Incremental RPG 'Master Healer Kale With Useless Party' Launches to Strong Reviews
The game's strong launch and positive reception show a solo developer successfully fusing the incremental genre with traditional RPG party dynamics.
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Developer Evrac Studio released 'Master Healer Kale with useless party' on Steam on July 3. The incremental RPG puts players in the role of a healer supporting a flawed party. It has received a 97% positive review rate from 111 reviews and peaked at 2,303 concurrent players.
The game casts the player as Kale, a healer whose party includes a tank who sleeps in battle, a novice archer, and a mean genius mage. Battles are automatic, with attacks at fixed intervals. The party is initially weak and may be defeated quickly, but players can retry dungeons unlimited times, earning gold and experience to spend on a large skill tree between runs. A demo released in May on itch.io and Steam helped build 32,000 wishlist registrations before launch.
Developer Evrac Studio, the solo developer EvanCassidy88, previously released incremental games in other genres, including the bullet hell shooter 'Soba's Gunpaw' and the fishing game 'Mango's Fisharium'. The new title applies that experience to an RPG framework. The full version launched on Steam on July 3 with a 20% launch discount through July 13.
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