Ruine
The potential of this game is incredibly strong. The art style, world and characters are making me eager to see more from this game. There’s a solid gameplay loop that’ll keep you experimenting with different builds throughout different playthroughs. Very good stuff!
Obviously, there’s a lot to improve and balance. Combat isn’t as in depth as I feel it could be. Ruins, while fun to progress through, are quite basic in level design and detail, and the game can be finished in under an hour if you know what you’re doing and/or lucky enough from the RNG loot.
– Real player with 37.3 hrs in game
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Bias: I’ve playtested this game.
While my “hrs on record” do not reflect it, I’ve spent hours and hours playtesting this game - breaking it, finding bugs, dying over and over and over… and I love this game. The art, music, atmosphere, and humor all work together in creating this wonderful game world filled with intriguing NPCs and clever enemies. I am not particularly good at this type of game, but I enjoy the hell out of Ruine in spite of that. I highly recommend checking it out.
Edited to Add: The dev continues to update this game with new content - enemies, areas, treasures, equipment… Ruine just gets better and better.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
Graveyard Keeper
I wish Steam had a star rating system instead of just yes or no. This is one I would put midway. I like the game. I like the story and the world and I enjoy finishing the quests.
However, I do not like how complicated they made it to complete the quests. For example: You need acid. You need 3 ingredients for it. You have to do a little running around to get those 3 things, but that’s not bad, no problem. Then you realize you need to build the workstation to combine those 3 ingredients. Okay, still not too bad. But then you realize you need to build 2 more workstations just to get the material to build the workstation to make the acid. Oh, but wait, first you need the tech points to unlock both additional workstations separately. Think you’re ready now? Oh, think again. You also need more tech points to unlock another technology to make the material needed for the original acid workstation. Then when you finally get the acid made, you have to wait for a particular day of the week for the npc to show up. Which with luck like mine is the day that just ended and you have to wait 5 days to complete the quest that just took you 2-3 game weeks and lots of frustration and lots of looking up stuff on wiki just to make one little bottle of acid. Almost every quest is like that - jump through 20 different hoops just to get the one thing you need.
– Real player with 119.5 hrs in game
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In spite of having bought and played all of the DLC (as of 2021, November), I still hesitantly recommend you play this.
I’m only going to review the main game and ignore DLCs for now, they might get their own review…
I enjoy this game a lot, but I think part of me feels a bit foolish for doing so? I think there are parts of the game that lacks polish, and I’m seeing some generally lazy or unfinished portions that is in some cases difficult to forgive
! town. The game also has a very frustrating way of lengthening quests.
– Real player with 102.5 hrs in game
MUMMMASTER!
As a lover of the Egyptian mythology and playing little tower defense games this was a quick buy for me. Also the achievement list is a sweet bonus as well.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
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Well its kinda playable and fun. Theres even boobs…
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Dracula: A Gothic RPG
Dracula is back in this dark but cute RPG.
Collect souls for more powers, learn alchemy, and cast your dark magic in battle.
Black cats, werewolves, zombies; he’s buddies with all types of Halloween friendlies – and he’s going to go questing with them!
Story:
After thousands of years, Dracula has been summoned for a grand purpose by ghosts and dark magicians. They require his resurrection to fulfill the prophecy.
After he has awakened, he meets a quirky cast of characters that will get him in a lot of trouble and comical shenanigans.
Features:
👻 Party members include ghosts, zombies, and many types of Halloween friendlies.
🦠 Collect Souls to increase your power, or talk to the dead to learn their skills.
🎁 Collect items to decorate Dracula’s Mansion.
⚔️ Explore and adventure the world with some … rather unusual quests… as a dark hero.
📺 Classic role-playing style
Explore areas in classic JRPG style
~Victorian Forest~
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Future Updates:
⚗️ Craft items in the Underground Alchemy Lab.
📜 Randomized side-quests
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🍪 Come to the dark side. We have cookies.
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REPTRAILS
Where else do you get the chance to control mankind via chemtrails? This is fun and you learn about conspiracy theories.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
A really fun little game about a very serious topic. Looking forward to future updates!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Father Xmas
The world is guided by simple rules. Either you were polite and you get a dream gift, or you were naughty and you end up as feed for reindeers. Saint Nicholas is a good man, but he must do the work as God commanded. Otherwise Mrs. Claus will never come out of purgatory.
As Santa Claus:
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- Craft items that they ask for in letters.
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- Expand the toy factory.
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- Use the reindeer team to travel around the open world.
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- Fight chimney sweeps. Either you or them.
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- Explore the town freely.
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- Deliver presents avoiding kids.
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- Do not give presents to chimney sweep children.
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- Order helpers.
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- Develop a sleigh.
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- Punish naughty children.
Genomon: Genetic Monsters
Even in the modern age, there are locations on Earth so remote that few people have ever heard, let alone visited. Among these obscure places are the WHITHERWARD ISLANDS, a collection of six islands in the South Pacific so distant from other landmasses, so removed from shipping lanes, strategic passages, and air routes that the world has nearly forgotten their existence.
Push the boundaries of science while battling the creations of rival genetic engineers on the beautiful and remote WHITHERWARD ISLANDS. EXTRACT, SEQUENCE and SPLICE DNA. INCUBATE, BATTLE and UPGRADE Genomon. Genomon is a genetic monster making lab and battling sandbox.
EXTRACT!
Extract DNA from animal specimens.
SPLICE!
Splice animal DNA with viable Embryos.
INCUBATE!
Incubate your Genomon! Man Rat Crabs, Man Spider Frogs, the combinations are endless!
BATTLE!
Battle your Genomon to level them up and unlock genetic traits!
BUILD YOUR DREAM ISLAND GENETIC LABORATORY!
Build your lab using a variety of devices and architecture.
Weed Shop 3
Wanted to update my review now that I’ve played the game more and gotten to know the dev better.
I cannot recommend this game enough. Not only is it already in a very playable state, it’s really fun and for the most part works pretty intuitively. Most importantly though, the dev is SUPER active. He’s making other indi devs look real bad right now. I’ve suggested features/changes and had them implemented within the hour on numerous occasions. He’s been releasing a few patches every day and is incredibly hands on with the community.
– Real player with 405.3 hrs in game
I absolutely love this game. This is my first time playing any of the Weed Shop games. It’s a lot of fun and it gives you the choice to keep playing all chilled-out or you can play a lesser-chill version with people trying to mess with you left & right. I prefer the chill but it’s awesome to have the option. The creation team updates this game sometimes multiple times in a day- they’re extremely involved. I haven’t had to experience any bugs for long with this game, usually within the day they’re fixed. Every bug I’ve experienced so far has an easy workaround I’ve found. I’m excited to keep playing and see how much more awesome this game will be.
– Real player with 219.9 hrs in game
Toodles & Toddlers
The latest patch provides previously lacking directions, and collecting resources to improve units adds a pseudo-RTS element. Gameplay now makes a bit more sense, if that’s possible for this insane game. If you’re familiar with Adult Swim then this shares a similar vibe to some of those shows.
– Real player with 19.0 hrs in game
Try not to get smashed to bits by evil toys by combining stuff together and make friendly things to stop them. Great survival horror strategy horror using crafting and resources. Did you kill my bat?
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Margonem
Oh boy. This is weird to review. First off, this game is a niche Polish browser MMO. Lots of people on the original web Polish servers. Not so much here. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of international players. Most people (who already played/still play the Polish version) are Polish. Not that it’s a bad thing, but the population is incredibly low.
For the game itself, it’s fun. It might be nostalgia speaking, as I played this game a lot when I was younger. Playing it now after so much time it’s still as it used to be, with some improvements in graphics and the UI.
– Real player with 147.9 hrs in game
Plusses and minuses in equal measure I think. But for me personally more on the minus.
Some of the plusses:
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Simple and neat graphics.
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Sandbox nature of the map is evident, and this gives a positive ‘adventuresque’ feel, which I like
Some of the negatives:
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Text too small. Waaay too small.
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Every other thing you want to do in the open world requires you to pop over to the Premium Store and burn a hole in your wallet. Don’t tag it as ‘FREE’ when it clearly isn’t - there is definitely a ‘FREEMIUM’ tag available I’m sure.
– Real player with 145.1 hrs in game