EchoBlade
EchoBlade is a puzzle-combat dungeon explorer. You find yourself blind and trapped inside an expansive tower labyrinth. Shrouded in total darkness you must navigate your way to freedom using only sound as your guide.
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See the world in ultrasonic: every footstep, every metal clank of armor, or swing of blade illuminates your path. Stride with care to avoid pressure plates that spring a variety of traps.
Equip your sword blade or let loose crossbow bolts when encountering the armored crusader knights who lurk the dark dungeon hallways.
Explore the perilous tower. Each level is built with varying mechanics: patrolling prison guards, uncover hidden switches that open secret doors, and solving puzzles with platforming elements.
Venture forth and find your way to freedom.
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Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic
This is, by far, my favorite VR game- and I have a LOT of VR games- so this review is going to be long, but I feel like, even though this game is popular, it still isn’t getting the praise it deserves.
The VR market is, in my opinion, oversaturated with zombie shooters and fighting games. There are a few RPGs, but they don’t really let you do anything off the path they set out for you. They’re like rail shooters in an RPG format. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed games like Mage’s Tale and Asgard’s Wrath, but they lacked the thing I look forward to most in VR, free will. It blows my mind how lacking the VR market is in games where you can just do whatever the hell you want, it’s the perfect platform for experiencing life in fantastic ways. For this reason, I see Waltz of the Wizard as VR’s golden child. It may be “short” as far as having a to-do list, but no other game I’ve played has been so immersive. I get to be me, but me as a wizard, doing whatever I want to do, exploring and discovering without worrying about anyone trying to keep me tied to a story line where I’m only allowed to discover things when they say I can.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
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This game is mostly just a tech demo, and there is a free version out there you can play with instead. This one is very cheap, and it is the tech demo that sold my family on VR. My dad said “Its fun, 400$ Well spent son.”
We named the skull Bob, I don’t know his real name nor do I care, my first thought was of the Dresden Files talking skull, so that’s what we called him.
The games concept is pretty simple, you are a wizard, likely one that has lived for a long time, with a fully stocked pile of ingredients and a cauldron bubbling away on the desk, if you show Bob an item he will explain what it is, in a dark and spooky reverb voice.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
High School Overdrive
Welcome to the 90s.
Set in the year 1997, far away from the big cities, secluded at the edge of a small town, lies the outcast and misfits engulfed with only dreams to ease their reality of tomorrow.
Rin Helena, taking her mother’s name, is a newly transferred student from a well achieving school to a failing school of a small town. Surrounded with antagonistic air, Rin will have to muster her courage and strength to lift herself up. This is a place that will put her down at the slightest gesture of submission.
What brought her to this place?
Will she find the strength to move forward and fight for a hopeful tomorrow?
Welcome to 1997.
BEAT UP THE BULLIES!
If you see something, You can use it!
Explore and Interact with the School Environment!
PLAY FETCH WITH THE BULLIES!
Many more side activities in High School Overdrive!
The Character Models used in these WIP build are placeholder assets and will be changed in a polished build.
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Ato
Ato is an excellent metroidvania, and one of the best I’ve found in a long time. The game opens with very simple movement, but quickly builds upon it with several abilities that make for fast, flexible gameplay.
The main draw to the game is the countless unique boss fights scattered across the map. Combat is designed around using your abilities to interrupt and counter enemy attacks, and the result is fights that are fast, snappy, and extremely satisfying when you finally launch the boss into the air.
– Real player with 75.4 hrs in game
Ato is a great metroidvania which focuses primarily on 1v1 samurai-esque duels. The story is short, simple, and entirely visual, but works well regardless. The map is well sized, with collectibles and boss fights filling a majority of the area. Each region of the world is easily distinguished by its flora and strong use of colors. The combat is fast-paced, fun, and tends to be fair in almost every single fight. You can get by on reflexes or, if you want to go a layer deeper, you can use well-timed attacks to stagger enemies and get in heavy damage. It was very rewarding to use my previous experiences from my first playthrough to punish bosses on harder difficulties (when mindless reflexes alone were no longer enough); doing this made most fights play completely differently. All of these factors together sell the experience and make this game worth the price, especially when on sell.
– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game
Blood Spear
No game in the steam catalog can compare to Blood Spear. Having thousands of hours in other steam games, i have decided that this game reigns superior above all. No one should pass up playing this game. A Breathtaking experience, honestly, the convoluted story at the beginning begins to piece itself together as you play. The game play flows well and with non linear areas, you can play the game the way you want to play it. The music is phenomenal, and is comparable to soundtracks of other great triple A games. The idea of a ranged combat is so fresh and different in a convoluted genre of sword hack and slash games. This game CANNOT be compared to the souls games, they are the yin and yang of souls likes. Dark souls being bleak, cold, dark, and repetitive, while Blood Spear is fast pased, high octane, intuitive, as these new ideas are added to the legacy of these games. I hope that this inspires other great Spear-Like games and is a genre i will be keeping up with for years to come.
– Real player with 24.7 hrs in game
When a game is soo good that being free seems wrong
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Third-person Hack and slash
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Short
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Great atmosphere
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Inventive combat mechanics
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Easy to learn, room for skilled-play
So, if you are still here… Let’s get down to it:
@Chris:
Nobody said it was easy, it’s such a shame for us to part…
Blood Spear is often called a student project… hence why it is so short and free, but make no mistake, winning first prize at ISART Digital Montreal 2021 is no small feat, and calling this a student project is a grave understatement. Picking obvious queues from the likes of Dark Souls, Soul Reaver and more, you get a third-person hack and slash campaign that won’t overstay its welcome, with an easy to learn throwing mechanic (charge and quick-fire) backed up with two inventive skills that add strategy and healing abilities, this compact package leaves you wanting more.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Breath
Breath is not an easy game, but it is not a long game too.
Start as a simple life-form and evolve your way by defeating the bosses in any order you wish. One ability gained from one boss can help you to defeat another one.
Can you beat the game without deaths? How fast can you beat it? Try yourself in “1 Life Mode” and “SpeedRun Mode”! Compete against your own time or set a custom time to try to be the fastest in the world!
Play multiple times trying different routes and, as you play, unlock new abilities to start the game with, adding layers of complexity.
Don’t forget to try to find all the hidden spider webs.
If you ever feel lost on how to play, pause the game (esc or start) and a button map will show up.
Life is but a Breath!
Feylin
I like the art and I think that it has potential to be pretty good. I am unsure how to accomplish it but the mouse being the indicator of where you swing your sword isn’t that good when you’re constantly moving around. A different control scheme would certainly help. A little more content would be nice but for the price it was a pretty decent framework for a game. I would also recommend more sounds for when enemies are hit and different ways to attack. Great start for a game but definitely needs work.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Haunted Space
COSMIC COCKPIT HORROR
Battle capital ships and Lovecraftian creatures amongst the stars in a horror-laced space simulation. Experience the horrors of the void alone in this single player, narrative driven experience.
COMBAT THE COLOSSI
Overcome the odds in fierce multi-stage boss battles against ancient God-like creatures composed of organic matter and space debris
CRAFT YOUR VESSEL
Take on quests across multiple systems or strike out on your own to fight, explore and scavenge resources and credits. Trade, craft, customise your ship and fight to survive as you uncover the mystery of a galaxy haunted by an ancient civilisation.
COMPLETE SPACE SIM
In HAUNTED SPACE, the innovative co-pilot system allows you to choose the level of control you prefer, from a complete space simulation, through to a more arcade style experience. At its maximum level, the co-pilot makes the game accessible for blind and visually impaired users, and it also supports eye-tracking
PaintballX
decent game for the price you can have some fun with friends ,needs more work and i support the team
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
What started as what I thought would be a dumb meme of a game turned out to be a really fun experience. I really enjoyed what I played, and really hope the devs continue to update this more. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but with some polish and some gameplay tweaks, it could be a real AMAZING game. Hope to see it grow! Much love!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Rokka
It’s just a really good fun basic game , sit , wait , and shoot the Glorious Red Army troops coming to take your Finnish Vaterland
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
EDIT 29-DEC:
How are we supposed to get past level 4 without any anti-tank ordnance?
ORIGINAL:
Atmospheric is a very accurate tag for Rokka because gameplay gets surprisingly more difficult as the daylight fades. The atmospheric effect (the real natural phenomenon) plays a big role as you try to determine enemy positions as they emerge from the treeline. This is a great machine gun emplacement simulator and you should give it a shot.
Gameplay is pretty straightforward except I would suggest aiming with the crosshair instead of aiming down sight. Also, the distortion from the heat of the barrel added a whole other level of difficulty but I was able to mitigate it by timing my reloads well because the barrel cools off after reloads.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game