Solid Link: Tower Side (2000)

Developer: Hect
Platforms: PlayStation
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More games like this Watch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

A slow, methodical trek through a monster-filled tower, recruiting allies and managing turn-based attacks as you map each floor step by step.

dungeon crawlingmethodicalexploratoryold-schoolparty-basedfirst-personmodeststraightforward

About

Solid Link Tower Side is a classic first person RPG in which the player is a hero (male or female one) that arrives to the city of Grikodol. There he can recruit other 3 members to join his party and after that he can go explore the tower where the evil creatures live. The game features 8 different main characters for the player to choose his hero. The gameplay is in first person perspective and the player have to walk around the dungeon in the search of treasure and other passages to advance through there, during the battles the player can choose the attack that each of his characters will use (attack, magic, defend, etc) and which enemy he will attack. The battles appears really often and are really hard to survive the dangers. During the dungeon exploration the player can camp and refill his characters energy. During the battles the player gain money that he can use in the town to buy items, improve weapons (or buy new ones), armours, etc.

Screenshots

More games like this

More by Hect

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.