Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Mostly Boring
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a platforming game where you play as a pair of characters that can switch on the fly, changing the environment, the enemies, and in a lot of parts, the available collectible crystals. Crystal collecting and switching are at the core of this game, and not much else.
Don’t expect much of a story. I’ll be honest, I found none myself, so this is really just pure game. The problem is that the game it is isn’t very good.
Navigate levels by jumping and either spinning, which turns the character into a kind of cannon ball that can break walls or attack enemies; or twisting, which allows the character to descend slowly and with more control after a jump.
– Real player with 54.7 hrs in game
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Personal rating: 8/10
What about Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams?
This seemingly cute and unambitious platformer will prove that you should never judge a book by its cover. It sports increasingly challenging level making use of the core mechanic; dual world that can change how enemies and the environment behaves around you.
The game is so cutesy, it must be easy! Hint: It is not
Although the game starts simple and easy it soon becomes one of the most difficult platforming games with long levels full of secret paths leading to more gems, which you will need to explore if you wish to earn the best rank.
– Real player with 29.0 hrs in game
Top Gang
Top Gang is a very chaotic platform game for up to 4 players cooperative. In Top Gang you have to eliminate all the enemies in the level to be able to advance at the same time you have to rescue the “Nuggets” and take them safely to the exit. Your friends can be a great help or a stumbling block because while the game is cooperative it is also competitive who can rescue more “Nuggets”?
Elemental advantages and disadvantages
Each character has their own element giving them advantages with their respective elements.
Use weapon recoil to your advantage
It is possible to escape situations or do some maneuvers using the weapon’s recoil.
History
The Nuggets are a peaceful and friendly race but also very tasty, tired of being captured all the time by the black mask gang they made a magical ritual that ended up going wrong and freeing the elemental ghosts that instead of helping them joined the gang of black mask. With no way out they went to the Top Gang firm to ask for help, Shack Joe being the leader of the company accepted the request and gathered his group to rescue the captured nuggets and destroy all the elemental ghosts.
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Flatland: Prologue
Very cool and a great addition to Flatland series! It brings up new interesting mechanics that refreshes entire previous experience. Beautiful graphics and nice soudtracks! The game difficulty is well balanced and very challenging sometimes. Recommended!
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
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So much fun! You can beat it in under 30 minutes, but speedrunning it and figuring out what paths to take, where dashing would be useful even in the early levels, and just getting a full run without dying takes a lot longer.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
FLATLAND Vol.1
This game is a pretty fun, fast-paced platformer! Not too difficult, though there were a handful of levels that kicked my butt for a teeny bit. The music is pretty banging! Got 100% achievements in just under 7 hours in one sitting. The extra game modes you unlock, “Faster Than Light” (race against the clock) and “Not Him Again” (Boss Chase), were pretty fun and challenging additions to the game! I didn’t really care much for the “Square Fights Back” (arena) mode but others may enjoy it!
I can’t believe I missed that first C-C-C-C-Cube though! I went through each level like 3 or 4 times before I found it. _ And there’s literally NO Achievements Guides anywhere on the Internet nor Steam. But I did find 48/50 of them on the first play-through so they were pretty easy to find! :)
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Flatland is an incredibly well-designed platformer that focuses on player skill and reflexes.
The retrowave aesthetic is vivid, simple and engrossing. I love the use of simple geometric shapes and how they all somehow have a unique character and personality. The bonus levels look particularly stunning when you find them!
The music is also sublime with a handful of catchy electronic/synthwave tracks that are both distinct and match the mood of the game perfectly.
The gameplay is super fast with level design that goads the player into finding creative solutions. It has a free-form platforming design that lets you wall-jump indefinitely, dash
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Flatland Vol.2
Celeste meets Tron!
There’s nothing much to dislike in this game: It’s got tight controls, gorgeous neon graphics, and a powerful soundtrack!
Don’t be fooled by the first levels, it can get really challenging real fast!
If you are into hardcore platformers and enjoy stimulating levels, you can’t go wrong with this one.
Recommended!
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
So basically everything I liked about Volume 1 and the Prologue is here, with the added bonus of some QoL changes made. Movement is tight and satisfying, graphics are very aesthetically pleasing and the music is just great.
If you want precision platforming in the vein of kaizo Mario maps and Celeste, look no further. This is it.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Kero Blaster
Kero Blaster is a game that was suggested to me based on my ongoing search for run and gun shooters. It was created by Pixel (Daisuke Amaya), the same man that brought Cave Story to the world. Anyone looking for something like Cave Story should turn away immediately. This isn’t to suggest Kero Blaster is a bad game, but rather that it’s not an action platformer in the same vein as Metroid. It’s a linear platformer somewhat closer to Mega Man and Contra, but not notably similar to either of those series.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
Kero Blaster is a side-scrolling action game, which constantly tries to fool you that it’s shorter than it really is. At first it wants you to believe that there is only 4 levels in the game, then bam, it’s actually 7, and then you find out that there is actually 7 more levels waiting for you in Overtime (or Zangyou) mode. If that’s not enough, after beating Overtime mode you will also unlock New Game+, called Bonus (or Omake) mode.
The story of the game is pretty simple - you’re a field technician who maintains teleporation devices throughout the world. Unfortunately, these teleportation devices are subject to some interdimensional parasites, which disrupt their work. So you have to reach a disrupted teleporter on foot, going from the nearest working teleporter, always through a very hazardous environment. It all starts simple, but things start to go downhill after your boss decides that having an interdimensional parasite as a pet is a good idea. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? That’s the plot for the first part of the game, the second part has its own plot, which is focused less on saving the day and more on the characters themselves, but I don’t want to spoil it here for you.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
Ostrova Koshki
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1205680
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SOMETHING ABOUT IT
Imagine a small snowy island surrounded by an endless ocean from whose waters giant birches grow. There is nothing more in the whole world. The only people are a small tribe.
According to tradition, each child must go through a complex ritual to get rid of the evil spirit that lives in everyone from birth. This is the only way to get a name and become an adult.
The Boy has one last attempt to go through the ritual, and he goes on a journey for Magic Water that can make any person strong. But this potion is protected by a Grim Creature that lives in a Dark Cave.
Will the Boy be able to resist the danger, overcome all the difficulties, fight the Beast, become strong, return to the surface in time and undergo the rite to become part of his tribe?
Well, of course he will.
SOMETHING ABOUT YOU
The Boy is not a typical platformer hero: he is sensitive and fragile.
Will you listen to the Boy’s worries, choosing a safer path, or will you risk not caring about the child’s feelings, just to get through the game as quickly as possible?
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Control your mental state and stamina level.
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Try to avoid cold water.
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Look for shelter so as not to freeze.
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Go to bed to restore your strength and save game progress.
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Learn how to overcome various types of enemies, traps, and mechanisms.
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Get to know new proverbs and sayings to better understand the nature of this world.
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Pay attention to the details to discover a new depth of this story.
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Eat well and rest well.
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Get back to the village in time.
You only have one chance to go through the rite. When you fall, the game is over. There are no continues, my friend.
SOMETHING ABOUT US
We are a team of two novice developers from Irkutsk, Russia. This is our first experience of game development, and we have many interesting ideas that we want to implement.
Ostrova Koshki is a very personal game. I think it’s easy to guess that I often imagine I’m the Boy, and the Cave is a video game development. The release of the game is a ritual, the culmination of many years of work, where I have only one attempt to prove myself.
If you find our game at least a little cute, add it to your wishlist and come see my growing-up ritual when the game is finished.
SOMETHING ABOUT A CATHOOD PARTY COMEBACK COLLECTION
Cathood Party: Comeback Collection is a game series consisting of four games:
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Game of the year, a rhythm arcade about the importance of simple moments when you can just fool around with your friends and forget about all your worries.
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Shaman You, a casual novel about mental and physical health on days when life turns upside down.
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Cathood Party, a JRPG in which you play the role of the party leader and your strongest weapons are ethics and empathy.
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Ostrova Koshki, an action platformer about teenage issues in primitive world.
These games are autonomous, but all together they are telling an entirely new story. You will find out about it soon enough.
Thank you for your attention.
See you
Someday, somewhere
REZ PLZ
You’re going to enjoy this game if you’re playing in single player mode… but you will have missed out on something really special. This game was designed for you to be sitting next to your friend. I play a significant amount of co-op games, but Rez Plz scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. They turned “friendly fire” on its head and gave me a world that I can spend hours in, ignoring story, and just mess around with a buddy.
The puzzles were fun. The pixel art is super creative with really cool death animations and sprites. The game mechanics put a very refreshing twist on a platformer.
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
tbh its the game that i didnt know i was waiting to play , it should get more attention the mechanics in this game are amazing each level intrduces a new ability a new puzzle , the dialog is funny the story is ehh but tbh this is the type of game where you can enjoy everything from the funny deaths to the rezzing to the soundtrack and to the weird glitches that make you restart the level
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Yin Yuh
Help Yin Yuh, a cookie-loving spirit, fight his way through hordes of ninjas and warriors to claim an ancient relic. Which he will then sell for all of the cookies he could ever want. This arcade style hand-drawn game takes you through 4 areas, 20 fast-paced action-packed levels, and comes with 3 difficulty settings. Jump and drop between different platforms, stomp on your enemies, and use teleporting portals to your advantage. Even ride a dragon! Join Yin Yuh in his epic quest for cookies!
Blaster Shooter GunGuy!
I really wanted to like this game, but in its current state, I cannot recommend it. I wrote some suggestions for the dev a month and a half ago since he appears to be active in the community discussions, but he has not addressed them despite responding to the posts above and below mine.
What’s sad is there is quite a bit of content here that most people will never see because the game is unfair with regard to taking damage. There is no delay between taking multiple hits, so falling in spikes will literally kill your three hearts in about 1 second. The lack of proper controller support is also a complete turn-off. You shouldn’t need a third-party tool when the Unity engine supports controllers already.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
Blaster Shooter GunGuy likes to pretend that it’s a precision platformer yet the character movement has been implemented very poorly. There is no variable jump height, no wall jumping, and with how the game has been programmed it’s also possible for jumping to become unresponsive when near a ledge. Considering how many small platforms there are, and how many projectiles you must dodge, it’s absolutely hell to play.
The GUI is a mess, most in-game text is distorted and nearly unreadable. Controllers are supported but the keybinding graphics will not change to support this. Many buttons do not conform to what actions I’d expect them to make.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game