Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jul 16, 2017

  Arcane Raise is, without a doubt, one of the absolute worst JRPGs on Steam. Much more effort went into devising obscure forms of monetization for this game (DLC characters! A Compile Heart-style cheat item pack! Tradeable Steam marketplace items that look to have been made from stock art which do absolutely nothing!) than the game, which has no original assets, almost no story, a bare minimum of mechanics (3 characters in fixed classes, all items available from the shop at the beginning of the game), and is less than an hour long when using the "Booster Pack." Basically, since I can sum up the entire game easily: after a tutorial featuring mechanics that don't actually exist in the game (e.g. potential punishment for retreating from fights, vehicles), you are dumped in town, with a glitchy-appearance NPC you can talk to in order to fight the final boss at any point, shops selling all of the items in the game, and four portals to one-map dungeons full of obnoxiously-high-rate random encounters and treasure chests full of potions and gold. Go grab all the chests, then buy +attack items at 200 a pop / 99 for 19800, enjoy the sound of consuming items 99 times in a row. Then hit the final boss for 11000 damage in one hit. Now you are not a Shade, but a Shade Alpha, a term that might be explained in the lorebook, but which there's no reason to care about what it means. Also you can uninstall the game now. Oh and you get 37 achievements, probably also all stock art, for starting the game. Just make sure you start the game normally if you want that, instead of loading one of the "DLC character" savegames. In conclusion, no. Irredeemable.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 25, 2023

  I'm playing as many Steam games as possible in alphabetical order, and you can watch my review here: https://youtu.be/SRMGZRdObVU tl;dr This game is a disgrace to the JRPG genre. You'll grind through 4 themed zones to earn enough xp and money to level up and buy gear to beat the singular boss fight in the game. There's no plot, no character development, only 1 "town" to explore. The character with the most interesting backstory is never seen again after the tutorial, and the tutorial shows mechanics (different modes of transport) that don't exist in the actual game. And yet, this game somehow has DLC character which cost more than the game itself, and they also have no personality or background, nor do they add in any new classes or mechanics to play with. The one positive thing I can say about Arcane Raise is that it let me equip my mage with a gun. Don't bother with this one.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2023

  If you want Black Background, play the game for 2 hours and buy it from Point Shop (500 Points)
• gamedeal user

  Jul 2, 2023

  I only bought it for the black background.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 23, 2023

  Badge collector!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2023

  Bought it just for the black wallpaper ...
• gamedeal user

  Jul 5, 2023

  The only good thing about this game is the fact that you can unlock all of the achievements simply by pressing a button.
• gamedeal user

  May 19, 2023

  well you know why I'm here＼(ﾟｰﾟ＼)
• gamedeal user

  Jul 18, 2023

  Easy achievements and black background for steam in the item shop. Not that great of a game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 3, 2023

  ⬛ black