Hyperspace Harvest
Engineer and mod crops, tools, gear and weapons!
Create your own strands of plants to grow on your whale farm and optimize your crop builds according to preferences/playstyle. Modify weapon creatures with a wide variety of submods, change your tools performance for specific tasks and even alter your own body with bio-engineered symbionts.
Fresh farming in a fresh setting!
Explore the surface of the whale across its season-like life cycle of continuous death and rebirth. Use your multitool in skill-driven minigames to clear cancerous overgrowth, infected feather trees and mineral crustations. Grow self-made crops on the hex-skin of the whale and discover hidden interactions between plants, tiles and native vegetation.
(A system inspired by Permaculture, a real life concept about crop synergies.)
Juicy dungeon crawling!
Explore the different anatomic regions of the whale and fight various diseased cells, constructs and hardlight entities that have turned against their host. Use a wide variety of modable weapon creatures, both for melee and ranged combat. Make use of your Vet-Suit’s superior mobility and manage suit energy to charge shields and weapons.
Streamlined UI and Mechanics!
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Universal tesseract inventory! No need to search through a dozen chests to find that one piece of gold ore.
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Your whaler tool is a single item that adapts to tasks you want to carry out, but can still be upgraded in individual areas.
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The time management aspect of the farming portion of the game does not interfere with the other core mechanics. Dungeon crawling only advances time when clearing a room and time of day pauses completely while moding gear, giving you the freedom to experiment and exploring possible builds at your own time.
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I hope you like smells cause the game constantly tells you the current odor of your surrounding! (with more gameplay implications in the future).
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Animation Studio Manager
My friend made this game and gave me a copy to play prior to release, and I’ve really been enjoying it so far. I completed levels 1-8 on both easy and medium mode. The easy level had enough guiding to help me through the game without being overly hand-holding, and it’s been nice to switch to the medium level for more of a challenge. The game moves at a nice pace but there is a pause button in case you need to stop and evaluate your next steps, which I appreciate because it keeps the game from becoming overly frustrating. I started out playing to give the creator some feedback from the perspective of someone who loves to game but doesn’t recognize herself as a hardcore gamer. Despite this, I have definitely found myself playing this game simply because I enjoy it and it helps focus my mind after a hard day of work. I can’t wait to see the next levels! I would definitely recommend this game and I will continue to enjoy it :)
– Real player with 48.5 hrs in game
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I’m hooked. I’m truly feeling the excitement and stress that a real animation studio manager would feel. It has cool mini games, an annoying producer, a sarcastic mother and a myriad of production and corporate employees. It’s a fun challenge as new demands appear at every level, like keeping employees happy making webisodes, episodes, and films. Try doing that while making enough money not to go bankrupt. Loved choosing the titles and genres of my TV seasons and watching them go viral. It was also exciting when one of my seasons got renewed. Next level, I get to compete for awards. Can’t wait.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Three Little Bears
A great adventure of three little bears. Be the bear you want to be or… be them all. Each bear must leave their comfortable dens and begin a challenging journey. Time, weather or poachers are just some of the obstacles you will have to overcome. Fortunately, you will meet many helpers on your way and cozy huts, when you get tired. Riddles, puzzles and quite a lot of magic. Three bears, three adventures, one big goal. Can you reach it?
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Soulpath: the final journey
Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/EUew8mhhV30
This is not a good collection of mini-games. Quite frankly, there’s older collection of mini-games out there that are much better and light years ahead in the gameplay department (examples: Summer Funland, Loco Dojo, Rec Room, etc.). The game mechanics here are simply outdated. I had zero fun while playing this.
The mini-games are just too basic with outdated interactions. Several of the interactions are point and click type interactions. The controls are pretty bad in two of the mini-games where it feels like you’re fighting the controls more than you’re trying to play a game. The physics are simple in these mini-games. Overall, these mini-games function, but they are forgettable.I think it’s an interesting concept to tie emotions to a mini-game type. However, I felt mostly frustration, boredom, & even rage through all the emotions, even the joy and serenity games. I enjoy a challenge in mini-games, but these are boring challenges
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Disclaimer: I’ve received this game for free via Curator Connect.
Soulpath is a small collection of tedious mini-games with mediocre visuals and very basic gameplay. Every game has 3 difficulty levels but I could not bring myself to play any of them again after finishing the initial level.
Here are those mini-games:
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Beat Saber with a lot of bombs and without rhythm and slicing mechanics;
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Unresponsive marble ball “labyrinth” with instant death traps;
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2 similar precision challenges with the most clunky throwing mechanics I’ve ever seen in VR;
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Eternal Exodus
Story
Welcome to Hell, kid.
The afterlife isn’t what you expected. Sure, you can live forever here, but only if you stay in the good graces of those in power. And it’s looking like you won’t.
Luckily, you have a Subjugator: a forbidden wrist-worn device that allows you to summon demons.
Gameplay
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150 unique demons to catch and fuse
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Form a party of up to 4 demons at a time
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Fuse demons together to get a more powerful species of demon that inherits up to 4 of its parents' spells and skills
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Craft weapons and armor for your demons
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Sidequests to catch legendary demons
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In classic 90s JRPG fashion, you’ll encounter a variety of minigames during your quest
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Full English and Japanese support, with more languages coming soon
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Built in a custom engine on top of Unity
Heavily inspired by franchises like Shin Megami Tensei and Pokemon, Eternal Exodus has a series of mechanics that, while easy to learn, offer depth and complexity. Catch demons in the wild, and fuse them with demons in your party to create stronger species of demons.
Through skill inheritance, you can fuse demons to end up with demons who otherwise wouldn’t naturally be able to learn the skills you give them. Want a Clammy that can cast Heal-All? Simply level up a Whisper to level 8 so it learns it, then fuse the Whisper with a Skullray to get a Clammy.