Dracula’s Castle
Manage the castle by expanding it, then build and unlock new rooms granting new mechanics to explore. The Alchemist will allow you to equip Dracula with mystical tools, unlock the bat cave to improve Dracula’s Mist Form. The more you expand, the more your labour force can grow. You’ll need to grow your army of servants in order to accumulate enough soil to sail to England on the Demeter.
Travel Transylvania by night but watch out for Van Helsing. Stalk the towns of Transylvania, on the hunt for fresh blood, or attempt to overwhelm them to gain powerful bonuses. Feast, recruit laborers or “invite” a guest to the castle, the choice is yours. You’ll need to entrap Jonathan Harker to fulfill Dracula’s dark designs.
Grow Dracula’s power the way you want to. Dracula possesses different attributes such as Power, Cunning, Speed, Charm and Magick. Choose which ones to train and equip the right relics for your build. Build new monsters at the Alchemist’s Lab utilising recipes found in the Necronomicon! Craft or acquire new gear throughout your adventure.
Engage angry mobs, town militia and even dedicated vampire hunters in exciting tactical turn-based combat. Leverage Dracula’s powerful abilities and forms to outwit and overwhelm the enemy. The spoils of battle are yours! Hand over curios and materiel to the Castle Alchemist to craft new items and raise new monsters to join Dracula’s dark menagerie.
Follow the early plot of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, the main goal centers around Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing and the trip to Carfax Abbey in England; but plenty needs doing in the dark corners of Transylvania. Engage in various side-quests given to you by Death and other denizens of the castle as you work on building up Dracula’s regional power.
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Lords of Nether
NOTE: Lords of Nether is in an early state of development and will be undergoing many exciting changes and additions in the coming times! The contents presented in this page are not final and serve to show the baseline of where the game is headed! Expect far more to come in every way!
A dark power returns to the ancient and blood-soaked world of Antioch, to claim what rightfully belongs to it and bring the world of Man to ruin! That power is you, my Netherlord!
Discover a New Era of Dungeon Management
Lords of Nether is a Dungeon Management Game that blends Real-Time Strategy and God Game elements to create a new and more involved take on the genre. You may control your creatures directly in typical RTS fashion, allowing for complex combat strategy and management. You can manage space efficiently and creatively, through the use furnishings and other building tools. Taking control of the villain, one of four powerful, dark demigods known as Netherlords, you return to the world after centuries of banishment with the singular purpose of bringing it to heel under your control. Immerse yourself in a deep, storied world of Dark Fantasy and bring it all to ruin!
Build Your Dungeon
You will carve out and build vast, intricate and deadly underground dungeons, where you will gather minions to your cause, research new magics and knowledge and build devious trap gauntlets to protect yourself from invading heroes.
Amass a Dark Army
You will grow and be able to directly control an army of fiendish, living, thinking creatures, a vast menagerie ranging from cowardly goblins to terrifying, blood-thirsty demons. You will need to provide them with necessities and comforts and make sure they grow strong, so that they may turn your enemies into gory heaps.
Vanquish Mighty Foes
As any self respecting Dark Lord, you will find wretched heroes at your doorstep, seeking to undo your sinister plans and put an end to your evil. Show them just how misguided they really are, Lord.
Conquer Different Game Modes
Explore a multitude of different planned game-modes:
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Sandbox - Free building mode that allows you to express your wicked creativity!
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Skirmish - Play against AI Netherlords to test your skills!
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Multiplayer Deathmatch - Pit yourself against other Players and determine who is the Greatest Evil!
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Survival - See how long your designs and tactics can help you last being assailed by wave after wave of never-ending heroic scum!
…And Take Over the World
Embark on an epic Single-player campaign to conquer the ancient world of Antioch! The mighty Empire of Ostoria stands in your way to world domination and it’s monarch, the great King Albrecht will do anything to stop you! Travel distant lands, from great rural plains, through scorching deserts and frigid mountain slopes, to the very heartland of the Empire and crush all that stands in your way! Take your armies from the underground to the very world above and reduce it to a burning ruin! This world belongs to you, Netherlord!
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The Unliving
The realm of the living has been corrupted to its core and a storm is coming to change the world order. This storm is you, a mighty Necromancer, a sorcerer who denies death and leads the legions of the dead. Clerics and lords hope to hide behind high walls, but there’s no stronghold to cover them from your wrath. Smite hundreds of those standing in your way and turn them into your tools on the way to a greater purpose.
The Unliving is a dynamic rogue-lite action RPG with strategic elements. Raise the undead, use numerous spells and explore a mystical world, all realised with darkly extravagant pixel-art.
TURN ENEMIES INTO YOUR UNDEAD ARMY
Each fallen foe can be resurrected and added to your army to create unlimited legions of the dead. These re-animated creatures have their own unique abilities, such as the undead Priest whose blessings in life, will now curse your enemies in death.
CRUSH EVERYONE IN YOUR WAY
Only some of the living are helpless victims, the rest can retaliate against your forces. They hold the line, move in large groups and wield powerful abilities too. They cherish their lives and will not fall easily, so unleash hell as the Undead Lord to bring them to their knees.
CONQUER UNCHARTED LANDS
The world is randomly generated for each run and is richly populated with an array of creatures, artefacts, secret rooms and deadly traps. Each part of the world is occupied by a variety of living inhabitants - invade villages and slay feeble peasants to reinforce your army or engage in a desperate fight to the death in the swamps against formidable foes.
UNRAVEL THE MYSTERIES OF NECROMANCY
Collect cryptic notes, force answers out of your enemies and study the writings of the ancient artefacts to gather the lost memories of the Necromancer piece by piece as you reveal the nature of his immortality, the secrets of his phylactery companion and find out the grim truth about the supreme hierarchies of the Church.
BATTLE EPIC BOSSES
The powerful creatures of this shadowy world will do all they can to stop you. Each boss has a unique fighting style and set of abilities, meaning deftness in combat and strategic thinking will be crucial in emerging victorious from these grueling encounters.
DIE AND RISE AGAIN
The ability to deny death itself is the greatest secret of the Necromancer. Another mortal strike is merely a setback for him. Take a lesson from your death and don’t let your enemies catch you the same way twice.
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Overlord™
Overlord™ Review
Overlording awaits sire… The fields are planted; peasants are cowering in fear, all in anticipation of your arrival…
Some key points that this game offers:
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Dark humour
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RPG like no other…
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Hordes of minions at your disposal.
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Magic, mayhem and chaos.
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A Tale of revenge, justice and general enemy bashing.
Gameplay & Controls:
The controls are quite simple, you can use a controller or your keyboard and mouse, the game however offers only partial controller support for the PC version. The keyboard and mouse are both used for gameplay with the mouse acting as your eyes, pointing in the way you want to look and go. The LFM used to send your minions out, and the RMB to call them back, holding both of them down you sweep your minions in the direction you want them to go. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll through your different minion types, and the numbers above the alphabetical keys.
– Real player with 528.3 hrs in game
Overlord is a deep game with even deeper nostalgic connections but so sadly overlooked even by myself for the longest time. If you’re looking for an old game that still lives up to standards today, or if you just want a basic RPG collectathon that you can occupy yourself for hours with, at the price it is Overlord will meet every expectation and hope you could ever wish for. I couldn’t recommend this more, this is one incredible, criminally underrated RPG you don’t want to miss.
This game had it’s 10th birthday this year, I only played it for the first time a few years back and have made it my yearly tradition to come back around this time of year (October - December) to replay Overlord + Raising hell. I got this game years prior in a bundle of some kind for about 90p/just over $1. After neglecting to play it for ages I finally got round to it and for that amount of money it blew my mind - even for the average price it is on here now (£3.50) it’s an absolute steal.
– Real player with 59.4 hrs in game
Undead Horde
Ok, here’s the thing. I’ve always liked necromancer type games, and vampires, and mummies, and werewolves and all that Bela and Boris stuff. But, some of the real hardcore horror games don’t appeal to me. I don’t care for gore all that often, and I don’t like true horror. I like the old campy stuff. And that’s what this reminds me of… hear me out.
This has skeletons and orcs and humans and bears and scorpions and treasure chests and magical weapons and skeletal necromancers summoning the dead, and it’s all done in a cute art style that I love. I mean, c’mon. How can you NOT think the main character is adorable? And during the first mission when I got undead bears, I was over the moon.
– Real player with 71.3 hrs in game
Undead Horde, eh? Action RPG game where player takes role of evil necromancer, who’s hellbent on purify the world from the living.
You will go through around 30 maps on a 5 different lands: from little human villages to vast orcish deserts and to great knightly citadel. On your journey you will met around 30 adversaries, which 90% of them are living beings, who can be ressurcted in undead form and stay permanently (not to mention some staff’s can summon temporary minions). I like that developers made for each living creature an undead version of it, no matter - it’s peasant with pitchfork or bear or giant.
– Real player with 33.3 hrs in game
Under Domain - Alien Invasion Simulator
This game feels like the creator made a unique and interesting system to play this game but then refuses to teach anyone how to use it. The tutorial even states it’s a LIMITED tutorial and you will learn the more advanced parts of the game with play… except the game play is totally static with no learning curve, so the advanced functions and parts of the game are impossible to reach. At first I figured I was playing the game wrong or just not getting something, but after going to find some kind of guide online (there are none at the time of writing this), or looking at the game’s web page for more information (the game’s page is only a landing page with screen shots, logos, and PR/Sales Hype), and then finally the game reviews/comments that all have the same problem with the game play and then some… I am now pretty sure this game isn’t finished and there are commands and graphics missing to advance the game play. Glad I got this on sale for like $2 since even $6 for this game is over priced as the game currently stands.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
The game is really good-looking, definitely an interesting idea. The art, graphics, sound - top notch! And there are a lot of possibilities for further update, which, judging from Antarctica screenshot from “About this game”-section, might be coming (
! I didn’t see a way to build Earth, Moon or ocean bases ).
Basically you play as an alien race that, for a good reason (from their perspective), wants to invade the Earth. And with maximum of 12 decades (from year 1900) and 10 turns per decade you can invade the Earth by 2020 (yep)!
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Darkestville Castle
This game was so much fun and I’ve found a new universe and lore that I enjoy!
It is a point and click game with great humor, abiet extremely dark humor. Some small memes and easter eggs too scattered throughout. It’s not exactly a kids game, due to some language and subject matter, but it’s not too extreme either. It heavily reminds me of the old Monkey Island point and click games, which is a good thing as those are classics.
I got it on sale for about $10, I don’t think I’d pay the full price for the game, as it’s lacking in some parts but for my $10 I was extremely statisfied with what I had. I got about 8 hours out of the game, but as with most point and click games I get stuck/just wanna experince the story so I started to use a guide. Some of the items to me feel like you wouldn’t even think about trying them, so I guess if you had time on your hands and randomly trying to click on everything you’d get longer than 8 hours out of the game, but still 8 hours is pretty long for a point and click game. Or maybe if you’re smarter than me you’ll get it done faster. There’s also alternate dioulague options which extend gameplay if you want to go back and try all of the options and not just click on the obvious ones relevant to the plot.
– Real player with 11.9 hrs in game
TL;DR
Darkestville Castle is a solid, albeit short and relatively easy, 2D point-and-click adventure game in the style of the 90’s classics like Day of the Tentacle and Curse of Monkey Island. Smooth gameplay and lots of campy humor provide a nice “in-between” snack for fans of the genre, although at full price, roughly 7-8 hours of gameplay and little replay value might be too little value-for-money for some.
Summary
The game puts you in the shoes of Cid, the demon of Darkestville, on a quest to defeat his arch nemesis, Dan Teapot. The game is divided into a prelude, three chapters (four if you count the final scene of the game) and two interludes, which will take you from Darkestville Castle to the town of Darkestville, and eventually to Hell. Along the way, you’ll encounter between roughly 30 to 40 NPC’s, somehow involved in the various puzzles the game offers, and pretty much all of them with extensive (and often funny) dialogues.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
Lucius
Quite possibly the most evil game ever created.
Bravo for another Indie developer.
This game is something else even though it’s a familiar genre. As you play you may recall such movies as The Omen, The Shining, The Exorcist and Final Destination, among others. Also, if you like Hitman and Death to Spies series, then this game is definitely for you.
Anyways, I believe that Shiver Games is onto something here. This could easily be made into a movie. You play as the son of devil who wants you to harvest souls for him by killing people, or by rather making it look like freak, deus ex kind of accidents. You live in a huge manor along with a congressman (your fake father), his family and about a dozen of staff.
– Real player with 78.7 hrs in game
Game name: Lucius
Game score: 8/10
Reviewed by: Wolf
In Summary…
Lucius is a third-person adventure game that follows a boy’s murder spree after his 6th birthday in 1972. Roughly based off the movie The Omen, Lucius gains satanic abilities after he is visited by Lucifer, who reveals that he is in fact, his real father. After this information is revealed, Lucius prepares to do his bidding, which is kill everyone inside his huge home, Dante Manor.
After murders begin to unfold, residents become wary of what’s happening around the estate, knowing they’re going to be next. With a memorable hook and interesting story filled with satanic powers, murder, lore and more, Lucius delivers the same experience as The Omen gives off.
– Real player with 55.7 hrs in game
Police Stories
The Game:
It’s a cool game, with a good amount of mechanics and tactics into the gameplay.
But it’s not perfect, the game has some minor flaws in my opinion, but fortunately that don’t ruin the experience at all.
The campaign is ok, i have a lot of fun in the process of beating it, trying to arrest or eliminate the tangos on the maps and avoid civilians casualties, also using the different types of equipment and devising strategies for find which one better fits on the situation.
Every situation display is procedurally generated in this game, so you need to evolve your tatics every time you restart a game. But, note, that requires some patience, because you could fail a lot when something goes wrong on your course of action, for me at least added more into the challenge and i don’t find this annoying.
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
Edit: The game has been updated to have Steam Workshop, and the custom levels that people have already made do provide unique (and challenging!) level layouts that force more creative use of your equipment. While the campaign may be a bit of a breeze to work through, the devs provided players a way to provide any kind of challenge they wanted. This solved my issue of the game being too easy and short so I now consider this game a big thumbs up.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
The game is very close to being a thumbs up, with a few glaring problems that are fixable.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Pumpkin Jack
This one doesn’t necessarily stand at the same level as other modern competitors like A Hat in Time (play it if you haven’t), but it deserves props for its sort of overwhelming, frenetic action sequences and solid color design throughout. Some areas of the game are really nice to hang out in. The music is well done too.
If I had to rate it numerically I’d say it’s around a 6.5-7.5/10. The points I’m docking it are mostly for the missed opportunities that would’ve really pushed this one over the edge. Namely, exploring more in the way of creative platforming gameplay, and less in the way of the required mini-games to advance each section (not all of which were bad, but certainly weren’t as fun the second, or sometimes third times around)
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
A quaint, charming and relaxing game. Soundtrack is fantastic. 9/10
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game