Outcast 1.1
Outcast is certainly worth a playthrough, even today. After 15 years, there have been little to no other games following its game concept of an open-world third-person shooter where you don’t just shoot everyone (OWTPSWYDJSE in short), and the “stranger in a strange world” setting concept is almost extinct because consumers prefer things they know.
This game will throw you into a strange world and force you to adapt to being called the Ulukai, to everything and its mother being or having a “Fandazma”, and to saving with a “Gaamsaav”.
– Real player with 175.0 hrs in game
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I remember way back when, when I was a small, foolish child who could barely understand english. Even though all I had was the demo version of Outcast, I knew it was a fantastic game, and I’d play it day after day. And now, here I am, happy to say it still occupies my slot of #1 favorite game of all time.
The world is the most alive I’ve ever experienced, even moreso than any modern games that boast having a living world to this day. The characters and story are interesting, there’s so much to discover about the world of Adelpha, and everything has an interesting or funny in-universe reason for being the way it is - right down to why the keys only work once before they break.
– Real player with 147.8 hrs in game
Vangers
Vangers, there are a few hurdles that you’ll have to cross to get into this game.
first is that the resolution is locked at 600x800, its a bit disjointing when you’re used to 1920x1080.
second is that the controls were obviously mapped by a programmer with very long flexible fingers, expect to spend some time slowly remapping most of the key bindings.
third it that this version of the game is lacking is any sort of manual or tutorial. expect to have no idea what you’re doing for the first part of the game. mistakes will be made.
– Real player with 32.0 hrs in game
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Summary
Obviously Vangers is dated and most will play it merely for nostalgia’s sake. Nevertheless, this game has interesting features that make it stand out, even to date. If you remember this game, get it for cheap and relive the memorable times. If you’re just curious, hopefully my review will help in your decision to buy it or not.
Pros
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Interesting (background) story.
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Additional gameplay features, such as trading and exploring that make Vangers more than ‘just a racing game’.
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
Diorama Dungeoncrawl
Designed to be “NES Hard”, this game does indeed feel like an homage to NES Castlevanias. Occasionally, depth perception was tricky due to the perspective, but overall, I like what the diorama-like presentation adds to the formula. I’m not quite done yet, but I’m a fan of the way the challenges progresses. I’d recommend this if you have the patience for some challenging rooms with potentially “cheap” deaths (depending on your perspective).
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
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One of the more challenging games by the developer. I can’t really think of another game like this on Steam that combines platforming and the sort of action here, but it was decent to play.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game