Splinter Zone
Alright so I’m only an hour and a bit into this but
I have to write a review on this because the game needs them and first impressions are always important for getting a game.
Splinter Zone is almost what happens if you have Vlambeer remake Megaman 1-3.
Here’s what I mean by that:
If you have played Megaman’s 1 to 3, some of the level segments will feel VERY familiar. .So will some of the enemy behaviours. This is not a bad thing. It’s charmingly familiar.
The Vlambeer part comes in with this RIDICULOUSLY MEATY GUN NOISES and the OBLIGATORY SCREENSHAKE (which you can tone down if you wish in the settings). I cannot tell you how delicious the explosions are too, you have to see them for yourself.
– Real player with 23.0 hrs in game
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I love this game. The controls are really on point. The shooting, especially when you’re on a higher level, is so much fun. There is so much variation in the construction of the worlds. I have to admit, that it’s not the easiest game I played so far but I love the challenge and it’s still fun because I’m getting better every time I play it.
The enemies seem to be easy targets most of the time but there are quite a few that can be really tedious. All the more fun when you’ve figured out their weak spot. The most interesting part about this game seems to be, that when you’re on a certain skill-level, you can pretty much go on forever. But I think, there’s more to it, than to just beat your own highscore over and over again. The story seems to be, that you can decide for yourself, if you wanna stay in this sourrounding of shoot, kill, die, repeat or if there’s a way out of it. I’ve yet to find this way, but I’m eager to progress towards this alternative goal.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Senna and the Forest
edit: more chapters were added as free content updates in october and november 2019 and july 2020, so I edited the end of the review.
who would’ve guessed that trees would be pretty much the only living things after the calamity? trees and senna, that is, one of the last humans alive (no relation to the late formula-1 driver), whose task is to find out what happened. luckily, trees can speak english here and are mostly friendly and talkative.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
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Charming logic puzzle with a forest theme. I found the level of challenge pretty good. It might be too easy for someone with a strong logic background but for everyone else there should be several hours of gaming.
One thing that could be improved is the interface. It gets tedious to have to walk back to tress to re-hear their comments, when it would be easier to be able to click on them.
Overall really good game, and different from most others. The character development of the trees makes it interesting, and the story adds a feeling of reward.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
BluBoy: The Journey Begins
There seems to be a bug and I got stock right at the beginning. Cannot walk onto the stairways at all.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Ashi: Lake of Light
A pretty puzzle game which gave my old brain cells a good workout! I completed all 90 puzzles but the downside is no achievements or cards. A gentle relaxing game which gradually ramps up in difficulty. New mechanics are introduced in each segment and puzzles were quite tricky towards the end.
For the seasoned puzzlers who are good at strategy, this will be easy. But for newcomers, this will be an ideal introduction.
Price is reasonable. Music is lovely, but I turned it off because it distracted my concentration!
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
The best puzzle game I’ve played all year - and I’m someone who obsessively seeks out good, relaxing puzzle games.
Graphics: Simple but gorgeous.
Music: A bit repetitive but very, very relaxing.
Difficulty curve: A gentle introduction to the puzzle mechanics without ever getting boring.
Overall difficulty: Brain-bendingly tough, but never obtuse - and the hardest puzzles are strictly optional.
Controls: Effortless and elegant.
Value for money: Great.
Verdict: Buy it already.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
ERSATZ
Summary:
Recommended if you are a masochist like me.
Details:
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Insanely difficult, but very rewarding once you understand a segment and can execute it without major errors.
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Chill music, and objects that move with the beat, makes it easy to get in the flow.
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Pleasant to look at
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Unique and fun bossfights (except the first one, fuck that flower)
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Multiple Unlockable Playstyles
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Liberal use of Checkpoints
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Colors sometimes make it hard to see tiny bullets
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Crashed once
~ Perfect for speedrunning. It’s easy to get high in the leaderboards because nobody plays the game (seriously, people come play this game)
– Real player with 185.9 hrs in game
Ersatz is a reflex oriented platformer with a heavy emphasis on speedruns. It is not a particularly punishing game because it has an abundance of checkpoints. About 80 percent of the features like extra modes require you to speedrun certain parts to unlock. So you do need at least some level of competent reflexes to get the full experience. As you can see I dropped 24+ hours into the game and I still have things to do. There are 3 regular modes that change mechanics, journey mode, and infinite mode. If you like that kind of gameplay where you have to learn the layout of the level it has a lot of replay value. As far as music and aesthetic part go I absolutely love it. I think for some $9 may seem a lot of a speedrun game but the price is well justified with content.
– Real player with 38.4 hrs in game
Nullysun
This game is good to play when you waiting or filling some free time and this game is Safe For Work
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
The game is all about a ball with eye’s it can make you feel relaxed I recommend this game 6/10
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Rocks and Rockets
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
THIS IS FUCKING EASY!!
WHY DOES THIS HAVE THE TAG: ‘Difficult??!!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
This game plays a lot like a choose your own adventure visual novel. It has a lot of various places to explore and a multitude of quests to play through besides the main quest line. The combat in the game is either wordplay based or trivia based (much of it being US history).
I really enjoyed my playthrough of the game and will likely replay. Even though I’ve played thru it once, there still were many side quests I could go back in another playthrough to do and various options to drive the story other ways. The humour in the game was a plus for me too.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
It’s 2017 and the Apocalypse is years ahead of schedule and the gods have disappeared. You, a Deep One, have awoken from the Dreamland and must find the Necronomicon before Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos and his 7 gods does and restore things to how they were or bring in a new age.
Alright, so SAT3: TST2 is the third VN in the series and it’s not nearly as cool as I made it sound in the paragraph above. This VN is, at its core, pure insanity and chaos. It’s a Lovecraftian adventure where you fight monsters by answering trivia questions (Brush up on your Shakespeare.) and fly around on a floating ship/city while “fighting” Microsoft paint horror monsters and creatures. One moment you’re in Antarctica making friends with a… yeti girl with pointy teeth (?) and the next you’re challenging Alexander Hamilton to a rap battle and signing the declaration of Independence. (Reminder: It’s 2017.)
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Etherborn
8.5.2020. Game #122
DO NOT BUY THIS AT FULL PRICE. WAIT FOR A SALE
I know this is mean way to start a review but if you are going to take anything with you from this review, take those two sentences. Now with that out of the way, let’s begin.
The human mind, its wasted potential and other nonsense
Etherborn is a game that tries to way too hard to be deep and meaningful. The second you start a new game you will be hit with confusing statements how the human mind and body are wasted potential and how humans could have done so much more with ourselves but how instead we settled on mediocrity and blah blah blah blah, I’m sick of it already. This game pretty much talks about the same thing that those hidden Gods that created the world talk about in Assassins Creed games
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Etherborn is one of those Humble Bundle indie games that will last you less than a few hours. My playtime says 4 hours, 1 of those was me being AFK. I went in fresh, so I would imagine that if you’re better at puzzle games or already know the answers you’d be able to pass this much faster.
The game has a nice aesthetic. I’d imagine that a significant portion of development time was spent getting the art style right. It follows a simple design that comes through with lighting and shading. There’s also a decent soundtrack here. I won’t call it the best I’ve heard, but there’s a variety of instrumentation with an ensemble that clearly knows what they’re doing. And they do it well.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
A Mortician’s Tale
There are things we occasionally tend to think about, but in the same time not give them much thought. One of such things is death. An image of a final frontier every single one of us will have to face eventually, which sometimes pops up in our mind, accompanied by questions like when, in what way or what’s beyond? These few are impossible to answer in a correct way, but A Mortician’s Tale does a good job at explaining one thing. What will happen to our body?
To answer this question, the game puts us in the shoes of Charlie, a young goth-looking woman, who starts her new job at a funeral home. Without a moment to waste she receives a welcoming e-mail from her coworkers and initial instructions regarding her first assignment, which is of course preparing a corpse for its rest, while following proper medical procedures and honoring the wishes of the family / deceased. After successfully completing that part of the job, our protagonist is obligated to go out to comfort the mourners and pay her respects.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
I would like to start the review off by saying that despite my negative review, I still believe this game is a great experience, and a game that should be played by people who generally enjoy these types of games, you know who you are.
The game is short, there’s not much gameplay, it’s simple point’n’click stuff. Most of your time will be spent reading what the characters have to say or are thinking, and reading through your emails each day that you play, and this is no secret.
The 4th tag for this game is “Short”, if you buy this and give it a negative review for being short then you need to stop buying games on impulse, and take at least the 3 minutes it takes to read through the store page and look through the screenshots.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game