Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine
A Game That Takes Time
A dark life sim that unfolds slowly in real time, with an unusual combination of elements from idle, stealth, and puzzle genres.
Make your choices carefully, because everything you start will take time to finish–just like in real life. Place down one of these automated forklifts to push a box for you, for example, and it’ll take an actual half an hour to finish moving it:
You’ll just have to go and do other stuff and come back later.
You work as an independent contractor for a mining company, but soon you discover they’re trying to take control of time in order to make you work for them forever. Manage your money, fuel, and energy while slowly solving puzzles to collect the time crystals and then pull off high-stakes stealthy heists to steal back from your employer.
Featuring tons of real-time game mechanics:
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Move boxes, grow trees, build bridges, and compact trash–and wait for them to finish.
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Different guard rotations and different consequences for getting caught depending on the time of day when you play.
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A story that unfolds slowly through conversations that work like real-life phone calls. Characters will only call you periodically to advance the story over the course of days and weeks of playtime.
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Your energy meter goes down while you play, and it takes up to 8 real-time hours of good sleep to fill it up all the way.
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Meet characters at the actual meeting times that you set with them.
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Real-time dynamic music.
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And much more.
A Story of Political Intrigue
The first part of an epic, explicitly anticapitalist melodrama, told through lowpoly cutscenes and radio conversations inspired by early cinematic games. The company’s CEO and shareholders have come up with a scheme to live forever, but it will mean sacrificing the lives of their workers. Fight for a world where everyone has a right to their time.
Use the realistic radio to call characters anytime for dialogue about whatever situation you’re in. You’ll find hints on what to do next, details that expand the story, fourth wall–breaking humor, and more.
A challenge with real consequences: Don’t get caught by guards or let yourself fall asleep, or you might end up stuck waiting it out in jail or the hospital.
Fixed camera angles in gameplay, just like in the old days. With a real-time day-and-night cycle and real-time weather tied to your location, to make the game integrate more with your life.
Tons of playtime in part one alone. And you can use your save file to continue where you left off when the next part comes out. Truly commit to the long haul of the real-time experience.
Join Time Bandit’s Discord to receive development updates and offer your feedback on work in progress! https://discord.gg/vhue5NtN39
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Of Light and Darkness
I used to have this game on a disk years ago but I lost it and I spent years trying to remember what the game is. Now I have found it. This game is very hard and the story is very confusing. I’ve still not got passed the first level. The controls are very annoying since it only uses your mouse, but if you want a very weird game from the 90’s and you have the time and patience to play it. I reccomend it.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
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Prometheus: Omex Rising
PROMΞTHΞUS is a singleplayer/cooperative game that takes place in the distant future, where humanity has taken an endeavor to a distant sci-fi planet, known as Orpheus. Here the player fights super-advanced and intelligent AI that reacts based on your actions within the game. Survival is the key element in PROMΞTHΞUS.
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The Last Express Gold Edition
I think this may well be the greatest game ever made. Yes, the controls are clunky as all get out. Yes, for people used to today’s games the ultra-high-tech-for-1997-digital-rotoscoping technique looks extremely antiquated. Yes, you’re dropped into the game with no idea what to do, and you’re going to fail. A lot. But at the same time “The Last Express” includes:
- Probably the best-developed characters in any adventure game I’ve yet played (the weakest is arguably Robert Cath, who the player controls, but even he has an intriguing and irritatingly-largely-unrevealed-due-to-lack-of-a-sequel backstory). By the end of the game you know what they want and what makes most of them tick, and since certain bad things are more or less guaranteed to happen to a number of them the result is the equivalent of an emotional shovel to the face.
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Ahead of its time but stuck in the past
First read about this game way back when it came out, in a magazine I still have, where the reviewer was left in complete awe because of unique design for an adventure game. Ever since it occupied a small cluster of neurons in the back of my head, waiting for me to play it and its moment to shine. I should say I never played the original so my review will only address this 2013 port, with some inferior exceptions others have noticed.
It plays like Myst, from 1st person perspective with static scenes as you move around, but is set in realistic environment of an vintage luxury passenger train called Orient Express. The whole game takes place in the same 4-5 vagon carts with beautifully rendered backgrounds. You move by clicking edges of screen with mouse cursor that contextually changes functions to forward, backward and left or right turn, with interaction prompts for opening doors and object/NPC interaction.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Costa’s Classic Cosmic Pizzas
Great game! Lots of fun, but I’m still hungry to look at all those pizzas
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
Brought to you by the guys who made Bubsy 3D.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus
Well, seems there is no review yet, I Bought this game for this is my first game on PC, I’d say the graphics still the same when I was a child well it is not remastered.
The story begins where you can choose two heroes and as you progress you can then again, select another heroes, it is up to four heroes you can use, when your hero dies you can never revive them. Also, you can have some foot soldiers.
Oh the story is about gods, where Poseidon wants to kill Athena’s hero.
The price is cheap I think, good if you really like strategy game. Working on Win10 64bit intelcorei7 NVIDIA
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
This game is a mix of RPG and RTS based on Greek Mythology, it’s not an easy game but it is great fun if you learn it’s mechanic. This game is much deeper than avarage RTS:
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Every level is like part of the ancient world with it’s people living in it, but you don’t have to be hero, you can kill everyone instead helping them.
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Every unit in the game has name, health and expirience. And nobody want to die for nothing. So it’s up to you - whether you kill or save them.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Devil and the Fairy
Fantastic game with 0 support, dev has put this game on hold in favor of their other title Townsmen, so dont expect any updates.
The game has 3 levels, each playable on 3 difficulties, and you gain experience to level up to unlock better minions and defenses to summon, the idea is fantastic, the gameplay feels great, but theres just not enough there to justify buying this title.
If you can get it in a bundle for $1-3 go for it, but don’t purchase it until It’s out of early access or you’ve seen it updated recently.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
2 Minute Video Review → https://youtu.be/peRXy-xq6kk
The Devil and the Fairy is a mix of Tower Defense and real time strategy.
The story and setting are quite unique. You’re the devil and you need to protect your dungeons from the waves of righteous warriors breaking through. Alongside you is a demonic fairy that wears makeup and dresses. She guides you through the tutorial and announces events throughout the game.
The usual tower defense elements are there with setting traps and the like. But a unique element is the ability to place units similar to a real time strategy game. You can’t control them, but you can move them around.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
When I was but a wee lad… I played this game on PlayStation 2. Here we are, many years later, though, and it has finally returned to me on Steam, in the format of the original PC edition, which I have been wanting for a while. And, well, put simply… It’s exactly as good as I remember. There’s some significant differences, if you played it on PS2 as well, but it’s still one of my all time favorite games for a reason.
The differences from PS2 are miniscule, as the blood is red instead of green, a few cutscenes were lost while new ones appeared, and you can decide at what pace to build your base (as well as control it’s turrets), among a few other things. As a whole, the game is the same, but with more added on.
– Real player with 54.2 hrs in game
Before I begin, I must tell you that I’ve spent +200 hours on the multiplayer of this game , there’s nothing wrong with the “giants fan page” Giantswd.org, where you can download the 1.497 patch and several mods to be able to get into the multiplayer and improve the game experience.
We have a 24/7 Very stable server right now. also, join GiantsWD steam group, everytime theres an event we launch a hard to miss popup and announcement to reach the best amount of players!
Now grab your bag of chips with ketchup and get a good dictionary because I write like pure shit.
– Real player with 47.3 hrs in game
A Week In The Cold
This game has a very relaxing vibe; it has a good progression of difficulty and it can get a bit challenging at times. I very much enjoyed playing it, also nice graphics and music!
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Its an ok game, a bit short but its very fun to skate on the ice.
The story could use work but the game is stunning!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Angry Giant
Nice Action - CHECK
Cool Soundtrack - CHECK
Retro Style - CHECK
Weird Story - CHECK
Varied - CHECK
Flying on a Dragon - CHECK
Smashing Humans - CHECk.
Punishing Humans- CHEck..
Eating Humans - CHeck… ehm.
Naked Giant - Check….. whoa whoa whoa! What the Heck am i playing????
Welcome to ANGRY GIANT!
At first, before we start with the Review, let me tell you something i
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER said before in one of my Reviews.
G A M I N G M A S T E R P I E C E I N C O M I N G ! ! ! ! ! !
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2459110585
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Platform puzzleish with metroidvania progression and rpg grind. Content is solid, fun graphics, music, art and humor are charming, retro throwback. Controls are awkward and structure of the game is too grindy for me but it is amusing to do even simple things because of physics and overall craziness. it is also annoying to do simple things because of physics and craziness. This is that kind of game. It has too much going on; it’s sometimes hard to get to the part you like. Plenty of bugs which have been fixed quickly thus far. B-
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game