Caster is a fun little game that makes great use of music, magic, and the levels that it has. The game isnt very graphically Awe-inspiring, but the graphics arent the key to the game, as so many companies nowadays seem to think. The story for the game is rather simple, and there is a vast selection of community levels to pick up. All in all, I did not find any bugs in the game that were game breaking, and the controls are perfect for what the game asks of the player. It's a load of fun, and at $5 this game is a steal, Pick it up if you can.

Caster is a fast paced run and gun 3D shooter. The game currently includes two mission areas "The Middon Region" and "The Lydonia Chronicles". The Middon Region was the original level set released with the game. The levels introduce the various weapons and enemies in the game. This area is pretty easy, as typically if you're given a new weapon on a given level, it's what you'll need to fight any new enemies introduced that level.

The Lydonia Chronicles is the first expansion set of levels for the game. These are provided free to owners of the game. The developer's policy is that as new areas/expansions are created, they will be made available for free to existing owners of the game. This new area adds many tougher boss type monsters and regular enemies. More thought will be needed to put into beating these levels than in the initial set.

The action is fast paced and the keyboard/mouse controls are spot on. I have seen some mixed reviews of the controller support in the game, but cannot comment directly as I did not use a controller. The graphics are 3D, but the textures are very basic. There is very little in the way of variety in the terrain from level to level graphically. The main difference being the colors (this level is green with blue water, that level is brown with red "lava" or tan with yellow "acid"). That said, the action is good enough that the basic graphics do not really detract from the fun. They're not particularly pretty, but they get the job done.

Sound similarly is basic booms, zaps and whooshes. Good enough but nothing special. The soundtrack is by Trance Emerson and is decent.

There is a good variety of weapons (or spells, I guess). These range from a basic blaster to homing missiles and so on. Some of the most fun are the terrain changing weapons. There is one that creates new land and another that destroys land. This can be used to drill pits down to the lave to lure enemies in, or to create hills to help you get over obstacles.

Caster is also moddable, and there are several community mod levels available for download. There is a mod pack available for download on the Elecorn web site that currently has 7 levels included.

The game is short. Even with the expanded level set, this game can be completed in about 4 hours. however, it is a very fun 4 hours, and worth the $5 price tag if you like 3D run and shoot games.

This game is pretty good, and has a megaman feeling to it. The only thing wrong with it is that enemies are a bit to overpowered, and that the learning curve is quite steep.

The game feels fast, which is what I think it was trying to do, but the shooting seems a bit underwhelming and the camera doesn't cooperate well. The levels are big, but feel empty and the goals seem shallow.

Caster will give you about an hour of fun. It's got fairly unique gameplay, and it puts it to good use and doesn't drag the game out. I wouldn't recommend it at full price, but it's definitely worth it when it's on sale.

This is a very beutiful game, 2-3 hours to get through the 15 levels it packs. It reminds somewhat to the gameplay of Megaman Legends, and it will keep you seated until you beaten the awesome final boss!

Purchased this in the IndieFort bundle and while only a few hours long, it's quite fun. Caster takes two unique elements, terrain deformation and the game's specific spells, and combines them into an effective action game. One thing I liked about this game is that dying resets your score rather than the entire level, so you could slowly inch your way through a level, though the perfectionist in me wants to replay the level over and over until I master it.

I tried to like this game. Unfortunately, it is a pretty amateur affair. Shoddy collision detection, wonky controls, and pre-n64 graphics all add up to make a pretty ugly game. There are some good ideas in here, I just feel that the developers should have spent more time on the controls. It's one thing for a game to look like it's from 1996, but another for it to handle worse than a game from 1996.

This is a REALLY fast game, not in the sense that it is over quickly. But it all seems to move at a fast pace.

The game itself does not really requite much from the player, but is still a fun little game.

I would recommend this game for the price as it is now.

It is not much money you have to let go of for a fun game to play in your free time.

This game has a very "Indie" feel from the start, though in a good way. At first, I was having a little bit of trouble getting into the game, as to games like these usually don't take my fancy. Later into the game, I just got hooked and kept finding things I liked about it. The file size and price are also very nice, especially when bought in the indie fort bundle.

-Controls/Starting out-

For starters, it has a pretty strong, re-playable tutorial. I got the general gist of what to do mostly on my own, thanks to the very simple controls. It is very easy to configure any controls that were disliked as well. The game had few things that you had to remember (As in ways to perform certain moves like dash and super jump), and was quite simple in my eyes.

-Gameplay-

The game was pretty fun in my eyes, I was entertained for quite a while, and still haven't finished the entire game. The first 2 levels or so (Tutorial included) were a bit slow and uninteresting, which is part of my loss of a star rating. At around one of the third levels, the game started gaining dynamic with new weapons, and being able to finally get the gist of dashing and super jumping.

One of my favorite features, was the destruction engine. With almost any weapon, really high jumps, and really long falls, you can dent the earth and basically terraform the map, which is already aesthetically beautiful.

Another great feature in my eyes was the addition of the upgrade system. You could upgrade just about everything your character had; dashing, jumping, armour, energy (Basically the currency) collecting area, and all of your weapons. All of the weapons (That I've encountered) have done some interesting things when upgraded, instead of just upgrading damage done for instance.

The way the level feature is planned out is quite nice in my opinion. Once you complete a level, you unlock two levels. It's always terrible getting stuck on a level, and just having to quit because of the level. With this, you have the freedom to choose.

Last, but not least, a bit more of an indepth description of the two skills I was talking about earlier; dash and super jump. Dash can be very useful, as to at higher levels is doesn't consume much energy, you can run up walls, and you can run over water. The super jump, however very energy consuming at its first few upgrades, can be used as a quick get-away, and almost turns into a jetpack towards the last upgrade.

-Cons-

However this game has many pros, it also has its cons. For starters, on older systems, the game can tend to run a bit slow.

Some of the enemies can be a bit of an annoyance, as to when certain types get right up on you, there's very little you can do about it early in the game (Until you upgrade your dash a bit, that is).

The controls can be a bit sluggish at times. Whenever you're jumping, you have little control mid-air, meaning that super jumps can sometimes kill you if they're not planned just about perfectly.

When running on walls with dash, it can only go up and down the walls; not sideways, which can be annoying at times.

And of course, the game has its few glitches, but is without any major glitches that ruin the game.

-Overall-

This game is well worth the money spent in my opinion. However it may not be for everybody, the game is attracting to people (as I've learned) that aren't even huge into the genre. I'd easily recommend this game to people I know.

Caster PC is an action game where the goal is to rid the world of Flanx, strange creatures that haunt the region. At first, you start with a single weapon, but others will be available during the game great freedom of movement and several difficulty level. Graphically, the textures are really really poor which kinda gives a bad impression on the overall graphics quality :/

I have never played a game like this, it's probably one of the most unique games I've seen recently. Caster is a great game where you basically blow up bugs, in very interesting and cool ways. The visual effects are really what make the game, not the graphics, but the effects. A very inovative game, highley recommended for Indie-fans.

An action game which has oodles of potential yet is strangely limited. Maybe it's the episodic nature of the thing, but it gets repetitive quite fast relying as it does on few enemies and varieties of ways to dispatch them with. Still, it is a good first effort and maybe in future this developer will get closer to the thing that Sacrifice achieved more than a decade ago.