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
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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
GearBlocks
GearBlocks opens up a world of mechanical creation: motors, gears, pulleys & belts, CV joints, spring dampers, linear actuators, and much more.
Want your car to have working steering? Build the steering linkages and hook up the rack and pinion gears. Want it to have a functional drive-train with a differential? Put it all together with gears, axles and a motor.
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Create from hundreds of different mechanical elements that behave much like their real world counterparts.
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Delve into the fine details of your creations with the flexible building system.
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Jump into the driver’s seat and put your vehicles through their paces.
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Smash your constructions to smithereens or blow them up with explosives.
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Make ragdolls from body parts and use them as your custom player character.
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Start simple and ramp up your experience through a series of challenges in scenario mode.
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Or jump right into creative mode for the ultimate freedom to build and test your machines, or even create your own challenges and mini-games.
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Share your creations with the community, try out what others have made, and maybe learn a new building trick or two along the way!
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Besiege
Played it a little… Pretty fun.
– Real player with 2231.6 hrs in game
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A physics building puzzle game with a lot of levels and with mods creativity and your pc is the only limit
– Real player with 559.4 hrs in game
ChaosTower
If you want a game to play for relaxing, I recommend this game.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Yeah it’s released finally and I like this game! To build up my tower with all this different parts is fun and to see how it works against gravity and natural forces is also great. The defend could be challenging sometimes but after a while there is always a way :)
Of course I am not yet through every level but so far I would clearly recommend it.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Craftica
Craftica: Building Your Wonderland
Craftica is a creative sandbox game with ultra high degrees of freedom for building. It supports deformable voxels and subvoxels at multiple scales so that smooth objects can be built in realistic scales, and makes it possible to build very elegant architectures.
Craftica provides a large number of electronic and mechanical as well as other related device items, allowing players to build sophisticated circuits and circuit-controlled electronic and mechanical devices. Players can even build vehicles, aircrafts, robots and computers etc. high-tech objects from items as basic as logical gates.
Deformable Voxel and Subvoxels
In Craftica the basic voxel is a full cube and the subvoxels are partial cubes with one or more corner chopped off.
The voxels and subvoxels are deformable, and can be made more round or less round by hammer tools.
The support of deformable voxels and subvoxels in Craftica makes it possible to create much smoother objects in this game than in other voxel-based sandbox games.
Also the voxel and subvoxels in Craftica are supported at multiple size levels, so that fine structures can be represented at a scale comparable to the real world.
As an example, Craftica has very good support for East Asian architectures, and includes a large number of standard structures with East Asian architecture styles.
In Craftica, subvoxels are also used to smooth the procedurally generated terrain. And terrain and objects imported from Minecraft Schematic files are also smoothed using subvoxels.
Smart Placement of Blocks and Items
Craftica is designed to allow intuitive construction of objects using subvoxels, and supports consistent operations for placing basic blocks (voxels and subvoxels) and items.
Craftica also supports rule-based placement. When an object item is being placed near another object, if there is a predefined rule to determine a proper placement for the object in relative the other, the rule will be used to calculate the proper placement location and orientation.
In-Scene Crafting
Item crafting in Craftica can be done in the scene, using formulas that are structural and intuitive.
Device Items
Craftica provides a number of standard mechanical and electronic device items that can be used to build complex circuit as well as machines that can be controlled by circuits.
Circuits in this game emulates those in the real world with great simplifications. Like circuits in the real world, Craftica uses physical connection between components to construct functional circuits. These circuits are mainly powered by electric energy and driven by data exchanges.
(See the documentation included in the game for more information)
Village
In Craftica worlds, some places are generated with villages. Each village is generated with a few houses and at least one workshop and one defensive fort or tower, and spawns with at least one warrior to defend the village.
The relationship between a village and a player is characterized by affinity. Affinity can be zero, positive or negative, indicating a neutral, friendly or hostile relationship.
The affinities between villages and player(s) are initialized randomly. Normally, there will be more neutral villages than friendly and hostile ones, and more friendly ones than hostile ones. Their actual percentages may vary according to game modes and difficulty levels.
Trade
When a positive affinity reaches certain levels, the player will have free access to some village structures and storages (different structures and storages may have different affinity thresholds). And when a negative affinity reaches a certain level, the village warrior will actively attack the player.
Trading with villagers or defending the village against hostile mobs will improve the affinity between the player and the village. On the other hand, attacking villagers will deteriorate the affinity.
Survival
In survival mode, barbarians and other hostile mobs will be generated. They will attack the player and villages. The only way to survive is to fight back or run!
Model Importing
In addition to the creative and survival modes, Craftica supports an experimental development mode. In this mode, the player can import external models into the game worlds.
The player can either choose a Minecraft Schematic file (currently only .schematic file is supported, .schem file will be supported the upcoming updates) to import when creating a new game in the development mode:
Or import .obj 3D model files (importing Schematic files within a game will also be supported in the future) within a game in the development mode:
Eggineer
This is sad that this game was released before it was ready, it has so much potential. I wish I had noticed the demo before I bought the game, that is my fault. There is no instructions and for the life of me I cannot figure out the controls, I have looked for a full hour how to delete a piece placed in the wrong location without deleting the entire ship. The camera controls are all over the place, no way to rotate a swivel piece when installing on your ship. If the game was the thrust to be up it will be up, no way to change it. I cannot find any info on the game or a developers web site. Steam should not allow games that are no where near ready to be released. Hopefully there will be some instructions posted somewhere and a update or two, but I feel that I wasted my money…..
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Operation Outsmart
Operation Outsmart is an open-world sandbox RPG where you build wacky machines and recruit wacko koalas to save the world from those pesky robotic minions.
Build wacky machines
Build the most ridiculous vehicles from the large collection of basic, engineering, and special parts. Customise the look of your parts and bind keys to the operable parts. When you’re done, put a driver seat and hop behind the wheel.
Explore the open-world
Explore the vast open-world with your build or on foot. Speak to the koalas, they may reveal secrets or give you quests. The quests are either puzzle or combat, but either way, you will be generously rewarded with new parts, weapons, and most importantly, the koalas trust!
Recruit warrior koalas
Gain the koalas trusts by doing the quests and one by one they will become available for recruitment. They are very good with weapons (they get too excited with bazookas!) so make sure to mount the recruited koalas on your build so they can operate the vast variety of available weapons.
Fight the minions
Those pesky minions have taken the world and the koalas are not happy. You can control the mounted koalas to fight the minions with melee, ranged or explosive weapons. Minions drop XP orbs and metals. Make sure to collect them, they are very much needed!
Create new alloys
Are your builds too heavy? Do they break apart easily? You can reinforce your machines with alloys. At the Foundry, simply mix the different metal elements that you collected from the minions to create new alloys with unexpected properties. You never know what that extra 4% of Chromium can do!
Level-up your koalas
Those XP orbs you collected? Use them to unlock exciting abilities from the skills tree. The minions wouldn’t like it!
Poly Bridge
Good things about this game:
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Requires you to think
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I love the graphics
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Extremely challenging
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Great soundtrack
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Extra workshop levels
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It’s actually quite educational on how physics work, if you really take your time to analyze what goes wrong when the bridge breaks. You can also watch someone explain how everything works and you’ll be able to pick up some basic strategies, like replacing steel beams with “double-wood” and etc.
Bad things about this game (these are only minor things, nothing big):
– Real player with 231.2 hrs in game
Now that I have reached a total of 100+ hours clocked into this game, I feel that now I must write my own review.
This is after my first review, but for the most part, it is the same.
Down to the core, Polybride is another bridge building game. Place road, then support it. The difference is the presentation. This game is beautiful. Its scenery across the 6 worlds are very nice to the naked eye, They have added more tracks in the game so now, there is more calming music for you to enjoy. There is a nice community, which also happen to give you challenges that make you want to pull your hair out, and even make things that are above just creative. It’s sandbox has been fixed, a lot of the bugs have been fixed, and the difficulty curve is nice, and truly gets difficult. Honestly, If you think it is a bad game, give it a few more hours, and look at the community tab before giving a rash decition. Well done, and still more to come, as this is still a game in Early Access.
– Real player with 163.6 hrs in game
RoboCo
RoboCo is a wholesome sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow! Create any robot you can imagine in the creative sandbox mode or take on unique challenges.
Snap together an expansive variety of parts to bring the machines of your dreams to life. Hook up controls, customize how your robots move and operate, then add fun cosmetics like googly eyes and hats!
Put your engineering skills to the test in our tricky, open-ended challenges. Build custom robots to complete tasks like delivering sandwiches to hungry diners, preparing a romantic dinner, and showing off your robot dance moves!
Designed from the ground up to support both desktop and VR play, seamlessly switch between both modes with the click of a button!
Terraform Inc
Terraform Inc is a well-known hyperspace terraforming guild with branches in every galaxy. It purchases, modifies, and sells planets across known space - no questions asked. As a fresh employee, you are opening a new branch in a recently opened region of hyperspace. You will be building a network of geomantic rails to connect the guild resources to your customers' desires. Making deliveries will earn new capabilities in the form of spending capital to buy new components. As you learn, you will create intricate networks, tweak each placement to improve reliability, and aim for even greater heights - or just build whatever giant process tickles your fancy.
In exploring the abstract dreamlike-world of hyperspace, you will make new acquaintances among your customers and learn their preferences. Making deliveries will earn the favor of those you serve. With time and effort, you can become a preferred supplier. This will open up new opportunities through information, introductions, and even personal hyperspace enhancements. Unfortunately, not everyone is on amicable terms, so as you acquire each new friendship, you will earn others' suspicion.
As you gain familiarity with your new territory, you can begin to explore the greater mysteries. You might explore the outer ring and make new acquaintances further and further from the hub. You might investigate the local hyperspace anomalies. You might find new ways to utilize the capabilities of your geomantic rails.
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Construct: build a network of rails and parts in three dimensions
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Adjust: tweak slopes and positions to improve speed and reliability
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Automate: make intricate plans with production loops and alternate paths
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Profit: deliver planets to buyers to increase your budget and capital
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Interact: improve your relationship with your customers
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Advance: unlock new parts, buy more, and enhance your own powers
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Expand: open new territories and gain access to even more customers
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Survive: avoid the hazards of hyperspace and learn new tricks