Chessmates
There is no chess, only chaos. Randomly spam fadrqsweqadsfwerafqwsrde to victory.
Gamebreaking bug appeared for me in lvl 14. Game slowed down to a grind with no actual opponent or way to progress.
2 cornered knight chess moves out of 8
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
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Eh, the game is cheap, but even still it’s not really worth it.
The music is very repetitive. The game is really easy to cheese, but feels too difficult otherwise with how fast every other piece moves. You’re forced to restart the program whenever you fail a level or you will not be able to progress.
It has a decent amount of levels, but plenty of those levels are so short that it’s hard to even count them.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Knightmare
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. between the cute enemies, the neat little story line, and the seemingly simple puzzle mechanic of mimicking the limitations of a Chess Knight - I was quite satisfied. My brain got an excellent work out from it. Took me almost 4 hours to beat, but i missed out on whatever happens if you beat it with all the coins - lost them dying in the last level (facepalm) so I have to play again. (not complaining) –- the soundtrack is a good bop too.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms
I enjoyed a lot about this game, and it is nicely put together with all the usual Artifex Mundi polish.
It was fun, and while I wouldn’t want to pay the full Steam price, I’m happy I got it on sale.
I liked both the protagonist and the secondary characters., and the scope of the game.
The setting was good, and I found myself wanting to know “what really happened”, even thought the basics were evident reasonably early on.
That said, there are some downsides:
The magic system - again - was under-utilized and building the spell was literally a connect the dots exercise. Connect the dots should not count as a mini-game. I would have preferred fewer spells,and a chance to use them with increasing difficulty levels (option to skip for purely casual play).
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
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More of the same Hidden Object gameplay you’ve played many times before with all the same flaws.
It’s also the same story that seems to be repeated often in this genre. Your weirdly creepy looking son gets kidnapped and off you go on another magical adventure. Maybe try something different ?
The gimmick this time is you get to use some magic spells at various points but it doesn’t really amount to anything more than a very basic join the dots. The bulk of the puzzles are also carbon copies of other games in the genre. Forge the thing, Brew the potion etc. The only real difficulty is the same too, finding all the meta items for achievements and the misidentified items and hidden objects themselves.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Fareo: Shadowlands
Interesting mechanics so far. I like the card as a movement and “special attack” resource, and the very cool “Alter Terrain” concept by trashing extra cards at the end of turn.
I’m also into perma-death endless dungeon runs, so I’m not sure what to expect after the initial “forced” campaign with the Rocky Warrors. Hopefully the devs did put in endless journey mode, until our party dies.
Finally, I did stream it on Twitch to make gameplay vids, but saw no Game Category to further publicize the game, so if the game’s title can be added to Twitch, would be great.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
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EA Turn based tactics roguelite + nice graphics + unique mechanics = Langrisser mixed with StS. Explore and adventure in dungeons with your team of heroes. 40+ heroes with skills, EQ and upgrades.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
Knockout Checkers Chamber
Cute! Nice little game. Not really checkers per se. The pieces have different special powers. Other than that it’s a physics-based knock-em-out-of-the arena type game. Well worth the price (under two bucks in the Summer Sale).
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
First off, this is carrom on a checkers board, not checkers the turn-based board game. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, of course, but unfortunately this is essentially a game demo rather than a full game. Expect to complete the game in maybe half an hour.
Incidentally, the achievements are very buggy and you will fail to unlock them quite often.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Trendpoker 3D: Texas Hold’em Poker
I discovered this game many years ago. It learnt me to play poker and brought many hours of relaxation when I just wanted to chill out.
When it appeared on steam I decided to purchase it and leave a positive review but I hesitated a lot, to be honest.
The game has a wonderful interface and I haven’t found any poker simulation game that would be so nice looking. You can change the style of table and cards, and I also like to hear comments from my competitors. However, this game has some issues that developers apparently don’t want to fix or even admit. Stats aren’t being saved correctly making this feature rather useless. That is unfortunate since many achievements are tied to statistics. The menu is getting bugged for no obvious reason and AI act weird. But devs gave many efforts to make this game more interesting by releasing updates, lowering price, creating a free-to-play version, and I respect that.
– Real player with 71.5 hrs in game
Single player against the AI, this game seems broken…on easy setting, you basically never lose a game, or for that matter even a hand. On normal or above, half or more of the AI players fold almost every hand, and it’s like you’re playing against a bunch of drunks as far as their betting goes. It becomes especially obvious when you fold and the AI plays the rest of the hand against itself . . .They’ll raise twice in a row, then fold when someone bumps the pot slightly; they keep bumping raises when they have nothing, even if there’s a flush or straight already laying on the table and they had nothing from the start, or they go all-in with nothing . . .it seems like an attempt to replicate human thinking/strategy that just ends up being needlessly and endlessly annoying.
– Real player with 38.3 hrs in game