Noir Punk
Full play through here if you get stuck or just want to see the game played:
Review:
Great game I love the noir genre so the aesthetic of this game is already a win for me it’s done pretty well and has some nice humor in it. My two main complaints is one I couldn’t find a way to make it full screen or any options for that matter and the sound puzzle this is a personal one for me because I HATE SOUND PUZZLES, unless they’re blatantly obvious I’m insanely garbage at them so full disclosure I had to cheat the one in this game which I show how to do in the video. Overall though this is a great free to play with a really nice story I loved the break in puzzles with the action scenes as well that was a super nice touch.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
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A fun half-an-hour experience
Loved the style and attention to details
Action sequences are a bit tough to control but there’s no tight platforming or heated situations to make it a problem
The programming is a bit rough but for a jam game it is a cool experience!
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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
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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
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony is an adventure game that is merging the traditional storytelling with modern-day pixel art graphics.
CHASING A MYSTERY THAT IS UNEXPLAINED FOR 150 YEARS
A group of people who set out to establish the first settled colony in America in 1587, mysteriously disappears a short time after arriving. They leave only an island name carved on a tree: “Crowalt”.
Now, the year is 1737.
A young and ambitious adventurer Hugh Radcliff pursues the Lost Colony to make his first great discovery. Now, different people live in Crowalt, where he came to solve this mystery. He will hover around the island and definitely will get in a series of troubles to find what happened to the Lost Colony.
CLASSIC POINT AND CLICK MECHANICS
Collect, combine, and use items to solve puzzles.
PIRATES ARE HERE TOO!
Try to deal with routine pirate visitors of Crowalt and of course, enjoy funny dialogues.
FOLLOW YOUR JOURNAL
Hugh draws important things and takes notes regarding them in his journal. It will be updated after important events and findings during the game.
MAKE CHOICES
Lie or speak only the truth.
COLLECT ARTIFACTS
There are lots of historical items around the island, collecting them will take you to another level of… achievements!
EARN THE TRUST OF NATIVES
Natives are discreet residents of the island. Taking information from them will require earning their trust.
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The Silent Age
“The Silent Age” is a simple point & click adventure game. You are Joseph (called “Joe”), a janitor in a big research company. You will get to see more and more strange traces of yet unknown events in your everyday job until you meet the mortally wounded inventor of a - time machine! As the last and only trustful person ending up in his life you are given the task to prevent a catastrophy - and travel back and forth in time.
Yeah, sounds a bit like “Day of the Tentacle”, doesn’t it? But thankfully it doesn’t feel like a pure clone of this adventure classic.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
There are theories that suggest that time travel is indeed possible. They are only theories and there are still many open questions regarding what exactly would happen if certain time travel scenarios were realized such as the grandfather paradox. It is precisely those mysteries and unknowns that make time travel so fascinating. It’s great to know the answers, but it also makes things less exciting. That’s just human nature. And that’s why the premise of The Silent Age is so interesting, especially since it explores time travel both in its narrative and gameplay.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Escape Planet 17
In Escape Planet 17, you are under the skin of Natan, a detective from the Narcotics Department. While investigating a new drug circulating on the streets, Nathan sees his partner being killed and both are framed for involvement in trafficking among others crimes. Nathan is unjustly accused, convicted, sent to a prison planet and removed from his family. During his stay on planet 17, Nathan devises a plan to escape, but a series of macabre crimes initiates a security protocol and prevents his plans. Get involved in an obscure plot involving violent gangs, synthetic drugs and a symbiotic experiment company. Giving up is not an option, escaping the planet is your mission, even if you have to get your hands dirty with blood.
Well-established platform game mechanics, with adjusted controls.
Skills such as double jump, dash, wall jumping among others.
Unique system of interaction with characters: Choose between bribing, influencing or threatening characters.
Use shields, vests, and bandaids to protect yourself and recover your life.
Unique system to equip weapons and multidirectional aiming.
An Interactive Inventory system with the ability to save, load, drop and other options to manage several items.
A game with fluid narrative and a great and unique History.
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Draw and Handle Weapons:
The game has a unique weapon draw weapon system, inspired by the classic megadrive game Flashback - The Quest for Identity.
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Hacking:
You have the ability to hack some terminals to activate doors, elevators, manage your Notoriety and more.
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Fighting Skills:
Use your close combat skills to fight enemies, very usefull when your weapon is out of ammo.
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And much more;
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
VOENKOMAT
VOENKOMAT is a social game.
This game makes it possible to become a worst enemy of russian teens and guys - military comissar. You need to send to the army as many as possible soldiers, protect your military HQ from foreign spies and save your soul from karmic devastation.
Don’t go to army - play VOENKOMAT!
You need to help to voenkom-newcomer to do his job proper.
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You’re in the army now. Really
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You can go through citizen files and learn their terrible and silly secrets.
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Only you decide future of russian army and military HQ by making important choices
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Ocean of “Russian spirit” and funny soundtrack
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Secrets, Easter eggs, Odd events and buckets of humour
All characters and events in this game are entirely fictional and the whole game was made to make someone smile on the Internet
Nowhere New
TLDR: If you like indies, play this game. Its story and atmosphere are well worth a few hours of your time.
This is not a full size game. It was created by a small group of students on no budget, and it shows. However, for that size and scope, it is impressively complete. I greatly enjoyed the couple hours I spent playing.
Narrative:
The writing is very strong. The mystery is intriguing, the characters are likable and complex, and the story is well constructed. There are several emotionally impactful story beats; at various points I felt shock, anger, suspense, horror, compassion, etc. I enjoyed the prevailing theme of identity, trust, and how our experiences shape who we are. Also, LGBT rep is a plus!
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Even though the game has unappealing visuals, I thought that the writing was very strong and I liked most of the characters. However, I ultimately was disappointed with the experience because the ending felt very anticlimactic, a big exposition dump to what otherwise was a mysterious story that could have gone in many ways. We play as a character that crashlands on a mysterious world where inhabitants lose their memories as they share them with other people. The game presents memory share as a mechanic but it’s somewhat cosmetic, for the most part, the story is pretty linear and you can only trade a few memories for a couple of hints, although I cannot confirm that as I decided to keep them. I wouldn’t say that it has any puzzles, you just have to talk to the characters in the right order, it’s not too convoluted. If anyone cares you can complete the game in about 90 minutes.
– Real player with 2.3 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
Searching for objects in the forest
The game only has potential if you have young kids to play with as it’s always the same items asked, the level are only 4 different areas where you’ll have to find the same items.. You get the gist of it.
Some words certainly are weird translations or brands instead of modern naming, and some others dont correspond to what it’s supposed to be.
Examples :
Requested item Item in the forest
Leaflet maple leaf
Dichlofos Insect repellant
Field Glasses binoculars
Flashlight Lantern
Those certainly need to be renamed properly, as it is, it’s kind of ridiculous.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game