Moonshot - The Great Espionage
Once there was a time when 2 big Nations made a Race to Space.
The USA and the SOVIET UNION.
A time of Espionage, of Scientists and Military, of Honor and Glory.
But what if another Nation would take part into this Race?
Welcome to: MOONSHOT – THE GREAT ESPIONAGE.
MOONSHOT is an amazing and charming Retro Plattformer.
You are an Agent for a fictional Country. You get Missions, you execute them.
And that in a very nice done Pixel World that is guided by an absolut amazing Soundtrack that could have jumped out of a sixties Espionage Series.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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Lovely music, lovely pixel art, funny story. The game may be a little too easy. But overall great fun and worth every cent.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Baobabs Mausoleum Grindhouse Edition - Country of Woods and Creepy Tales
Go crazy in this 8-bit retro adventure set in Flamingo’s Creek, a ghost town that only appears every 25 years on the Albatro’s Road and immerse yourself in the most out-of-touch, alienated neighborhood community you will ever know.
Steal, fight, negotiate, solve puzzles… Anything goes to find Daphne and get out of that cursed town that will be kept, forever, inside your brain as one of the selected nightmares ever created.
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Insecticide Part 1
A game that wasn’t particularly bad but not great either.
I still think it is something to buy if you want something short and decent but if you have high expectations on finding a “hidden gem”.
It looks dated however given the age it is and that is nothing to really hold against it. Where it gets tricky is how it feels undercooked. The controls and such feel a bit sluggist, the platforming can betray you, the weapons are tempremental.
What is great is the worldbuilding but every time you wanna dive into it the game finds a way to throw you out of the flow. It also is a novel idea that the game mixes point and click with fps but most times the point and click felt weirdly far fetched and mindboggling and once you figure it out you realize it is barely 10 minutes content point and click that just felt worse than a real point and click. If you are looking for a point and click game just pick something that is a true throughbreed point and click and not a hybrid. The fps/shooting parts are wildly better. They can feel a bit clunky at times but bar a few badly choreographed parts you get into a rythm of shooting your way through hordes of enemies.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
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This could be a decent game, but they didn’t put enough effort into it.
The atmosphere reminds me of Psychonauts but Insecticide is far worse.
The voice acting is good, and the controls aren’t bad (although I’d like more melee attacks). There are action and point-and-click adventure levels, so there’s some variety. The enemies have very high accuracy, so it’s challenging.
I guess these are all the good things the game has to offer.
Everything else is bad. The game is not complete (Part 2 confirmed for never being released on PC. You can play the full game on Nintendo DS, but with slideshows instead of cutscenes. And without voices, of course). The hitbox of enemies isn’t clear (sometimes you’re in front of an enemy and you’ll miss some hits), there aren’t subtitles on cutscenes (even if you turned them on in the options menu).
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
Hank’s Voyage
Join Hank on an adventure to rescue his friend and uncover the secrets of ancient Egypt!
Use your hat as a multi-purpose gadget, hide from your enemies, solve puzzles and prove that you’re a world-class spy every step of the way!
In the year of 1948, a group of talented jazz musicians formed the Jazz Association of Secret Spies, also known as JASS.
Their main directive: maintain world peace at all costs.
As one of their agents goes missing in Egypt they send Hank, their most recent hire, to investigate what they believe to be a routine mission.
Join Hank in his journey to Giza as he unravels secret conspiracies and sheds light on ancient mysteries while making the most out of his high-tech hat gadget.
Help him to sneak past his enemies, use his hat gadget to solve different puzzles, and gain powers that will help him make his way through 5 distinct locations.
Use your hat as a multi-purpose gadget: Attack, Activate, Distract and use it as a platform to solve different puzzles.
Collect hats to unlock unique powers.
Sneak past and outwit your enemies: Fighting is not always an option. Sometimes you have to blend in the environment and go unnoticed.
Fight your way through 5 distinct worlds featuring hand-drawn characters and environments: Encounter unique enemies and gameplay challenges.
Test your skills in several different mini-games and challenges
Endure an offbeat story with colorful characters and a comic book style.
Explore the levels to discover all their secrets: The levels are loaded with hidden treasures and great rewards, waiting to be found.
Huckleberry Fields Forever
A priceless painting has been stolen, and the only ones who can find it are Huckleberry Fields and his friends. Huckleberry Fields Forever is a platformer mystery mashup: think platformers (Super Mario World, Sonic The Hedgehog, etc.) mixed with mystery exploration games (Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego), all procedurally generated.
Chase thieves around the globe. 50+ real-world locations. Hundreds of levels.
Interview witnesses. Gather clues. Eliminate suspects.
Awesome co-op platforming action.
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Mystery platformer: Classic 2D platforming action mixed with mystery and exploration. Was the thief bald? Did he wear glasses? He went boating on the Spree–where’s that? (If your geography is rusty, don’t worry, press pause and check the handy in-game reference.)
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Travel the world: Catch a flight to anywhere on the globe open-world-style and visit hundreds of levels across over 50 real-world locations.
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Procedurally generated: Each case is procedurally generated from meticulously handcrafted components, including the overworld maps, levels, and even the suspects.
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Exploration: Secret exits, hidden rooms, invisible blocks, special items. Keep your eyes open because there’s a lot to find and discover in each and every level.
Hidden in each level are witnesses and clues. Find them to figure out what the thief looks like and where they went. Or get distracted earning coins to spend in shops, riding motorcycles, completing outdoor patches (sidequests), or even get a job. But don’t dally too long.
Huckleberry and friends have only 72 hours—about an hour in real time—to solve each case, which is perfect for a single play session. Play for an hour and actually accomplish something. Or binge your way through the whole multi-case story arc. That’s cool too.
Randomly generated cases and procedurally generated levels means no two cases will be the same. New suspects, new world maps, and new levels every case.
The world is packed with 100+ unique items to discover and collect over the course of your adventure. Upgradeable weapons, equippable shoes that provide new abilities, permanent skill upgrades, and even new characters and outfits are scattered throughout the world for you to find and play with.
Solve the case alone or with friends. Grab three of your closest buddies and work together to track down the thief. Or just hit each other with hammers and baseball bats in a frantic race to the level exit. Either way. It mostly depends on what kind of friends you have.
Just Old
Stars received: 1.9/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
[0.4] Controls & Training & Help
[0.1] Menu & Settings
[0.3] Sound & Music
[0.3] Graphics
[0.2] Game Design
[0.1] Game Story
[0.3] Game Content
[0.2] Completion time (level/game)?
[0] is it Enjoyable & Fun?
[0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again)
[0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related
[0] BONUS point: Review for VR
[N] - if Registration is required with providing PII
Game description key-points: as short and simple it’s a Hard-core 2D platformer
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Just Old stylizes itself as a “Hardcore” 2d sidescroller game. but in reality is sloppily put together glitch filled mess. Mechanics wise the game is unforgiving like it advertises, but mechanics are broken such as the rope literally detaching itself from it’s positioning while you climb. The gameplay comes off as sluggish with enemy ui and the player character’s movement speed is unbalanced and often causes unintended mistakes during your run. Functions intended to make the game “hard” instead come off as pretentious and tedious such as the no save function or restarting the game from level one every time you die.The soundtrack also grows from mildly annoying to aggravating as your deaths from stupid mechanics start to pile up. If you have some money and want to piss yourself off buy Risk of Rain 2; you’d have a lot more fun.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
One Rainy Night
Welcome to One Rainy Night. Follow our hero through a barrage of puzzles and adventure quest to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the inhabitants of Sleepy Falls.
Be well tested as you solve a mix of familiar and new puzzles. Collect items to unlock new areas as the adventure and story unfold.
KEY FEATURES
SOLVE - Solve an array of puzzles
EXPLORE - Explore new areas with some traditional platform gameplay
DISCOVER - Discover the mystery of the disappearances
Lore Finder
Become K.C. Morgan, paranormal investigator, and search a New England mansion for your missing father. Battle the forces of corruption infesting the mansion armed only with your wits and an old .38 revolver, and gather scrolls of forbidden lore. But the more you discover, the more warped and twisted the world – and you – become.
Uncover the story of Lore Finder, a 2D metroidvania and a modern queer reimagining of the cosmic horror genre.
Features
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Traverse a changing world: Individual rooms will transform and hold new surprises as you accumulate powers.
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Find your own path: Non-linear design encourages freeform, exploration-based, and self-directed progression. Complete sections of the game in what order you like.
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Experience atmosphere: From the dark and oppressive living areas, to the impersonal basement with its cold steel and mortar, to the dank caverns that lie even further below.
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Accumulate forbidden powers: Embrace your own corruption, fight fire with fire, and wield dark powers against their own progenitors.
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Face climactic terrors: Within the mansion dwell dangers of elevated strength and influence, often guarding crucial ways and powers.
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Uncover a family’s corruption: Experience the result of the restless emotions of the mansion’s formerly human inhabitants expressed through an eldritch power, from the anxiety of a frustrated would-be scientist to the isolation and anguish of a child unloved.
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Piece together past events: Explore and find scattered evidence of the inhabitants' otherworldly transformation through journal entries and memory-stained objects.
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Girlfriend mode: Beat the game to unlock this mode, allowing you to play as K.C.’s girlfriend, with all new powers and story.
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Speedrun mode: The speedrun mode offers a built-in timer and will streamline play experience for speedrunners.
Background
Lore Finder is a modern queer reimagining of the cosmic horror genre, taking influences from the various games and literary works in the genre first inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, set in the latter half of the 20th century. It is the story of K.C. Morgan (a non-binary character) who is a Private Investigator turned Paranormal Investigator after the disappearance of their father, Richard Morgan, a professor and researcher at Boston University. Eventually, their search takes them to a mansion owned by the Wright family on an island off the New England Coast.
Once there K.C. discovers that the residents and staff have been horribly corrupted by some twisted occult influence, the only clues as to their fate, and the fate of their father seems to be found within scrolls, written on human skin, filled with dark forbidden lore so terrible that it may rend the very fabric of reality itself.
Matters become even more disturbing once K.C. begins to explore the basement. Evidence of terrible, inhuman experiments lie discarded next to twisted bodies and implements of torture.
Alone, and facing terror, madness, and corruption, not only all around them, but also within their very soul, K.C. must work their way through the mansion, risking death, madness or worse in an attempt to uncover what happened to the inhabitants of the mansion, and their father.
Tartapolis
The game has a nice noir vibe to it. The story so far is interesting and mysterious. I like the liquid mixing mechanics which has a nice amount of combinations. Overall the game is easy and fun to play but i would really like to have a map so i can find my way easier.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
I like this game. I’m looking forward to carrying on, exploring the city, and completing quests. I did read the dev response to another review where there was discussion of a map being put in. Do I have to find the map first? Or did the map not get put into the game yet? That would be my one disappointment so far. Not having a map. If a dev could respond and lemme know what’s up with that, it would be appreciated. Cool game though.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Why did I buy this game? I’m not even trying to hate, I’m genuinely quite confused why I bought this, it must have been about four years ago that I decided to. Maybe it was because it was on sale or something, maybe I liked the trailer. Which is pretty amateur as I can now see, but for some reason I decided to buy the bundle thing, with the soundtracks and Jones on Fire. Why did I do that? This is such a flawed game it’s painful to think why I ever finished it even once. At it’s best It’s got this kind of unique feel that allows you to see past some (but never all) of the flaws; at it’s worst it’s absolutely unbearable. Okay there are some good things, some of the characters are pretty cool, Franky is a nice companion, the music is good (not something I’d ever listen to outside of the game though, which makes the purchase of the soundtrack even more baffling to me), and some of the platforming and gun mechanics are cool. But it’s nowhere near enough to make up for all the problems.
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
I enjoy quirky games that have a sense of humour and aren’t overly-complicated. And I enjoy mysteries. I enjoyed these aspects of the game, and I do recommend it, but there are some caveats.
The concept of the different ammunition in the game is a great one, and makes the game simple, provides many possibilities for problem solving, and is kinda cool. But the way it was implemented drove me bonkers. When in a room and needing to use different ammunitions, sometimes the puzzle would require three or four of a particular type, then you would have to switch out to a different one (or two), do something with them, and then switch back. Granted, I’m sure in hindsight that I could have streamlined that and analyzed the problem and come up with a more efficient ammunition usage, but who wants to do that? Swapping out the ammunition is such an annoying mechanic, it would be much easier to put in some sort of ammo configuration and swap to it with a button or hotkey.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game