ASTRO AQUA KITTY
Surprised this doesn’t have a higher rating. Maybe people are disappointed because they are comparing it to the first game and this game is very different. The first game was great because it has these crunchy controls with old school arcade-paced levels. This game is not like that. Unlike Milk Mine Defender, where you can only go left and right in an infinite loop, these are open maps where you have to hunt around and collect specific things. Also unlike Milk Mine, the powerups are not temporary but are items which can be collected and upgraded. Personally, I love it. It’s like if Star Fox was a 16-bit rpg with all the little side-quests and boss battles. But if you were expecting a continuation of Milk Mine, I can see why it would be disappointing.
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
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Now I have finished it, I can say it worst its price. It is a very lovely sequel and a quality product for an indy title.
ASTRO AQUA KITTY is such an improvement compared to the previous one.
Now it is an Action RPG shoot-em-up with classes and multiples weapons. An immersive and even more cute artistic direction, a minded and polished level design that increase in size level after level and give you various tasks, all served by very good musics.
Devs made it with great care and you can feel it.
– Real player with 26.7 hrs in game
Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend
I’ve been playing Sigma Team’s games for years, and I really like Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend. As someone who has played through AS2 - Reloaded and ZS2 a bunch of times, there is a LOT that I like in this game that expands on the previous titles in interesting but not too overly complicated ways. But there ARE issues with this game that will hopefully be patched in future updates.
I may make a longer post about pros and cons somewhere in the discussions. But for now, I’m going to share only the most enjoyable pros and annoying cons I’ve experienced in my current play through (not as much of a review for new players as more of a feedback report for the developers and any other players familiar with their games).
– Real player with 362.1 hrs in game
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With update 1.3 the developers finally addressed a major point of criticism: They made the repetitive filler missions optional (destroy X teleporters, kill X aliens, hold position for X minutes, collect X ammo, food, metal, bones, artifacts). Now you can skip them and only do the real campaign missions. This has reduced the amount of mandatory missions to about 70 from a 150 total. This change was very welcome.
At this point I considered a thumbs up, but there’s one thing holding me back: they added an artificial weapon recoil, which makes your crosshair move upwards every single shot. And it only moves up, up, up, and never back. This constantly forces you to reposition your mouse, even when targeting static spots, makes you miss monsters, and shoot walls instead of the actual target. It’s absolutely annoying. This feature has to be removed.
– Real player with 108.8 hrs in game
Path of Exile
TL;DR
This is a great game. Try it out, its free anyway.
Review:
Path of Exile is a ftp-Action_RPG game, released 2013 and being under continued development since then, having had multiple free expansions, leagues and content updates. It can be played solo or in a party with up to 5 other people on either soft- or hardcore.
Pros:
-Free to Play, only cosmetical purchases
-dark & gritty style fitting the story and lore
-insanely deep and varied skill system
-smooth leveling experience
– Real player with 3648.8 hrs in game
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Path of Exile is an incredible game written by New Zealand developer Grinding Gear Games. The game puts you into the role of one of seven possible characters, each with their own story, that has been exiled from their homeland and is forced to try and survive in the harsh and unforgiving terrain of Wraeclast.
Graphics: 7/10
Graphically, the game isn’t absolutely spectacular. In fact, it’s dark, gritty and quite gruesome. It sets the mood extremely well and really gives the image of a dark, foreboding land where the people are oppressed and monsters and bandits are rampant. Some of the areas in the game can be quite disturbing and really set the mood of the game itself. Although, as stated, it is far from graphically superior, the graphics and the design work really mesh well with this game and set the tone the whole way through.
– Real player with 2307.0 hrs in game
Machina of the Planet Tree -Unity Unions-
An entire play-through is about 2 hours 30 minutes.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Beyond that its fine. Not great.
– Real player with 42.4 hrs in game
Summary
This is a magic flavored action game where you fight enemies by shooting magics and summoning minions. The emphasis of its progression system is on levels and gears; there is not much you can do action-wise except for kiting. The gears are collected as drops with at most 4 random attributes, where the attributes may be transferred to other items to create your desired set. Later in the game, most of the fun will be around gathering drops and combining them to make your character more powerful, and doing time attack runs.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Ouroboros Dungeon
I’m writing this review after about 5 hours of play time.
This game has received a fair amount of negative criticism. I read the criticism before buying Ourboros Dungeon. Much of the criticism is well deserved, but I’m still giving the game a thumbs up as I still enjoyed it and think it has potential if the Saulo expands on the game a bit.
Before I get into what I like about the game I want to echo some of the criticisms mentioned:
Space God mentions “Unfinished…None of the traps or other map features do anything.” Not being able to break objects is a bummer. At one point I got “stuck” in the middle of a broken table (broken already in the game) and wasn’t able to break my way out (I found a way, but it took a bit of movement, and I never ended up in a table after). There are what appear to be traps (the spikes coming out of the floor), but they’re already activated and you just go around the other side where it looks like spikes might shoot up (but they never do). Several areas have rooms where it looks like you might be able to jump across onto a grate to go elsewhere, but this isn’t possible in the current game.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Ouroboros Dungeon is a cute light-weight top-down dungeon crawler.
There are some weaknesses. The main weakness being, there is no character screen that explains what the various attributes mean, i.e. no way for the player to know the difference between +5 Attack and +5 Magic… Another problem is there are too many apparent objects that do nothing switches that don’t switch anything,
A bit more information and a few more meaningful choices would improve gameplay significantly.
That said at less than $5.00 the price was right,
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Midnight Renegade
This game is awesome, I sincerely hope that the creator continues to provide some support or updates for the game, because if it was a little longer and well worked, I would easily pay for the game, obviously it has its errors, the design of the “phases” is a little strange, the difficulty curve is really steep, the last boss being much more difficult than the 3rd boss, here is a list of things that I think should be fixed:
- The 2nd version of the 4th boss (the one of the conquest), has too much life, I would prefer it to have less life and do more damage
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
good
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Elven Magic: The Witch, The Elf & The Fairy
This story is to be implemented in time and it is based on a book called Elven Magic by Daniel Chay.
“A Game about Elves and Witches. Elven Voices delves deeper into Fae the elven witch’s apprentice and there endless struggle to recover their lost spell book from Earthen Lands without drawing any attention to themselves because this is strictly forbidden by the Elven Elders.
The story continues into another world and there are many twists and turns for Fae the Elven Girl and the Witch named Ellen that would have Fae be her apprentice to uncover. The imperial guard of the nearby capital city may prove difficult to avoid. It details the rise of a Wyvern Wraith and the plight of a Witch Wraith.”
Troubled Passage
Troubled Passage is a Roguelike ARPG with a very peculiar combat system based on mouse swipes. This system allows for some interesting combat encounters that feel more engaging and rewarding. The mouse is an extension of your sword.
You are set to travel across five regions and reach an old port. There you will take a ship that will take you far away. That’s all you know for now. But beware, these lands are filled with undead creatures, traps and other nasty travelers. You should always be careful, even if you decide to share the road with a companion.
Character Creation
Choose your character appearance and select a trade. Trades are like character classes that defines with which types of weapons and types of damage your character is proficient with, gaining a buff when using that type of weapon.
Combat
Attacks are performed by swiping your mouse in a certain direction (up, down left or right). These swipes will trigger the combat skill that you have assigned to that direction.
There are multiple skills to learn throughout the game for each type of combat:
Unarmed
Onehanded
Twohanded (skills are missing at this point of development)
Bow (skills are missing at this point of development)
Loot
Troubled Passage loot system is built on the idea that “if they have it, you can have it”. No longer will you get disappointed if a heavy-armored-cool-looking enemy only dropped a knife and an apple. You want that armor! Well, good news! In Troubled Passage, enemies will drop exactly what they are wearing (stats included). You can strip your enemies of everything and claim it for yourself. This means strong enemies equals strong loot.
Companions
From time to time, you will encounter recruitable companions that can help you in your quest. They may be expensive, but they are a great help in dealing with enemies. All companions are randomly generated, and so are their motives.
Rivalries
Companions react to your attitude towards them. If they get mad at you, they can become your rivals and appear later on to seek revenge as a mini-boss battle.
Traders
Visit traders to buy and sell items. Blacksmiths will even allow you to forge your own weapon from a list of components and manage the weapon stats.
Random Levels
To ensure that each playthrough feels different, levels are randomly generated. So there are new areas to explore each time you play, and loot is distributed at random. There are still some “static” levels in terms of layout due to workload, but later they will all be fully random.
WeeRPG
Hack and slash your way through this loot-rich ARPG with up to four local friends. Outfit your classless character to look and play the way you want. As you venture deeper, monsters get tougher and more numerous but the loot gets more epic! Tactical gear combinations and combat skill will determine how deep you can go. Return to your home base to upgrade or buy new gear, outfit your character, and then venture back into the deep.
WeeRPG is an ARPG supporting 1-4 local players, or play remote via Steam Remote Play.
Key Features
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Classless characters - combine gear to look and play how you want. Magic, attacks, and movement are all driven by your equipment.
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Four-player local coop - team up with your friends or family to take on the dungeons. Play remotely with Steam Remote Play.
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No permadeath - if you fall in the dungeon you will be resurrected at home with a slight gold penalty.
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Three biomes with unique gear and creatures.
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Tons of creature types.
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Hundreds of equippable items.
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Built for everyone - Deep gear choices and rewarding combat for skilled players, accessible and cute for younger players. Progress at your own pace.
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Randomized dungeons - Each dungeon run is unique.
Ark of Loif
I wanted to like this game, but it is way too difficult for me. And not in a Dark Souls good kind of way.
You pick up an AK at the start with 10 rounds, go to the first level and a spider tries to attack you. First two shots are missing, I think. It is hard to tell, because I couldn’t tell if it actually hit the spider since there was no reaction, like blood or anything like that. I shot 5 times and the Spider died. Suddenly I hear another Spider coming at me, shot 5 times again and killed it. So with my 0 out of 10 bullets another one approached me. “Oh shit what do I do?” is what I screamed before I got killed.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game