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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Fort Meow
The goal of the game is simple: You have to build an catproof pillow fort to be able to read a book in the attic.
The thing is there is more than meet the eyes at first and the story behind the situation is certainly one of the cutest I read. I won’t spoil it because it’s part of what makes this game so nice and there is nothing better than letting yourself being surprised by the reason why there are so many lap obsessed cat in the house.
I’m playing that game in the background when I’m doing something else (aka discussing with people, doing a quest on a MMO or roleplaying) and it’s exactly the sort of game you can enjoy by focusing fully on it or doing something else at the same time. You have as much time as you want to prepare your defense against the catlaps, so taking break to do something else is 100% possible.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
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Fort Meow is a somewhat short physics based pillowfort simulator. In this game you follow Nia as she unravels the secrets of her grandparents sudden disappearance and why there are so many cats around…And why they’re so clingy!
You begin the game building a basic fortress from chairs and brooms, and eventually you have an entire house worth of furniture in there, all ready to ward off the cats who keep trying to interupt your quest to figure out what Nia’s grandpa wrote in his journal the days shortly before this all.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Heart of Moon : The Mask of Seasons
Wasn’t what I was expecting, but it’s not too bad and can be addicting. Works on Triple Screen.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
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A fairly standard match-3 game, but with nice music and really good graphics in the cut scenes where you get to find things. I think it’s good for younger players as well as those looking for an easy time waster. The rewards are nice, and come frequently enough to be satisfying.
– Real player with 18.0 hrs in game
Scrapnaut
Very interesting game, it got me up until content ending. As an unfinished product it’s perfectly understandable that a lot of work is needed to make it a polished jewel.
For now, I can say it’s fun and beautiful, no bugs seen during my gameplay, and it’s visible that devs are careful and partners of players. I hope that it keep going like that and next time I play it will develop from very good to fantastic.
My tips for devs are:
- You could vary terrain height to make it more visually interesting.
– Real player with 29.1 hrs in game
Sum-Up
In Scrapnaut players take the role of a stranded survivor crashed on an unknown, bleak planet populated by murderous machines. After meeting an unlikely ally, the protagonist will engage in a series of dangerous quests; building, scavenging and fighting his way through the wasteland, with leaving the planet as final objective.
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Enjoyable base defense / building aspects.
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Exploration and progression are cleverly combined.
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– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
Mystika 4 : Dark Omens
This game is similar to Mystika 3 but not the same. It is more like a game update or enhancement and has different spells than the 3rd installment. I enjoyed both games and highly recommend Mystika 4: Dark Omens.
– Real player with 228.0 hrs in game
nice puzzles
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Blind Descent
The year 2071. You are tasked with finding the pioneer team who went missing while exploring the newly opened mine on Mars.
You and a few team members began descending into a 10-mile deep Martian cave. During the descent, the elevator crashes, and only a few of you survive.
You have no communication with the surface, and there’s no sign of the lost pioneer team that you have been sent for. You start moving through the tunnel and see something you never expected.
A subterranean world right beneath Mars, full of alien life and surrounded by dense jungles and bizarre weather.
Explore the vast “Martian Underground World”
Unravel the secrets of the Martian underground world by exploring its vast and formidable environments. Experience full freedom of exploration with enjoyable new mechanics.
Craft tools to venture into the most distant corners.
Harvest resources and craft new tools, climb anywhere dynamically, row the underground seas with your boat and build structures that help you overcome obstacles along your way.
Build a shelter or house that you can call “home”.
Build your house, deck out your buildings with furniture, crafting tools, and more. Make sure your house is durable enough against unforgiving weather and unknown creatures!
Progress on the story
Progress through the story, improve your crafting, weapons and more. Find an energy source and send it to your printer and signal booster. Establish a connection with the surface so you can let them know that you are still alive.
Key features
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Survive on a vast subterranean world beneath the Martian surface.
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Dive deep into dangerous dungeons and gather resources.
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Climb dynamically, craft tools that can help you pass obstacles.
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Progress through the story and unlock the mysteries and the fate of the missing pioneer team.
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Build your house, deck out your buildings with furniture, crafting tools, and more.
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Track the footsteps of the missing pioneer team and learn their fate.
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Play with your friends up to four people.
The Pedestrian
Anything But
When I think about ‘hobby games’ like Destiny 2 or bottomless time sinks like AC Odyssey, I can only think of how much people are missing. It’s a privileged take, granted. People want value per hour out of economic pressures on top of a melange of other reasons. Only, The Pedestrian reminds me that in a perfect world we could all have the spice of life of twenty five short experiences that last longer in an altogether more meaningful way than a monster corporate product ever could. Media that doesn’t monopolise your time, but delivers a quick, sharp shock of everything you could want of entertainment as a means of adding value to your life.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
The Pedestrian is a relatively short, but fun puzzle platformer. You are a character from one of those flashing ‘walk’ signs. You connect signs, and use your little pedestrian to solve various puzzles. The puzzles are quite unique. As for difficulty level, I’ve played lots of puzzle games, and I’d say this is a medium difficulty puzzle game overall. I found the puzzles satisfying and there were a couple of times I really had to stop and think about things to solve them. The game rewards you for patience in the puzzle solving not rushing. The learning curve on the puzzles is not bad, although there was one concept/mechanic that took me a bit to grasp and felt significantly more difficult than the others. As you complete the puzzles you move across different areas of a city. The game shines aesthetically as the surroundings as you travel the city the surroundings are nothing short of beautiful. There are different tracks of music as you go through the city, and they evoke a sort of peaceful feeling. There is a story inside the game, but I am not sure I understood the whole thing, and after talking with one of the developers the story is left up to some interpretation of the player. Without spoiling anything I will simply say the last half hour or so of the game is a culmination of your work throughout the game and really is something special that tells you a lot about the story.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Wanderers
Embark on a journey through a mysterious alien solar system and uncover its dark secrets.
Wanderers is a sandbox game set in a blocky, procedurally generated world. You start with nothing and to survive you must fasten weapons, craft tools, hunt for food and build shelter.
As you explore you discover a strange corruption infecting the world. To defeat this mysterious enemy, you are going to need to venture out into space.
You will need to mine resources, create alloys, build machines, generate electricity and refine fuel to build your very own spaceship to venture out into the void.
KHIO
The game is fun in between various glitches, crashes, lag, etc.
It is really a fun game with a lot of content, good art, and more, but problems like I have listed above make it frustrating to play, because it could ruin your entire save. The Devs have also abandoned the game, so I don’t believe any of these will be fixed.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
- In english:
KHIO is to me a new kind of game: pixel art mixed with kind of 3D… Even if the sprites are in 2D, you can totally turn the camera 360°.
I’m not gonna tell you the plot, as it’s pretty obviously done on the store page.
The game interface is minimal and actually blends into the scenery (maybe a bit too much sometimes, but the devs are sorting this out, improving its lisibility).
Here, we’re not hand held: you’ll have to experiment, die, and finally figure things out before evolving with more ease.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Past Fate
BEFORE YOU BUY: Please note that this game is in Early Access and it will possibly have some bugs that may affect the gameplay.
Nendhir, a mysterious and savage world filled with conquest and magic, where the two factions; Valfalk and Morsath battle for dominance over the vast lands and continents.
Valfalk, a union between the vikings of Hjyndall and the barbarians of Gulskir control the northern lands of Nendhir.
Morsath, a pact between the Kingdom of Edaria, the Kingdom of Drosus and the Empire of Coria, control the central lands of Nendhir and lead the crusades against Valfalk.
But as the two factions wage war against each other, the dark powers are rising in the shadows.
In the south, the arrival of the Cult of Voxyx has awakened the ancient dark lords once again.
Far in the west, at the heart of the swamplands of Khordof, the mighty dragon Yddrad threatens to engulf the world in flames.
It is up to you as a mercenary to chooce your own fate. Help your faction to conquer new lands and together you will face the shadows that the night brings.
About Past Fate
Past Fate is an open world MMORPG where the players freedom is the key element. You can explore the huge world and its continents and islands. Sail the treacherous seas to explore the world and recruit your own crew to assist you in naval combat. Hire and train mercenaries and soldiers to help your kingdom in the time of war. Find secrets, treasures and mysteries to aid you in your journey. Practice to become the crusader and smite down your enemies or find how to wield more darker powers to hunt your prey during the night. What is your fate?
Exploration
The land in Past Fate is huge. You can build your own ship and sail the seas to explore different continents and islands. Find kingdoms to trade your goods or to buy supplies for your journey, unite with your friends and explore dungeons to banish strong enemies and pillage their treasures or form a group to set in to find and defeat legendary ancient creatures.
Conquer
Hire mercenaries and gather your soldiers to conquer the enemy lands to yourself.
Defend Your Kingdom
Kingdoms will crumble as other players can attack and break your buildings in hopes to conquer your lands. Defend your kingdom by hiring mercenaries and soldiers and protect your land at all cost.
Slay powerful enemies
Banish strong enemies and pillage powerful treasures from dungeons. Form a group to find and defeat ancient creatures across the world
Beware the Night
The night can be deadly as players who wield the dark magic can use it to their advantage to turn into a hulking beast to hunt their prey.
Conquer the Sea
Past Fate will be introducing Naval Combat where you will purchase, upgrade and control your ships. Release your inner pirate and fight your enemies in the open waters! You also have the ability to hire your own crew to help you against your enemies.
These crew members will include archers, mages and cannoneers to damage the enemy ships crew and hull. Prefer melee? You can jump on the enemy ship and show them your swordsmanship…or crush them with your warhammer if you prefer strong heavy attacks.