Marble It Up!
As someone who played every prior Marble Blast game and collected every version even the rare ones like MarbleBlastX (original xbox). MarbleBlast (original). MarbleBlaster. MarbleBlastXP. Marble Blast Online (standalone beta obtained from beta tester), and more. I have to say that this game is my favourite so far!
If you like Marble Blast, Monkey Ball, Marble Skies, or any other Marble game, this one is by far the best! With workshop support, you can make any level you want with near unlimited possibilities. Multiplayer is coming soon and if it’s as good as Marble Blast Ultra’s multiplayer (which I hear it will have multiple awesome game modes), it’s definitely worth the money.
– Real player with 61.0 hrs in game
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TL;DR: Marble It Up (MIU) is an amazing marble game, and by far the best Steam has to offer and by far the best marble game I’ve played! Featuring perfect controls, fine-tuned physics, crispy smooth framerates (even on toasters), Steam workshop support with hundreds of extra levels, constant dev attention to players, and an amazing game experience that is fun for the entire family! Well worth the asking price!
Breakdown:
Gameplay: MIU is a marble game like the ones from the good-ol' days of the mid 2000’s. It is made by some of the same devs behind the Marble Blast series, which really shows in the game and brings to life the timeless experience of marble games. I remember loving Marble Blast Gold on the old family PC when I was young, and plugged many hours into it. The experience is flawless here (and some workshop levels are actually ported levels from the Marble Blast series itself!)
– Real player with 49.9 hrs in game
Cloudbuilt
This game is absolutely stellar. I doubt I will play anything better this year, or perhaps even in years to come.
First and foremost, this game grants the player absolute control over the character. The movement is fast and responsive, and the more you learn about the game, the better you can maneuver, to the point where you can do things you never would have thought possible at first. This sense of control is absolutely wonderful because I can apply both my reflexes and timing as well as my puzzle-solving skills to the level in front of me. The level design features branching paths that allow you to tackle the level many different ways, and give the player a sense of exploration. Will you go the easier and slower path, take more difficult shortcut, or will you look for the perfect jump to create your OWN shortcut? The game also allows you to place your own checkpoints, and unlike They Bleed Pixels, they actually mean it, meaning that you get to tackle the level before you on your own terms without compromising the difficulty.
– Real player with 120.5 hrs in game
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So close…so very very close. This would have been a GOTY contender for me but it slips and wobbles
hard
I’ll start with the good: Cloudbuilt is basically Sonic Generations. Remember boosting to beat your time and precision, quick twitch platforming within a level that has multiple pathways? It’s here. Maybe the budget isn’t, but the excitement and speed definitely is. As is the creativity, only difference here is levels have more vertical movement and therefore aren’t as fast, but the idea is the same.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
Extricate
Extricate is an IL (individual level) speedrun game where the main mechanic is bunny hopping. Now let me preface this and say I am completely new to bunny hopping, i have never played any counter strike game or anything like that - but Extricate does not punish me for that. In fact, the game helped me pick it up pretty quickly and let’s me keep seeing my progress through getting faster and faster times on various levels. There is an in game replay system which lets you see top players strats and learn them yourself. I’m really impressed with the level design and the various skips and strats that the devs actually intended for you to use to get great times. This game is a MUST for anyone who likes IL games, speedruns, bunny hopping and, honestly even just FPS movement.
– Real player with 160.2 hrs in game
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DISCLAIMER: Key received early in development for playtesting.
Extricate is a fantastic game for every person who enjoys bunnyhopping, speedrunning, first person platforming or competing against your friends to see who is the fastest.
With simple movement that’s easy to learn but hard to master, it stands as a great contender for best first person platformer in my own opinion.
Great speed and responsive controls in a polished package, the developers has managed to create this fantastic product in a truly impressive amount of time and they are not stopping their improvements and additions.
– Real player with 146.2 hrs in game
Raising Torolith
Raising Torolith is a first-person physics based indie platformer where you take on the adventure to raise back an entire kingdom - Torolith. You will learn about the world while powerfully dashing through the medieval age in a relaxing & beautiful scenery. Castles, towers, islands and helpful companions will be a strong part of your adventure.
Mastering the movement is a core part of the gameplay - the focus is set on high speed sliding, key point maneuvers and obstacle evasion. Feel the wind in your hair and be ready for the next surprise.
Core Features
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Two Play Modes: Campaign & Racing
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Free Movement: Control your momentum and air time. Boost yourself into the air, slide on platforms, climb walls, destroy some obstacles. Combine chaos with precision to become a master.
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Raise the kingdom: Reach the orbs and raise the kingdom! Entire islands and castles might emerge from the water.
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Checkpoints: No section replaying if you don’t want to.
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Exploration & Story: Talk to the Torolithians in the world, hear what they have to tell you. Interact with seemingly abandoned objects, you will get a better feeling about it all. Most importantly, enjoy the colorful, manually designed landscapes.
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No Violence: The game is relaxing (of course, not counting the times when you just can’t make that jump and feel like destroying the kingdom once again) and focuses on bringing you a very pleasant atmosphere so there is no violence you will be part of.
Spark the Electric Jester 2
*Note that this review has been done from scratch to be much more acurate and in-depth since I changed my opinions slightly, some remained the same and some did change.
This is just my opinion and the opinions are subjective, so everyone’s experience is different.
This game is far from perfect and is definitely a devisive game just like some of it’s inspirations.
But still a pretty good game to me despite it’s flaws.
Spark 2 visually looks really colorful with that Sonic vibe going for it. It reminds me a lot of Sonic Heroes’s aethetics which looked even more imaginable than ever before.
– Real player with 161.2 hrs in game
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Spark the Electric Jester 2 (StEJ2) is a sequel to the first game but redesigned as a 3D Fast Paced Platformer in the style of Sonic Adventure 1/2. A pretty solid one at that although lacking a bit of polish overall.
This time you play as Fark as the central character, with his mechanics taken directly from his campaign in Spark 1, minus the wall clinging, Fark himself controls great in a 3D space using a controller and moves at a quick natural pace that allows for you to naturally react to what’s coming up ahead. He also has some new moves this time, a standard homing attack type move that’ll instantly drop weak enemies and by holding the Left Trigger he can charge up on the spot for a burst of speed dash using the Jester Dash (think spindash) as well as cancel all his vertical momentum to shoot downwards, both help with platforming and orientating yourself around the stages.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Desert Parkour
was wondering if you still read this chat so i think me and a lot of others will happely buy a DLC to this game and i will pay at least like 10 bucks for a level that is like 3 but 25x times bigger and have a lot of small skips and stuff and will take over like 7 minutes when your good and know the route but will take like 30 minutes first attempt because it will be very hard and maybe you can make a boss fight or something idk but please update this game or something
– Real player with 97.0 hrs in game
TL;DR:
Pros: Cheap, short and sweet, quick restart, some levels are challenging, can cheese some levels really badly and get super fast completion (good if you are into finding alternative paths), no glitches..
Cons: Inconsistent jumps and grapples that rely on camera angles, tight timer for a few levels (still reasonable with some practices), lacks variety.
This is a cool and simple 3D platformer game which requires some timing and routing skills in order to complete all achievements.
However there is something I dislike about both of it’s core elements, jumping and grappling hook. The height (or should I say direction of momentum) of your jumps and grapples depend on your camera. Which means whenever you want to jump or shoot yourself higher, you need to look at the sky and hope you land on the next available ground.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Verlet Swing
If you think Verlet Swing is just some average Ａ Ｅ Ｓ Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ Ｔ Ｉ Ｃ game you can find anywhere on the web, you’d be dead wrong. While Verlet Swing IS highly based on the aesthetic theme it’s not only that, but it’s also a great indie game. If I had to use one sentence to describe what this game is it would have to be “Vaporwave Spider-man on psychedelics”. This game has everything from black holes to flying hotdogs and it’s one experience everyone needs at least once in their lifetime. Verlet Swing is a great game to play either casually or competitive. It really depends on your preference. The gameplay is smooth and colorful, and from my experience it has the right amount of easy and hard levels. Each level is unique in its own special way and that’s what makes it so fun. There are more than enough levels to cure your boredom and if you get stuck you can always go to the community-made levels. There’s already so many levels even though the game just came out, but the custom games change the games tremendously. Not only do you have all the levels of the original game, but now you have player-created levels which in itself could be its own game. Want to make your own game? No problem. Just open Verlet and go into the editor tab. There you can use everything in the game to your disposal. It’s is a little awkward at first, but once you figure it out, the sky’s the limit! Having trouble? Flamebait games has their own discord server where you can ask questions or suggest your idea to them directly! Verlet Swing is an experience you won’t find in a very long time-maybe even ever. If you’re considering picking this game up, I definitely recommend trying it out. Being as affordable as it is, this game gives you a lot of bang for your buck. So kick back, enjoy the Ａ Ｅ Ｓ Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ Ｔ Ｉ Ｃ, and swing to your heart’s content!
– Real player with 79.7 hrs in game
tl;dr The movement is wonderful, the levels flow beautifully, and there’s a good handful of content. Don’t take this game at face value, it’s more than just the weird visuals. If you have any interest in this, definitely pick it up.
So you have spiderman, right? You get to swing all over New York at high speeds and feel awesome while doing it. You can touch the skies, glide on the ground, fling yourself through tight spaces all while feeling like an absolute badass. Take that, add some a e s t h e t i c to the mix, and you have the basic idea of Verlet Swing. This is a game all about swinging through levels and trying to get to the end, all without touching anything . If you were to condense the entire Verlet Swing experience into one sentence, that would be it… but of course it’s not that simple. Lets expand on that with a few topics:
– Real player with 44.9 hrs in game
A Boy’s Journey
“A Boy’s Journey” is a skillbased 3D platformer that is all about finding new ways to reach the goal sooner than anyone else! If you don’t like a specific level, just generate a new one. You can influence all generated obstacles or yourself with elemental projectiles. This allows you to do cool combos and gives you a way to experiment with the game!
You can compete for the best highscore with the integrated leaderboards.
The game uses fully procedurally generated levels. Next to a story mode with 40 levels, you are able to play a random mode, that gives you access to 100 Billion unique levels! All that in 5 beautifully worlds.
Influence your character to gain power-ups like a speed boost, invulnerability or let it create a new path beneath yourself! You can even combine power-ups to work on combos.
Influence all obstacles inside a level with elemental projectiles. Freeze a moving obstacle, destroy it or create a whole new path.
Kyklos Code
This game is actually pretty cool. Definitley a Portal-esque kind of game. Definitley worth the money. The timer is actually a really interesting and challenging aspect to this game. Very well done.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Reminds me on Portal but with a different game design. The puzzels are thoughtful and tricky so that it is a nice game for logic-lovers! I also love the music.
Nice Indiegame :)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Spooky Speedrun
