Hyperspace Dogfights
Updated Review:
Excellent game, 269 hours of playtime (with still more stuff to unlock and do; I only have 98% completion, with a new major update on the way (No Masters, that is)!), excellent potential for challenge runs, and, in my opinion, overall a nigh-flawless example of roguelikes.
By the way, here’s one tip that’s very helpful: If you’re being tracked by a homing missile, a square crosshair will follow you. If you jump while that crosshair is on an enemy, you’ll shift the missile lock to that enemy, thus causing it to seek out that enemy instead of you. Using that trick, you can avoid always needing the Flares active to shrug off missiles (For.. maybe 12 hours or so? I didn’t know that, and so I couldn’t drop Flares without dying, or play any other jet, and I’d frequently die because Flares ran out of charges. Then I saw a loading screen tip.)
– Real player with 420.6 hrs in game
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GENERAL OVERVIEW
Hyperspace Dogfights is a side scroller shooter set in an weird sci-fi setting with familiar tropes and wild cards. Requiring a decent bit of skill of both maneuverability skills to evade fire and using the capability to enter a controlled stall to dish fire at the enemies on your six or to shoot an enemy from where they least expect.
The game takes inspiration from games like Luftrausers but offers a completely different game experience with a level of progression through unlocks for later playthroughs such as new fighter choices with different starting gear or more gear unlocked to come by in later games.
– Real player with 162.8 hrs in game
WeeRPG
Hack and slash your way through this loot-rich ARPG with up to four local friends. Outfit your classless character to look and play the way you want. As you venture deeper, monsters get tougher and more numerous but the loot gets more epic! Tactical gear combinations and combat skill will determine how deep you can go. Return to your home base to upgrade or buy new gear, outfit your character, and then venture back into the deep.
WeeRPG is an ARPG supporting 1-4 local players, or play remote via Steam Remote Play.
Key Features
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Classless characters - combine gear to look and play how you want. Magic, attacks, and movement are all driven by your equipment.
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Four-player local coop - team up with your friends or family to take on the dungeons. Play remotely with Steam Remote Play.
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No permadeath - if you fall in the dungeon you will be resurrected at home with a slight gold penalty.
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Three biomes with unique gear and creatures.
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Tons of creature types.
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Hundreds of equippable items.
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Built for everyone - Deep gear choices and rewarding combat for skilled players, accessible and cute for younger players. Progress at your own pace.
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Randomized dungeons - Each dungeon run is unique.
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Spectro
Problem In A Nut-shell:
In its current state, Spectro VR is NOT a rogue-like game. Unlike a properly structured rogue-like game… winning here isn’t a function of effective skill and resource management. Instead, it’s an act of pure chance. It’s basically a slot machine with extra steps.
Later stages REQUIRE a weapon that can make short, quick work of each ghost… AND handle more than 2 ghosts at a time before needing a refuel.
For that, you need at LEAST a weapon with 4’s in power, speed, and capacity. After that, you’ll need ‘heart upgrades’ and ‘health potions’ out the wazoo… why?
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
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I wanna start this review by saying that this is my favorite VR rougelite to date. I’ve played a lot of great rougelites in my day and this is the only one for VR That really sells it for me. The fact that this game isn’t fully done yet is almost totally unnoticeable if I didn’t read the patch notes. On top of already being a pretty solid game, the cute-but-scary and Luigi’s Mansion-esk vibe that I get here is just immaculate and very charming. Environments feel like they have a “spooky” aesthetic without being a rougelite horror game and I wouldn’t have it any other way. The menu’s are relatively intuitive and snappy, all the SFX feel appropriate and great, the gameplay is addictive while still feeling relatively new with each playthrough. Also, for those of you more inclined to play seated, the game will automatically adjust the level to your height when you pass through any loading screen :) so you can play in your epic gamer chair B). If you have the money, SPEND IT ON THIS GAME and support the awesome work of the developers! I’m excited to see more from this studio in the future!
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
ZpellCatz: Pumpkin Prologue
Combat and movement are far too slow for a mouse and keyboard control scheme like this. I understand you can upgrade your equipment and become faster, but that still doesn’t mean anything when both you and your enemies have to come to a complete stop to attack. Honestly, the slow combat and movement feel forced to just to make it more of a grind. I don;t expect a lot of people are going to want to download or buy the full version if the combat is this slow.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
ZpellCatz
You are a cat with magic powers, stranded on a cursed island. Spiteful dogs are lurking in every corner and a fateful evil is about to emerge from the darkness. ZpellCatz is a magical Action RPG set in a colorful fantasy world.
Play it your way
The best way to fight evil? Your way! Choose a combination of hero class and guild class to best match your favored style of combat. Let your cat look the way you want to by picking from a wide selection of colors and garments.
Build your hero
Enjoy a multitude of ways to increase the power of your cat hero. Manage two skill trees, loot items, craft items, enchant items, refine gems, find permanent stat bonuses and more.
Help the townsfolk
The residents of the Greencat Village have lots of problems that need to be solved. Do you prefer rushing through the story by completing main quests only, or do you take the extra mile to gain impactful rewards from optional quests? Your choice.
Wizordum
Wizordum is a retro first-person shooter placed in a fantasy world and it focuses on action and light puzzle elements with plenty of secrets filled with loot and bonus items. The game is inspired by classics from the 90s like Hexen, Heretic, and Catacomb Abyss.
STORY
Chaos roams the land…Mercenaries from the West are pillaging towns and rumors speak of Darkness spreading from the Northern mountains.
Order of the Dawn dispatched every last of their Clerics to learn more about the source. None have returned so far…
You, one of the last Clerics, now stand at the edge of the town of Grimbrook. Do you have what it takes to locate the source and banish the Chaos?
KEY FEATURES
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Blast off your enemies with magic and steel
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Big arsenal of weapons & consumable items
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Plenty of secret places filled with loot & bonus items
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Solve puzzles and avoid traps
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Travel from town to mountains, through lush forest and beyond in single player campaign
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Collect all the bonus items and get the top score on the leaderboards
Genomon: Genetic Monsters
Even in the modern age, there are locations on Earth so remote that few people have ever heard, let alone visited. Among these obscure places are the WHITHERWARD ISLANDS, a collection of six islands in the South Pacific so distant from other landmasses, so removed from shipping lanes, strategic passages, and air routes that the world has nearly forgotten their existence.
Push the boundaries of science while battling the creations of rival genetic engineers on the beautiful and remote WHITHERWARD ISLANDS. EXTRACT, SEQUENCE and SPLICE DNA. INCUBATE, BATTLE and UPGRADE Genomon. Genomon is a genetic monster making lab and battling sandbox.
EXTRACT!
Extract DNA from animal specimens.
SPLICE!
Splice animal DNA with viable Embryos.
INCUBATE!
Incubate your Genomon! Man Rat Crabs, Man Spider Frogs, the combinations are endless!
BATTLE!
Battle your Genomon to level them up and unlock genetic traits!
BUILD YOUR DREAM ISLAND GENETIC LABORATORY!
Build your lab using a variety of devices and architecture.
Planet Centauri
This is a very entertaining game worth its full early access price. I am sure you already know what it reminds you of but it has its own charm. Some key advantages it has over -those- games you are thinking about is that the torch can be placed on hotbar to help you see in the dark areas without having it selected. This means you no longer need to place a thousand torches just to see where you are digging underground at the beginning like in Terraria. You get to capture pets in this game too and they can level up and learn passives. A few of these monsters can be used as mounts. You can put these pets into special pet houses where they will earn xp overtime. Decorating inside of their houses with the proper furniture will boost the rate. Monsters have tiers so finding the higher tier ones will get higher tier passives usually or more HP/attack bonuses. Put a male and female together in house and they will produce an egg granted they are same kind of monster. They will produce egg easier when they love their home more I think (represented by heart meter)
– Real player with 121.4 hrs in game
-The Good-
-Wonderful color rich world, with beautiful backgrounds.
-The chance to enslave chickens to power your machinery.
-Building, and tiles sets with sloping so anything you build becomes a creative work of art.
-an alien race you must rescue, to grow your village.
-A system that you gain HP and SP just by eating a new food for the first time
-Tamable monsters
-Mini challenges like ELIMINATION!
-A large variety of monsters and baddies to fight.
-The Alright-
– Real player with 76.7 hrs in game
Ephemeral Tale
Really nice game. Bought it just because of the screenshots showing the different coloured loot but instead I was surprised with good music, good gameplay, and just a really fun game. The biggest surprise was the Dark Souls type leveling and then on top of that there is some Demon’s Souls influence with teleporting to different areas and completing them. Or it felt like that at least. Throw in some Borderlands and you have something cool like this. It’s a short game but you can do more playthroughs after completing the game to look for secrets you might have missed. Give it a try.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
Good indie rpg that you won’t regret playing, dev regularly updates game and will be a true diamond in the rough in a few updates for sure.
Pros:
Combat
Music
Sprites
Cons:
Length of some animations
Equipment Durability
Lack of Class system or Skill system
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Revelation
Time to Get Crackin’
The flashlight held between your teeth casts a dim light on the combination locks in the otherwise pitch-black vault. Near-inaudible clicks tap out the rhythm of the delicate dance of your heist as your trembling hands coax the discs into place with precise movements of the dials. The silent alarm was tripped minutes ago and the police are on their way. But you’re not backing out now — you came for fortune, and you’re not leaving without it.
Revelation is an intense arcade-style puzzle game from Krisalis where you spin color-coded interconnected dials inside clockwork locks to match colors and create chain reactions to open each safe. Thinking ahead is crucial, as each lock will affect adjacent locks when spun. These tricky puzzles would be difficult on their own, but they’re made even more challenging with the addition of a timer counting down the time until you’re caught red-handed breaking in. Keep one eye on the dials, and another on the lookout for collectibles that appear on the screen to give you additional time, stop the clock, and more. Finish each puzzle before time runs out, grab the loot, and get out of there!
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Over 80 puzzling stages of increasingly complex safe-cracking gameplay, including bonus stages where you have ten seconds to figure out the one move which will solve the entire safe. Choose wisely!
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Quickly solve each stage to plunder the safe for valuables — some of which can be used to help you in later stages
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Break in alone, or with an accomplice in two-player mode