Beasts of Maravilla Island
Beast of Maravilla Island is a wonderful addition to the “fantasy animal” photography genre but with a very nice twist. IT’S NOT A “CART ON RAILS” photo safari, it’s SEMI-OPEN WORLD!!
Now that I have your attention, if chill photo safari games with adorable and well thought out animals are your jam stop reading now and go pick this one up. This game is super fun and satisfying getting all the “best” shots of all the different critters. Not to mention finding all the different critters can be a bit of a challenge as some are VERY well hidden,
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
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Edit: So I just finished Beasts of Maravilla Island, and it was a very nice game indeed - I’m changing my review to positive, because the devs showed fantastic reactivity to the players' feedback, and that’s more than appreciable; but also because the game truly pleased me.
As said before (or after lol) it is one of peacefulness and contemplation, of nature and ourselves, as humans thus beasts, with a simple but timeless message, which felt very refreshing. Even if all the wildlife depicted in Beasts of Maravilla Island is an imaginary one, it doesn’t remove any of the game’s charm, at the contrary - as exposing existant fauna and flora might have possibly been a bit more boring to the players.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
SEARCH ALL - ANIMALS
This is a very cute game, I enjoyed it. Some item are very small, but they have that great magnifier to enlarge, and You can get it huge so that You wont miss anything.
The game has a save, so if You can’t finish it in one setting, it will save Your progress till You come back to continue it.
The Developers are great, responding fast if there is any problems, hope They bring some more games like this on the market, and I’ll buy them.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
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Challenging and chill at the same time. I like the music a lot, even though it is a short loop playing over and over–it’s perfect background. You WILL use the magnifier in order to find everything, but it isn’t too difficult to achieve 100%. It took me a half hour to find everything, which is my only complaint: I wish there were more scenes to play! I sure enjoyed what was here though, and will definitely look for more from this developer!
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Jump With Dragons
The graphics alone make this game worth the 0.59 I payed for it. It’s both fun and challenging. I suggest changing the key bindings under settings because the controls were awkward. I was also having problems getting my controller to fully work with it. I could look around, jump, and dash but I couldn’t walk in any direction so I was stuck playing with the keyboard and mouse.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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Not perfect but good.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Loot Hero DX
TL;DR: A well-made but fairly pointless grinding game. Only recommended for achievement hunters so you at least get a trophy out of it.
In a traditional RPG you usually start as a low-level character with little to no equipment and the only way to become more powerful is to complete quests kill monsters.
Basically begin with a standard RPG. Take out quests and dialogues, reduce equipment to purchasable stats and reduce the combat to just damage-per-second and make it a side-scroller and you’ve got yourself Loot Hero. The gameplay consists of three parts: choosing a level, running left and right killing monsters and buying better stats at the towns in-between. There’s also a short and pretty meaningless story: a terrible dragon has appeared and you, the hero, has to go and kill it to save the land.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
I really want to like this game: it has really neat pixel graphics, lots of critters to kill, keeps stats, and has achievements and trading cards. But, the reality is that the gameplay gets boring after the first three minutes. Even the added concept of releasing miners to collect gold for you after every successful run through all levels fails, because it’s just accelerating a timer event…it doesn’t add to the gameplay at all.
In the end, all you do is collect enough treasure and XP to buff your character, who kills the baddies by – literally – running into them. There is no learning tactics for combat or developing strategies by buffing your character a specific way. You just level up your stats evenly as you collect loot, enough that you don’t watch your health bar go down much at all while you’re running back and forth, grind away until you start taking damage as you continue through the levels, and then rinse and repeat. Gameplay does not change on any levels, nor do you treat any of the creatures differently…you just run through them.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy
A fun and sometimes very challenging game.
Gameplay is focused on collecting everything in every level, with some basic environmental puzzles and simple combat to keep things interesting. The remake seems to stay true to its occasionally outdated old-school roots, which means difficulty swings widely between cool and casual to punishingly difficult. If you’re a completionist then get ready to sweat: there are time-based precision challenges. Most are fair and can be beat with a lot of practice, but a few really made me question my life choices.
– Real player with 67.1 hrs in game
I’m giving a positive review because the game does not deserve a bad review at all, but a lot of times the game feels clunky. If they bothered to patch the issues it could probably be in a better state.
The artwork / graphics seems to be the highest regard here. It’s amazing.
Music was there but nothing insanely amazing either. It’s alright.
The gameplay is what I have problems with, I like the basic levels best, exploring, collecting, beating enemies it feels nice but the jumping sometimes annoyed me when u try to make a jump and he slides of the edge instead.
– Real player with 45.0 hrs in game
My Singing Monsters
This game opened my eyes to the greater questions. Why are we here if not just to play My Singing Monsters? If there is any meaning in life I think I’ve found it. When the Fwog proclaims, “Wa wa wa wa wa wa,” I think I understand further why life was granted to us. Our whole purpose, was to create My Singing Monsters, and play it. The only thing we should have done, and the only thing we should be doing, is playing My Singing Monsters. I got choked up when the Maw said “De de, de de de, de de de, de de de, de de de, de de de, de de de, de de de.” It forced me to think, to open my mind to the bigger picture. Friends don’t matter. Nothing matters as much as My Singing Monsters.
– Real player with 207.2 hrs in game
Shortly before My Singing Monsters was released on steam, my life was spiraling out of control. But then one day a friend of mine told me that My Singing monsters was on steam. I couldn’t believe it, it was true, it had just released and it turned my life upside up again. The second I heard the noggin gracefully slap the top of his head repeatedly to the first time I heard the mammot seductively say “Bummm”. I cried tears of joy, Every time I feed my monsters I feel proud and genuinely feel like my monsters care about my well being. I talk to my monsters every night and tell them about my problems. All I talk about is my singing monsters and my friends blocked me on discord because I only talk about My Singing Monsters. Thank you Big Blue Bubble. Thank you for bringing a purpose to my life again.
– Real player with 194.0 hrs in game
Orb Tour
Do you like open sandbox platformers? Do you like riding dragons, climbing towers, solving riddles, piloting flying saucers, finding collectibles, robots, exploring the vast reaches of space, medieval times, wintery wonderlands, dreamscapes, and more? Well then, our latest and greatest game ORB TOUR is for you.
Snowy the snowcone is an alien who has been asleep for many years. When he wakes up, his people have VANISHED! He is the last of his kind, and he needs your help to find all 30 of the missing power orbs, so he can rebuild the mothership and bring his people back, before they face extinction.
Baby Dragon Rancher
Is this how you train a dragon? Nope! They make for cute pets though, but more importantly, I hear they make some valuable stuff $.$
I wonder how many types of dragons are there? I wonder if there’ll be a blue eyed and white scaled dragon? There’s going to be so much money to be made! Er.. dragons to be ranched..! This won’t be easy though. I’ll need to make a lot of different kinds of buildings to ensure their survival and happiness. Soon enough, I’ll be able to make a huge utopia for myself too! Let’s build a ranch!
Insect Adventure
Insect Adventure 8/10 Stars (Steam Only ATM)
This is a Metroid-style MV, even though at first glance, I assumed it would be closer to an HK-style MV considering the bug theme (which they poke fun at in the game). Most of the familiar themes from Super Metroid are all here, although the Dev does have a few tricks up his sleeve. In fact, once I started playing it, I thought this was going to practically be a straight-up reskin like an AM2R type game with bug skin. Luckily I was wrong.
We get the usual mobility upgrades (Relics), consumables (which can be purchased or mined), and upgrades for our health & strength. Plus, some stuff not found in Super Metroid.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
Pretty good little Metroidvania, took me about 4-5 hours for the first ~75% run. It’s indy af, hitboxes are jank, you can stuck in the floor, it borrows a lot of ideas from more polished and popular games, but it feels like it’s own thing and really fun to play. There is a lot of power ups, options for travel and secrets, exploring the world really feels rewarding.
And there is also a second character and 4 difficulty modes.
Give this game a chance, it’s a must for MV fans.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
Labyrinth of the Witch
Labyrinth of the Witch is a simple roguelite/dungeon explorer game originally for Android/iOS that was ported to PC. This paid version has all of the characters that you would’ve needed to purchase, and has no microtransactions or other mobile shenanigans.
Positives:
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Simple and easy to learn. The “Puzzle Dungeons” are a fun and interesting way to learn all of the mechanics of the game.
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Cute and colourful pixel art
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Addicting gameplay
Negatives:
- Repetitive music. What little music is here is decent, but gets repetitive really fast. I ended up muting it after half an hour.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
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Labyrinth of the Witch is a simplified dungeon crawler like DragonFangZ with a cute art style. It removes the frustrating aspects while keeping the randomness and challenge! 7/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TnnEhV-4_o
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game