Space Beast Terror Fright
This is a good game, but there’s a lot I wish I knew going in that will make your experience better. I wouldn’t call anything below a spoiler since the game has no story whatsoever, but if you want to go in completely without primer, skip to the bottom for my summary views.
What you need to know:
-As others have said, it’s basically Aliens: The Game, but without the license.
-Click the Help item on the title menu. Make a note of the controls and the game flow. You WILL need to know this stuff and it’s not accessible once you start a match.
– Real player with 283.2 hrs in game
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Aliens. If you ever wanted a game to give you the same paranoia those marines had in the second installment of the Aliens franchise, this is probably the one to pull it off.
You have a near-dead space ship you need to nuke along with its unsightly wild alien infestation.
You have a number of datacores to access in order to unlock the reactor core so you can set the joint to nuke itself and take the skittery buggers with it.
Once you set the reactor to blow, you have a few seconds to get back to your ship so you don’t go down with this one.
– Real player with 57.3 hrs in game
Super Squash
nice game
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
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Fun low poly fast paced shooter. It is not cup of tea for everyone but retro gamers like myself who have no problems with low poly graphics are bound to be hooked. My rating 7 out of 10. Recommended.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Beacon
Updated Added 3/24/2019
Keep in mind this is a game still in beta phase, so it’s not quite finished. I’ll likely update my review as Beacon continues development.
I absolutely love top-down shooters and Beacon is no exception, in fact, it makes me appreciate them more. I’ve stuck around playing since it was released on Itch. It’s changed quite a lot, such as additions of enemies and bosses, loot areas, and of course all the bug-squashing, both technical and literal. It’s a little terrifying that there’ll be even more enemies and bosses later, which means plenty more ways to die, but hey, mutations are a thing.
– Real player with 68.5 hrs in game
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Beacon has a nice low-poly artsyle, a pretty good soundtrack, and interesting writing and ideas. It has some weird design choices regarding weapons and enemies, but is over-all rewarding, if not occasionally frustrating due to a few enemies.
The gameplay is pretty typical: you can use 2 guns, have 1 equipment, 1 consumable/held passive, a grenade type, and as many passive non-held items as you want. You can smack things and dodge-roll, too.
The big game idea is that, when you die, you use DNA pickups you collect from enemies and can “mutate” next run… Or you can do what I did and beat it without mutating, which is pretty doable. Mutations change how the character looks/acts/stats and how the character reacts to items and story elements.
– Real player with 48.6 hrs in game
Deported: Drain the Swamp
It’s difficult for me to write an unbiased review, any games from Crankage Games are worth it just for the dialogues alone. Heck I’d play this just to read the cutscenes' lines. If you’ve played anything from Crankage Games before, you know what to expect. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? They’re fun and they’re cheap.
This one is an arcade, old school gameplay. If you like a fun game without pretensions, just something fast and fun to play, give Deported a shot.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Today on my way home from work i stopped into a petrol station and snagged myself a chocolate bar for £1.15. I ate it in the car in just under 4 minutes, i enjoyed it. It probably did not do me any good but in the long term it wont have done me any harm.
When i got home i snagged a copy of Deported: Drain the swamp for 79p, i finished it in about half an hour. much better value than chocolate, and it was funny so it might of helped shed the choclate from my belly due to the light exercise of laughing.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
OUTLIER
OUTLIER is a roguelite adventure VR game featuring FPS and RPG elements. Players can control and mix various abilities, utilize an array of weapons, and explore breathtaking worlds, making for a diverse and progressive gameplay experience.
You are a captain of one of the last human arks. In search of a new home for humanity, your vessel was sucked into a black hole. From your position beyond space and time, you witness an unknown race devastating what looks like a habitable solar system. The unknown physics of the black hole endow you with mysterious powers and allow you to exist in parallel worlds. Live, die, and repeat in your quest to conquer at least one of these worlds in the name of mankind.
Game Features
• Elaborate, yet randomized level generation
Every level is procedurally generated. This means each new restart is a brand-new experience for the player. You will meet different characters and experience new artifacts, weapons, and story pieces. Your unique abilities build across the game’s even in a single game session.
• Making the most of VR
The advanced controls integrate a wide range of movements. As you tactically break your way through the enemy hordes and navigate the complex terrain, you’ll need to use your body to cast artifact powers, slam enemies with surrounding objects, cut them into pieces, dodge their attacks, hide behind objects, jump, dash, and more.
• Micro and macro player progression
The combination of power-ups and ability modifiers makes for different experiences. Combine your spells together to get new ones: mix a fireball and a telekinetic push to acquire both an explosive fireball and a fire push. Shape your character and armory between the runs to construct diverse builds for any playstyle."
• Explore a looped Sci-Fi world
The solar system after alien race expansion is a harsh place, full of harsher occupants. As you progress through each planet, random events and new storyline pieces will help you to infiltrate the black hole and fight back against the intruders. Interconnected levels drive you to explore your surroundings, full of breathtaking landscapes and mysteries like secret rooms, hidden passages, and artifacts.
The decisions you make through each life and death cycle provide for a story that is uniquely tailored to each player.
Super Mutant Alien Assault
Update almost a year later: Still awesome, buy immediately.
tl;dr
Super Mutant Alien Assault is an unashamed Super Crate Box clone, and with good reason: it’s every bit as addicting as it’s paragon, but adds it’s own twists.
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Super Mutant Alien Assault is an arcade platformer shooter, where you play a tiny robot combating an onslaught of mutant aliens. The controls are solid (the only gripe I have is not being able to remap the d-pad to make the pad controls mimic the keyboard controls), the graphics are excellent some of the best art I’ve seen in a long while. The music is okay and the sounds are passable.
– Real player with 85.8 hrs in game
IN A NUTSHELL:
Super Mutant Alien Assault is a frantic roguelite with a huge selection of weapons and items, all wrapped up in a beautiful pixel art package and made even better by the addition of couch co-op.
I’m told that Super Mutant Alien Assault is a lot like Super Crate Box, but since I haven’t played SCB (and maybe you haven’t either), I’ll give you a quick rundown on the idea of Super Mutant Alien Assault:
The game is broken down into 3 zones (each comprised of 3 regular levels followed by a boss fight). Every level randomly presents you with one of a handful objectives ranging from surviving until a timer runs out, to shutting off devices before they catastrophically overheat, to retrieving fuel rods from one part of the map and depositing them in another location. Along the way, you’re beset by a variety of enemies (the titular aliens) and, true to form, “game over” is a single death away.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
SuperOffice
Dodging slow-motion shots and shooting back is really cool. And we missed a top-down game that way. The desire to play something like this motivated us to create SuperOffice.
The game begins when you wake up from a nap at your desk and find out that all your colleagues were kidnapped by aliens and that a jewel in your drawer allows you to control time.
But your office has changed a lot - aliens and monsters are everywhere chasing you. To clean up this mess you will need to use your jewel and any weapon you find along the way, from vases to throw at your enemies to swords that cut them in two.
In addition to the action, time control and a lot of weapons, SuperOffice also features bosses - the alien masters. Each one has a jewel, and getting them allows you to become even more powerful.
SuperOffice features
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Infinite rooms: Dive into sequences of procedural generated rooms leading to alien masters.
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Power collecting: Defeat the alien masters and get their weird jewels. You found the jewel of time on your desk drawer - what other jewels may exist?
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Many weapons: From pistols, shotguns, machine guns, swords, knives to vases, computer monitors and your own fists.
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Office environment: Tired of your work? Destroy monitors, work desks and report boxes - all in your time.
SuperOffice is currently being developed. Please feel free to ask us anything or give suggestions at support@growingseedgames.com .
Void Vikings
An interesting game… Recommended for a fans of twin-stick shooters looking for something a little different.
The core concept of paying back a student loan by pillaging local star systems is both unique and provides some tactical options. Should you pursue an expensive yet effective degree and struggle to pay back both the principal and interest, or settle for a cheap but shoddy education and focus on upgrades? Ultimately, you need both the education and the upgrades, but the premise disguises what would otherwise be a transparent grind.
– Real player with 16.3 hrs in game
Fun, polished little arcade wave space shooter with a couple of modes including a ‘diablo’ style randomised loot system, customisation, leader boards, and several distinct ships to fly.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Starshot
Stardust is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. Will your search for stardust in an automated production facility lead to your triumphant escape or inevitable demise?
Gameplay
Starshot is a difficult action-orientated shoot em up with rogue-like and dungeon crawler elements. Fly your starship through multiple randomised levels collecting unique combinations of weapons, engines, defences and augmentations. Every playthrough will be different as you face different bosses, collect different upgrades and explore unique levels. Use keys to unlock chests and augmentation rooms, spend your hard-earned stardust in the store and explore the rooms for items. Can you use your ace piloting skills to collect enough stardust to escape the facility or will you be destroyed in the process?
Features
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Over 12 unique boss fights
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Over 50 collectable items to power up your ship
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Pickup and swap out any weapons, engines and defences that you find
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4 playable ships
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Randomised levels
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Permadeath - when you die, you start right back at the beginning!
POWERNAUT 2
What can I say that the “About this game” section hasn’t said already? It’s pretty hard, haha. Definitely harder than the first game. But the progression also feels better! If you like old school Metroid and Mega-man, this is a fun bit of nostalgia inspired gameplay.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game