Why Neon Lights Again?
Why Neon Lights Again? is a nostalgic cyberpunk shooting gallery to play with a friend or on your own. Shoot bad guys and level bosses with different weapons, fly on cars, see how story is revealed in a comic book style
In the distant future citizens of Asgard witness strange series of events. Something is in the air and it’s not just neon lights and rain (it often rains here actually). Frey(r) finds himself in an unknown street. It’s raining (of course!) but what is more troubling is a group of street gangs pointing guns at Frey!
What is going to happen? Would this involve flying cars? For Sure!
Key features:
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retro/nostalgic cuberpunk feel and a lot of easter eggs, throwback to 80-90’s (would be interesting to play with friend or family)
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hot seat mode: play with a friend like back in the days, combine various weapons and skills, compete who gets the best high score
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interesting story mode (with plot shown in comic book style) and fun survival mode (get the highest score!)
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Evolver
Gameplay Synopsis:
Evolver blends competitive fighting with quantum-cyberpunk-scifi to create a world of bizarre weapons, unconventional fighting styles, and wildly eccentric characters. Fighters wield weapons such as hand-held guillotines and giant surgical lancets, and couple them with super powers and martial arts to (sometimes literally) destroy their enemies.
Evolver’s combat mechanics are unique among 2D fighting systems in that it combines elements of traditional fighters with those of platform fighters. It also replaces traditional blocking with a unique evade-and-parry based defense system. Additionally, players choose their attack sets before each round with each character having 15 unique moveset combinations. Evolver’s combo system is friendly to inexperienced players and button mashers thanks to it’s auto combo mechanic, but also rewards seasoned fighting game players who put the time into creating complex attack sequences and mixups.
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Hoverloop
Fun game to play against friends. Pretty fleshed out already for an Early Access title and you feel the dev is committed to bringing a fine product!
Needs some more polish and a bunch more active players to get an online community going, but I definitely see the potential!
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
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Hoverloop Early Access Game Review
Hoverloop is a “multiplayer split-screen arcade arena combat” video game developed by Not A Company. This studio consists of 2 people, Philippe Mesotten and Lars Driessen. Hoverloop was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and you can check it out on Steam here.
Premise
In Hoverloop, you control one of many customizable drones, each with its own special ability — similar to an “ultimate” in a MOBA — to help ensure victory. On each in-game stage, there are various item pick-ups to discover to further increase the edge over your opponents. Additionally, there are a wide variety of game modes to choose from to keep the game fresh.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Rainy Neon: Baku
Rainy Neon: Baku is a multiplayer Battle Royal game that takes place in Baku in the near future.
STORY
The game takes place in 2121. At this time, online shows around the world broadcast live battles in neon-lit city streets, where cyborgs representing different large international corporations fight among themselves. The winning corporation proves its power and becomes more attractive to customers.
CORE FEATURES
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System of abilities. Each cyborg has its own set of abilities. There are both standard abilities that all cyborg representatives have, and individual ones. In addition, you need to collect special power units that give additional abilities.
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Rain affects gameplay. During rain, all characters become more vulnerable.
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Availability of transport.
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The presence of a variety of weapons.
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Extensive map based on real city and real streets. The city is made in the style of cyberpunk.
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Game both on local and online networks
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Support for up to 32 people on the map
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The game supports playing in a pair or in a squad
Urban Street Fighter
This game has changed my life forever, I don’t think I could have made it through covid without this, I have about 350 hours on my alt account and am considered to be the best in the North American region, so you know you can trust me on this. The gameplay is exquisite and the controls are snappy and responsive. I honestly can’t play many other games after the experience of playing this, the rest of the games on steam just feel obsolete. The characters feel like people you have to know your whole life, it feels so real and immersive and you start to grow a connection with the characters as the story develops. Speaking of the story, it’s about 15 hours long and while ill try to not spoil anything in this review, I got to say the couples in this story are realistic and add some needed romance to this otherwise serious story. Speaking of the serious story, to relive the tone some in this game they added driver for some comedic relief. I like the character, tho he can be a bit much at times even crossing into being annoying sometimes. I think that his jokes mostly fit my comedic style, yet I think that they could have added more jokes for the older generations. The main character is mike and the story follows him as he goes against many formidable foes. I think the choice to make mike a silent protagonist was a brave one, and I think that the decision paid off. I also think that making Ethan a silent villain adds to his mystery and makes his betrayal more emotional as he doesn’t even need words to describe his secret hatred for you and the rest of you’re crew. Finally, I want to speak on the political commentary in this game. The statements on immigration are brave and what we need in this day and age. I also appreciate the message put into the game for young children. The message of “Don’t trust no hoes” is an important one to teach our younglings. In conclusion, this game has great gameplay, amazing controls, characters that feel real, and a story for the ages. 9.6/10 Best game of 2021.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
I’m the kind of guy that’ll give every fighting game a shot. Went in with an open mind on this one, but it didn’t quite pan out.
For one thing, there’s no option to change control inputs, which is frustrating especially since one of the default gamepad inputs on 1P overlaps with an input on 2P. Since there’s no training mode, you have to go into versus 2P mode if you wish to lab/try things out, and as you can guess that can make things a chore. Even an option to just disable 2P inputs would’ve helped things a bit.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
OneJump
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TL;DR
OneJump is based on a good concept but falls short in terms of execution. It just lacks the necessary polish and does nothing good enough to justify playing it.
Gameplay
OneJump is extremely simple and easy to understand. You move a block to the left or right on a line and have to hit targets via jumping. A jump that does not connect with a target will end the current run. Later on, obstacles will start to fall randomly, and hitting them also equals death.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
The game is really wonderful, it has nice music and beautiful retro graphics! If you concentrate a little, you have a small chance of making it into the ranking Top 10 … I love it 3
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Photon Rush
Best party game for more than 4 people~!
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Dead simple, fast and fun.
Played with two friends and i must say i cant wait to try it out with more ppl.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Danger Scavenger
Cautiously Recommend–Feels Very Much Unfinished
Stumbled upon this a few days back, wishlisted it and bought it today on a whim really digging the music and look the game has. Sometimes you strike out, sometimes you hit paydirt. This is paydirt, a diamond in the rough that after time can be awesome.
It’s VERY rough around the edges and definitely could use lots more polish but it’s highly addictive and the fun factor is very strong if you can get past the many nuances that hold this game back from being amazing.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
I’ve written a fairly neutral preview for this game on Gamer Escape, which you can find here: https://gamerescape.com/2020/06/29/preview-danger-scavenger/ . At that time, the game had just switched from being official release to Early Access to address the user feedback based on the mixed steam reivew score (At Gamer Escape we do not do scored reviews for Early Access games)
Within days, the devs for this game have already gone to work with their stated goal: Make the game more appealing to both the twin-stick shooter fans and the roguelike fans whom both had issues with how these mechanics were combined. They have added “Arcade Mode”, which removes the roguelike permadeath mechanics, but also in this mode, each character starts from a different tower, so you get more of a distinct experience with each character in this mode. While it kind of comes off as just a lowered difficulty setting, it does open the game up to a lot of people who find the punishing nature of the roguelike style more frustrating than fun.
– Real player with 14.2 hrs in game
Restart Zero
In 2237, a high-tech laboratory (Cybertec) wanted to develop an all-cure remedy for the world’s diseases. Cybertec/lab uses a high-tech supercomputer with artificial intelligence to support this. Instead of developing a cure-all remedy, the supercomputer recognizes that the real disease are humans The supercomputer tries to take over humanity and protect it from itself with the help of a specially developed algorithm.
Can you stop the supercomputer?
Restart Zero is an action shooter in cyberpunk style. Experience a fast-paced adventure single or local coop multiplayer.
FIGHT
Fight against numerous opponents controlled by the supercomputer. Use different weapons, such as pistol, rifle and shotgun.
Fight against bosses with strong abilities. Use your dash ability in a controlled way to survive.
COMPANION - DRONE
Your companion, the drone will help you with various abilities. Manually control it to hack unreachable terminals so that no door remains locked.
Solve riddles to continue your way further, but be careful that your drone is not destroyed.
Clear obstacles out of your way with the gravity beam.
MOVEMENT
Dark Data
Absolutely awesome game. Old school retro Golden Eye multiplayer inspired goodness, local splits screen up to 4 players, bot support, atmospheric music, cool guns, multiple modes to choose from. One of the best thing you can pop up at LAN party. I highly recommend it.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
A boxy throwback to 64-bit couch 3d shooter deathmatches. Plenty of character customisation, weapons, levels and modes to play with, and some bots in case you have no friends or controllers or both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twpS899BxRc
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game