Data Defense

Data Defense

This game is very entertaining, defenetly worth it’s price! I have over 90 hours right now and am still not tored of it. You can try out new strategies, play survival if you don’t want to think too much or play the campaign mode with it’s challenge servers, where you need to think and react to specific circumstances.

Graphics 10/10

Music 10/10

Gameplay 9/10

Fun 12/10 ;)

A very beautiful, simple and yet extraordinary indie game.

If you get stuck on a level or have questions about the gameplay, I wrote a guide about this game.

Real player with 141.8 hrs in game


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Data Defense is a simple tower defense game that emphasizes interesting gameplay over glitzy graphics, and it does a pretty good job of doing so. You’ll see a lot of the staples of tower defense traditions at work here - predicted pathing that changes responsively, different sorts of enemies that fulfill different roles, etc - but the game also offers a quasi-RPG-esque quality in that you only get so many types of towers to work with, and they’re sub-slotted into various roles. This forces you to examine the map and the towers best suited for that battle; the wide-open map with the speed up/speed down zones (which affect both the enemy AND your towers) plays very differently than the tight path, for example.

Real player with 69.0 hrs in game

Data Defense on Steam

CONET|コネット

CONET|コネット

“Conet” is an extremely simple one-on-one strategy game of dots and boxes.

Black is the first player and white is the second player.

Clicking the square dots will connect them with lines to any other adjacent square dots that have already been clicked, scoring you one point for each line formed.

Both players take in turns clicking the square dots until they have all been clicked, and the player with the most points wins!

The special “lonely points” rule also means that any square dots that have not been connected to any others are worth three points each.


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CONET|コネット on Steam

Re-Nullum

Re-Nullum

7.5 hours later, first play and had a great time completing the puzzles. Frustrating here and there where i didn’t bother to think on the puzzles (instead did the old trial and error until I was like, ‘this is bonkers, let’s break this down, add it up and divide’). That said in this game a little effort goes a long way. It was enjoyed. We rate it 4 and a half royal-desserts (equal to 4.5 of those common stars).

Real player with 7.5 hrs in game


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It’s just like Nullum except that regions physically expand after you combine them (if their associated numbers don’t cancel out). The expansion causes the new region to physically touch other regions it wouldn’t have touched otherwise, so there are more options for combining. This made some of the levels harder than Nullum and some easier. Like Nullum, this is a clean, simple, minimalistic game that requires a lot of basic addition and either planning or trial-and-error. Levels can be restarted at any point, infinitely many times with no penalty.

Real player with 5.1 hrs in game

Re-Nullum on Steam

reky

reky

Very challenging, but fun! Minimal in its conception with use of color to contribute interest. Unique use of cubes in ways to motivate one to seek the solution, but forgiving in its offerings of undo the previous move or restart the puzzle. Refreshingly creative!!

Real player with 50.0 hrs in game

Beyondthosehills, one indie games development studio which comes from Greece, it have two works-Reky and The Minims(This review only according to Reky). As a puzzle game, it accomplished the mission which the ability of solving conundrums from players is leveling up with the difficulty of it.

The diversity of gameplay make more possibility

From the most simplest way that only need to move one cube on the specified site to create a path through the shift and the cooperation of two types of colors, then the changing of cubes which have many colors, the difficulty of it is increasing slowly, from one to ten. No obvious up and down display on the difficulty, the whole difficulty carve is a little uneven, but the tendency is steady. The design of levels includes many ways, such as going to the end with rising and downing cubes or crossing many black portals to escape. Not only can get fun with exploring the right path by myself step by step, but also can experience the double difficulty from the adjustment of colors and blocks under by the same frame.

Real player with 24.9 hrs in game

reky on Steam

Nullum

Nullum

Simple visual game, no text, windowed mode included, has low-key but repetitive soundtrack. On each level, you have to clear the board by combining numbered tiles. There are only a few levels that require you to do anything at all different, so the game is the same through all levels. Game needs a dark mode, has a blinding white background. The difficulty didn’t increase linearly and some of the latter levels seemed easier than earlier levels. There are only 40 levels, and the latter levels aren’t terribly difficult, so this isn’t something that will keep you occupied for months (I finished all levels in a total of 6 hours). I wanted something challenging but not brain-wracking that would take my mind away from the kind of thinking I use for language-based studying, and this worked fairly well.

Real player with 6.3 hrs in game

A quick puzzle game with minimalist design and relaxing atmosphere. It follows basic logic, but can actually be quite challenging to solve if you don’t open your mind a bit. Great game!

Real player with 4.4 hrs in game

Nullum on Steam

Hexagun

Hexagun

Update: After the recent patch, the slowdowns seem to be gone (although it’s still a bit choppy). Thank you for that! Hexagun is a pretty nice puzzle game, ideal for short breaks. Well worth its money.

Original review:

Promising game. Sadly, slows down immensly after running a while, up to the point where it shows less than one frame a second and becomes unplayable. Puts about 25 % CPU load on a Ryzen 7 2700X and takes up 1,5 Gigs of RAM right from the start, which does seem to be a bit steep for what is essentially a browser game … Really needs to be optimized! Until then, I cannot recommend this, sorry. Would really like to play it because it is quite relaxing until it becomes unplayable.

Real player with 2.3 hrs in game

Sysifos style activity in unique looking match-3 game that seems relaxingly way too easy yet autistically forces you to never quit because of cleverly set hard to notice pace in which it always adds some new clumsiness so that you feel urge to clean it, over and over, with two ambient melodies that annoyingly switch from one to the other over and over. Worth the few cents I bought it for, not more. I believe the game could be professionally developed into a very nice game if someone wanted. You can ask my help if that happens.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

Hexagun on Steam

Lasertron

Lasertron

Arkanoid with optic styled physics and different bonuses.

Lasertrons can be reflected, refracted, decompose into a spectrum of lasertrons, change their colors. The white lasertrons can destroy blocks of any color, while the color lasertrons can only destroy blocks of the same color. Deactivated lasertrons can’t destroy any blocks. Clean the playing field by lasertrons!

There are 3 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard.

The game supports two save modes by checkpoints or passed levels.

The complete game distribution includes 60 levels.

Lasertron on Steam

Ancient Dino Runner

Ancient Dino Runner

This game of my childhood, when I didn’t have a good phone, pc and internet yet, I always played a similar game on my phone, so it’s so much for me. The game is made in a pixelated style and is very pleasing to the eyes

Real player with 1323.5 hrs in game

You remember the game on google, when you offline and don’t have connect on internet, you can playing for dino, keep moving forvard and jump through cactuses. It’s the same game, but it more difficultly and more interested.

Real player with 9.8 hrs in game

Ancient Dino Runner on Steam

Miner Gun Builder

Miner Gun Builder

I enjoy being able to have a second account on my PC to really get to go through the entire early game, it’s pretty fun especially since I know basically all the tips and tricks beforehand lol. But to newcomers, this game can be very confusing with descriptions in some places or some things may not entirely make sense so I HIGHLY recommend joining the Discord server to be able to ask any questions to us (I am Fwuffy Doge). :3

Real player with 271.8 hrs in game

Works as advertised - a surprisingly deep and fun game to just run on the side while doing other stuff. And then you get a new ship and you don’t even realize it took your full attention for an hour. So many details to optimize:

-Raw Damage

-Number of projectiles

-Bullet trajectory

-AOE

-Piercing

-Bouncing

-Critical chance

-More I’m forgetting

And that’s on top of the maze you have to create in each ship to get from the projectile generator over to the gun points. Good stuff.

Admittedly, the UI definitely needs some work. The game itself is almost a puzzle that you unlock as well as you get further, the captains, the endless missions, the random new weapon slot you forgot you can unlock by scrolling down more.

Real player with 93.3 hrs in game

Miner Gun Builder on Steam

Newton’s Cradle Puzzle Game

Newton’s Cradle Puzzle Game

newton’s cradle is not where baby isaac used to spend his nights before an apple fell on his head, but that metal ball thing you see on important people’s desks and think it’ll never stop. it’s also the inspiration for this puzzle game where you bounce metal balls into each other and try to make them stop where they should in order to reach one of the exits.

Real player with 4.6 hrs in game

tricky but fun! livestreamed it

Real player with 4.1 hrs in game

Newton's Cradle Puzzle Game on Steam