Guns of Icarus Online
My rating of this game speaks for itself when you look at my credentials and see that I have laid down 3000+ hours in to this title. That said though there is a lot this game has to offer if you are considering obtaining this title. Bearing this review in mind I have since become apart of the development team as an intern at the time of writing this, I speak first and foremost as a player with personal opinions about this particular title.
All that said, this game is a steampunk style game, and with it teamwork and strategy is the biggest names of the game here. Communication and coordination with crews as well as allied ships on how each team engages one another is paramount to victory or defeat. Most matches usually run for about a good 15 minutes and are packed with the anticipation of engagements, counter-engagements and various methods for obtaining each map’s goals.
– Real player with 6070.2 hrs in game
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TLDR at bottom.
-Do you enjoy intricate team based gameplay, where you need to trust in the skill of your allies?
-Do you enjoy relatively easy mechanics that are tough to master?
-Do you fancy yourself a leader, that likes to communicate and see his orders carried out by real people?
-Do you love a game with a close tight community, where people follow the rules and everyone is willing to teach you?
If you said yes to any of these Guns of Icarus has a place for you.
-Do you not like having non transparent game mechanics? ( engines below 50% im looking at you )
– Real player with 1877.3 hrs in game
The Chaos Engine
I’m not sure if I am missing a large issue with this re-issue of this classic game, but the low metascore and bad reviews are something I just can not relate to or agree with at all. The Chaos Engine is a fantastic game that has a rock solid design, it is also one of the first games I ever played on the Amiga and was thrilled to see a remastered version released on Steam. Playing this again for the first time in about 18 years was the ultimate nostalgia trip. This game was way ahead of it’s time, as was it’s music.
– Real player with 32.3 hrs in game
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This is more a rant that a review so bear with me…
Chaos Engine year 1993. Reactions “This game is too hard whine whine whine”
Chaos Engine year 2013. Reactions “This game is too hard whine i want this whine i want that what a shame i have been a fan my whole life whine”.
I have not yet read any good points why this truly original HD remake game would suck. this game is rock solid in design. I can’t even name another game that would be like it and have the same level of thought used to design it. And dont even start on the graphics. they are bitmap brothers style graphics. Their trade mark. Whoever wants to mess with that needs to jump into an icy lake.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Abyss Crew
There is some really good idea in this game, but need a lot more content. The mission are pretty simple, even without a full team. it’s fun to switch from one post to another.
The bot are kinda dumb, constantly lowering energy. anyway, really good potential, hope for more good stuff.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
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I backed the game before its Steam release and played a fair bit with some mates wayyy back, it’s made a crazy amount of progress since then and I’m super excited to see what’s to come! It’s obvious it’s in early access but still a real fun experience if you’ve got a few friends to play with - it’s playable solo but the AI is a little clunky as it is.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Damnation
Damnation is a complete piece of bull-crap and I regret getting it, but it’s now time for a story.
Damnation is set on an alternate version of planet Earth, in the early part of the 20th century after the American Civil War, which had spanned over several decades, where steam engines replace combustion engines.
Both sides of the war fall and aloud Prescott an evil man who sold weapons to both sides. He was able to take over and went away with both the Union and Confederacy and turned the United States of America into a country called the American Empire/or the new America, but there are people still fighting, fighting him.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Damnation is a game that has its charm. But that charm stays in its premise and does not deliver.
Graphics
Damnation falls really short in everything and the first you immediately see as an example are the graphics.
Even for its time graphics are really bad - everything is kinda blurry and steamy. Steamy not as steampunk steamy because these bad graphics have nothing to do with the game’s style.
It doesn’t matter how big were Codemasters then. Not even their supposedly small budget, as much. There are many other small studios with games even a decade older than this one but with graphics that are way better and moreover - bearable. I don’t have a problem with retro/classic games' visuals but quite the opposite. However, these ones here are pretty bad. And the poor visuals are even more noticeable in the cutscenes.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
Gatling Gears
Gatling Gears is a hidden, underappreciated gem that deserves way more attention. It’s a wonderful twin-stick shooter with amazing soundtracks and perfectly balanced gameplay. It’s also one of the few dieselpunk games which makes this game even more interesting. There is not much to tell about the story because it’s not the selling point of this game and it’s not that interesting but the gameplay where it shines best. You can play co-op, solo, upgrade your walker, unlock new skins and try your hand on survival maps.
– Real player with 28.5 hrs in game
Combine Metal Slug, Ikari Warriors and Steam Punk into a game. You now have Gatling Gears!
What a great twin stick shooter from Vangaurd Games! It’s a BLAST to play!
My nephew and I had so much fun, we completed the entire game in one day!
GREAT NEWS! The game no longer requires any additional DRM from EA!
It plays just like any other game on Steam! SUPER NICE!
Pros +
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Local Co-Op - You and a friend can battle the evil empire from the same couch!
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Colorful World - It sure is pretty and filled with vibrant color!
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Iron Grip: Warlord
After many tries, me and two friends have managed to win all maps on God Difficulty (without multipliers). The core of the game is defending your base with towers, and the towers from defenses-eating tanks.
We’ve loved this game due to the amounts of strategies and fine tunning you can make to win in what seemed to be impossible (3 on God). If you like a style of game where you can try again and again and again, making small changes each attempt in order to find a winning strategy, Iron Grip might be a good try.
– Real player with 154.5 hrs in game
ANGRY RANT BEFORE REVIEW STARTS HERE:
Ignore all reviews complaining about graphics, as they have absolutely no understanding as to when this game was made. Also, ignore those reviews from people with less than an hour played. In it’s time, they were the best graphics around. And really, if you need good graphics for you to enjoy a game, that’s pathetic. Addressing those who have played less than an hour: Obviously you do not understand the game at all. Reading your reviews, I see you have absolutely zero understanding as to how the game works. It’s not a mistake that the enemies are blue and your team red. And really, who cares?
– Real player with 45.7 hrs in game
Tower Wars
In short: This is an AWESOME multiplayer tower defense game, but not too many people play it, so you should convince your friends to get it. You need a few hours to master all the mechanics, but then it’s great entertainment.
You and your opponent both have castles and barracks, and you need to send waves to destroy each other, while simultaneously upgrading your units and castles as well as tending to your gold mines. Gold is mainly needed for recruiting units, and as long as they are within enemy territory, they earn “battle points” for you, which you need for upgrades. This makes for some challenging gameplay, as you need gold to earn battle points, but also battle points to get upgrades to earn more gold, …
– Real player with 339.9 hrs in game
Do Not Buy!!!!!! Dev went bank rupt, no more company, no more updates, so game freezes and hard locks often. It’s a great game, I’m sad. Keeping the thumbs up because it was awesome and I’m very sad for this. Only thing it needs is some updates to work with new drivers and such. Still playable, but your experience will suffer. Sad day for a great game.
Tower Wars,
It’s not your average tower defence game. Sure it has a survival mode to play it that way but that’s not the sole action of this game. It’s a tower defender and attacker! That’s right you have to go on the offence or no matter how great you planning if you only defend you will fail. In fact if your balance of attach vs defence is even a little off you will fail. The computer baddys are tough, and may even break you heh.
– Real player with 116.7 hrs in game
We Need To Go Deeper
1. Amazing soundtrack that fits the atmosphere of the game completely. Which counts for battle and management of the ship into starting and or in between a adventure.
2. Anything game-breaking is immediately fixed usually by the awesome developers who spend so much of their time burning their eyes on the screen just to hear everyones suggestions and reports out.
3. Active developers in the community speaking and having conversation with the community in which they take ideas on from. (not that they need to, they’re not obligated to always respond or do work for everyone)
– Real player with 392.3 hrs in game
This game is so much fun. When you have even one other human to play it with, it is a comedy of errors as you try to manipulate your ship (which steers like a cow at the best of times, and a rock most of the time) into the depths of the Living Infinite, discovering all sorts of crazy new weapons and costumes along the way.
When you have even one other human.
It SAYS it’s playable single player, but that’s absolutely laughable. You can fill your submarine with a crew of bots that will nominally do things like slam their weakest wrenches against the holes in your ship or fire at every small enemy on your screen (even if it’s something you SHOULDN’T BE FIRING AT, like the totem that will spawn a ghost if you shoot at it but is perfectly safe if you steam gently past it)… but they won’t help you if you want a turn on the shooty shooty guns and want someone else to steer your yellow submarine. Nor will they help you bust through walls in your caving adventures if you happened to be holding an item that does not damage walls (like the chemistry set).
– Real player with 214.0 hrs in game
The Arcane Tower
The Arcane Tower is a VR game in steampunk setting where you need to solve various puzzles to find a way out.
We are participating in Steam Game Festival! A demo for The Arcane Tower will be available for PC from June 16 to 22! Try it out!
Game Features
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Escape the room game type is transferred to Virtual Reality.
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Unique puzzles.
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VR Shared space LAN multiplayer.
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Steampunk setting.
Story
You are a cave explorer who is stuck in a cave after a rock collapses. Looking around you find a handcar. Rails head you to the mysterious tower. Solve all the puzzles this tower hides. Move, look, interact, examine puzzles that was made specially for VR. Play solo or with friends. Discover all the secrets left by the Alchemistry Master.
Multiplayer Features
Play solo. Play with friends online. Or in VR shared space, in one room (required free space 5mx5m and required a local network between computers that helmets are connected to).
*VR shared space gives you an opportunity to interact with other players in real life and in Virtual Space.
Guns of Icarus Alliance
With ~700 hours or ~1000 matches on old GOI, and an alpha/beta tester for Alliance, I can recommend Alliance if you desire two of the three below:
+Teamwork-focused play
+Airships
+Stratigic planning and execution.
I’ll go into each in more detail below, but that’s the TL;DR. If you check off two boxes above: get the game!
Teamwork
With the basic ship requiring four crewmembers to run, Guns of Icarus rewards the crew as a whole, not the individuals among them. For example, you can be the best gunner in the world, but if the pilot can’t get the guns to bear on the target, you’ll have a harder time. The same goes with piloting. You may be a great pilot, but if the engineer neglects the engines your ship will quickly be dead in the water. The same goes for engineering, you may keep the components up under pressure, but if the gunner fails to take out the enemy ship’s guns or the pilot puts your ship in a 2v1, well, there is only so much a single engineer can do!
– Real player with 507.2 hrs in game
Updated: Jan 4 @ 1:43pm
I like to call myself a veteran of this masterpiece of a game. It’s a sad story.
Started off so fun, so strong, but lack of true content (A few maps every now and then, but it just felt like it wasn’t going anywhere) made me stop playing (Along side some rather political statements made from the mod of their Discord server).
PROS: * The gameplay is amazing from 3 different roles to play. Each with their own purpose and ability. Gunners get all sorts of ammos and reload faster with better aiming using their ability. Engineers get all sorts of tools to fix and prevent damage (Or increase the use of parts) of the ship, able to sprint across the ship (The only one who can). While the Pilot (my favorite one) gets alot of tools to use on the ship, at the cost of the parts on the ship (Sorry engineers!). They are also able to manipulate their turning and speed using their ability.
– Real player with 168.4 hrs in game