Sephonie
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Memories linger across time, deep beneath the island’s surface…
In this story-driven 3D platformer, explore Sephonie Island’s massive cave network, and link with unidentified species using the novel Puzzle Grid system. Explore the island’s depths as shipwrecked biologists Amy, Ing-wen, and Riyou, unravelling mysteries both scientific and spiritual, watched over by a supernatural being who exists beyond human history.
Sephonie is the newest game from Analgesic Productions' Marina Kittaka and Melos Han-Tani, creators of the Anodyne series and Even the Ocean!
Parkour-esque platforming
The caves of Sephonie vary wildly from lush, jade chasms to reddish flora-filled sandstone caverns. Their physical and rocky layouts demand a fitting moveset! Fling yourself over high ledges using the satisfying Teledash Vault, activate the quick-but-risky Sprint when you need to cover long distances, and deftly Wallrun across dangerous outcroppings.
When the obstacles become insurmountable, use the plants and animals of the environment to unlock powerful new abilities like soaring high jumps and swift grapples.
The Relaxing and Casual Puzzle Grid System
The trio must research the island’s unknown creatures by Linking with them. Using the one-of-a-kind “Puzzle Grid” system, you’ll rotate and place a series of multi-colored puzzle pieces onto the board, and connect large, same-colored islands. Each creature has different challenges to overcome!
There’s no ‘right’ solution to Linking: use your intuition to react to the creature’s moves and what appears on the board, and you will soon be on your way to success!
The caves are full of both small and massive creatures, each with their own importance to the cave’s ecosystem.
A Research Trip Gone Awry
In the near future, three biologists are on a joint research trip to use their ONYX implants to research the creatures of the uninhabited Sephonie Island. However, a mysterious phenomenon destroys their ship, leaving them shipwrecked.
Amy Lim, Taiwanese-American and bold leader, hails from the midwestern USA town of Bloomington. Riyou Hayashi, an analytically-minded Japanese-Taiwanese researcher, calls the bustling Tokyo his home. And Ing-wen Lin, a kind and considerate Taiwanese scientist, lives in Taipei.
The trio will find their motivations and loyalties put to the test as they navigate Sephonie’s caverns, facing not only rocks and creatures but also their deepest memories and dreams. As they grow more intimate with each other and the island, an ancient force, brewing deep in the island’s abyss, may threaten their newfound relationship, and the world…
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A deep, emotional story about the close bonds of a trio, the priorities of nations, and the delicate connection of humans and nature, spanning beyond human history.
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A human experience crafted entirely by the IGF Grand Prize-nominated duo of Marina Kittaka and Melos Han-Tani, behind works such as Anodyne 1 & 2, Even the Ocean, and All Our Asias.
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Master a parkour-esque moveset to sprint, wallrun, jump, and fling yourself through Sephonie Island’s rocky and physical caverns!
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A novel and accessible Puzzle Grid System that will stretch your brain in fun ways.
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A beautiful and varied cave system filled with all manner of large and surprising creatures, visually brought to life by Marina Kittaka.
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A lush, melodic and ambient soundtrack by Melos Han-Tani.
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Sephonie does not support square resolutions (Less wide than 16:10). Sephonie will run fine with these resolutions but some UI may be cut off, which you can fix by using the in-game UI Scaling option or by running the game in a 16:9/16:10 windowed resolution.
The same goes for UWHD resolutions in fullscreen.
Sephonie only officially supports certain controllers (PS4/5, XB1/XB360). Other controllers may work but functionality not guaranteed. In particular the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is NOT supported. See forum for details.
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Souls of the Wind
This game isn’t ready for a public release yet, there are too many bugs, some which break the game. It seems like the game wasn’t properly tested before a release.
cons:
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It took me less than 5 minutes to get stuck in a wall.
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You can’t back track, if you’ve progressed past a certain part of the game you can’t go back and explore/collect things you might have missed.
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Relics re-appear, you can collect the same ones over and over. I don’t know if that progresses towards the total nuber of relics collected, but it does make it harder to track which ones you’ve already collected.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
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Update: I’m sorry, but after trying for a week to get past the first temple, I am fed up. It is much too difficult to try and use the WASD keys, and the mouse and right click to control the windbox, and simultaneously hit the spacebar to jump and the shift key to dash, all at the same time! For those who have excellent coordination skills, kudos to you. But I am not one of those kinds of people. I need controls and functions to be SIMPLE so that I can progress in a game, not start swearing like a sailor because I can’t do the minute precision required to advance to the next platform. So, I’m no longer recommending this game, and if I had to rate the game, I’d give it a 1/5 because it’s just too hard to coordinate. I’m not a teenager anymore. My reflexes are not so quick anymore. I give up.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Roll Control
My friend gave me the key to play this game. Oh let me tell you this game is great fun relaxing game. I’ve tried it both on my phone and on my computer and spent 3 hours trying to see how far i can make it through the infinite level. The music also fits right in with the game. Would recommend this game to help kill some time.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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So fun, even without a balance board!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Summary: Anodyne 2: Return to Dust has a great plot, solid 2D & 3D gameplay, magical atmosphere & fantastic environments that will keep you gripped from start to finish. One of the best games ever made. 10/10
A full detailed video can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgS3lkvHiw
Plot:
The plot to Anodyne 2 is fantastic. It is extremely well-paced and very well written, with twists and turns throughout that make you question what is right and what is wrong, all the while keeping you gripped from start to finish.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
After finishing the game and collecting all the achievements, I can say that this was well worth my time and money. However, I will say that this may not be for everyone. I will include more in depth information about the game below as well as a tldr afterwards. I will try to avoid spoiler information as best as I can unless it is needed for an example.
Story
Anodyne 2’s tells its story in an interesting way. The basic plot is explained to you fairly clearly, but it takes listening to NPC dialogue and some item descriptions in order to get a better understanding of all the facets of the story and world. The game also makes use of abstract concepts and wording in order to create a surreal world with strange and interesting characters. I won’t go into too much detail here because a good portion of this will be spoilers. But before I go into spoilers, I want to note that it did feel like I was blazing through the story, and some events felt like they happened sooner than they should have. You can take this as the game only staying for as long as it needs to, but I felt like there could have been more story beats without becoming like filler. There was also one part of the story that felt like filler, but I’ll get into that in the spoiler section. I want to stress however that I still really enjoyed the story and characters.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
SpermDash精疲力尽
SpermDash is one of the better sperm simulators out on he markets right now. Graphics are solid, game play lacks some stuff but I hope its gonna be updated soon so I can keep improving at the game and keep holding the world record (massive flex). I would recommend the game
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Fun, educational, great for the whole family to learn. Vaginal discharge is a little too strong and deserves a balance change.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Stellona
Part 3D platformer and part slice of life simulator, Stellona is a western adventure with a large emphasis on exploration and discovery where you move to a small town to work at a struggling museum.
You’re also a rabbit-person. Everyone is rabbit-people.
As you gather artifacts to expand the museum’s collection, you’ll be introduced to an eccentric cast of characters around the town of Sidewinder and the surrounding desert, help solve their problems, and switch between two different forms to further explore the world around you.
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Help plant a garden
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Decorate your room
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Deliver the town’s mail
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Destroy cacti
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Vandalize public property
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Attend a murder mystery party
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Get FIT
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Save a relationship
And more. Like, a lot more than the developer initially planned for.
Sidewinder is just one small town on a desert planet where rabbits evolved to become the dominant species, but the world outside is full of life, and mystery, and… weird, weird people. It’s up to you to delve into the outskirts of town to recover lost pieces of history, meet interesting new people, and unearth the world’s secrets.
Or you could just run around in the sand destroying all cacti in your path. Whatever makes you happy.
Make friends. Explore the ruins of a long-dead civilization. Be a bunny.
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Why did I buy this game? I’m not even trying to hate, I’m genuinely quite confused why I bought this, it must have been about four years ago that I decided to. Maybe it was because it was on sale or something, maybe I liked the trailer. Which is pretty amateur as I can now see, but for some reason I decided to buy the bundle thing, with the soundtracks and Jones on Fire. Why did I do that? This is such a flawed game it’s painful to think why I ever finished it even once. At it’s best It’s got this kind of unique feel that allows you to see past some (but never all) of the flaws; at it’s worst it’s absolutely unbearable. Okay there are some good things, some of the characters are pretty cool, Franky is a nice companion, the music is good (not something I’d ever listen to outside of the game though, which makes the purchase of the soundtrack even more baffling to me), and some of the platforming and gun mechanics are cool. But it’s nowhere near enough to make up for all the problems.
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
I enjoy quirky games that have a sense of humour and aren’t overly-complicated. And I enjoy mysteries. I enjoyed these aspects of the game, and I do recommend it, but there are some caveats.
The concept of the different ammunition in the game is a great one, and makes the game simple, provides many possibilities for problem solving, and is kinda cool. But the way it was implemented drove me bonkers. When in a room and needing to use different ammunitions, sometimes the puzzle would require three or four of a particular type, then you would have to switch out to a different one (or two), do something with them, and then switch back. Granted, I’m sure in hindsight that I could have streamlined that and analyzed the problem and come up with a more efficient ammunition usage, but who wants to do that? Swapping out the ammunition is such an annoying mechanic, it would be much easier to put in some sort of ammo configuration and swap to it with a button or hotkey.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
Magic Trick
Magic Trick is a steam videogame featuring shower demented fun with a short sample story twist of trans rights and bundling upstairs in a cattling room of banging sounds of music and charming visually design choices…nice curving cards to collect..even though they arent helpless or powerless…i infringe for the most flowing part as celebrating independence black slacks of crisped magical knowledge…high heels of imagination to a ballet flattened…stripped amazingly half-sized locations that throw a cosmetics case of zooming manageable cocooned ease…i give this game a 10/10 its a short portable phone in of greatness fun pleasant surprises i really loved it love the burrito master!!!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
this game is a MUST play. super cute dialogue, charming characters, amazing queer representation, and epic skate tricks :-) the achievements are so fun to earn and the atmosphere is beautiful. this game deserves way more recognition!! i’m so glad i found it
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Here Comes Niko!
10/10 gay turtles
– Real player with 75.8 hrs in game
It’s exactly what it describes itself as, a game for tired people. If a 3D platformer that’s all about exploring and helping people and NOT challenge sounds fun to you, pick it up.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
The Gardener and the Wild Vines
I received am copy of this game for free from the developers
I loved this game so much! I’m fairly new to platformers, so I was expecting to struggle a LOT, but I had so much fun, even when I was struggling! The story made me cry many times, and I think it’s a perfect mix of storytelling and play, and has great parallels to real life situations that people may be struggling with.
Long story short, this game is beautifully written, and is so much fun to play. Definitely give it a go if you can!
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
This is good. This is VERY good. For a price as low as this, I was expecting a game that could be finished in half an hour and not give the slightest toss about plot resolution or characterisation.
But no; The Gardener and the Wild Vines is a fantastic game. Took me about six hours to complete and it’s bloody beautiful. Even with the retro-style 3D and pixel art, it’s still a unique game with a cool unique idea that it does very well, it’s very creative, and the characters are well done. Absolutely worth the play.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game