Eagle Island Twist
Eagle Island is an amazing rogue-like game that will draw you in and frustrate you in the most rewarding you. It’s exactly the game I’ve been looking for and I’m very glad I picked it up. 9/10
How I found it.
I found EI when browsing through Nintendo Switch news. I’d been looking for a new indie game to pick-up and it was suggested as a new release. The pixel art immediately caught my attention and I added it to my to-buy list. I saw there was a demo available and decided to try it out on PC. It was fun! The demo was very fun and I had a very hard time getting used to controlling Quill (main character) and Koji (friendly owl - he attacks) but didn’t let that stop em from enjoying the game. At that point, I wasn’t in the best financial position to spend 20€ in a game. But something just drew me in. Something just told me, I have to buy it.
– Real player with 370.0 hrs in game
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My original review was written extremely shortly after the game came out, but the developer has released an update in response to the mixed reviews that actually addressed a lot of my issues here! There were quite a few tweaks and overall it feels a lot better. Most notably, the runestones are now able to be backpacked and used in later dungeons, which is incredibly useful.
Additionally, I will confess that some of my complaints probably did come with lack of practice or familiarity. So if you are more familiar with this genre, or would be willing to dedicate time to getting used to the feel of the game, I’d say go for it. I’ve got 11 hours in the game now, and it may be a combination of tweaks and me getting more comfortable with the controls, but the whole thing feels a lot smoother and less frustrating.
– Real player with 143.5 hrs in game
Rogue Stormers
IMPORTANT: This game requires a resonably good and consistent connection to play online coop. It caused a friend of mine serious desyncronization issues, such as not being able to see the lightning hazards.
Early access builds of Rogue Stormers were not very good, and notably did not have a cast of varying characters. This release build? Much improved, though at some level I lament the loss of weapon-customization, which was never actually implemented to my knowledge. I first became aware of the game during its initial kickstarter campaign, when it was still called DieselStormers. I purchased it from the humble store and didn’t have a chance to finally play it until about a year ago, when it was still in a very rough and bland state.
– Real player with 121.8 hrs in game
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This is, in a nutshell, a great little timekiller.
Basically you have a number of playable characters with which you go through a series of levels. You kill hordes of goblins and orcs. At the end of each level is a boss waiting for you. Every character has its own gimmick. They have varying stats as well as different weapons. They each have an ability with a specific cooldown period. One shoots a large barrage of little rockets, another gets a short period of immensely boosted firerate, to name two examples. To complement your play style, you find some secondary weapons, which get damaged and eventually broken as you sustain damage.
– Real player with 104.0 hrs in game
Arc Wizards
A simple, straightforward arcade game that makes for a fun playthrough. The controls are responsive (with shooting slowing down your movement, so it requires at least a touch of strategy), and the graphics are crisp 16-bit stile, with some animatino. Enemies appear when you advance beyond a certain point, meaning the best plan is to frequentl stop and deal with enemies before advancing. This causes a slower pacing than your average run-n-gun title, but not so much that the game isn’t fun. It’s entirely possible to trigger a few too many enemies and find yourself overwhelmed or having to do some tricky manneuvering.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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meh
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Bad Guy Adventure
The bad guy while resting received an unexpected surprise in the form of weapons, but hordes of monsters were attached to it, which pose not only a threat to humanity, but also for the recreation of the bad guy who knows how to operate weapons and what to do with monsters.
Bad Guy Adventure - Hardcore platformer with shooter elements, where the player appears on a level full of monsters, clearing which he can go to the next level, which becomes more difficult every time.
Game features:
Black Academy
‘School life like hell… Actually, it’s a school run by the devil?!’
Black Academy combines Side-scrolling shooting and Rogue-lite with storyline of students transforming into magical girls to confront demons after finding out the real identity of the Academy.
Unique demon
Energy drinks, staplers, even a tired devil…!
Avoid the unique barrages and attacks of the demons, and continue the attack to your advantage!
Search and collect
As you explore the barriers created by demons, you can discover magic and items.
Grow your magical girl through various combinations.
Upgrade
The acquired magic gradually grows!
See for yourself how magic changes.
Captain Jackson
Revolutionary game, that improves your reaction time,
Pros:
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Cheap
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Fast
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Weiths literally nothing
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RTX 3080ti graphics
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In game item shop
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music
Cons:
- Irritating when you spontaneously combust
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Great game! Can’t wait to see second part!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Clowns
First!
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Second!
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Dungless
All in all, a pretty good toy. Dungless is a 2D platformer with a procedurally generated world that will create a unique adventure for you every time that will never happen again. Fight monsters, collect gold, go deeper and deeper into the dungeons.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
An excellent indie platformer in a classic 2D style and beautiful pixel graphics. Each level is randomly regenerated, even if you pass 1 level several times, each level will have a completely new map, which I have not seen in other games of this genre, and this distinguishes this game from the rest, that it will not be boring :) Nice relaxing music … Easy control, you can kill different monsters, and there are a lot of them here, from crawling to flying :)
It’s interesting to play, but it’s a pity there is no progress of some kind, and the levels all start over from the first, after death, but new, unique ones. I would also like to have added control from the gamepad and more achievements for a longer time in the game :)
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Gunmetal Arcadia
I’ll try to keep this short. As of this review, I’ve put over 60 hours into Gunmetal Arcadia. Its combat system is clearly inspired by Zelda II for the NES, and I happened to like that game a lot. Let me be clear, though: the game’s combat isn’t nearly as deep as Zelda II, but I still quite enjoyed it. You can even get an item that allows you to stab down in mid-air, allowing you to basically pogo on enemies.
The game itself is procedurally generated across four chapters. You cannot save and quit, so you’ll have to complete a game in one shot. Fortunately, this can be done in less than an hour, but I would have appreciated the ability to suspend my game like in FTL or The Binding of Isaac Rebirth.
– Real player with 183.6 hrs in game
J. Kyle Pittman’s “Gunmetal Arcadia” is his personal love-letter - by his own admission - to both “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link” and “Faxanadu”; with the combat mechanics being largely inspired by the former, and the Graphics by the latter (with him furthermore rigidly adhering to actual NES graphical limitations). This is then furthermore coupled with an enhanced version of his CRT Simulation technology, of which an earlier version was previously witnessed in “Super Win the Game”.
However - while the game looks great, and plays great - the most interesting aspect is the game’s Legacy System, and how it plays into Gunmetal Arcadia’s Roguelite elements. Whereas most Roguelike games expect winning to be an ephemeral goal, only reached after tons of hours of gameplay, Gunmetal Arcadia can easily be won (assuming you play well, and aren’t completely screwed over on your early upgrade chances). Instead of asking you to try forever to finish just once, completing Gunmetal Arcadia actually causes changes - both subtle, and sometimes massive - to occur on later sessions. Even though you succeeded - or sometimes failed - to clean out one particular Unmade Hive, there’s still the next mission to clear out that next Hive (which is effectively your next session).
– Real player with 15.0 hrs in game
Naginata
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– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
My Full Play through here: https://youtu.be/Y6xPSeNdk1g
I’m mainly recommending this cause I know there’s a type of player that loves this genre and likes insane difficulty and this is a good game for those players, I AM NOT one of those players. I had to lower the difficulty to 2 stars your character has the second biggest hit box in the game following boxes that noggin is massive. Maneuverability is low you can jump shots but you move almost no where during the jump so if the enemy shoots 2 projectiles you’re probably getting dunked on. Your attack doesn’t upgrade even though you get a special move so the enemies have a better attack in my opinion cause it has a larger radius than your full screen attack and goes full screen you have a larger radius attack, but it’s a half screen attack and your hit box is bigger so get got. There’s no score on screen so who knows what determines what got me a D rank, but at least I was able to beat it on the not easiest difficulty. I like the visuals and the sprites and the music is nice but this game is not for casual players of this genre IMO.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game