Starshot: Space Circus Fever
This may be the best way to play Starshot: Space Circus Fever today.
It’s relatively sad, because, as it’s been said, it is a bad port.
This being said, all of the issues can be overcome, and you can have an enjoyable experience with a few precautions.
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TECHNICAL ISSUES
…obviously we’ll have to live with these homemade “fixes”, I have no hope these devs will ever take a second look at the game.
First of all, the FRAMERATE. The game becomes completely unplayable at some points in the first level. You have to exit the game and restart, you get 1 frame per second or something. I solved this problem running the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP - Service Pack 3. After I did this, my save file got deleted (?), but then I completed the game with ZERO FRAMERATE ISSUES, FROM BEGINNING TO END.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
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Personally I enjoyed the game for the nostalgia. One of the first games i ever played on computer. Starshot is a super old game, and therefore plays like it. Broken camera angles, messy controls and getting stuck on more than a fair share of objects. However I got lucky with it playing just fine on windows 10. I honestly thought I would encounter more bugs running it.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Cracked Up
Gameplay
Cracked Up is a fun puzzle platformer where an chicken uses her eggs as a weapon, or just as a way to climb up onto platforms.
Find your way back to your nest but watch out for foxes, pits and other dangers along the way.
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30 levels to complete
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5 crazy egg types
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Many brain scratching puzzles
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Secret Golden Eggs that unlock
Story
Dumpling the chicken was swept up by a tornado and was thrown into a world of puzzle and excitement. Help Dumpling get back to the farm by solving puzzles, jumping platforms and using your eggs with unique properties. On the way Dumpling will have to deal with the wildlife, dangers and eat a whole bunch of seeds. Eat berries to change your eggs into powerful puzzle solving tools to help travers this mysterious world!
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Effie
This is again more of a neutral rating than a definite positive one. But let me get more into the details to explain.
Effie is a typical Unreal 3D-platformer made by a small team, and this shows, in both good and bad ways. On the positive side you can definitely see the dedication and work that was put into the environments of some levels (like the Vineyard or Windmills City), the platforming sequences are decent, too, and the many runes to collect give some good incentive to explore. Difficulty stays in a casual to easy range, yet doesn’t get too boring. Music was quite fitting as well, not too much variation, but also alright on the whole. So I have to admit I had fun regarding those aspects all in all. I didn’t mind the sometimes a bit clunky movements, or the narration style (a voiced narrator tells the game like a story to his grandchild). But the design and technical flaws sadly always pulled my experience down in between.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
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TL;DR at the end.
When you start the game, right off the bat, first thing I noticed is how unpolished the game is, the animations for opening chests for example seem half-assed, the combat basically consists of just mashing heavy attack and later on when you unlock the boomerang move (which for some reason is even stronger than the heavy attack while also being a huge AoE) and you spam that instead you have to watch that animation in slow-motion EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
On the narrative side, the story is very basic but that’s not why I’m here for, and the voice acting is pretty lame and you’d keep hearing the same voice lines over and over again for example every time you open a blue chest you get one of two voice lines, and you open quite a lot of them.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
CorePiercer
This game is well balanced, well done, the gameplay is really cool.
The idea of drilling the basement is very nice to me. No crash or bug when I play but sometimes a little trouble stopping my train in the station lol. I love to control my machine with the mouse !!
Note: 8/10 therefore
After I played this game for 23 hours : I just can’t stop playing it .. Going deeper and deeper ! !
– Real player with 549.0 hrs in game
An interesting experiment. The player will take on the role of the driver of a huge drill. The whole point of the game is to go down as low as possible, get a certain amount of resources, return to the surface and improve your drill.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Mail Mole + ‘Xpress Deliveries
My rating: 7/10
Initially the level design is very basic and easy, perfect for getting the hang of the mechanics of this platformer. Each level is slightly more difficult until you complete the set, then also adds new mechanics and consequence with each new area. Very solid, smart design. Keeps the player engaged and challenged and the overall game from feeling stale.
The timing aspect doesn’t have to be taken seriously if you only want the story, which is great for freedom of choice I think. I see they have support now for Leaderboards and a Speedrun timer, not among my concerns but is cool to see. Makes me wonder if the racing segments could be evolved into an online multiplayer racing game? Happy to see the passion from the developers regardless!
– Real player with 14.1 hrs in game
Target Audience: More Laid Back Platforming Fans
Summary:
Mail Mole is worth the price of admission, although it’s one of those games that’s focusing on a sub-set of the platforming lovers of the world. Taking strong influence from games such as Super Mario Sunshine, it’s unique underground movement mechanic provides a solid basis for a game that focuses on more straight forward trap avoidance and speed (at times) more then exploration or combat. Level design may be simple, but it allows focus on the minute details of movement and really, that’s what the game really hinges on in the end, and it did provide me fun for the game’s 5 hour or so run time. The environments are pretty but won’t blow you away, and the game seems like a perfect type of game for younger kids to get them introduced to the world of platformers, while still being enjoyable for adults.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Lil Big Invasion
Awesome indie game with way enough content to fit the bill. Its kinda like Pikmin except they are trapped in dungeons and you must find and rescue them.
Really loved the sound and the art-style. Dungeons are getting way harder and better later on and the boss fights are fun. It took me some time to get used to the controls tho. Exploration is great IF you figure out how the moths and the worms do work… which is not part of the tutorial :/
It’s cute but challenging and worth the money.
– Real player with 46.4 hrs in game
This is a fun little action adventure game, developed by my former colleague Andreas. It’s so cute, but challenging ‘til the last minute and the sounds are really funny, even if the little fireflies sometimes don’t behave as you want them to. But that’s the trick of the game and you’ll soon know how to handle them right in order to crack some highscores. Overall, an awesome game!
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
SDST: Deluxe
SDST: Deluxe is the ultimate version of a classic jump’n’run game with lots of innovation that immerses you in a spooky ghost world.
An evil ghost kidnapped all of your children and it’s your mission to get them back!
On the way you travel through 25+ original levels to defeat the final boss, and unlock extra levels along the way.
In the levels you collect coins that you can spend on cosmetics in the local shop.
The story gets explored through animated cinematics throughout your playthrough.
Features
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Fast paced platforming gameplay.
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25+ Levels and a top-down-overworld with npc’s and their routines.
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Openness in what levels you play and where you go.
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4 hats and 4 shirts you can buy in the shop to customize your character.
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Bad monochromatic pixel art style.
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Full controller support.
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Many secrets in the levels and on the overworld.
Food Comes From Above
10/10.
Really fun, very good gameplay, very good graphics. Such good yes
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Neutron and the Tri-Spark
Action Mazer Runner where you collect energy pellets while avoiding and destroying enemy security bots.
Key Features
INSPIRED BY THE ARCADE CLASSIC
SPECIAL POWER UP
UNIQUE MAZE BOSSES
Sunset Mall
This is an amazing game, I love the retro 90s style, and the store items that you can buy are actual 90s items and thats pretty cool. Cyan Dreams is constantly rolling out new updates to improve the gameplay, which they never fail to do. Since I started playing, this game has been getting progressively better and better, and I believe it will continue to do so in the time to come.
If you are reading these reviews while considering to buy the game or not, I would DEFINITELY recommend it, 10/10. Just make sure you keep an eye out for the porple gangstas :)
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
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this wonderful virtual mall shopping experience speaks to me on a spiritual level;
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game