Rose of Starcross is created with massive inspiration from famous action-adventure role-playing games such as Legend of Zelda, Mario RPG series, MOTHER series, and Punch-Out! Solely developed by Peyton Burnham, this indie game enables you to delve into the unparalleled world of Starcross. You’ll uncover secrets about yourself as well as the past of Starcross world. As the game proceeds, you’ll meet a lot of fascinating characters and NPCs, and have the chance to change their lives. On top of that, in an attempt to save the Heavenly Queen, you will venture into a turn-based battle against the demons, the undead, and the anims. 

Fun turn-based game

When you engage in a fight, both you and your enemy will have a standard "active-time battle bars" and you will take turns to attack each other within those specific time bars. As a mode of attack, you can choose to use your special move, taunt defense, inventory item, or helper spirit who lives in your sword. For defense, you can opt to block your enemy’s attack by moving left, right, up, jump, or down. Blocking in the right direction will only give you half of the damage while blocking at the last second time makes it possible for you to take no damage, as well as obtain a small reward. 

One of the best accents of this game is the endless options and customizable settings it provides. In Rose of Starcross, you can freely decide the outlook of the buttons you’ll use through in-game tutorials and menus. You can select from PlayStation buttons, generic buttons, Switch buttons, and more. Not only that, but it also allows you to fully customize the difficulty level of each gameplay to your preference, such as the intensity of blocking, damage, attack, battle commands, and hazards, to list a few.

Rose of Starcross is definitely one of the games that adventure RPG fans should try out when they can. Considering that this game is still in the demo stage, it is still capable of providing you an immersive 3D simulated environment, as well as unique and exciting gameplay.