Space Debris
This is a great party game for rock-blasting retro space fun. I love the drop in/drop out feature and the massive number of gamepads supported.
There’s also a bit more to it than you might expect:
Several ships to choose from, each with their own unique style
Bring dead allies back to life
Collect space dust to power up
Collect debris from destroyed alien ships to unlock new ships and upgrades
Play it now! you know you want to.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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Puzzle Party
I’m usually not a huge fan of puzzle games, which is why I was surprised by how much fun I had with Puzzle Party. The difficulty varies, some levels were easy, some it took me a lot of trial and error to figure out, but even I with my pea brain eventually managed to beat all 92 of them one way or another.
The game has a story, which is probably its weakest point. Still, while it never really captivated me all that much, I also never found it distracting either.
To me, Puzzle Party’s strongest point is the atmosphere. I never felt frustrated, even when I messed up a level for the tenth time. Something about the space background, the deep rumble of the ambient noise, and the simple graphics just has a calming effect on me (also the sound effects, which all have a super satisfying crunchiness to them).
– Real player with 22.2 hrs in game
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The puzzles are easy to mess up, and with no undo button, restarting some of them from the beginning can be a pain, but they’re fun, even the one’s i designed and don’t remember how to complete.
The later levels can be more frustrating, with the complexity reaching ‘ugh’ levels, but i cant really complain…
i just wish i did better. Not that i made ALL the levels, but in retrospect- If i designed all my puzzles around restarting quickly, they would of been better.
I’m still going to recommend it, because its a fun little puzzle game if you’re out of cheap little puzzle games to play
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Patterna
An enjoyable puzzle game, Patterna kept my attention for dozens and dozens of hours. You need to determine which cells are or are not marked as part of ‘the pattern’ based on given distribution/adjacency information, somewhat akin to Minesweeper or Hexcells. Like the latter of those, all puzzles are set up in a way that you never strictly need to make a random guess.
The thing that’s really singular about Patterna in my view is the robustness of the random level generator. I was able to find settings that generated interesting random puzzles more often than not. The only issue is that sometimes the chain of reasoning was difficult enough that I needed to break out pen and paper and brute force the next move, which generally felt more like bookkeeping than entertainment. On the whole, though, the game did a good job of hitting a reasonable middle ground of difficulty.
– Real player with 97.6 hrs in game
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In short: Patterna is a challenging hard-logic puzzle game with a steep learning curve. The mechanics are varied and the replayability infinite, but it is very rough around the edges with poor and sometimes frustrating implementation. If you have a low tolerance for bad UI, stay away. If you can stomach that and are a seasoned veteran of logic games, Patterna is well worth buying at full price.
In long: The developer himself compares Patterna’s mechanics to Hexcells, and one can immediately see the inspiration. But Patterna is far from a knock-off, does its own thing and expands gameplay well beyond the scope of Hexcells. Nodes may be revealed or not, may be part of a pattern or not, may carry information about nodes around them up to a distance of 3, may describe the length of the chain they are part of, may have up to 4 colors, may be unlinked, linked or directionally linked, etc. The complexity is smart and truly awe-inspiring, but comes at a cost:
– Real player with 74.7 hrs in game
Lorera
Super fun game! Would recommend if you like a game that makes you thing about your moves every step of the way 10/10. The artwork in this game is amazing along with the animations that go along with it. The story is great and the adventure that it takes you on along the way. Hope you get this game and enjoy it as much as I did :')
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Quick Description:
-A cute little flower saves the day in a grappling hook adventure! A few abrupt difficulty spikes aside, this is a fun and creative mini metroidvania that is well worth the asking price for fans of the genre.
What’s Good:
-Checks most of the boxes for what is expected from a metroidvania. The entire world is interconnected, there are several unlockable upgrades that allow you to explore once unreachable areas, and there are fun collectibles to be found.
-Really adorable art design and color scheme. Each biome has it’s own theme and color, along w/ new enemies and environmental hazards.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game