AR-K: The Great Escape
After playing the first 2 episodes I can safely say that this is the best episode so far!!! The developers certainly improved the game quality in both ways: technically and direction-wise. The following points sums up the following:
Pros:
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Gameplay quality much improved from first 2 episodes
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Puzzles more interesting
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Protagonist given more depth in character
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Story development much more natural
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Render quality improved
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This episode is much more bug free than previous 2 episodes
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
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It’s great when you come to a game and it’s a lot better than you thought it would be. While I enjoyed ar-k 1 and 2 and I do recommend those games to play first, this for me is a lot better - story, graphics, setting. The writing was very good and if you didn’t want to read everything, you didn’t need to click on that character’s bit of conversation but could come back to it if you wanted. I liked the humour, and it was witty in parts. It is the perfect balance of not just a good story which is vital in an adventure game but also good interactive gameplay.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
AR-K
I received this game as a part of some bundle I bought way back.
I want to like this game. I wish the development team the best. But unfortunately I cannot recommend it, not even for $8 USD.
There are good, or at least decent, things here. There is some humor, including physical humor, that works. The actual voice lines are mostly fine, and what faults there are there in this audio itself are much more likely on the VA director and/or scriptwriters. Barring one jarring segment of lines I noticed in the 2nd episode where something obviously went wrong in recording or compression or something, but the team decided to use it anyway, which… fits with some of my suspicions about how out-of-time/energy/money they were feeling at the time.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
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AR-K may be a study in how to have an okay story, okay graphics and good voice-acting and still come out with a bad game - soo manyy problems.
This title consists of the first two episodes of the game, “Gone with the Sphere” and “The Girl Who Wasn’t There”, and the second feels way better than the first. Still, we see a lot of beginner’s mistakes in the handiwork. Basically every aspect of the game is flawed in some way or another.
Note: Review was rewritten to fit Steam’s transparent character limit.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
Infinitrap : Rehamstered
Infinitrap: Rehamstered:
Ladies and Gents, I would like to present to you one of the most daring and underrated adventurers of modern time. His name is Ohio Jack . . . Who!? Jack; Ohio Jack. For most of his life, he has been searching for the elusive “Cup of Eternity”; whoever drinks from this cup will live forevermore. Unfortunately for Ohio, he never seemed to pinpoint exactly where the cup was being kept . . . until today. The cup is in a dungeon somewhere under the city, but how far down? Based on his previous adventures, the further down one goes, the more danger will arise. So, let’s help this little fellow reach the Cup of Eternity in Infinitrap: Rehamstered.
*– [Real player with 4.4 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198003030375)*
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Very fun yet hard game!!!
*– [Real player with 3.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198063596084)*
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## Grandma's Footsteps
Inspired by the classic children's game: 'Red Light Green Light'… comes a... not so children's game.
**The Story**
You are staying at your Grandma's house for the weekend to keep her company. Now, your Grandma is famous in the family for her cookies! And being the 'cookie-loving' grandson that you are, you cannot keep your mind off of her scrumptious, freshly baked goods!
As you explore through the different rooms of Grandma's house, you notice Grandma getting on with her day to day house-work and activities: sweeping the hallway, cleaning the dishes, catching up on knitting projects and so on...
You and Grandma are best of friends! She takes you to the park to feed the ducks, to the beach to build sandcastles together and she always has her renowned cookies an arms length away! You've always wanted to learn to make cookies with her, but every time you ask to she refuses, saying how she'll take her secret cookie recipe to the grave with her!
As the years have gone by, Grandma's eyes have been getting worse, as has her memory! She always forgets where she leaves her glasses.
She likes to joke when she tells you her bedtime stories, saying how she carries a shotgun on her at all times in case intruders try to steal her recipe!! Grandma does make you laugh, you love her silly stories!
**The Game**
So how do you play Grandma's Footsteps?
Grandma's house is made up of 6 different rooms (levels). To unlock the next room along you will need to approach grandma in the current room you are in to receive a cookie!
But Grandma is always on the look out for intruders after her secret cookie recipe!
Grandma isn't wearing her glasses, meaning she cannot see her Grandson properly... So when she turns around... don't move, or else her bedtime stories you so well know and love, may just become reality...
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## Kosmokrats
I have no words.
This game is truly a hidden gem. I cannot understand how this game has only around 30 reviews.
Sure the gameplay might not be that much, yet it's still fun, but the story is just so good, I was literally excited to see how things go in diffrent paths, I got all of the 17 endings and almost all of the achievements. Nearly all details are there, even the smallest ones. There's quite a lot of humour too.
There are so many refrences to pop culture and other games. I still cannot fathom how this game was made by ONE person, with little help from others.
*– [Real player with 101.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002963116)*
This is a narrative game revolving around completing drone assemblies of spaceships made out of tetris-like pieces. The central mechanics are serviceable and make for some interesting puzzles and an alternately frustrating and satisfying experience as you try to get pieces to connect by bumping and pulling them.
Whilst that wouldn't be enough to make a great game by itself, the narrative is the real draw here, running a pastiche of soviet-era space and sci-fi references into the exploration of various characters - and enables you to change how the story turns out as these characters vie for power and try to keep Space Force going in very trying circumstances.
*– [Real player with 96.3 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004326733)*
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## Infernal Radiation (Demo)
On Halloween Island, engineers test the innovative way of generating heat. The roots of the power plant reach deep into the earth, all the way to the heart of Hell, where the reactors obtain energy from burning souls. When an accident happens, the infernal radiation contaminates the earth. Inhabitants living in defiled areas struggle with numerous possessions. An exorcist is needed.
Demo version contains:
* Very simple gameplay, very difficult opponents.
* Dynamic clashes.
* 6 demons with unique abilities and battle patterns.
* A dark history of the island hidden in the reports of the possessed.
* The choice of the order of exorcisms.
Do you want more games from the Asmodev universe? Add Priest Simulator to your wishlist.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/950620/Priest_Simulator/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/950620/Priest_Simulator/)
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## Slimefrog
Challenging and fun game to pass the time. Takes a while to get used to the controls however once you get the hang of it the game becomes very enjoyable.
*– [Real player with 5.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198051153785)*
I said I could beat this game in a weekend. One weekend later and I want to rip my balls off playing this game. 10/10.
*– [Real player with 5.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198103569894)*
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## Snowflake's Chance
Frustrating but amazingly addictive and fun!
You have 99 chance/lives to make it out of the hell hole you're in. I don't think there is a continue. I've already spend 45+ lives dying trying to climb, seems no end in sight!
Pros:
- Fluent gameplay
- Funny deaths
- Awesome mechanics
- Cute
- Rabbit! :)
- Music
Cons:
- If you fall in the middle, you can fall to level 1 and start over again!
- Very unforgiving. You could die in 1 hit.
- Some areas are too hard!
You just have to play it to feel the game. Here is the first 30min ish of me playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loHPqgAC5O0\. Hopefully this can get you guys feel the game out!
*– [Real player with 43.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198026234938)*
If you are reading this, you have found what I think is a hidden gem of the internet. Here is my opinion about it.
(Do not mouse over the spoilers if you wish to learn the game mechanics by yourself, as the game wants you to do)
### Difficulty
The game advertises itself as being very hard. It is.
This is really not for everyone. If you look at the achievements list, you will see that only 3 players have beaten the game completely out of 250 people. (At the moment I'm writing this). If you look for YouTube playthroughs, there aren't many in depth gameplay videos. This game likes to throw away an hour of hard work on a single miscalculation and then to rub it in your face. If you're looking for just something you will try "just for fun", then this is not the game for you.
*– [Real player with 34.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198375349768)*
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## Manual Samuel - Anniversary Edition
I would like to recommend this game, really, but the final act totally ruins the experience, bringing everything to a grinding halt for what is otherwise a humor and story driven game.
It's got fair-to-ok humor, lots of jokes that reminded me of the old Diskworld games, especially with the narrator interactions. However the humor is clearly targeting men, as the jokes are mostly physical humor, denigration and toilet laughs. Samuel literally pisses all over himself, and repeatedly vomits as a function of the game, which often comes across as lazy humor.
*– [Real player with 11.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048050493)*
What is Manual Samuel ?
For a game that started pretty well with a funny sense of humor and a nice personality, its a huge shame it felt so hard on its face, Manual Samuel presents itself as a overconfident indie game but everything is just so pretentious and kinda mediocre towards the end, in fact after the initial moments the game started losing momentum, for a game that presented itself as something refreshing and well-done early to become something so boring and uninsteresting so fast was a huge shame, lets talk about why below.
*– [Real player with 10.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198262626587)*
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## Super Grave Snatchers
Raise the dead. Kill people. Raise them, too.
There are also spells like fireballs and soul tornadoes, if you don't want your minions to have all of the fun.
Campaign is not long, but there's a sandbox mode and a survival mode that you can unlock, also.
*– [Real player with 12.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031291791)*
Super Grave Snatchers is a short, beautifully retro, necromantically witty and very engaging game.
The controls are simple enough, and fairly intuitive. On higher difficulties, the length of the game makes the creative permadeath fun rather than a chore (I recommend at least 2 Cheat Death items, because you basically have 1 HP). On lower difficulties, well, it's a blast to just run around necromant-ing everything in sight. :D
As for the musical score - ::chef's kiss::
*– [Real player with 12.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198832485499)*
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