Recent reviews by Chiptroid

Truly so super impressed with The Orange demo! In my time with it, it has displayed some awesome feedback on all it's menus (especially important for an RPG), really unique and fun combat mechanics (like being able to blow up Julio with a fruit grenade on accident oops, or arcing a shot on a flying enemy), and super cute sound design & dialogue. Despite its initial visual simplicity definitely give this a try, even just for a few minutes if you like turn-based gameplay, fruit, or bouncy baked in platforming action.

Aseprite is the single most valuable art software I have ever owned. It's super light-weight, fun, and dang easy to learn! It has a ton of useful features and shortcuts to transform the look of sprites in seconds. Despite my limited skill set, I am able to make my characters come to life and animate in ways I haven't been able to manage anywhere else!
Well worth the cost of admission.

Reindeer Story is a top down RPG with a TON of Christmassy content and a fairly unique battle system!

Most enemies feature a Red/Green/Blue colour scheme, with a weakness to one and a resistance to the other. Battles play out in turn based fashion with timed attacks and free movement dodging segments when it becomes the enemies turn.

One element I've really enjoyed is how the player characters each have some kind of combat specialty. Lux, the titular Reindeer is an all arounder with the highest movement speed, making them best to dodge tricky attacks (and even counter attack). Robin has some support abilities and a spell that can hit almost everything. Whereas the third partner you get seems to deal the most damage by far (and is probably my favourite design of the lot)!

Music, visuals, and writing are all rather adorable, with some nods to its 'Mario & Luigi' inspirations, as well as of course, the holiday season.

Some hitboxes on the environment and enemies can be a bit jank, and I always end up walking away from dialogue conversations accidentally, but as you can see by some of other reviewer's playtime, that certainly doesn't get in the way of experiencing all the many bosses and optional content the game has to offer while i've only scratched the surface. Truly impressive stuff!

Played around 2 hours with a pal. By the end of it we still had no idea what was happening. Loved every second of it.