RetroArch

RetroArch

At last, the ultimate emulator front-end has arrived on Steam. As someone who loves playing retro games, RetroArch has been my personal preference for emulation for the past 3 or so years. While it takes a little getting used to, the features it provides and the emulation cores (the actual emulators) it has are superb.

On top of simple emulation and your standard emulator quality of life (like save states, fast forward, rewind, etc.), RetroArch provides netplay (allowing users to connect each other online for a simulated couch play) though Steam itself also provides this; shaders to enhance how a game looks or to recreate the original console’s appearance with CRT filters; a built-in video record function, achievement support via RetroAchievements; per-game controller bindings and configs; and a bunch more.

Real player with 50.0 hrs in game


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Despite there being plenty of problems to complain about - long-standing issues with control mapping being one of the major ones - RetroArch is still easily the best emulation software I’ve ever used, and my experience goes all the way back to Nesticle in the late ’90s.

The major benefit of RetroArch is being emulate pretty much every console or computer system prior to the PS2/GameCube/XBox generation, plus a few more modern ones like the PSP. Not only that, but the available cores also tend to be more accurate when compared to standalone emulators. This is particularly notable for systems like Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1, and Sega Saturn, all of which were difficult to emulate for many years, but today have high-accuracy cores available in RetroArch.

Real player with 47.7 hrs in game

RetroArch on Steam

Draco Space X

Draco Space X

Arcade 2D shooting game in space, in which you face enemies, full of lights and colors for your sight, you can equip new ships and conquer the trials!

You will be able to face enemies in order to pass the trials, you will get new ships on the way, each one with different shooting modes, and with its own characteristics. Try to dodge the bullets and the enemies in front of you to beat each level!

  • Lights and colors in each stage, different in each phase.

  • More than 20 different replayable levels.

  • Different music for each type of challenge

  • Different ships to play, each one with different characteristics.

  • The experience of defeating many enemies!


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Draco Space X on Steam

Silent dream

Silent dream

So the plot seems interesting but the translation is giving me a hard time to understand what’s going on exactly because it get a bit confusing at some points. Also usually in horror games when you want to hide inside the closet, it let you hide till the monster/ creature or whatever is following you go away but in this game, hiding in the close is pretty useless, so don’t bother doing it because it’s a big fat fail. Also, it seems you have to do stuff in a certain order (which you’ll have to figure out on your own), or else you’ll get stuck and die till you do the part correctly.

Real player with 18.5 hrs in game


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What a wonderful Christian game for children because it promotes values such as love, friendship and compassion. The nice little angel flying around truly warms my heart!

Will update this review once I’m done hiding in my closet.

Edit: No, I’m not done hiding in my closet.

Real player with 11.9 hrs in game

Silent dream on Steam

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

Thank you for your game. I like it a lot, Your game has a great potency. I help me a lot on the journey remembering Hiragana and Katakana. By the way, I have some reviews after 20 hours as newbie Japanese learner.

1. Can you develop an timeless mode? We would like to read correct first, speed will follow later, and yes, we need time to read and also learn the meaning of the word as well instead of rushing to the other words or they will disappear.

2. A horizontal mode to change between the default vertical one would be great.

Real player with 46.7 hrs in game

TLDR:

Recommending this to anyone looking to hone their hiragana and katakana reading comprehension and speed.

Disclaimer:

I got my key for free.

I was fortunate enough to get to make some UI suggestions here and there.

I had been studying Japanese prior for quite some time.

Wanikani, Genki 3rd Edition, and Anki.

You Can Kana is a great addition to the other learning tools as it’s the only one really drilling you in the basic alphabets.

I personally struggled a LOT with Katakana.

Now with You Can Kana I feel i’m far better equipped in dealing with the archaic translations from English to Japanese via Katakana.

Real player with 34.3 hrs in game

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana on Steam