Cloud Miners
Cloud Miners is a 2D couch co-op space mining and exploration game!
You and your shipmates have been attacked and your ship destroyed! A Cloud Corp ship was nearby and able to save the crew at the last minute, but now you are indebted to Cloud Corp. In order to buy a new ship, and your freedom back, you must toil away mining asteroids and planets of their valuable resources, running on suspicious missions for Cloud Corp and entertaining spectators in the C.L.A.A.S.H. Coliseum battle arena. Your lives now belong to Cloud Corp, and it’s up to you to take your power back!
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Playable with up to 4 people
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Choose from 4 different characters with different abilities and tools
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Use the crew’s ship and venture out on foot to complete missions
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A mix of procedurally generated and crafted levels
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Solve puzzles, fight battles, and use mined resources to complete missions
Read More: Best 4 Player Local Space Games.
Contract Killer
Contract Killer builds on retro arcade beat ‘em ups and paper aesthetics with chaotic combos, boss fights, hand-crafted pixel visuals, an original, jazzy soundtrack, and an emphasis on cooperation. Tackle the comical campaign with up to 4 players, unlock skins and new characters, fight against your friends, or try to survive an endless horde mode!
CAMPAIGN
When the legendary Erase-Sir was defeated by the Contract of all contracts, his minions took over, binding thousands to their legal demise. It’s up to Leadhead and his crew to traverse different worlds, defeat the bosses that rule them, and erase the final signature!
CHARACTERS
Meet the cast, each with their own unique move sets and skins:
Leadhead - The pencil mascot himself. This all-around fighter is best known for his angry attitude and furious fighting style.
Penn - Ink it up with this vengeful city native who will stop at nothing to return his hometown to its former glory.
Mark - This clumsy combatant always has a white flag in hand… just don’t expect him to surrender.
Pomp - A pretentious paintbrush who treats every attack as a photo opportunity. Pompadours will never NOT be in style.
KEY FEATURES
● Up to 4 player co-op across all modes
● Unlock new skins for your favorite character
● Experience the Story of Leadhead and his crew and defeat epic bosses
● Fight endless waves of contracts in Horde Mode with the help of various power-ups
● Challenge your friends in player versus player Battle Mode to test your skills
● Use an extensive kit of attacks for all your contract-killing goodness
● Master each character’s jabs, claps, grabs, ground-pounds, dashes, and projectiles
● Take on various corporate lackeys each with distinct behaviors and weaknesses to learn
ABOUT PAPERBOY GAMES
Created by Alex Garza, Aiden Jauffret, Matthew Lawrence, and Leon Yang
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Crawl
One of the best local multiplayer games ever made. My friends and I have played this almost every week without fail since launch - it’s that damn good. When we meet new people who claim they’re into games, we vet them on this and see if they have fun or can appreciate the depth of game mechanics. We love this game because there’s nothing like sitting shoulder to shoulder with a pal and howling with rage at a stolen kill, laughter at a horde of slimes causing a human to suddenly play a Shmup, or roars of hype when a close bossfight comes down to the wire. My short recommendation for this game is BUY IT. But now let’s get to why you should.
– Real player with 95.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best 4 Player Local Multiplayer Games.
Oh man. Where do I begin with this game? There’s so much done right about this game that it’s very quickly becoming one of my favourite rougelikes. Let’s just dive right into the dungeon and start chopping off the pros and cons of this insanely unique and fast-paced competitive Gauntlet-inspired roguelike.
Pros:
+Fast paced couch competition. The game is super quick to pick up and just as wasy to learn, utilizing only the movement directions and two buttons.
+Most unique idea for a rogulike in a long time. The fact that AI or other friends control your ENTIRE JOURNEY is so fresh and innovative that I honestly can’t think of a game to compare it to.
– Real player with 23.2 hrs in game
Manic Archers
One of the best party games I’ve played! Unique, the artstyle is pure nostalgia, and the gameplay is just hilarious/random. This is a great party game, and love it’s Steam Co-Op compatible.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Well, first: you really do need a controller in order to play, it won’t work with mouse and keyboard. But even if it did, you’d still want a controller, I’d say. So now I probably need to buy a better controller for this…
The game has an awesome retro vibe, especially the music. The title doesn’t disappoint: the gameplay is frantic. You’re an archer, jumping around, shooting enemies, dodging projectiles, potentially hitting yourself while trying to get rid of the waves of enemies spawning. Fortunately your ammunition is also constantly spawning in random locations, because you need to keep supplied. And what an arsenal you can collect. It reminds me of the loadout of worms or xenon 2: absolutely ridiculously overpowered.
– Real player with 0.2 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
Wibbly Witches
Great game but im still working on unlocking the “fun stuff”
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
Excellent creation!
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Astro Duel
Astro Duel is a game that sneaks up on ya. It looks like Asteroids and Samurai Gun had a baby… but it turns out that the baby is actually like a Baby Rambo with twin uzis and insane kung fu skills and also a tail! That’s how awesome this game is. I’m so stoked it’s finally on Steam, cause now I can play it on my big screen and punk all my bois and baes with my insane astro dueling skills. If you’re hard up for a game that will make you laugh, cry, scream, and probably get a whole pizza dumped on your head, then this is the game for you.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
This is one of the best shared-screen 4-player games I’ve played.
One of those games that makes you burst out laughing or burst into obscenities. Or both. Mostly both.
It’s kind of like a love child between Asteroids and Towerfall Ascension. It has far more options than Astroids. It has far less options than Towerfall Ascension.
Some random things that some fellow multiplayer retro-gamers might be interested to know:
- 2 to 4 players, local shared screen, small arena, top down 2D space shooter.
– Real player with 19.5 hrs in game
Friday Night Bullet Arena
LOVE IT! Played with 3 good friends in a 4 player local vs game. The most fun I’ve had with my friends in a new game in a long time.
Fast paced and quick thinking, every round ended with cheers and laughter as we found new ways to outsmart eachother.
Never a dull moment with friends in this game.
Endless hours of fun!
– Real player with 22.0 hrs in game
Fantastic local game, played with my roommates and had a lot of fun! Definitely recommended.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Gravity Heroes
Excellent game. Lots of variety of character and scenarios. It brings an innovative gameplay. congratulations, I indicated to all my friends.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Target Audience: Those looking for a unique shooter with friends to play with
Summary:
Gravity Heroes is one of those games that has an interesting concept on the surface that actually does live up to how you’d want it to play out in terms of gameplay. The ability to move gravity does help a lot here without being overly powerful….as long as you use it correctly and skillfully. You’ll struggle a tiny bit at first as your brain needs a period of time to sorta “reset” how it thinks, but if you adapt, you’ll be matrix dodging and zooming across the map and dealing with the interesting problems put before you in level design and enemy placement. The game is easy to follow and look at for the most part and enemies have clear attack animations and readable tells, even if you end up running into them with the chaos of everything around you.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
I・S・U ~Fighting Musical Chair~
Sit in the Chair by any means !
Break a leg !
▼What’s this game ?▼
This game is “top-view fighting action musical chair game”.
In this game, you will control the character selected by you to compete with other players for the chair.
If you want to sit in the chair, there is no problem kicking the chair or other players in this game (Please don’t kick others in the real world).
▼Rule▼
After sitting in the Chair for 3 seconds, you will be the winner. Otherwise,you will be an underdog.
In the game with the time limit, the closest player will be the winner when time is up.(By default, the time limit is 60 seconds.)
If your HP is eliminated, you will drop out.
▼Actions▼
Playable characters have each unique skills to win the chair.
The skill can be used by pressing the 1 or 2 button, so you don’t need to practice complicated command inputs like typical fighting games.
Also, there are two types of gauges (SP gauge and EX gauge) gathered according to time, you can take actions to accumulate gauges and activate skill by consuming gauge.
Then various situations will occur during the game by each players' actions.
▼Possible actions during game (Buttons of Xbox controllers)▼
MOVE（L stick）
Movement in 8 directions.
STRIKE（
／
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Attack to nearby enemies.
TACKLE（
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Rush in the direction facing.You can change the facing direction before moving.
-TECHNICAL TACKLE（
during other actions）
TACKLE will be activated during another actions.If starting of TACKLE is invincible, the invincible time of TACKLE is 0 or short.
-CHAIR TACKLE（
during sitting）
Immediately rush from the chair.
SP ARTS（
when 
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SP gauge usage skills. Techniques to expand the range of strategies such as jumps and invincible actions.
EX ARTS（
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when 
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EX gauge usage skills. Techniques that suits the personality of the character.
CHARGE（
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Speed up accumulation of SP gauge and EX gauge.
GUARD（
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Invalidate damage from your opponent. If you receive a guard break attack (GB) such as TACKLE, GUARD reduce damage by half .
SIT/STAND（
by
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Sit in the Chair. / Stand up from the Chair
MIRACLE（
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Skill that can be used only once during game. Cancel the current action and blow away what is in the surroundings. You can cancel rigidity of this skill with EXTRA.
Pause（
）：Pause the game.
Zoom In（
）：Zoom in when the camera mode is Player.
Zoom Out（
）：Zoom out when the camera mode is Player.
-Zoom Reset（
）：Initialize zoom.
▼Operation on selection scene▼
Switch players（Keyboard1-4）[
When you press that in the title scene, you change the number of the keyboard operated player.
Move（L stick）
Change the focus. On the character select scene, the cursor moves.
Decide（
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Select the focused one.
Cancel（
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Cancel your selection.
Decide CPU characters（
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Press it on the character panel when you want to decide the CPU on the character select screen, .
Game Start （
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Press it and start the game when the game start condition is set.
Back（
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Return to the previous screen.
▼Keyboard configuration (Modifiable)▼
L stick : arrow key
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: Z key
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: X key
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: C key
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: A key
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: L-Shift
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: R-Shift
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: S key
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: D key
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: Space
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: Escape
▼Game mode▼
There are various modes in this game.
Please choose the mode you want to do.
LESSON
Characters will explain the operation and skills in this mode.
If you don’t know how to operate and rules of this game, please try playing this mode first.
REHEARSAL
You can practice in this mode.
Please prepare the environment with rehearsal options and practice.
VS
You can fight among players, fight with CPU, watch match between CPUs in this mode.
Up to 4 players can play at the same time.
・Camera mode
You can choose from 3 camera modes. Please switch in options mode according to your preference and situation.
First：Mode to draw around 1P.
Players：Mode to divide the screen and draw each player.
Chair：Mode to draw around the Chair.
２VS２
You can fight at 2 VS 2 in this mode.
The team to which the winning player belongs wins.
Please enjoy the strategy by combining various characters.
ARCADE
It is a mode of fighting continuously with the CPUs.
If you clear stage 10, you can see ENDING.
OPTIONS
You can make various changes such as change of key config, game speed, time limit, processing at the time of dropout.
Since the settings of ARCADE mode and REHEARSAL mode are independent without basic setting (1st page), please change from OPTIONS on each character select scenes.
AWARDS
You can see the awards of releasing.
It also contains hints of awards that have not yet been achieved.
You need to use the keyboard to achieve all awards.
▼Playable Characters▼
Histoire
Birthplace : France
He is the game master of I・S・U.
He is art works with ego. His head is made of the concept of a chair.
His ability is good at handling the Chair.
Fadia
Birthplace : Dubai
She is a robot with free will after singularity. fights for self-sacrifice for salvation.
Her feature is two different battle modes. You can change these modes in battle.
Kokuzo
Birthplace : Japan
She is a ninja aiming for the villain who killed his father.
Her HP is small, but she has fast legs, high offensive sword and “shuriken”(throwing star).
With her EX ARTS, she can go behind the nearest enemy from the chair. So sometimes she can reverse the situation.
Iwan
Birthplace : Russia
He is a clumsy, honest and powerful farmer. His hobby is wrestling.
He has high endurance and long invincible time.
His legs are so late that it is difficult for him to win once he leaves the chair.
Meaw
Birthplace : Thailand
Ze is a lovely ladyboy. Ze zirself is non-violent, but a violent spirit “Phi” protects zir.
You will operate two characters(Meaw and Phi) at the same time.
Even if Meaw sits in the chair Phi can attack, so this character is very strong.
I Pak-ssu
Birthplace : Korea
He is a Ponchak Star. He loves to dance and sing.
Because he has skills that can cancel all actions, he can respond instantly to various situations.
During EX ARTS invocation you will be able to attack the enemies that are falling, so you can hit great damage by hitting STRIKE.
Dan
Birthplace : Scotland
He is a genius football juvenile. He was born as a nobleman, but he dislikes that his father is severe.
Because his attack range is long, with this character you can control the game without getting close to the chair.
However, it takes time to recover when under attack, sometimes he’ll drop out without counterattack.
Dafu
Birthplace : Hong Kong
He is a chubby trickster who are easily deceived. Master of Kung Fu.
There are few circumstances that are difficult for him, and he is easy to use.
You can decide the game at once with high risk - high return skill.
Wunala
Birthplace : Australia
He is a violent kangaroo fighter. Attack, break, fun.
His HP is small, but he has fast legs and high offensive power.
It is difficult to play as him because he will be knocks out as soon as you make a mistake.
La Suicida
Birthplace : Mexico
She is a daredevil Lucha Dola. She will accept anyone’s challenge.
Tackle movement distance is characteristic of her.
Because she is easy to use, if you are troubled with the character you use, I’d recommend using this character for the time being.
Shanti
Birthplace : Himalayan Range
She is a yoga master. She meditates anyway.
Because meditation (EX ARTS) improves ability, meditation is a way to win.
She also has a full recovery skill, so you may take aggressive actions.
Steven
Birthplace : United States of America
He is a spokesman for justice. He is a mayor who resolves anything by power.
His feet are slow, but he has skills to move, so he will move around.
Because his ability to take chairs is low, you basically have to defeat your opponent when using him.
In this game, we use the materials of the following site.
-image
ぴぽや
白螺子屋
-Sound effect
ザ・マッチメイカァズ
-Music
甘茶の音楽工房
魔王魂
龍的交響楽
-Font
Lightmorning
うつくし明朝体フォント
FatCow Font Family
This is a work of fiction.
The characters, incidents and locations portrayed and the names herein are fictitious and any similarity to or identification with the location, name, character or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
Written by fuddy (Shota Fujimoto)