Empires in Ruins
Edit: The developer is super chill, and is looking to patch out the bugs soon. This is still a hard game with hit-or-miss writing and an imperfect UI, but serious props to anyone who can indie dev something this complex. Check it out if there isn’t something in the review that’s a dealbreaker for you.
This is a very “yes, but…” recommendation.
Empires In Ruins is a thing I should like. It’s a tower defense with a 4x strategy layer, and where you can econ yourself into an easier TD situation, or TD yourself out of a bad economy.
– Real player with 27.9 hrs in game
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**This is a short excerpt of my longer analysis and review (available in English and German). I would recommend reading the full text or watching the YouTube Video (German Voiceover, many subtitles)
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Empires in Ruins Test / Review
Empires in Ruins Review – Conclusion and opinion**
For an indie game of a small team just entering early access, the game is already surprisingly polished. The campaign includes a very entertaining story and for strategy fans an appealing game depth.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
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
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A really fun little game about a very serious topic. Looking forward to future updates!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Beach Volleyball Competition
Beach volleyball simulator.
Details:
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x2 game modes, 3D or 2.5D isometric projection;
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easy game play controls;
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realistic ball physics and speed;
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several levels, with several music
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Features:
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styled characters;
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internal control for vfx, sfx, music;
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partner AI character behavior customization;
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training mode for learning correct action execution;
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story mode have progress for increasing team skills;
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versus mode vs bots configured using net orders from other real users teams or teams of story mode;
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multilingual translation for general settings
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Concretely:
3D game mode.
Planned replacement of background stuff to use completely 3d stuff.
2.5D game mode.
Court projection is isometric, that increase playable area.
Easy game play controls.
You need one click per action, on right or left side of playable area, that control game play.
Click on upper screen area show/hide modal menu.
Styled characters.
Available skin color, hair style, clothes, customization inside “PLAYER” menu.
Change at least the color of the skin of the character, not to be confused where you are in the team.
Internal control for vfx, sfx, music.
Visual effects can be turned on/off using “?” menu, that decrease cpu load of slow devices.
Sound effects and music volume, can be controlled using “VOLUME” menu, and using match popup menu.
Partner AI character behavior customization.
AI behavior can be controlled using “PARTNER” menu.
Story mode have progress for increasing team skills.
Next story level unlocked - dope capacity increased.
Versus mode vs bots configured using net orders from other real users teams or teams of story mode.
“VERSUS”- “CREATE NETWORK AI ORDER” , when complete, your team simulation was added on server, and other real users can take order and play versus your bots. Behavior simulate your behavior, less or more.
“VERSUS”- “TAKE NETWORK AI ORDER” , when complete, you can play vs other user team simulation.
That start match vs network AI use “TRAINING”- “USER VS AI”. That observe match of your team simulation vs other user team simulation use “TRAINING”- “AI VS AI”.
Multilingual translation for general settings.
Visual effects setting description inside “?” translated to few languages.
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Deadwater Saloon
Create Your Character
Playing as a rich and dynamic character in the old west, you will be able to fully customize your attributes to fit your playstyle, such as Mixology, Seduction, and Sneakiness. You will manage your life as well as your saloon, such as maintaining your reputation and getting married. You will struggle with the effects of disease, aging, sanity, and addictions.
Form Relationships
Provide travellers with a distinct drink parlour, gaining legendary stories to regale and build your legend. Interact with townspeople as they populate the town, forging friendships with blacksmiths, sheriffs, and preachers, romance prospective partners, or blackmail, abduct, and murder those who threaten you.
Build
Build your saloon from the ground up. Expand the walls, build bordellos, opium dens, high stakes gambling rooms, and railed porches. Buy and place spittoons, tables, chairs, handcrafted bars, pianos, chandeliers, and diamond dust mirrors.
Manage
Thrive within a complex economy system, stockpiling booze, food, guns, and opium. Research a diverse array of drinks and foods to serve customers. Hire and manage staff from within the town populace, including barkeeps, cooks, servers, prostitutes, croupiers, pianists and bouncers. Help them reach their full potential, or fire and replace them with those more skilled.
Hundreds of Events
Face the forces of nature, meddlesome customers, firebrand Preachers, rival outlaw gangs, and much more. At some point, you will be tested by stronger and more formidable nemesis in longer event chains. Whatever you choose, you will face the consequences of your choices. The frontier is an unforgiving place.
Fight with love - deckbuilder datingsim
Go into fights and use word cards to construct sentences of love that damage your opponent if you do it right, maybe… there was no tutorial, so you just had to… work it out. I like the art though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeow7UgGvA
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
This game sounded interesting at first. An unusual slay the spire type game. The problem is, it still feels like a barely playable demo even after being released from early access. It fixed the problem where the cards in your deck didn’t shuffle, but removed inventory, making the bar, theater and nightclub “date spots” all the same (Before, one sold healing items, one sold cards, and the other sold permanent buffs)
Also, the story is barely translated, and a lot of the cards had been rediculously censored. If this is a game about dating and sex, why can’t the cards swear?
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Trump VS Covid: Save The World Clicker
This game sucks and borderline unplayable. The mechanics don’t work and instead of fixing his game he just release PAID DLC cheats that speed everything up with the most expensive being $20~ AUD. RIDICULOUS! AVOID!
– Real player with 2114.1 hrs in game
A clicker game that states, “You won’t stuck waiting for more income. There is always something you can build or upgrade” …that punishes you for clicking, by throttling/stopping your income if you click too much?
…and even when your income is coming in, there is definitely not always something to do.
The game is what it is, which isn’t all bad, but the more I reread the description, the more I ask myself…why state things that just aren’t true?
Also…no window mode? Sigh
– Real player with 1374.6 hrs in game
US Spy: Mission in Russia
❤ Audience ❤
☐ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☑ Expert
☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
♬ Music ♬
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
☠ Difficulty ☠
☐ Easy
☑ Average
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Hard
☐ Unfair
§ Bugs §
☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☑ Nothing encountered
⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Frustrating
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
I received this game in part of a bundle with Evil Bank Manager (which I did enjoy).
If I had paid for this game separately, I would be upset, which is saying a lot considering it’s $1.99
There’s no actual point here.
Sure, your’re supposed to select actions to raise funds and overthrow the government, but it really makes no difference what you do eventually you win the game. In 1.7 hours I have beat the game three times (simply because I was missing one achievement and that was bothering me) and the end result was no different regardless of if I thought out my actions or just clicked through everything.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Anime And Your Life
RANKINGS F’D ME
So there is not a lot to this game. The only reason I put in so many hours into it (which essentially is just letting the game run) is because I felt I could top the leaderboards.
Well, I did top the leaderboards. But apparently, right around 2.2 billion people, the score caps out and sets you back at 0. 1700 HOURS TO GET THERE AND IT SETS ME BACK AT 0.
– Real player with 1703.0 hrs in game
Boring, bland “gameplay”. Your grind coins to dress your girl and money to upgrade earth(which was really buggy for me).
Not many options for customizing the girl(only one body shape).
The “card game” is way too random in my opinion. English is not my first language but I think it’s called “happy families”?
Any way it’s a very bland and lame version of it.
It also features an unnecessary calculator.
The featured webbrowser was ok I guess, tho I have no idea why it is there in the first place.
All in all I don’t think this was worth my money.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game