Palladise Island(帕拉小島)

Palladise Island(帕拉小島)

I just finished the game with 100% completion so I feel qualified enough to write this review.

Palladise Island is a simple idle/clicker game in which you collect and evolve many different creatures known as PA. The core gameplay is passively waiting for silver coins to upgrade your buildings to earn more silver coins and upgrade your intimacy bar (the PA’s level/XP Bar) to evolve and unlock more PAs. There is also a building that allows you a chance to randomly get rarer/more expensive items but you’ll probably upgrade this last. You can also click the PAs to earn intimacy faster, thus levelling up faster.

Real player with 60.0 hrs in game


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First I was like what, but then I was like what

Real player with 32.4 hrs in game

Palladise Island(帕拉小島) on Steam

Cat’s Menace

Cat’s Menace

This game was a lot of fun to play in front of my stream audience, however playing it by myself without friends would have been a rather miserable experience, I’m afraid. The game has no save or checkpoint system, so when you have a Game Over, you have to start the entire game over from the beginning. The game operates by having you assign a cat to a task and making choices to decide whether the cats succeed or fail in the mission. The choices have no logic behind them, so it’s a coin flip in deciding if you lose the cat you assigned or not. Also, it doesn’t seem to matter which cats you assign to the mission. They’re essentially just very cute life counters.

Real player with 2.1 hrs in game


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So, I’m going to be honest and say, I LOVE CATS…

Now, when I then looked at the “Similar to games you’ve played: The Witcher 3 and Portal 2” I was ready for this game to BLOW. MY. MIND.

Spoiler alert: It did not…

The other reviews are spot on:

  • English translation is bad, even to the point where some things doesn’t make sense

  • It’s game over pretty easily and you have no idea what would be the right answer to the events you’re prompted with

  • When you get a game over, you start over from the beginning - so it becomes a pattern of blindly guessing what’s right and having to remember every right answer to get further in the game. Which gets boring and annoying very fast.

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

Cat's Menace on Steam

Idle Monster Frontier

Idle Monster Frontier

I find this to actually be a very good Single Player Monster Collector game.

You push your team of monsters through a series of waves of enemies, collecting gold and other monsters to build your team. The basic gameplay loop is a monster collector, where a gold resource and other monsters you don’t want/need are consumed to make your main monsters more powerful.

It has a traits system where monsters can learn abilities from others allowing for customization.

The game is free, obviously with some very pay to win stuff available in the store. However there is practically nothing you cannot get in this game by playing it normally for free. The daily gems (premium currency) quests will give you a slow stream of currency to buy the things you need. Some players have complained that the best monsters in game are purchasable in the shop for 750 gems (which is a LOT) however they don’t really take into account that fact that this is a bad purchase type. The monster could have a low speed rating, and due to how levelling up a monster works, you do not need only 1 of a top tier monster, you will ultimately need many, many copies.

Real player with 1577.5 hrs in game


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Lets start by saying this game will not play itself 100% of the time, SO WHAT!!.

This game has TONS of unique things not seen or tried on any of the multiple and plenty of Idles ive played before!

This game encourages creativity and imagination to build not the optimal but the team you dream of, The core is the only defining part while you are able to freely create a creature however you dream it for you specific team. They add new units, events, and they are (DEV) Looking out for the game, Dont let this few people that play the game for minutes or even low hours fool you. THIS IS A GREAT GAME.

Real player with 283.8 hrs in game

Idle Monster Frontier on Steam

Mental Hospital - Child of Evil

Mental Hospital - Child of Evil

You work as a reporter for a small local newspaper. One fine evening, you receive a message from your friend Ada that something mystical is happening in the vicinity of the Santa Monica Psychiatric Hospital. The most hopeless psychos from all the states were brought there! So you take a video camera and decide to check what was really going on there. But the story you’re getting into is so terrifying that you will remember it for your whole life! And it depends only on you whether you can unravel this tangle of chaos and horror and survive.

Seven reasons to download Mental Hospital right now:

→ Solve the mystery of the mystical phenomena that are rumored;

→ Many scary monsters and animals.

→ Many available levels to complete.

→ An exciting and unpredictable plot will not leave you indifferent.

→ Stunning graphics.

→ A perfect horror game: intense gameplay, scary monsters, sudden screamers, as well as a chilling atmosphere.

→ You will be accompanied by the natural sounds of the environment, which convey the effect of presence and plunge into madness.

Mental Hospital - Child of Evil on Steam

100 hidden rams

100 hidden rams

Simple and short. Like a demo, but… Other games have numbed me with grinding quests. So I now have the mindset to find a short game refreshing. Short is a feature.

I bought it in a bundle and at that price it feels like a bargain. I’ve paid more to play games in arcades.

The developer created tight limitations for themselves. The simple line art brought back the joy of reading Where’s Waldo, Castle, and Animalia as a child.

I recommend this game to friends and recommend it to you.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Once again a great little “find the 100 xxx” game! Its 100 sheep this time, fluffy little monsters that infest a village, hand drawn as always, and accompanied by boppy music. Do your brain a favour and buy it!

Guaranteed to challenge your brain, and distract you with the appealing artwork! You can wipe your score and let your friends and family exercise their brains too!

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

100 hidden rams on Steam

Dark Forest: Lost Story VR

Dark Forest: Lost Story VR

Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2

You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/r9lO-ZJu9Og

This is a horror game for VR that currently only has 1 of 2 story chapters available. The story of Baba Yaga can be split up into three different parts, plus the intro. Whole thing took me approximately 1 hour, but I took the scenic route (which leads to many deaths unfortunately). I think you can easily finish this game in 30 minutes otherwise.

The intro is just really walking from point A to point B while some scary stuff happens. The first part is simply figuring out how to get through the level (finding the key and where to use it) and you may come across the Baba Yaga and she will kill you if you don’t escape. The second part is mostly chasing sequences where you have to find enough obects hidden within the areas. The last part is a horror stealth section where you have to figure out the patrols of enemies who hear very well, but can’t see.

Real player with 1.7 hrs in game

kinda awful, clunky controls and not very satisfying gameplay.

was funny though

Real player with 1.5 hrs in game

Dark Forest: Lost Story VR on Steam

Fractal Evolution

Fractal Evolution

Fractal Evolution is a 2D space exploration RPG with life simulation elements inspired by Conway’s Game of Life.

You will explore a universe, fight monsters, and complete quests, with the ultimate goal of returning life to the universe in the form of single-celled creatures called Fractals. Each planet begins with just two unique fractals that breed with each other, and ultimately spawn a network of creatures competing for resources and constantly evolving. Study the evolution of these creatures and eventually gain items that allow you to engineer their genome. Every universe is unique, and runs on a non-deterministic simulation that follows two simple equations. One for physics, and the other for biology.

Fractal Evolution on Steam

100 hidden birds 2

100 hidden birds 2

Fun little games but there are two birds that are virtually impossible to find without looking on line. One is the size of two beaks of the drawn birds that I just happened to click on in error and one is behind a girder and looks NOTHING like a bird.

Real player with 2.2 hrs in game

By far the hardest of the hidden object games I’ve played, but in a good way. The birds are easy to identify but blend in really well. The art is great, as usual, and the music has that right mix of catchy but not distracting. By and large, a very strong entry in the field.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

100 hidden birds 2 on Steam

1000 hidden snails

1000 hidden snails

Art by Anatoliy Loginovskikh

Important information

  • Press “N” for night mode.

  • Press “Del” then “Esc” to reset all achievements.

1000 hidden snails is a hidden object game in a surreal setting.

Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style.

Can you find 1000 snails? Just click on the snail!

Good Luck!

1000 hidden snails on Steam

Dinogotchi

Dinogotchi

Dinogotchi reminds me of all the tamagotchis I had as a child, they’re all dead… But Dinogotchi is different, the game has a nice and cute art, the music and sound effects are nice but I feel like the game in general could have a extra polish.

I recommend the game, especially for those who already had tamagotchis in their childhood or for those interested in the genre.

Real player with 3.7 hrs in game

I am editing my review to update my opinions on the game, I will keep the original at the bottom of this for context, my biggest issues with parts of the game being unplayable is fixed so I think it’s fair and time to change this. :)

The developer of this game has done a good job at making a cute game and being open to criticism and fixing the problems. All the issues I reported were fixed really fast and it gives me a lot of hope for future updates.

The pixel art in the game is really well done, all the dinosaurs look cute and recognisable and overall really pleasant to look at. The UI is really nice and was updated recently to make the happiness, hunger and energy icons more clean which wasn’t necessary but a really nice change. The music is also very nice and cute, I enjoy it a lot, more songs would be nice but this is still good.

Real player with 3.6 hrs in game

Dinogotchi on Steam