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Eremidia: Archivist's Curse

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88%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
93% User Score Based on 45 reviews

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About Eremidia: Archivist's Curse

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse is a single player tactical role playing game with fantasy and anime themes. It was developed by Crescent Sun and was released on August 15, 2022. It received very positive reviews from players.

Archivist's Curse brings you into an otherworldly harbor of knowledge: The Great Library, although unfortunately, you ended up in the dangerous section of the complex called Hall of Pawnsmoor.

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93%Audience ScoreBased on 45 reviews
gameplay4 positive mentions
grinding6 negative mentions
  • Unique and deep turn-based grid combat system with strategic positioning and diverse character abilities.
  • Large roster of around 75 unique characters, each with distinct skills and roles, allowing for varied team compositions.
  • Completely free with no microtransactions, offering high-quality gameplay, animations, and a generous resource economy.
  • Grinding is excessive due to shared resources between crafting gear and upgrading characters, limiting experimentation with many characters.
  • Exploration and progression design is confusing and repetitive, with bland maps and limited enemy variety reducing replay incentive.
  • User interface and technical limitations like low resolution, awkward controls, lack of mouse support, and occasional bugs/crashes.

  • gameplay

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    31% positive mentions, 46% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a unique and satisfying roguelite-inspired experience with a generous free-to-play model, emphasizing strategic team customization from a diverse character roster. While the mechanics, including grid-based combat and dungeon crawling, are engaging and distinctive, some players find the battle system and maze structure initially confusing, though tutorials help alleviate this. Overall, the combination of character variety and strategic depth makes for an enjoyable and rewarding play loop.

    • “Given that it's free, it's definitely worth checking out if you're interested in roguelite-ish pseudotactical gacha-inspired gameplay.”
    • “Since it's a genuinely free game and is not trying to squeeze money out of you, the resource economy gets more generous rather than less as you progress; this is a good game for people who enjoy character-collectathon mechanics and customizing a team from a large roster with few but highly impactful abilities.”
    • “I can promise you that the combat is quite different and unique and with its dungeon crawler mechanic, it creates a gameplay loop that is quite satisfying, especially when you start to get new characters to play with.”
    • “The mechanic is confusing and jumbled; as a player, you never get a sense of being rewarded or refreshed from clearing the main content of the game: the dungeon.”
    • “Let's not even start with how bizarre the mechanic of the maze itself is. I got the initial impression the maze would be an ever-changing, roguelike structure but revisiting the same map turns out to be... exactly identical.”
    • “I had some difficulty understanding the battle mechanics and party composition at first, but the tutorial is very helpful in helping me understand it.”

  • grinding

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

    Players find the game to be moderately grindy, requiring repeated dungeon runs and challenge beating, which can become tedious, especially with limited enemy variety and repetitive party management. However, the grinding is balanced enough to remain generally enjoyable, supported by a good battle system and crafting mechanics.

    • “There's really not much of a story here, you're just grinding and beating challenges until they are all done.”
    • “Coupled with the game being fairly grindy, this means switching out party members can be a real drag.”
    • “Lots of items to craft, however gathering materials will take several grindy dungeon runs.”

  • story

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

    The story is minimal and primarily serves as a backdrop for gameplay, lacking depth and a clear narrative. It mainly provides a reason to explore different characters and settings, but feels repetitive and underdeveloped.

    • “The game is by no means balanced, and the plot is mostly an excuse to get you to play with a huge roster of characters and get a peek at a variety of different settings through the original characters that represent them.”
    • “Finding the lost tome that gives life to its host story or lost article of gear that will assist you in battle.”
    • “There's really not much of a story here; you're just grinding and beating challenges until they are all done.”
    • “But sadly, I feel like it's too repetitive and there's no storyline.”
    • “Some very bare bones dungeons and not much of a plot to speak of.”

  • graphics

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

    The graphics feature a charming pixelated art style with detailed animations, showcasing a diverse cast of characters each with unique abilities and artwork. This variety and artistic design significantly enhance the game's visual appeal.

    • “The pixelated graphics and animations of characters look nice.”
    • “Each character has their own unique ability set and artwork, showcasing great variety.”
    • “Great art style with insane variety of characters, animations, and mechanics.”

  • optimization

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

    The game is well-optimized for handheld devices, reminiscent of classic GameBoy performance, though some users feel there is still room for slight improvements in optimization.

    • “It seems to be optimized for handheld devices like the old Gameboy.”
    • “My only complaint is that things could be slightly more optimized.”

  • stability

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

    The game's stability is generally acceptable but marred by at least one recurring game-breaking bug that can significantly disrupt the experience.

  • music

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

    The music is typical of casual Japanese games but feels rather anti-climactic for an RPG, lacking the intensity expected in the genre.

    • “The music is typical for casual Japanese games and feels rather anti-climactic for an RPG.”

  • monetization

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

    The game features a straightforward monetization model with no microtransactions or pay-to-progress elements, offering a complete experience without additional purchases.

    • “There's no microtransactions or 'the first act is free, pay to unlock act 2' type stuff going on here.”
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Play Times

20h Median play time
20h Average play time
20-20h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Eremidia: Archivist's Curse is a tactical role playing game with fantasy and anime themes. Common tags for Eremidia: Archivist's Curse include free to play, turn-based, 2d, magic, party-based rpg and others.

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 20 hours playing Eremidia: Archivist's Curse.

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse was released on August 15, 2022.

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse was developed by Crescent Sun.

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Eremidia: Archivist's Curse for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

Eremidia: Archivist's Curse is a single player game.

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