Risk of Rain 2
One of the best rogue-like games I’ve ever played. Man where do I even start.
The gameplay loop is fairly straightforward. You shoot/slash, and you loot, and do some more until you either ascend to godhood, or die facing an overwhelming horde of monsters. The concept doesn’t sound too complex or profound, but the actual process is, in every sense, engaging. The basic controls is solid, the different classes of survivors each feels unique and interesting, and the item synergies are immensely satisfying. It is incredibly freeing to navigate the environments of Petrichor V, especially on the more mobile survivors.
– Real player with 444.5 hrs in game
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Unbelievably good game, maybe one of the best of all time from a pure gameplay perspective, the story is pretty peripheral. This game is all about choices, items, and ultimately your mechanics of playing a third person shooter/melee.
Do you farm the whole level and hope you get lucky? Or do you spend no more than 5 minutes tops per level hoping that your luck will even out over the course of more levels before enemies become too powerful to beat? Which items will you choose, what if luck doesn’t let you choose those items? You can play a typical shooter, or melee, or get weird with the engineer, playing with turrets and shields. Do you risk playing with the lunar items?
– Real player with 409.2 hrs in game
Eye of Ouroboros
Eye of Ouroboros is an action roguelike adventure game set in a mythical state between life and void. Master the heroes fighting styles and the unique perks acquired throughout the journey. The game can be played by 1-4 players.
Co-op Focused
The game design choices are heavily leaned towards coop: less enemies but with more health; level design requires players to stick together; some abilities boost the whole team. Invite up to 3 friends with their choice of heroes which could turn the tide.
Level Based
The sequence of levels will be different for each run. You also have a choice of different rewards you’ll receive when picking the next level.
Bosses
Bosses for every level with their own unique fighting style.
Several Heroes to Choose From
Every hero has their own unique abilities and fighting style which adds replayability and unique combat strategies when playing with friends.
Roguelike
There is no other way to go about it - if you die, you die permanently. However, some of your progress can be turned into rewards that might make future runs easier.
The game is still early in development so its features are subject to change.
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Holomento
Holomento is an indie permadeath RPG focusing on the dangerous quest of passing through the mysterious Eventide Hollow – and rebuilding it step by step.
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Explore a hand-crafted open world featuring procedurally generated dungeons!
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Fight your way through Eventide Hollow – again and again!
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Rebuild the Hollow and release it from its ruinous curse!
EXPLORE
Holomento enables you to write your own story as generations of Travelers pass through a land desperate for help. Open shortcuts, reveal secrets, locate ancient relics, and build improvements to enhance the Hollow for future travels…
…or just invest into the Hollow’s Stonk Market (yes, it’s real) to enrich yourself – we won’t judge!
FIGHT
Due to the curse, travelling through Eventide Hollow is quite dangerous, with many enemies that you will have to deal with. Thankfully, Travelers are well versed in handling all kinds of weaponry, from swords and bows to handguns and… grenade launchers?
Discover a variety of traditional and nontraditional weapons. Upgrade your stats by collecting hundreds of different items, including special weapons, and utilizing item skills to bring destruction to the dark creatures of the Hollow!
Choose from a variety of starting classes! Each class begins with a unique set of items and changes how you will fight your way through the Hollow drastically!
REBUILD
Due to the curse, most towns in Eventide Hollow were destroyed. Now only ruins and corruption indicate what once was a beautiful kingdom. Those that remain are hidden in plain sight. Hope is the only thing left for the surviving inhabitants – but even that is vanishing.
During your journeys, you will have the opportunity to restore the Hollow to its former glory! Upgrading shops and homes, rebuilding towns, and improving the Hollow will help you on your future journeys.
All towns are upgradeable via their shops and storefronts. Each town has a number of common amenities that are uniquely essential to it. Upgraded towns will reward you with many benefits and also allow you access to the local Stonk Market! It allows you to invest in local businesses and grow your influence and wealth throughout the Hollow.
STORY
Eventide Hollow was a lovely kingdom where its people lived in peace. It was once a vast land with free roaming folks and expanding villages, but now it is filled with darkness, strange creatures, and guarded townsfolk. It seems peace doesn’t last forever.
A horrible curse was laid upon the land and Eventide Hollow fell into despair. The source of the curse was also its only protection from it… the Holomento.
The Holomento traps the souls of all who possess it, the mysterious book affixes itself to those who seek passage through the Hollow. If the Traveler dies, their soul is also added to the Holomento before it returns to its resting place awaiting the next traveler.
Once acquired, the book is tied to the soul of the traveler holding it. The Holomento cannot leave the Eventide Hollow and therefore any Traveler who possesses it cannot leave the land.
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Myriavora
This game may look simplistic at first glance.
But don’t be fooled, the skill ceiling in this game is tremendously high.
It is not precision aiming or microsecond reaction time that will win the game (or a new position on the leaderboard.)
Rather, you have to come prepared, have a plan, execute it well, and, if shit hits the fan, have an exit strategy.
There are multiple risk-reward systems that encourage you to play on razor’s edge as much as possible.
- You want to stay close to the spiders to raise your fire rate, but you have to make sure you don’t get overrun.
– Real player with 33.4 hrs in game
At the surface an easilly understood game which controls way more smoothly than you’d think.
Most likely requires dedication, knowledge and skill to push the leaderboards.
Speaking of which, I’m #2 behind the dev, I’ll likely lose that spot immediately if anyone buys the game due to this review.
squash spiders
dress pretty
shoot fast
reach zen
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Scrap Seas
Scrap Seas is a Vehicle 3rd-Person Shooter Action Rogue-Like. Build your ship and fill it to the brim with every kind of weaponry you can find. Then take it out into the ocean to take part in fast-paced generated sea battles against your Robot Overlords.
FIGHT!
Use your fire power and maneuvering skills to sink ships, robots, and other stuff. Destroy your enemies, and save those you care about. Use your boosters to ram into enemy ships head on or to flee like a coward. Just make sure you don’t DIE, because if you DIE you’ll die forever, and it’s pretty easy to DIE.
BUILD YOUR SHIP
Start with a boat and fight your way to an AWESOME BOAT! Take that boat and fill it with every kind of cannon, laser beam, and whatever the hell else you can find. You can also collect comic book panels which can provide a variety of buffs to your ship. Ah, and don’t forget about melee weapons. Every boat worth piloting needs some buzz saws, or at least some electrified spikes.
PLOT YOUR COURSE
Navigate your way around a generated map. Ensure that you have enough supplies for your journey. Choose your battles wisely…or unwisely, I don’t care. I’m not your dad.
USE YOUR WORDS!
Are you a hero or a coward? An idealist or a pragmatist? A lover or a fighter? Express your character through Scrap Seas comic book panel encounters.
Skyjunk
Stylized Action and Meaningful Upgrades
Admiral Dynamo’s robot armies are invading the idyllic sky islands that you call home. Trash them with your trusty blade and blaster to free the townsfolk and collect valuable scrap. Gear up to find the perfect combos of items and gadgets. Mechanized monstrosities are ready to greet your advance towards the enemy stronghold.
Dynamic Movement
Explore wild platforms in the clouds with your grappling arm and booster. Take advantage of grindable pipes, wall kicks, and slingshots to outmaneuver the enemy. You’ll need to keep your wits about you to collect the most loot and emerge unscathed.
Procedural Level Generation
A world cast into chaos, rebuilt in the sky. Every run is different, with new islands to explore and conquer. Each battle, you’ll have a chance to analyze the terrain, then use it to your advantage when enemy reinforcements arrive.
Killer Bean
After being betrayed by the Shadow Agency and learning the truth about their evil ways, Killer Bean has made it his life goal to destroy them. Yet this is easier said than done, as Killer Bean will face armies of enemies, and mysterious Shadow Beans who are better trained and more powerful than him.
This is a third person, roguelike shooter. Every time you start a new single player campaign, everything changes. The locations change, the missions change, the characters change, the bosses change, and most of all, the story changes. Characters who you trusted before, may turn against you. Enemies who tried to kill you, may end up helping you. Simple missions can turn into deadly traps. No two campaigns are the same.
Key Features
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Totally procedurally generated missions and story, packed with plot twists and surprises
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Level up Skill Trees for your style of play: Stealth, Melee Combat, Parkour, Guns Blazing
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Different factions of enemies who all dislike each other
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Ragdolls and physics combat galore
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Lots of vehicles to drive, and lots of weapons to try
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Main characters that roam the map, who will either help you or hurt you
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Design your own Shadow Beans that will hunt down Killer Bean
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Create your own missions
Fictorum
Note: I backed the game on Kickstarter, thus having played since the game’s alpha.
Fictorum is, in a word, wonderful. For me, it was the first experience I ever had with magic that actually feels really powerful. Magic that I can throw at a nearby house and watch it get blown to bits. But let’s start from the beginning.
In this game, you are a mage. The last mage of your order, the Fictorum. And you’re pretty mad at the ones responsible for the death of your order, and also pretty powerful. Logical conclusion, annihilate them all. And anyone that might be foolish enough to stand in your way. Or… just annihilate absolutely everything. You can, believe me.
– Real player with 49.0 hrs in game
First off, if you want a high production value game with a long indepth story, I would recommend Skyrim or The Witcher. That being said, this game has the best magic based combat I have ever seen.
Spellcasting:
Spells are customizable and modular. You have a spell tome that casts a type of spell and you have runes that you can add to the spell to vastly alter the spell’s properties. These runes can do anything from simply increasing the power of the spell to creating a familiar that casts the spell for you. For example, you can take a spell that calls one lightning ball and change it into a spell that fires 4 lightning balls that each seek out enemies while firing their own lightning bolts. You can also find or buy scrolls. Scrolls act as support spells that cannot be modified but can be applied to armor and accessories. By the way, all buildings are completely destructable and can be used to crush enemies.
– Real player with 40.3 hrs in game
MechNest
It’s fun but I was able to get enough credits to unlock everything in like 45 minutes of playing. I was able to kill bosses above danger level 100 in mere seconds. I think it needs some balancing, but for a 2 man project it’s kinda cool.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Queen of Zarkov
Ill start with… this game needs work. I don’t bash any developers for making games as i know it takes alot of time and effort. Just going to leave an honest review.
Within a span of 40 or so minutes logged on this game, the menu and inventory interfaces work maybe half the time. Not being able to navigate or do anything at all on them. There is no guidance or map to show you or tell you were to go to start missions or what everything is inside the castle (FOB). The ADS system in the game is… horrid. The weapon reticle does not appear 9/10 times, so you are quite literally blind firing majority of the time wasting ammo that you barely have. The motion upon aiming is very laggy to say the least, just very difficult to manage. EVERY single enemy gives you bleed damage so you are suffering a very high amount of tick damage and the only way to remedy this is with a bandage or you die rather quickly. So enemies dont have a chance to proc bleed damage they just give it to you outright every single time. The enemies…. the little brown flea, tick, horseshoe crab, or trilobite, no matter how far away that little ankle biting piece of **** is… you get hit no matter what if you shoot it. My first run through i ran out of everything i had… and all i heard was a beeping noise. Im walking and walking then all of a sudden i get blown up by an invisible IED in the ground… in a concrete floor area inside of a meth house… needless to say i almost went deaf and nearly knocked all my **** off my desk because i was so surprised and pissed all at the same time. Every run after that i just bled to death like it was a very hellacious menstrual cycle. Over all in my opinion the state it is in now it is unplayable to me unfortunately.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game