

• (Playstation button prompts): By default the game uses Xbox style button prompts. You can change them into Playstation ones if you happen to play using a Playstation controller.

...and some more. Check the mods, and spend something like 30 minutes, and you’ll have a better time during the dozens of hours you probably spent with this game :)

It's a Windows simulator

This DLC adds several hours of more content for the game and it integrates seamlessly to the main game. From the new mechanics Fuse feels quite gimmicky but others are quite good additions. New cards are quite well balanced and aren't OP* compared to vanilla. This DLC doesn't add any new Steam achievements.

Sale price is quite well adjusted compared to base game if you take into account what you get. Normal price isn't too bad and I would anyway recommend to get this if you like(d) the main game. You basically get more of the same stuff.

*Update: playing High Priest + Mind Enhancement with any five minions enables almost infinite loop of Immolate abilities. You can buff all your minions stats into hundreds and one match can last 10-15 minutes depending on how long you want to keep your combo up. You can also draw your whole deck and heal + buff your heros stats.

TL;DR Buy if you like the game. Don't buy if you don't like the game.

Board game style moving with (soft) limited turns add some extra strategy since your choices actually matters. There is also some depth with unlockable skills and possibility to upgrade minions, items and heroes. You can save the run and continue and/or restart it later if you want so. You don't need to grind very much except if you want to unlock all achievements.

If you like roguelite deckbuilders then you probably like Looper Tactics. This is quite casual game so it would also be a good game to start exploring the genre.

This game is far more addictive than it should be.

It can be frustrating at first but here are few tips:
- Use skip. You should not add new symbol every round.
- Use your re-rolls and delete un-needed symbols (when there are at least 21).
- Choose your strategy as you go. You will probably just lose if you think it beforehand.
- Optionally install HD Icons pack from Workshop.

Necro update after 5 years broke mods. Many mods are last updated several years ago and left unmaintained so there will be tons of mods which will stay broken with these new updates. I myself have little over 200 mods installed and I'm not gonna troubleshoot them one-by-one. Modding community had already fixed most of the bugs and performance issues and I'm not sure they are that happy to do it all again.

Please release last "mod-friendly" version 1.34 as "Legacy version" or something so people with mods can continue playing this game. Sadly Steam don't let user choose if they want to update their game or not.

With it´s CPU usage I´m pretty sure that it´s secretly mining crypto