Ravager

Ravager
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$4.99
Release date
1 September 2017
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Ravager is a 2D Open World Platformer with 12 unique characters to ravage your way across the land. Each character has different upgrade abilities to fight against the army of Crows and Trolls, who are trying to unleash the Nidhoggr into the world.

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Ravager system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7 and above
  • Processor: 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 100 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 512 mb video memory
  • DirectX: Version 10

Recommended:

Recommended requirements are not yet specified.
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689100
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Kellen
Kellen

Edit: Review updated with feedback.

Ravager is a simplistic action-adventure game, with basic skills and combo-based combat, and a mythological (and presumably epic, i havent actually gotten past level 1) story.

Pros and Cons:
Definitive Pros:
+Artstyle is beatiful
+Gameplay is so simple a rock could play it in the early game.
+Gameplay mechanics get more complex as you progress.
+Good soundtrack

Opinionated Pros:
+PROPERLY DONE Norse mythology is few and far between.

Definitive Cons:
-a few bugs. Okay, maybe a couple dozen over a few, I only encountered two however.
-Options menu is sub-par.
-First level is a massive pain.

Opinionated Cons:
-Gameplay is so simple a rock could play it early on.
-I think the soundtrack would be a bit better with a "Viking Metal" version during combat.

Notes:
To the devs: Add a difficulty option, with the current difficulty as something like Tavern Maid, and even higher modes, like Víkingr and Ravager. Doom style, except with a New-Game plus mode. capisce? Also maybe Mutators for said NG+.

Original review was horrid.

Kamisguide
Kamisguide

First impressions.

Wow this game is beautiful I love the art style. Gameplay is simple and I like that. I do not like the controls. This walking in the direction your not pressing is annyoing. I had fun.

Pros
1. Game is beautiful.
2. Simple gameplay.
3. Music is great.
4. Great Story element.
5.The Characters powers.
6. The first boss does something amazing when he kills you.

Cons.
1. The controls.
2. Damage seems a bit high.
3. Bosses feel the same across the board.
4. No customization. sounds, difficulty, controls.
5. Buggy. Getting stuck in rocks.

My overall opinion. Play it.
This game feels like alot of love and care went in to it and it shows. This needs some work on the gameplay level with the controls being really hard to get used to. Couple bugs that forced me to restart the level. I love the mix of characters, the art and music are all great. I plan to sink alot of hours in this game untill I beat it.

American Dung Beetle
American Dung Beetle

Unfortunately Ravager is a very overpriced platformer when you consider all of its problems. The store description suggests a "2D Open World Platformer" which is just objectively not true; I would consider it a very linear game with limited exploration if any. First of all, the game takes around 3 minute to load and you might run into other starting issues. There are no settings of any kind, not even a limited support for controller. The gameplay mechanics are not polished, it is not uncommon to run into glitches or even optimization issues. I was very much decived by a realtively pretty trailer, only to find a shallow game with repetitive gameplay and mediocre visuals.

The only interesting part about Ravager is the ability to pick between several characters. Each has a unique auto-attack and 3 special abilities. You will have to find the obelisks to unlock 1 ability at a time, it is kind of fun to see what each character can do. I find that you can pretty much skip most of enemies because there is no reason to kill anything. The game does not do a good job of motivating you to switch characters, so far I used the same 2 guys just fine. To be honest there is nothing about the gameplay that I would consider above average. It plays like one of the flash games which is not a complement. I had some high expectations for the visuals due to the price, while the game has decent detail in environment, I did not enjoy its aesthetics or the soundtrack.

Pros:

+ lots of characters with unique abilities
+ nice pixel art detail in the environment
+ clunky boss fights, but I think they can be fun

Cons:

- takes a few minutes to start
- lack of settings
- lack of controller support
- occasional glitches
- some clunky mechanics
- I would not consider it "Open World Platformer"
- very repetitive, no reason to kill enemies

Overall Thoughts 4/10

There are simply too many technical issues that reduce my enjoyment with this game, and we not even talking about lack of settings. The store description is just wrong, this is not a "2D Open World Platformer". As it stands, Ravager is a very average platformer with several characters and many problems.

If the game shows some improvements, I will consider removing this review. Please contact me if you have updated your game and want a revision. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/31294838-Hidden-Gem-Discovery/