Defentron
Defentron is a pretty relaxing game, despite being a tower defense. The retro look and sound are well done and suitably nostalgic, without needing to rely on gratuitous particle effects, waves, or flashes like some other retro games or genres like to use. The different types of towers all have fun and unique properties, and the enemy variety and additions from stage to stage kept me thinking a good amount, rather than finding one strategy I liked and just using that on everything.
Being able to power up a given turret in a pinch was cool too, but if I have one criticism about that mechanic’s game balance, it’s that it feels necessary to use that function on the basic turrets (at least for the early game), which destroys them afterwards, and it felt like a bit of a waste. That is, instead of trying to plan out placement or turret types to counter different contingencies, I felt like I had to budget my resources to account for “necessary losses” rather than just “acceptable losses,” which made it feel less like a puzzle game at those parts, and more like the traditional gratuitous enemy spam TD games that I don’t like nearly as much as this one.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
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Defentron is a fun tower defense, and certainly a challenging one. Many levels can really get you stuck until you figure out the right sequence of towers and upgrades to buy, but that difficulty gives the game a lot more longevity and replayability, specially if you are going to try and complete all achievments.
It took me 14 hours to complete everything the game had to offer, which I feel is a good value for the pricetag
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
The king is gone
Let me start by saying that this game could have potential and i was really curious to try it intrigued by the trailer, unfortunately only later i realized the whole game is right to that trailer.
I’m a lover of endless games, roguelike, dungeon crawler and any game that has puzzle elements, but this “The king is gone” reaches monotony very quickly.
Gameplay is very limited and flat, you can’t move or interact with anything around you, you can simply watch around while the character walks automatically for a short distance before arriving to a room where you must choose which door to open, so the only input available is the left click mouse.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
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Bad Dream: Stories
This game is amazing! I highly recommend if you haven’t tried these games out already!
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
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Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series, in a new, remastered form.
Pros
1. Runs in 60FPS with option for 30FPS.
2. UI looks better and is less cluttered.
3. Graphics are cleaner and sharper.
4. Atmosphere is dense and claustrophobic.
5. Soundtrack is A++.
6. Achievements. Still as bone hard to unlock as they were in BD: Coma.
All in all a really nice remaster, and I can easily recommend this to anyone who likes a point and click game with a very twisted atmosphere.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
CubePuzzle
a very interesting game that can keep you busy for long evenings! it strains the brain well to solve problems, I advise you to play alone or with friends. I bought it at a discount and am happy with the game, for such money it is a very cool game
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
This is quite an interesting game. Many levels, solutions, which makes the game varied and interesting. A good puzzle, something to think about, will stir your brain well, it is always good to do it. I advise everyone to get this game, good luck in solving puzzles.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
Coloree
Coloree is a relaxing puzzle game with a very familiar mechanic that I have never seen in a puzzle game before: left-click and drag a box to change the color of everything in the box. The puzzles are increasingly challenging but the aesthetics and the sounds keep the relaxing theme going the whole time.
The reason that the mechanic is familiar is because it’s what we do in an operating system or a game when we want to select multiple things- brilliant! However, this game requires some novel thought processes when thinking about strategies to solve puzzles and it’s easy to get lost in the gameplay. The music and sounds are mostly from a marimba (Google it- it’s a giant xylophone), which plays a big part in setting the ambiance.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
This game is AWESOME!
I played this game for about 30 minutes and its so fun.
I realy recomend this game!
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
M.E.M.E.S.
FUCKING BEST GAME if u like undertale at all like at all then buy this its cheap and u can play for ever so FUCKING BUY IT
– Real player with 21.6 hrs in game
So Bad its good again
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Boulders: Puzzle
For the time being I can recommend this game with some reservation.
As for the concept: you start with a cube (the light green one), which you must connect with other cubes (the dark green ones) to create chains. These chains you need to build up and move around until you reach the yellow goal cube. In some levels you’ll meet cubes of two other colors: purple and red. If one of your cubes touches the red cube, it goes ‘poof’ and vanishes and you lose. If one of your cubes touches a purple cube, it turns to ‘stone’ and becomes unmovable - useful if you have a chain that you want to break apart, but dangerous if you have only one cube (if this one cube becomes unmovable you lose, of course).
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
boulders: puzzle is a very basic cube-rolling game. the point is to make the player’s cube reach the goal cube, and the trick is that they’re not always on the same level. what can a simple cube do in such a predicament? well, it can grow longer by sticking its buddies to itself. no other formation is possible, and connections can be broken up if need be.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Chains
Chains is a game about linking 3+ bubbles of the same colour. It features 20 puzzles, each different from one another. Rules, objectives, layout change from one puzzle to the next, sometimes even the gravity is modified.
Basically though there are two types: puzzles that make you think a little, and puzzles where you have to act fast. Unfortunately there is much more of the “act fast” ones. When I got this game I thought it will be relaxing & laid-back. It wasn’t most of the time. Chains require focus, reflex and speed, which makes it rather tense experience, stressful even. Hey, I’m old ^^
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
To start off, I bought this game for 50 cents with a 90 percent off coupon, from its original price of 4.99. That’s a pretty good deal in my opinon at least. I like to think of these types of games as Flash Games, or rather those you can play on the internet for free. Thus meaning I do think the price on this is a bit to high, and 99 cents instead would be quite a great deal.
Compared to a free web game, this game offers the same amount of gamplay, level systems and what not, you finish one you go the next, pretty simple. But that also means that is the only things it offers if you know what I mean.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Karanos Solitaire
A relaxing solitaire game ideal for when you have a little bit of spare time. Satisfying sound fx and adjustable visuals (white on black hurts my eyes but the blue background is great). Recommended.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Fun single player card game. Only gripe is I wish some of the achievements weren’t so impossible. Game is priced perfectly and the pixel art looks great. Looking forward to see more games by the dev.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
The Last Survey
Warmly recommended to whoever enjoys novels.
Warning, game offers close to zero interaction / agency, if a game must have these for you to enjoy it, walk away.
But if you can enjoy this, take it like a “novel++”. The story is intelligent, the writing is evocative yet concise, and art/audio fit perfectly, strengthening immersion into the story.
Hope the author(s) make more games 3.
EDIT oh, seeing my posted review, one last thing to temper expectations: it’s short. Appears as 3+ hours because I had the game paused while running for an errand, but it’s shorter.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
This is a short and no-frills visual novel designed for a single playthrough, drawing attention to a serious and important topic, and it’s pretty good at what it does.
It makes no attempt at being “a real game”. Your options are limited to reading the protagonist’s well-formulated observations, memories, and considerations; watching the mesmerising ways in which the illustrations morph into each other to support the narrative; clicking to continue, and sometimes choosing one out of two lines that impact the outcome.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game