ZEROED
Everyone who developed this game worked super hard on and the effort absolutely shows! They are on top of catching and fixing every little problem and making sure the game is in tip top shape. Absolutely recommend to anyone and everyone that loves high speed racing, intense competition, beautiful scenery, and bright colours!
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
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Zeroed is a flying/racing game about speed, combat, and strategy. Definitely a unique gaming experience unlike anything I have ever played before! Takes a little getting used to, but once you do, you’ll be right at home. It’s a great solo experience, and with a team based multiplayer game mode in the works, I really see that as being the true meat of the experience in this game. The sky is the limit for this game, and I’m excited to see this game flourish!
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
SkyDrift
AT A GLANCE
(Full review follows below)
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Game Name: SkyDrift
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Original Release: 2011
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Genre Tags: Racing; Arcade; Multiplayer; Action
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My Overall Grade: A-
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Estimated Playtime (Campaign): 5-12 hours
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Multiplayer Aspect: Auxiliary
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Recommended To: Established fans of the genre; Those intrigued by the genre; Nostalgia chasers; Multiplayer gamers; Casual gamers
REVIEW
Skydrift is a hidden-gem of an combat-racer game involving what feel like go-kart versions of airplanes. It reminds me of Diddy Kong Racing from back in the day, (which was like Mario Kart but with planes). The game is a lot of fun, especially in multiplayer. If you’re looking for some simple-pleasure arcade action, you probably want to check this out.
– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
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A Paladin’s Review: Skydrift. A Solid and Enjoyable Arcade Racer.
- Genre: Arcade Racer* Developed and Published by: Digital Reality & Kalypso Media Digital.* Platform: Windows, Xbox 360 and PS3.* Business Model: Base Game + DLC For Multiplayer Levels* Copy Gifted By A Friend
Read the full blog review here
Overall Gameplay Thoughts
SkyDrift is a great looking, fast action, arcade racing game. It’s chaotic, intense and skillful. Single player offers plenty of content and planes to choose from. It offers beautiful vistas of places to fly through and the world feels very organic and alive. It reminds me of Mario Kart mixed with Diddy Kong Racing. The three different modes of play, Power, Speed and Survival, keep it interesting if you want to change it up. Power is where you have the ability to use powerups. Speed takes powerups out and survival is about making it the longest. There’s a good amount of powerups, all sorts of different planes to choose from and a decent amount of racing tracks to chew on. The various different types of planes vary from flighty and twitchy, to heavy and slow but still remain balanced enough for engaging races everytime. The AI gets lots of help with rubberbanding and teleporting but it’s still possible to beat it. It’s just really aggravating. The game is definitely best played against others though. There’s a good amount of variety for such a small budgeted game.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
Street Heat
has anybody won a race? if so i want to see video evidence! i want to see one of the devs win a race on easy because for a start its not possible to select difficulty on local mode! i dont believe the devs have even played the game!!!!!!!! its impossible to win. online mode is pointless cos theres always an ai with you that will win every time. making a game impossibly difficult will not bring sales. big fail devs!!!!!!!!!!!!
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
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According to Steam, I last played this for around an hour back in 2017 when this game was still in Early Access. On a whim I decided to revisit it, and all I gotta say is, I’m really disappointed. When I last played this, I felt that the concept was cool but it was lacking in content, and just needed something more; according to the discussions, I’m not the only one that felt that way.
Other than some bugfixes according to the patchnotes (although OneWay’s AI is just broken), version 0.6.7275.31597 (which is the current version as of me writing this) has two new maps and SLIGHTLY different car handling. Nothing else, no alternate game modes, no new cars, no career mode, nothing. Just quick play with bots, other people on the same screen, or literally no one online. My problem with that is, Street Heat feels nothing more than a proof of concept that you get bored with after maybe an hour tops. At least grinding the car unlocks & achievements only takes three total at most.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Mini Madness
Its a bloodbath.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
it is a fun arcade racer that has a whacky spin on track design. it could use some online multi, but solo play is entertaining enough to pass time. some negatives would include high vehicle pricing (all un-lockable cars cost equally and all feature the same stats), track navigation is pretty bad but nothing difficult to find your way through, and how bouncy your car can be early on in the championships (can be fixed through upgrades i think). think hot wheels unleashed but on a budget.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
Must Dash Amigos
(Early Access Review. As an early access release, you may experience bugs, content, interface and optimization changes. If you are not excited to play the title in its current state and to help support the title to full release by reporting bugs and requesting additional content, you may want to wait for further development)
Introducing a remarkable family-friendly couch potato game that is jam-packed full of frantic single-player and multiplayer fun. What exactly is it you might ask? It is a combination of a time trial racer and brawler with a ton of spicy action! Take control of a character from one of the 4 available; if more than one person chooses the same character they will have a different color assigned, unless you or they have unlocked any more skins. No matter what game mode you play, you will need to grab pinatas spread around the tracks that contain buffs/debuffs (with random contents). They will either give you a weapon or a boost to use to gain an advantage.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Before I bash the
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Why, the
! CENSORED, do you immediately take a -1s penalty on your first lap, because the lap timer starts counting before your character can even move?
I wouldn’t normally complain about something so small and petty… but this game’s time trial mode probably wasn’t even tested. Or it was tested by a
! censoreding TAS.
The turning circles for each character are awful.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Pocket Cars
200 character summary
PocketCars is a nice RC combat racing game with a lot of potentional It looks great and has very nice physics simulation, It does lack in content for now, But the gameplay is already extremely solid.
Gamemodes & Gameplay 7/10
The game only has one game mode for now, Seasons, Here there are 36 events, Some are time trials some are normal races some force the use of a specific car or tyre or only allow a certain class, Each race has 3 challenges, Like hit an amount of cars, evade mines, hit a certain laptime or finish first. You can do the same race 3 times to complete each challenge seperately. Each challenge gets you a star and a certain amount of stars in a season will unlock you cars, tires, weapons, but also new events and new seasons.
– Real player with 100.1 hrs in game
A lot of fun to play, but the regular graphical glitches are irritating.
This game is a ton of fun. Driving these cars around is a real hoot. They slip and slide and scramble for grip in a way that’s really engaging and reminiscent of real-life RC cars. It’s this that sets it apart from other driving games and provides a lot of enjoyment for young and old players alike. The challenge is fair, and you are encouraged to try out the various play modes. The ‘stunt’ mode is very inventive - allowing you to throw your car around in search of trick points. The weapons are OK but nothing to write home about.
– Real player with 32.5 hrs in game
Concept Destruction
Concept Destruction In-Depth Review
Concept Destruction is another attempt bring back the Destruction Derby style genre into the modern day, and it does this quite well!
Optimization & PC Settings
In terms of graphics, the game has settings for things like bloom, depth of field, ambient occlusion, but nothing for texture quality, which is a bit disappointing because many of the textures are lower quality, and compressed. This is very apparent on the room texture, where its a very bad compressed 2D image. The optimization is a little hit or miss. I’ll see many times where the game is running a high framerate, but instantly will bog down to 60 - 70 FPS when there is a lot of vehicle parts on screen. For a game that is very simplistic with graphics, its a head scratcher on why the FPS can be so inconsistent. I hope that the developer can improve this optimization aspect, and give us an option to improve texture quality.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
So, Destruction Derby/Flatout (well, more DD than Flatout) mixed with Micro Machines (I’m not that old but yeah, I know those). Visually, the game is good, the miniature cardboard aesthetic is done quite well but that’s about everything positive there is say about this game.
The controls is the second best thing to say about this game, why second? Well, they work but apparently the developer doesn’t play PC games cos acceleration, turning and reverse is all mapped to the arrow keys instead of WASD. Yeah, I know I can use a controller, but guess what, it doesn’t work with this game, I’m not sure if it’s the gamepad or the controller so I won’t bash the game for this. I’ll just guess is restricted to player 2 or something dumb like that. Which btw, the game doesn’t have online play, just local and split screen, just like on the good old days of gaming… except I don’t have anyone to play with and can’t invite anyone because… ya know.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Neon Blast
Very local fun game!!!!!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Police Getaway
Police Getaway is an open world racing game focused around police chases. Take on a role of Chuck Chase, a former movie stuntsman turned mafia driver. When the head of a local criminal empire kidnapped his family, Chuck knew that saving them would not come easy. Blackmailed into cooperation he will have to use all his daredevil skills to perform the most dangerous missions and save his family.
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Play the story campaign focused around doing the most risky driving jobs for the head of the local mafia.
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Take on various side missions to acquire additional funds.
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Perform daredevil stunts to earn Respect.
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Buy different cars and upgrade them in various auto shops around the city.
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Explore the city of Paradise Lost and its outskirts, find all the hidden collectibles and secrets.
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And finally, remember, DO NOT GET CAUGHT!
Skydrift Infinity
Excellent. Been waiting for a remaster of this game for awhile. It’s perfect. Has Nuanced and noticeable improvements made everywhere that should be worthy for any real gamer and fan of original. I play at 6k (4320x2440 resolution w/ triple 27” asus rog QHD 2k 165htz O.C. monitors in rotated portrait mode) and it runs gloriously and feels butter vision smooth. I am crossing my fingers that it will play natively well like it does now for me at 6k when I finally upgrade my system to 10k resolution (7200 h x 2440 v). I’m getting up to my max 165 FPS play on a rtx2080 and average at 145 maybe more @ 6k. Well worth the purchase at current under $10.
– Real player with 22.1 hrs in game
SkyDrift was the game that made me join Steam 5 years ago.
I was used to pirate games, but then I found this little gem and wanted to play multiplayer so much, I ended up coming to Steam, and never left since then.
Back then, the original was so cool, and it had a good community, not many people played, but you could always find a room with at least 4 people.
With time, the servers got extremely unstable, to the point it was impossible to finish any race online. Singleplayer was still awesome.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game