Hard Glide
This is an arcade-style inertial skill-shooter with mouse control only. You have to go through several dozen arenas, collecting orbs, destroying enemies, dodging various obstacles. Power-ups and various modifiers are included!
The game offers to pass the levels as quickly as possible (to get into the online leaderboard), although this is not necessary.
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Lair Hockey
good fast paced gameplay with nice difficulty(key is to keep going at it) and varied environments
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
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This game really needs an infinite life option. The checkpoints are un-charitable enough that it’d still be a challenging experience, and one that’d be less frustrating. Also I have no idea how to get past level 2.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Point Perfect
This is a fun little twitch-action arcade game with randomized elements and a quirky and immature sense of humor. It’s not nearly as difficult as the store page makes it out to be; it’s surprisingly well-balanced, clever, and fair.
In this game, you control the same mouse cursor that is used by your operating system (if you find the game too difficult, you might have to tweak your mouse’s speed and acceleration settings, or just get a better mouse). You defend yourself by dodging enemies and gain points by drawing selection boxes around enemies. You can collect up to 3 powerups to expand the size of your selection box, but you’ll lose them if you die. And that’s all there is to it.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
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A simple but unique game in which the mouse cursor is your spaceship. You attack by dragging boxes over your enemies while weaving carefully around obstacles and bullets. Sounds easy, but it ain’t; one wrong twitch of the mouse, and you’re dead. The mechanics are very slick, though, so it’ll always be your fault. If you enjoy trollish humor, you will more than likely get a kick out of the multitude of meme-inspired bosses (my favorite so far is an emoticon that belches red ascii phalli).
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Singled Out
This game is the perfect arcade game. I haven’t gotten to a boss so I can’t comment about that. It’s also really easy to get onto the leader board. There’s not much to the game but I think that’s how most arcade games are. For it being made in a game jam its great! I didn’t even realize it was made for a game jam at first. It want more games like this! It doesn’t require to much thought so its easy to watch a movie and play it at the same time.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
This is a simple and fun little game with a distinctive pixel art style, that’s best enjoyed with a few friends, especially if you’re all a little drunk. You’re given three clues as to what the target galactic super-criminal looks like, and a crowd of faces milling around. You need to identify the criminal and shoot them to get points and move to the next round. If you shoot an innocent bystander by mistake then it’s game over, and you start again from the first round.
It starts out simple, with the target criminal usually being easily spotted at a glance, but quickly starts to build up in difficulty as the faces in the crowd all start to share similar looking features that forces you to start to check and double-check and even triple-check before you pull the trigger. The ten second time limit for each round is accompanied by the ticking of the clock which only adds to the pressure. Taking turns playing it with friends and trying to talk them into shooting the wrong target so they don’t beat your score is almost the best part.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Ticktock
Ticktock is a deceptively fast-paced arcade action game. Think fast; every fleeting second may be your last. Survive waves of monsters. Survive all 11 stages. Survive until the end.
Ticktock is a unique action arcade avoidance game, where time pauses to give you a moment to evaluate the situation and plan your next move.
With five different monsters to fend off, and 11 different stages of increasing difficulty, a great challenge lies ahead. Each stage and monster is uniquely hand-crafted to be predictable, yet complex. Six different pieces play alongside each stage, complementing the aesthetic of the gameplay to form a complete experience.
Will you be able to survive? How long can you survive?
Kursor
It progressively gets worse.
Level 28 is killing me to the point where I fear for my own life for the last two levels.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Great Game for playing, final level is near impossible, would recommend anyone who likes playing games that is simple!
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Toaster Jam
While still somewhat limited in play time (developer has stated they will add new levels and game modes) this is a fun and relaxing casual game. It can be quite challenging at times, though not to the point of pure frustration (sorry if that’s what you are looking for).
Controls are simple (mouse only).
Graphics are nice (cartoonish, but the game isn’t going for hyper realism. I hope)
Level editor gives you options for new community made levels or to create levels to torture yourself
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
I picked this up as a meme game to speedrun, and was very surprised by how much fun I was having.
The main levels are VERY short. I finished the base 40 levels with all the toasts in around 20 minutes the first time. The endless mode seems fun, but I haven’t spent a lot of time one it.
I don’t actually know how much I would recommend this as a casual game, but if you like speedrunning, or IL grinding, or any kind of game where the point is to replay levels until you’re very good at them (think Action Henk, N++, Dustforce, etc), then I think this is well worth the price.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Castle Break
Its a great hardcore oldschool arcaniod-style game with no mercy to slowpoke players.
Did not expected i’ve spend all the evening, kicking virtual bombs around the screen :D
Controlling your own robot, you have to break through the enemy walls, protecting your troops from being destroyed by the enemy. Each new level brings new powerfull enemies on the battlefield, opens new tools and weapons to upgrade your robot.
Pros:
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funny pixel-style graphics
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hardcore gameplay
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levels variety
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different gamestyles by using different tools
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Very nice game, I caught nostalgia when I was a child playing this game on the football field, instead of bombs we had a ball, and instead of a castle and minions, a grid/wall
Convenient one-mouse operation that allows you to take a breath while working.
I liked the idea, with construction, in this game you can even shoot))
A simple game that I figured out in the first minutes of the game.
Retro-style graphics are very suitable for it, it feels like you moved to the 90’s, and you play this game on a slot machine, and there are a lot of spectators behind you
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Pop’n’splat
Connect 3+/bubble shooter game for casual gaming, but challenging nevertheless. Contains modifiers which make the game more interesting and fun. Requires precision and quick decision making in some modes. Spent a few hours of playing without topping the scoreboard in any of the 4 modes available. I blame my mouse!
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
I originally bought this game for my mother who is a Panda Pop addict. When I asked her to describe what she thought of Pop’N’Splat, she used words that I never knew existed. Apparently she never made it through the menus and couldn’t figure out how exit the game because every action within the menu requires you to select an option and then confirm through a separate button. The developer has yet to discover the double-click.
Aside from the redundant menu system, the game has a huge pointer that’s more of a nuisance than a benefit. Some of the pop effects obscure targets so you have to wait for them to clear before shooting. This is especially annoying during the time-based modes. Other issues include random ball colors appearing in the machine which aren’t on the game board and accidentally shooting a ball while clicking on the “plunger” when trying to access the menu to save a game. There’s very little variety in terms power-ups. The visuals are nice but that’s about it. The game brings new definition to boring. What happened? Pass it unless it’s on sale for pennies.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Super Welder
So bad it’s good
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game