Endless Crawler
I enjoyed playing this game. But after 5 minutes it got monotonous. The 20 minutes that I played this game were well spend.
Great job and good luck with your future productions.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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Endless Crawler is another GameMaker Studio asset flip from serial copy+paste infringers, SosiskaGames. All these guys do is rip off game templates and projects from the Yoyogames/GameMaker Studio store, change the name and a few cosmetic details, and try to scam people into paying for someone else’s work on Steam. They have run asset flip scams several times, and this is no exception. It’s nothing but a cash grab.
This time they’ve ripped off a basic template for a 2D retro pixel top down shooter with a dungeon crawler theme. Asset flips and other “Fake games” (as Valve calls them) are harmful to the industry, because they pollute the marketplace and reduce the visibility and exposure needed by genuine indie developers.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
CARSTEROIDS
One of those true hidden gems on Steam, which absolutely deserves more attention.
– Real player with 42.0 hrs in game
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Update: The developer has updated to game to address some of my concerns. That is very cool. ‘Easy Mode’ has been added, which is still very hard.
RE: Unapproachable Controls: Slight turns are now possible, and a fun drifting mechanic has been implemented. This is a big help.
RE: Powerups and road hazards look similar. Helpful icons have been added over power ups that help differentiate them from hazaards.
RE: Death walls. The walls of the arena electrocute you, and cause damage to your car. A front end collision with a wall is basically a death sentence. This is still a frustrating way to end a match.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Neon Dragons
Neon Dragons is a fast-paced roguelite spaceship action, with item collecting mechanics, and retrowave-style visuals. The player’s objective is to survive as long as possible in each stage and eliminate all bosses in the game.
Explore different universes full of danger, adventures and surprises, while eliminating enemies and collecting resources.
Play your way, creating your own strategies while surviving as long as possible.
Key Features
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Increasing difficulty
Plan your steps well within the universes as enemies will grow stronger as the waves pass, demanding more skill and attention
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Powerful items
With a wide variety of active items, you’ll be able to create different combinations of items to cause the greatest possible destruction.
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Constantly changing
The game universes are never the same, always with different challenges and unexpected dangers. With different items and attributes, no match will be the same
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Retrowave visuals
Destroy enemy ships and dodge missiles in the best Retrowave style, with neons and vibrant colors that bring the universe to life
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Powerful Bosses
Survive long enough to face powerful and challenging bosses who will put all your skills to the test
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Progressive evolutions
Play and unlock upgrades that accumulate as the game progresses, making the game more and more interesting as time goes on
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Unlimited play
Even after completing the game, you will still be able to continue playing to increase your highscore and compete for scores with other players.
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Phantom Proxy
Earth is gone. The only remains of humanity are kept alive in cyberspace afterlife.
Only the wealthiest individuals uploaded their souls into the hedonistic binary abyss.
Their servers maintained by the working class software living in sub-level decaying pixels.
ITS TIME TO END THE AFTERLIFE
INTENSE LOCK-ON ROGUE-LIKE COMBAT
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Experience fast-paced arena-shooter combat with unique lock-on aiming system
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Fight in hand-crafted arenas with procedurally generated permutations
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Engage in combat against the deadly Cyber Security Task Force bots
- Find weapons and modify them with random loot that emphasizes player skill!
BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY
Communicate directly with the developer and fans of the game on the offical discord!
OPEN DEVELOPMENT
See how the game is made by watching developer live-streams on Twitch that include level design, programming, art, and sound creation!****
Violent Agent
Only an undercover agent can handle the company’s problems. This time, the local mafia and thugs took possession of the money, and does not want to return it. Deal with the scumbags and return the loot to its place.
Violent Agent - Top Down Shooter, where you play as a secret agent. You need to get rid of enemies and return the money to the company. Gather all your will into a fist and passing level after level, using a knife and a machine gun, destroy everyone in your path.
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH
Aliens have invaded the earth and you have to assemble an army of local townspeople to fight them!
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Set in Finland during the Winter in the ’90s
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Roguelike gameplay
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Quick, about 20-minutes long sessions
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Control one large army thru different procedurally generated levels
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Collect items to gain new abilities
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Different Unit types to build your army from
DIFFERENT UNIT TYPES:
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ASSAULT RIFLE UNIT (Rynnäkkökiväärijoukkue) - A group of local army reserve enthusiasts
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PSYCHIC WIZARDS (Meediovelhot) - Psychics, great at tarot card readings, also able to shoot lightnings with 100% accuracy
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FIRE ARROW UNIT (Tulinuolijoukkue) - Members of the local archers sports club, able to shoot flaming arrows
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SNIPER UNIT (Tarkka-ampujajoukkue) - Don’t be surprised when the snow starts to speak
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BAZOOKA UNIT (Sinkojoukkue) - Ability to take down larger enemies with ease
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MINE UNIT (Ilmamiinoittajajoukkue) - Able to deploy deadly floating air mines
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KINETIC ROD UNIT (Puhelinpylväsjoukkue) - Secret Finnish army research technology to place hardened over-size telephone poles on orbit
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METEOROID STORM UNIT (Meteoriittimyrskyjoukkue) - Psychics able to command celestial objects and to turn them into deadly projectiles
NOTE: some of these unit types may be subject to change, also more will be available in the final game
GoBlaster
+1 🆓
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Built on the amazingly robust Godot engine! This game may be small, but it packs a punch. Overall the game play is engaging and fun. It really takes me back to my childhood playing fun arcade games. It has some fresh mechanics and lots of action. It is just difficult enough to keep you coming back for more! Despite a couple minor bugs that I noticed, the game is very well polished and has plenty of JUICE! The music is fun and the graphics hit the sweet spot, with a classic looks that is still clean. This game is well above average for “free game” standards and my hat goes off to the developer for sharing this hand crafted gem with us.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Mist Hunter
Awesome crazy game!
No-bullsht frantic arena shooter with randomized upgrades and unlockable weapons. Cool visual style and fluid shooting and traversing mechanics. Good quality overall.
It’s a rely good game and it deserves more exposure, lots of fun in it’s current state, but has potential to be extended with more mid/long-term mechanics, a progression/upgrades system similar to Dead Cells or even procedurally generated levels.
– Real player with 7.9 hrs in game
At the time of writing this review I have only done a single run. The game is quite fun and different. The movement feels really nice and I personally love the art style. If you like FPS games but also like games where you get tons of different runs (i.e Binding of Isaac) then this is a nice blend of the two genres. 9/10 in my book easily.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Shillelagh
Got this game because I love devil daggers. The soundtrack is awesome and the gameplay has a really unique twist.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Overall, I feel the potential and the charm of this game are buried too deeply beneath absolutely horrible visual clarity and the frustration of, for a lack of better words, total bullshit deaths completely outside of player control.
Shillelagh is held back by issues that are few in number but quite significant in effect. My biggest frustration currently is that it seems everything in the game has collision and can push you around. The trees popping up, the spirits you launch at enemies, the little floating stone fragments that appear when enemies burst through the rock, and probably more. On the handful of runs I’ve tried, an enemy has killed me only once. Every other run I’ve had end did so due to a tree bursting up beneath me unexpectedly and shoving me off the arena with no chance for me to react, or a single, tiny out of place floating stone bumping me into a pit. I don’t feel like I died because I made a mistake - I died because of something stupid I have absolutely no ability to influence and no possible method of reacting to. It feels like shit and it’s rapidly killing my ability to enjoy the game even this early on.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
SPACE BLASTER 8 BIT
Lazy and obvious rip off of the highly superior in every way BitBlasterXL made by Nickervision studios.
This developer didn’t even bother to make explosion sounds or effects when you crash, enough said.
This game is played and given my first impressions score in this 5 space blaster game competition video right here: (Review of this game starts at 7:00 min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyZgEjvxnE
To the developer: If you are going to try and make a game and base EVERYTHING in your game off of the success of another popular indie game here on Steam, make changes in your game that make your version “better”. Your version is an obvious rip off of BitBlaster XL and inferior to it in every way and you know it. You should be ashamed.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game