DataJack

DataJack

A sci-fi dive in the 90s, both for the game design + gameplay and for the dystopic cyberpunk concept style.

Gameplay per se is a bit wonky and you have to get used to the stealth mechanics, which are really retro-style by all means.

Still, the game is pretty enjoyable, the atmosphere is right and the lore is well thought out, which you can extrapolate by the mission briefing/debriefings and from the files you download from the terminals, giving the appropriate feeling and background, much alike to the first Deus Ex game.

Real player with 7.3 hrs in game


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You are a one man go in and solve the problem type of covert or overt operative whom corporations hire to do their dirty laundry. Covert if you move effortlessly like a ninja from shadow to shadow, crouch like a tiger, and jump like a spider waiting for the right moment to feed needles into the skull of your enemies. Or overt if you prefer the cacophony of machine guns and the smoke C4 makes when you are fed up with doors that don’t greet you with open sesame right at your arrival.

You can even hack systems, steal company data and make some side income by grabbing datacubes and other interesting things that come at your way. And since this is a Cyberpunk/Neuromancer inspired game presumably made by transhumanist wonks who enjoy running around with subdermal chips under their butt-cheeks, replacing limbs and adding subdermal armor and other kinds of protections are also available.

Real player with 6.6 hrs in game

DataJack on Steam

Detained: Too Good for School

Detained: Too Good for School

Introduction

On the first day of school after transferring to a new city, you got framed and ended up in jail. After one year of probation, you set out to discover who set you up. Find a partner, get familiar with the city, make money by taking part-time jobs, increase your abilities and unveil the truth.

Features

Inherited from the last title of O.T.K Games, “The Vagrant”, the combat in “Too Cool For School” is exhilarating and satisfying. Acquire new skills, upgrade various abilities, enlarge your armory and dominate the arena.

Rich story-lines. You can choose to be straightforward and kill anyone that’s standing in your way, or you can be manipulative and indulge yourself in opulent living. And it’s even possible to join the villains and become an anti-hero! There are more than 10 endings for you to discover.

A variety of romanceable characters. 4 female and 4 male romanceable candidates are waiting for your arrival. Take them out for a hot date, level up your relationships, and then fight alongside them against street mobs. Life is short, you gotta enjoy it while you can!

Eccentric city life. You can take a bus to the gym for a good workout, study in the library for a change, or hang out with your partners in the bar, club or arena. And of course, it’s always fun to “interact” with random pedestrians and the police.

Extravagant shopper. Be good and work part-time or rob someone on the sidewalk for a quick buck; it’s your choice! Spend your money on stats and weapon upgrades, challenge the bosses and embezzle money. It’s your turn to be a legend in this metropolis!


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Detained: Too Good for School on Steam

Gangs of Rikton

Gangs of Rikton

You’re back in Rikton City, six months after your parents died and you were charged with murder. You are free thanks to a mysterious stranger who now expects you to pay him back. For this, you will have to make a place for yourself in the middle of the underworld of Rikton City. What will be your destiny? Fortune and power? A return to prison? Or a one-way trip to the morgue?

You have to start with little profitable petty theft to earn enough money to invest.

  • Steal money, items and ID from passers-by’s wallets. Then resell the stolen goods to the pawnshop!

  • Create fake bank accounts using IDs and embezzle money from consumer loans!

  • Rob the neighborhood stores, but watch out for armed cashiers!

Become the biggest pimp in town !

  • Take the girls working in the streets under your protection

  • Earn their loyalty by effectively protecting them, giving them little gifts, or drugging them…

  • Or scare them by threatening them and eliminating the most rebellious. Who said the crime was moral ?

  • Invest in massage clubs that will serve as hidden brothels, and send your most beautiful girls as escorts !

The most profitable business, but also the most dangerous

  • Produce yourself weed and synthetic drugs like methamphetamine and ecstasy !

  • Buy from stores and from unscrupulous employees or wholesalers

  • Import cocaine and heroin through dynamically generated contacts, which can try to scam you.

  • Cut and retail drugs on the streets, but get ready to face the competition !

Your gang and the management of your territory are very important functions. Increase your production, your income and decrease the micromanagement.

  • Eliminate local gangs to appropriate their territory and no longer suffer from their competition !

  • Recruit lieutenants and entrust them with pieces of your territory, they will deal for you and will also find other activities to bring you small bonuses

  • Watch your men ! Maybe they will betray you to start their own gang or maybe they are undercover cops !

The police watch and remember!

  • Take care ! It won’t be enough to hide 30 seconds for the police to let you go. Every crime you commit may be added to your file. If this becomes too important, you will no longer be able to avoid your arrest… You will then have to undergo a long and expensive trial.

  • Use corrupt officers to diminish the importance of the case against you !

  • Don’t spill blood unnecessarily ! In addition to increasing your file, it will increase the police presence in the city.

  • Bet on fights, maybe your trusted men and girls will hear tips…

  • Buy and manage your Night Club !

  • Indulge yourself by buying the most beautiful villa and show your success

Gangs of Rikton is a game developed by one developer. Even if, the graphics design is decent and creditable, the emphasis was put on the gameplay. It is essentially a game for mature people, which has a detailed conception and is wide-ranging. You have been warned !


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Gangs of Rikton on Steam

Midnight Renegade

Midnight Renegade

This game is awesome, I sincerely hope that the creator continues to provide some support or updates for the game, because if it was a little longer and well worked, I would easily pay for the game, obviously it has its errors, the design of the “phases” is a little strange, the difficulty curve is really steep, the last boss being much more difficult than the 3rd boss, here is a list of things that I think should be fixed:

  • The 2nd version of the 4th boss (the one of the conquest), has too much life, I would prefer it to have less life and do more damage

Real player with 10.6 hrs in game

good

Real player with 7.0 hrs in game

Midnight Renegade on Steam

Mumbai Gullies

Mumbai Gullies

Mumbai Gullies is inspired by the amazing contrast of life in Mumbai city. A city where the landscape changes every few meters. At one glance you could see towering skyscrapers and on the other you see miles long slums. This is a city where life is more than what meets the eye.

Mumbai, the city of dreams has a lot to offer. It’s the city that never sleeps and is packed with action 24x7. With Mumbai Gullies you will get to experience this city in all it’s glory and prime while exploring 3 different eras of gameplay and an action packed storyline as well as an open world to explore every nook and corner of Mumbai city.

Mumbai Gullies on Steam

Yakuza 4 Remastered

Yakuza 4 Remastered

My Best Soundtrack Award nomination for the Steam Awards 2021. I actually like Yakuza 5 Remastered’s soundtrack more, but I had already nominated that game for the Game of the Year Award (sorry Halo Infinite, but imo there’s basically zero chance that campaign is gonna be good enough to make up for the so far meh multiplayer compared to The Master Chief Collection’s and top the masterpiece that is Yakuza 5).

Anyways, Yakuza 4 still has one of my most beloved soundtracks in the series (I’d place it in 2nd behind Y5 actually and very narrowly ahead of Y0), and the series as a whole (yes, even Y6 to be fair) has come to have my most cherished soundtracks in gaming beating out Halo. A handful of my favorite Y4 tracks are For Faith, Smile Venomously, Material Delights, Raindrops, and GET to the Top!. While Y4 is my least preferred out of Y0-5 (not sure yet where to rank LaD/7 as I’m still playing through it), it’s still a brilliant game much more fun and full of soul than most releases these days. If anything, I just hope both it and 5 one day get free DLC similar to LaD to restore the Slot & Pachinko minigames cut from the PC releases. I highly recommend giving the Yakuza series a try, starting with 0 and going in numerical order from there.

Real player with 77.1 hrs in game

With the fourth game in the series (or five if you counted 0 as well but the game wasn’t made back then yet) the game have quiet the Improvement in term of combat system, comparing to the predecessor Yakuza 3.

While Yakuza 3 suffer from a clunky combat system Yakuza 4 improve upon it, although the improvement is relatively few but those few improvement benefit the game for the better. The story wise is rather utterly rough however, initially story started well enough until the second half of the game.

Real player with 74.7 hrs in game

Yakuza 4 Remastered on Steam

Yakuza 5 Remastered

Yakuza 5 Remastered

Perfection now that we got all main games all we need are the spin off games, come on sega iam a sucker willing to spend his hard earned chash for games that are 10 years old COME ON PLEASE

Real player with 139.5 hrs in game

The term “This is a serious crime drama, I swear” applies to all the Yakuza games.

But it is ESPECIALLY true for this one!

Real player with 100.1 hrs in game

Yakuza 5 Remastered on Steam

My Mad Road - adventure racing & shooting

My Mad Road - adventure racing & shooting

Welcome to an unpredictable cartoon world, where you play by your own rules. From crazy fun to brutal deeds. Earn cash peacefully or at any cost. Do you prefer action or peace? Good and evil – that’s what the world you’ll find yourself in is going to pay you back with.

Car drive

WE RECOMMEND THE PLAYERS TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE EVENTS AND TAKE THEM WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.

gameplay:

Tank up your ride, take a dog, abduct a girl, shoot or befriend something. Focus on the missions or wreak havoc – the most important thing is to have some bucks in your pocket.

My Mad Road is a completely new game where the main rule is powerful fun. You play as a controversial character who prefers to get around by car, but often needs to get out of it to take care of some business. Time passes in the game, so it’s divided into days, during which you carry out selected missions. The world’s full of life, so the missions are just a side goal, while the rest lives at its own pace. Unleash your imagination and join the events unfolding in the world of My Mad Road.

many Paths and Solutions

In every situation, you can act in multiple ways. We keep striving to make the gameplay unlimited by anything.

Some actions in the game are only available upon approaching an object or a person. The character keeps growing, so they aren’t able to do everything at the first stages of the game.

The greater the risk, the greater the reward

Remember not to make too many enemies, as they can break or kill even the biggest badass.

the Game’s Atmosphere

The game is teeming with life (animals, people) you can interact with. The game is dominated by desert and farmland views, but there’s also a good deal of fantasy and modern views.

what’s Next?

You can find sample scenes in the trailer, and the most recent content is listed in the News section.

We keep working on developing the game world and further adventures, so we encourage you to join the community to aid us.

racing car drive extreme rally adventure

racing : racing : speed racing :

My Mad Road - adventure racing & shooting on Steam

Pecaminosa - A Pixel Noir Game

Pecaminosa - A Pixel Noir Game

Do you get value out of the price you pay? Yes and catching it in during a sale is a no brainer to add to your collection. There aren’t many noire themed games after all.

The presentation and the vision for this game is up there. As a backer for this game, I feel satisfied with what the team delivered. You can feel the effort and passion that this small indie team poured into this project.

  • Visuals are really good, except for the character portraits present in the dialogue boxes as those could have been touched on a little bit more.

Real player with 28.2 hrs in game

After following this game’s progress for quite a while and now being able to play it and finish it already

TWICE I can happily say that I had a very fun experience and it was worth the wait

Pecaminosa gives you what they told you were going to have: rich story, Immersive ambient, amazing soundtrack, fun boss battles and some dried humour… which was very welcome. Being able to play as an old detective trying to fix his past mistakes while living in a hopeless city where drugs, sex, violence happens from day to night. Managing to find a little bit of hope just for it to be taken away from you… and still moving on was quite interesting. This game truly shows

Real player with 15.1 hrs in game

Pecaminosa - A Pixel Noir Game on Steam

Detective Gman

Detective Gman

mega cool game.

lots to do, tons to explore, banging soundtrack.

perfect 10/10

Real player with 6.3 hrs in game

A breath of fresh air in the current gaming climate! Story and character based game kind of like Disco Elysium, albeit shorter. Big game world, a lot of interaction and different ways to solve the crimes. Some tips I would give to new players:

spec your character right away, you have like 8 points and you have to manually enter each one. A bit unintuitive but you can get the hang of it. Be sure to add your 2 new points after every murder solved. humor and charm go a long way when talking to NPCs.

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

Detective Gman on Steam