Lavapools - Arcade Frenzy
You will hate bats for the rest of your life if you play this game.
An Analysis of Lavapools
Recommendation for people who like rage games/games that require skill and have lots of player death: 10/10
Recommendation for people who aren’t into that stuff: 5/10
Overview: Lavapools is a top-down rage game. You are a crab, trying to get your son back who has been stolen by an octopus who is designing traps for you.
Lavapools has 3 gamemodes on several levels:
1. Procedural
The most common gamemode. You collect gems from gem spawn points, and as you get more gems the world gets more hazardous. At 25 gems the door opens to end your progress and save your score, but you can keep collecting gems. When you die, you drop about half of your gems in one little pile and can pick them back up when you respawn (with 0 gems, of course). The hazard level/rank/music also resets when you die. The levels in this gamemode are the smallest compared to other gamemodes.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
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Pure skills arcade game. Why it’s awesome ?
1. You play as a blue Krabb
2. You play in a HOOOOT volcano (Yes, the game is called Lavapools for a reason)
3. It’s full of deadly trap, and you will die …. a lot.
Very easy to understand, very hard to master.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Retexo Mori
“Above all, we hold this to be irrefutable: Death is the only True Evil. Retexo Mori.”
- Daily Prayer of the Unyielding
Retexo Mori is a Pac-Man-like game in first person, with bullet hell elements and an aesthetic that clashes early 90’s FPS pixel-art with vaporwave. It features short, high-intensity rounds inside carefully crafted arenas where you must navigate, avoid, and outwit Shadows that pursue you relentlessly. It is easy to understand, but difficult to master: while the enemies behave predictably, in tandem they can easily box you in if you don’t think far enough ahead.
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Dark Zodiac
Mystictronaut is traveling alone in search all lost constellations. His costume, boots, gun and grenade give him special abilities so he is up to the task. Hunting aliens and robots, searching for the path through this universe of planets and stars.
Playing as Mystictronaut you can:
1- Fly through space using your revealing bomb to reveal hidden planets and asteroids.
2- When the planet or asteroid is revealed it comes with lots of aliens and robots that you must eliminate.
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Adventure Rush
Get ready for another incredible adventure, face spiders, monsters and goblins in a side scrolling system with Shoot ‘Em Up elements and try out numerous equipment with your hero.
But beware of the fearsome dragon!!
Adventure Rush is a game of easy introduction and difficult to master, combine skill and quick reflexes with strategy when selecting items during your journey, every life point is valuable and each gold coin can be decisive in your destiny!!
Play Control or Keyboard with full compatibility, just choose what is most comfortable and start your adventure.
The Main Features are the countless heroes, tons of items, pets, magic rings, enchanted books and accessories with various maps and biomes full of secrets and mysteries waiting to be unraveled.
Above the Stars
Fun game, and the voiceover is funny, well acted, and enjoyable.
I like leave the game running while at work, come home, buy everything I can with the collected money, then blow up anything that has the audacity to come near the planet I’m protecting.
Fantastic blend of incremental, idle, and active mechanics - all are well done and blend nicely with each other. Not many games make we want to leave my computer on all day when I’m not in front of it, much less make it the first one to be maximized when I sit down.
– Real player with 164.4 hrs in game
At the end of the day, I’ve gotten more out of a number of free games. I don’t mind paying for incrementals and idles and the game is cheap. However, the content is very shallow IMO. The upgrades are uninspiring, the overall prestige system is tedious and you’ll quickly find yourself without the desire to keep doing the same thing over and over. The grind I can handle… if the payoff is worth it. I do think the dev has promise though, and I hope they’ll learn valuable lessons for the future.
– Real player with 126.7 hrs in game
Full Mojo Rampage
Review edited for release… still nothing but good things to say about it!
There is tons more I could say about this game and how much I enjoy it than what is in this review, so free to message me on Steam if you have any questions. I highly recommend this game if you’re looking for something new in your action roguelite/dungeon-crawling experiences… it was the most polished Early Access Alpha I had ever played, and is even better now that it is released.
Graphics
Very nice and consistently styled, even in the character screen. The choice in what a friend of mine put as “playful yet macabre” is spot-on, and a very nice change of pace from others (not that those are bad, but FMR is a unique breath of fresh air).
– Real player with 139.2 hrs in game
If you didn’t think there was enough “Gauntlet” in “Gauntlet”, you should probably invest in this. I will mention Gauntlet rather a lot in this “review”, btw.
The first point, and it’s a reasonably large one, that this game scores over Gauntlet is that it has genuinely random (thus replayable ad inifinitum*) levels and a fairly expansive character customization section make this a far more worthwhile purchase. Gauntlet promised randomised, limitless levels and failed to deliver, preferring instead to rotate a level through 180degrees or make you do them “the opposite way round” (from start to finish in a ‘death’ level, for example). It’s obvious, woeful and does nothing to hide the fact that you’re always playing from a small group of levels that can easily be remembered, no matter what way round they are.
– Real player with 32.9 hrs in game
Sophstar
Sub-Lieutenant Soph has lived in Galanian for her whole life, having no memory of when her existence started, and no idea of how she developed her teleporting powers. But after being sent for a recon mission, all of what she knows about herself is about to change.
Sophstar is a vertical arcade shoot’em up with heavy inspiration from the best games of the genre from the 90s, while adding new-exciting features and regular game modes for both casual home players and hardcore arcade fans.
Features
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Proper arcade 240x320 resolution.
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6 Different game modes.
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8 Stages on Arcade/Story mode.
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60 Stages on Cadet School mode.
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9 ships to choose from, each one with different main weapon, subweapon and teleport. Pick the one that suits you style better or just go the extra mile and master all of them!
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Tons of unlockable features.
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6 Difficulty levels
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Different endings depending upon player skills.
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More than 20 bosses/mid-bosses to fight.
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Smooth controls with “Focus Movement” which allows for pixel-perfect movement.
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Approachable score systems for both new and veteran shmup players.
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Full control support, supporting both digital DPads and Analogue Sticks (But allowing only 8 way constant speed movement).
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Vertical (Tate) screen mode for authentic arcade feeling.
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Innovative teleport system .
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Score Attack, Timed Challenge, Endless Mode and Ultimate Challenge are some of the modes that give you extra content and hours of gameplay.
Robobo TM
Wow! Didn’t expect to have so much fun with this game. It has shooting, exploration and invisible stuff lurking all over the place. I KNOW! Most of them are itens to boost your level, but I love to discover things anyway. =D
You can unlock new abilities and improve your overall stats. Pretty cool!
Took me about one and a half to two hours to get to the end and then I discovered that i missed some blue bugs.
I’ll be returning back to the game soon and will try to find these missing bad boys.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Very nice platform game. Good soundtrack and graphics.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Goblin Dungeoneer
I mean, it’s free, but I kinda still want a refund.
I like the art style, and that’s pretty much it.
Level desing is horrible. Movement feels really clunky. Also, your character will keep clipping in platform edges all the time, the collision check really should be improved.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
I love difficult platformers… but my god this is the most annoying kind of difficulty. I have never seen one game overuse timed blocks to this extent. I wouldn’t mind if the background music matched up with the blocks, but it doesn’t. Having to keep the correct rhythm going in my head for over half the playtime is just tedious.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
The Scam
This is a game in which being scammed is a feature. You will be trying to mind your own business and collect coin-like objects while being hunted by evil red squares. But out of no where you will get scammed. This game is also a scam, it is clearly a scam I would not recommend playing this for your whole life. Spending money on this will not change your life in any way. However it might help you pass the time, the loading screen is pretty long so there’s a cool feature. It is totally intentional too. The game has state of the art pixel graphics, and the music will help you sleep. By sleep I mean, obviously you will have nightmares, but you will close the game so quickly you will not be on your computer anymore. This game is clearly a public service that should be rewarded with the utmost respect.