Noctuary

World building: The strength of this game lies in its ability to bring life through imagery, character dialogue, and gameplay.

Albeit mundane and somewhat repetitive at the start, the combat does get more fun when the choice of blessings expands and allows for more customization based on play style and preferences.

The gameplay (because it's a VN action RPG hybrid) is very well thought and executed, also i find it underused because it IS very rewarding but the game in most occasion just "*woosh* [This character] swings her sword and eliminate the enemies blocking their way" like, bruh, you HAVE that mechanics and it's great EVEN if you want to make a game JUST for that mechanics ALONE, let me play!

You can tell the developers poured their hearts and souls into this with the care and attention given to all the characters, the world building, the story and even the art and soundtrack.

I played on the default difficulty all the way through, and I felt the balance remained solid until the end.

I didn't expect serious storyline from a game with this cute art style like this, so such unexpected charms were the plus points.