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
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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
Overlord: Fellowship of Evil
8 min of game play (check out my channel for a full play through)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-WkDY8cL4k
~ISSUES~
- When you first play this you need to exit the game for the “continue” to show up. They said they are working on the co-op save issue so they may fix this too.
~ABOUT THIS GAME IS~
Game type - Diablo/Gauntlet like (top down dungeon crawler)
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Play as 1 of 4 characters in 20 single player levels or co-op.
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Each hero has a base attack, a charge attack, and a power move that charges over time.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
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I’d recommend this game…with quite a lot of reservations. The TL;DR version? If you’re a fan of the Overlord world and story, buy it during a sale. If you’re like me and you really, really like Overlord and need your smashing sheepies fix, then maaaaaybe it’s worth buying now. YMMV.
First, the good. The story is funny, with Pratchett’s humor put to good use. The minions are entertaining, as always, and the dialogue is cheeky and fun. The world designs (especially the Netherdeep hub) are quite neat. The Netherghul designs are fantastic, and it’s fun to be able to play a variety of characters. It seems obvious that Codemasters put a lot of love into the game. The minion upgrades you can purchase were also pretty useful and unique compared to the previous games. The voice acting is fantastic, and I really liked the new characters as a whole. It was pretty cool to see the remnants of the old Overlord’s empire, too, such as statues of the minion wolf riders and Fay. The animated cut scenes had a really interesting wood-cut kind of style, which was unique and kind of neat to see in a video game.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
My secret word is ‘Blessing’.
I knew to expect quality and a fun time. This surpassed expectations! It got me really thinking about what I know in terms of army logistics and self-sufficiency. I know, that may seem redundant these days but, in my humble opinion, striving for self-sufficiency and knowing how to work together as a group is always good idea. Growing food, purifying water, basic medicine and basic repairs on everyday objects, all that can be very useful. I still need to know more but that only means I’m excited to replay this in a few years and see how my ideas and capabilities have grown!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
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My Secret Word: Bard
My apparent skill as an adviser: Magnificent
Overall, I found this to be a very intriguing game. Like all other games by this developer I found myself having to face very difficult ethical questions. However, unlike the others there was also a lot of questions regarding leadership and tactics (personal interests of mine). Overall, I loved the opportunity the story provided me and the story itself. As for the main character, I find him to be painfully pragmatic somewhat in contrast to my values. However, not as much as I would like to admit. Aside from his quick leaps to pyromania I do not think Magnus is an entirely evil person. Perhaps this is due to my own propensity for witticism that endears him to me. In addition, I am sure he is smart enough to recognize benevolent leadership is better for the leader and their people as well. I like to think of it as enlightened self interest that benefits others. Along with the previously mentioned shared traits Magnus and I both have a nigh obsessive love of magic. Regarding the choice of kingdom, I find myself conflicted. I value loyalty above all else, yet know too little of this magical staff to be certain of the value. Gun to my head, I say stay with the current king. Given how well I turned things around I see no reason that the king and the Magnus can’t barter for the staff from a position of increased strength.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Overlord™
Overlord™ Review
Overlording awaits sire… The fields are planted; peasants are cowering in fear, all in anticipation of your arrival…
Some key points that this game offers:
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Dark humour
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RPG like no other…
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Hordes of minions at your disposal.
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Magic, mayhem and chaos.
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A Tale of revenge, justice and general enemy bashing.
Gameplay & Controls:
The controls are quite simple, you can use a controller or your keyboard and mouse, the game however offers only partial controller support for the PC version. The keyboard and mouse are both used for gameplay with the mouse acting as your eyes, pointing in the way you want to look and go. The LFM used to send your minions out, and the RMB to call them back, holding both of them down you sweep your minions in the direction you want them to go. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll through your different minion types, and the numbers above the alphabetical keys.
– Real player with 528.3 hrs in game
Overlord is a deep game with even deeper nostalgic connections but so sadly overlooked even by myself for the longest time. If you’re looking for an old game that still lives up to standards today, or if you just want a basic RPG collectathon that you can occupy yourself for hours with, at the price it is Overlord will meet every expectation and hope you could ever wish for. I couldn’t recommend this more, this is one incredible, criminally underrated RPG you don’t want to miss.
This game had it’s 10th birthday this year, I only played it for the first time a few years back and have made it my yearly tradition to come back around this time of year (October - December) to replay Overlord + Raising hell. I got this game years prior in a bundle of some kind for about 90p/just over $1. After neglecting to play it for ages I finally got round to it and for that amount of money it blew my mind - even for the average price it is on here now (£3.50) it’s an absolute steal.
– Real player with 59.4 hrs in game
Oh My Gore!
Great Concept, Shoddy Execution
First, one thing I want to make clear. This game doesn’t take 72 hours to beat, I simply left it on for long periods of time. Second, this is a negative review, so why did I even bother finishing the game? Because I have a compulsion to finish games once I start them unless they are literally unplayable. Don’t be like me.
Now, onto the game. This is a hybrid where you build towers and send monsters out of your barracks to attack. The only control you have over the monsters is which direction/path they take when encountering intersections, I really like the idea for the game, but the developers did a poor job of implementing it.
– Real player with 72.9 hrs in game
An unusual TD game.
I didn’t want to buy this game for a long time. And I bought it last week. I can’t say I was excited, but I found some cool features there.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1398189289
First of all, I liked the setting of being a bad guy. Skeletons, Orcs, Mummies, Harpies and etc.
You are bad guy who fights with good guys. There is a lot of humor and sarcasm in the story. Yeah, there is a story.
What about gameplay. Most of the missions are Attack&Defense. And it’s fresh. You have one road where enemies attack you and you need to build towers. There is another, you attack. So, there are 2 resources, food for sending units and gold for building towers. There are also Pure TD missions, enemies come from all sides and you just defend.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Urban Mage
Urban Mage is an action simulation game where you get to be the powerful mage, with the ability to cast fireball after fireball and cause chaos and destruction. The time is the 21st century, the place is a quiet small town. Your goal? Kill them all!
Play as a raging mage in a modern environment and catch all the citizens before the cops arrive and arrest you. Or kill the cops as well. Destroy the town. Don’t forget to look inside the houses. Find everyone. Jump on roofs, dash through the streets and use all your powers.
Be aware though that even you are not invincible and the cops have powerful weapons you are not familiar with - guns.
Features:
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action combat system and fast-paced gameplay as well as the possibility to play as a subtle stealth ninja-mage!
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blood, blood, and more blood - don’t play the game if you are weak on your stomach!
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stylized and beautiful art style - it is a joy to look at it, at least until you spill blood everywhere
Coming up soon:
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different play modes including the open-world experience, timed arenas, and unique challenges
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various difficulty settings and modifiers to tailor the game for you
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Steam achievements and leaderboard - because everyone wants to be the best
What will probably never come:
- story mode - who needs a story when one can be a mage … and create your own violent story!
Overlord™: Raising Hell
Making a demon army, enslaving humanity, and taking over the world…. Ya who wants that? ME. Make more of these games please.
Being a demon lord sith master dark force (copyright) yadadada is pretty awesome!
Control and Minons
Overlord focuses on you staying in control of well .. the overlord while you can also control minions. I really like these types of games that are define you as a single character who you are always in control of while manipulating units makes you feel more like a general in the front lines and not a king who is a potato in a castle you never see.
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
Overlord: Raising Hell
Overlord Raising Hell is an amazing game with lovable little minions. In the game you are the second overlord (after the first has left) and you must help your army of minions destroy the pitiful disgusting forces of good BLEH!
Gameplay
In overlord you start off with learning how to control a small group of minions. There are 4 different kind of minions you will find though the game. to summon a minions you need orbs of their specific colour which can be gained by killing enemies.
– Real player with 29.5 hrs in game
My Lovely Daughter
Fathers were always so Underrated
My review after a long while tbh, I will dedicate this one to my loving father. Whom I believe just as the father in this game, would probably do anything for me to be alive (ok maybe not so twisted as these things haha)
This is roughly a point and click adventure which includes a dark story, symbolism, time management all in one for a plot where a single father is trying to revive his only hope in the world: his daughter. The story follows a man named Faust who lost everything important to him which was his family. He is an alchemist and he was banished to the forgotten parts of the city where the people who did not belong lived. There many many things happened and he lost his daughter and he uses the forbidden arts to revive her.
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
Graphics: 5/10
Music: 3/10
Story: 3/10
Overall: 4/10
I wanted to like this game. I really did. Not only because management games are right up my alley, or because I just love Princess Maker style games, or because a dear friend gifted it to me. But because I DO love dark and twisted takes to those sim raising games.
A raising sim where you aren’t raising a daughter but homunculi that are mere tools for a bigger end? It can’t get much darker than that. You are basically playing as the very-very-very bad dad from Full Metal Alchemist that used his daughter in an experiment to keep his goverment money. But as much as I love those dark takes, I don’t take well when people assume that my inteligence and capacity to differenciate reality vs fiction and good vs bad is null. Right as you start the game you will be greeted by a long text basically explaining why what you’re about to play is so horrible and terrible and I’m not sure if it’s just that the developers really think that the people who will buy this game are idiots, psychos or if they just want you to feel bad and guilty for playing it but it’s certainly one of the two.
– Real player with 23.2 hrs in game
Overlord II
I’ll order by pros, cons, summary and conclusion to make this as uniform and readable as remotely possible. Spoilers have been omitted out of respect for those with prying eyes.
+Minions are as nuts and jovial (albeit only to you/allies) as they’ve ever been
+Absolutely gorgeous visuals compared to the first game
+More original comic remarks from Gnarl and your mistresses to keep you chuckling, along with the hilarous antics of others complimenting the overall tone of the satisfying precipice to the game’s inevitable cessation
– Real player with 80.7 hrs in game
I enjoy the Overlord series. A mix of high fantasy and parody that’s only a few pedophilic steps shy of Xanth, you play as the titular Overlord, an evil master of a swarm of multi-colored minions, who sweep across a fantasy world, sewing death and destruction in your wake. You control your Overlord and your minions simulatinously, walking across the battlefield, slinging spells and swinging your weapon of choice, while your minions fill a cannon fodder role, exactly as willing to run into the heart of an impossible fight for you, as they are to put anything and everything they can find upon their heads.
– Real player with 53.8 hrs in game
POSTAL
I Regret Nothing
POSTAL is one of those games, even after all these years, you can still pick it up and truly appreciate for what it is and how it affected the view of video games back in 1997. Unlike it’s sequel POSTAL 2, this game is extremely dark, (in which HATRED tried to do and then some, but personally found it to try too hard.) Postal is an isometric top-down shooter where your goal is to kill all enemies (or 90% of them) in the map and move onto the next area. Due to what a lot of people believed, you don’t actually have to kill innocent people! Though what’s the fun in that? … It’s not, it’s painful trying to complete the game without killing any innocent people.
– Real player with 51.1 hrs in game
Having played this games series to completion (well, almost: what, you mean to tell me that you actually got all the way through Postal 3?!), I feel that reviewing them all is necessary. This game, however, is going to be difficult to review. It’s not that it’s a badly made game or that I hate it (on the contrary). The problem is that it’s such a disturbing game that I may end up on a watchlist for recommending it. Whatever! Here it goes.
The first installment of the Postal series is of humble origins, provided that your definition of “humble origins” involves being banned in 14 countries, being blacklisted by most major retailers and being mentioned by Senator Joe Lieberman to the Senate as one of the “three worst things in American society” (the other two being Marilyn Manson and Calvin Klein underwear ads). Postal is a game about a guy (the Postal Dude) being bombarded with demonic mental images and voices convincing him to murder society as a whole. Each level is a neighborhood, truckstop, air force base, shopping mart, etc. of innocent people and hostile people (“hostile” being cops, government agents, well-armed vigilantes and other people who are merely trying to stop a madman with weapons from murdering everybody). You are instructed to kill at least 80-90% of the hostile people before progressing to the next level. Unlike the succeeding two games, the only morality choice you’re really given is whether you want to kill only the people trying to kill you or kill everybody.
– Real player with 29.7 hrs in game