Kings Gauntlet: Chess Revolution
Kings Gauntlet: Chess Revolution is a 1v1 chess-inspired action game where you shoot at your opponent to summon pieces on the board.
Pieces can move as they would in chess, they will try to crush any opposing king or piece that crosses their path.
As the match goes on, stronger pieces will be available for summoning, until the queens bring chaos on the battlefield.
Real Time Battle!
Shooting the enemy king will fill your gauge. When the summon gauge is filled, you can deploy a chess piece on the board!
Place them strategically and quickly dash around the arena to dodge opponent pieces!
Rush for glory!
Crowns will spawn around the arena now and then, gather three of them to use your special ability.
Powerful abilities!
Use your special ability to fire a special bullet that converts every enemy piece on its path, turn the tides in your favor and checkmate your opponent!
Key Features
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Online and local 1v1 multiplayer!
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Unique customization possibilities!
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Multiple characters with unique abilities!
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Strategic and deep gameplay!
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Powerful pickups!
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A unique and fresh take on the oldest game in the world!
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3D Chess
3D Chess!
Yeah.. it’s.. 3D chess.
I mean.. everyone knows how to play chess, I haven’t been playing it for two decades probably on a regular basis but I’ve learned it as a child and kept playing it here and there.. I think our ’90s PCs were flooded by 2D chess games..
This one.. is a 3D chess game. That costs 10€/$ - you read it well.
Essentially, it hosts all the negative and positive sides of every game made with the Unity engine - everything’s customizable, everything’s simplified.
Plus, the configuration screen is quite nice offering us volume options, v-sync, languages and most of all four different difficulty modes ranging from easy to hard (experienced is the 3rd option here).
– Real player with 136.7 hrs in game
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Overall – very good but still a great deal of work is necessary (really a lot). The application freezes pretty often so that’s a problem numero uno. Not sure if it’s the video card I have but fairly certain I am not the only one and it’s a great turn off. Next on the list is fixing some of the arenas as far as lighting conditions (it’s difficult to tell which piece is which when all you see are shadows). After that you should enable user to observe the board from an almost arbitrary angle. It can be a challenge as you would have to render the sky etc but even without it, a greater freedom of rotation is necessary, at least so that a player can get to see the board from the top vantage point in 3d mode (you have 2d mode but then the pieces lose 3d rendering which defeats the purpose). For your 2d, make sure to diversify the set of pieces you make available (the ones you have in 2d, which is really only one, are fine but there should be more with emphasis on 3d-ishness and appropriate light/shadow rendering). Increase the set of difficulty modes available (not good enough to just have 3 modes). Preferably to have the modes with ELO designations (i.e. I am playing a 2300 ELO computer opponent says a lot more than ‘hard’). Lastly (or in parallel with all of the above), let’s keep adding those excellent arenas which is really what this game is all about – let’s focus on boards and pieces with lots of reflection (marble-glass themes etc), lighting effects (fire is very good) – this would make this game unique in the marketplace.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Swim Out
This game is freaking awesome!
Gameplay.
First of all there is a demo version available so it’s better to try yourself. It might look a bit simple an easy on start and all mechanichs are very familiar to a puzzle fan but as you progress more and more the defficulty increases pretty seriously. Especially when you completing all possible tasks at each level. It took me about 15 hours to complete this game 100% and I am pretty experienced in puzzles. And at the end feeling of satisfaction was one of the strongest in a game period.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
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Swim Out is an excellent puzzle game, and at the same time, an interesting study about how differently people react to very similar games depending on their cover and packaging.
Focusing on the game first. Swim Out is a movement puzzle game, very similar to the Go series (ie. Hitman / Lara Croft / Deus Ex). You are in a swimming pool, and you need to reach the exit by avoiding all the other swimmers, considering the environmental hazards as well. As the game progresses, the pools get more complicated, there are different types of “enemy” swimmers, and also additional tools to help your progress. There are about a 100 levels, and if you want to complete all objectives (there are 1-5 per level), the game will take about 8-10 hours.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game