Revolution: Path of a Weaponsmith
Alternate History
It is 1989, due to a breakthrough success of the so-called Star Wars space defense program the United States has become a sole state entirely protected from a nuclear weapon attack. Its influence has since spread over most of the world through both diplomatic and military measures.
USSR weakened by a devastating defeat in the Afghan War has been swiftly overtaken. Many large cities lie in ruin, others are being controlled by the US military forces. While the occupants are establishing control over the new territories rebels are gaining more and more members each day, many of whom have combat experience.
You play as a scavenger-trader whose main source of income is to search remnants of your home-town for provisions, valuables and sometimes even weapons. Sell your findings to make sure that your loved ones are kept safe.
Stealth-action
The town is being overrun by military, bandits, and rebels. You are often outgunned and outnumbered so direct confrontation can often be deadly. Use stealth and explosives to turn the odds back in your favor. Gather supporters to help you or force enemy factions to fight each other making a room for your next move.
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Disguises - got a clean kill on a guard? Take his uniform and try to look as if you know what you are doing, most of his colleagues will not pay too much attention to you. But beware, higher-ranking officers can notice even the smallest mistakes in your disguise and become suspicious.
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Weapon visibility - civilians can’t carry visible weapons, but you can still have a pistol hidden. Or you can just fold your AKMS and hide it in your backpack to take it out when it is time for a more radical approach.
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Visibility - people will have a much harder time noticing you in complete darkness, choose your path carefully or just get rid of those pesky lightbulbs.
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Noise cover - guards will investigate suspicious noises unless of course there is heavy machinery working nearby that will cover that silenced shot sound. Pay attention to your environment and use it to your advantage.
Inventory Management
Food and medical supplies are scarce and hard to find. You will have to look around abandoned and demolished city buildings to scavenge for valuables and provisions. Or you can target some of the better-protected gang or even military warehouses. Alternatively, there is always an option of taking things you want from other survivors by force. The choice is all yours as well as the consequences.
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Loot - search the houses and enemy corpses for useful stuff. Some things you will be able to use directly, others can be traded for what you need.
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Backpacks - equip larger backpacks to be able to carry more, but be careful not to overexert yourself, too much weight would slow you down and make you get tired quickly.
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Gear - want to see in the dark? Get night-vision goggles and take them on, but watch out as they will make you look suspicious.
AI
The world of Revolution is filled with different people: bandits, USSR and US civilians, US military and rebels and honestly they don’t get along too good. Firefights between factions are happening pretty often and sometimes even civilians can pick up a dropped weapon to join one of the sides.
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Factions - members of rival factions would be hostile to each, that is when they identify each other as enemies which is done by judging clothes and also a location at which they meet.
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Civilians will usually run away at the sounds of shots, but sometimes they can join
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No seeing you through the booshes - don’t you just hate it when an enemy is somewhere behind the bushes where you can’t see them but apparently sees you well and can shoot right through, well not here!
Difficult Choices
You will face hard choices every step of the way. Do I help the rebels or the occupants? Do I trade or take by force? Does this family deserve to survive, or do my people need their supplies more? Every choice you make will have a varying impact on the world around you, but remember not everything is as it seems and more often than not you will have to choose the lesser evil.
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Story - become part of the epic story in which you will have to make hard choices between sides where black and white are hard to tell apart.
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Branching dialogues - choose what you say careful, choices in the dialogues matter just as much. In many situations fight can be made easier or avoided if you talk to the right people
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Characters - communicate with many different characters each having its own personality and preferences.
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Selenwald
Prepare to face the unimaginable magnificence of the university of Selenwald!
Enter the halls of Selenwald to learn forbidden knowledge never meant to leave the cursed edifice. Meet madmen and face horrors that cannot be described by mere words. Discover the truth that terrifies scientists and priests alike.
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Challenging Combat - Fight for survival having ultimate control over your character’s actions. Engage in melee combat or take enemies down from afar using firearms and powerful magic. Aim carefully since every attack can miss if executed blindly. Dodge enemy attacks and adapt to enemies' behaviour. Use stealth and assassinate or sneak past enemies to avoid risky encounters altogether.
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Resource Management - Most of your combat and survival capabilities are dictated by what resources you find. Resources are limited and so is the character’s inventory. Make choices on what to bring with you every time you descend to a lower level. Every bullet, potion and spell makes a difference.
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Character Development - Every class has different starting traits and types of inventory slots available. Make choices when being presented with new random traits to gain power and build interesting combinations. Modify your inventory with acquired accessories to further customize your character.
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Permanent Death - If your character dies, they die for good. Choose a new, random adventurer and embark on a new adventure. Even if you don’t manage to go far, your actions will have consequences that carry over to subsequent playthroughs. Dying is a natural part of the game.
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Random Dungeons - Every playthrough brings completely different areas to explore. No shuffled predefined rooms - truly original locations every time.
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Unique Setting - Visit Western Europe of the late 1700s to discover how scientists isolated from the outer world crossed boundaries dictated by known science to gain access to powerful forces reminiscent of magic. Gain answers to mysteries never before found on the pages of written history.
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Mature Story - Unravel the dark, rich story of philosophical nature. Witness how a groundbreaking scientific revelation drives even the brightest minds into madness. Meet tragic characters with intriguing past. Discover the very foundations of life and death and see the true, terrifying nature of matters humanity has desperately tried to explain with religion.
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CONSCRIPT
**CONSCRIPT is an upcoming survival horror game inspired by classics of the genre - set in 1916 during the Great War. CONSCRIPT will blend all the punishing mechanics of older horror games into a cohesive, tense, and unique experience.
In CONSCRIPT, you play as a French soldier searching for his missing-in-action brother during the Battle of Verdun. Will you be able to search twisted trenches, navigate overrun forts, and cross no-mans-land to find him, and ensure a home goes unbroken?**
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Experience classic and methodical survival horror gameplay in a unique historical setting: the Battle of Verdun.
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Highly re-playable with multiple difficulty settings, alternate scenarios, unlockable costumes and bonus weapons.
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Fend off enemy soldiers and disturbing psychological manifestations with a variety of melee weapons and firearms.
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Survive in an intense, harrowing atmosphere boosted by a unique pixel art aesthetic and oppressive sound design.
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Navigate intricate level design that promotes item management and route planning, whilst solving complex environmental puzzles.
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Distinct WW1 themed areas that intertwine and overlap.
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The Amazing American Circus
Target Audience: Those Willing to Take the Lows With The Highs in Card RPGs
Summary:
This is a recommendation in essence, but for a specific subset of people.
I’m going to be straight up from the get go here: The Amazing American Circus is one of those games that I want to love up and down, but ended up being the biggest thorn in my side due to what happened during the review period. To say that I faced some of the worst bugs: specifically saved game bugs, in my review career would have been an understatement: I had 8 separate runs break wildly in that period where I could not continue to make progress. While those bugs seem to be fixed now, I have a form of PTSD at this point. Every time I play, I’m waiting for the game to break again. Hell, even the video I made had a major bug in it. There’s a reason I have around 40+ hours of gameplay without actually beating the game, and to say it hung over the experience would be an understatement to say the least.
– Real player with 57.7 hrs in game
This is not a Slay to Spire, this is not a Monster Train. The Amazing American Circus is not a roguelike-roguelite card game, it is more like a card game built around a campaign, with some management sim built around it, in which you need to cover the costs, upgrades etc from the incomes you get during the shows.
If you more curious about the game, and want to check a short, ~20mins long video in which I showing what content you could expect from the game with one circus show (card battle) included, then here is mine:
– Real player with 29.8 hrs in game
Flight of the Amazon Queen: 25th Anniversary Edition
This is a classic adventure released in 1995, altough you not have to expect something like an RTX remaster in graphics, the improvements are noticeables and much appreciated compared to the old pixel graphic style.
As always, like in any graphic adventure, the main focus goes to the puzzles and i can say that here we have very good ones, the level of difficulty is average, with few spikes on hard on some of the latests, but most of them are quite logic.
Personally i don’t like the hot spots revealer function, because i think the pixel hunting is a part of the difficulty of an adventure so this will help a lot, but it seems is a new tendency of many modern adventure games now.
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game
Note: Finished in 10 hours of gameplay.
In general:
What a nostalgia! I played this game as a kid 25 years ago. I loved it then, I love it now. Some players seem to be way too much critical. Well, this is NOT a remake. This is a simple port of the ORIGINAL game for modern OS with some new features. It runs in full-HD with updated UI and it has full voice acting. But it still looks like the old classic adventure game. Nicely done.
Pluses:
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runs under modern OS in full-HD
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faithful to the original look
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
Trail of Ayash
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349300/Yakuza_Empire/
About The Game | This Project is Developed by Two People
Trail of Ayash is an innovative and exciting open world game focused on the indigenous people, their sturggles and their stories in the Pre-Columbian era. Our world is a unique version of the western land dominated by the myths and legends of Its Inhabitants. Various tribes interact with one another, engaging in diplomacy, war, and expansion.
We have crafted an open world rife for exploration and conflict. You will interact with the various tribes of indigenous people. That alone can make for a compelling gaming experience, but there is something more. Something much darker that lurks in the forests and wilderness. In the corner of your eye and the slight cracks in the earth. They hunger. Also, to survive alongside your fellow tribals, You will have to battle the stuff of nightmares. Creatures born from the minds of men and spirits that terrify the soul talked about in hushed voices around campfires by storytellers and shamans. The world of Ayash they are very real and the monsters of this world must be fought lest you lose your life or your soul to beasts both natural and profane.
List Of Included Monsters:
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Djiein
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Chenoo
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Bloodflies
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Djien
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Kutze-ce-te-ut
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Saumen Kar
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Wendigo
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Werebear
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Werewolf
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Wudie
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Tizheruk
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Walking Head
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Tsul Kaulu
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Cavemen
Native Monsters
All of them come with their characteristics and lifestyle. No two types of the enemy will behave the same. You must change your tactics to survive the everchanging world around you. You are prey. Become the hunter or die alone and forgotten. Unique sacred medicine implemented into healing system. Our accuracy doesn’t stop at simulating AI and environments. We have incorporated the rituals of indigenous into our gameplay mechanics.
Quests, Myths, Ordeals
Quests are basing on native legends, myths, and ordeals. Unnatural forces dominate the world. You have the opportunity to save it, or perhaps you crave domination yourself? You can also subjugate the land becoming a worst beast than anything else in the world, or maybe You want to get by. You want to survive in our open questing system anything is possible. Be who You want to be. Do you get a nearby friendly tribal to help you build a bridge over a lake? He may ask you something in return but be wary.
Not all tribes are friendly. Some beasts walk and talk in the shape of men as part of our historical accuracy we have to acknowledge the darker part of native culture. Some tribes engaged in cannibalism, sacrifice, and executions. These all exist in the world and are hostile towards you. Do you fight them or sneak around them? Do you commune with their spirits to hide from them? It’s up to you, but you may die in the attempt. You will not be missed.
The Plot
Become Ayash. Once a respected member of his tribe until a trusted family member betrayed and framed him. Alone and without aid Ayash must redeem himself amidst the intrigue of tribal society and the monsters lurking in the wilderness or perhaps avenge himself on those who abandoned him. The story is open-ended. You control Ayash; You decide who will live and who will pay, You choose how Ayash fairs on his trail.
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A Wake Inn
Very good exploration puzzle horror game…
Graphics are excellent, audio sfx are on point, performance takes a dip some times, but its not constant or overtly annoying (i have a 1080).
The ambience on this game is really well done, you feel the tension in every room and part of the building.
Story flows at a good pace, and while it was a bit confusing at first i got the gist of it and understood what what happening.
The inventory system is really cool, like no holsters or menus, you grab stuff and place it in your carry on, it has a few mechanics that make you think “hey thats pretty clever use of vr”.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
This is one of the most atmospheric and immersive games I’ve played in VR. The environments are beautiful, eerie, and richly detailed. The ambient sounds are entrancing. The hotel feels expansive but the environments gently guide you in the right direction as you progress. The level of horror has been just right for me so far. It’s slow and creepy but punctuated by moments of intense action and unsettling discoveries.
As other reviewers have mentioned, your experience with this game might be spoiled by the awkwardness of the controls or by motion sickness. My will to progress in this game has often been at odds with my stomach. I settled upon using the joystick mounted on the wheelchair for movement in the game. I found this method to be immersive while allowing me to play short sessions with minimal discomfort. The comfort settings are helpful, but I would prefer that the game include an option for reduced FOV for all movement, not just turning.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Ratten Reich
Ratten Reich is a grim and unforgiving world, where war has continued for many years. The war is fought between rats, mice, roaches and lizards alike. Slum like cities, burnt corpses, steam tanks, soldiers in imperial uniforms and armor. And the soil, the mother of all, full of bomb craters and battle scars. Millions upon millions of fates, dreams — nothing more than ashes from the fires now.
This is the story we are trying to tell in an RTS game with interesting and unusual mechanics.
The Tzar army of roaches, monitor lizards, dozens of mice led countries under the flags of the great Franx and Angul will clash against the might of the Ratten Reich in an alliance with the lizards, who live in the land of the rising sun. This is Ratten Reich.
*** Destruction of the surrounding world**
*** Technique customization**
*** Units**
The Legend of Bear-Truck Trucker
I spent the weekend absolutely obsessed with this game. A very simple premise, and incredibly charming in its own quiet way. There’s some real min-maxing depth available here, and lots of laughs (with the occasional heartbreak) in the physics. Highly recommended for those stretches of time where no other games seem to stick and you just don’t know what to play. You want to play this :)
– Real player with 22.8 hrs in game
Even tho I’ve only Played this for 3 Hour’s NONSTOP there’s something primal inside all of us that need’s to stack & organise everything otherwise known as OSD
& this game somehow nail’s that 100% as you drive all over America making delivery after delivery I will update this sometime in the future
But it’s so good I have to shout it out now
Might even try 2 convice Captin Sause to play it
10/10 Would Bear again
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Loot Train
“You little –—. You made a garbage of piece with your trash Loot Train it’s —– terrible this trash game. I will become back my gold I hope you will in your next time a cow on a trash farm you sucker”
~Clause Loot Train
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
I’ve only played this game a little but I enjoyed it a lot!
Only real recommendation is that the jump felt clunky. Thieves are meant to be quick and nimble but this thief felt fat and slow. If you just slightly increase jump height it’ll feel much better. Currently with the jump height you can just barely jump ontop of platforms and boxes, ideally you’ll want to jump to 1.25 to 1.5x higher than the height of the box so it gives a sense of nimbleness.
Hope this isn’t a stupid suggestion but I feel it will help the game’s movement feel smoother.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game