Book of the Old
The Old, will Return
A puppet somehow has its own will, accidentally summoned a mystical soul from the Otherworld.
Now they are trapped in a mysterious manor.
What is behind all this, and what is awaiting these two souls?
The answer lays in the Book of the Old.
A Roguelike shooting game
Dodge enemies' bullets and shoot them! Every time you start a journey, it will be all new!
Adventure deeper, and new maps, enemies, stories will appear.
Decide you own adventure plan – do you prefer easy maps, or dangerous ones with high benefits?
Equipment? No, they are cards!
Collecting coins after cleaning rooms. Use coins to get powerful cards, or keep the coins for interest – if you are not killed by powerful enemies.
The altar will provide 5 cards each time for you to pick, and you can refresh them all if there is no your target card – of course you should pay for that.
3 same cards will became higher ranked card, witch can assist you fighting more powerful enemies.
Each card has two forms of ability and two bonds. With 80 cards and 32 bonds, it’s up to your wisdom and imagination how powerful you can be.
What’s that monster?
80 monsters and 23 bosses, every of them has its unique skill and action.
Some of them can even cooperate.
Be careful, every single kind of these monsters is fatal!
This is a roguelike game with infinite possibilities.
What is your road, you decide.
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Society’s Paradigms
story
The Golden God is soon to be left out of his prison. The blood moon rises as the believers pray for salvation…
World generation
No other playthrough is the same as the previous one, so you have to discover new possibilities to finish your job
Choices matter
Side with the ruling party to restore the order of a crumbling world or lead a new movement governed by your own ideas and beliefs.
Obtain different outcomes in certain situations depending on your own actions
Fast-Paced Combat
Immersive hack and slash combat and satisfying combos
Skills
Discover new skills depending on how you play the game, so you can make each run unique
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Neon Chrome
The game says my total play time is 6h 22m. Steam must be counting all the time the application has been running to come up with the 14h I’m seeing.
EDIT: play time is now around triple the first review’s
Pros:
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Good amount of options in weapons and ability loadouts
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Good balance overall - even if you get to a point where you’re a killing most enemies with 1 shot, there are elements to keep it from becoming a cakewalk
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Story fits my playstyle – I don’t want to be bored to tears by a novel of backstory. I came to play a game, not read a book. This game has exactly the right amount of forced story, imo. And for me, it doesn’t hurt that it’s a sci-fi with Shadowrun-style elements.
– Real player with 42.1 hrs in game
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A winning mix of twin-stick shooting and roguelike that stands its ground against the best in both genres.
I was almost about to pass this one, after the first playthrough of a tutorial that left me a very “meh” sensation: bland graphics and sound, apparently nothing new in the gameplay department… Fortunately, I made a second attempt a couple of weeks later, or I would have missed a little gem.
First of all, forget about top-notch graphics and sound, because you will find very little there: Neon Chrome is all about the gameplay.
– Real player with 36.8 hrs in game
Delver
Picked up Delver during the Steam Sale. Definitely worth the $3 it cost.
I wouldn’t call it ‘3d’ in more than a limited sense, it feels a lot more like Doom’s 2.5d- 3d environments, sprite monsters, etc. Still, it’s one save file you can’t back up and one life in a randomly generated roguelike. It actually makes for a pretty cool story:
I started off in a little camp with a couple of shopkeepers and the obligatory guest appearance of Old Man Exposition, who explained that there was a MacGuffin at the bottom of yonder dungeon. He also seemed troubled that people kept going in but never coming out. More on that later.
– Real player with 188.2 hrs in game
Big ol' TLDR:
Me, myself and I actually enjoy this game, and not just because I bought into it waaay back into pre-release and “feel obligated to pretend my money’s worth it”, I’ve had a genuinely good time with it thus far, and what’s here is quality.
I just have a few issues that makes me feel I can’t fully recommend this to someone else, unless I know they like what I do, but that said, I would definitely make this a tentative recommendation was it more stable. And as a sidenote, because I bought in early, my time played isn’t 100% indicative of everything I’ve gotten out of it.
– Real player with 25.9 hrs in game
Starward Rogue
(Review updated on August 14th 2016)
Now that I beat the 3 wardens and finally completed a full run, I think it’s a good time to write a small review.
The game is a healthy mix of roguelite and bullethell. Think Binding of Isaac with mechs and lasers, where the huge selection of enemies all have very unique styles of attacks. But don’t get scared by the Bullethell tag, it’s not the “barf bullets all over your screen and call it a day” bullethell, it’s more like “each pattern is a little puzzle you have to solve to dodge it” bullethell.
– Real player with 351.4 hrs in game
Starward Rogue
After spending more time in Starward Rogue. I have 30% of the game unlocked. I wanted to modify my review to be a bit better reflection of the game. If you want the super short review: The game is very good, even at full price. If you want the short ‘comparison’ review : the game is like The Binding of Issac, or Enter the Gungeon in spirit and replay-ability. Starward Rogue and those other two games I would consider the best top-down rogue games currently available on steam. For a side scroller: Rogue Legacy is good.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
SYNTHETIK 2
Is this game fun? Early game is frustrating. The upgrade system is overhauled. Don’t expect synthetik 1. Think of it as a knock off. similar mechanics, and familiar look, but new game. Items work different, upgrades you stack up till you hit a keosk and then upgrade all you want. Cost varies based on rarity. I think.
Are upgrades new? yeah. Same as before? kinda, similar. Same goes with guns, and items.
Now the bad.
-The AI wayfinding/pathmaking is broken. The AI is stupid.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
To summarize my thoughts, try the game if the following applies to you:
•You’ve never played Synthetik
•You didn’t like the first Synthetik for minor or unfixed reasons.
•You like fresh experiences.
•You enjoy a good game, regardless of genre or predefined categorization made by the masses.
•You enjoy a thumping, lively soundtrack with plenty of room for quiet time.
•You enjoy great audible feedback, and the virtual, kinetic feedback associated with fantastic audio design.
•You enjoy science fiction.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
TOKOYO: The Tower of Perpetuity
Very good daily run roguelite tower climber. The lack of a primary attack and reliance on a single slow-recharge bomb makes the entire thing feel a lot more like a danmaku game than a platformer. Characters are pretty diverse and have completely different styles of bomb attack which leads to needing to play them in completely different ways. Using the foxgirl you need to hold back and allow the missiles to home, while the maid boy (cute) needs to get very close and whack into enemies. Powerups being random and tied to player corpses makes each run feel just unique enough to make you change up your playstyle, but the powerups are weak enough that succeeding in a run still feels like a test of skill instead of luck.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
even though it’s in early access game you can still enjoy what the game offers! the gameplay is very fun even without a “normal attack” as you journey through the tower you learn you use your skill better and find better items to assist you.
the graphics are amazing and the pixel art style just has a unique charm that just makes everything so cute! the game reminds me of older arcade games I used to play
the game easily worth $10 and can offer tons of fun.
the social features are very fun and I hope that they get expanded on more!
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
Zombie camping
Awesome tiny game to relax and shoot some zombies. It’s still on early access, but is playable and enjoyable. Hope devs will add achievements.
– Real player with 18.8 hrs in game
I love zombie games, especially those that are from the third person, and then there is also an unusual approach where we need to camp in order to play.
There are 5 types of weapons in the game, but it can be improved, there are also waves of zombies that become stronger
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Sky Rogue
GAMEPLAY
I am using the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS X Stick and it works out perfectly well. Although there are no presettings for using a Joystick, the setup is pretty quick and easy. You can personalize all buttons very well and thus, I strongly recommend using a joystick or better a HOTAS for the game, which I believe is crucial for the fun factor of the game.
Gameplay feels GREAT. You can literally feel all the properties of the different plane types you are flying and the effects of how you fly. The principle is very easy to learn and becomes more and more challenging, as you fly different random mission from your base (A flying Aircraft carrier). You will have to either destroy enemy bases on the ground in awesome bombing runs or battle bogeys and aces in challenging dogfights with your steadily growing arsenal of all different sorts of weapons. Once you successfully complete a mission and return to your base, a new mission will wait for you. With every mission you complete, your enemies will get stronger and harder to ward off, but if you die once, you will be back at the beginning and have to start all over again. All upgrades you afforded will also be lost.
– Real player with 102.5 hrs in game
I have been playing this game since it first went into early access and now that it has been released I can say that it’s not that good. I was hoping that the issues I was having would get fixed up but now that it’s been released I am giving up on that ever happening.
The game isn’t terrible by any stretch of the imagination, I wouldn’t have played 45hrs of it if it was. Rather it has some fundamental design features which mean its just not that fun. This game is a great example of a sound game (a few bugs here and there but nothing game breaking) that falls flat because design choices which encourage unfun play.
– Real player with 54.6 hrs in game
Space Bandit
What’s the story?
Space Bandit and Robot Friend set out to hijack an empty cargo ship on auto-pilot to Mars polar colony. But the ship isn’t empty… something is not right…
KA-BOOM! RATATATA! Play with pistols, sub-machines guns & shotguns!
Hide in smoke like a ninja! Blast enemies into the vacuum of space! The environment is your weapon!
Use mines, grenades and teleporters to outsmart the AI… before they outsmart you!
