Yako
Yako is a 2D story-driven hand-drawn platformer. Using your wind-powered abilities, explore a mystical underground world, solve the mystery plaguing the area surrounding Mount Inari, and earn a place among the deities of the Japanese pantheon.
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Archer: The Witch’s Wrath
Prove your mastery of the bow and become the greatest archer in history!
Archer: the Witch’s Wrath allows you to fulfill that dream. Choose your arrows, ready your bow, and get ready for intense, tactical combat.
Prepare for combat by choosing the right arrows for the job. Scout ahead and learn more about your enemies. Navigate a mysterious world filled with abhorrent monsters. Set up ambushes based on your findings. Start a battle on your terms and keep your distance from your foes at all times.
Make quick, tactical decisions and eliminate hostiles that threaten you the most. Use your bow to equalize the difference in strength between you and your prey. Keep your sword at the ready, in case you need to buy yourself a few precious moments to escape an enemy that got too close to you.
Demonstrate your lightning-fast reflexes by using the rapid fire mode. Observe the archer’s paradox in motion when firing with the pinpoint accuracy of the precision fire mode. Grow your skills through rigorous training and become an archer unlike any other!
Features
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First-person archer simulator with incredible bow mechanics.
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Several arrows to choose from, each with a different mechanic.
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A grim fantasy setting.
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Tactical combat, where a player has to plan every shot they make.
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Advanced targeting modes, such as precision fire and rapid fire.
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Realistic arrow behavior.
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Engaging story of choices and consequences.
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A beautiful environment filled with wonder and mystery.
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Skill progression system.
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Fast-paced swordplay.
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Deranged Park Rangers
Free to play massively multiplayer online Shoot ‘Em Up with instant play.
Kill sapsuckers in an over-the-top blood and guts filled manner.
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Simply click the instant action button and you’ll be killing sapsuckers with potentially hundreds of other people already playing.
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Note:
After the SGF summer contest I realized that I’m a dinosaur, over 900 demos. .. the window of time for me to make a sustainable living from indie game development has closed.
I’m going to return to driving a semi-truck.
If lightning strikes and people give a hoot, I will finish the game.
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Elisius
Adventure in this fantasy land, built by the ancient and powerful Time Lord. This mysterious entity has brought some of the greatest warriors from many different times on Earth to a realm of his own creation, named Elisius. He means to observe and study them, and then using his godlike powers, rule over earth. You are one of these warriors, and it is your job to defeat the Time Lord by destroying Elisius, before it is too late.
The nature of Elisius grants every warrior special abilities, which let you harness the Time Lord’s magic to access powers beyond your wildest dreams. Use the money earned from your quest to upgrade your armor and weapons, buy new ships, and explore the islands of Elisius. Whether fighting monsters as a Viking, Cowboy, Samurai, and more, Elisius will always be an entertaining, story-driven experience.
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS
This was a beautiful game. It’s a game you could theoretically finish without much effort and time, but the world, the side characters, and the cultures played so deep a part in the story that I found myself sinking 200+ hours into it and not thinking twice. There is so much here in lore picked up in scraps and holograms hidden on your travels.
The thing that stuck out to me the most here was the relationships. Helping the people of the world was as important to the story as anything else, and it comes full circle
! at the end when those people that you choose to be compassionate to (or not) show up in the final epic battle (or they don’t, depending on how you interacted with them) . There are as many opportunities to show compassion and to be human as there are to kill things. It is such a human story that sets itself apart from your run-of-the-mill first-person shooter. It’s exploration and mystery as much as it is combat. It’s learning about people and cultures as much as it is learning about the machines, the world, and the secret of what Zero Dawn really is. This is not to distract from the story which was absolutely unique and incredible in how it unfolds, especially as you get closer to the heart of the truth.
– Real player with 226.4 hrs in game
Horizon Zero Dawn is an awesome and fun game, definitely up there at the top of my list of favorite games.
It feels a bit like a fusion of the Tomb Raider reboot series and The Witcher 3 to me. Many of the game mechanics seem very familiar from either of the two but are somewhere in between. The climbing especially feels like somebody wanted a TW3 like game with climbing, was inspired by Tomb Raider (or Uncharted for that matter) and implemented a light version of that. Saying this however is not to diminish what the game achieves in any way. The net result of it is a very entertaining, fun to play set of game mechanics, from combat to stealth, a bit of crafting, riding, etc. (As with the other games many of the combat subtleties you only really learn on the harder difficulties.)
– Real player with 149.3 hrs in game
VRandish
Excellent fluidity in the locomotion; though the control implementation needs some work: (1) Vive control touchpads are activated with touch, not click, so there are a lot unwanted triggers; (2) the Index controllers do not have thumb stick integration; and (3) the bow is very difficult to use… I spent 10 minutes ‘pressing A/X near the bow’ with nothing happening.
I do like the scale of the world (is it procedurally generated generated?).
The enemy detail / animation is quite nice.
I would like to see some sort of XP / level system, even in this early stage, it would provide a sense of accomplishment (and give reason to hunt).
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
There’s no real game contents. Walk around and hit mobs… that’s it.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game