Sandwalkers

but refunded. this one needs more time in the oven, imo. I love Legend of Keepers and Sandwalkers has all the same bells and whistles. lovely hand drawn art, lush sound design and the eco-lore is interesting... but the gameplay here is much more grindy & kind of unsatisfying. in 4 runs I managed to complete 2 quests and then had my parties immediately wiped out by higher level enemies. maybe I'm just playing it wrong? I dunno. but it's not scratching the casual tactics itch for me, esp. for the asking price.

I have been playing this game casually since earliest access and even though I generally don't like games in which you constantly die and start over, the beauty of the world created in this game keeps me wanting to explore more. I am on my 32nd* caravan and I keep on coming back to this little gem because it has been made with so much love that I even read the lore. (* don't judge me, a lot of them perished swiftly in the brutal wastelands of the early versions :) ) It can be grindy at times, optimization is a bit dodgy and you gotta be ready to die, but its beauty and potential for replays make this game well worth its price for me. Much love and respect to the devs, this one turned out great imo.

It's probably my own fault that i didn't realized this game is about dying a lot. I played the demo a long ago and i waited this game so much because i love turn-based games and pixel art and exploration games and a nicely built world. But i just can't accept to see my guys die again when i do everything to keep them alive. I just don't understand why were those monsters so strong when the text said they're not. Like the game doesn't even want to be fair. Never mind. I'd love to see a not dying story mode of this. And yes, i know my pc is crap but similar games run neatly on it, and this one is so slow sometimes (level ups for example) and i already play it with really low quality. I'm not an expert on the topic, it's just an observation.

Love this. really fun! Just the right amount of difficulty

keeps crashing