Star Escape
Really fun, simple competitive game. I’ve played alone and with a friend and I could see this being incredibly fun with 3-4 people. It’s not easy but not unfair, you always know what you did wrong. The only complaint i would have is initially navigating the menu to start a game was a little confusing.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Read More: Best 4 Player Local Competitive Games.
Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury
[received the key for free to help out a little with beta testing, but would have bought it anyway]
First of all my kids and I loved the first Tank Brawl. It was just this fun simple tank game that reminded me of NES days with tight controls and arcade-like levels. Sure it had its glitches and imperfections but it was charming and we wanted more. The devs heard our plea.
Some years later they bring us Tank Brawl 2. The graphics have improved, they managed to fit the entire campaign on a single map w checkpoints and they tried to do some interesting things that are outside of the box.
– Real player with 26.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best 4 Player Local Online Co-Op Games.
For an unknown game from a two persons vietnamese studio that’s only been tried by less than three hundred players, I was pleasantly surprised to find it actually quite fun and well made!
With its vibrant colors, pudgy enemies, short engagement ranges, and screens filled with bright bullets, it looks quite arcadish. But there’s no forced scrolling: I was still always in control of where and when to go. Though it’s not really free roaming, more like sequences of screen-sized canyons and walled arenas, with a couple secret paths. I was also free to choose between different views, from vertical top down camera, to a near horizontal view, and some inbetween, with controls adapted to each: for example in top down, the screen doesn’t rotate, and the right stick is the turret direction, while in more angled views, the right stick is the turret rotation, and the camera follows the line of fire. Not sure it’s clear, but ah, my point is the control scheme changes to best fit the camera. I used a gamepad and didn’t even try KBM btw.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
BULLET PARTY
This is a seemingly straightforward schmup on the surface but it’s just as much a puzzle game. Levels fly at you thick & fast, and you sometimes have just seconds to destroy all the enemies onscreen. However the visuals, whilst retro, are clearly defined & even though you will perish (many times!) it never feels annoying as you get put back in again, forcing you to think quickly & remember what worked & what didn’t.
Kind of unique among the many twin stick shooters out there, and great value. Even the pulsing soundtrack is effective. Get it!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
BULLET PARTY is obviously a bullet hell game. A very hellish bullet game at that.
CONS
1. Gets very hard very easily, but this is to be expected. Bullet hell game after all. (Still annoying.)
2. No level editor. I feel like a level editor would REALLY make this game, especially if you could upload your levels and others could play theeem……………………
1. Very fun experience, with lots of levels.
2. Very fun with friends.
FINAL VERDICT
BULLET PARTY is a very fun game as you can tell. The game can be annoying at times, but it’s worth the money.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Overdriven Reloaded
This indie game is really fun to play again and again. The gameplay is excellent and responsive, it’s challenging at times but never punishing. Boss encounters are nice too. I’d like to play multiplayer, I’m sure this will be fun as well.
The gameplay combined with a great soundtrack and great graphics makes the game addictive. I would have liked a couple of extra levels in the story mode though. Besides story/arcade modes, extra challenges (color reflex, the line, challenges) are worth playing and I enjoyed completing them. So, replay value is good.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
Yes, it’s ultimately positive, but not without a really big caveat. The game has a lot of problems, things that seem pointless, etc. They’re so numerous that I think it’s more worthwhile for me just to say, “Buyer beware,” especially if you want to play co-op. Upon starting the game multiple times, it always thought one of my controllers was two separate controllers; for that reason, I couldn’t use my arcade stick. I had to resort to my gamepad.
In short, expect little from this one, and be prepared to refund it, in case you don’t like it. I only bought it and played through the story mode because (a) it was super cheap, and (b) it’s a shmup. After beating story mode on Nightmare difficulty (which wasn’t as difficult as it sounds), I’m not sure that I’ll ever return for another session; in fact, I doubt that I will… maybe for some achievements, but that’s it.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Jamestown
First off, if you are interested in this game, I recommend getting Jamestown+ instead. It has two more stages and more ships.
Jamestown is a shmup with its stages primarily designed around co-op gameplay. However, enemy HP does scale so that enemies don’t become sponges if played solo. More about solo gameplay on higher difficulties later.
Jamestown doesn’t provide you with a bomb mechanic. Instead it has a hyper-like mechanic called vaunt. It will greatly increase dealt damage and create a shield which absorbs bullets upon activation. The duration of the vaunt can be increased by collecting the golden items. If it runs out, you’ll gain a significant amount of score, especially after a long vaunt. Cancelling the vaunt manually will provide you with brief invincibility and only provide you with a fraction of the score you’d get otherwise.
– Real player with 200.5 hrs in game
HO-LEE SCHNITZELS IT’S THIS GAME
BETTER BUCKLE INTO YOUR SPACESHIP BECAUSE WE’VE GOT ALIEN SPANIARDS TO KILL
DO YOU LIKE GAMES WITH TONS OF BULLETS? DO YOU LIKE VERTICALLY SCROLLING GAMES? DO YOU LIKE GAMES WITH ROCK-AWESOME MUSIC? DO YOU LIKE GAMES WITH ALTERNATE RE-TELLINGS OF AMERICAN HISTORY? DO YOU JUST LIKE FREAKIN' SWEET SHOOT-EM-UPS? THEN JAMESTOWN IS THE GAME FOR YOU
IF YOU’VE PLAYED ANY SORT OF SHOOT-EM-UP BEFORE THEN YOU’LL PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW HOW THIS GOES DOWN BUT I SWEAR TO THE ALMIGHTY EMPRAH HIMSELF IF YOU PASS THIS UP BECAUSE OF THAT I WILL PERSONALLY COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND TAKE A MASSIVE DUMP ON YOUR FRONT LAWN
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
Wand Wars
Wand Wars is a really polished game, and probably the best party-game I’ve ever played.
While there’s a clear Lethal League feel to it, it’s clearly more accessible, because the game mechanics are so simple. The problem with Lethal League is that even though it’s an excellent game, it has that fighting game aspect that makes it very complex. You’ve got to learn safe zones, angles of shooting, bunts, with or without jumps, special moves, etc… and consequently, when you hit 50 hours of playtime, your friends will be no match for you anymore.
– Real player with 19.5 hrs in game
I love playing four player co-op games that are suitable for groups of varied skill level. This game manages brilliantly, another title with simple controls but surpisingly deep gameplay. Plus superb art and visual effects, stuff that makes the gameplay feel super satisfying when you land that sick off the wall double kill. In addition to the main mechanic of playing dodgeball with a big ball of magic you have power-ups and the ability to turn other players into chickens (take that Kyle). Lastly the game comes with a good selection of maps, each with its own unique twist. One map has fires you can light with your chicken spell, light them all and you summon a minion to help you; another features bubbles that you must break to get the powerups. All in all this is one of those games that will have all your friends asking when they can stop by and play again.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Cashtronauts
A compulsive twin stick asteroid-mining rogue-like set in procedurally generated space with a brilliant “risk” system where at the start of the game, you can choose to enable any or all of 10 different scenarios to make the game more difficult in return for a higher percentage of profit.
One risk makes your armour weak so only one hit can be taken. Another adds gold to some asteroids but also adds competition in the form of big mining ships.
The game eases you in gently, the 10 risks are unlocked as you play, letting you add more challenge as you get more confident.
– Real player with 31.2 hrs in game
Tags: Tactical - Space Crew Sim
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Twinstick instance based freelancer. Fun but beatable in one sitting. Needs patching but dev abandonned due to contract with a new studio. Limited content. Grindy.
This is a one small map containing a few central hotspots. A police station spawning police cars, a fuel and ammo station and a mining station to sell ore. You go out and find cash lying around, get ore, and kill pirates to sell bounty items at the police station. You die respawn and as you unlock more things the world gets more populated.
– Real player with 23.5 hrs in game
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead was featured on my youtube channel
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2175220772
and now onto the short review
//Description//
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead is a local top down shooter game with an interesting twist- you must bring your opponents to 0 HP. Use your math skills to determine how to do that.
//Graphics, Sound & Artstyle//
there isn’t much to say about the graphics as it seems like any other pixel type of game. Sound is nice and found myself humming the main theme.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Sacrifice Your Friends
Basically, this is the mechanics of overcooked mixed with the gameplay ideas of Gang Beasts. It super fun to dash around use and throw the weapons, some weapons are a little more useful than others, but they are all counterable. It controls well. A bunch of cool little stuff to unlock, like hats and characters, a bunch of different powerful gods to play, all with different gameplay styles. A whole bunch of beautifully designed maps/artwork, and a whole bunch of other stuff to explore. A great and simple versus game that is definitely worth picking up.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
This is an amazingly fun item-arena brawler. The closest games I would compare it to are the Bomberman series and Killer Queen Black.
Your character avatar has no impact on your move set, which consists of punching, grabbing/activating an item, and throwing an item. Your associated Ancient One cult (Cthulhu, Dagon, and Nyarlathotep right now) does have a slightly altered move set, which are fitting for the time-limited avatar transformations (similar to a Smash Bros. Smash Ball). The game moves at such a frantic, hilariously fast and fun pace that it doesn’t need more than this.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Space Drift Squad
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game