Dark Chess

Dark Chess

Disclaimer: The Game is currently in the Alpha Stage of development and many features are expected to be added before official release.

THE GAME

Dark Chess is a game of chess full of magic, traps and enemy army concealed by the Fog of War. Reworked and enhanced game rules will bring immense joy to die-hard chess-lovers and casual players alike. Fight your way to the top of the ladder among other players, compete with your friends or challenge the artificial intelligence. Take the crown and become the Champion.

IT’S FAST

As a Dark Chess warrior you will have to act fast, take chances and make split second decisions.

With limited time per move, each game is a dynamic, ‘bite size’ battle and your wins bring a lot of excitement.

IT’S DARK

‘The Fog of War’ conceals opposing armies. Enemy units become visible in proximity of one square around friendly units or within a striking move. Only the first unit under direct threat is shown. This adds a great amount of unpredictability and a scouting aspect to the game. Makes it exceptionally tactical.

IT’S SOCIAL

Invite your Friends to play with you. Share your glorious Victories and noble Defeats. Climb to the top together.

IT’S DIVERSE

Dark Chess features various game modes such as Player vs Player, Player vs Artificial Intelligence, Tournaments along with Rankings, Ratings and Scoreboards.

Challenges, Events and Character Customization will keep you engaged and satisfied with your achievements.


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Dark Chess on Steam

Rocket Boots Mania

Rocket Boots Mania

Ricky Runner is a fast paced precision platformer game, it’s one of the best platformer based game I ever played, I’ve put about 80h into this game even before the game was released into early access on steam, first thing first it’s now still an early access so not everything is in the game right now and I have to say that there is a lot of potential in this game, as right now this game is “just” about completing levels in best possible way to get highest amount of score to be 1st in the leaderboard.

Real player with 43.5 hrs in game


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First off: I’m a speedrunner, and I like ILs more than the average speedrunner, so the review may or may not help you if you’re in for a casual platformer experience, as I don’t have that perspective.

I like it; the gameplay is already good, and the game controls better than 95% of speedy games, at least in my opinion. The levels are very open - lots of paths to take, about 5-20 seconds long each, optimally (so far). Restarts are quick.

Currently, the game has online leaderboards for every level, where your high score is automatically submitted.

Real player with 41.9 hrs in game

Rocket Boots Mania on Steam

Light Trail Rush

Light Trail Rush

D.O.A

Real player with 1.6 hrs in game


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A rushed title that needs a lot more development time

Overview

Light Trail Rush is a racing game where players fly in anti-gravitational spaceships, trying to get the lead. The leader of the race is called “tracer”, because it traces the path where are all other contestant race on. This is the main twist of Light Trail Rush: point-based matches where points are usually gained by being the tracer or launching other players off the track. This interesting idea also makes for different circuits every match, an interesting feature that, if implemented correctly, could give an incredible boost to the game replayability.

Real player with 1.1 hrs in game

Light Trail Rush on Steam

Battle for the Galaxy

Battle for the Galaxy

The only way that I can reliably play this game is through a Steam account. If you play any other way, if you have to reinstall your web browser, you lose your account and have to start over again from scratch. I have restarted this game 5 times. The other at the end of January 2021, the game reset and I was sent back to the beginning again. I started sending messages through social media and they suddenly repaired the game to where I was before the program change.

This is a free to play game, but you really need to pay for enough gems to purchase the maximum number of Drones, which is about $10. So, I have spent $50 on this game so far.

Real player with 4845.8 hrs in game

What have you done to the game dear devs, this VERSION is faster and has a better quality, but the game seems incomplete. It is either buggy or the devs deliberitetly mess up certain aspects of the game. Right now it is better to play it on battleforthegalaxy.com or though facebook. And you can later trasfer the account to steam (not tried it).

Also i could not get any infantry modules on the Operation (you can get access to the Operation by upgrading the HQ to lvl4), i don´t know if that is a bug or the devs trying to make the Operation harder again. How about you make it easier istead, like increasing the time to 3 days instead of 2. I would like to get more sleep. :)

Real player with 1605.8 hrs in game

Battle for the Galaxy on Steam

Mirador

Mirador

I’ve logged 30+ hours already and I’ve read many of the other reviews, and the negative ones fail to take into account several things.

First off, this game just launched and they are constantly fixing issues and deploying them. Yes the issues have caused frustration. However, they have solved several so far, including the “standing still” glitch and infinite loading screens. And there are more fixes on the way. This is one of, if not the, best dev team in terms of their relationship with the community, willingness to listen to suggestions, and also fix things in a timely manner. Huge positives.

Real player with 85.7 hrs in game

I of course made a video review of this game which can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMk91n7rwkU

If you don’t want to watch the video, and would rather read the script, ill just leave it here:

What is up ladies and gentlemen bois and girls, it’s your host Zulo back with another vid, today we will be reviewing Mirador, without further ado lets jump right in

Mirador is a hack-and-slash adventure game in which you can play solo or in a duo squad, and you will face challenging player-created boss fights!

Real player with 48.6 hrs in game

Mirador on Steam

Rockets are Super Hard

Rockets are Super Hard

This has been a great game to play with a group of friends. Working together to successfully launch a rocket into orbit using the highly detailed manual and communication skills not to miss any timed events or which button to correctly press. The manual may seem daunting at first, but the PDF is very well organized and put together that we have had no issues navigating through it to find the different modules for each mission. The sense of achievement is very high after each successful launch, and makes us want to keep playing once we finally do achieve mission success. Highly recommend this game for anyone that likes group puzzle games.

Real player with 12.1 hrs in game

This game is already shaping up to be really special. This is helped tremendously by devs who are extremely active in the community and receptive to suggestions. They work quickly and respond in the forum. I made a list of typos and suggestions for the manual and it was a fairly long list. They did every single thing on the list in the same day that I posted it.

From a gameplay perspective, this obviously is inspired by Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, but I think this game stands up extremely well on its own. Being in the control room is significantly more fun than being the defuser in KTaNE, and the game itself feels more cohesive. The manual is also over 100 pages even though the game is in early access. The ktane manual is 23 pages. I’ve played it quite a bit already and I still feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface. The single player campaign helps to teach the game, and even puts the manual pages inside the game to make it easier to look things up, but playing multiplayer is certainly more fun.

Real player with 11.3 hrs in game

Rockets are Super Hard on Steam

Speedpunk

Speedpunk

Overall the concept was pretty cool! But the handling on the car was kinda difficult to get used to. As well as it being a relatively short game, could complete in under half an hour or so. Also the music was extremely loud and unbearable!!

Real player with 8.1 hrs in game

Fix the controls! Thank you!

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

Speedpunk on Steam

Hummingz - Retro Arcade action revised

Hummingz - Retro Arcade action revised

one word, well, two: the s h i t

grab it and enjoy the colorful little rough.

joyfully pump those nasty bees, cause Stefan Preuss saw it the right way:

bees really are hella nasty creatures.

(beware: tough one at “normal level”…)

Real player with 5.9 hrs in game

Hummingz is a cute little version of the arcade game Centipede.

It has nice colors/design and it´s fun trying to get a high score or beat your own score.

I haven´t come past level 4 yet, so I will continue playing after more than 1 1/2 hours, which isn´t bad if you get it for 3,99.

There are some minor things which could be imrpoved, like a better resolution option (fullscreen) for PC or to turn off automatic fire.

And for the negative commentary concerning the topic of mobile games - It´s a good thing that mobile games are also playable on PC as long as they are good, which I think Hummingz is.

Real player with 5.4 hrs in game

Hummingz - Retro Arcade action revised on Steam