Beyond Critical
Overview:
Beyond Critical is a sci-fi versus game where players use unique abilities to battle for control over a super massive black hole.
In this game, exploding is the goal, not the end. Players in combat will choose to either grow until they explode or to sacrifice their mass for kinetic projectiles. Players must bend space-time itself in order to win in this unique and chaotic brawler!
Features:
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2 or 4 player versus game play.
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Play as a team or in a free-for-all.
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4 unique ability classes.
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6 different color options for customization and team selection.
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Supports Steam Remote Play Together to battle friends across the globe.
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Beautiful visual effects are complimented by reactive sound design.
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Full controller support and haptic feedback.
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Seamless looping sound track with progressive stages.
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Special ultra-wide monitor support that increases the play space.
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Optimized for high refresh rate gaming.
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Customizable arena configurations for varied gameplay and settings.
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Supports reactive RGB lighting on the PS4 DualShock 4 Controller.
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Can support a single keyboard and mouse pair with up to three extra controllers.
Ability Classes:
Photon
Lots and lots of lasers…Play as Photon and fire massive laser beams that stun enemies right in their tracks.
Electron
Control time itself…Play as Electron and slow down time for your adversaries and take the lead.
Neutrino
Speed is underrated…Play as Neutrino and fuel high reaction speeds with the ability to teleport in a flash.
Gravitron
No obstacle is too big…Play as Gravitron and push every opponent around with massive bursts of gravitational energy.
Details:
Players will battle for control over a super massive black hole. The goal is to stay on the central black hole to collect mass from it while strategically denying opponents access to it. Players must keep opponents at a distance just long enough to reach critical mass and explode, scoring a point for their team. Players have to be careful while in combat, as firing kinetic projectiles sacrifices large quantities of mass in return for larger projectiles. Reaching critical mass is the only way to score, so players should keep an eye out for micro-black holes that will give them a quick boost. The player or team with the most points at the end of the match is declared the winner.
Developer Note: “This was my first release game and senior seminar project. I spent a little over 16 months working on this title in my free time after class and work. All future content will be added to the game as free DLC. Thank you for all of your support. I hope you enjoy playing Beyond Critical with your friends!"
Additional Notice: Beyond Critical has no influence over the connectivity and quality of the Remote Play Together streaming service. We advise that the host be using a wired connection with at least a 15Mbps upload speed or higher to provide a good experience using the Steam service.
Warning: This is a Co-Op only game and is best played with controllers. There is no single player mode. Only one keyboard and mouse combo is possible at a time, if chosen over full controllers.
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Alias
Want to have fun? Then gather a company of friends and turn on the game.
Alias, this is a word clarification game in which at least two two-person teams take part.
Its essence is the explanation in other words of the hidden word. Through associations, synonyms, antonyms or hints, your accomplice must guess as many words as possible in the allotted time.
A good addition is that this game can be played both online and in the same room as friends or family.
Alias is so simple and interesting that it will captivate not only teenagers, but also people of all ages.
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Purgo box
Genuinely one my favorite gaming experiences. Extremely creepy and surreal specially when your nausea is low and you’re randomly flashed with eerie videos or images. A bit confusing sometimes because the translation is done by AI and since the game is so unknown (and Japanese) it’s hard to find information (in English). Definitely not for everyone specially with some of the gory imagery, but overall a really really good experience that I’d recommend to anyone who enjoys more artsy-abstract games and exploring visually interesting worlds.
– Real player with 84.9 hrs in game
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Like a surreal playable artpiece filled with brainfucks and thought-provoking dialogue that somehow make you feel like nothing and everything connect together. There are so many rooms and secrets that probably give this game a +100 hour playtime. Just a reminder that a living, breathing human sat down and tirelessly laboured over making this. Hats off to you rentaka, amazing music too.
– Real player with 43.0 hrs in game
DERU - The Art of Cooperation
Deru is one of the best co-op games I have played in a while. This game is perfect over Remote Play Together because there’s little need to worry about latency. This game is gorgeous, simplistic, and beautiful. You need to play this game with someone who is patient and communicative, because you WILL mess up. But it’s okay, because each level will end pleasingly and make your combined efforts worth it. The gameplay is simple - move your characters to the goals, while helping each other.
Each level is fresh and unique. Everything is perfectly designed to work together. Once we finish this game, we’ll start again.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
The puzzles are interesting in a way that if you get stuck and start just messing around, you figure out innovative stuff and feel smart by accident! There were some levels that were annoying because we thought you had to have really good reflexes to solve them, but it turns out, if you put your mind to it, you can solve them nice and slow. There’s a lot to enjoy here!
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Semispheres
I played through this game in one sitting and found it very enjoyable.
I didn’t try it without a controller but you’d proooobably be okay without one? You control the two “things” with two joysticks, but I can’t remember any part that took extremely precise angles or coordination so wasd/arrow keys are likely adequate. There are two other buttons necessary (shoulder buttons on controller), so thumbs/pinkies would be needed too on keyboard. Definitely recommend controller if at all possible, but you can always try it out and refund it if the controls are annoying.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
If you take a brief glance at a video for this you may think it’s all about timing and dexterity but it’s nothing of the sort. This is a puzzler through and through.
You have two rooms: orange on the left, blue on the right, with a jellyfish in each. The two rooms are usually identical, sometimes there is a small difference. Using your left and right controller sticks, you have to move both of your jellyfish to the exit portals at the opposite ends of the rooms. Doorways are guarded by sentinels with vision arcs, and if one of your jellyfish gets caught by an arc he’s zapped back to his starting position.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Tetris® Effect: Connected
Tetris is the king of the puzzle games. The thing practically made the GameBoy sell for 10 years, the longest running console in History.
And with such notoriety, you didn’t necessarily need to improve on the formula. Game sold! Why spend money trying to improve when it’s already perfect?
So over the years, we’ve seen the licence get adapted for garbage mediums. Java. Apps on smartphones. Facebook gigs. Adaptations on stupid consoles. Quick cashgrabs. Still, the licence remained draped in glory.
– Real player with 62.7 hrs in game
Summary
Latest iteration of possibly the most well-known block matching puzzle game in the world.
In detail
Over the last couple decades there has been plenty of Tetris games and countless more if you include all clones or ones that somehow borrow the core idea of dropping shapes and having the player match them together. The gameplay needs no explanation, but this brings it officially to the modern systems and adds a couple new spins on it as well.
The game is divided into three main subsections: journey mode, effect modes and multiplayer mode.
– Real player with 53.4 hrs in game
Abstractanks
Edit: More bigger maps!
My first!
Just played the first handful of missions and a random battle and I am enjoying it immensely. The type of game I wish I could make if I had the time and the patience. The quick pickup and play gameplay is awesome, I am never one who enjoys the tedious aspect of resource management (I prefer Sudden Strike to Starcraft). At 7 bucks, give it a try to help encourage more of this in the future.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
A very cool neon rts game. I could only reccomend to brighten up the levels a bit, because it’s a bit hard to see what you’re doing.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
CrossKrush
It feels satisfying when you blow up them cars……….Totally gotta try it.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
This is a very fun game, it cheers up! We play as seniors who are compensated by the activity on the motorway roads. Help Henry & Florence regain respect for old age;)
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Cubixx HD
5 stars out of 5; it is like the classic game Qix, but based off a cube stage, and it’s possible to play co-op or MP [5 thoughts]
1. i love this game, to me it is very similar to tetris. simplistic but not easy to master
2. soundtrack has some very decent moments
3. picking your laser’s color will change the sound that it makes… this is huge, imagine if sound #1 annoys the hell out of you
4. depth, beating most of the lower stages will not be difficult. making it to stage 50 on arcade will be
– Real player with 193.1 hrs in game
This game is a remake version of a Cubixx game from PSP and I think its pretty good to have a content that isn’t available from PSP.
Its basicly a Qix in a nutshell, its a Mixed ideas between Qix and 3D Perspective, giving a Fast-Paced Arcade Slice and Dice gameplay.
Its really addicting to play this game, and added Steam Leaderboard brings more competitive to the gameplay.
The only thing that I really wish is Multiplayer, since this game supports up to 8 players, if I’m not mistaken, and I really wish if there’s an Online mode where you can play multiplayer also.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Sharp
very cool puzzle game and it runs super smoothly
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
A nice puzzle game.
Requires some dexterity and a bit of die and retry.
Overall a pleasant experience and it is free.
What do you want more?
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game