Chickduck & Catduck
This is a sweet, gentle graphic novel with side-by-side drawings of cute ducklings, nature and outdoor scenes. The object of the game is to spot the differences between the two pictures and click on them. A branch in the left scene may have 3 leaves on it and it’s matching branch in the right scene may have only 2. Most items are easy to spot…a few are very faint–nicely hidden. Game took me about 20 minutes to complete.
Certainly, parents and children would enjoy playing this together as there is no violence or hardships, just two ducklings ultimately finding each other. And there is an easy-to-use hint feature. If your little duckling is having trouble finding an object click and hold the right mouse button on the object giving him trouble and an exclamation point will pop up where the match can be found in the other picture. No penalties…just a satisfaction of completion.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
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It’s short and good to play on a free time. Graphics have a child style and music is so cute. It does not have a save option so you must finish the game in one road.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard
I did like this game; however, I feel compelled to not recommend or endorse it for others, unless its on sale for a really good price, you want to entertain younger kids with a family friendly title.
The gameplay takes a little getting used to, I highly recommend keyboard and mouse for this one. The puzzles are also really good and well thought out so props for that. The unique impa minions you control is also a cool feature, switching between them to perform certain tasks to help you progress.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
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9/10. there are bugs that can be fixed such as the game freezing with when pressing the steam overlay and others. But besides that wonderful game
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD
After playing through a string of story heavy games, I wanted to take a break from the immense amount of dialogue and play something more purely gameplay focused. While nominating games for the 2020 Steam Awards, reading the most innovative gameplay category made Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD pop into my head (which I ended up nominating for that category). Turns out this was exactly the type of game I was looking for.
While there are some platformer elements, Super Monkey Ball has the unique twist of giving the player control of tilting the stage, as opposed to moving the character on it. The resulting gameplay is unlike any other game and offers a refreshing set of challenges, even to players who have conquered numerous other genres. Being purely skill based, nothing is left to chance, no equipment will make the game easier, and the only leveling up is the skill gained from practicing, failing, and learning. Gameplay is quick to hop into and the perfect amount of time between failing a stage and respawning is enough to think about what can be improved, but not so much that failing becomes an annoyance. There is an assortment of playable characters each offering different stats and the stages themselves are tuned to this, with various intricacies that may make the stage easier or harder depending on the character played.
– Real player with 35.9 hrs in game
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Kinda posting this review a tad late. I don’t think I’ve made my thoughts clear on this game just yet, but I know some people are taking newfound interest in the Monkey Ball series with the release of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania on the horizon, so I want to express my thoughts on this game now.
I’ll just get this out of the way: Banana Blitz is not a fun Monkey Ball game . To many, this game is seen as a pretty good platformer, and I can get by that thought, but the way this game is structured does not fall in line with what makes a Monkey Ball game work, and it’s all because of one fatal flaw in this game’s design: jumping.
– Real player with 27.6 hrs in game
Bunny Puzzle
Super casual puzzle game with tons of cute bunny pictures! I haven’t finished it yet but i suspect it will take me hours to get through all of the puzzles.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Cork The Volcano
Cork The Volcano is such a fun game that reminisces towards my childhood. Aimed towards kids and young ones, this platformer makes you help a cute little dino traverse the good looking and well designed levels. With the levels getting more challenging as you progress, Cork The Volcano makes you think and use the skills you just learned to move towards the end game. Aimed towards kids, but recommended for all ages who love a fun and fairly challenging platformer with a cute story.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Halloween Rhythm
Wow.. this gotta be the worst rhythm game I’ve played. The only reason I played it is cause I’m a weirdo with a need to play Halloween themed games on Halloween 🎃
It looks like it was drawn in paint, and there’s no penalty for mistakes.
Hard mode is way too hard and its much easier to just mash left and right.
And all 6 songs are public domain classical songs that you hear way too often.
Don’t play this.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Teenage Blob: Paperperson - The First Single
This is the best version of “Paper boy” that i have ever played, please make this a full game, not just a mini game! The music is great but the other 5 games don’t match the quality of this one, and i feel like i’m not alone in saying so, the concept is great but i would have really loved if all the games were NES remakes like this one.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Well… it’s a “split release” featuring 6 songs & 6 minigames (with the demo version featuring just one song and one minigame, which is a Paperboy clone).
This immediately hit a nerve - you see I have an almost pathological obsession with playing various versions of Paperboy, ever since the Amstrad CPC home-micro version was (sadly) lacking any sort of in-game sound. (yeah, it’s an emotional scar from my teenage years, what can I say).
This particular mini game is pretty nice - but there’s just one problem: There are times when the perspective changes from the classic isometric view, to a side-view (resembling Kikstart, somewhat). However, this switch (which follows the song’s rhythm) can occur in completely inappropriate times (for example, at the moment you line up your newspaper shot) and when your view suddenly switches back, you can miss your shot or crash into an obstacle, etc.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Abacus Finch
Abacus Finch is a fun platformer aimed towards kids, but that did not stop me from playing this game. I love a fun platformer that adds some thinking to traverse a game. The game makes you use your brain with math skills and platform skills to move forward in this good looking and well designed game. Definitely aimed towards young ones, but fun for all!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Effie
This is again more of a neutral rating than a definite positive one. But let me get more into the details to explain.
Effie is a typical Unreal 3D-platformer made by a small team, and this shows, in both good and bad ways. On the positive side you can definitely see the dedication and work that was put into the environments of some levels (like the Vineyard or Windmills City), the platforming sequences are decent, too, and the many runes to collect give some good incentive to explore. Difficulty stays in a casual to easy range, yet doesn’t get too boring. Music was quite fitting as well, not too much variation, but also alright on the whole. So I have to admit I had fun regarding those aspects all in all. I didn’t mind the sometimes a bit clunky movements, or the narration style (a voiced narrator tells the game like a story to his grandchild). But the design and technical flaws sadly always pulled my experience down in between.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
TL;DR at the end.
When you start the game, right off the bat, first thing I noticed is how unpolished the game is, the animations for opening chests for example seem half-assed, the combat basically consists of just mashing heavy attack and later on when you unlock the boomerang move (which for some reason is even stronger than the heavy attack while also being a huge AoE) and you spam that instead you have to watch that animation in slow-motion EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
On the narrative side, the story is very basic but that’s not why I’m here for, and the voice acting is pretty lame and you’d keep hearing the same voice lines over and over again for example every time you open a blue chest you get one of two voice lines, and you open quite a lot of them.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Meow Lab
This is a really relaxing game. I been playing on and off. Tooka break when I couldn’t figure it out. Love it, highly recommend for anyone who need to de-stress and figure this puzzle out. The music is not bad, sometimes I listen to it but I think it could use a variety, but regardless over all, I love it :D Plus the kitty is what drawn me to the game, so thats a cute bonus factor xD
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Short, Adorable and Fun
I am a simple person and bought this game because I like puzzles and black cats. Due to it being so cheap, I expected nothing, but I am pleasantly surprised. This is a very cute puzzle game that starts off easy then gets gradually more and more difficult.
Pros
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- Fun but simple mechanics that get more complex as you progress. The later levels definitely offer a decent challenge but feel very satisfying to complete.* The Easter Eggs are really cute. I love the Death Stranding one. Too cute!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game