Smashpunks
Smashpunks is a frenetic online multiplayer arena battler where players compete for glory in a dangerous underground vehicle combat sport. Take command of powerful melee machines and master a wide variety of abilities, powers, acrobatic and combat skills as you smash your way to victory!
Find your niche amongst a diverse roster of Smashbots and become a fearsome Smashpunk. Do you smash your foes, support your team, steal objectives or outsmart the enemy?
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Battle online in chaotic 8 player matches and dominate a range of varied arenas set across a wild and exotic world
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Frantic physics fighting - smash, bash, crash and pummel enemies while mastering the nuances of each Smashbot’s handling
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Fight and survive alongside your friends in Smashflag, an intense gamemode where every step towards your goal must be hard fought
Roadmap
Our plan is to start testing Smashpunks using Steam Playtest, followed by launching onto Early Access. Throughout both periods we’ll be regularly adding new content and features to the game!
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Boreal Blade
easily the best melee “fighting”/slasher style pvp game in the vein of jedi knight 2/JA (inc. with mods like MB and OJP/JKE), in my opinion, of all time. whatever genre you want to call it, it’s a coming together of classics like the Jedi Knight series, Die By The Sword, Chivary, Mordhau and to games like Absolver as well to a degree.
To me this game is a beautiful marriage of the elements that made me love “melee slashers” and it’s plagued by none of the issues of other titles.The movement, animation, attacks, attack feedback, abilities and customization are all done beautifully and you can tell what’s going on regardless of how new you are to the game. The controls take a short amount of getting used to, after that it’s incredibly intuitive. It’s an incredible amount of fun to play, shockingly easy to learn and just the right level of hard to master. I haven’t enjoyed being owned by far better opponents or enjoyed owning less skilled players this much possibly ever. It all comes down to the aesthetic, combat feedback and combat design that is IMHO unparalleled by any other game on the market. Name a game with combat that’s more intense, well-thought out and encourages the least anger towards the game than this. You can’t. These developers deserve all the support anyone can give.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
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Edit: I wrote that because I kept trying to post my review, but I thought maybe it was too long or something so if I would just type something short it would post then I could edit it later, but then it didn’t work, but I guess it did.
Oh my oh my oh my. The beta was already super promising. Sure I didn’t get to play much in the beta since they weren’t many games running, but it was a blast. And I was expecting to pay $20, and then it’s $4, but then on sale for 10% because why not, and, and less than one 5th of the price, and, and… Oh yeah I have to talk about the game.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
Bludgeon
Bludgeon is a death match between bird-riding warriors wielding flails. Evade the spikes and your enemies' weapons in your feeble attempt to survive and become victorious. Grab some controllers and some friends, and prepare to be bludgeoned!
Inspired by games like Joust, Towerfall, Super Smash Brothers, and Bomberman, Bludgeon is being built with love, knowing there are few things more fun and worthwhile than a room full of friends enjoying a good video game together.
Features:
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Simple but polished gameplay, centered around use of the flail – swing it, block with it, and throw it!
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A unique, sensible control scheme.
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Risk/reward based gameplay:
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If you have your weapon out, you can attack, but it hinders your movement.
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You can throw your weapon, but that leaves you temporarily defenseless.
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Keep your weapon out longer for a super-powerful charged attack!
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Up to four players at once.
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Several characters and stages to choose from.
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Pain and death at the hands of your enemies – or, if you’re fortunate, sorrow and guilt as an undeserving survivor in an uncaring world.
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Don’t Fall
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Dont Fall is a game i would HIGHLY recommend for people who stream or you just have a group of friends you want to have some fun with! When i played with my friend Neenjeba and Vampy1001 on stream this game made me laugh so much i had a ton of fun in stream with this treasure. All the weapons have their own unique qualities it needs a little fine tuning but all in all its a great little game if you just want to relax and have fun! I will be playing this again with friends and yes at first glace this doesn’t look like much of a game but this is so fun! Dev’s did an amazing job on this one well done!!
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Where do I start? I got this game for free to stream it as I was sponsored to do so. I was excited about the sponsorship and the game actually looked like fun. THAT is where the excitement ended. It was painfully hard to keep playing for the minimum required 2 hrs. Now I WILL say,the game does have a lot of promise. But that is all I can say positive about it. Unless you have people already lined up to play with you,you will be waiting forever for anyone to queue in to play with you. The instructions/tutorial is VERY bare bones. The keyboard mouse configuration sucks and is awkward to use. The option to use a controller would be MUCH appreciated. BEWARE! If you are using a headset and turn the game on for the 1st time,the main screen music will blast your eardrums until you manually turn it down. The colors are dull and could use some brightening up. Choosing items in the game is awkward,which AGAIN could be easily remedied by having controller support. Also the sound effects are minimal and the game play could use some ambient music in the background. I am NOT giving up on this indie game,but neither am I very optimistic. 2.5 out of 5 stars.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Wands
I genuinely love this game. Wands has a totally unique style of gameplay that strongly emphasises strategy. It’s PvP wizard dueling!
Some important points:
There is no free movement here; instead, you teleport to a fixed set of “tiles” in each of the six arenas. This has two implications for your experience: 1) it’s super comfortable; the only motion you experience is what you physically do in your space and 2) the gameplay comes down to your ability to control your opponents' access to these tiles. Sure, it’s limiting. You don’t get to whiz around in VR using the latest creative control scheme. However, gameplay-wise, this is probably Wands' greatest strength; the limitation of movement makes this essentially a full-information game. There are very few cutsie tricks that you discover from the arenas by way of experience (though there are a handful) as you would find in other PvP games. Most importantly, your opponent can’t hide. If you understand each arena and each spell, you are perfectly capable of formulating a unique strategy that will surprise even the most experienced opponent.
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
This game is brilliant. I had it on Viveport subscription for a month and consequently decided to buy it on Steam.
It’s a PvP game where you battle it out with wands. Quite a strategic game and highly addictive. Especially when you really, really want to beat that one person who keeps killing you.
If you don’t like PvP it’s not for you, as there’s no real single-player mode. But if you want a PvP VR game and you’ve always fancied yourself as a wizard or mage, then frankly you need this game in your VR library! Plus it’s actually offered at a reasonable price.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Rocket Arena
Rocket Arena is a 3v3 third person arena shooter where every character is equipped with rocket based weaponry and instead of killing your opponents you have to blast them out of the stage (Smash Bros style).
I think the strongest point of the game is the tight accessible gameplay combined with the sheer amount of fun content it gives you.
Four game modes that can be all played on all 10 maps.
Knockout – Simple but very effective death match.
Rocket Ball – Get the ball and score it into the opponent goal. Probably the most interesting game mode when everyone in each team knows what they are doing.
– Real player with 78.3 hrs in game
I am having an absolute blast with my friends in this game.
A couple things to note when considering purchasing this game as I see it is getting a lot of mixed reviews that are leaving out a lot of relevant information.
You have to buy the game, and there is a battle pass, and there are micro-transactions available. Now this is what people are not telling you.
** If you purchase a battle pass for 950 rocket fuel, you will get 1500 rocket fuel back throughout the course of the pass **
** All skins apart from the battle pass skins can be earned WITHOUT the use of real money, and it is not that grindy to get the pieces you want. These matches are not that long and the cosmetic pieces/currency are/is very easily attainable **
– Real player with 40.2 hrs in game
Swords of Gurrah
Alright so there’s a popular review here that’s got like 100 people marking it as helpful, that review was posted around 5 months ago and the game has changed a lot since then, I’m just going to go point by point on their list of issues with the game to show how it’s changed since then.
Issue 1:
“The worse connection someone has, the less frames they have while fighting. This results in some people feeling unfair to go against given their moves are incredibly hard to read for being as laggy as they are.”
– Real player with 240.0 hrs in game
TL;DR Best multi[player melee combat for VR yet. Real combat techniques produce real results.
I’m an armored combat fighter and weapons instructor for multiple historical and athletic groups, so I love me some hand to hand combat. I want to fight more often than I have meetings or events, so I like to dig around in VR for good fighting games. So far the only game that got close to scratching that itch in VR was Blade & Sorcery, which while fantastic is single player. This game handles completely differently from B&S but brings the most fun multiplayer that I’ve seen yet.
– Real player with 202.7 hrs in game
Fishards
Great game to play with friends!
It has awesome gameplay, very cool retro looking graphics and a catchy soundtrack which you might find you self hum along to at times
Performance is really good, the game runs on pretty much any computer and doesn’t require expensive hardware to enjoy
Everything is of course not perfect though. There’s some issues like balancing of spells and classes could be better and they currently only support P2P multiplayer so playing with someone far away from you might not result in a good experience
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Awesome game to pick up and play with a couple friends. I also found a responsive discord community with both devs and players being active meaning there will always be people to play with.
Was further positively surprised by a pretty prevalent skill expression which made it really rewarding to discover new combos and practice them. All over great game! :)
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
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
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
Knight Club +
Tight controls, smooth gameplay, feels damn good when landing those combos.
The four weapons feels unique and powerful in their way:
-Dagger: Short range but the fastest weapon. Dagger mains will let you always guess which way to guard.
-Axe: Big hits with the most wide range, strongest at medium range. Powerful hits just melts the opponent HP.
-Spear: Longest range, hit them and ruin their tempo, baiting and spacing skill are essential if you don’t want to get murdered by those dagger mains. My favourite.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
Really fun game, and a fantastic party game, would definitely suggest for a house party if you can get your hands on some controllers.
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Easy to learn, not too many or confusing moves.
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I love most of the characters and the weapons are all great.
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Great UI, the sound design is very satisfying and along with all the clashing weapons and combos and stuff like that makes for a very fun experience, really good work.
And don’t get me started on the soundtrack. it’s a bop :D
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game