Domineon 2
Step into the Domineon 2 Arena and experience a fast-paced couch party game straight out of the golden age of arcades. Have intense battles in fully destructible arenas with up to 8 players. Last pixel standing wins.
FEATURES
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Battle with up to 8 friends:
Play on your own or with up to 8 players. Kill each other using any means necessary and be the last pixel alive.
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Compete in fully destructible arenas:
Every single pixel on screen in the Domineon combat arenas is fully destructible. Break other player’s tails to create new opportunities, or completely tear apart the map. Anything goes.
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A large arsenal of deadly weapons:
Weapons are placed around the maps and can be collected by players creating areas where engagements are inevitable. In the arena you’ll find guns, missiles, mines, nukes, or even parasites. You know the usual.
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An intense retro soundtrack:
Domineon 2 includes a retro sound-track featuring Waveshaper and Droid Bishop along with other talented artists.
Domineon 2 is created by an Indie Dev Studio in Berlin. We would be super happy if you would put Domineon 2 on your wishlist and buy it as soon it comes out. Seriously - we owe people money.
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Double Dragon: Neon
A fun, absurdist beat ‘em up with some glaringly rough edges. Neon is one of the better beat ‘em ups out there, peppered with jokes lampooning its own franchise as well as the ’80s in general, counterbalanced by some irritatingly sloppy pieces. Namely all its cutscenes, ending, and 8 company logos being unskippable. Since so much of the humor is based on novelty, there are a lot of diminishing returns that just aren’t designed for these drawn out, repeat viewings… which the game is centered around with a stat-grinding system.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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I’ve read and heard many criticisms about this game and do not quite understand them. I will try and address them and give my opinion as to why this is probably one of the top three Double Dragon games.
**Graphics:
Solid art design, although some of the enemies are a bit more cartoony than previous DD designs, the colors, backgrounds, animations and effects are pretty solid. The game mixes 3D models with the occasional 2D background object, The alley level is particularly nice. Varied environments and enemies with vibrant colors.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
The Walking Vegetables
Got it for free for a week. The Short Beta Key from Bundlestars (as of Nov.1 named Fanatical) I enjoyed very much.
I didnt beat the game despite wielding the Giant almost every playtrough and blasting everything with one shot weapons… but I see its potential. Of all the twin stick coop shooters I played this has one of the best gameplay feelings to it. Repetitiveness is also not a big deal since you yourself can chose how fast you go from chapter to chapter.
There are lots of weapons which you can all collect and select on a weapon wheel while the time slows down around you THere is also a melee component which is a must to get rid of incoming enemies and some projectiles. Furthermore you got your trusty randomization, respawning enemy waves, shops and crate drops after clearing out houses. It is also kid friendly since most of the time you will be slaughtering bizarre looking vegetables - which you can still hit with you melee weapon for a short time after you already killed them. So satisfying!
– Real player with 18.1 hrs in game
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This game’s nice. Maybe not GOTY, but most things work well enough.
The structure is simple enough - to beat the campaign (which is something you’ll do multiple times), you have to get past several “chapters”, each concluding with a boss fight. Areas consists of a large “hub” (which has paths to other areas and constantly spawning enemies), multiple “objective areas” (where you fight a number of enemies to unlock the path to the boss), multiple buildings (which are also filled with enemies and can be fought through for loot) and a shop.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Antstream Arcade
Antstream Arcade is the place where you can find the world’s largest collection of classic games in one place. Download to instantly play thousands of retro video games - all for free! One account works across multiple devices, so you can pick up and play on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Amazon Fire, NVIDIA Shield, and Atari VCS. Easily replay your favourite games from your youth such as Asteroids, Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble and many more!
Challenge global leaderboards and compete against your friends to get the highest score. Take on our social challenges - bite size sessions which allow veterans and new players alike to experience a fresh take on retro games. Compete against the world in our weekly tournaments!
Black Future ‘88
Do I recommend Black Future ‘88?
Tough one. “Yes and no” would be my answer.
I’ve spent a little more than a full day as whole playing this game. And, sadly, this is probably as much enjoyment as I am going to get from it. And yet, these 26 hours were (mostly) a blast. It’s fast, it’s brutal, it’s hard, it has some cool cryptic mechanics to discover, it allows you to build your character from many varying pieces you find throughout the game - traits, weapons, powerups, curses. It’s quite a lot.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game
TL;DR: If you like Rogue Lites, this one is certainly one of the standouts. I easily recommend the game. I didn’t know where I could fit in the soundtrack part of the review, so I’ll just say that while it doesn’t transcend the genre, it’s good all around and even has some great tracks.
Black Future ‘88 is a Platformer Rogue Lite (or Action Rogue Like, if you prefer) in which you race against the clock to climb Skymelt, the living tower, and defeat the architect of the apocalypse, Duncan. People have described this game as style over substance. If you look at gameplay, you might be forgiven to think so too. It’s a visual and auditory overload of neon colors, flashes and sounds. However, if you take the time to adapt yourself to it, and learn it’s quirks, you’ll make sense of it and it becomes surprisingly readable.
– Real player with 19.5 hrs in game
Monkey King vs Transformers
It has a little something for everyone! 10/10
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
THIS IS ONE OF THE COOLEST GAMES IN THE UNIVERSE!!!
Momkey king vs transforemers is a fighting game where you must choose a character and fight another character. Theres a lot of character in this game to play as. You can choose what character you want to play as and what character you want to battle with. This is such a buetifull game I say its easily one of the top 25 games on steam.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
In fact, I resisted Youngblood from the start. Since I had to take a break because of Covid and had a lot of time, I thought to myself, well, it’s Wolfenstein, it can’t be that bad, can it?
Yes, it is bad, unfortunately 😒
In itself, it’s actually a decent shooter with a few RGP elements. But the game gets boring just as quickly.
Instead of exciting missions in special locations such as the New Order lunar base or a regime film set in The New Colossus, you mainly run through the repetitive streets of Paris and rattle off small mission objectives. That’s why the main story is completely finished in about 10 hours.
– Real player with 28.4 hrs in game
You can see what they were trying to do with this one.
They took the Wolfenstein engine, added two player co-op, and make the game infinitely replayable by having a few areas repopulate ala RPG-style, and added RPG-like elements to the game.
It sort of works - but as the side missions reuse the maps endlessly in fetch quests, you really retread a lot of the same ground. After a while the game areas become very repetitive and grindy, and somewhat pointless because you know the game has simply been padded out. This just wears out the replayability, especially since you’ll have to do the side-quests in order to level up to finish the main quest - but then the story isn’t that interesting either.
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game
Dragon Saddle Melee
Jump into an online game easily with automated matchmaking, or play solo.
Knock out enemies by bashing them from above.
Battle through progressively more difficult rounds
Grab power ups to help you survive and defeat the other dragons
The Challenge
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Jump into an online game easily with automated matchmaking
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Play the same game offline in solo mode
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Battle through progressively more difficult rounds
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Bash and fight enemy birds and other players before they bash you
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Become a Survivor by making it through all rounds before running out of lives
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Win the melee by being the Survivor with the highest score
Global Steel
Global Steel is a 2d run-and-gun video game inspired by Saturday-morning cartoons from the 80s. It follows the adventures of an organization that lives up to the credo of dispensing justice around the globe, with guns. Controlling three playable characters, it’s your job to shoot n’ blast through hordes of enemies as you save the world. Customize your armor-suits and weapons as you progress through an assortment of diverse levels.
Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure
Very average. Plays like a poor man’s ‘Arkanoid’ and the story is kind of preachy.
As for this being a PC port from the Playstation game, they could have at least added a ‘exit’ button to the main menu. It was built for Playstation users to quit via the ‘PS Button’. This is a rather annoying oversight.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
A great entry into the brick breaker genre. Controlling up to 4 paddles at once offers a good challenge, especially when combined with increasing ball speeds and a time limit. The main story can be completed in around an hour but there are a lot of alternative play modes which should provide more entertainment afterwards.
A few gripes:
- There is no way to aim the ball (as per a lot of older brick breakers, something solved by newer games like Shatter, Ultra Break etc). This can lead to frustration when going for the last few bricks, especially when combined with a time limit. A way to aim with precision would have been welcome.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game