Amidst The Darkness

Amidst The Darkness

Amidst The Darkness is a truly terrifying first-person survival horror game developed and published by Loneminded.

Dragged, bloodied and bruised into old dilapidated worker halls, Amidst The Darkness follows the story of a sadistic entity - known informally as The Being. Trawl your way through old abandoned halls and sewers in a bid to find an escape.

No matter where you go, or the route that you take, The Being will unpredictably follow your every move. Creeping closer step-by-step, inch-by-inch until it is within reaching distance. The crows scarpering from their nest nearby, or that unmistakable slow-moving silhouette in the distance - it beckons upon thee.

Features

  • Immersive First-Person Horror: Navigate through chilling, immersive environments

  • Truly Unsettling Story: Experience and uncover the story of old workers and The Being.

  • Unpredictable Enemies: Each playthrough will play differently with help from the unpredictability of AI.

  • Full Gamepad Support: Prefer sitting back and enjoying the experience? Now you can - Amidst The Darkness has full controller support.


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Amidst The Darkness on Steam

NeoBalls2

NeoBalls2

Still haven’t encountered Neo from the Matrix nor did I have to do anything with balls. Just got achievements for being myself and not doing drugs.

Real player with 10.2 hrs in game


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You get what you paid for, 2K achievements at minimum price. If you’re an achievement hunter looking to increase the number of achievements on your profile showcase, then I highly recommend buying this. Else don’t waste your money. This is not a game, it’s just a way of distributing achievements.

Real player with 6.6 hrs in game

NeoBalls2 on Steam

The Fire

The Fire

love it, great momentum based platforming and a challenge indeed.

nice to look at and a very reasonable price !

*would love to see an optional ingame timer and a framerate cap :))

Real player with 12.2 hrs in game


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I actually really enjoy this game, the graphics are beautiful and the game if fun and somewhat difficult as stated, personally I look forward to seeing speed runs on this game!

Real player with 9.4 hrs in game

The Fire on Steam

CooKing

CooKing

Help. I do not know which combination is needed for Pancake Soup in this game

Edit says

Never mind. Some guide helped me figure it out but now I don’t know which combination is needed for French Toast

Real player with 11.2 hrs in game

I believe cooking only takes time away from eating (not to mention the shopping before and washing up after), but was happy to finally see a food-based puzzler that isn’t time-management nonsense.

cooking is very similar to doodle god, but with actual sense, not just combining random stuff to create more random stuff. at least that’s what I thought at first, then blamed myself for being a big-time eater with zero idea about cooking, then realized that part of my being dumbfounded is because everything consists of 2 or 3 ingredients, which may sound easy, but it really isn’t.

Real player with 3.8 hrs in game

CooKing on Steam

HOPE VR: Progressive Meditation

HOPE VR: Progressive Meditation

seems like voice commands were removed, and perhaps for the best!

menu commands work perfectly and respond instantly.

definitely recommend it at this stage, my favourite is the snow area at night with the aurora in the sky!

i’ll keep an eye on this one as the developer promised more updates to come.

Edit:

the game changed so much from the release date! Kudos to the developer for sticking to it, now the game has alot more to do and I’m loving it!

Real player with 38.8 hrs in game

you’ll need a big chungus PC if you want to run this game on epic settings in VR, but it was well worth it. though please add more depth to the experience, the world needs to be more “Alive”, perhaps trackers for when you log in daily as I’ve used it for a couple of days and an incentive to keep logging in would work wonders

Real player with 20.2 hrs in game

HOPE VR: Progressive Meditation on Steam

Simply Puzzles: Junctions

Simply Puzzles: Junctions

a simple to learn but hard to master puzzle game. Nothing more, nothing less.

They are not kidding with the title, the game is REALLY simple to learn. Simpler than say sudoku, even simpler than minesweeper, but with similar levels of complexity when you get really into it. The game has 100 levels for you that start of pretty small that you can do in about 5 minutes, to eventually ballooning to puzzles that take 30 minutes or longer. As far as I could tell you really did not need to ever guess, but there were definitely some puzzles where it felt like you had to guess. I would rate the medium levels very highly, being enjoyable to figure out but not too easy, but the higher levels tended to drag. Maybe you can figure out a better way, but I found myself needing to try a long branch of possibilities just to eliminate a single move that really ground the game to a halt.

Real player with 27.3 hrs in game

This is a fun collection of Gokigen Naname (Slant) type puzzles which should be quite enjoyable for anyone who enjoys logic puzzle games. There’s 100 of them, all of which are available from the start of the game, so if you get stuck on one, you can always just skip forward a bit, if you like. The game’s definitely worth it for the asking price. The Linux version worked like a charm, too!

Apart from simply figuring out the various axiomatic deductions throughout the game (I hadn’t played this particular kind of puzzle before, so it was new to me), the levels are all more or less the same – there won’t be new mechanics or anything like that. Mostly the levels just get bigger as you progress through. The difficulty curve is a little bit sporadic; I found that I’d get stuck on one for a little while but then blow right through the next few.

Real player with 25.5 hrs in game

Simply Puzzles: Junctions on Steam

Cardinal Chains

Cardinal Chains

This is a fantastic little puzzle game that offers a simple premise but a lot of depth. Your goal is simple, make chains of integers that only ascend. While this is simple at first, the more complex the board and the more starting points you get make for an increasingly difficult challenge, and with over 500 puzzles you will be at this game for a while. It’s the sort of game you get suck on for hours and then come back to a few days later and solve in a few minutes, and then get stuck all over again.

Real player with 25.1 hrs in game

Suitable challenging puzzles, super fluid UI.

Real player with 18.4 hrs in game

Cardinal Chains on Steam

Aquarium Simulator

Aquarium Simulator

To call this an “aquarium simulator” is a gross overstatement. If anything, a screensaver simulator, perhaps?

There is little (alright, close to nothing) to actually do and whatever you do has no effect at all. If you don’t “feed” your “fish” (which resemble more a poor cartoon approximation, even in cartoonish style), nothing happens. If you pack 500 fish in the tank, same as if there were 2, except you get more eggs, which you then have to click one by one to harvest (I’ve garnered around 400 in one sitting after two hours with the game closed), which gives you more money… with which you can buy, well nothing much really. Just more of the same fish approximation.

Real player with 10.1 hrs in game

This game, this damn game. It broke me. I never ever thought I would find the perfect game, but here it is, I have found the diamond in the rough. For such an amazing, powerful, impactful, experience, it’s too cheap. In my opinion, this piece of art is way too cheap.

If I had known that Aquarium Simulator would have been this amazing, I would have demanded they raise the price for me.

My life has peaked, I have experienced many amazing things, nothing as powerful and divine as this creation.

I have no complaints, I have no problems, After such an experience, my life is complete. Thank you BJgamesIND, thank you for creating such a master piece, thank you for the graphics, thank you for the time. thank you.

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

Aquarium Simulator on Steam

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Ultimately, I recommend this game, but with some caveats.

I learned about this game in the desperados III discord, but gameplay-wise, those two don’t have much in common. Somewhat easy stealth game (took me about 6 hours to clear it while inspiring all the children) with a handful more difficult spots. You’ll rarely have to worry about finding a spot to hide or wondering how to get through a corridor that has 5 patrolling bandits with intersecting routes. All levels are about getting to the end of the level, and although you may sometimes wonder WHERE the end of the level it, you’re usually steered in the correct direction, and there are usually multiple paths you can take to get there. The game’s cute, the art style is agreeable, the music has a nice heavy Morricone vibe.

Real player with 58.0 hrs in game

I liked this game very much.

It looked beautiful and had a simple and fun story.

You are playing a little boy in the wild west who is trying to reach his mother who went to fight off bandits. The whole game is sneaking around with a different twist and a little bit of thinking.

Like shooting a stone with your slingshot in one direction to make the guard look around in a different direction, blowing of the lamp lights to make it movable in the dark and unseen, hanging underneath a moving Bison’s belly. Or moving behind a moving rail cart.

Real player with 24.9 hrs in game

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale on Steam

NeoGeometry

NeoGeometry

Real player with 165.7 hrs in game

It wasn’t a really long game, only 15 maps or something, but I really enjoyed the time i played it.

i would give it a 7 out of 10. Mostly because it was a cool game and it was really afforteble

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

NeoGeometry on Steam