Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch
Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch
Game
Game2019
Vambrace: Cold Soul
Developer Devespresso Games
Vambrace: Cold Soul is a 2019 roguelike dungeon crawler role-playing video game developed by South Korean studio Devespresso Games. It was released for Linux, macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Set in a dark fantasy world, the game follows Evelia Lyric as she leads a series of expeditions to explore the haunted lost city of Icenaire, which is covered under a deep layer of ice, in order to… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
208 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Aug 10, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
108 positive · 76 negative
95% range 51–66%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 108 | 76 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
194 of 305 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
59% recommend · 110 yes, 77 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (625 of 953 positive).
Players praise the game's beautiful art and character designs. [1][2][3] Many note it is a simpler, story-focused version of Darkest Dungeon. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize the poor tutorial and lack of tooltips. [1][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [16]
Edit: Vambrace is on the XBox game pass! If you are subscribed feel free to check it out, it may be flawed but I say it at least warrants a try, if only to look at its graphics. (Removed now) Vambrace is a game that I really want to like because of its gorgeous art and Darkest Dungeon like turn based strategy, but its flaws are so glaring that I honestly cannot. The art The drawn arts in this game are nothing short …
- [7]
"Wow, this game looks gorgeous. Why are people downvoting it?" Vambrace does indeed look gorgeous. Its art is impeccable, its setting is great, and its story isn't terrible. It's also still super buggy, and it has the single worst UI I've seen in a game. Vambrace is a Darkest Dungeon-like, but more streamlined. Characters have fewer options. They're easier to replace. Trinkets are single slot and scarce, but …
- [1]
Great game. HORRIBLE tutorial. My 1st hour of play left me with a burning desire to refund this "piece of ***" game. No way to see abilities without going to the separate battle menu. No way to see class names. No way to manage this green goo horror. And don't even start me on the map navigation. Such a cheap knock off to Darkest Dungeon - thought I. ...But the art was excellent. So, I've decided to go and google a …
- [4]
If you played darkest dungeon, you will almost certainly be disappointed. And to be fair, a game that 'borrows' so much of the trappings of DD should really have 'borrowed' the combat mechanics and depth of progression too, seriously. So if that's what you are looking for, go look at Iratus or something that won't savagely leave you hanging. Now, with this out of the way, Vambrace is a ok game. Severly overpriced at …
- [2]
Note: I completed the entire campaign in about 17 hours - this includes all side quests and gathering all the non-mutually exclusive costumes. Vambrace: Cold Soul is a rogue-lite (lite) fantasy game about destiny in an icy hellscape. This game shines with its visuals, a beautiful display of artistic finesse that carries on from the studio's first game. Coupled with a compelling (if not necessarily the most original) …
Summarised from 34 of the 212 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
59% of the 187 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Vambrace: Cold Soul. The complaint that keeps coming up: terrible tutorial and lack of in-game information. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Vambrace: Cold Soul received mixed or average reviews for all release platforms according to review aggregator Metacritic.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 208 · most liked firstGOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck. I thought a dedicated GOG News post might be a nice change-of-pace. I'm not sure how much I can find or cover here, that hasn't already been shared in any case...but I *do* love GOG, and I feel they get a little less publicity or cover than the obvious alternative of Steam...so here we go :) ---------------------------------------------------------- # GOG’s Gaming News: ---------------------------------------------------------- # *Authenticator:*…
neutral · AI labelView post →GOG News for Gaming/Linux/Steam Deck. I thought a dedicated GOG News post might be a nice change-of-pace. I'm not sure how much I can find or cover here, that hasn't already been shared in any case...but I *do* love GOG, and I feel they get a little less publicity or cover than the obvious alternative of Steam...so here we go :) ---------------------------------------------------------- # GOG’s Gaming News: ---------------------------------------------------------- # *Authenticator:*…
neutral · AI labelView post →Edit: Vambrace is on the XBox game pass! If you are subscribed feel free to check it out, it may be flawed but I say it at least warrants a try, if only to look at its graphics. (Removed now) Vambrace is a game that I really want to like because of its gorgeous art and Darkest Dungeon like turn based strategy, but its flaws are so glaring that I honestly cannot. The art The drawn arts in this game are nothing short of amazing. Both the character and environment designs are gorgeous. However…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. HORRIBLE tutorial. My 1st hour of play left me with a burning desire to refund this "piece of ***" game. No way to see abilities without going to the separate battle menu. No way to see class names. No way to manage this green goo horror. And don't even start me on the map navigation. Such a cheap knock off to Darkest Dungeon - thought I. ...But the art was excellent. So, I've decided to go and google a bit. Tips for vambrace. Vambrace Guide. How to play Vambrace. In half an hour…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game. A bunch of the complaints about the game play were all while comparing this to Darkest Dungeon....and I agree, this game can't compare to that polished masterpiece. People complain the combat isn't as strategic and well constructed as DD and they're right...but I don't find it worse, just simpler. However I can't recommend this game because of one thing. Chapter 5. I won't spoiler it but, even with a fairly long thread in the forum advising the devs on how poorly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Wow, this game looks gorgeous. Why are people downvoting it?" Vambrace does indeed look gorgeous. Its art is impeccable, its setting is great, and its story isn't terrible. It's also still super buggy, and it has the single worst UI I've seen in a game. Vambrace is a Darkest Dungeon-like, but more streamlined. Characters have fewer options. They're easier to replace. Trinkets are single slot and scarce, but significant. The story is more emphasized, and the overall speed of play is a little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: * The art is absolutely fantastic. * I love that you can hire different classes for your party * The maps are clear and the dungeons layouts are great * The story was entertaining * I love turn based combat Cons: * You can't be a completionist. Vigor runs out and then that's it. I HATE vigor! Why even have this mechanic? Why can't I just run every room in all the dungeons? Make a mode for that. * Mechanics for everything except for fighting was confusing. I was asking myself why I didn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Is this game a masterpiece? Yes, I think so. It is a rather unique experience. Vambrace is a challenging, narrative based rpg where you play Evelia Lyric, a girl that stumbles into a cursed city with a never-ending winter where spirits hunt for the souls of the last remaining humans. Those survivors have created an underground town and when…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Note: I completed the entire campaign in about 17 hours - this includes all side quests and gathering all the non-mutually exclusive costumes. Vambrace: Cold Soul is a rogue-lite (lite) fantasy game about destiny in an icy hellscape. This game shines with its visuals, a beautiful display of artistic finesse that carries on from the studio's first game. Coupled with a compelling (if not necessarily the most original) story, Vambrace will easily provide significant enjoyment if you fit the niche…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A beautiful, but incomplete experience. Writing this review at 13 hours game time, I feel like I've experienced everything the game has to offer, gameplay wise. Suffice to say, I did not finish the entire story, but at this point, I didn't really want to. The story is not bad; you play as Eve-something Lyric, your standard RPG heroine with a powerful vambrace that can do something other people can't. The cast is great and the art is amazing. The music suits the context well. I feel like this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One big con: You can not save the game during the mission. It makes it not playable for people with limited time for gaming. I tried the first mission three times, never finished, because I have to stop playing and save was not possible. Otherwise gane is good, interesting story and gameplay, but due to not progressing I have to uninstall.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the idea of Darkest Dungeon, but with more story focused and beautiful art. What I dont like is no real roguelike mechanics or RPG mechanics - meaning that there is no possible way to get better, apart from buying new equipment. For example, I went through the whole dungeon to confront first boss, and it wiped my whole party, alright then. I thought I will get better things and try again, well, all the money I had was used just to buy health items to make it to the boss again and it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think Vambrace is one of those games which try to do something different and are terribly misunderstood because of just that. First of all: The game has a history of getting a lot of negative reviews on launch for being "too hard". As a reaction the developers created various patches to make the game "more approachable". I only stumbled upon this game this year, so I can only speak about the "current" game ... but I honestly wonder how the game mightve been at the launch, since I believe…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game feels like... one guy created beautiful art, another wrote a fascinating lore and characters, and a third guy crapped all over it to make a videogame from all that, and push it on the Steam store to sell it already, and furgetabout' it Pros: -VERY pretty! -Waifus -good story, fun characters -lovely art design and beautiful melancholic music -Dress up waifus, hire waifuuuuus! Cons: -Horribly rushed game development and it shows -completely inexistent information about every skill,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you played darkest dungeon, you will almost certainly be disappointed. And to be fair, a game that 'borrows' so much of the trappings of DD should really have 'borrowed' the combat mechanics and depth of progression too, seriously. So if that's what you are looking for, go look at Iratus or something that won't savagely leave you hanging. Now, with this out of the way, Vambrace is a ok game. Severly overpriced at $30, but I got it at $10 and I don't regret it. The combat is overly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your game offers you to instal NET Framework 3.5 at the beginning and then just remains on a black screen. Here is a solution from @Arexac: 1) Go to the start button of Windows or Windows key + R , and type appwiz.cpl (or just search appwiz) 2) On the left side of the page "Open/Close Windows Setting" click it 3) On the new page you'll see Net Framework 3.5 unticked, tick its square 4) Restart the PC, the game runs normally. I am going to keep this as a thumb-down because - it is more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The world has frozen over and traveling above ground is a dangerous proposition. The world is full of all sorts of spooks, specters and other otherworldly things. Thankfully you are an anime heroine with a special glove that can dispel the ice enough to lead a small group above ground in search of a solution to this problem. Don't bother learning the names of your companions because they will not level up or learn new abilities and every time they die you will just replace them. Be sure to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly I can't recommend the game. The art is so beautiful, the scenery, the setting is great and there are tons of skins for your MC to unlock and they're all so great, it shows they've worked really hard on it. Gameplay is too boring, combat is no fun at all and there is very little diversity in skills. Traveling around is confusing, it took me a long time to make sense of the overworld map and understand where I was supposed to go. If you want to unlock everything in your codex and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are the buttons on the icons on the character profile screens flipped horizontally (i.e. backwards) along with the range icon below the individual attacks? Why does LT flip through the inventory items but not RT? Are the enemy health bars translatable to actual numbers? Why only allow the analog stick to navigate up and down menus but not the directional pad? Why do you have to hit the analog stick down every time you move down one row on any selection screen instead of it being able to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A first look at Rough Trigger's base system. This is still early but part of how you'll be managing Seiko's PMC, Vambrace Security, in the game. You'll be hiring mercenaries and civilians and also provide shelter for refugees #screenshotsaturday #monogame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →Wouldn't recommend Vambrace: Cold Soul. What carries this game is its art. And I mean yeah sure, it looks really good, but nothing worth glossing the rest of the game over. I kind of get what they wanted to go with this game as some heritage to Darkest Dungeon but more plot-focused, but they went so far into creating systems to interact with that they forgot to make them actually interesting. The plot doesn't really have much going for it, it's alright I guess, but there's wayy too much…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Art is beautiful, the premise seems great, the story is engaging.... BUT - the main gameplay loop is not fun at all. This game has obvious similarities to Darkest Dungeon but feels like somebody who neither understood why the combat there was good nor how to properly build an UI for it that feels good implemented it. The game tries to simplify things, but doing so removes so much information (you cannot see how much damage attacks do before performing them directly, no good explanations…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent game held back by pervasive mediocrity and a lot of annoying design choices. Nothing about the game besides the art really stands out at all. The story serves its purpose but isn't anything special, the music is fine but forgettable, and the gameplay is fun at first but basically doesn't evolve at all, getting very repetitive and tedious by the end. This is made worse by the fact that there isn't a real sense of progression throughout the game. Your characters don't level up,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My main problem with this game is how it saves your progression, If you enter a "dungeon", you clean the rooms, you take decisions that affect the story, you beat the boss/mini-boss AND YOU CLOSE THE GAME WITHOUT FINISHING THE "DUNGEON" YOU START FROM ROOM 1... the decisions you made are saves, the items you used are gone BUT you still have to beat same enemies again, excepting the boss. You can't level up your companions and there is barely any itemization. The artstyle is nice, the story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game, I really did. I'm in love with darkest dungeon so I was looking for a similar game and ended up on vambrace: cold soul. The game itself plays similarly to darkest dungeon with two key differences: polish and fairness. Where darkest dungeon punishes you for wrong moves and risky actions (though I should mention luck is also a part of the game but I believe it is done more tastefully) vambrace punishes you for its own awful design. Anywhere from locking the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game all in all looks nice and has an interesting story, with good mechanics but it very mutch irritates me that your companions that you bring to explore are no more than throwaway pawns. There is very limited interaction with them and they can not progress in any way. You just swap them if they die or become obsolete with new ones for free.... This makes the game feel very inorganic and breaks the immersion for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Darkest Dungeon's annoying younger sibling. Darkest Dungeon is going through its Poe/Lovecraft phase. It is helping stage Macbeth at the community theatre and pretends very hard to enjoy absinthe. Vambrace is into anime and k-pop, and actually buys into the idea that Jordan Peterson is a martyr for free speech. Darkest Dungeon trains épée fencing, and dreams of Heidelberg duelling scars. Vambrace is very proud of its yellow belt in TKD from the McDojang at the mall. Darkest Dungeon loves…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a beautiful game. To those who are on the fence. Buy it. Enjoy the story, enjoy the torture of making choices you can't save scum. Enjoy it for what it is. If you're looking for a battle sim, look elsewhere. Otherwise, enjoy getting all her outfits!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story of the game is interesting. There are a few things I don't find really appealing there, but the story works. The gameplay itself feels very tedious and the combat isn't really fun. It feels like Darkest Dungeons, but clunkier, slower, less engaging and less fun. I got it while it was on sale and I'm thankful for that. I wouldn't recommend anyone buy it. It's just not that fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good artstyle, terrible presentation. Game does everything to make it hard for the player to get into it with ease. So much info dump, unnecessary dialogs and after a while you are lost, you dnt know what to do. It could havebeen better if they just made this game something like Life of Suffering of Sir Brante. But copying Darkest Dungeon in a very wrong formula leads to frustration. Probably there are some interesting mechanics in the game, or at least i could have tried the combat and gotten…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried to like the game. 9 hours in.... And I can't recommend it. Before buying the game I've read other comments and thought: "Maybe the players are too picky?" But no... There are alot of frustrating things and almost nothing to pick your interest while playing. You are just playing with feeling that the time is wasted. Pros: +++ It is good Visually. Every skin has it's own avatar in conversations. +++ Alot of characters connected in the "complicated" story. Cons ---…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played this game extensively on Xbox One through Game Pass. I enjoyed it so much that I had to buy it again on Steam. The biggest issue I think people have is that they came in hoping for Darkest Dungeon with babes in it, but that isn't the case for this game. While it does have Darkest Dungeon's combat traits, it's a much simpler game and there's nothing wrong with that because the developers have crafted a much bigger world packed with characters and lore. The aesthetics are also so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute GARBAGE combat system. 2/10 Exploration is ok, nothing amazing tho. 5/10 Survival system is garbage (vigor is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) 3/10 Gameplay loop is as follows >explore >loot >retreat when vigor is low >upgrade / buy >explore till you can finish the chapter / retreat when vigor is low >repeat Could be much better. 4/10 Art 8/10, very good art, combat skill sprites could be better tho Story/lore, 8/10 its pretty good. Narrator. 0/10 A sInGuLaR mistake Negative so devs work harder, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was very hopeful for the game as it bears a strong resemblance to Darkest Dungeon, which I loved, however I didn't have nearly as much fun. There was a lot of running around, talking to people, I even spent a while wandering around trying to figure out where to go next only to have to restart the chapter as my resources ran out. It would be nice if you didn't have to consult a separate menu to figure out what the combat actions did.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The whole side quest system is very unclear, the game doesn't tell you that if you choose a option you can just fail a quest just then and there. Some side quests don't even have a marker on the map, do you expect me to remember EVERYONE'S names? The first side quest of the game where you can choose to give an item to 2 different people... I didn't meet one of them (bug probably) and the game was acting like I did the whole time, so i had no idea about the context of the choice, and if you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried to like this but struggled a lot. The artwork is really good, I liked the gothic style set in a cold world, it was quite atmospheric. The characters are well drawn and there's a good ongoing story with some good world building. One of the nice bits was finding the various sub-quests so that you could get different costumes for the main character. The party system is a bit flexible, you can go to a 'recruitment board' and recruit different classes for your team and try…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros :: - Story (For what i play'd I wanted more). - The Art / Design is very well made. - Companions for hire & diff. classes (Like the Scout - that also helps out when camping with bonus). *! - Top down view of Town makes it easy to navigate and the "!" will tell you about quest and such. - Turn Based. (if you like that). Cons :: - *! - Companions you can chose 3 but then again not.. scout -> traps, warrior -> tank and after that well.. Guess 1 is what you get, unless you want a challenge. -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 game looks nice and i really wanted to like it + decent story + decent combat, almost none - ok this turn every single enemy is going to attack your main guy and kill them from full health, annnd back to start - mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RNG!!!! - and the swapping your party every time you want to do anything to boost odds of getting a good drop or not triggering a trap - the amount of time spent healing my party - 7 hours of game play and i unlocked 1 upgrade point, YEAHHH!!! it does almost…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Inspired by darkest dungeon but leaning towards the easy side. A strong narrative element with a simple but well told story populated by charming characters brought to life with a nice art style. Gameplay might be a bit simple, but enough to keep you busy through the story and with a curious way to implement side quests, choice and consequences. At no point did I feel like I needed more elements thrown into the game. There's been a lot of love poured into this, and it shows. You can tell they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i played while not having experienced darkest dungeons. i read there were lot of issues when the game first launched, but as i played this on august 2024, no particular balance or RNG issues (game was a bit on the easy side, i played on normal). i had fun playing this, really liked that the devs put extra arts to go with the different costumes (the columbo and sailor moon were funny).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vambrace it's not a bad game, considering the relatively small team that created it. Visually is very pleasing, with a style strongly reminiscent of korean manwha. Quite a bit of effort went into world building and the story, despite the fact that it seems to follow a checklist of all the cliches of the genre (mysterious father missing - check; enemy who turns out to be on the same side - check; betrayal of the supposed friend - check ... and so on, with unerring precision). From the point of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vambrace: nicely drawn Vambrace: Cold Soul is a peculiar blend of Darkest Dungeon’s turn-based crawl and visual-novel style of storytelling. This unusual core concept is built around the game’s distinct artstyle, likely the precise reason for which you would pick the game in the first place. Step into high-heeled boots of Evelia Lyric, as she makes her journey to the underground city of Dalearch, compelled by her father’s last will. Along with the late father’s letter, Evelia is presented with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful character design, mysterious story, interesting main character backstory and overall cool characters to interact… To be honest I was kind of reluctant to buy the game after reading the bad reviews, but I have to say… I have truly enjoyed this game so far, it’s like darkest dungeon, but with a more charming character design (at least to my weeb taste), and I think they have being hearing the community therefore have fixed some of the “balancing issues”, since I cannot see what they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vambrace: Cold Soul is the embodiment of a playable novel. Lets get right into it! Vambrace: Cold Soul takes inspiration from the gothic fantasy of Castlevania, the deep lore of games like TES:V, the replayability of roguelites like Darkest Dungeon, and the sweeping, character-driven epics of JRPGs. With those inpsirations in mind, Devespresso Games has quite honestly birthed the best narrative driven Roguelite on the market. Gameplay The Gameplay of Vambrace will be familiar to many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Likes - Incredible artwork. - Decent story, though nothing great. Neutral - Music is okay but nothing memorable. - The game is too easy. Once I understood the camping mechanics, I finished the rest of the game without any wipes or retreat on Cold Soul difficulty, starting from Chapter 2. This is primarily due to the oversimplification of battle stats into a single Combat stat. Dislikes - No keybinds. - UI is clunky at times. No tooltip for enemy status effects. After a major…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent RPG with very slight roguelike elements. The story and world building is interesting. I really enjoyed it, but I can't recommend it without some caveats. There's just not enough room for experimentation with team bulding with being forced to bring along the main character in every run and not having space for extra units. I mostly only played the same team composition during my playthroughs. Event variety in runs is also a bit lacking and gets repetitive. Other than that, I enjoyed the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**Baldur's Gate 3** was the best I played this year. There might be recency bias, but I genuinely think it's one of the best games I've ever played. **Persona 5 Royal** isn't super far behind, was also great. Worst game I finished was **Starfield**. Did not see that coming. Worst overall was **Vambrace: Cold Soul.** Incredibly gorgeous game with a complete disaster of a core gameplay loop.
negative · AI labelView post →i like it very much
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tl;DR This is a good game, but the price tag is slightly too high. If you can, get it for $15 or less. Pros: ++Player Customization. is something that this game gives plenty of, from the outfits Lyric wears, to the companions she brings on her expeditions. There's plenty of ways to build your party, and you can build it however you want (to varying degrees of success) +Replayability. A single playthrough on normal difficulty with experience in this game style took me around 15 hours to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty mediocre as Darkest Dungeon clone, but its real value lies in artstyle, story and setting, which are all pretty interesting and well fleshed out. The game is pretty short and linear, but can be quite engaging if you are into narrative driven games. Gameplay is rather shallow and repetitive, but it's fortunately unobstructive and due to how short the game is, it doesn't become an issue. Controller is not required but recommended as it makes the whole experience much more smooth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a exploit where you load the last level and obtain almost all achievements by beating it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be honest- at first, I wasn't enyoing Vambrance at all, thinking it would be quite similar to Darkest Dungeon in terms of mechanics and their focus in the gameloop itself. But the farther I've got into the game, the more I understood what all of this is about- some beautiful art and most of all: the story and interaction with the characters within. If you up for a somewhat mechanically clunky (sometimes frustrating) but storywise interesting told Darkest Dungeon type, you might enjoy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game! It's challenging and has a unique art style that deeply resonates with me every time I play the game. I'm surprised it's got mixed reviews, but it seems a lot of people are comparing Vambrace to Darkest Dungeon. I haven't played the latter, so I cannot comment on that. What I can share, though, are my experiences playing Vambrace: What is this game? Your aim is to defeat a boss in each map and loot the "dungeons" within it. The dungeons use a timer and your crew loses stamina…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's certainly a game, but Im not sure what the hype is all about, unless its just for the character design. The gameplay is pretty repetitive, and not all that interesting. I think they need to have more tool tips for the attacks and what things do because it's not very intuitive. Basic QoL things would be a big boost I feel.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun story driven Darkest Dungeon style game. You should not be scared off by the rating of the game, as it is much improved now. I played this game back in 2019 for the first time and I honestly hated it, but now I have to commend the developers for saving this game with their updates. The game isn't perfect but you can feel the passion of the developers. I would love a continuation in this world where the devs have the opportunity to show what they have learned. A special…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Weird experience. Good art but disparate and absent voice acting and poor sound. Bad UI and cumbersome turn based mechanics.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wasted 5h, lost my save file bc of NOT "super hiden secret room" where i could teleport to next chapters... I was mid chapter 3, i teleported to end of chapter 5, game autosaved after this. I thought that i found a secret room with cutscens...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vambrace: Cold Soul, developed by Devespresso Games and published by Headup, is a gothic roguelike RPG that weaves together narrative-driven exploration, punishing combat, and strategic party management in a world blanketed by perpetual frost. Set in the haunted city of Icenaire, the game introduces players to Evelia Lyric, a mysterious outsider who possesses a magical artifact known as the Vambrace. This relic allows her to enter the cursed city—a place overrun by the undead and sealed off…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I HATE THE AUTOSAVE! I HATE THE LONG INTRO BEFORE YOU CAN PLAY THE GAME! I am now trying to 100% the achievements, sadly, you can not save the game before making a choice. You have to stay with whatever choice you make. Once you finish the game once, you can restart the game (deal with the long intro AGAIN) and select a chapter. The story is good, the gameplay is kinda fun, RPG-like. I like the alternative outfits I have gotten so far.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short, exploration-focused dungeon crawler with turnbased combat. The story was deeper than expected, and there's many interesting mechanics that may come as a surprise. The worst thing you can do is go in thinking this plays exactly like a different game just because of how it looks. Accept it for what it is and you will find the mechanics are very streamlined and forgiving, with no minmaxing or number crunching, and combat is extremely simple and fast. Many side quests with decisions that…
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