Operation: VICUS
There is only you, the chosen one who rules over the village. You have to find out what the strange notes are about, where do they come from and what do they want to tell you? Besides, with your actions you will strengthen or weaken your relationship with your inhabitants. Make tough decisions that will haunt you longer than you might think. Expand your village to accommodate more inhabitants and explore new things in the laboratory, be it weapons, buildings and much more. However, you’ll have to stay alert, because you’ll be haunted by insidious beasts that would love to destroy your village. So you must train your troops and lead them into battle!
Build your village
With the help of your mines, the ores extracted from there will be processed by your blacksmith and in combination with the wood of the forester, great things can be built, such as new habitable houses, attractions for the inhabitants or yet barracks and defensive guns. With the help of your laboratory you can improve your buildings and make them more robust or you can have new, better buildings researched, which you can then use in your village!
Satisfaction
If you want to work your way forward, it is of great importance to take care of your villagers. You need to monitor their happiness, either the overall happiness of your village or the happiness of the individual citizens. If the villagers are in a bad mood, you need to get to the bottom of it and, if necessary, fix the problems that cause it using the Satisfaction menu or the information provided by the individual citizens. But if you neglect their feelings, you have to expect deterioration in your production and further problems!
Day management
The daily schedule of the villagers is determined by you alone. You can determine the schedule of each citizen: You can make them work longer hours to boost your production, give them more free time or alternatively let them decide what they want to do. However, you must never forget that your actions affect the mood of each citizen, and their moods add up to determine the satisfaction level of your village. So make sure that the inhabitants have nothing to complain about!
Low Poly Artstyle
Dive into the world of the unique Low Poly Artstyle and experience relaxed atmospheres in the morning or mysterious mood in the evening. The interplay between the cartoon-like animations and the beautiful low poly look creates beautiful moments. The music, reminiscent of No Mans Sky in places, creates a great ambience with its style that always fits the situation.
Combat and defense
Upgrade your town with barracks and guns to defend against the invaders! Upgrade your barracks to get better and stronger troops. Decide which strategy you want to follow, fight with weaker but more troops or less but stronger? And better to finish everything in close combat or to finish the enemy from a distance? Or both? You decide and lead your warriors into battle and decide still in battle which targets your troops should attack and how many of your soldiers should pursue this target!
Story
Find out what the strange notes are all about! Make tough decisions and try to understand what this village is all about!
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Table Top Turrets
I downloaded ‘Table Top Turrets’ out of curiosity as, although I play a lot of tower defence games, most of them are quite boring and are very similar to each other. It was refreshing, therefore, to see such an eye-catching and colourful game appear on Steam. I thought I’d take a chance with it and I am delighted that I did.
The game is very fun to play. There are about 10 different levels, each with 3 different difficulties, all of which completely change the dynamic of the game. In essence, therefore, there are about 30 levels. The levels all have interesting track designs and the possibilities of placing down turrets are almost endless. Although the game is not what I would describe as a ‘sandbox’ mode, once you get some experience, it begins to feel this way. With a great selection of turrets to choose from, each one having a different effect on the enemies, it really does feel like you have unlimited ways of playing the level. Not only is this just fun from the get-go but it means that the game does not get boring.
– Real player with 27.3 hrs in game
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It’s almost a good game!
When you find-out how to turn off the terrible music, play on ‘Hard’ level, and
! refrain from using any of the ‘Beamers’ , this game is….almost not boring!
Oh! And you need to be a HUGE fan of TD games too!
But outside of that: Go for it! You’ll have a formidable 20 minutes of enjoyment!! ;)
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Space Scavenger
I absolutely love this game. In a nutshell, you are trying to survive four levels of “alternate space” – a normal area, an infected area, a solar-fire area and a robotic area. The thing is, the tiny scavenger ship you start with will never make it but you can “MacGyver” a passible fighting ship off the things you scavenge along the way (or possibly purchase in a shop). This part of the game, crafting the ship, is just as much fun as the actual fighting, trying to figure out how to make everything fit (and yes, if your ship is really huge and unbalanced, it will handle like a truck.
– Real player with 214.1 hrs in game
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The visuals, the game play, and everything the RedCabin team have added and improved on is amazing! Im so happy I got the chance to talk to the team and ask questions, and learn more about the game itself. These guys deserve all the praise they get when it comes to this game.
Pros: The game has great visuals, handing for both controller and mouse/keyboard, and fun game modes. The game challenges me all the time to do better as everyone who plays is put to the test during the daily challenge. Even the music and sounds are fantastic, and very relaxing to chill to.
– Real player with 62.3 hrs in game
Anti-Jump-Man
Fun! Very short (~15 minutes) but it’s free so I don’t mind. Feels like a good gamejam game.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
It’s aggressively okay. I feel like this was most likely made because someone asked “can you make me a game that represents a basic puzzle platformer played by someone who has terrible visual migraines?”
Play with mouse and keyboard, pad is not optimal.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Blooming Business: Casino
Blooming Business: Casino is a tycoon game with a drama and animal twist.
Design, build and run the snazziest casino in a bustling world where the sky’s the limit. Work alongside cute animals who are anything but cuddly. Make sure to maximize client and visitor satisfaction while juggling their increasingly complicated demands. In this tycoon game, inspired by the rise of Las Vegas in the 1950s, explore a retro fantasy world and take your place from a small operation to a grand success!
A different kind of casino, filled with personality
Meet the charming personalities of VIP visitors. Connect with them and learn their backstories, needs, goals and desires.
Discover your management style
What type of casino boss are you? Decide how you want to manage your capricious staff and clients, from controlling every detail to have an eagle-eye on every aspect of the business.
Let your employees do their work or directly intervene on the floor. Reprimand drunk customers, kick broken machines to repair them, and make chips rain to see your customers burst with joy!
Live personal stories
Your management style and commercial strategy will trigger different narrative events and it will be up to you to choose how to act. Beware, you may reap more than you sow.
Create and share your content
Pick up Unity and get access to the same tools as the team to create your own custom items, decorations and characters.
Share with the community and benefit from what others create to expand the elegant and gleeful world of Blooming Business: Casino
Key features
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Manage your own casino. From HR to PR, design to operations. You have as much control as you want.
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A gleeful retro world filled with charm and animal characters. Learn more about their personalities, ambitions and keep them happy and productive.
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Monitor everyone’s specific needs and expectations. If you want to make profit, you will need to make sure that clients are happy!
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Customize and decorate your casino. Invest in new slot machines and decorative items. Optimize the casino design to improve traffic flow.
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Set up the games as you like and manage the House Edge.
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Fully moddable. Design and build your own items, decorations and characters to create an ever-expanding casino universe.
Flying Things
Flying Things is a first-person builder VR game that will accelerate your creativity!
For thousands of years, the biggest human dream was to fly and feel the birds' freedom. Leonardo da Vinci, George Cayley, or the third Wright brother? Enter our low-poly dreamland and become one of them, creating the best flying machine ever.
To make your plane move, you must move as well! Just pick some levers, reels, and do some pulling and spinning. It sure will do the work, but the question is - how motivated are you to beat your own records?
Acceleration is the key, but well… Without some wings, propellers, and a proper body, the challenge might get harder than you’d like it to be. Luckily, we have a garage filled with all the necessary plane parts (and friendly robots, ready to help whenever you would need them)! Decide which ones do you want to use and assemble them as you like!
Decorate it with colored sprays and additional parts if you want to see your artistic part taking over. To fly with style is to fly high!
Ready? Set? Go! Will you fly to another island? Or will you drown with your masterpiece?
Features
Build how you want
As a creator, you can mix and match the pieces without any restrictions.
Discover new possibilities
Use over 25 unique elements to construct your flying thing. You can use them in countless ways!
Set the new record
Fly to the farthest spot and beat your previous record! Feel the wind in the most immersive build-and-fly game to date.
Test many designs to find the best one
Improve your design or try all over again with a different concept. Ther is no fixed recipe for the perfect plane!
Objectives
Explore Flying Things garage and meet your little robotic helpers.
Match different parts and use some decorating to create your original vehicle.
Make your way through the ramp and fly as far as possible using both hands to accelerate the machine.
Upgrade your plane by applying a new design that will help you set another record.
Create your own tournaments and compete with friends and family.
No strings attached! No rules. The physics itself will verify your concept in action.
Loop Knight
(6/23/2021)
There’s… not much to the game right now, really. Story mode has two levels which are extremely short, and there’s an endless mode as well as a hell (hard) mode.
Your guy walks forward, you build ramps as he goes, or you destroy the ramps with lasers if you don’t need them.
Gameplay feels a bit clunky, I think being able to stay zoomed out while playing would help. I would prefer the guy to be a bit faster, but gravity a bit lighter (less realistic).
Sound and music are decent, and graphics are pretty good. Game also lags a bit, probably needs to be optimized.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Two Point Campus
Build your university, your way!
It’s time to spin academia on its head! Got a yearning for learning? Or just keen to build an educational masterpiece? Campus is jam-packed with new creative tools to help you build the university of your dreams.
For the first time, build in the great outdoors as you develop your own delightfully educational campus environment, housing the top teaching facilities in the land. Whether you prefer building on simple foundations, or placing every tree, you can build the university you want.
Lay down pathways with new easy-to-use tools. Plant glorious collections of outdoor flora. Place benches, fountains, sculptures, hedgerows – even picket fences. The only limit is your imagination (and your in-game bank balance).
Not the usual fare
But, of course, it wouldn’t be a Two Point game without a twist.
Rather than typical academic fare, students in Two Point County enjoy a range of wild and wonderful courses: from Knight School (hey, we all have to learn jousting at some point in our lives), to the salivatory Gastronomy, where your students will build mouth-watering concoctions like giant pizzas and enormous pies.
The academic year… is here!
Take advantage of the opportunity to spend way more time with the little people in your university. The academic year begins with a summer break, giving you enough time to get everything looking great before your students move in.
Build libraries, hire the best staff (from eccentric professors to madcap researchers), kit your campus out with the best courses and watch the academic potential of your students get unlocked!
Shaping the future
But it’s not just work hard. Get to know your students, explore their individual personalities, wants and needs. Keep them happy with clubs, societies, gigs.
Surround them with friends, help them develop relationships, furnish them with pastoral care and ensure they have the right amount of joie de vivre to develop into incredible individuals who will do the legacy of your university proud.
Bonkies
I played this game some while it was in Early Access but waited to play the rest and to review for once it was fully out.
Bonkies is a great couch co-op game that has a great visual style and is a ton of fun. Everyone that I’ve played it with has had a great time. My girlfriend who is not much of a gamer loves it. It’s worked great with Steam’s remote play to play co-op online with other friends.
Even though the single player campaign is definitely not the game’s focus, and it is admittedly short (it took me an hour to Ace it, but new players probably 3-4 hours), I had a great time player the single player campaign as well.
– Real player with 22.1 hrs in game
About the game:
Well, the gameplay is pretty simple. Every of the (up to) 4 players is playing one space monkey. Their task is to construct certain “buildings” in a limited time (usually around 3-5 minutes). Unfortunately these space monkeys have a heavy handycap: they all have only one arm. (Not sure who let them be in charge of the construction site but that’s another question).
The game mechanics rely on 50% communication with the other players (since you can’t lift objects very well on yourself alone) telling them where to move, what to do next. The other half is actually some creativity since it’s not always clear how to build these desired objects. You only get a shape of what’s expected and are left alone trying (or imagining) how it fits best.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Polyville Canyon
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Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10h, maybe even less
Estimated achievement difficulty: 1/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Has it been in a bundle: No
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
This is an extremely chill, wholesome and laid-back city builder. If you’re looking for something realistic, this game isn’t for you. If you’re looking to build a fun, pretty city like I was, then it is PERFECT. The mechanics are intuitive and simple. The graphics are aesthetically-pleasing and unique. I often find myself wandering around my city, admiring the views. It’s so easy to get caught up in the nitty gritty details of perfecting a plaza. Too easy, as I kept telling myself “One more street.”, “One more block.” and soon enough I filled up the entire map.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game