After The End: The Harvest

After The End: The Harvest

Originally written for early access version 0.9u3 - 29May2017

Edited for version 1.4 20Jun2018

After nearly 90 hours and having seen the game to its completion, I’m finally comfortable editing in a final review.

Pros:

–- The game’s description and screenshots are very accurate for what you’re getting here: an expansive open-universe RPG with the look and feel of an old action-adventure SNES game.

— Among the biggest selling points for After the End continues to be developer interaction. Throughout the early access period and post-release, The Sworn has consistently been available to field questions and bug reports in the forums. I very much value this!

Real player with 86.6 hrs in game


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UPDATED REVIEW:

In a time of loot box gambling and unfulfilled promises many devs have been screwing over customers so it’s nice to see

an early access dev actually keep true to their promises and finish their game. This game has a couple of small issues, but what it does achieve is

so fun and refreshing that it is worth peoples attention.

I originally played through and finished the game during its 0.08 alpha.

It was prety different but i loved it! You can read my original review under this one.

Real player with 60.0 hrs in game

After The End: The Harvest 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.


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Fractal Evolution on Steam

Heliopedia

Heliopedia

It’s a cute little game, but the inventory management is a real pain. The planets and their surroundings get quickly cluttered and that takes a lot of the fun out of the game. Would be nice if we could delete stuff more easily than dragging it all the way to the sun. The game doesn’t feel ready or polished, it seems to have a bunch of bugs here and there as well. Also I was hoping it would be a bit more realistic/educational but it’s really more on the same level as Little Alchemy ie. Stick + Bug = Stick bug. It took me two days to make sand, because I thought the logical route would be rocks but no, obviously I needed to make bunnies first.

Real player with 13.2 hrs in game


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Cute little game, but ran into game breaking errors.

If you try to charge batteries under a thunderstorm, it crashes your game with a FATAL ERROR message. Poop doesn’t dissolve in water, despite what it says in the journal. And there’s no keyboard option to quickly pick up a ton of items instead of clicking over and over again, which will strain your wrist. You can also lock yourself out of progression if you run out of materials or have trouble cooling down planets.

I really enjoy the game, but it definitely needs some fixes and fine-tuning.

Real player with 12.5 hrs in game

Heliopedia on Steam

Planet Morph

Planet Morph

From the creator of Color Soul: Memories comes Planet Morph, an Action RPG with a simple twist: every enemy you encounter, once defeated, is a creature the player can transform into.

The New Age Of Biology

Created by sentient robot beings called the ISS-RR, the player plays as the Alterux, a new advancement in scientific technology. With it, the ISS-RR can study any alien species they choose, as long as they get a sample of the creatures’ DNA.

Action, Adventure, Exploration!

With planets to explore and creatures galore, Planet Morph is an experience for everyone. Level up, unlock abilities, solve puzzles, and fight until your last breath. And, with difficulty modes, casual and hardcore gamers can change the gameplay just to their liking.

Follow and wishlist the game to get updates and announcements about the game’s development!

Planet Morph on Steam

Genetic Fluff

Genetic Fluff

Genetic Fluff is a multiplayer ‘Action-RPG’ creature collection adventure game. You play as one of many time traveling outlanders (Elio, Ada, Sten and Aster), each making their way through other worldly adventures. Our outlander heroes are guided by their abilities to use Genetic Fluff and their Genetic Fluff companion ‘Gene’. You will collect and build up your Genetic Fluff creature collection gaining experience and leveling up during battle. Find special items and discover untold mysteries in a real-time action adventure that you and your friends/family can complete together or alone with local multiplayer support. Defeat Bosses in battle and skillfully avoid Enemies in the many conflicts you will encounter on your way through space and time.

Features:

  • ARPG (Action RPG)

    • Creature Collection

    • Gain Experience

    • Level Up

  • Local Split Screen Multiplayer for up to 4 players (including yourself)

  • Unleash and Level Up your Genetic Fluff Companions during battle to help you defeat your enemies

  • Full Controller Support for the desired tactile feel of a beat-em-up action adventure game (with keyboard still as an option and mouse support for menus)

  • Punch, Kick, Headbutt, Dash, Jump and use your Genetic Fluff powers to fight your way through levels and bosses, each with their own story and agenda

  • Jump-Attack Flying and higher altitude opponents

  • Jump and Dash to avoid moving obstacles and projectiles (Altitude Levels: Underground, Ground, Low, Mid, High, Air)

  • Spawn, Pick-up, Throw, Slam, and gently set down creatures with the help of your Genetic Fluff powers

  • Characters and Creatures are equipped with unique Projectiles

  • Rogue-Lite Items and Loot, you collect for quests and to heal/power-up (use or lose when starting a new game)

  • Game Progress is automatically Saved to local file after each Stage is complete (Note: Items are not saved to file i.e. Rogue-Lite Items and Loot)

  • Portals are available after completion of milestones to make it easy to continue your adventure

Controller or Keyboard Mapping:

  • “Up” : Joystick Up or ‘w’

  • “Down” : Joystick Down or ’s'

  • “Left” : Joystick Left or ‘a’

  • “Right” : Joystick Right or ’d'

  • “Low Attack / Slide Creature (if holding)” : Y or ‘o’

  • “Special Attack / Enable Powers” : R2 or ‘Shift’

  • “Middle Attack / Return Item (to inventory) / Slam Creature (if holding)” : X or ‘i’

  • “High Attack / Throw Creature (if holding)” : R1 or ‘Ctrl’

  • “Jump / Select Item (if item selection is open) / Join Game” : A or ‘j’

  • “Dash / Ram” : B or ‘p’

  • “Spawn Creature / Pickup Creature / Set Down Creature / Enabled Powers” : L1 or ‘Space’

  • “Open / Close - Item Selection” : L2 or ‘~’

  • “Open / Close - Menu” : Start or ‘Enter’

  • “Switch Character / Join Game” : Select or ‘Tab’

Keyboard Only:

  • “Show / Hide - Closed Captioning” : F1

  • “Fullscreen Window / Resizable Window” : F2

_#### Controller, Keyboard and Local Multiplayer Notes:

  • Player 1 always uses the Keyboard and Controller 1

  • Multiple Controllers are needed for two, three and four Players simultaneously (i.e. Four (4) Xbox Controllers are needed for 4-Player gameplay)

  • When Controller is Enabled (plugged in to computer), most Keyboard gameplay buttons are Disabled (except for Enter, F1, F2, and Menu Navigation keys when the Menu is open)_

Genetic Fluff on Steam

SpaceDominator

SpaceDominator

join World Of spacedominator!

SpaceDominator is strategy fantasy sci-fi open-world game where you can discover universe!

Contact other civilizations, make friends or enemies, start trading or fighting, expand your own area or help others to expand, increase your intelligence level.. and much more!

You can do anything what do you want! Do you want to be friendly? No problem. Would you rather be agressive? No problem. Play how do you wish!

Whole game uses procedual generation - it grants everyone will have different universe, different spawn of artifacts and valuables, different missions, animals, plants..

When you increase your inteligence level, others civilizations will do it too so game shouldn’t become boring after longer playtime!

You can also communicate with other players in CO-OP mode. You can join team, help each other, activate team boosters and more!

You can play this for unlimited time. Game will change difficulty regarding to your inteligence level.

If you meet more intelligent civilization, you can get their special technologies if you beat them or make them your friends! But be carefull, not everyone is friendly here.

Everything what you will done will impact your gameplay!

If you want to follow developing, you can join our discord! http://discord.gg/cqEZJ5J

And.. one more information: this game is being developed only by 1 person!

SpaceDominator on Steam

100 hidden cups

100 hidden cups

He’s done it again! Anatoliy has put his mind to a fantasy picture and hidden cups, and they are much harder to find than your average snail or cat. Frustrating, challenging, and always entertaining, the artwork is brilliant and fantastic and the music boppy and cheerful, no matter how mad you feel trying to find those last few, though this time it’s the last 30 I can’t find instead of 2 or 3.

If you like a challenge, this one might be it, he reckons it is, and if you haven’t come across these games before, grab the series and work through them! As usual you can reset the score and there is a night mode. 10/10!

Real player with 1.4 hrs in game

This one is a little rough. The art style slightly sucks. There are some well drawn parts but then when there is a more ambiguous area like gaseous clouds or jellyfish the lines are really rough.

On top of that cups sometimes do not really look like cups. A rectangle with a triangle for a cup does not really make a cup.

Still with all those issue it is still a fun fast play. Replay value in minimal but for the cost of the game you really cannot really go wrong.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

100 hidden cups on Steam

T. B. P.

T. B. P.

Great and very entertaining game.

Real player with 2.1 hrs in game

T. B. P. on Steam

Search of Galaxy

Search of Galaxy

After the supernova, most of the colonies of the Termian race were destroyed. There are small count of survivors and you are one of them.

Help your relatives find a new home and survive in the harsh conditions of space.

You will have to extract resources, build base modules, develop your own ship, and maybe build new ships, explore neighboring territories for survivors, search for lost knowledge.

In This Game there Are:

  • flights on ships;

  • extraction of resources from asteroids;

Search of Galaxy on Steam

The Deepest

The Deepest

0/10

  • feels and looks awful as it is

Real player with 1.3 hrs in game

yeah i’m getting myself into a rabbit hole aren’t i

alright. don’t buy this game. the only time i died was by softlocking by clipping into walls, you have to restart the game every time you die because trying to start a new game will cause the game to forget to spawn your character, and the answer to the question of “It is not known how far the end of these caves is, or if there is any,” is that there isn’t, because in trying to find more mechanics than “fly” and “shoot,” i discovered that the N key teleports you to the next level, and that you can mash that button for a real long time without getting anywhere.

Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

The Deepest on Steam