Inertia
I’m enjoying this game! Like some other reviewers, I found the controls slightly off at first, but then I figured out what I was doing wrong. Accordingly, I want to offer a few simple tips that should be helpful for new and inexperienced players:
-Sprinting vs walking: In the Options menu, under “Input,” make sure “Use sprint input” is checked. This gives you much more control over your momentum, as you can either walk or hold SHIFT to sprint. If that option is not checked, I think you are always sprinting. SHIFT/sprint also affects your ability to make movement corrections while in the air.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
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The best I can say about this game is that it is fine. The movement feels slow and clumsy but honestly not all that bad. The mechanics range from very cool (the black-orange platforms that break) to alright (the wall running, feels cool but VERY glitchy) to just unneeded (zipwires, just unnecessary, taking control away from the player for 5-10 seconds.)
The double jump is weird, where the higher your initial upwards momentum is when using the jump, the higher the DJ will go. Eg double tapping space will send you flying but trying to DJ after running off a ledge will make you go nowhere. Some of the platforms that move up and down have weird physics too, but it makes somewhat more sense there.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
UpBreakers
My friends and I LOVE this game, there’s nothing like stealing someone’s box for the win.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
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Super Fun game!
Highly recommend for a funny Game Night with some friends.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Bunny Reversi
a nice simple game of basic strategy. outwit the other player.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
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Fun little game that can be played both in single and multiplayer modes
AI on the bot has three levels, though I didn’t find 1 or 2 particularly difficult to beat
There’s a host of fluffies - bunnies to chase and chickens to punt, amid a very pretty landscape around the board, as well as a fair few counters types, similar to solitaire cardbacks
I’ll admit this isn’t my kinda game, as I didn’t grow up with Goh or similar, so it took me a while to learn. If you get stuck here’s a tip:
! Turn on Hints, because rather like WSG if you want to lose just play in the middle; this game is won in the corners and edges
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Crystal Crisis
Fast-paced competitive puzzle game, that has enough single player to help you learn the ropes if you’re new to this style of game.
It has the same core game as Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo 2, which is a good enough starting point that you can find copy cats thru the last decades. This is a great remake of the genre, with some new tests in the form of “Bursts” (ultimate abilities you charge up and can alter your or your opponent’s board) – which adds some rotation of characters (no more just Ken!).
– Real player with 45.1 hrs in game
The ultimate puzzle fighter
It took 23 years, but finally we got a game based on Super Puzzle Fighter II that is better than the original. Crystal Crisis, developed by Nicalis, is a puzzle battler that not only feels really smooth to play, but also brings a charismatic set of indie characters (and also Astro Boy and Black Jack, from Tezuka Productions, for some reason), a lot of different modes to play and some nice additions that adds more depth to the established formula.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
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Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]
I just plain love it!
Hanafuda is a tough game to describe. When people ask me about it I usually just say “It’s a lot like Go Fish, but with a deck of Japanese flower cards”. This is only partially true, the game is a bit deeper than that, but at it’s core the game mixes chance and strategy into a really fun, really unique match game. The cards, the rules and the scoring can appear daunting at first, but once I got the hang of it (I have some experience with this game elsewhere) it is a really great and unique card game.
– Real player with 51.8 hrs in game
I can’t recommend this game at full price. If you have friends to play with, it might be worth buying in a sale.
Koi-koi is a Japanese card-matching game using Hanafuda cards. It requires the players to match same-suit pairs of cards from twelve suits of four cards to produce sets (‘yaku’).
This implementation of koi-koi is very basic. The single-player AI is predictable, and not particularly hard to win against. The single-player mode doesn’t have a lot of replayability value, as it’s just the same game over and over. The single-player DLC requires the player to make certain yaku to progress. Some of these are very rare. While the pictures that you get as a reward are nice, it’s immensely frustrating to be unable to progress until you get an ideal hand.
– Real player with 44.9 hrs in game
Mahjong Nagomi
Use this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Mahjong_yaku
So far, it seems everything there works in the game. It has helped me a lot.
After nearly 60 hours, I think I’m starting to get the basics of this game. Once you understand some of the common options for building your hand in a unique way, like Tan yao, shii toitsu, when to have an open hand using Dragon or Wind tiles and when that won’t work or won’t score very high, etc., then you can make better calls about what to discard.
– Real player with 59.6 hrs in game
This game saved my life.
I am 27.
My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and adopted our son together. They are now both 4 years old.
When we were going through our separation, I found myself lost and miserable. I was self destructive. I got so mad one day from everything spiraling out of my control that I punched some concrete in a moment of overwhelming emotion. That caused me to break my 5th metacarpal in my right hand… my working hand… my games hand.. the hand that I held and carried my children to bed with.. The hand I desperately needed to make sure I could continue to provide.
– Real player with 27.5 hrs in game
Pull Ball
Nice and simple game to play once in a while while maybe doing something else or listening to music etc. Won’t use much resources, can nicely keep it running on the background. I like the windowed-mode which doesn’t take the whole screen, which in my opinion is not required for a game like this.
A fresh way to play a kind-of-a-golf-like-game. You can implement strategies on how to create the best score since the score is accumulated through gaining distance and wall bounces. With single shots you get 2x multiplier as well as with when you score the ball inside the inner hole. Because of this and the leaderboard, this has a nice competitive aspect to it.
– Real player with 77.0 hrs in game
As a 2D minigolf lover, this game was fun for a while. The idea of getting points by bouncing off the outer walls of a level is a fun mechanic that gives levels a lot of replayability as I try to get to the top of the leaderboard in each level by using 2 shots.
However, it seems the best strategy is often the same: just zig-zag as much as possible and then attempt to hit the center of the circle. Hitting walls actually increases the speed of the ball a tiny bit so you also get more distance by zig-zagging (which gives more points).
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Raiders Of The Lost Island
Full disclosure, I contributed Design work and work on some maps to the game. That being said…Getting to 100% was fun, relaxing.
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 20 Hours ~
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 in co-op 5/10 solo
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 250 raids.
Is there a good guide available: One on Steam for the secret achievements, Rest don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: Yes (but you can spawn players on the same PC by using controllers and keyboard)
Missable achievements: No.
– Real player with 59.8 hrs in game
Very cool little game! Has a variety of content and gameplay, to play with your family and friends. Also, the team mode is very cool. What I really like is the way you can set your objectives: it’s free for all. You can try gather the best loot, try to survive, try to sabotage other players, try to kill them and steel their loot, try to gather the special loot only, try to have the best hat, etc., it’s very open-ended.
Watch out for hot-heads, might pick up some heat from the other players :) Better served chilly.
– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game
Puyo Puyo™Tetris®
A Brief Summary
Overall, this is an amazing puzzle fighter, with a good amount of content to keep you coming back.
The Casual Experience (Singleplayer)
As a puzzle game crossover it does its job. The Tetris and Puyo mechanics are solid. It has everything you’d expect in a Tetris game like score, time attack and endless modes, plus a few other competitive modes (my favorite of which being Swap). The game even has a charming little adventure mode that’s actually a pretty good introduction to all the various modes in the game, and as a new player the adventure mode was actually relatively challenging.
– Real player with 188.2 hrs in game
I don’t even know where to start with this masterpiece.
Ever since 1991, this game has amassed an amazing group of loyal followers who enjoy perhaps every single installment of the game. This is one of those video games that only gets better and better with each sequel. It’s a competitive puzzle game, and when I mean puzzle, you gotta think carefully and use your head to carefully but also swiftly stack your puyos in such a way that you’ll be able to make create amazing chains as they erase themselves one after another.
– Real player with 150.1 hrs in game
Puyo Puyo Champions
This game is puyo straight through. No Tetris, no influx of rating and offers some pretty good tutorials for beginners. I find this much better than Tetris because it’s more than an RNG battle when you vs Puyo as a Tetris or Tetris as a Puyo. That’s all the positives I can give because this game is overrun by bugs and the ones where they can destroy your experience as a player, even for a beginner.
For starters, the ranking in the game is more refined to the point where you are not seeing huge rating changes like in PPT (Puyo Puyo Tetris) and they’ve actually fixed it so that you aren’t getting matched up by a person way stronger than you. The ranking system matches you with a player near your skill level, but here’s the thing, the skill level could be vastly big still, even for a beginner. I’ve been matched with people in the 3000s while I was a 2200 and it completely ruined the experience for me as a veteran puyo player. The fun thing is that you can’t just back out because it locks you into a 30-second agreement to battle each other, which I find not needed because of how many times I and other players bumped into these high levelled players. I even faced against players more than 500 rating points below me and I feel just awful being forced to battle against them. I feel that this is maybe because of the lack of players since steamcharts says that mainly 30-40 people play this around the world per day, but you can get matched up with people from the other side of the world and start lagging, making you do wrong inputs. I do say the 30-second rule stops people from delaying to accept the duel and even gets rid of AFK players which is a plus for this game when it came out from the update. I enjoy playing against others around my level but if I’m going to be decimated by a guy way superior than me, then it’s no fun. This evolves into a few other problems and bugs that are introduced into the ranking system, which is where all the bugs are found.
– Real player with 89.3 hrs in game
$10 for what makes PuyoPuyo so fun: the online battles.
If you’re a new player, like, BRAND new to PuyoPuyo, I’d recommend that you hold it off for a little while before buying it. Not to get it on a sale, but for when new solo content gets added in the form of free updates. Since as this game stands of the time I’m writing this review, 90% of its content panders to multiplayer, while the rest are just freeplay CPU battles. No story mode and such, which is to be expected considering the budget price.
– Real player with 88.4 hrs in game