Astro Joust
Update: I have found people to play with, and its honestly one of the most fun games on Steam. Its leaps and bounds better then the shit you see on this place. Its simple but hits right at the core of fun. The after death effects are almost more fun than trying to win. Its incredibly clever and the art is fantastic. I really hope the creator makes wallpapers available, otherwise if you screenshot the game during play it makes an instant wallpaper thats super beautiful.
While I really enjoyed the prior games by Mutant Entertainment, this one isn’t as enjoyable. I didn’t realize it was just local multiplayer until I got the game. Because of that, and lack of people to play with locally, I have been unable to even play the game until I find someone.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
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Astro Joust is simple and delightful. If you have an opportunity just to play some local multiplayer games, you really can’t go wrong with this. It’s not the most exciting or has super refined systems, but it’s a charming game and all elements of it are polished.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Charge Champs
Its a fun and competetive game with friends. Not much variety in what it actually has as of content but for the price point its a Good game for how much you get for what you paid for. I haven’t played much but thew little ive played its really a decent game.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
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Double Turn
You can be knocked out of your own combo, characters lack much difference between each other, and AI is easily exploited. It’s not a very fun game. The potential is there and its core loop is interesting but there is too little here for it to be recommended as is.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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Nice idea and design, poor realization
The game can’t be considered as a finished project even if one overlooks the lack of content, because some fundamental features don’t work:
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- AI in Practice mode doesn’t work: an NPC just stands still and meekly gets player’s hits. If it’s supposed to be so, then the developer should have added several options to adjust the NPC behavior like make it always blocking or jumping or performing a sequence of movements.* A player’s profile disappears after closing the game, that leads to disappearing of a gamepad custom configuration also. Moreover, the game doesn’t allow me to create a profile with the same name again although I don’t see it and can’t choose it.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Velvet Guard
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Sometimes you unexpectedly find a real gem. This game is such a hidden gem. A small, but very polished game that I never heard of before, but understood in seconds and had fun with immediately!
The premise is simple: Kill your opponents, like in Towerfall or Duck Games. You got only one bullet. After shooting it, you have to retrieve it before you can shoot again. The different levels contain death traps, like spikes or lava. Also each character can choose a super ability, like the possibility to kill opponents by jumping on their heads. You also have a few options to select and gamemodes to choose from - and then the fun starts!
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
An awesome multiplayer game to play with your friends, to a good price too. There’s even possiblity to play online with Parsec!
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
TowerFall Ascension
Towerfall Ascension is a very intense archery brawler, It has nice pixels, perfect physics combined with fluid controls and an insane difficulity level. This is the local brawler you are looking for.
It can be played solo or locally up to 4 players. Alone you can train or play the co op campaign. With your friends you can play versus or coop The original coop campaign only supports 2 players, But the Dark World expansion allows 4 players in its coop campaign. Versus always allows 2 to 4 players.
– Real player with 126.4 hrs in game
First off, I’ll cut to the chase by saying that I 100% recommend this game. It’s addictive, very quick and easy to pick up, and is fun to play alone or with up to three other people.
The initial design and look of the game is surprisingly intricate considering the 2D pixel graphics. The characters have absolutely no difference in combat style or stats, but you still find yourself drawn to them and interpretting personalities purely in the way the sprites move with certain commands. This most definitely also applies to later on when more characters are unlocked. The levels themselves - which randomise every time - also look gorgeous and I’ll find myself playing the same couple over and over simply due to how visually interesting they are.
– Real player with 114.5 hrs in game
Critical Zone
The perfect party game to play with you friends!
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Dispite its simplicity is the game a lot of fun and stays fun for a long time. The Map ideas are great and the character design is just gorgeous. The tiny details about the character just give the game so much life and you can tell that the creators put a lot of effort in it. I can recommend this game for everyone who loves to play with and against friends.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Domiverse
This brawler is frantic, chaotic and beautiful. The 8bit visuals are spot on during the fights and the characters are great. The overall gameplay is fantastic and it is at its best when played with other people. There is also an Arcade mode that reminds me a lot of the mode found in Smash Bros for the N64 and they made 2 extra characters unlocked through gameplay.
The battle system works in a one hit kill fashion, with every character posessing his own unique attacks and moving at different paces, while the enviroment counts on spikes, death traps, rolling boulders and the like to make everything more difficult. I’m enjoying it a lot, and believe it’s a worth investment of your money and time.
– Real player with 50.5 hrs in game
Had so much fun playing this with my wife and daughters! The simplicity and the roster of interesting characters, each with its unique feel, makes this one a winner
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Dragluttony
Imagine a frantic arena in which players must feed their oversized Draglutton to gobble their opponents. Notice the random food popping everywhere? Colorful wizards casting clunky spells at each other and, most importantly, friends hilarious battling in utter chaos ‘till digestion do them part? You got the picture now, don’t you? Well, we called it Dragluttony, a 4-player arena party game based on food and gluttony.
Lore
Welcome to our Wizards Kingdom my Sweet Little One. As you should know, this year is important for all of us: Adelmar, our beloved King, organized the greatest witchcraft tournament we have ever seen. You’ll have to compete in the Royal Arena and the winner will be granted with an official Court Wizard nomination! - Oswald, Grandpa Wizard
Gameplay
Fly freely in the arena with your Draglutton to feed it as fast as possible with the magic food popping randomly to make it grow bigger and bigger!
Be the first one to reach the maximum size to eat your friends: the hunt is on, but hurry up because your Draglutton will not remain huge forever (only a few seconds to be precise)!
Try quirky recipes Oswald offers you and use them to grow your Draglutton faster!
Use strong spells and potions (also quite random) to achieve victory!
Couch Gaming
Do you believe in the social aspect of bringing players together in the same room is more powerful than anything else? Do you like couch gaming at a real punching distance of your friends? Then you should play Dragluttony!
One-minute onboarding
Dragluttony perfectly combines simplicity and pleasure of playing, with accessible gameplay, one-minute onboarding, a pinch of randomness, quirky spells and potions and unexpected fighting mode linked to food and gluttony for intense, chaotic and hilarious combats!
Hight replay value
The gameplay evolves as players progress through levels, with new game mechanics, surprising spells and potions and unlockable quirky characters for even more gaming fun!
Neon Parasite
Great PvP game. Fun one to couch play or with people online. Map design looks nice and looking forward to thrashing some friends.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
Woo eeh! That hydra mini game is hard but in the way that makes you wanna keep going until you’ve smashed your monitor.
If you’re in for a challenge the single will give it to you in spades, with a thumping techno soundtrack to get you pumped for each attempt.
Versus mode is a fast and wild, reflecting a shot into your opponents face and having them try to block only to realise it’s an unblockable bullet and gasp in horror as their little alien explodes into dust, is something to experience.
Great game, would buy again! (y)
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Pummel Paladins
Good fun local 2 man smash ur friends head in game :D
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
A very good game, it has got everything you want in a game like this. It’s free, and if paying I could be able to play alone, it would be nice and a way to make me pay the people that made this game. All I can say is thank you, developers, I’d deffinetly pay to play a game like this with some more content. A coop version would be cool too. Imagine playing with your friends and killing bosses in a game like this.
Try this game, it’s free, you don’t loose anything. In my profile I haven’t played much, but I’ve played in my friend’s account and the game has 11 maps and everyone with its own different aspects. It has got some more power ups, the only problem is that you can’t change the buttons of the actions.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game