There Will Be Ink
Cool isometric twin-stick shooter with a fun theme/premise and surprisingly deep gameplay (cover mechanics, stamina, dodge-roll, wind affects bullets, etc.). Current Beta and Alpha campaigns offer a good mix of challenge and fun. I’ve only played solo and two player coop so far but enjoyed both. There are a few levels that I died a lot on but with some unit upgrades and a change of tactics I was(/we were) able to pass them after a few more attempts. Having a T-Rex with an uzi definitely helped on one occasion. Will be checking back to see what other content and customization is added before this title leaves early access!
– Real player with 39.6 hrs in game
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It’s a lot of fun for the time it lasts, definitely worth the price.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
Chess on Ice
WHAT IS CURLING SIMULATOR?
Play the beautiful sport of Curling in the most accessible and complete curling game to date! Play with your friends in competitive matches whether it’s 1v1, 1v2, or 2v2, or play through the over 40 levels of curling physics based puzzles to see if you have what it takes to be the next Curling superstar!
BUT I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CURLING!
Don’t worry! This game can show you everything you need to know to go from a curling newbie to throwing Olympic quality shots!
FEATURES
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40+ Single Player Physics Based Puzzles - From simple shots to a specific target, to weaving in between five different rocks to get the scoring hit, challenge mode is the best way to push your ability to curl!
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Shared Screen Multiplayer for up to four players - Scream and shout just like the pros from the comfort of your own living room
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Online Multiplayer using Steam’s Remote Play - Don’t have friends in person? Don’t have a living room? No Worries! With support for up to four controllers, Curling Simulator will get you the fun you want with your friends!
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Customization of Rules to Match the Pace You Want - Only have 10 minutes? Want a full simulated game? Want only one rock per team? The choice is yours!
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Customization of Physics to Break the Game However You Want - Want to be throwing ultra-light rocks? Want to make sweeping pointless? Want to make sweeping the only way you will ever get a rock to where you want? Want the rocks to go sideways from the amount of curl they get? The physics engine is 100% customizable!
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Tutorial to Show all the ins and outs of Curling - No previous experience required!
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Metal Mars
Metal Mars is a real time strategy game where you race to gather resources and build on mars!
This game can be played locally with a shared screen with up to three friends (4 players total).
There are also 30 challenges to complete against the CPU! For the best experience, plug in an Xbox controller.
If you don’t have one, the game will revert to keyboard controls. You must have one controller for each player in order to enjoy local multiplayer.
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Scrapshoot
Scrapshoot is the true definition of a party game. While the AI is fun to battle against the game becomes a blast when you get your friends involved. I think this is the kind of game you hop on occasionally and end up sinking hours of fun into it. Super easy to learn, a variety of hat options, and the unique match modifiers offer a lot in variation of gameplay from round to round.
Don’t let this game go under your radar! I’d give it 9 scraps out of 10; super excited to see what the devs whip up in future updates!
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
A really fun mix of tower defense and really active gameplay, really fun gameplay loop, visually very impressive and the dynamic environments mid round are actually gorgeous in game
THE MUSIC THO? THE MUSIC GOES FUCKING CRAAAAZY a perfect compliment to the active gameplay
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
King Pins
I saw this game being played by a popular youtuber, so I gave it a try. The campaign was short and sweet tutorial. The races seem simple, yet fun to play. I cannot give this game a perfect review because I feel that the build was poorly optimized. Every time I play my game skips and drops frames, making micro intensive battles impossible. Great for casual play. Towers + Siege = Overpowered. 4/5
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
I wasn’t sure whether or not to give this a negative or positive review. Overall its a great game with a great concept, however, the units never seem to get the idea of an order. Sometimes when initiating an instruction for a unit, it doesn’t respond. When your unit is attacking a building and an enemy unit attacks it, the unit stops attacking the building and chases the unit that attacked it! It really is frustrating when you have to constantly tell the unit to go back to doing something you want them to do and not get kited by towers and rangers. This is most likely a bug, but its a very major and annoying bug. A game that could’ve lasted 5 minutes turns into a 20 minute game because of this. It really is annoying.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Torchance 6
I own Club Manager 2015, which is an ancestor of this. It is really very good and I bought it for on sale for a pittance, something like $3. Nearly all of the gameplay is exactly the same so I’d check out the reviews there for in-depth discussion of those features. I wrote one that was very good. I was impressed.
Anyway, this game is 5 years newer, 3 releases later, and the price of a AAA management game. Yet it is almost entirely the same as CM2015 except:
A very simplistic 2d match display which just shows you the location of the ball.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
this is literally just a reskinned club manager 2017
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
War War
A old-school style game that is fun and doesn’t take a gigabyte of storage in 2020? Crazy! Seems to be extremely optimized as it is small but brings with it a bunch of fun online matchups. 3 units, ground forces, a tank and 2 drones. I think I am best at the tank as it is easiest, but splitting up the ground forces and controlling individual groups of them with two joysticks on the same controller at once is awesome! Units can’t turn around (they can’t and it seems intended) so the game is a simple match up once you go to War War!
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Tennis Elbow Manager 2
If you like sports management games, you will definitely love this game. As a long-time player of the OOTP series, MotorSports Manager, Bowl Bound and Wolverine Studios games, I was interested in finding another immersive title to whet my sports management appetite. I was a bit concerned about buying a tennis game, as I am not a die-hard tennis fan, but after spending a few minutes with this game I was hooked.
The game begins with creating your own tennis player or using a close facsimile of a real historical or current player. You then plan their training and tournament schedule. Each player has a preferred style of play and a number of attributes that you focus on improving. You can play out the matches in real-time in a well-presented arcade style of tennis, or you can simply create and adjust an overall strategy while observing your player’s matches (you can also let the game simulate results).
– Real player with 674.0 hrs in game
Honestly, if you ever looked for a tennis MANAGER game, look no further !
This game is great in its fundaments and basic principles and tries to depict real life tennis as good as possible, be it animations, tactical decisions, training and most of all, the tactic and skill of the AI Players, which arent overpowered to give you a nut to crack…no, they play and behave like real players with strengths and weaknesses and great tactical awareness !
This Tennis game wants to be a simulation and achieve this goal very well ! The underlying game mechanics are well thought through, and if you take your time to dive deep into it, you can always understand why Player A is most times winning against Player B ! No randomification here
– Real player with 633.0 hrs in game
Panda Push
Panda Push is a non-violent family friendly game designed for teamwork. Play against other people in variably sized teams. Use offensive and defensive strategies as well as reaction time and teamwork to win the game. Watch your energy management. Learn to anticipate your opponents and protect your teammates. Some defend the flag and some attack. Using paths you build and push zones you make with your walls, defeat the other team by being smart and fast. Working together in teams from 2 to a hundred on a side. Building your own paths and setting up walls, your superior tactics and team work will lead you to victory.