Somewhere in the Shadow
I won’t lie, I came in thinking this game was gonna be a dumb little thing, but me and my boy had a lot of fun playing it! There were cheap jump scares, but one of the monsters was actually very suspenseful and got a real scream out of me! For only $3, I would say it’s definitely worth the money. The animations are a bit clunky, and the AI can be a bit wack, but after the biggest bug got fixed, it was a fun time and I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap, hour or two horror experience.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Decent fun for a low price. There are some tedious parts where you have to avoid monsters and ghosts, but also some fun parts like the puzzles or the co-op section where one player guides the other through the darkness. The horror aspect is mostly just jumpscares, not very scary overall. Played it with a friend for Halloween and it wasn’t too bad of a time.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Main Assembly
If you have a creative drive or artistic eye, this game is great for allowing you to express yourself through your builds. The controls are a little wonky to start with and the building “flow” seems un-intuative at first. But it doesn’t take long to figure out how things work. If you have any experience with 3d animation or model building, this is definately in that “wheelhouse”. This feels more like working with clay, than sticking blocks together. There’s a decent amount of additional add-on pieces like hinges and servos, as well as pistons and specialized tools like the suction cup or drill head. The physics in-game are decent as well. Although, to me, the atmosphere feels thin. When taking off in a flyer, it feels more like your breaking the surface friction, than pushing yourself through the air resistance.
– Real player with 74.1 hrs in game
Poorly designed and poorly made. Does not feel like a 1.0 game. Most controls can’t be rebound, and the input system is super buggy. Most controls can’t be bound to controller. The vehicle chase camera is awful, requiring constant hands on the controls just to see where you’re going, and like most badly designed things in this game, it’s not adjustable. It’s especially heinous in the space parts of the game, where you can end up upside down relative to the camera, which is just stupid. The game has very few options. There isn’t even a “reset options to default” button, so if you break something, which is very likely, you’re SOL. Multiplayer is a disaster, with horrible lag and desync making any kind of interaction or collision impossible. The challenges mode where you unlock parts and cosmetics is half interesting and half miserable. I ended up getting an automatic collectible grabber bot from the workshop because the sandbox levels with 45 stars were such a chore.
– Real player with 40.8 hrs in game
Darwin’s Aquarium
The game is a realtime fish simulation with realtime learning artificial intelligence.
Build up a tank, start training and breeding your own fish and maybe some day, start defeating the big evil bossfish!
Earn money by advancing your breeding capabilities, improve your breeding grounds and unlock more valuable fish.
You’ll see plenty of unbelievable fish interaction: Fish that start hunting, fleeing, cooperating. Some might learn to farm algae, other might start to bait less harmful fish… who knows..? There is no limit to the interaction of the fish and every evolution of species can bring new features. Make sure you select your fish carefully and only breed the fittest, so you can compete against the other fish.
It’s up to you and your fish to cooperate with other players or just defeat them- but be warned: Your fish are getting intelligent. They might have their own will soon!
Haunt Chaser
Short story: BUY THIS GAME!
Longer story:
The game is still in early access at review point, but I wouldn’t have guessed it if I didn’t know it in advance. What I’m saying is that it’s very well made. Not to forget that it’s a small group of developers making such a great game! The game is ideal as a multiplayer game, as there is 4vs1 (chasers vs entity). So if you are like me and love multiplayer games and keep looking for them - this is definitely a game you should give a try.
It does take some time to navigate around and figure out where you’re going and what you are suppose to do, but after a few rounds you should start getting a hang of it and see some possible tactics to use. The first time you open the game you also get a “how to play” telling you about the different abilities as chaser and entity. I suggest reading these, as they’re a huge help in the beginning. I can’t wait to see how the game expands, as it have so much potential both with customising, extra maps and new tasks.
– Real player with 27.1 hrs in game
I’m a big fan of Phasmo and have an interest in most co-op horror games (I watched several of them instead of playing tbh) and I have to say I was impressed by Haunt Chaser.
So what is Haunt Chaser?
There is an entity, a player with special powers.
There are puzzles on the map that the 4-person player team needs to solve and get pieces of a doll.
Once they solve 4, they need to burn the doll.
They do the whole thing one more time and the heart of the entity is revealed and the entity can be killed.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Loopindex
good game, fun boss
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
Fun little puzzle game with good music, mechanics and levels
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Tennis World Tour 2
Better than the reviews suggest by far, however they are somewhat accurate in their complaints, and I think some dev work on it could help improve it. Even as-is I think it’s good as a tennis game past the initial hump, and as a game in general I think it’s passable.
Specific points:
1. “I can never release the button at the right time, it’s random!”
The timing mechanic is difficult to grasp, because it is “release a button ‘at the right time’” ..with not enough feedback on when the ‘right time’ really is, because it depends on the specific animation picked - so how close you are to the shot, how fast it is, how far up you’ll contact the ball, etc.
– Real player with 83.7 hrs in game
Update after April 23, 2021 patch:
The game is approaching Top Spin 4 levels now. It’s not quite there in some areas (online netcode is a bit shaky and the variety of tactics usable in rallies is still pretty low), but in most aspects it’s now a pretty good tennis game. I’m definitely impressed by the level of improvements and support the game has gotten.
The custom animations for the players are a really nice touch that makes exhibition mode much more appealing. Graphics have definitely seen a big boost since launch which is unexpected but nice. I’m super happy to finally see the white on-court advertisement boards replaced. Compared to the version of the game that launched it’s unrecognisable, really,
– Real player with 75.3 hrs in game
PROTOCORE
THE MOST INTELLIGENT SHOOTER IN CO-OP
200% more guns! 200% more fun! 999% more brain! Shoot your way through a gigantic spaceship full of deadly robots and face an Artificial Intelligence that is learning from your actions.
1-4 PLAYER CO-OP
Play with up to 3 friends if you can’t dig it alone. PROTOCORE will continuously test the teamwork and skill of you and your friends.
ADAPTIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Be smart! The enemy that you are facing is playing with you and will change the game according to your actions!
CRAFT YOUR OWN PLAY-STYLE
Make your own and unique classe! Choose between a lot of weapons, skills and perks for 10^42 possibilities.
FAST PACED SHOOTER
You don’t have to think complexe but fast! Grab two guns at the same time, feel and follow the flow of a juicy metal slaughtering.
SCORING & SPEED-RUN
Master all the patterns if your are good enough to make your name on the international leaderboard!
STORY MODE
Play the non linear campaign mode, fight daunting bosses and find out the secrets beyond Protocore.
Angle of Attack
Battlecruiser 3000 is a game in which you control a gigantic battleship managing every aspect of it, building and upgrading its capabilities as you travel across the galaxy fighting in a war of truly epic proportions.
Angle Of Attack is a poor and simplistic version of that.
Instead of an entire galaxy to play around in, you have a single planet. Instead of a complex and intricate upgrade and management system, you just increase numbers and none of the upgrades really change how the game plays and instead of taking part in an organic conflict you just kind of cruise around, rarely if ever seeing a friendly.
– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game
Angle of Attack is yet another variation of Derek Smart’s Battlecruiser 3000 “franchise”. It started as a comprehensive simulation of a starship command, down to crew and food, and weapons, and trading and planets and fleet that starships moving all around you, doing their own things, and you can help your own side in the war effort. In Angle of Attack, you are down to one planet, with jump gates that takes you to other parts of the planet, and you can attack or defend as you wish against the humankind’s nemesis, the Gamulons.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Death Squared
I freaking love this game. Writing a review partially because this game deserves an “overwhelmingly positive” and I’d like to help take it there. I’ve played with 4-5 people in the party mode for a dozen or so levels, and done half the main levels so far playin' with my dad. In terms of a puzzle game, yes, does the job, makes you think, then makes you think in a completely different way, very satisfying.
I think what most makes this game stand out for me is the fun in the actual death and failure, especially playing with someone else. Sometimes you get some deaths in just for fun and to see the animation and dialogue…and to annoy your partner, of course….
– Real player with 18.6 hrs in game
A simple idea well executed, a funny co-op puzzle experience.
Co-op puzzle
In Death Squared you must cooperatively solve puzzles. Each player has a cube-character that can only move, there is no other function. Each player has to move to their respective endpoint to solve the puzzle. Along the way you have to stand on switches to change the level, dodge lasers tied to one character, stand on each other’s head to serve as bridge, not die, and most importantly not kill the other! This is a typical game to just start playing! Play only co-op though. You can control two characters with a keyboard, so a perfect snuggle game! Although… it will most probably start a fight…
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
BattleCore Arena
Very well-made game! Imagine Marble Blast mixed with Unreal Tournament stuffed into a sumo-ring… This is a recipe for competitive fun, especially if you love aim-heavy arena shooters such as Quake, CS:GO, and UT. Although this game is in Early Access and has a small player-base, it is worth a buy and giving it a try. The developers are HIGHLY active and aspire to continue to greaten the game, unlike other fun games that showed promise, but lacked a devoted dev team.
This game wants YOU! If you are poor and don’t want to pay for it, then hopefully you read this and copy&paste this steam gift key… Enjoy! ;D
– Real player with 65.2 hrs in game
This game is worth a shot if you are into arena shooters and want a new twist to it. There is tons of customization options which (in my experience) takes 15-20 or so hours to unlock it all. The game (at its current state) has no Micro-Transactions. However, Keep in mind that the playerbase is lacking and you will most likely be spending all of your time with bots.
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game