ParaLily
This game is a delight, it features gorgeous art, incredible ambiance in the sounds and the gameplay is incredibly satisfying and responsive. This is a great game to pick up for a few hours and be teleported away to multiple planes of existence
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
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Video Review Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT6Wn4r5rXE
Atmospheric, nail-biting platforming and tense moments, with a clever dimension shifting twist, ParaLily, even in this short form, has a lot challenge awaiting those who are willing to try.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
This game is dark, despondent, despairing and depending on how one defines horror, it could be that too. A point and click not so adventurous “adventure” game. (Adventure because it does fall into any other catergory, not really, other then maybe supernatural. But even that would be a stretch.) Has a moralistic tone of more right vs wrong, then good vs evil.
Story: The condemned arrives with a fellow prisoner at a castle specifically designed for torture, torment, and purging souls of their evil through pain, suffering, and grief. (Dark, very dark, in tone.) The condemned man is told this in his jail cell by the horned guard, who also informs the condemned man he (the guard) will back to torture him. Of course, the condemned man does not wait around for that. This begins the journey through the Hell-bound castle, and meeting its various denizans. After that it is a trip though the wastelands, dealing with the inhabitants, and eventually to the condemned man’s goal, a structure of uprised arms with a shrouded female statue inside. Ethical choices are made throughout, in the simply question kill or not kill.
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
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Awakened behind the twisted metal bars of your cell suspended far above the earth, a magnificently gnarled airship humming ominously above as it carries our mysterious hooded protagonist from their unknown past to a hellish new reality behind the confines of a massive and ghastly prison complex. Will you give in to your new existence of demonic incarceration, or will you find the will to journey into the pits of hell itself and find your freedom?
Tormentum is not a tale for the queasy, with brutal depictions of death, despair, and torture the imagery within is enough to make the average modern horror fan piss their pants in terror. The game comes from a seriously engaging and tasteful angle despite this, and everything is done in a fictionally compelling way that serves the narrative and not just for the sake of shock. The core element in Tormentum is atmosphere, and its surreal influences show to the very root.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Horror Girl Puzzle
It actually seems that among the 100-achievements, profile-limited games that are coming out these months on Steam there are some of them worth the while. I mean, I see every week a ton of “everything + puzzle” game or similar titles and of course most of them are asset flips and little else.
Developer Anatoliy Loginovskikh made a great effort in his drawing style here and he shows us his best horror-themed girls' operas, that of course compose the base of this puzzle game.
We will in fact be asked to solve puzzles through various mechanics, mainly by dragging and rotating the various pieces. And we will compose some really beautiful artworks, all made specifically for this game.
– Real player with 46.5 hrs in game
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- ### Morlan’s shorts:
No more and no less weird than the other games from this developer. At first it’s a simple twist-puzzle but later there are..elements added. The nude-tentacle-girl-art is quite well done and I liked it and the little other puzzles are fun. It’s a very very short game though so you may want to pick it up on sale.
Don’t waste more time reading lengthy reviews.. time is of the essence!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Selma and the Wisp
This came up to me with such a potential but I was finally disappointed. The only great thing in the game is the art work. As a plot, it doesn’t have one (it’s more like a very bad copy of limbo), you just wonder to some places with your ball and try to avoid things such as fire, electricity and animals in order to proceed further. The riddles are really poor and boring (no thinking required, just picking up a random thing and placing it somewhere or exploding something that blocks your way). The gameplay had a really big potential (the ball and the girl connected) but it was not implemented well (you can’t control your character 100% and you have a timer for the ball). The absence of logic/complexity in riddles and the moving difficulty in some parts combined with the low controlability of your character, makes the game really boring at its one half and really annoying at the other half respectively. As a result, I was looking forward to completing it in order to proceed to the next game. Overall, great idea of the double character, great art work but very poor implementation and plot.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
SHORT REVIEW
Rating - 5.5/10. In Selma and the Wisp you play as a ball of light that leads a little girl through several levels of dangerous situations in a nightmare world. It’s akin to platforming by dragging someone tied to you by a rope and hoping they make it all the way through the pitfalls. This can be good and bad, but overall it’s a fast play-through if you feel like giving it a go.
PROS
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Art direction with polygons has a good presentation and eerie background
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A good combination of abilities to vary the game-play
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Shadow Brawlers
It is the best local multiplayer i’ve played so far, and i’m a big fan of the genre. I think this game deserves much more atention. The animation is flawless, the fxs are from other world, the dynamics of the matches and how you can play in the ranking screen and kill your friends there just adds all the fun. The weapons and power-ups add great value to the game. I’m glad i can easily configure which ones i want to play with and the kind of match. Overall an indie hidden masterpiece.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
This game checks all the boxes, it is fun, looks amazing, and has a lot of replay value.
The transition from light to dark shadows allows for this amazing feeling of being a ninja in the shadows hunting down your other opponents. When you find that perfect time where you see them expose their position and you pop out and take the shot has such a unique great feel.
I can’t say enough about how this game looks, I have always been a huge fan of this minimalist comic book art style and they hit it right on in this game. From the color pallets being a perfect muted set of colors to the explosion of high contrast colors during events this is a thrill to even view.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game