Lithium City
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Lithium City is a wonderfully atmospheric isometric twin stick action game. You play as a female warrior working her way higher and higher up in the city towards a final battle.
The game utilises guns, melee and thrown weapons and at times you will need all three. All will need to be used and due to the scarcity of ammunition you will frequently have to change weapons on the fly. Shooting is tight and easy and the various guns have the weight you’d expect. Even when everything feels far too hectic you can usually get back on top with judicious weapon use and occasionally running away! The controls are simple shoot/stab/punch with one button and dash with another, that’s it. Though the dash can be a little imprecise at times.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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A lot of people are comparing this game to Hotline Miami, which is true in a way. You enter a room with a pre-set enemy placement, and try to kill everyone in there, learning and adapting to where they are and what weapons they drop and the best way to plan your assault through it.
That being said, there’s a few stark differences between the two. Hotline Miami is focused more on larger levels, entire floor plans and buildings you have to clear out, whereas Lithium City has smaller rooms. Lithium City is a bit shorter, and each level has more of a specific concept it goes with, whether it’s utilizing moving floors or defending a single room with waves of enemies running in. The biggest complaint I have in regards to gameplay would be that Lithium City is short, with only six chapters it shouldn’t take you more than five hours to beat. Which is fine, for the price, but I found myself wanting more stages that were fully open, which don’t really come in until near the end of the game. It’s also isometric, which works really well with this kind of gameplay.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Monolith
I have only really played for like an hour so far, but the game is pretty solid already. What I have seen though is promising, and I hope this game doesn’t end up like other early access nightmares.
Pros:
I only have used Mjolnir and Aegis so far, but from what I could tell they were fun. I plan to try some other stuff for my next play through.
The bosses that I seen where pretty cool.
The upgrades for the weapons mostly looked unique, it depends on how many you get per playthrough, and if they alter the way you play at all.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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I’ve never really played any games like this one, newer and also less known.
However I will tell you this, after my 5 hours of in game experience (Many more to come) I can say without any doubt this game deserves a lot more attention, I actually have no idea why it’s not.
There’s really some unique and to be honest genius features that I’ve never really seen used in a game.
I highly recommend giving this game a chance, the current price is a steal, definitely worth a lot more.
I will definitely be paying attention not only to this game but also 202-N Studios.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
NeverDeath
Brawl your way across the solar system as nine distinct characters ranging from a sword wielding space acrobat to a fifteen foot tall monstrosity from the ocean depths of Neptune as you explore the intricacies of the unique left/right combat system and witness the achievements of mankind after 200 years in space.
The left/right combat adds in new ways to attack and lets players choose between avoiding attacks through movement or standing their ground and retaliating, choosing correctly is often the difference between victory and defeat.
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Anti Frank’s Wrath
Anti Frank is unleashing his wrath on the universe! Play by yourself or with a few friends locally to take down hoards of zombies and stop Anti Frank! Play as one of four unique characters and buy new upgrades and weapons as you rid the universe of zombies.
Anti Frank’s Wrath is a top-down arcade shoot-em up based in the futuristic 1980’s. It supports 4 player local co-op (or steam remote play).
Dawn of Light
Other players posted that mouse issue was resolved. I returned to try the game out again. I will switch my review to recommend while I try the rest of the game.
Original post:
I really wanted to play this but… Mouse only looks left and right.
Loaded Quake 2 to test. Worked fine…
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
This is a fairly short, but fun game. Perhaps the two critiques that might help people are: First, is that you have to tap twice on save game before it does anything, and then a 3rd to actually type a name in, before you can even start the game. This should only have been 1 tap. The second tip is that the game defaults to a Azerty keyboard. You will want to go to options and change it over to QWERTY if you want to use the standard WASD movement controls.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Uploaded
Its very fun with friends. While yes im friends with the developer I must say its a great time with a lot of fun and even some glitches that cause more fun with friends.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Its good very good awooga hot mama
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
A.R.M.: Absolutely Reliable Machine
Good
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
I like ARM. It is a fun game, it wasn’t too easy or too difficult, It was challenging but not frustrating, the controls were easy to learn, music was good, and it’s a good-looking game.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Billion Beat
I love this game, the world is always in need of more Punch-Out-likes and this scratches every itch it has, and the music is insanely good.
Only thing that could drive people away is how gross the characters look but they grow on you after a while.
The combat is a lot more ‘groovy’ than Punch-Out, more rhythmesque, if you will. Feels more like dancing than it does straight up beating the shit out of someone.
– Real player with 131.2 hrs in game
Billion Beat is great. The visuals and music are on point. The gameplay follows the Punch-Out formula perfectly: time your punches and dodge or counter theirs. If you make a mistake, your character will take a bit to recover and that is more than enough time for your opponent to mess you up, so learn from coach Baby T and DON’T JUST MASH THE BUTTONS!
There’s also a bunch of stuff to keep things fresh like “hype moves”, items and even progression. Successfully landing a regular punch rewards you with a bit of energy and you need that energy to dish out the heavy punishment, so you quickly start to get into this flow of dodging and countering to build up your energy until you can finally let your hands fly.
– Real player with 80.7 hrs in game
Project-SARACEN
In a dystopian world, Set deep underground in a Facility at an undisclosed location.
Play as Sasha Reid, 3rd Rank Centurion Guard, part of a covert defense team, NOVA Unit.
Take control of Sasha Reid on her first Lunar sample retrieval mission, but when her mission is compromised by a hostile Alien threat known as The Tar.
Utilize her self defense training to protect the V.I.P scientists, trapped within the Facility along with her as she must now stand her ground and fight for her very survival against unimaginable odds and destroy The Tar….if she fails…The Tar will usher in the beginning of The End for all humankind.
Sasha stands between The Tar and the complete destruction of Earth…
Key Features:
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Discover and unlock Sasha' true combat abilities.
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Experience fun and fast paced combat action.
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Evolve Sasha' combat abilities and pull off devastating environment attacks.
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Manage Sasha' physical attributes to keep her on her feet during battle encounters.
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Witness environmental destruction that can be used to your advantage, but can also be a hazard.
Aeon Must Die!
I was very excited to play this game. I normally don’t buy based on trailers but the art style got me and I think I’m in a great position to write with just over 5 hours in one sitting playing this game. The price is something you can’t complain about either. Aeon Must Die was not what I was expecting. I knew it was going to look great and I figured it was going to be like Streets of Rage. I got something a bit more tactical which makes the pacing slower but that’s not a bad thing at all for this particular game.
– Real player with 36.8 hrs in game
Now Before I start would like to say I don’t play many fighting games so for me this is game is out of my comfort zone, but I must I say I love it….
Fighting is just makes me feel like a badass plain and simple most other fighting games I’ve played never really made me feel like I was good because I couldn’t do their 900-button combo, but this is super simple and so much fun…
And there is skill involved you need to know when to parry or when to doge and then you also need to pay attention to whether you’re going to overheat or gone cold. And probably my favourite part is the fact that I can kick 7 shades of shit out of someone then throw them to the side lines at their friend all while yelling get the fuck off my screen
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game