Startopia
Be warned that this game is old and the interface feels all 20 years of its age.
However, if you can stomach old games, this is one of the true classics from its era. A space station management/tycoon game with a lot of heart and humor. Numerous ways to build your station, several ways to challenge yourself or just relax and mess around.
I’ve played this off and on for two decades and still own the original disc so my hours on Steam only reflect buying it again here for convenience.
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Of interest to fans: The original development company obviously went out of business, the game transferred ownership for a number of years to Square-Enix who did nothing with it and then released the game back to the care of one of the original developers.
– Real player with 91.5 hrs in game
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To date, I have purchased just over 15 games on Steam. Some of them have been complete wastenados of my money - one in particular I shelled out a lot for and only got a couple of hours of semi-enjoyment out of it. Startopia is the exact opposite of that game - I paid very little for it and, so far, I’ve gotten more hours of fun out of it than any other game I’ve purchased on here.
You’re managing a space station which is being visited by nine different alien types, each with their own preferences and skills. You have to build facilities to ensure these aliens are healthy, well-rested, well-fed, entertained and other things like that, make sure any aliens who cause trouble get rehabilitated, keep the station clean, and make sure you have enough energy to keep it all running. You’re aided by this artificially intelligent being called VAL who often peppers his advice with a degree of snark and you get occasional visits from a trader named Arona who I swear is a cross between a Vogon and Moneybags from Spyro 2.
– Real player with 74.2 hrs in game
Diorama Tower Defense: Tiny Kingdom (Prologue)
Ehm … no. While the intro is good and a lot of work has been going into it for how small this game is, it lacks in gameplay, entertainment and generally the right feeling. Didn’t enjoy it.
I even went to do something and forgot about it, then went to sleep… so it kept acculumating hours all night without playing at all :D
Can’t recommend a game who makes me forget about it so successfully ;)
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game
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Really cute art. It’s a simple and short game but really fun
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal
I spent a lot of time with this game and played it thoroughly, but I just can’t recommend it…the things I disliked about the game outweigh the things I did like about the game, which sucks because I had this on my Wishlist for a long time.
What I loved about the game was that it was how obvious the team who worked on the game loved it. After leaving the (bland) hub worlds each of the 15 levels are vibrant and distinct. I also really enjoyed the different costumes you unlock as the game progresses and the special ability that each one of them has.
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
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Ginger: Beyond the Crystal was a fun game, I did enjoy it while i played it but there were a few things that stop me from giveing the thumbs up.
1. There is a bugged achievement, you can get it buy NOT buying every accessory before getting all the in-level ones.
2. The game has a few bugs, these bugs were in no way game breaking however.
3. There is a lot of unnecessary stuff, ALL of the quests given were one of 3, Race, kill monsters, collect items. the fall damage was 100% uneeded and felt like it was really holding me back as you dont need to fall but 10 feet to instantly DIE
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Stack Gun Heroes
Stack Gun Heroes combines fast paced combat with addicting base building. Invent your own gun and take it on challenging missions to earn valuable resources. You process the loot back home in a factory of your own design.
Gun Building
The Stack Gun can be customized however you want. Will you make a gun that shoots sentry drones that chase and shoot enemies? A gun that abducts people into the upper stratosphere? Or maybe a gun that shoots yourself at the enemy, killing them with the impact damage.
These aren’t pre-made classes. Players invent their own strategies. Chances are you will come up with a playstyle the developer has never thought of.
Factories
Your base is a giant factory that you build with the Stack Gun. You will use it to process loot into items that make you more powerful. There are tons of base machines to build, you can unlock tech infinitely, and the factory has no maximum size.
Features
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Make any gun. Want a gun that cuts off limbs? A gun that shoots guns at people? A gun that makes you fly? Why not all 3 in one? Combine any gun parts for whatever effects you want.
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Get so much loot you need to design a factory to process it all. No boring menus, you interact with your machines by doing sick wall-jumps and wall-slides on them. Efficient production is radical!
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Try out BILLIONS of procedural superpowers. Can you find a use for that power that teleports all nearby bullets wherever you point?
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You can bring as many friends as you want into online co-op to beat very challenging maps, assuming you aren’t an incredible badass who has no friends.
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Infinite endgame lets you advance in power forever. Start with “normal” FPS guns and before long you’ll be accidentally killing yourself with nukes 10x the size of the map and running into walls at supersponic speeds.
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Test your most irritating guns on your friends in deathmatch. They can’t be mad. It’s for science!
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Run through enemies, wall-slide down skyscrapers, dismember robots, collect superpowers, launch people into space. Every time there was a cool idea, it went in the game.
After 9 years and over 16,000 hours working on this project it’s almost ready. Stack Gun Heroes is my dream game. Hopefully it’s yours too!
-Unstackd
Your Dead Majesty
👑 RTS with a face - lead your army from the frontlines and get in the middle of the action
👑 Army with limited slots - create a winning composition
👑 Unit variety - discover many units, each with unique abilities
👑 Pixel-perfect - enjoy adorable pixel-art graphics and carefully crafted animations
👑 More than a sum of its parts - employ powerful synergies to boost your army in combat
👑 Fight for your life - battle a plethora of different enemy types and challenge mighty bosses
Control the mischievous king and order your plentiful and varied roster of units. Choose a winning army composition for any given scenario and venture on the path to victory. Cover all your bases and upgrade your buildings to gain more powerful underlings. Battle various enemy types and watch out for their defensive towers and traps. If you get past the defenses prepare to fight powerful boss enemies that do significantly more damage. When the going gets hard, persevere through the use of unit synergies - cover your enemies in tar, then set them ablaze. Conquer all of the enemy bases and gain a forward base to take on the next opponent. But whatever you do, keep Your Dead Majesty alive!
Evil Genius
Underrated, Under-The-Radar Game of the Decade - Just the way an Evil Genius would like it.
Imagine to my surprise when Rebellion revealed that, after so many years, Evil Genius is getting a sequel! Who woulda thought? Let’s just say that this news snuck up on me like the sneaky under-the-radar original ended up on store shelves.
For an impulse buy in boxed form when it first came out 16 years ago, this game has received more playtime than any other game in my possession that I also impulse-bought. It is clever, hilarious, and surprisingly challenging.
– Real player with 88.4 hrs in game
An old favorite of mine. I distinctly remember just seeing this on an EB Games shelf when I was 14. I loved the box art at first glance and upon further inspection, I discovered that this game involved the building of a secret island lair, from which countless dastardly schemes could be unleashed upon the world. “Perfect,” said young Myself. The only reason I really remember this experience was because the oldest woman I have ever seen working at a video game store tried to get me to show her some form of ID because it was rated Teen. I told her I was fourteen years old and I didn’t know of any kids my age who had IDs who weren’t sheltered because I didn’t know any of these kids because they were sheltered and sat at home playing games about learning and stuff and living life like an inspirational poster, only to dream secretly at night of escape and perhaps even breasts or penises or whatever body parts they learned to like.
– Real player with 88.0 hrs in game
Forts
A great game with a great community. If you get bored of the main game, you can go into both mapping and modding. Both can be just as enjoyable as normal gameplay, and people on the official Discord will help if you have any problems. Absolutely recommended.
– Real player with 750.6 hrs in game
very good game you should played if you especially like strategy games you should played with friends or alone.
– Real player with 338.5 hrs in game
Junk Architect
Back story: Your long term home at People’s Republic Square block 263-A-13 suddenly collapsed. You take the issue to the local Ministry who are able to convince you that there will be a full investigation to the matter and a full compensation for your personal losses once the investigation is ready. Meanwhile, you are encouraged to find temporary accommodation. You are able to take shelter at the local junkyard. Son of a builder, you manage to put together a temporary shelter, but your life is about to take a new direction.
This is the story of Junk Architect. You need to complete building tasks using unconventional building materials. On each level you will need to manage your materials that are level-specific, and finish goals using your skill and creativity.
Key Features
The Dwarves of Glistenveld
It has been a while since I posted this review and much has changed since then. Having played the game now for a total of 300+ hours (and there was me saying I don’t get much time to play games), I have explored many of the game modes. My favourite right now is the Skirmish mode where you can hand-craft your map options, such as the number of enemies, their initial strength, the map size and style, etc. I am currently working my way up to more and more difficult settings to see how good I really am. My other favourite mode is the cavern mode (the game’s sandbox mode ) where I have also spend many hours. In this mode you can slowly build your base to ever increasing size while improving your tech tree. The current tech tree is already in place for the upcoming next chapter of the game and it allows you to build a railway network so that your miners don’t have to carry everything back to your base, improve and automate your defences, build automated farms for farming roots and mushrooms, light up your neighbour hood with lanterns, build cooking stations and much more. I have also played with the map editor and will be uploading my own hand-crafted map very soon. ‘hwill’ has uploaded a new map to the workshop which I enjoyed very much. I must add a comment.
– Real player with 638.7 hrs in game
This game, is absolutely fantastic! This RTS adventure strategy game is about leading a tribe of Dwarves trying to take back their homeland from the goblins that have ran them down underground. There are so many things that you find out during every level, there are nice challenges such as the achievements and the schematics that you have to find to advance with technology, there are song hidden choices through your first play through (such as when you meet Fishbeard’s first guard) it’s amazing, it’s so replayable and enjoyable for sooooooooooo many hours even when there is only 6 levels at the time of writing this. Along with the mechanics in this game are so nice and fluid such as the base building part, and the class switching system, the AI is pretty on-point, it’s not one of those games where the AI struggles with some of the commands that you try to give it, in this game, it just does it immediately!
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
Evil Labs
I am going to recommend this game based on it’s potential rather than it’s current state as it really does have great potential and the developer appears to want to make it into a great game. At the moment in game progress is far too slow to make it really enjoyable to play, it takes an age to gain research points and raise funds and the workers appear to need to rest more hours than they work. Once things are balanced more sensibly then there should be hours of gameplay available. I’m looking forward to the next few months to see how things develop.
– Real player with 14.4 hrs in game
The method i use most commonly to rate games is based off of how much time i spend playing and enjoyin the game vs how much the game cost. so esentily i got more out of a $10 that i played for 20 hours than a $50 game that i played for 40 hours.
so far this game is not complete. that should be obvious so i wont go into what it is missing. what it has is huge potential and a small price. thank you for this game!
– Real player with 13.5 hrs in game