Rockets are Super Hard
This has been a great game to play with a group of friends. Working together to successfully launch a rocket into orbit using the highly detailed manual and communication skills not to miss any timed events or which button to correctly press. The manual may seem daunting at first, but the PDF is very well organized and put together that we have had no issues navigating through it to find the different modules for each mission. The sense of achievement is very high after each successful launch, and makes us want to keep playing once we finally do achieve mission success. Highly recommend this game for anyone that likes group puzzle games.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
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This game is already shaping up to be really special. This is helped tremendously by devs who are extremely active in the community and receptive to suggestions. They work quickly and respond in the forum. I made a list of typos and suggestions for the manual and it was a fairly long list. They did every single thing on the list in the same day that I posted it.
From a gameplay perspective, this obviously is inspired by Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, but I think this game stands up extremely well on its own. Being in the control room is significantly more fun than being the defuser in KTaNE, and the game itself feels more cohesive. The manual is also over 100 pages even though the game is in early access. The ktane manual is 23 pages. I’ve played it quite a bit already and I still feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface. The single player campaign helps to teach the game, and even puts the manual pages inside the game to make it easier to look things up, but playing multiplayer is certainly more fun.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Evolution Board Game
UPDATE I no longer work for Northstar. This review should be considered to be for the first year of the game.
So up front… I worked on this game. I want to be super clear about that. (In case you can’t tell by me having more hours logged in it than it’s been out in the wild.
So why review. Well obviously I want the game I worked on to do well… but there is more than that.
For those who don’t know, Evolution was a table top board game first and has been for years. It was one of my earliest modern board gaming experiences and I still love to break it out and play it. The constant evolution of strategies and plays with the traits that can be played makes the game very replayable.
– Real player with 967.7 hrs in game
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I’m definitely addicted to this one. Good game balance, I never feel like any build is just too powerful. Challenging AI. Cute/Beautiful art. Fun facts. Satisfying sound effects; glad I can turn the music off without turning them off (though the music is good to).
I assume you could unlock brutal mode right away but playing through the campaign on both difficulties has been both an enjoyable difficulty progression and given me plenty of content to consume. Especially with the fun of trying to unlock sketches. But Darwin gets super annoying on the second go through.
– Real player with 99.7 hrs in game
Hanoi Puzzles: Magnetrix
Use the rules of the famous Tower of Hanoi puzzle,
where a larger piece cannot be on top of a smaller one.
Each move the piece is flipped, changing its pole,
- Equal poles repel and opposites poles attract
stack negative and positive pole towers
Complete the level by stacking positive and negative towers in their respective places
to energize and enlighten the board.
Resources:
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More than 30 carefully designed levels;
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Atmospheric soundtrack and SFX to help you immerse yourself;
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Fast paced gameplay, perfect for those looking for challenging puzzles;
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Beautiful electrifying art.
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Niche - a genetics survival game
I’ve been searching for a game with breeding mechanics, and this game scratched that itch I’ve had for so long now. I love how it’s not just a “Red parent and blue parent have purple child” simple type of breeding game, tho those are fun to play too. It actually uses real life genetics. So there are some genes that are dominant/recessive, co-dominance, incomplete dominance… and you run into real problems if you inbreed too much.
There are so many genes! You can make your nichelings be primarily herbevores or carnavores. You can make them fly or swim. They can survive hot climates, cold climates, and even poisonous swamp environments. Or you can make them anything inbetween! And these are just the genes to help you survive the environment! There are tons more genes that are purely cosmetic
– Real player with 372.6 hrs in game
Niche – a genetics survival game, is of course an early access game. It revolves around these creatures, which aren’t anything specific. Many people describe them as cats and bunnies combined, with plenty more. You start off with Adam and Eve, and must breed them, occasionally using the Mutation Menu in hopes of getting specific or better genetics for your creatures. As you go on you must strategically pick each creature you mate together in order to get the most optimal genetics. There are many islands to go to and fro. During your adventure you’ll come across many challenges, of course. This includes carnivores, who come to of course eat your creatures (or, really, just to kill them), or going into harder islands you’ll encounter birds, who will eat your babies if they’re not within a hexagon (or square, step, spot) of the baby. There’s also Dodomingos who will take every chance they get to steal a nest, and if you attack it, it’ll attract more Dodomingos, and perhaps even carnivores. Perhaps you’ll encounter a Rogue Male (previously Horny Male) who will breed with your females if you’re not watching. There’s also leeches who will attach to unsuspecting creatures, even if they’re on the shore. There are also a few biome specific creatures, such as the different (Hearing, Seeing, and Smelling) Apes, who you’re suppose to run from rather than fight. Or the Mountain Biome creatures, such as Walrus Deer (Who I believe is prey) Arctic Ramfox, who is also like the carnivore, and will steal meat you haven’t picked up, or the infamous Balance Bear. The Balance Bear is the Apes of the Mountain biome. You’re suppose to run from it, rather than fight it, and it only appears during snow.
– Real player with 141.5 hrs in game
Space Drone: Rescue Mission
This is actually a good little puzzle adventure.
Rooms can get quite difficult as you proceed further into the game.
Also its cheap and entirely worth the modest price being asked.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Ok, this game has taken me by surprise. I was expecting something easy and fast, but this game has some puzzles that forced me to stop and think what am i doing - what isn’t something bad, to the contrary, is extremely good. It gets harder the more you progress, and i still didnt finished it (pretty close to the end tho), but, until now, i having lots of fun with this.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Hardcore Trivia
PLAY ON SOLO MODE OR WITH FRIENDS
Play solo mode or invite friends to play! You can also arrange event for your friends and you can compete together.
Each question have 1-4 options. Choose the correct one and you will be rewarded with a points!
EXCELLENT FOR COMPANIES AND SCHOOL CLUBS
Are you running a hobby club, history club, bar, pub or a Steam Cafe? Hardcore trivia offers questions for many needs. With a Commercial licence, you can arrange a new event easily for example in your bar and provide entertainment to the customers. Hardcore Trivia includes ready to print questionnaire forms which you can give to customers before the game stars, and your host can use easy interface to run the event. Read more about PC Café-program https://partner.steamgames.com/pccafe
When you run the game with a Commercial licence mode, basically it goes like this:
1. Print questionnaire forms and give pencil and forms to customer
2. Your host is now ready to start the game and pick desired category.
3. When game ends, you collect questionnaires from the customers and calculate the points
4. We have a winner!
Note that non-commercial licence have automated points calculation system, which is not usually suitable for events arranged to large audience.
IT’S NOT A HUGE YET
Geme include over 10 questions.
EVERYONE CAN PLAY
Game is perfect for all ages.
Trivia Vault: Science & History Trivia
Reviewing this negatively, even if I’m an historian and bla bla bla.. xD
Ok to the game, you basically have to go through 25 “vaults” (levels?) made up by 10 questions each which span from history to science (geology, astronomy, zoology, biology, anatomy etc.) like, half and half.
The main problem is that there’s really nothing else. And the game isn’t free. This is the reason of the negative review, basically.
This game offers nothing but extremely simplificated graphics and a bunch of questions that you’ll find for free on every Google Play Store app or where you want..
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
The whole design is decent for a quizz game and fulfills its purpose. Replayability is low as soon as the same question reappear.
The single achievement unlocks instantly. Looking at how many different Trivia games with a single achievement are uploaded, they seem to mainly be targeted at achievement hunters.
No clue if the 250 questions are all self written or from an external source, but it seems like a fair amount for the price of 0,99€.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
Energy Island Corp.
In Electric City Manager, you’ll manage an electric grid on small islands. When you arrive on an island, there is only few inhabitants and no electric facilities.
It’s your job to build a robust electric grid which can support the development of the island in every domain: tourism, industry, residential, health, …
Every day starts with a preparation phase. You can construct new buildings, buy raw materials and manage different aspect of your grid.
When you’re ready, the clock starts and you can see in real time, minute by minute the electricity quantity you produced and the electricity being consumed by the city.
It’s important to produce enough electricity to match the demand and avoid power outage. On the other side, producing too much electricity will damage all your electric grid and waste a lot of money.
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Make your own energy mix: Solar panels only produce when sun is up, oil generators are expensive to run, … Each primary energy has its own characteristics, you must mix them to find the better balance.
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Manage raw materials supply: Some buildings need resources (oil, coal, …) to run. You must buy them at best price, and build infrastructure to store them.
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Watch electricity production / consumption: Managing an electric grid is hard. Electricity is hard to store, consumption vary between consumption peaks and low demands periods. Adapt yourself and manage your grid with information you get from the production / consumption chart.
Moving Letters
short and simple
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
A very short game of dragging the alphabet tiles to make the word based on the image or symbol given at the bottom of the tiles. You will be given an option after a few minutes to reveal the answer if you don’t know the answer. It’s a short fun game but the dragging is a bit lagging and possibly slot the tile to the unintended position. The timer for the online mode is a bit suicidal to me.
There is still a room of improvement for this game especially the tile-dragging part. Also, if you want to choose a different language, it will take quite some time because you have to keep clicking the flag until you get what you want. It will be fun if they come out with categories and each category has 50 words. Or swap words to make a sentence based on a series of images or symbols.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
3D Math - Ultra
Better than expected and more enjoyable after longer play. I’ll write what I personally liked about it and compare it to other games. Since there seems to be no other game like this on Steam, I’ll compare it to something like Lumosity and similar games.
The game would have been worth a higher price. It makes the math, logic, and other training games more interesting than normal. Training arithmetic probably doesn’t sound like a game, but it’s kind of nice because you start to feel it’s a challenge and have a motivation to out do yourself. Plus, unlike other games, the skill is transferable outside of the game.
– Real player with 437.4 hrs in game
This is something I appreciate very much. There aren’t many enjoyable math programs created by people that want to improve a learner’s comprehension of mathematics. I really enjoy the brain training section as it has some exercises I like, such as: N-back(memory), grid(pattern recognition), and matches. Thank you for creating this program!
– Real player with 67.6 hrs in game