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Astatos

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85%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
85% User Score Based on 111 reviews

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Astatos is a single player and multiplayer action game with fantasy, romance and anime themes. It was developed by Studio Klondike Australia and was released on December 16, 2021. It received positive reviews from players.

Leave your influence in your wake as you bring together a broken land in a card-battling adventure filled with gods, heroes, and the instability of yourself and those around you. Play the story, or go online with fellow Crown Mages for tabletop card action.

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85%Audience ScoreBased on 111 reviews
story19 positive mentions
grinding4 negative mentions
  • The game features beautiful, high-quality art and music that create an immersive and cozy atmosphere.
  • The story and characters are well-written, engaging, and tackle meaningful themes with impactful player choices.
  • The card game offers a unique, strategic tug-of-war style gameplay that is fun once learned, with options for multiplayer and a lively visual novel presentation.
  • The card game mechanics can be confusing, unbalanced, and overly dependent on luck, leading to player frustration.
  • Online multiplayer suffers from very low player population, resulting in long matchmaking times and difficulty finding matches.
  • The game is incomplete and buggy in parts, with missing singleplayer content for battles, an enforced online account requirement, and occasional awkward translation issues.

  • story

    67 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    28% positive mentions, 68% neutral mentions, 4% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for its engaging, emotional, and well-written narrative with meaningful player choices that impact the world. Many players appreciate the visual novel style and character development, though some note the story mode currently lacks integrated gameplay and has occasional technical issues like errors in text. Overall, the story is a strong point that fans look forward to evolving in future updates despite some frustrations with gameplay integration and account requirements.

    • “I was absolutely blown away by the level of storytelling in this game; it has some incredibly deep and emotional moments which motivated me to keep on reading.”
    • “As you progress through the story you will be given choices; each choice feels like it has some serious weight behind it, like your decision actually matters and will change the world around you.”
    • “The visual novel story part is worth it alone, especially on sale.”
    • “Story mode is just text story and gameplay is missing (stated in game that trial stages for the story mode will come in the future).”
    • “There are only 2 rooms for online card game matching (including yourself?), and the story mode is still only story now, without adding the card battle part.”
    • “I kept getting 'error' texts and choices, I don't know if they're intentional but it doesn't seem like it's supposed to be there in story mode.”

  • gameplay

    23 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 13% negative mentions

    The gameplay features a unique tug-of-war card mechanics that allows for strategic depth, though it can feel slow and tedious due to the lack of classic health bars and some bugs. While the core mechanics are solid and innovative, the absence of a story mode gameplay, tutorials, and playerbase currently limits the overall experience. Many players appreciate the concept but hope for future updates to address balance, bugs, and add more content.

    • “The gameplay allows for a myriad of strategies, offering depth and variety.”
    • “Talk about the gameplay itself: it's really interesting with matchmaking color cards and some RPG mechanics, though some bugs affect energy restoration when discarding cards.”
    • “There are no health bars on the players or heroes; instead, each hero can be swayed to the other side with 'energy,' and player health is replaced with a tug-of-war mechanic.”
    • “The gameplay itself is average, plus there is no game guide, the direct impression score is not good.”
    • “So far, I enjoy the story portion of the game, though I am a tad disappointed that there is a lack of gameplay.”
    • “However, I was eager to try the gameplay, though there does not even seem to be a tutorial battle option, and it is strictly limited to multiplayer.”

  • music

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is widely praised for its quality and fittingness, with many highlighting its ability to set the mood and provide a cozy, relaxing atmosphere. The soundtrack is described as beautiful, top-notch, and well-suited to each scene, often complementing the art and enhancing the overall experience.

    • “The music puts me right into that mindset (it's that good!) and my current personal favorite is the currently unreleased trial theme in chapter 2; it's just so cozy!”
    • “I should also point out that the art and music in this game is absolutely beautiful. The music fits each scene nicely, and the more casual tunes feel relaxing, like you could leave them on in the background to relax with.”
    • “The game's original soundtracks are awesome.”

  • grinding

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 80% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is extensive and often tedious, requiring significant time investment or in-app purchases to unlock skins. While it's possible to obtain desired items through grinding, the process can feel slow and repetitive.

    • “Also, IAP for coins to unlock skins, which are still obtainable with grinding coins and monthly XP (which takes a lot).”
    • “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
    • “The gameplay is tedious.”

  • graphics

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The graphics are praised for their beautiful, engaging art style and appealing musical elements featuring favorite artists. The redesigned character artwork is especially appreciated, though some users note the absence of crossover expansions from the physical game. Overall, the visuals receive high marks for quality and aesthetic appeal.

    • “Great art style.”
    • “The musical and art style is very pretty, featuring several personal favorite artists.”
    • “The redone artwork for the characters is amazing.”

  • monetization

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the monetization approach off-putting, describing it as a quick cash grab with inconvenient requirements like mandatory sign-ups and in-game purchases. Overall, the monetization system feels poorly integrated and detracts from the experience.

    • “This just feels like a quick cash grab sitting on the furthest back burner known to man.”
    • “Game interesting, but lacking on matchmaking and strange monetization.”
    • “Also do not like having to sign up and in-game purchases.”

  • character development

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The character development is praised for its depth and realism, enhancing the immersive worldbuilding. Additionally, the distinctive anthro furry character designs receive positive recognition.

    • “I love the character development, worldbuilding, and a sense of reality within fiction.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game launched with several bugs affecting stability, including balance issues like an overpowered character in PvP, but developers have been responsive in releasing timely bug fixes. Overall, while stability was initially problematic, ongoing support shows promise for improvement.

    • “It is buggy at launch, but the developers seem proactive in releasing bug fixes.”
    • “Buggy at launch and with balance issues, such as Makali being overpowered in PvP, but the game shows a lot of potential.”

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Replayability is enhanced by quality-of-life features that encourage multiple playthroughs to explore different story choices, although limited mementos initially restrict access to all interlude scenes. Overall, the game's design supports revisiting to experience varied outcomes.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users praise the game for its powerful storytelling and deeply emotional moments, which strongly engage and motivate them to continue experiencing the narrative.

    • “I was absolutely blown away by the level of storytelling in this game; it has some incredibly deep and emotional moments which motivated me to keep on reading.”

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is notably enhanced by high-quality sound effects, which significantly contribute to an immersive experience.

    • “The sound effects are high quality and greatly add to the atmosphere.”
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Astatos is a action game with fantasy, romance and anime themes. Common tags for Astatos include turn-based, indie, card battler, lgbtq+, 2d and others.

Astatos is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

Astatos was released on December 16, 2021.

Astatos was developed by Studio Klondike Australia.

Astatos has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Astatos for its story but disliked it for its grinding.

Astatos is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include BattleCON: Online, Unmatched: Digital Edition, Armello, Warhammer Underworlds, Touhou Big Big Battle and others.