SAND CASTLES
SAND CASTLES is a Kingdom and Castle Building Real-Time Strategy / 4X game with a full 3D Graphics Engine. The game supports up to 6-players (human player or computer Artificial Intelligence). The game features true fog of war within the 3D game world. Your available resources are Gold, Sand, Lumber, and Food.
Command armies by grouping together companies. Each company has a Commander with a Rank up to a 4-star General. Commander Abilities affect company combat with Morale / Health / Strength levels. Company commanders earn points during combat and will be promoted by Rank. Use the Level-Up dialog for Core commanders to spend points on abilities.
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Skillfully use army Formations during melee combat.
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Capture enemy kingdoms by waging Siege Warfare.
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Form Alliances with other kingdoms using the Diplomacy dialog.
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Share troops and resources with Allies.
The Alpha Release Version features:
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First 7 scenarios of the Human Campaign (you versus the Computer AI)
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Multi-Player Maps to play on the Steam Network
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2 Races - Human and Barbarian
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Peasants
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Spies
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Light Infantry
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Archers
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Catapults
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Sappers
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Boiling Oil
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Tar Traps
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Spike Traps
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Moats
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Keep
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Wall
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Gate
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Square Tower
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Build and Save Castle Layouts
The Full Human Campaign is tentatively scheduled for release in 2022 and will feature:
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14 Scenarios
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Many more Multi-Player Maps
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1 additional Race (to be announced)
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Heavy Infantry
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Light Cavalry
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Heavy Cavalry
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Crossbows
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Ballista
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Battering Rams
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Siege Towers
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King
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Queen
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Royal Guard
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Water Transports
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Air Reconnaissance
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Round Tower
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Castle Building Upgrades
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Neverdark
_On December 24th, 2030 a global blackout occurred. In an instant the world lost access to electricity, and suddenly so many things that we had taken for granted were gone; the Internet, global communications, electronic devices… all gone.
War emerged as governments fell and society collapsed in upon itself. Guns, medicine and food became the new currencies while survival and protection became the sole necessities. Conflicts continued for years as ordinary people battled against famine, disease, the elements, and other humans.
A new world rose from the ashes of the old one. Each survivor enclave had a different idea on how to shape their new society: bands of raiders, religious cults, biker gangs, idealistic democratic communes and organisations built around charismatic leaders. Cities were once again battlegrounds, but it was no longer for survival, it was now for domination._
Neverdark is a pausable RTS game which throws you into a post-apocalyptic world. Following a global blackout, society has collapsed, and it will be your goal to rebuild it.
You lead a group of survivors, and you will need to contend with other factions over the control of the city. Invest resources and expand your influence to take over the city, street by street. Neverdark is as much about politics and social evolution as it is about combat.
In Neverdark you play in a fallen and ruined city. It is in desperate need of being rebuilt, and it will be your task to adapt it to the harsh conditions with makeshift infrastructure. Each map takes the shape of a real, existing city: Paris, New York and Tokyo. You will find yourself leading your citizens and expanding across familiar streets, taking over existing buildings and repurposing them. Perhaps you might want to use the Louvre Museum as the seat of your Black Market, or it might be a good idea to grow your crops on Rooftop Farms in Brooklyn. Building placement needs to be strategic and thoughtful. Where they’re placed, and the consequences of that choice, rests entirely in your hands.
A new type of society has emerged – one without a central government. Your goal is to react to dynamic, random events which force you to decide between doing what is ethically right and what is politically advantageous. New laws must be passed, and edicts must be enforced if civilisation is to evolve and adapt to ever-changing conditions.
One way or another you need to deal with other groups competing for control of the city. Both you and your enemies have powerful and influential agents at your disposal. You will need to send those agents, known in-game as specialists, across the city to perform political and military tasks. A Political Agitator in a neighborhood where two factions are fighting for dominance may help sway the locals into supporting you. But should that fail, and you find the enemy has gotten there first, a good long-range ‘motivator’ with a rifle could be equally effective. Inevitably the streets must turn crimson with bloodshed, and it will be your duty to lead your crew of specialists in tactical, turn-based combat missions.
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Warbox
As of right now, I just installed the 0.0.2.3 version and have not played it yet.
Four hours in, can I recommend the game? Yeah. It has a low price, and it is filled to the brim with potential in my eyes.
I can see the workshop being used a lot for this game, and if given enough freedom and creativity, I can see some really awesome things coming from this game.
However right now, all the jokes you see about having low frames is true. Game lags hard. Especially when you’re doing what you’d want to do in this game; make battle scenarios and play. It honestly is pretty bad. But this game is still very early in its development, so I can imagine a performance patch will be in the works.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
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This is a great game but it can be even greater there are a few things that need to be fixed and alot to be added the creators need to fix the healing system as when ur controlling a character u can not heal it and when ur not controling a character u can not heal it so. With the maps the comands and flags need to be fixed. If u want this to be a great game creators u need to add multiplayer, melee, more maps, a steam workshop, being able to go prone, more missions even a campain, more styles guns ect, and u need to add more comands like to make charecters fly and every enemy player to target one man and if a player kills there teamates than the whole team should kill the traitor. I understand this game is in its beta and for its beta its amazing this game could become one of the best games ever just depands on what the creators do with it. All together definetly recomend this game.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
Extreme Stream Power
This is a shooting game, last in future space everywhere is full of danger, the alien invasion, the betrayal of artificial intelligence, chemical and biological weapons cause the variation of moment threatening human life, you must have a technical side, and then joined the practice qigong and martial arts school, the students practise every day to improve their own ability, role firm stance, and abdomen, both hands on the waist, set the body energy in the palm, trying to to hit an opponent with optical flow, with the opponent!
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Select a character and enter the arena for training.
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Enhance your abilities by inflating the air button or by touching the replenishment items on the floor.
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Scramble mode, the hit person will be eliminated, you can cooperate with others, but after the cooperation, you will also need a decisive battle.
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When you graduate from the training school, you will face the threat of the outside world, all kinds of monsters will come, use the skills learned in college to defeat them!
Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem
TL;DR:
A fun nostalgia trip for those who enjoyed the Squad Leader board game series, or the original Close Combat games. However, it still possesses many of the same flaws from the originals with few original elements, and $40 dollars for a slight remaster of a 22 year old game is absurd. Buy it on sale.
I grew up playing Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far (for brevity, CC:ABTF), and I loved it. Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem is an incredibly faithful recreation of A Bridge Too Far: literally. This is both a positive and negative; the best aspects of CC: ABTF, such as it’s grueling difficulty and necessary mastery of basic military tactics are beautifully preserved, as are the worst elements from the 1997 game. Needless to say, I was excited to see that the game had been remade, even if it was given an absurd, $40 price tag. Happily, I was not disappointed.
– Real player with 335.3 hrs in game
Started playing Avalon Hill Advanced Squad Leader in late 70’s early 80’s, so I’m an old Grognard. Have the first Close Combat game and all the other ones in the series. So my opinion may be biased. This is a slow moving, very tactical type of Infantry combat. What works in real life works in this game. You better make sure your advancing troops have an over watch and you are suppressing the enemy or you will get cut up good. The realism factor is high. A 60mm mortar or heavy MG will not take out a Tiger, but will do some damage on personnel carriers. Line of Sight is tricky. Not everyone in the squad can see the enemy, so placement of units is vital. Of course the opposite is true. If you can see the enemy he can see you. It is a game of timing. Know when to expose yourself and when to hide. Know when to rush the position and when to stay covered. Although human realism is also factored into your units. If a unit is getting pounded pretty good some soldiers will head for the hills or surrender. And they sure won’t get out of that ditch and rush the position. But as with war and realism and based off of the ASL model you must keep your Platoon and HQ leaders close to your infantry units. And sometimes a hero will rise up and save the day. It’s random and no scenario plays the same way twice. All the soldiers have names and gain experience as the campaign plays out. Was being real careful with some units and gaining experience thru a campaign when they got trapped by three Panthers and just destroyed. They were screaming to get them out and cries of Medic were ringing in my headphones. I swear I had tears in eyes in the absolute frustration of listening to their pleas not being able to do anything but watch. I could only imagine what that had to be like in real life. Watching your friends get slaughtered. But I think that is one of the reasons that a game like this resonates with a true wargamer. To become emotionally involved with digital and fictional characters is a high endorsement for any game. Spoiler alert: I cried in Red Dead Redemption II when Arthur’s horse died in the end too. Yeah I’m an old sap.
– Real player with 143.5 hrs in game
Solo Royale
Its an awesome game. Andrew has some really innovative ideas that I don’t think the video game industry is ready for yet. For example, in the sun temple expansion pack, there is a sun temple. Its wild, the map is so good my computer almost can’t run it. It’s near unplayable, but I think this is a commentary on the reality of war and the perpetual imperialism of the modern day US military industrial complex. These thoughts were formed only on the sun temple game mode, I couldn’t even begin to articulate the experience that the mini battle royale and battle royale gamemodes are. The gulag also transcendes human language.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Raidfield 2
Defintintly annoyed by the bots they can kill faster than you can so if you want to stay alive use a tank just use it so the bots can not kill you plane controls are a lot harder than what i’m use to
so you should play the game it runs great and i have a potato laptop cant run beamng drive tho cries
– Real player with 17.3 hrs in game
if you like call of duty with cartoon looks and only bots in the lobbys i have not seen one real person in this game then play this game it is free but i think raidfield was better cause there were no bots
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Starship Troopers - Terran Command
Starship Troopers - Terran Command is a thrilling real-time strategy game set in the Starship Troopers movies universe. Take command of the Mobile Infantry and do your part in the war against the Arachnid threat. Build, develop and control your armies to strike an effective balance between tactical superiority and strength in numbers. Ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates the galaxy now and always!
Story Campaign
The population of the harsh desert planet Kwalasha needs our help. Their daily lives of hard work in the mining industries has been disturbed by a new danger that they cannot face alone: the Arachnid.
The Mobile Infantry will swiftly move in, take back control over the planet and smash everything that has more than two legs. Take part of this exciting military campaign, meet unique characters, see amazing locations and experience the heroic war against the Bug - all presented live on FED NET!
Tactics & Numbers
While the Arachnids can rely on virtually limitless numbers, the Mobile Infantry must develop effective tactics to overcome this imbalance. Deploy your units at strategic locations to cover vital choke points and gain superior firepower through tactical use of elevation levels. Be wary, however, that battle mechanics such as True Line of Sight and True Line of Fire also allow Bugs to lay ambushes around every corner, as they are well known for their use of surprise attacks and deception.
Units & Abilities
An expansive range of unique units, weapons, and special abilities are at the disposal of M.I. commanders. Infantry squads armed with Morita Assault Rifles and MX-90 Fragmentation Grenades form the mainstay of your forces. Rocket Troopers deliver deadly payloads with pin-point accuracy while Engineers are vital to shore up defensive positions with MG turrets, barricades, and minefields. As a campaign progresses, technological breakthroughs unlock the true potential of the Federation’s arsenal with E-Pulse rifles, TAC Fighter airstrikes, heavily armed Marauder mechs, and many more developments optimized for spraying Bug ichor across the battlefield.
Key features
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An immersive storyline campaign featuring unique missions, characters and a lot of Starship Troopers flavor
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Dozens of unique unit types, each with their own special abilities.
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Terrain elevation, True Line of Sight & True Line of Fire provide deep tactical gameplay.
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Manage a fleet of dropships, expand your base infrastructure and capture strategic positions to strengthen your forces and unlock new weaponry
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Heroics, explosions, gore, and Bugs. Lots of Bugs.
VTOL VR
This game is fucking awesome. I don’t really know what to say about it but this game feels really good, its fun, has a nice community, mods. the game feels realistic but very easy for anyone to pick up and improve, most of the technology in-game actually exists irl, but in-game its very simplified
– Real player with 75.2 hrs in game
great game, tons of amazing modded maps and planes. if you like any flight sim get this. its controls are super easy to learn, understanding weapons may take some time but you will learn it pretty fast if you just watch a couple videos and play with them yourself.
– Real player with 68.7 hrs in game
BlackChain
Great game. Pathing and controls are super smooth. It is incredible that this is made by a single person. Only in terms of features, you notice that it’s just a single dev. It is only one race and multiplayer is only possible through LAN (virtual LAN for online play) and 2v2 still has some issues with desyncs. But everything that is in the game is unique and high quality. I really enjoy the micro in this game. It has a bit of a modern Starcraft: BroodWar feeling but it is still quite different. With the low price of only 4€, there is no reason not to get this game. The AI is pretty good even without cheating and tries to actively hunt down your workers with air units for example. The dev deserves the support so he is able to create more content for this. (I have received the key from a giveaway which has nothing to do with the dev)
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
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Real-time strategy, once the second most important genre after FPS games, is dead, isn’t it? While the few releases of recent years were mostly below average, there are some exceptions. This is one.
Great indie real-time stragegy game, heavily inspired by the seminal Starcraft. Build structures, build units, mine ressources and crypto-currency, wipe your enemies off the map. Fully voiced units and 12 campaign missions (all unlocked from the beginning), even a network option. Great little game - what a nice surprise!
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game