About Adopt Me:
Very difficult game about helping an AI recover lost files. Half the game is about interacting with the AI. Simple things like talking, playing games and changing the outfit of the AI. But the real gameplay is doing mini-games to recover lost files. This part is difficult to the point of wanting to rage. But there’s no way around it. For that. it’s a hard pill to offer to others. The story is moving, the AI is cute. But you gonna need patience, cuz the gameplay really sucks. It is retro-like, similar to games like Ghostn Goblin with annoying mechanics. The game balances out the rogue like elements and the persistent elements really well. There are persistent unlocks, such as buffs and debuffs on creatures and temporary stats, such as synergies. Synergies make your ‘team’ function differently each run. This makes it so, yes there are very powerful combos, but no you aren’t going to always get them. You can’t really ‘min-max’ completely, yet each run, the decisions you make need to be considered for what would be optimal in that situation. You also unlock other things over the course of the game, it doesn’t hold your hand in what to do, each run you are figuring stuff out so you never have an ‘ugh gotta get through this AGAIN’ moment. At the same time I rarely find it super frustrating, even when a run ends, it’s just ‘okay, lets go again’. It’s a really good blend of what I think appeals to people in rogue like games and ARPG games.
