African Safari
It does what it says it does.
Unfortunately, the thing it does is fairly boring.
The map is HUGE and sparsely populated.
Sound bytes of real animals come in extremely loud and are not located on the map. IE. Walking away from it doesn’t make it quieter.
Not worth the price.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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The Frog Game
Froggie has caused me immense pain.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Very difficult platformer, but in the end phrog is always there
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
The Kalalau Trail
Very epic hiking simulator. Slightly less physically demanding than the real trail as well which is nice.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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Great fun re-“hiking” this trail with my Wife. :D
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Boris the Sloth
On his quest to save his friend Euka the Koala from an evil mandrake, Boris the Sloth must solve physics-based puzzles while fighting off dangerous animals and traversing challenging terrain.
Faster than your Average Sloth
Move Objects
Warp Time
Alter Gravity
Pet the Dog
Fight Dangerous Animals with Cunning
Transition to and from the Spirit Realm
Use your powers in the spirit realm to uproot trees and move objects in order to give yourself a chance to escape and find Euka in the world of the living. But watch out, one missed step and you’ll be stuck as a spirit forever. Luckily, you have a few tricks up your fur and can use your sloth abilities to warp time and alter gravity in order to rescue your friend.
Navigate through jungles, caves, dungeons, and ruins to save Euka and take revenge on the evil mandrakes that have taken over the jungle.
Hike
Hike is from MorningShift studios a single Indie Dev. This is his second game, the previous one being ‘Work Trip’. Like before his target audience is mainly those who are interested in easy achievement farming or an easy difficulty walking simulator.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a ring of indie Devs that are all too willing to give a thumbs up regardless of the product produced, doing each other a favour. On top of this there are dozens of curators who simply copy and paste misleading reviews simply in the effort to get more free games. I mean seriously … You compare this to ‘Fire Watch’? ‘Dear Esther?’ are you serious? Your curator privilege should be revoked and given to a gerbil.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
I’m giving this a Thumbs Up to support the developers and because I see what they were trying to do here, but my true feelings about this one are Mixed. Hike is a short interactive experience where the point is to go camping in the woods, explore the place, and relax. I hesitate to call it a game because there’s almost no game-like objectives here. Sure there’s some jumping and seeking and exploring, but those aren’t the point of Hike: the sole purpose of this is to be a walking sim in the woods, to get a little lost, to look around. That’s it. There’s no real replayability once you’ve experienced it once, except maybe to get all of the achievements because one’s sorta easy to miss. The visuals and music are both quite pretty, but it’s obvious that this was more supposed to be a general demo of what Morning Shift Studios can do with the Unity engine. In fact, you’ll probably know based on my description if Hike is for you or not.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
New Colony
ant
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Not very good. You will constantly be getting stuck on and in things and it’s very buggy. Just a terrible experience.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Paper Beast
[initial review after 1.5 hours, 2nd review after completion follows, scroll down for it…]
Paper Beast is not quite like anything else, which I guess is why I’m enjoying it so much.
The world is somewhat open (though the player is herded into a fairly narrow pathway through it) and feels spacious. The low-poly graphics are almost abstract, yet well-lit enough and with good enough ambient sound support to feel convincing and provide immersion. Lighting and sky effects are remarkably good, with dawn/sunset fx and thunderstorms over a vast desert landscape. Water doesn’t really try to be realistic, yet is remarkably wet and believable. Occasional “special” items in the landscape cause instant teleportation to nearby spots. It’s a world of constant discoveries. My initial experience was a delightful sense of disorientation and wonder, like walking into a strange but enjoyable dream.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
I firmly believe this is the game to change the future of VR.
Yes, HL: Alyx was the most well-recognised recent step into AAA VR titles, but this game shows that effort and heart can be poured into such a game without the weight of an already established intellectual property behind it. Paper Beast stands on its own and succeeds in everything it tries to achieve.
There is a moment early in the story, standing in a blackened cave, hearing the wind whistle from a gap to the crisply thunderous and opaque outside world. Just the notion that you’re led to this location because you can hear the DIRECTION the wind is coming from shows that this game could never have been any form of success outside of VR. It uses every aspect of the ‘present’ experience of VR to its advantage. And so this game curates an experience of unique curiosity; of turning your head and stepping towards a dark and windy crack in the cave wall to be met with a vast, oily, pitch-dark ocean swelling and crashing below you, lightning illuminating the twists of video-tape seaweed just below the surface through the peaks of the waves. And what can you do with it? Nothing. It’s untouchable.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Shrug Island - The Meeting
Shrug Island - The Meeting, is an unsual but fun and original point and click adventure game. You’ll have around 1.5-2 hours of good atmospheric fun with this first chapter of Shrug Island.
Check out some gameplay: https://youtu.be/TfCtvELqRk8
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
If you like cute point and click adventure games that take about 2 hours to play, then I recommend this. The music, both as a puzzle and as a soundtrack is beautiful, and the animation is really nice. I got stuck a couple of times, but only because I didn’t know there was somewhere else I could go.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Bird Game
It’s a simple by design, but very hard game. So if you want to just get a game for 1 evening to “just relax” this is not game for you.
But if you want some hardcore flying simulation with 2 bosses, each of whom has 30+ different attacks (no joke) and who by the end kill you with 1 hit, if you want that kind of old-school gameplay - this is game for you.
Pros:
1. Game is very challenging, and bosses are great. Levels are nicely designed too.
2. Music is fitting.
3. Graphics are also neat, you can choose between normal view and negative (my choice btw).
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
Courtesy of Notable Releases curator group
It’s a bit of a challenge to describe how I feel about Bird Game. It seems at once heavily influenced by many games yet novel. Simultaneously relaxing and challenging. Playful, yet serious. Thoughtful, but occasionally, quite flawed. The way it finds a balance in its contrasting elements is so artful that it hurts to be disappointed by its shortcomings.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Dreams of Ylina
Ann awakes on the island of Ylina. No one has ever seen her and she doesn’t remember anything. Yet, Ylina is the last land on Earth…
Explore the island of Ylina and find out about Ann’s past in this adventure/action/RPG. You can choose to wander around in the forest at dusk, explore deep underground ruins from another age, or take a walk on the beaches, staring at the endless ocean.
…Or, you can choose to face your destiny.
Among other things, Dreams of Ylina includes:
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Exploration: Walk the hills, forests, mountains, beaches and underground of Ylina, wander in the sunset on the wild coast of the island, …
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Story: Discover what happened to Ann and what led her to Ylina,
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Dialogs: Talk to the kind people of Ylina (well, most of them are kind) and enjoy their hospitality,
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Treasures: Search in the buried ruins and in forgotten chests, to find items and weapons,
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Quests: Help Ylinians and get their gartitude, maybe a gold coin or two (these are hard times…)
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History: Learn about the history of Ylina and the events that forged its destiny…
Dreams of Ylina is an indie game made by Pangoweb.
Music by Phonochrome Prod and Pangoweb.