FORECLOSED
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Review by Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam.
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Is this game a masterpiece? No, certainly not. It is still an interesting cyberpunk adventure with some shooting, stealth and hacking.
In the near future, everyone wears an implant in the head, but your implant is different. It has been modified without your knowledge, and it seems that someone wants to kill you because of that. You have been working as an unimportant employee at Securtech, and you obviously got this experimental chip as a guinea pig. All your colleagues who also got the experimental implant have already been eliminated. What a nice coincidence that the person who designed the experimental chip, the busted CEO of Securtech, also has a little problem atm, and needs your help. Maybe you two can help each other?
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
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Foreclosed
An atmospheric cyberpunk shooter with interesting comic book aesthetics and a pumping soundtrack. Gameplay feels a little repetitive but the story is short enough to keep your interest.
Foreclosed is a narrative driven cyberpunk shooter set in the style of a graphic novel.
Evan Kapnos awakes to the news that the company who owns his identity have gone bankrupt and his account has been foreclosed. He has lost his job, his implants and access to areas around the city.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Rainy City: Pandemic
Rainy City: Pandemic
DISCLAIMER: I received this product for no cost for the purpose of reviewing. However, this does not affect my views and opinions of the game.
Short Review
Rainy City Pandemic is a story driven title where the player drives around the city delivering pizza, trying to save up enough money to pay for their sister’s medical treatment. The bulk of the gameplay focuses on conversations with other characters and interactions with them. The game takes place in a dystopian future where the the pandemic (the covid-19 pandemic, assumingly) is still rampant.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
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Disclosure
This is a revisited review. Check out the original review here .
Rainy Days
Rainy City Pandemic is a game about a delivery boy in a city that is swept up in the wave of a pandemic. You are attempting to raise money for your sister to get her the medical attention she needs. This game had started out as a seven dollar game and has gone through some patches and a price drop to raise the quality of life. I played through the game again after a wave of updates and admittedly I have yet to play the newest additions to the game. What I can say is that one of the weaker points of the games has been significantly improved. The weakest point before was the dialogue. When playing the game through again I was no longer running into dialogue that was repeated nor were there as many open ended short conversations.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Afterglitch
You are an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!
An audiovisual experience in the form of a video game inspired by utopian science fiction illustrations of the second half of the 20th century and hyperspace in modern art.
“And on the eighth day, time and space collapsed…”
“I’m searching for the beginning in time.”
“I’m searching for a boundary in space.”
“I’m searching for the creator.”
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Cloudpunk
This game is great!
The game does a great job of taking an idea of a society like the one seen in movies like BladeRunner (or fuckin Pluto Nash) and expands on it. The world has enough new elements to make it stand out.
The main characters are great and you really do end up loving them. The side characters are also great in how funny or wacky they are while sometimes being effectively used symbolically to highlight real world issues and topics.
While the controls of the ships can be a little wonky everything else is pretty spot on.
– Real player with 49.7 hrs in game
Full game video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXZO2_mCgg
I had my reservations about this game to begin with, I thought it was going to be yet another 8 bit style game trying to be something more impressive. Well, I was quite wrong, this is a good game with a good storyline and impressive graphics with out of this world lighting. My only criticism is the rigidness of the story every answer and every question is already planned out, now normally I wouldn’t mind that layout but I feel the game deserves more. There is a lot to love about this game, I felt sorry for control and was invested in Rania’s life enough to keep playing. A good game with good characters and fantastic lighting, man I love that lighting :-). One last thing to add, the city is glorious, fascinating to drive around and big, very very big.
– Real player with 23.7 hrs in game
Unlock The King
Shuffle chess pieces to clear a path for its titular centerpiece in Unlock the King. While its 100 stages aren’t of consistent quality, the sheer quantity offered for its minimum price point make it an easy shoe-in for brain teaser fans.
Similar to its developer’s other works, UTK is about making way for its central figure. Apart from pawns, every piece makes an appearance here, differing primarily in quantity and stage geometry to keep you invested. It’s a simple formula that’s guaranteed to work, though it is admittedly repetitive. Bread-and-butter chess boards make way for switches in its late half, transforming the playing field and opening up new possibilities.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Imagine it’s Black Friday, and you’ve made the misguided decision to take advantage of some deal you are convinced is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (if only because you went and got trampled). When the clock strikes midnight and myriads of strangers produce an assortment of cutting utensils—some legal and some not so legal—you realize you goofed, and it’s time to abort. You shove strangers, dodge descending blades, leap over toppled grandmas, and shimmy through paths so narrow they would make a spelunker fill their adult diaper. You now understand the gameplay concept of Unlock the King.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni
The head of the laboratory turned to Dirk for help in the investigation of the murder of his employee. What happened to one of the greatest minds in the Cat Head Nebula? What color do the Sumlings hate? Where can I get carbs for my secretary? And in what order did the great Blork Gnarbs draw his pictures? Why me?
You will find the answer to these and other obviously important questions by helping Dirk in the investigation.
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World: In a world where teleportation and robots are as commonplace as a cup of coffee, there are almost no living plants left. Humans are a lower caste and they are doing the work that hardly anyone else wants to do. For example, to investigate murders. The Margaret Luoni case is one of detective Dirk’s many investigations. There will be others! Learn new details of the futuristic universe and meet new galactic races.
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Plot: Travel between planets of the Cat Head Nebula, interrogate witnesses, and find new evidence. Solve puzzles and approach different witnesses with Galactic Handbooks. There are no obvious solutions here, find your own way to solve problems and get 2 different endings.
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Graphics: Everything from locations to the smallest of objects is hand-drawn, as well as painstakingly created character animations
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Music: amazingly atmospheric music
Cyberpunk Bar Sim
This Cyberpunk-styled game is inspired by the gameplay of Game Dev Tycoon and the aesthetic of VA-11 HALL-A, sci-fi, and lofi city beats!
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Explore a Sci-Fi city in a dystopian, cyberpunk future
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Manage your expenses, make drinks, and use social media to further your popularity and profits.
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Expand your reach to other industries by building or purchasing new businesses and companies.
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Meet and befriend your regulars as your popularity grows to learn about the personal lives of androids, noir detectives, augmented humans, and more in visual novel-style dialogues.
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Enjoy a selection of chill, jazzhop, and lofi beats!
Of Light and Darkness
I used to have this game on a disk years ago but I lost it and I spent years trying to remember what the game is. Now I have found it. This game is very hard and the story is very confusing. I’ve still not got passed the first level. The controls are very annoying since it only uses your mouse, but if you want a very weird game from the 90’s and you have the time and patience to play it. I reccomend it.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Parcel
I’m always looking for good puzzle games and I can tell you Parcel is a true gem, a very clever logic puzzle that is much more intriguing than it looks at first sight. It also goes way beyond just being a “Sokoban clone” because the game world contains laser barriers, robots, remote-controlled interlocked obstacles, and you control several characters with unique abilities who are gradually added to the game as you progress through the levels (so far I’ve encountered the parcel picker, magnet, teleporter, jumper, and remote controller; UPDATE: the final addition is the hammer guy who can remove wall pieces, which adds yet another layer of complexity). The point of each level is to get your characters (and the parcel) to their destination spots, for which they have to interact and cooperate to clear paths and block (or sometimes destroy) enemies. Not every puzzle features all characters; you will mostly have three to five; sometimes you’ll get two or more of the same kind (four magnets, two teleporters, etc).
– Real player with 84.8 hrs in game
Overall 7/10. Recommended for people who like puzzle games with a high difficulty and a high tolerance for frustration. Really interesting mechanics, with 6 different characters that unlock as you progress through several stages, each of which will help you deliver a box (the “parcel” to its destination). Yellow guy = carries a box, Red guy = attracts the box, Green Guy = toggles barriers (for the box), Blue guy = swaps characters (and the box), Orange guy = jumps through barriers (including the box), Purple guy = smashes walls (but not the box). You get TONS of levels, tons of bonus levels, and the puzzles are very difficult so you’ll get your money’s worth based on time. It looks like a dinky little game but it’s not (I spent 30 hours). There’s also little collectibles throughout the game, which is great, but it’s the only little bit of story there is. The cons are the color scheme, which looks like someone turned the constrast and saturation up to maximum, so much that it’s hard to see the characters. Also, the 3/4 view at times blocked accessible pathways and made them look inaccessible. There’s also a limit on the number of times you can use certain powers, which means that even if you have a fantastic, efficient plan, sometimes you’ll be just one swap or jump short and have to start from the beginning, sometimes with an entirely different plan. There’s only one “right” solution, and they even set up the characters in such a way that you never have leftover moves. (Like blocking in the only character that can act first, so you waste two swaps just to be able to start). There’s no leeway or chance for lateral thinking. Still, the levels that weren’t agonizingly frustrating were fun, and overall there were only about 12 of about 80-100 puzzles or so (I’m too lazy to count) that I couldn’t finish or needed a hint on. (Also, there’s no hint system, which sucks.) There’s also an incremental save function which is helpful, but you can’t have multiple save points, so if you are overconfident and save too late in your actions, you’ll have to restart from the beginning. Annoying.
– Real player with 48.3 hrs in game
Der Geisterturm / The Ghost Tower
Der Geisterturm is a game i could only describe as “hostile”.
It’s a grid-based, first person dungeon crawler not unlike say, Warhammer 40k’s Space Hulk, except you’re piloting a mecha - and i don’t mean the “protagonist” kinda mecha. You’re essentially stomping around in the kinda grunt suit that gets oneshot by the Gundam 5 seconds into a battle setpiece. You know, a Zaku I basically.
Now, while nothing in the game will actually oneshot you, what this means is that combat is often going to be an extremely risky endeavor, as to even have the slightest chance of survival you’re going to have to learn to:
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
The spin-off sequel to the mecha dungeon crawler Das Geistersciff. Der Geisterturm improves on every aspect of the original title. Like the original game, an emphasis is placed on moving with purpose instead of slowly farming experience for levels. The player must manage limited resources such as ammo and the overall durability of your Robotic Combat Suit through the use of repair stations scattered around the tower. The player also has to worry about the health of the suit’s pilot as durability decreases, putting a heavier emphasis on avoiding enemies and damage whenever possible.
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game