Particubes (Open Alpha)
Finally available!!
A lot is still to be added but we can create fun games already!! ^_^
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
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– Real player with 9.7 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
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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
Main Assembly
If you have a creative drive or artistic eye, this game is great for allowing you to express yourself through your builds. The controls are a little wonky to start with and the building “flow” seems un-intuative at first. But it doesn’t take long to figure out how things work. If you have any experience with 3d animation or model building, this is definately in that “wheelhouse”. This feels more like working with clay, than sticking blocks together. There’s a decent amount of additional add-on pieces like hinges and servos, as well as pistons and specialized tools like the suction cup or drill head. The physics in-game are decent as well. Although, to me, the atmosphere feels thin. When taking off in a flyer, it feels more like your breaking the surface friction, than pushing yourself through the air resistance.
– Real player with 74.1 hrs in game
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Poorly designed and poorly made. Does not feel like a 1.0 game. Most controls can’t be rebound, and the input system is super buggy. Most controls can’t be bound to controller. The vehicle chase camera is awful, requiring constant hands on the controls just to see where you’re going, and like most badly designed things in this game, it’s not adjustable. It’s especially heinous in the space parts of the game, where you can end up upside down relative to the camera, which is just stupid. The game has very few options. There isn’t even a “reset options to default” button, so if you break something, which is very likely, you’re SOL. Multiplayer is a disaster, with horrible lag and desync making any kind of interaction or collision impossible. The challenges mode where you unlock parts and cosmetics is half interesting and half miserable. I ended up getting an automatic collectible grabber bot from the workshop because the sandbox levels with 45 stars were such a chore.
– Real player with 40.8 hrs in game
Breakwaters
CLOSED BETA/EARLY ACCESS REVIEW!
So I was lucky to be one of the people being able to play around with the closed beta and even though we didn’t have access to all the EA content and even though we ran into quite a few bugs at the time (most of whom have been fixed or being worked on right now), I had a ton of fun playing this.
It’s a relaxing survival and exploration sim with many things to explore, craft and build.
The water physics are amazing. You can basically manipulate the water to do anything, if you know how.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
Got an early review copy and was excited to try this as it had been on my radar since seeing the trailer earlier this year. Unfortunately the flaws became readily apparent pretty quickly.
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Looks nice
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Water mechanics are interesting
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Gathering resources and crafting are easy
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Armor and weapons don’t lose durability
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Movement feels really off
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Even after lowering the sensitivity the camera is still way too fast
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Combat is not good at all, there’s no blocking, dodging or rolling and enemies have very basic attack patterns
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Valheim
Odin won’t let me go outside anymore and I have Stockholm Syndrome
Early in the year 2021, I heard about this game a decent amount of people were talking about: “Valheim”
It appeared to be some sort of Survival Craft / Sandbox title taking place in a Norse mythology setting, and since I love both, I thought to myself: “Hey, let’s give this a try!”
Several months later, I’m unable to tell if that grunt I just heard came from some creature in the game or my own stomach because of the pasta I ate raw in order to minimize the time spent on something else than building, slaying monsters and gathering materials.
– Real player with 961.0 hrs in game
I’m going to start with the good. This is a great game; with I think a great future. There’s plenty to do and it looks good. The simplicity works well. I love the building, really love the building. Yes there are dead areas in the world at the moment; but I know that will be filled in eventually. If you haven’t played this game, please pick it up. It’s worth a spot in your collection.
Now to the reason I can’t play this game anymore, and I have a little story for you. For some time now there has been a world destroying bug in the game. Your world progress will be reset back to the first day. Anyway, during covid lock, I’ve been separated from my girlfriend. UK to US travel has not been permitted until a few days ago. This game was our game. We spent weeks building a huge castle together. We laughed together, we talked about bad things going on in our lives, we got drunk together while playing this game. Some days, we just played quietly while listening to music together. What we built was huge, towers to their maximum possible height. Wide area’s paved with stone floor for housing and other buildings. We had friends come in to help us gather the stone; while also drinking and having a good time. Then about a week ago we loaded in to play after a month break to find everything was gone. EVERYTHING.
– Real player with 395.0 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
BiteVille
I was unsure about this game due to its mixed reviews however I decided to give it a go and bought a copy for me and one for my son and we got stuck in and here is my findings.
Pro
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Graphics are pretty fun
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Building a base can be fun and interesting
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I like having NPC defenders to add to the strategy side
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Zombies a fun and varied
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Watching my son die each wave after only killing 3 then getting taken out by Granny zombie
Neg
- Needs more customisation for example if you could research what you want instead of following a predefined list that would be better.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
TL:DR good fun, worth a try, cool guns
Normally not my genre, but this game is good fun! The combination of building, protecting survivors and progression adds a whole world of variety. Game is thrilling but not too scary which some zombie games overdo, this one is just the right balance. Bosses are great - unique attacks require a different strategy each game. Fun gun animations.
Beginners tip: walking backwards is quite slow so zombies will catch you if you only walk backwards. Also mystery chest can unlock some pretty epic/powerful weapons early on.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
ICARUS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2672308258
To start I tried to avoid all info and most betas of this to go in fresh without any prior opinion or jaded by the opinions of others and I must say… this game is a giant piece of crap.
Runs like trash on a 3080/5900x, 32 Gigs DDR4, and on a NVME SSD to start which doesn’t help. Enemies lack proper pathing, AI spawn out of the air on top of you in scripted “missions”, had 2 bears land on top of me, then figured it was coming the 2nd time and 4 wolves pop out of the air… difference being this time I got them all stuck on each other and they sorta made a wolf pyramid while I sniped at them.
– Real player with 29.0 hrs in game
15 hours of play time later edit: Still running smooth, still a lot of fun, has thirty dollars worth of content in my honest opinion. Running 8 player missions is still hilarious.
Oh jeez okay Icarus. Well right off the bat 10/10 is my score for it. 100 out of 100, it’s exactly what I wanted when I first saw the silly trailer a few years back.
Tl;dr: PVE survival game with good coop, good character growth options, fun stuff, decent gameplay loop, really dedicated dev team. I’ve spent more money on far worse games that got less play time than the beta of this game.
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
Pacific Life
Pacific Life is a first-person game where you start with only a few tools in a small village. What happens next is all yours!
Start your life without worrying
The only thing you will have to care about is your hunger and wellness.
But even if both are empty, you cannot die!
In fact, in Pacific Life, there is no “health point”. You can play without the need of surviving!
Pacific Island… And more!
A whole 4km² Island for you to explore, gather, and to build on!
Until.. you get a way to reach more lands?
Help the Island to progress!
When you start your adventure on Pacific Island, there is not much technology. Maybe you could fix that?
Community based economy
The village is everyone’s starting point. But once on Pacific Island, the server’s economy will almost entirely depend on all players!
If by example, one decides to buy all the wood he can possibly find, then the wood’s price will drastically increase and it will be hard for you or other players to buy some if you needed to.
On the contrary, if that one’s player decides to sell tons of wood, then the price will decrease and will be very easy to find in a shop!
So join Pacific Life now and start your new adventure!
TaleSpire
This tabletop will change the way you play your online sessions forever.
If you are a DM and felt at any point that your sessions were “flat”, that combat was lacking the 3d aspect, or that your maps were not detailed enough, you need to get this.
If you are a player and you appreciate when the DM had a table with an impressive set of walls, traps and miniatures waiting for the game session, you need to get this.
If you at any point looked at your game board, and said. I’d love for it to be as impressive as videogames, with animations and lights, you need to get this.
– Real player with 160.3 hrs in game
This program is amazing, and it has allowed many in our group to get into D&D that never would have before. We’ve been running a campaign for a few weeks now, and it has been a blast using this program. We all live far away from each other, so getting together was not an option, but the visual aspect of this game has helped some of our players enjoy D&D that never would have enjoyed sitting around a table and playing.
This game is also a huge money saver. For $25, you get to create all these maps and have access to so many minis, which would cost a fortune getting real ones from Dwarvenforge (for example, an unpainted cottage stone set on there is $40, that’s just the cottage).
– Real player with 110.0 hrs in game