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About this Game
A small RPG where you play as a crash-landed alien in disguise on a mission to brainwash the humans of Earth, one person at a time. Join up with an Earth child and a germaphobic toilet on your quest to conquer the planet with alien mind control glasses, while exploring a varied suburb of a flyover town. You might have shown up uninvited, but soon the people of Earth will see things your way!
Features
– Original soundtrack and artwork
– RPG style battles
– Face pictures for almost every NPC
– Dialogue heavy, comedy focused story elements
– Recurring suburb hub area with different buildings to explore
– Wide enemy variety including humans, robots, rodents, aliens, and more!
Steam User 5
A story that has made me screen record dialogue to share with my friends so they can laugh too, it's engaging and throws many unique chapters at you throughout the whole game. The music made by Myles Lynn ties the scenes smoothly together and fight scenes keep you on your toes by needing to be strategic on how to use one's abilities. It's a great fun game and I can't wait to see what Boatmeal Brothers release next
Steam User 12
XenoTown is an RPGmaker game that takes less than ten hours to complete. It does the Earthbound thing but with a completely different style and perspective: you're an alien invader here to conquer Earth, and you pair up with a misfit Earth kid (and a germaphobic robo-toilet). You place mind control goggles on people after battle to make them friendlies, and your ultimate goal is to mind control the principal of the local school.
There are no random encounters which is nice. Maybe the creators planned for random encounters then later took them out, because the maps are laid out like a game with random encounters would be: lots of long empty hallways and mazes. To compensate the game throws a lot of items your way (mostly found by digging through trash or going to vending machines).
The setting is a small American town called Pinewood in the 1990s. Like Earthbound, but more down-to-earth and at times cynical in an authentically American way. Your earth child companion is a misfit/bully. You have to fight his drunk, abusive father.
I got it on sale and you should too, if you have an evening or two to kill, liked Earthbound, and aren't expecting too much.
Steam User 4
Very enjoyable. It's a straightforward role-playing game that looks Earthbound inspired, kind of reminds me of the movie They Live but just with really quirky teenage dialogue.
Steam User 3
Works great on Steam Deck!
I can only recommend this with reservations. There's good and bad, but the bad can mean the game feels a bit tedious.
Positives
The art, music, and story are all really fun. It has an Earthbound vibe, and they created a game that pays homage while also finding its own identity.
Negatives
The biggest problem is the dungeons. It feels like they were designed for a game with random battles, but the game only has battles at pre-planned locations. Therefore, you end up walking through long, empty corridors. I saved a lot because I didn't want to have to walk through empty hallways again if I died.
Because there aren't many battles, it feels like the developers decided to make the battles longer, much like Cosmic Star Heroine did. However, CSH had an interesting battle system with interesting decisions. The battles here find you simply repeating the exact same actions over and over.
Steam User 1
Worth it!
I had a lot of fun playing the game. It's simple and quirky. The best part is the style: the music, the humor, and the graphics all working together to create what I think might be best described as an Anti-Earthbound. Pineview is a gross place. The people are weird. It's full of homeless vagrants and humor that goes far, but I never felt like it went too far.
I'm looking forward to a sequel!
I felt like there were some balancing issues with some of the abilities: solar slap only felt useful in the beginning, the tentacle attack felt really expensive for what it does, the defense boosting ability that one of your party members gets felt really weak for how expensive it was, and I never used the big heal you get at the end because the first heal you get does plenty of healing (it works really well) and your characters just don't have enough HP to warrant a bigger heal for such a high cost.
I'd have liked to have seen a larger variety of equipment, but what's there works; the game is only about 10 hours long, and I felt like the rewards and the equipment you could buy were well balanced. I just like the option to customize my characters, and there's very little of that in the game. Which is fine. The game leans more into story and art than mechanics, and it was a really fun little story that I'd love to see expanded.
There are no random encounters. The game is very railroaded; I don't think that's a bad thing because it delivers on what it sets out to do: tell a funny story with some emotional pull. It's simple in a good way.
The game is pretty easy once you get the hang of it: most of your damage is going to be dealt by causing status ailments: bleed, gross, and burn. Bleed is the big one, but you could rely more on burn and gross if you wanted to buy the items that cause those (they're all different kinds of bombs). I didn't use the "bombs" until the end of the game, and they weren't necessary; since the game is so railroaded, you're always at the right level to take on a enemies, so levels are more about changing the way your characters work than overpowering weaker enemies. I just used the bombs to add some burn damage to speed up some of the later fights.
Fights are long in this game, but there aren't a ton of them. I'd say there's just the right amount.
Overall, a great project especially for the price. Remember to save. Learn the economy. Enjoy the ride!
Steam User 2
A quirky MOTHER-inspired RPG that takes place in a charmingly dismal slice of America. Had a good time with it and am interested to see what else the creators will put out in the future!
Steam User 2
I received a free copy of this game to Let's Play on my YouTube and I gotta say, this has probably been my favorite thing I've been sent this year!
Something about this game's structure is really up my alley. I love how you have this whole town and things just open up one at a time, introducing new utilities and things to do as you go.
Seeing brainwashed people you've met previously as you're making your way through the game gives a real sense of progression too.
The slow level ups also make you appreciate the bonuses becoming stronger gives you.
It's hard to explain but this game's visual style makes me a little uncomfortable. Everything from the egg café to the trash and dirt littering the town to the gross food and cockroaches.
It adds to the atmosphere a lot! This town feels run down and clinging onto dignity. And you're this little alien taking advantage of it all. It's such a unique set of emotions it gives me. They did a fantastic job with this!
I absolutely loved the soundtrack as well! Every recording session I was finding new favorites. I really wish this OST was available on YouTube so I could add it to my work playlist.
It *nails* quirky indie RPG with it's huge, catchy variety.
My two favorite tracks are "Robot Scraps" and "Kindly Put on the Glasses "
So many songs do this thing too where they sound confusing for the first portions before shifting to being very serene and analytical. It's like a calm bass drop, if that makes sense.