Return to Nangrim

Return to Nangrim

Return to Nangrim is a dark first-person fantasy adventure with survival and RPG elements embedded in an epic dwarven lore. Craft, explore, and survive an abandoned and hostile world. So, grab your axe and shield and go on an epic journey that will take you and your animal companion into the ominous depths of an ancient mountain.

Cold winds howl through the abandoned caverns of Nangrim. This forsaken place holds nothing good for those who dare to pass. Now you must survive down in the depths of this ancient dwarven mountain city, and discover the fate of the Stonebeards in their last days.

MAIN FEATURES

  • Explore epic locations and unveil their secrets. Collect, combine and craft items, and interact with the environment to progress.

  • Find and forge weapons to defend against the dangers that lurk in the dark. Not all creatures have left the mountain fortress.

  • Become a master blacksmith. Learn to forge like the dwarves of old.

  • Brew legendary beers and cook delicious dwarven dishes in the tavern.

  • Your torch is essential: it is not only a flame to light your way but also your primary weapon of defense; keep it close when the darkness closes in.

  • Hammer or axe? Both are unmerciful tools against the evil forces. Forge and upgrade them to unlock their full potential.

  • Use Hilduir, the runic language of the dwarves, to piece together the story, puzzles, and culture of this long-forgotten nation.

  • Procedural elements guarantee a different gaming experience for every player.

  • Experience deep and extensive fantasy lore with tons of side contents, collectibles, and hidden items.


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Return to Nangrim on Steam

Dark Tales from México: Prelude. Just a Dream… with The Sack Man

Dark Tales from México: Prelude. Just a Dream… with The Sack Man

DARK TALES FROM MÉXICO

This is a saga of 9 short games and a prelude in a 3D survival horror style, based on tales from the real Mexican folklore in which every monster it´s originally a physical sculpture made and painted by hand and then 3D scanned using photogrammetry.

IN THIS EPISODE

You are a young girl who is sleeping and having a nightmare in the middle of which your grandmother appears giving you a key, then a black cat starts talking to you and tells you that if you want to wake up, you must recover, in less than an hour, a dagger that is inside a labyrinth where the Sack Man lives, the monster that steals children from that old legend that your grandmother also told and warns you that this labyrinth is alive, that it changes its shape and that it will protect the monster by showing you your own fears, and that if you fail, you will remain inside the labyrinth forever and you will never wake up again.


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Dark Tales from México: Prelude. Just a Dream... with The Sack Man on Steam

Project Grove: Prologue

Project Grove: Prologue

If you’re a fan of atmospheric science-fantasy worlds and steampunk, you’ll be delighted about the optics of Project Grove! You play as 64 year old Edric Tate (cool to have an older protagonist for a change, btw) who explores a new region together with his little helper robot L-P1N. The two engage in playful banter, which is delivered a bit wooden at times, but entertaining in general.

The gameplay is fun, it consists mostly of walking around, exploring and platforming at this point. The progression of difficulty is good in the prologue, although the last few meters are a bit difficult, platforming-wise. You’ll also need patience to figure out some of the puzzles. But the game isn’t super hard, perfectly doable even for somebody who isn’t very familiar with this type of game.

Real player with 6.2 hrs in game


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PROJECT GROVE: PROLOGUE is an adventure puzzle game. Where you will go and explore the Forest of Dacrima as legendary alchemist Edric Tate along with your plucky robot companion L-P1N. The goal is to Brew potions allowing you to solve puzzles to help you in your search for a cure to STOP The Great Rot.

What I loved about this game is a few things

  1. The Graphics were nice, and the atmosphere felt somewhat alive with the whales and weird

jumping spiky balls.

  1. It had Keyboard and mouse as well as Controller options and the controls were smooth and easy to use which is awesome.

Real player with 1.7 hrs in game

Project Grove: Prologue on Steam

Universe For Sale - Prologue

Universe For Sale - Prologue

The prologue of this game is really interesting, I love the atmosphere and the settings are so peculiar and immersive.

The plot seems intriguing, I look forward to the complete game release which I’ll definitely play!

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game

This is a prologue for the game Universe for Sale. A prologue is like a demo. You might be wondering what the difference is between a prologue and a demo. Not much. Both are ways of promoting interest in the full game. The main difference is that a prologue has its own store page and a demo is on the store page of the full game. A developer could theoretically release the same content as both a demo and a prologue.

This prologue gives an introduction to some of the characters in the full game. The full game might have potential, but the prologue is rather short. You talk to a few people and that’s about it. Thumbs up for the easy achievements though.

Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

Universe For Sale - Prologue on Steam

Chronicles of Ash

Chronicles of Ash

Chronicles of Ash is a management simulation game where you take the role of a retired veteran hero that decides to open an adventuring guild to train the next generation of heroes.

Be ready to recruit, customize and send heroes on quests piled up on notice board. Receive pleads for help from traders, nobles, crime bosses and mages to name a few. Engage in deep crafting, enchanting and alchemy systems and even dabble in trading and diplomacy.

With six different endings that, when unlocked, greatly change your next playthrough you will be wanting to unlock all of them.

Chronicles of Ash on Steam

A World of Little Legends

A World of Little Legends

Open world crafting - just like in the 90s, but with catboy-vikings!

Craft the world to your imagination. Mine for resources, harvest what you sow, build your dream, or explore and hunt!

Farm idyll

Hop into the farming life and plant large fields. Grow rare flowers with magical effects throughout your garden, bring your own farm to life with lots of wonderful animals.

Explore

Head out on an adventure and discover special places in the world. Countless treasures are waiting to be discovered. Create all sorts of useful items, but be careful on your travels! There are also creatures lurking out there that might not be friendly.

Shape

The world lies before you, shape it to your imagination!

In Little Legends you can use your tools to fully transform and build the landscape.

A World of Little Legends on Steam

Gears of Eden

Gears of Eden

PLEASE NOTE: You will need a free key to play our Alpha Demo that you can get for free on our website !

In the distant future, the dawn of an intelligent machine civilization is taking place in a remote star system. Humankind is remembered only in myth and legend.

You awake alone, afraid, and disoriented on an abandoned asteroid in the depths of space. Wait. Awake?

You were never meant to be awake… you were never meant to experience the confusing phenomenon of self-awareness. You are a machine after all, programmed for the express purposes of deep-space surveying and exploration. How, then, did you come to be alive? And what is the purpose of this newfound sentience? There must be answers out there… somewhere…

Let’s find them! Gears of Eden is an open-world role-playing adventure game that features exploration, mining, crafting, missions, and more! Set in a gripping story that explores the hidden past of a machine world and the dangerous implications of its future, Gears invokes a slowly unfolding narrative that reveals itself through gameplay.

Your journey begins on an abandoned mining asteroid in deep space. Gather resources, repair and upgrade your components, and start searching for others as you seek answers to the mysteries surrounding your creation.

So, how are we making this happen? We are starting with a very light proof-of-concept demo version of GoE. This showpiece will give only a small taste of what the full game will offer. Our aim is to complete the demo, reach a wider audience, grow and develop the full game. But we can’t do it without your help!

Here’s what we’re working to provide in our first full demo and full release. If this sounds like a game you might be interested in, please add us to your wish list, follow us, and visit our website to see how you can get involved in Gears!

GoE Demo Version

  • Take control and play as a sentient rover

  • Open world exploration of one location (small asteroid)

  • Resource discovery and mining

  • Power and inventory management

  • Crafting and upgrading of tools/parts

  • Base interactions and upgrades

  • Drone deployment (make your minions mine for you)

  • NPC interaction

  • Story driven mission (limited in demo)

  • Narrative Content (limited in demo)

  • End game conditions/story

GoE Full Version

The features in the full version will depend on the success of our demo, budget, feedback, and a lot of interaction and communication with our fans. These are some of the features we already have in mind to get you started!

  • Character customization

  • Modular ships with customization

  • Base building (power stations, solar arrays, communications, defense, etc.)

  • Alien life mechanics (combat, resource trading, etc.)

  • Markets and trade economy

  • Multiple locations with unique challenges

  • Richer story with an unfolding narrative

  • Mini-games

  • True multiplayer interaction

  • And much, much more!

Gears of Eden on Steam

Hammerting

Hammerting

Review Date: Nov 20, 2021

I wrote a giant review, and then after reading through it, realized my opinion was more like no than yes, and when I changed it, Steam erased everything I had written. So, rather than do it again, I’ll just drop some bullet points. I’ve been playing since early in Early Access, so that will color my review.

New overworld trade system is terrible. It’s boring. It’s grindy. and it doesn’t work. I’m at max rep with a faction, and have yet to see the “subversion” mission mentioned in the tutorial.

Real player with 158.5 hrs in game

A decent time killer as-is, but released far too soon for the ambition they sought to achieve.

  • Settlement milestones are sparse and largely uninteresting, with few “make your own goals” opportunities to fill in the blanks. You will pretty much always build the same structures in the same order, and most structures are not actually all that useful.

  • Overworld is shallow and brainless, with pawns moving around for the sake of moving. Factions have no personality or storyline aspects, and the “war” has nothing to make it compelling or interactive. This is actually a bit of a downgrade from the initial concept at the start of Early Access, where there was at least a good vs. evil kind of thing going on.

Real player with 116.1 hrs in game

Hammerting on Steam

The Amazing American Circus

The Amazing American Circus

Target Audience: Those Willing to Take the Lows With The Highs in Card RPGs

Summary:

This is a recommendation in essence, but for a specific subset of people.

I’m going to be straight up from the get go here: The Amazing American Circus is one of those games that I want to love up and down, but ended up being the biggest thorn in my side due to what happened during the review period. To say that I faced some of the worst bugs: specifically saved game bugs, in my review career would have been an understatement: I had 8 separate runs break wildly in that period where I could not continue to make progress. While those bugs seem to be fixed now, I have a form of PTSD at this point. Every time I play, I’m waiting for the game to break again. Hell, even the video I made had a major bug in it. There’s a reason I have around 40+ hours of gameplay without actually beating the game, and to say it hung over the experience would be an understatement to say the least.

Real player with 57.7 hrs in game

This is not a Slay to Spire, this is not a Monster Train. The Amazing American Circus is not a roguelike-roguelite card game, it is more like a card game built around a campaign, with some management sim built around it, in which you need to cover the costs, upgrades etc from the incomes you get during the shows.

If you more curious about the game, and want to check a short, ~20mins long video in which I showing what content you could expect from the game with one circus show (card battle) included, then here is mine:

Real player with 29.8 hrs in game

The Amazing American Circus on Steam

Tribes of Tis’te

Tribes of Tis’te

You are the Blacksmith, newly risen Chief of the Stonewall Tribe. In a land of myth, magic, and monsters, it is your sacred duty to protect your people and see them not only survive, but thrive. How will you choose to serve your people? Will you push them towards power, risking the good will of the people for the chance to become the strongest of the Twelve? Or will you take the path of peace and bask in your popularity, while running the risk of attracting those who might not have your Tribe’s well-being as a priority in their plans?

The path you take is up to you, but be warned, each will come with its own price…

There are many dangers in the land of Tis’te…

Will your Tribe be ready when the Storm breaks?

Tribes of Tis’te is a kingdom building rogue-like, a blend of styles that will let you live the life of a Chief, one of the Twelve Rulers of the Tis’te Territories. As you protect, populate, and grow your territory in order to survive the harsh landscape your Tribe calls home, you will face many different dangers. Tis’te is a land full of many threats to your Tribe, both monstrous and human alike.

As Chief, your time has been allotted into a solidified routine. Each week, in the morning you will greet your agents and petitioners, gathering the news of the world and catering to the needs of your people. After handling the day’s requests, you will have the opportunity to explore the Tower where you live, and can interact with your friends and family as you choose. Send out your agents, check on your councilors, and check off any tasks you may have pressing. At day’s end, you must collect the daily offering of Fyre-Stones and bring them to be cast into the Tower’s Forge, to feed the Fyre used to power the magic protection of the Tribal Towers.

When dusk falls, the game fully shifts into rogue-like mode, and becomes a 2D Platforming Adventure. Night is spent in the King’s Study, a secret section of the tower only available to those who hold a Crown. The Study holds the key (or Keys?) to ascending from Chief of a single tribe to becoming the King of the entire Tis’te. However, the Study will not give up its secrets easily. You will be forced to explore fascinating areas filled with interesting items and dangerous weapons, both protected and wielded by ancient Guardians, not to mention the fearsome Wyld creatures that have made these forbidden tunnels their home. While you search for the fabled Way of Kings, you will learn how to master the Talents and Techniques favored by the Tis’te, and harness the awesome power of the Crown at your disposal.

Tribes of Tis'te on Steam