LucasSomething
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How "recent" we talking? If you liked jimmy for the gear, classes and dungeons then Crystal Project is top tier but it's not quirky. Most quirky rpgs don't really have great rpg system.
BTW i've been playing a rpg maker game called Rise of The Third Power
You might think this looks like generic fantasy rpg maker, and you'd be right, but this game is definitely trying to be as quirky as possible instead of nostalgic, which feels really weird tbh. It's very comedy focused and the main characters are all assholes.
This would be a fine introduction except they reuse this converastion AGAIN 3 minutes and i realized the writing is just kinda bad.
The worst part is that they don't actually explain WHY we're kidnapping the princess either (until hours later) so it doesn't even work as exposition.
One conversation i really didn't like was something like
Girl: THis is the room they signed the peace treaty for the war. My parents died in the war so i kinda... kinda feel like this place is important and
Pirate: We dont have time for this, lets move on.
*next room*
pirate: Hmm, we should take this opportunity to steal from the nobles while we can.
Girl: I CAN'T TALK ABOUT MY DEAD PARENTS FOR ONE MINUTE AND YOU ALREADY WANT TO STEAL STUFF?
And it's like, paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaainnnn... It's not all this bad, a few lines are funny but i don't like the protagonsits.
This is also one of those rpg makers that tries to be "strategic" and removes mana bar and focuses on attacks making stacks and dots that buff other attacks to give a sense of "combos" but this means the game is completely solved after the first fight. The main pirate guy has an unmissable taunt and a free self heal while the thief girl has a sleep and big oneshot so every fight is the same flowchart. It also has an exhaustion mechanic so you can't stall and self heal every fight or else you get tired and get no exp.
Enemies are also divided in classes which looks cute but ironically makes them all feel the same Tank/Healer/DPS roles. Here are human enemies, they have gunner (dps), shielder (tank) and mage (heal). Here are goblins, they have sword, shielder and mage. Here are frogs, they have sword, shielder and mage...
Overall i already switched to story mode which is just normal but adds an auto-win button, because the enemy density is too high. There were two chests protected by 3 easy encounters and i dont see the point, but you don't want to avoid combat cause leveling gives skill tree points that are fairly strong. The combat sprite are pretty solid and kinda carry the game tbh (if you get a crit there is a huge blood splatter that covers the floor).
Either way Steamfest february 2025 started so there should be new demos to look at.
This game is quirky pokemon made by brazilians and i fear only brazilians will get a lot of jokes here. For example, the evil team is dubbed by team rocket brazilian VAs. It does look to have okay production values so it might not be too bad.
Unfriendly friend doesn't look rpg but it does give me STRONG "horror rpg that is actually about depression" vibes. It's also monochrome as any good depression rpg is.
(protagonist scribbles her own face in pictures, thats how you know she is #sad)Moonchild looks mother 1 but without style. It apparently had a demo since end of last year so if it was posted here already my bad. Sadly it doesnt look good so it would need to have amazing write to standout.
This game is called "Jeff and Crackhead". It looks bad but also looks like a shitpost game with typos and swearing. The gameplay looks surprisingly ambitious for a top down rpg, having platforming, exploration tools, combat minigames and you can dodge projectiles in real time so it's not a lazy rpg maker slop. The demo is out there for any believers.
I already played the Muffles life sentence when it released months ago and it's an edgy quirky rpg inspired by LISA but with card battle system. My problem with it is that the gameplay loops since it becomes a retarded flowchart of "attack and stock 2 shields, use 3 shield to defend the enemy charged attack, repeat". The new cards were too expensive and didn't feel well with the loop of the game because every single enemy has a super charged attack you want to block with 3 shield cards.
If someone likes card rpgs they might have more fun tho, this game releases march 7.
It's everhood 2 baby everyone's favourite reverse undertale! (or not). The demo is out there and the game releases march 4.
This game is inspired by cyberpunk 2077 and looks fairly stylish with a few jokes in the trailer and has a demo.
This game on paper is a mix of a bunch of different things i love like but looks kinda ugly and apparently had a failed kickstarter. Like, it's not even low effort ugly, the artstyle is just fugly. It's half crime deduction death game visual novel but with superhero style rpg combat, which SOUNDS cool at least... A quick glance at the quickstarter reveals they/them pronouns so it is what it is...
(thats a short description...)There are other rpgs with rpg maker default assets out there and might have missed something, but these were the one i found had demos and looked quirky or different enough.
