StarPicker
Landing on mysterious planets, you have to quickly identify your location and find the best way to collect lost stars. Show your agility and strategy skills to accomplish your mission. Don’t panic, even when you face the unknown and its unexpected challenges. Then don’t forget to check your route review with players from all over the world and be the one who will save the universe!
Key features:
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Discover unknown territories through original land navigation gameplay.
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Explore 60+ levels in 5 unique environments.
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Unlimited original hand drawn maps with regularly updated contents.
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3 exciting game modes adapted for different challenge-seekers.
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Attractive cosmic soundtrack in late 60’s style tailored for each game level.
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Engaging online community : ranking and replay analysis. Compare your route choices with players worldwide and improve your performances.
Story:
Well, it all begins with an unexpected “disaster” … All the stars are falling down from the sky. Is this the end of the world?
The youngest Nobel Prize winner Minna Vellamo is assigned with the mission of finding back lost stars. She chose to be accompanied by a robot named Harvey for him being a …robot. Little does she know, Harvey is the clumsiest and most talkative robot ever.
One day before departure, Minna was told that “Electric Eel” Janus White will also be joining the team. Being depressed for a very long time since retirement, the former footballer signed himself up to the project. He believed that this is the only opportunity to find back his old-day glory and to prove to the public that he is still a hero.
Will Janus achieve what he is looking for? Often described as bold, independent and determined, will Minna get along well with Janus?
Gameplay:
Start a navigation adventure in space with only a map and a compass in hands. Whether you’re a curious traveler, a challenge-seeker or a speedrunner, there is always a game mode waiting for you in StarPicker.
3 game modes:
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The Main Race mode is the most relaxing experience. You can be a traveler, embracing fantastic landscapes, gaining satisfaction in your map reading skills, meeting curious animals and uncovering the mysterious history on each planet.
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In the Electric Eel mode : win the challenge with your impressive observation and incomparable precision. Fearless of taking risks even on unknown territories. It’s the perfect mode if you are looking for challenges without worrying about time.
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Maybe you are an orienteer, a traceur or a speedrunner who “flies” in a complex environment! StarPicker’s Berserk mode suits you the best! Reveal stars one by one in a limited time, avoid obstacles by acting cool like a Light Speed Racer.
From novice to expert:
Adjust the game options to your capacities and improve your navigational skills.
Use compass and learn map reading with International Standard for Orienteering Maps.
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Leaf on Wind
A relaxing game though not without its challenges. The scenery helps create a cathartic atmosphere while you breeze about piecing together some pretty poetry. Good for a casual gamer to chill out to.
Looking for a game to de-stress with after work or between more intense games? Check out Rouem’s Leaf on Wind.
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– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
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It’s a Flower clone of sorts. Expected it to be before I bought it though. Except this time instead of flower petals, it’s a single leaf.
Your aim in this game is to go around collecting glowing square thingies in order to make up a poem in each level. Kinda expected something MORE akin to Flower, but I’ll take it. Still a decently chill game to play. The OST is also nice.
That SAID however, after you finish the first 6 levels, to play more of the game, you need do those 6 levels AGAIN but without touching anything. Just feels more like a chore than anything. I gave up at the “repeated” third level, because the wind is just ridiculous and works against you and it’s annoying (and the controls don’t help either, since they aren’t the most fluid thing ever (though not “bad” either)). No offense, but it just takes away from the “relaxing” factor and feels like forced replayability. I’m not a fan of that. Will either push myself to see the rest of the game at some point soon or refund the game, haven’t really decided yet. But yeah, I’m very in the middle with this one tbh.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Under Leaves
Under Leaves is a hidden Object game pure and simple. On a map of the world you are given many different locations, each location is a different stage to complete all related to different animals indigenous to the location on the map. Each stage is beautifully crafted. A real work of love! The fact that each level has a certain color scheme give it a certain style but also makes it surprisingly challenging, just enough to keep my interest through the whole game.
Pros
- For those who likes the extra challenge, there’s 29 achievements. One for each stage and one extra for finishing the game without help.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
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Relaxation Mode is cranked up to 11 in this simplistic watercolour hidden object game.
You start off on a world map with 21 dotted circles on it. Each level is associated with an animal from that region, and as you complete the levels the map gradually fills with pictures of these animals.
You’re introduced to a level by clicking the X on the central animal, which then shows you a speech bubble containing several small icons of the objects you’re looking for (small animals, seeds, fish etc), and the number of items to be found. The overall canvas is split between 3-5 screens, and as you find/click the objects you move on to the next either via the white arrows, or by dragging. You can zoom in and out by double-clicking and then drag the screen around to inspect each area of the panel. When you find the final item you then report back to the main animal whereupon there’s a very short animation of baby animals appearing, plants growing or a shoal of fish swimming by. And that, ladies and gentlemen, describes the entire game.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Virtual Aquarium - Overlay Desktop Game
Do you love fish and have your own aquarium but it is not enough for you?
Or maybe you can’t have an aquarium and would you like to?
This is the perfect hit on your part!
Virtual Aquarium: Overlay Desktop Game is the game for you!
This game works as an overlay above all windows - so you don’t have to distract yourself from the current activity to watch your fish look, grow and get wonderful colors.
Main features of the game:
The game is displayed as an overlay above the windows.
Everything happens no matter what you are doing. Your beautiful and colorful fish will swim on your screen and make your time spent in front of the computer at work, school or at home more pleasant.
Interaction with fish
By clicking on a fish you can check its name and species.
Many species of fish
There are over 20 species and over 100 subspecies of freshwater and saltwater fish in the game.
Beautiful colors and fish patterns
The fish in our game have wonderful vivid colors, as the fish grows its colors become more vivid and more expressive, thanks to which your virtual aquarium allows you to beautify your screen even better.
Graphic effects
The game has various graphic effects that will introduce you to the world of your own aquarium even better.
Additional functions
AUTO START - Your aquarium will automatically greet you when you turn on the computer.
GAME MODE - the game will go into hibernation when you start another game in full screen, which will ensure full computer power.
With the help of keyboard shortcuts, you can easily operate the basic elements of the game.
Campground Owner
Campground owner is very suitable to your needs.
I recommend picking a map with more land then water. You can pick seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall).
In creative mode, you have unlimited cash. I almost always do creative mode. If you want to put anything on the map, I’d recommend that. There is also a survival mode where you have to earn money. You can get that from campers.
If you like to speed up time, press 1(slow), 2 (medium), 3( super fast).
You can’t put different camper’s tent, chairs, grill, or camper together, or it will show the camper’s gear red.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Fun game for some time, I really like being able to place the items of campers down myself in spots that give the most money, and it’s fun trying to get all stars and see money go up.
There are some downsides though, some quality of life improvements that I would like to see.
Once a camper is placed, you cannot see info about them, like with how many they are, how much they’ll pay or for how long they stay. You can see this when they ask to be placed, but still would be nice to keep track of the stay’s duration.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Dawngrown
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Short adventure about healing people’s inner worlds from corruption
You play as Azure the frog healer in the village floating on the sky. The lands of people’s inner world’s have been corrupted by dark-ooze and the only way to stop it from spreading all over the environment is by cleaning it. The corruption may spawn vile creatures, who spread the corruption further. Use your trusty cleangun to shoot foam that corrodes the vile spread and the hydration spell slab for rejuvenating the lands. It is your duty to heal the villagers, will you help?
It is up to you to clean the spreading vile corruption, so pick up your cleangun and start blasting!
Each area’s corruption is unique in some way and as the corruption mutates, don’t be frightened though as your array of tools will also upgrade along the way.
After getting the corruption cleaned the lands are dry and lifeless, that’s there the hydration spell slab comes in.
Use the hydration spell to breath new life into the lands like a painter with a blank canvas, the environment will thank you!
You live in a small village on a floating island somewhere high above the clouds, oddly enough you or the other villages don’t know how you and the others got there in the first place.
The village is cozy and peaceful, away from problems of the other worlds and a home for you and others. You’ll also have your own house to decorate and furnish to your liking, pick up those hydration crystals to buy some furniture!
ENDO
A fun game to get lost in for a few hours, very tactile environment and satisfying sounds/visuals. Good variety of puzzles and storytelling in the environment, all coming together in a lovely hidden gem.
Also you can bunnyhop and schmove around which I highly recommend.
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Has a beautiful and fantastical landscape.
Cannot play with just a mouse, one either needs a mouse and keyboard or a controller.
There is a lot of walking , hopping and jumping.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia
I was conflicted on this one, whether to give a positive review or not.
First the positive notes: this is a nice educational program that helps to fill the gaps in the basics of flora and fauna.
I learned a lot of things I didn’t know, so I’m satisfied with that part of the “game”.
The graphics is fine and also the sounds, which really put you in the atmosphere of the forest, field, pond and garden.
So what is the problem? The problem is that this is not a game, lol.
This is an educational application, mostly for kids. It doesn’t offer anything else but reading.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
I’ve got the game for my kid and he enjoyed it a lot. We first bought it on App Store but then I bought it here on Steam specifically to leave a review, so that games like this get better traction. If you’re a happy owner like me, I do encourage you to also support the developer in this way.
What I love about this game? It’s like a small encyclopaedia, making discovery of new facts easy and fun. I’m so, so tired of commercial mainstream “games for kids” that mostly exploit the love of children to the brands and characters already established in film/TV. Here, the game is like an open book inviting your kids to play with it in a variety of ways, always learning in the process.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Suddenly Meow
It’s the best Macht 3 game I’ve played for many reasons that I’ll explain:
Generally this genre is based only on matching 3 or more gems or objects and scoring, it can be good as a pastime but it is a bit of a repetition because you always do the same things every level.
“Suddenly Meow” is different because you do not have to match gems at random, but according to a scheme that we must understand to create a road and allow our cat to get to the fish.
Each level changes because while we play we have to break boxes, run magnets to move objects, cut down bushes to find hidden objects and more; it is not a passive game but active because it is necessary to reason and understand how to set a suitable path for Tim
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Suddenly Meow is a match 3 that took me by surprise. It was exceptionally good and refreshing! I would categorize it as classic puzzle and not just a simple match 3. This is not only because it runs in 3 different modes (relaxing, limited moved and timed) but mainly because of the “tasks” you need to do to clear each level. The first 20-30 out of 90 levels keep introducing you to new mechanics and “tasks” as well as mini games and your hideout (aka a type of “level up” system).
You are trying to help the cat make its way through the forest that got lost in. The introduction of the new elements in the puzzles are very smooth and clear and if you get confused, a help book is available to remind you of how it works. You also get a hideout early on in which you unlock various power ups and decorate your cat’s hideout with them.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Aka
Ride a bike, watch the clouds, swim in the hot springs under a blossom tree… or take a nap on a giant capybara
Experiment with a farming system inspired by permaculture.
Gather resources to craft shelters, tools, props, food…
Explore different biomes, from cloud forests to snowy mountains.
