Yupitergrad 🚀(Virtual Reality Adventure)
While I’m not a fan of flat shading in VR, this game has fast enough traversal that I did not really mind. The game is essentially as if Windlands and Super Meat Boy had a Russian child in space. The environments are big, impressive, with huge moving elements. Not Jet Island levels but I very much appreciated the scale of things.
I think the most important part of this game is the locomotion, how to traverse the environment, and I have to say it really grew on me. I got the expected boosts from pulling on the roped plunger you are equipped with, launching me in that direction, very satisfying when you’ve grown accustomed to it and I it makes sense that there are time trial levels. You can also extend and retract this rope while it is attached to a surface, which while not necessary most of the time sure can provide utility and flexibility.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
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(Disclaimer: I was gifted this gem to review it, I don’t even know why you would give me that much power but I really really apprechiate it! Also I was told to beat the shit out of the game and tell the devs over any flaws on a rather direct review example of mine (Windlands if you’re wondering). Basically the disclaimer shouldn’t mean anything but here you go)
A game for all the grappling hook enthusiasts or otherwise movement interested parcour junkies - IT’S NOT AN INDIE ENDLESS RUNNER AS I THOUGHT WHEN I SKIPPED PAST IT*
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Incaved
In Incaved you explore ever expanding- and changing cave systems, building an underground community of survivors, making gut wrenching decisions, and fending off carnivorous mutated animals and other survivors, doing the same as you. With your trusty gear, your gas mask, grappling hook and hefty arsenal of improvised weapons, you’ll constantly have to adapt to come out on top in whichever situation this wretched world throws at you.
Gameplay
With the cave systems changing after every death, you’ll have to improvise to survive any possible situation with equipment you manage to find, in this roguelite experience. Interconnected levels and progressive unlocking of new weapons, items and story events keeps you motivated to explore your surroundings. Every death propels time, bringing your comrades closer to their potential death and changing up how the levels look and play out.
Features
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The high replayability value a roguelite offers, with a big emphasis on exploring an interconnected world, including the thrill of permadeath, making each move count even more.
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An enormous cast of interesting characters, each with their own backstory and motives.
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Expanding platforming manoeuvres, including wall jumps, vaults and a grappling hook.
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Hand drawn pixel art, combined with a realistic atmosphere.
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Perform combo’s, dodge, block and parry in 2D Souls-like action.
Story
After nukes were dropped by the mistakes of higher men, lower class people need to find shelter in the cave systems nearby. Quickly scavenging anything they can on their way there. You play as one of many, who’ve lost their all and only want one thing: to survive for long enough to see their loved ones again. Chances of survival drastically start decreasing, as food and water supplies start running dry, mutated animals and infections start plaguing the caves, and survivors start turning on each other. Who can be trusted? How much longer can the aggressive mutates animals be contained? Is it even worth staying in these wretched dark caves, or is making your way to the wasteland above a safer option, as impossible as it sounds?
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