BULLET PARTY
This is a seemingly straightforward schmup on the surface but it’s just as much a puzzle game. Levels fly at you thick & fast, and you sometimes have just seconds to destroy all the enemies onscreen. However the visuals, whilst retro, are clearly defined & even though you will perish (many times!) it never feels annoying as you get put back in again, forcing you to think quickly & remember what worked & what didn’t.
Kind of unique among the many twin stick shooters out there, and great value. Even the pulsing soundtrack is effective. Get it!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
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BULLET PARTY is obviously a bullet hell game. A very hellish bullet game at that.
CONS
1. Gets very hard very easily, but this is to be expected. Bullet hell game after all. (Still annoying.)
2. No level editor. I feel like a level editor would REALLY make this game, especially if you could upload your levels and others could play theeem……………………
1. Very fun experience, with lots of levels.
2. Very fun with friends.
FINAL VERDICT
BULLET PARTY is a very fun game as you can tell. The game can be annoying at times, but it’s worth the money.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
LiaDS is a very cool game. You are on a mission to restore love to the galaxy in your spaceship, with either one player and an AI helper, or local co-op. It has a pretty unique gimmick, in that you must move your characters from station to station in order to control parts of the ship you’re flying. What this means in practice is that most of the time one person will be flying the ship, while the other moves between the guns and the shields defending you. In special circumstances both players will have to man the defenses while the ship idles.
– Real player with 138.9 hrs in game
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PROS:
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fantastic gameplay
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cool boss fights
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cute art style
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4 campaigns (20 levels)
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nice difficulty variety
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a roller coaster of emotions
CONS:
- no online co-op
Comment:
Sometimes a little gem of a game appears and rocks your gaming life. This is one of those games. Charged with flying a space ship against the forces of Anti-love you have up to seven stations to operate. Singleplayer is doable with an AI pet buddy who you assign to which station he should go to. However, the AI cannot fly the ship for you and some boss fights prove more difficult. Still, it is nice to have AI that actually works and you can finish the whole campaign with. Apart from one achievement you can do the entire game solo. But should you? Well … not really. This game is built around playing with another person (or people) and it shows. The intense way this game brings people together means you will both argue and celebrate together. I can recommend it as a team-building game as well. This comes from the fact that no player is useless. Whether it is operating the shields, engines or weapons, it all is needed to ensure victory. This shows especially true in boss fights. Large amount of difficulty settings helps make the game more accessible to new/casual gamers. But at the same time more veteran players can opt for the higher difficulties for an added challenge. Sadly, there is no online multiplayer. While I get the sentiment behind the point of having a real person play next to you (it is incredibly great) it sadly is not an option for everyone. Therefore online play would be more than welcome. Personally I had a HUGE amount of fun playing this game, in solo play, but especially with my wife and her bro. So much fun in fact that I would dare say this is the best co-op game I have ever played. It mixes all the right elements together and creates an experience like no other. If you have a person (or people) who can come over and play with you this is a must-have game!
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Undercrewed
J+M+J
It’s fun, though the bots are well… still bots, but that’s to be expected, at least they aren’t bad, they just aren’t to terribly great either. (They’ll do stuff like get stuck in a room, or pilot your about-dead-ship into mines that could have very easily been avoided or destroyed… but they’re pretty good in general with the rest of their duties)
I’d really like to see more missions go into this game, but as to the ones that are up they are fun (though, they could do with a bit more variation… especially exploritory-wise, as traveling through space doesn’t seem to terribly interesting, but I’m not sure how you’d add more variety to that, besides maybe having a map where you have to carefully pilot around obstacles, or maybe pilot your way into a hanger/base of some sort).
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
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I’ve had a blast playing this with my friends. I backed the kickstarter so I’m excited this is out. Currently there’s a good amount of released missions for a few hours of gameplay, but since it’s possible to highly customize your ship it’s still very fun replaying those same missions, usually with a different crowd. Since you can play the multiplayer locally and the game is very easy to get in to it works well as a party game.
In early access there are still a few bugs, but for the most part the game is bug free.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Cymatically Muffed
The good:
Lots of fast fun frenetic action, plenty of game modes.
Audio track is decent.
Good menus, extensive controls and customization.
Responsive, capable developer.
The bad:
Hard to see some items, visual style is lacking and can make things unclear sometimes.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
I’ve played the local multiplayer several times with friends and have had a great time playing. The variety of game types and settings provide a lot of options for replayability. I can’t wait to play the campaign once it is released, especially since it can be played coop. Cymatically Muffed is reminiscent of older classics while still providing new and exciting mechanics of it’s own. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
SUPER Cute Alien
Follow Fito across multiple worlds, in a action packed search for justice. Run, think, shoot and feel. Rescue your love, save your friends and make new ones.
Can you save Cydonia from a rougue AI and its questionable decisions?
Gather your friends and enjoy a campaign in coop mode or fight each other in a fully fleshed out arena combat.
Currently featuring multiple game modes, 1-4 players:
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PVE: Story Mode. Coop Is Supported!
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PVP: Versus (rounds)
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PVP: Last One standing
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PVE: Survival
Features
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Beautiful platforming and advanced movement: double jump, wall jump, dodge, edge grab. Get in top of creatures and ride them.
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A complex platformer AI system, supporting stealth, squad formation, communication, life preservation, pathfinding and different attacking methods.
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Unlockable content and abilities.
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Voice acting featured by Alexandria Johns, Francine Padilla and Richard Mendez.
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Special guest appareances from the indie world, such as Issac and Dr. Fetus!
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Multiplayer bots.
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Dynamic day/night system.
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Bosses and mini-bosses.
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Player customization.
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Hand crafted levels.
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Toggleable gore system.
Aloof
Aloof has a lovely unique atmosphere and simple to pick up gameplay but with insane depth. And I think I only started scratching the surface. It also has many multiplayer modes! Start for the vibe and stay for the combo’s.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Cool puzzle game
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
Bake ‘n Switch
There’s lots of love and effort put into this game. The breads are super adorable!While you can play the game with 2 players, it definitely gets more fun if you’ve got a full party.There are a couple of levels that could be balanced a little better. In some you can get away with camp stacking the spawners which can get quite mundane. But you’ll realize there’s a wide range of difficulty once you play the stormy levels or try to complete each level with 3 coins.The highlights for me are the boss levels. My hands got real sweaty taking them on.
– Real player with 79.2 hrs in game
This game is deceptively difficult. How can so cute be so challenging?
The gameplay feels like a high bread (ha ha!) between Moving Out and Overcooked. Finishing levels is doable first try, getting 3 stars is a lot harder on many of the levels. Storm levels - geez, those are tough!
One thing I would love to see is adjusted star level scores for additional players (3-player should have a higher score needed for 3-star than 2-player).
Overall, an adorable game with challenging gameplay that feels like it will take quite a while to actually complete. Here’s hoping there are 4-star levels when we get there.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Flock of Dogs
Flock of Dogs is a top-down, twin-stick, crew game. Most of the time, one player pilots the whale and everyone else rides flying dogs to battle and quest. Players can land on the whale and relaunch when ready. The journey leads to the Flying Festival through procedurally-generated, floating biomes with a mix of creatures, characters, and quests.
Together with your brother and sister Dogriders, mount up on flying dogs. Name them. Teach them tricks. Then put on a fancy hat, grab your umbrella, and soar through the air. Make sure to tend to your flock as dogs can get hungry, thirsty, sick, and injured.
A friendly skywhale acts kinda like your living airship. It will provide plenty of inventory space in its big belly and nests for your flying dogs. You can also strap different gear onto the whale, such as the water hose, vacuum turret, or just extra shelves.
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Travel to the Flying Festival
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Pick up hitchhikers on the way to the Flying Festival
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Battle monsters to protect the hitchhikers you pick up on the way to the Festival
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Fire broadsides from whale-mounted cannons
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Be swallowed by a whale and then be spouted out of its belly
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Collect solar power and mop up environmental disasters
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Wear hats
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The Flying Festival at the end of the Air River
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Your treehouse on a floating island
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Blue Blob Land
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The eye of a sandstorm
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Into a dark cave filled with monsters
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Into a bightly lit cave to party with friends
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A lighthouse
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The land of giants
There is support for up to 8 LOCAL and/or ONLINE players. Singleplayer. 2 players on 1 keyboard. Dozens of supported controllers. And it features native network code built on the Photon Unity Networking plug-in. Of course, it also supports Steam Remote Play Together.
Every copy of Flock of Dogs comes with one Friend Slot. It’s not exactly 2-for-1, but in some ways, it’s better. A Friend Slot allows you to invite one friend who doesn’t own the game to join you online. This utilizes the native network code. You can invite any friend, and each time, it can be a different friend. Additional Friend Slots will be available for purchase.
Flock of Dogs is inspired by storybooks, cartoons, and suburban parks. It features hand-drawn characters and painted environments. It is filled with color and quirkiness and danger. Brave adventures can seek out dark caves filled with monsters, while those wanting a leisurely float to the Flying Festival are also accomodated. Wherever, however, and with whomever you play Fock of Dogs, It’s a magical flight.
King’n Knight
King’n Knight is an arcade platform game that takes place in a medival fantasy world. Play solo or coop in this game inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins and Megaman!
In King’n Knight, you will travel alone or with your friends for an adventure in a medival fantasy world filled with demons. You have to fight against the demons to restore peace and free the realm from evil.
Features
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Solo / Coop up to 4 players online or on the same screen.
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Collect gold and reach higher levels, stuff your hero buying weapons and equipment.
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You can at any time change your play style by selling your equipment.
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Play in coop and chose your roles : The bow will help you attack the enemies from a distance, the sword is the perfect play style to defeat small monsters, whereas the axe will help you kill the stronger one. The torch which is one of the hardest to master, will help you guide your friend!
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You will play against 50 differents type of mobs and tenish boss on the 10 levels.
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Use the workshop to chose, create and share your hero style.
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Controller support.
Tinker Racers
This game far exceeded my expectations!!
I agree with someone who wrote a review saying “it’s almost like stealing from the developers”. It is very cheap for what it delivers (in fact I still don’t get the price so low, maybe because it is in Early Access …).
After unlocking all the tracks, we spent a lot of time having so much fun at Free For All Mode! 4 people playing it is insane!
The lack of an online multiplayer would be a serious problem for a game like this if it weren’t for Steam’s Remote Play Together. Luckily because of this steam feature we were able to have a lot of fun playing online, so maybe that can be disregarded. If you are playing on the keyboard, just remember to previously agree on which keys each player of the remote play together will play (after all you are supposed to be playing on the same keyboard via stream … it took us a while to realize this).
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
It’s extremely difficult to speak ill of this game considering the price it charges. It’s dirt cheap, it’s almost like stealing from the developers. And what’s in it for you?
As the game itself says in its description, it is essentially a clone of MicroMachines. It is essentially the same game, with the same principles: you use small (toy) cars, running on tracks that seem to have been assembled by children in their rooms, to play against other cars. If the distance between the first place and the other cars is too great, the cars that touch the edges of the screen are defeated and disappear, until there is only one car left on the track. Then, you win the round, and repeat this for 5 more times.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game