Blood Spear
No game in the steam catalog can compare to Blood Spear. Having thousands of hours in other steam games, i have decided that this game reigns superior above all. No one should pass up playing this game. A Breathtaking experience, honestly, the convoluted story at the beginning begins to piece itself together as you play. The game play flows well and with non linear areas, you can play the game the way you want to play it. The music is phenomenal, and is comparable to soundtracks of other great triple A games. The idea of a ranged combat is so fresh and different in a convoluted genre of sword hack and slash games. This game CANNOT be compared to the souls games, they are the yin and yang of souls likes. Dark souls being bleak, cold, dark, and repetitive, while Blood Spear is fast pased, high octane, intuitive, as these new ideas are added to the legacy of these games. I hope that this inspires other great Spear-Like games and is a genre i will be keeping up with for years to come.
– Real player with 24.7 hrs in game
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When a game is soo good that being free seems wrong
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Third-person Hack and slash
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Short
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Great atmosphere
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Inventive combat mechanics
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Easy to learn, room for skilled-play
So, if you are still here… Let’s get down to it:
@Chris:
Nobody said it was easy, it’s such a shame for us to part…
Blood Spear is often called a student project… hence why it is so short and free, but make no mistake, winning first prize at ISART Digital Montreal 2021 is no small feat, and calling this a student project is a grave understatement. Picking obvious queues from the likes of Dark Souls, Soul Reaver and more, you get a third-person hack and slash campaign that won’t overstay its welcome, with an easy to learn throwing mechanic (charge and quick-fire) backed up with two inventive skills that add strategy and healing abilities, this compact package leaves you wanting more.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites
Pros:
-Fluid and fast-paced hack & slash 2D action
-Game supports up to 120fps
-It works fine on both keyboard and Xbox gamepad controller
-Laura Bailey and Troy Baker are back to play as Rayne and Kagan
-Game can now render sprites at true 4k resolution (3840 x 2160)
-Decent blood & gore physics
-You can now select difficulty between Classic and Standard when starting new game
-Combo attacks and Dash mechanic feels smooth, snappy, and responsive
-2D artstyle was perfect; I love the atmosphere, filled with enriched music
– Real player with 714.3 hrs in game
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A lot like the good old Castlevania games with difficult platforming and all. If you get good with the shmoovement you can pretty much fly across levels and the combat is a lot of fun.
My main complaint is how slowly Rayne turns around. I can’t tell you how many times I try to turn around and shoot only for the turning animation to be canceled and shoot off screen. PLEASE devs reduce time to turn around by half and combat would feel great. Also adding the Japanese main menu art as an option would really put a chef’s kiss on the entire package.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
Bunny Battle Arena
A fun game. It is challenging but, not overly so.
You will die ALOT.
Yet, you will not feel like it was a careless mistake or a battle system skewed against you.
DISCLAIMER: I did receive this game for free but, my views are my own.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
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Honestly is quite an awful game, pretty sure its like a mobile game or something or at least that’s what it seems like, there’s no options menu, you can’t change the bad controls, half the time you don’t hit the enemies you’re attacking, the further you get into the game the more you just get swarmed and stunlocked, there’s only 1 level in the whole game you play over and over again just with harder enemies and new bosses sometimes. You can unlock new weapons and abilities and stuff but it takes forever to get enough points to unlock stuff, I imagine you lose points for dying so you pretty much can’t upgrade and get better and I imagine eventually you’ll just run out of lives and have to start over. There’s a level select screen at the beginning but you can’t go back to it after the first level and you can’t go back and redo previous levels for more points so bit annoying. Some of the art is kinda cool though and the music is alright, the cursor is annoying cause you can’t tell where you’re clicking cause its so big. It just feels more like a college project than a game, definitely not worth the asking price. I wouldn’t pay a dime for this. Sorry bout that. 2/10
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Project Warlock
Love letter to the oldschool
Project Warlock is an arcade shooter developed by Buckshot Software as a nostalgia-driven tribute to times when a story in FPS games rolled as a panel at the end of the chapter. While John Carmack’s infamous quote “story in a game, is like a story in a porn movie” has been challenged countless times since the 90s, it does capture the essence of the shooters from that time. Meticulous, maze-like levels, armoury’s worth of guns and secrets behind a fake wall – gameplay was everything. A simple credo Project Warlock at large adheres to, while also adding few ideas of its own. By all means, it is a modern retelling of the classics, rather than an attempt at copying one, and it shows.
– Real player with 17.3 hrs in game
Okay, I would love nothing more than to give this game a positive review, because with such a cheap asking price and so many good qualities, I can understand why it has decent reviews. But difficulty aside, this game is riddled with glitches. Which is sad, because so much holds back what otherwise would be a solid game.
So, lets start with the good aspects:
The music, atmosphere, level themes, and graphics are amazing.
The price is insanely cheap.
You can tell a lot of love went into making this game.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
Blasphemous
Wandering what would it be if Dante’s Inferno (2010) became a metroidvania game? Now you have the answer, it’s Blasphemous! I’ll try to be as brief and honest as possible telling what I saw and experienced during my playthrough.
Before anything else my entire playthrough was during “V. 1.0.6” so, if there’s something missing the devs might have patched it. At this moment the game is on “V. 1.0.8” and according to the devs:
@Blasphemous:
“You’ll also notice that this is Patch 1, which means more patches and content updates will be on their way - launching Blasphemous doesn’t mean we’re finished! - Wed, 25/09/2019”
Knowing that let’s get to move on to the review…
– Real player with 86.2 hrs in game
If someone reads this - Sorry for my English.
I really wanted to like this game. But it seems to me that the logic of exploring the map is fundamentally broken.
How does metroidvanias work? At the location, you find obstacles that you can not overcome. –- You explore the location, find the ability. — Overcome obstacles and feel progress. The game designer organizes the game levels in such a way that you can collect the necessary abilities for game progression and explore old locations to find secrets. And in portions, you get more and more freedom to move.
– Real player with 39.2 hrs in game
The Count Lucanor
This is a smart and surprisingly literate little game. There is some obvious jank in the controls and general presentation, but it does little to detract from the overall experience. The game really nails the dark and disturbing tone of its most obvious story inspirations, which are old fairy tales and moral fables. You won’t find much for jump scares and modern horror gore, but the whole affair just drips with heavy atmosphere and tone. So, if you’re into a more frenetic, slasher-thriller style of scare, this probably won’t be for you. But if you want something more deliberately paced and that builds a quiet horror by giving you nasty little things to think about and puzzle over, which is much more my speed, then I think you’ll find this a treat. Be aware, this applies to gameplay as well. There’s no combat in the game whatsoever, just avoidance. And your walk speed is fairly plodding. I didn’t find it an issue, as you never have much ground to cover to get where you’re going and the ambling pace helps to maintain the atmosphere. Others will find it slow. You’ll hopefully know your own tendencies well enough to know if this will be an issue for you, because the game is resolutely and deliberately stuck in first gear the whole time. Caveat emptor.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Review originally posted on Vox Ludicus - Review: The Count Lucanor . You can read it there with glorious formatting and images, or just the text (without image captions) below. DISCLAIMER: Game played on retail code provided by the developer.
Playing The Count Lucanor made me realize how rare fairy tale games are on the PC, and this game is very much a video game of a fairy tale. A tad on the grim side, perhaps, much like pre-Disney stories were, but a fairy tale nonetheless. With its pixel graphics and Bach’s works turned into chiptune as a soundtrack, as well as a few cutscene sequences that’ll remind you of a Studio Ghibli film, there’s little doubt that in the aesthetics department the game is well furnished – and what of the rest?
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Across the demon realm 2
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Many developers have forgotten what makes a platformer game fun.
In my opinion we must forget the giant and redundant labyrinths and go back to basics:
Many have tried to make games that are sometimes very pretty but terribly boring after having crossed the same levels over and over again.
I simply would like to make a linear platformer where the player cannot get lost as it is unfortunately too often the case in recent productions.
The story:
You are the mysterious Darko whose face no one has ever seen.
If you played to the first"Across the demon realm" you probably discovered that Darko was a demon.(Spoil: Let the female zombie kill you! )
The gameplay:
Only a button to jump and a button to attack, what’s all! (No Rpg elements but a lot of weapons to grab! Sometimes you will steal the weapon of a defeated enemy! )
Today, platform games (especially the metroidvania) have become like some open world games:
gigantic games where you can go everywhere but which are often full of the same sort of monsters…boring and repetitive.
I would like that the player does not get bored so the levels are less extensive, more linear but more varied.
Across the demon realm 2 aims to surprise you in ways few games have before by introducing constant changes in environment, traps, monsters, dialog and plot twists!
And, the most important, you will never get lost in a gigantic level where all the walls are the same!
Use the keyboard or a joypad to play (I don’t try other controllers but if it’s recent enough you should use it! )
Warning: I’m sorry for this but the start button (pause) don’t work, you need to use the keyboard key “esc” to pause.
Mature content: a pixelated nude female zomby and a nude pixelated woman-plant. they are two enemies to fight do not expect to live the great love with them, they are rather aggressive!
Credits:
Main creator : Choloco (some backgrounds by Ansimuz)
Music: Makimak and sometimes Choloco
cover: Shawli’s Fantasy
BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk
DO NOT BUY this game unless you are a huge Berserk fan (buy it on sale).
Cons:
-Its a game focused on extreme repetition, killing and killing thousands of extremely weak masses of enemies. Slash, repeat, slash repeat every single level.
-You need to play it on hard right from the start to find it a little bit more enjoyable and even then it is almost impossible to lose in any scenario.
-Scenarios have nothing special on them, they are closed, completely plain and need no exploration at all. Very repetitive.
– Real player with 92.5 hrs in game
This is a game for Berserk fans, if you’re after a more filled out hack and slash game there are better options out there. I enjoyed myself playing this title but I’m an old Berserk fan. Like similar games in the genre it can get boring once you beat the story and try out the other modes just slashing apart humans & monsters repeatedly, the different play styles of characters and the various objectives do make it more interesting, and it is a great title like others in the genre to play while watching or listening to something on the side.
– Real player with 80.5 hrs in game
Deranged Park Rangers
Free to play massively multiplayer online Shoot ‘Em Up with instant play.
Kill sapsuckers in an over-the-top blood and guts filled manner.
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Simply click the instant action button and you’ll be killing sapsuckers with potentially hundreds of other people already playing.
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Note:
After the SGF summer contest I realized that I’m a dinosaur, over 900 demos. .. the window of time for me to make a sustainable living from indie game development has closed.
I’m going to return to driving a semi-truck.
If lightning strikes and people give a hoot, I will finish the game.
Twig & Flipper
I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys platform shooters as much as i do. The game builds pretty swiftly but you wont be left behind, just remember to use your upgrades!
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
A furry game about saving your bird.
10/10 Would play again.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game