HammerHelm
Update May 27 2021, for game version 1.7.8 just after full retail release.
My original review was for the early access version. Now the full release is EVEN BETTER.
Bottom line: CASUAL style, mixes adventure/exploration/combat in a small open world with some farming mechanics and a city builder with resource and resident management. Nothing is very complicated, but it also never feels pointlessly easy. Be the mayor of your own dwarven village: protect your people from orcs and necromancers, manage your town’s resources as your population grows, mine various metal ores and craft better weapons and armor to deal with stronger foes, grow herbs and have your town’s alchemist use them to brew health potions, grow various plants to feed and clothe your people, hire townspeople to do various jobs to keep your people happy, decorate your town with rose gardens and fountains, build and decorate your own home too! You can collect heads of your fallen enemies and have your tailor turn them into trophies for your wall, or if taxidermy isn’t your style you can just buy some neat paintings instead.
– Real player with 157.5 hrs in game
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So this game has me on the fence… in some ways I REALLY enjoy it– in other ways, it’s not so great, and in some ways, I really, REALLY dislike it.
What is HammerHelm?
Hammerhelm is a hybrid of RPG, city management/builder, adventure, and crafting game. The basics is that you are a Dwarf that was outcast from your clan for having the balls and the audacity to tell the council that “Instead of sitting underground to rot, why not go to the surface and get all the untapped resources there?”. The council tells you to suck it, before proceeding to toss you out so you don’t corrupt the young Christian minds of the other Dwarves that live like NPC’s without free thought. So once you get casted out like the little heretic you are, you find yourself on an island that looks pretty much deserted with nothing but basic tools and a hammer to defend yourself with, and you get a sizable plot of land to boot.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Buildest
Build up!
This game focuses on the most enjoyable part of architecture - creativity.
If you have always wanted to feel like a chief architect of the project at a construction site, but do not want to deal with endless calculations and legal disputes, then you are welcome!
Play with friends!
The game is more fun in coop mode! Team up with friends to coordinate your actions and build together!
Variety of architecture
You will visit construction sites of 8 different eras:
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
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Ancient China
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European Middle Ages
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Baroque
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Art nouveau
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Constructivism
Each era contains a multitude of new architectural elements for construction. You can build unique historical buildings by combining them. Also each era brought other game mechanics as well. Discover all the architectural secrets to build your very own palace!
Features
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Travel through different eras and explore their cultural features through architecture
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Flexible system for assessing the level progress. Find your own building style. You can be a professional microcontroller and strictly position workers to achieve the best result, or you can burn a budget for improved materials and bonuses for a guaranteed victory
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Unlock new crafting recipes to create your own designs. Experiment and combine architectural elements of different styles
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EOS 27
CROW CANNOT FIGURE THIS GAME OUT CAW CAW
BUT I ALSO CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHY SOMEONE WOULD COLOR THEIR PUBIC HAIR GREEN CAW CAW
BUT SOME PEOPLE DO IT CAW CAW
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Incredipede
You might be looking at this game and thinking “Wow, that’s one unique game!”, but the most unique aspect of this game is that the achievements ask you to do things in the real world.
This game wants you to go outside and explore your own backyard. It wants you to look closely at the insects and plants that you probably haven’t looked at since you were very young kids.
That is amazing.
I recommend taking a break to do an achievement anytime you get stuck on a level, and then go back to laughing out loud at the acrobatics of your creature.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
This is the exact definition of incrediphillia. One of the best indie games on steam without a doubt. There are no physic engine based games that can compare to Incredipede. I’m sure most of you have played some sort of flash game some place where the whole point is to create some sort of contraption, building, or any kind of construct. What I think makes this stand apart from the rest is the mere fact you create a simple character with odd physics, like some sort of construct, with movable parts. You are really only limited to your own imagination. You can create pretty gnarly stuff and get through the various levels. The game itself has some replayability as well. The game allows you to do the levels on Easy, which gives you a premade design to finish the levels, and then you have the Hard mode, which starts you off with the base of the character Quozzle, which is just her round eye. By the way, when you finish the game, don’t fret. There is a level editor included in the game. You can create some fun levels and you can share them with your friends as well. I really can’t think of any negative things the game has. It is a pretty solid title, and I believe the price is just right for such a game. With that I say, whatever you do this Summer, it won’t be as fun as Incredipede. All bugs wish they could have as many limbs as the gal in this game. Every purchase of this game helps fund research for limb growth of bugs, so open those wallets to make their life easier.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Sokbots
SokBots may just be one of the the most fun, crazy, one-on-one multiplayer games out there. It has many charming characteristics to it that make it a joy to play. The game design of SokBots makes it effortless to spend hours upon hours playing the game.
The graphics of SokBots are perfect. It’s bright and colourful. They don’t overpower your computer with polygons or particles, but allow your computer to relax. Its low poly art style also allows you to take it all in. The detail in every model is present and noticeable, making for a game where you notice all the little things instantly.
– Real player with 81.8 hrs in game
Nice basic little battle bots game. Functional for how slim of a game it is, had only one crash and it saved our money. We played co-op which was fun, and one PVP battle which worked as well. It was easy to get started. Building the battle bots themselves was the best part but the battles themselves were fun. Definitely worth the $2 on sale, $3 normal price.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
Space Box Battle Arena
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Get ready for hot and unusual space battles!
Here comes Space Box Battle Arena - a place where you not only fight the enemy but also design and create your own spaceship for battle!
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀When? - In September 2021!
The Game is currently under development, but most mechanics of gameplay is done!
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ADD to WISHLIST to be the first to enter the Arena!
The unique combinations of action shooter and tower defense genres! Build your ship and salt down the enemy!
Machine guns, lasers, flamethrowers, harpoons, energy shields, black hole generators, hundreds of asteroids, and robots are waiting!
Сurrently, there are 14 maps, 3 types of shipbuilding blocks, 8 weapons, 7 devices, about 20 super weapons and 8 characters to play!
The exciting sandbox arena awaits! You want speed? Then build a compact ship with many engines. You need power? Put on a variety of weapons! You wish entirely indestructible ship with shields, repairing, and armor? You are welcome! Different blocks give different abilities, and their upgrading will increase your power!
3 different leagues of ships, 4 game modes, and randomized maps with various objects will make every battle full of epic and fun!
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Build your own free-form battleship -
A variety of weapons for any style of play -
Many superpowers for a total mayhem -
8 unique characters to control your shuttle -
4 Game Modes + Play with Friends -
Variety of maps for battles -
8 types of sudden deaths to quickly end the game -
Stylish design and graphics
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Still in doubt? Now, quickly build your ship and advance into battle!
Zombiotik
Great game, very easy to play, very fun game, and playable up to 8, a game to add to his collection to spend good parties with friends and familly
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
A severely underrated local multiplayer gem!
The fact that it supports up to 8 is great, but we had loads of fun with just the 4 of us! The best part was when someone would develop a winning strategy, and everyone else ganged up to find a counter to it. The game felt like a constant leap frog of trying to utilise some new exploit, only for everyone to tear you back down!
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Airmen
This is definitely one of my favorite games. It has elements comparable to Robocraft, Scrap Mechanic, Avorion, From the Depths, Besiege, Space Engineers, and other similar games, as well as World Adrift, Guns of Icarus, and Elite Dangerous, with a bit of Escape from Tarkov mixed in. You build a vehicle in a hangar and take that vehicle out into an open world, where you can gather resources and encounter other players before extracting your ship and returning to your hangar to fine-tune a design, or unlock research to facilitate different designs.
– Real player with 1525.4 hrs in game
Airmen
It took me quite some time to find a new online game which included what I was looking for, with Airmen I have finally found it. The game is set in a steampunk setting and consists mainly of two game modes: building ships and using them in an open world. Neither mode is obligatory, as you can also use pre-build ships or play single-player, however I think the combination of building your own ships and using them is what makes this game so enjoyable.
The Archipelago
One important aspect which I was looking for in a game (and which was somewhat difficult to find), is that it is an online game that has some challenges, but is not just about fighting. Instead here you have a variety of missions and quests you can pursue, including delivery, harvest and rescue missions, which often don’t require you to fire a single shot, even in the open world. You do also have the choice of hunt, capture or siege missions, which task you with defeating a certain enemy. Being an open world, you can also encounter other players with hostile intentions, the majority of the player base is friendly though. Apart from flying your own vessel, you can also join another captain on theirs, which is recommended especially for beginners.
– Real player with 1290.3 hrs in game
Base Jump
The game revolves around players building their bases and destroying the other players bases while fighting each other, sometimes under the effect of crazy power-ups. Players can fight against a friend or foe on the same device, or against a computer AI.
The main objective of the players should focus on maintaining more bases than their opponent. There is a meter that goes towards one player or the other depending on the ownership of the bases.
The more bases a player has the faster the meter will move towards that player.
Black Gold: Wild West Story
BLACK GOLD
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
Black Gold is a first person management simulator game where you take your place in the race for money. You are the one responsible for your success: decide who work for you, choose where you put your first steps and control how well your oil wells run.
HIRE PEOPLE
You will need a lot of hands to work efficiently. Choose people who will work for you and remember that every character has different attributes - watch closely who is worth extra salary and who can ruin your business.
COMMAND
Create orders and assign duties for your workers. You can leave them work, help them and manage them, or perform tasks on your own.
BUILD
Before you will start extracting petroleum, you must build a drilling rig. Build as high derrick as you can and drill into the ground even further!
WATCH YOUR STEPS
Beware of any obstacles that can occur on your way to obtain great wealth. The greatest danger hides underground – intense pressure might create oil gusher that will blow up your oil derricks, efforts and money.
BECOME RICH
After you sell your first crude oil barrel, your wallet will grow quickly. Spend money to discover new technology, enlarge your workplace, buy new machines or upgrade them.