Emanate
You awake in limbo with a choice - await your fate, or find an escape. Leap your way to freedom with high speed movement and high-stakes obstacles. Experience Emanate’s atmospheric environment and fast paced soundtrack as you climb your way to the top in this single-level 3D platformer!
Gameplay
Emanate is a single-level, vertical world filled with jumping patterns made up of various platforming mechanics. The most common of which are the orange/red bounce pads, purple wall-jump pads, and the fading platforms, that vanish from under your feet after a very short amount of time. Combining these simple mechanics urges you to keep moving forward, making for some incredibly challenging and intense platforming gameplay.
What to expect
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Moody, atmospheric environments: Starting from the bedrock of oblivion, up through deep ethereal forests and vast looming clouds, to huge other-worldly cathedrals.
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Fast, exciting soundtrack: An ambient, break-techno tracklist that increases in speed and intensity as you progress through the game.
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Emanation orbs: You have three chances per checkpoint to learn the patterns ahead of you. If you fall, expend an orb and you’ll recall back to the last checkpoint you activated. Any misstep after your orbs are gone and you’ll find yourself falling back down below.
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TY the Tasmanian Tiger
TL;DR
It’s an amazing blast from-the-past from the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era of 3D Platformers. Very charming, with solid (but easy) platforming, great music, and with some good graphical and camera improvements.
Positives:
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A classic brought back from the dead! This game is (considered by me and others) a classic from the PS2 era!
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It’s a solid platformer! Nice tight controls, nothing to horribly hard, and good level design!
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Quirky characters! From Shazza, to Maurie, to even Ty himself! They all have there own personality and, sometimes they are even funny! (Especially Maurie!) Boss Cass is a legendary villain in my eyes!
– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game
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Ty The Tasmanian Tiger is essentially a 3D platformer in the style of classics like Super mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Croc, just to name a few. The game clearly takes inspiration of those and even wears some of the design decisions on its sleeve. Ofcourse there is absolutely nothing wrong with that when its done well.
And well they did!
Let’s look at the pros and cons!
Pros:
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Fun and varied gameplay
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Great and fitting soundtrack for each individual level
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Cute characters and simple story
– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game
Ladybug Quest
This game is both challenging and addictive. The artwork, soundtrack, and gameplay all come together to make a great platformer. Be prepared to be challenged to your maximum ability as each Boss becomes progressively more difficult to beat! A very refreshing game to play, love it!
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
Ladybug Quest:
3D, adventure, platformer where you play as a ladybug following the story of a mysterious being that invades their village.
Main story runs about 8-10 hours depending on skill level, however there is replay ability to obtain gold stars for each map which will take another 10-12 hours to fully complete.
This game is extremely difficult, not for those looking for an easy challenge, some levels will drain hours of your time, but finishing them is very rewarding.
Bosses are super fun and feel awesome to fight, each level feels unique and has something to make it stand out from the others with new enemies or hazards.
– Real player with 23.0 hrs in game
Poi
I’ve been playing this game since the very, very early versions of the Early Access release, before cameras and costumes were a thing, but I’ve taken a long, long time to write a review, mostly because I’m having a hard time to fully express my feelings about this game. There are way too many things to talk about, which means this is going to be a rather lengthy review, and it might also be all over the place due to the amount of stuff that comes to mind, but let’s dive right in.
I’ve spent most of my teenage years and all of my early adulthood wishing for the “perfect” 3D platformer, one that combined most of the things I like in a single, awesome package. I dreamed of a game with a rich, vast world to explore. It had to have a lot of secrets and tricks to discover, but it also had to have well designed platforming and action to boot, and the atmosphere had to evoke feelings of childlike wonderment and adventurous endeavors in boththe soundtrack, the visuals and the story. The characters had to be adorable and stylish, and the gameplay had to be smooth and thrilling.
– Real player with 84.1 hrs in game
Poi is a good Mario clone. End of story now get out of the review section and buy the game if you want to kill a good 32 hours collecting things.
okay that’s not entirely true so read this instead
PLOT
You and your sister run away from the city in order to find Adventure. On your adventure to find adventure you meet up with Mario in his mid 80’s who asks you to get his sonic ring with ribbons attached to it down from a tall stump due to him being a crotchety old man who can’t do it himself. So you jump to the top of the stump, grab his ring and when you bring it back to him he tells you that the ring is called an “Explorers Medallion” and they are foudn all over the world. So he asks you and your sister if you want to get on his magic flying whale blimp to find him and since choice matters as much as it did in TellTale’s Walking Dead Season 1 in this game, you say yes and off the three of you go to go get the Medallions and save the world or something
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
Toru
the game is somewhat reminiscent of geometry dash, where you have to overcome obstacles and complete levels. the graphics are very pleasing to the eye, excellent soundtrack. the game justified its money, I advise everyone to buy.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
A dynamic platformer with beautiful graphics and easy controls. In some places, the game is very difficult, you have to strain all your feelings and reactions to go further. But it’s worth it and the game gives a lot of positives.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Cubico
Cubico is a free game where you play as a ball with weird physics in a simplistic geometric world to overcome all sorts of typical platforming obstacles
My first impression after starting this was: “This feels like some kind of university project.” It then took me a few minutes to give my 15 year old gamepad a working configuration and figure out the basics. The game tried to guide me with specially colored and shaped objects most of the time. At some point though, this seemed to have failed and I was hoplessly lost and a bit bored. I then checked Leeson’s achievement guide and found out I wasn’t lost at all, I just felt lost. I also found out that this was indeed developed as a Bachelor Project.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Gameplay: https://youtu.be/l_Tv2GL1kYE
Completed this one sitting. A solid, hyper stylized platformer that was a blast to play. You’re basically moving through an open world environment, terraforming different nodes to get you from a to b or deducting to get into places. The goal is to achieve a series of parts, scattered around the game world. I went into this assuming it would be a marble madness like – and when it wasn’t, I was slightly disappointed but after getting around to what the game really was, I was elated. Great job devs!
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Air Bounce - The Jump ‘n’ Run Challenge
If you enjoy 3D platformers I would definitely recommend this game. It’s nice and short with a really low price point. Seems like a really good speed running game, the controls are pretty well done and you even have great control over your character in air. For only $5, this game is absolutely worth it.
– Real player with 29.4 hrs in game
When was the last time you played a game you liked very much? Enough to play it for hours without stopping?
Personally, I had an unforgettable experience with this runner I haven’t had in a long time. Every level is like a new life. Beautiful locations, awesome gameplay and a lot more in this game made my evening enjoyable.
There is no adrenaline and drive here. But there is enjoyment and tranquility here…
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Diesel Punch
Diesel Punch is an adventure game developed by Vadd Games for the PC platform. The environment in the game belongs to the style of fiction, and the following features can be distinguished: action, adventure, indie, third-person, complex, for one player, meat, 3d platformer, robots, controller, soundtrack, steam achievements. You will have access to such game modes as"for one player".
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Stars received: 1.6/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: 3D adventure with specific graphics design
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
No Straight Roads: Encore Edition
Can someone get me another Sayu? This one’s all melted!
All my hours are logged on the switch version (~150 hours), I love this game despite how gut punching it can be with difficulty and bugs (of which are mostly patched in this version). It makes up for all of it with its overflowing charm and dedication to fan service. My artwork is in the game too I guess! Underneath the bridge in Akasuka.
– Real player with 28.0 hrs in game
Underappreciated game with an incredible soundtrack, worth it for the music alone. If you are curious in the slightest then do yourself a favour and give it a try, you will fall in love!
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Sphere Game
only complaint would be that the levels are a bit simple and often rely on misdirection, the camera doesn’t make things much easier nor does the weight of the ball being very heavy
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Sphere Game is a very basic Unity rolling ball puzzle game where you must roll a ball around various 3D levels. There’s numerous asset packs and tutorials for making this game, I’m not sure which one the “developer” has flipped to make this, but it’s almost certainly a flip.
This is a very simple game with little serious merit for gamers, being copied/flipped from an asset pack/tutorial. This may be a simple cash grab as the developer sold keys to DailyIndieGame so it could be part of shovelware game bundles.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game