Dino Run DX
Ahhhh. Good ol' childhood nostalgia. I’ve been played this for a long time before the SE verison was around. So what’s Dino Run DX? It a 2D racing game that you run thoughout the entire game. The game itself is quite fun. If you like racing or pixels, then you might like this product. Let’s explain some things about Dino Run DX:
Singleplayer
You must run to the left from start to finish in order to avoid getting swallowed by the doomwall. Walking into the end of the game screen will advance the player to the next stage. At some point, a DNA stonebox will pop up. By spenting the DNA, it will upgrade the dino’s speed, accel, jump, or strength of your choice. DNA can be gained by gathering up eggs (collecting enough will give you an extra life), super eggs, bones, accomplishing milestones, or by the player’s score. Once the final stage is completed on normal, hard, or insane difficulty, you’ll receive a milestone (or a trophy). If you want to know how to achieve milestones, click here . Not only that, but you earn hats as you make progress to 100% completion.
– Real player with 1234.1 hrs in game
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Dino Run or Escape Extinction: The original Dino Run (also titled Escape Extinction) was released on the 30th April, 2008. In that time the game has been played over one hundred million times making it one of the most successful flash games ever developed.
The original is still widely available… for FREE!: Although Pixeljam promises that DX has made significant improvements over the original it’s a hard argument to justify purchasing this over playing the original flash games. There’s additional game play options, more levels and more hats in the DX version of the game. Of course, Pixeljam have taken complete advantage of what Steam can provide for players – achievements, full screen mode, Steamworks integration,
– Real player with 59.1 hrs in game
Desktop Dinosaurs
Enjoy watching cute hand animated dinosaurs inspired by 90’s Tamagotchi live directly on your desktop. Manage your environment, resources to raise and evolve your dinosaurs during their entire life. But don’t forget to show them love! Dinosaurs need love!
Features 🦕
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See your dinosaurs live (eat, sleep, die…) directly inside your windows desktop
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2 species of dinosaur currently available (more to come)
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Your progression is saved
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You can name your dinosaurs
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Randomly generated dinosaur colors sets inspired by NES console color palette
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A shop where you can buy new dinosaurs eggs, plants and decorations
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There Was A Caveman
There Was A Caveman is one of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam. Control a caveman and jump around retro pixel platformer levels, avoiding prehistoric animals and making paleontologists shake their head with sorrow at the scientific inaccuracy.
The thing about retro pixel games is that they are meant to appear the same as games in the 1990’s, because this is simple to do and you don’t need to have any artistic talent and you don’t need to hire an artist or anyone competent at computer graphics. That’s why retro pixel games are so popular with indie developers, the developers who weren’t good enough to get hired by game development companies. Sometimes, an indie dev will be so bad at video game graphics that they can’t even get the pixel graphics right, so their game looks even worse than the pixel graphics from the 1990’s that they are ripping off. That is the story behind There Was A Caveman.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
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Generally speaking this is a derivative platformer with excellent, detailed pixel art work. You have seen everything in it before, but that being said, it covers a wide base of platforming ideas and never overuses any of them.
+High quality pixel artwork with lots of care and work.
+Above average movement options - combining the dash and double-jump means the game can through some interesting platforming at you
+Good variety in enemies and bosses - derivative, but there’s new stuff in nearly every section
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Curious Expedition
The Curious Expedition is yet another Kickstarter-spawned entry into the ever-growing field of Rogue-Likes, but with a refreshing new twist. This time around, the player takes on the role of a small party of 19th-Century explorers engaged in a gentleman’s wager - to travel the world on six concurrent expeditions, competing to see who can gain the most fame. It’s a fairly quick and lethal game, but that’s exactly what it’s meant to be - a good way to kill a few hours at a time, running expedition after expedition off to their doom.
– Real player with 150.3 hrs in game
The Short Pitch
TCE is one of the best games in its class, a Roguelike-inspired strategy/adventure game that will leave you wanting more. Easy enough to beat several times in one day if you’re dedicated, yet hard enough to make every victory feel like you clawed your way to it from the depths of hades.
If you’re looking at this game and you’re even half sure you want it, get it. If looking at it fills with you a warm and gooey sense of longing for the hours spent huddled around CRT monitors taking turns playing The Oregon Trail, buy it. Even if you’re a more modern gamer, but you’re a fan of FTL, Caves of Qud, the Binding of Isaac, or similar, buy it.
– Real player with 82.6 hrs in game
Rex: Another Island
A really good platformer that all takes place on one giant map/level, but still has several distinct biomes. You can beat the game in just a few minutes if you know where you’re going, but this is a game built for replayability and speedruns. There’s three endings- 1) collect all the gems and make it to a special exit, 2) collect all the coins and make it to a special exit, and 3) make it to the ‘normal’ ending exit. The gems/coins exit are considerably more difficult, as you might expect.
The controls work well, though occasionally they’re a bit punishing- you really need pixel-perfect jumps in a few spots. But it never feels unfair. Music is good, but you can turn it off if desired. Graphics are nothing that will blow you away but they serve the game well and have a great retro feel.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
I get review copies of numerous games from Woovit and Keymailer, and stream them on Twitch. I have this segment for them where I play these games for at MOST an hour, to get an idea of what each is about and see what first impressions they give. Typically a lot of these games are sadly average as best and I fairly often stop the games before that hour mark because they just aren’t that fun.
When I got to my review copy of Rex: Another Island? I played for the full hour. Then I kept going until I beat it. I couldn’t help myself; this game is just too much fun!
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Terror of Hemasaurus
Play as a giant monster and wreak havoc on humanity in this retro city smash ‘em up! Punch buildings, slap helicopters, eat humans, kick cars – enjoy multiple ways to cause carnage! Satisfying arcade action and mindless destruction for up to 4-players!
Earth is on the brink of a climate catastrophe! The Church of the Holy Lizard hatches a dubious plan to save humanity from its own reckless disregard of the planet – unleash a monster to kill, destroy, and inflict terror!
Embark on a rampaging trail of total devastation across multiple stages as one of four recently defrosted monsters. Roar with delight as you stomp terrified citizens and pulverise buildings in an apocalyptic, retro arcade blast of awesome monsters, satisfying destruction, and farcical fatalities!
Terror of Hemasurus is the latest game from Super Blood Hockey creator, Loren Lemcke.
MONSTERS!
Hemasaurus! Clocksloth! Salamandrah! Autonomous Hemasaurus! Four terrifying (but also kind of adorable) beasts, each with their own killer moves!
DESTRUCTION!
Explosive pixel devastation and mayhem on a monstrous scale! Reduce buildings to dust. Topple skyscrapers. Destroy everything!
DEATH!
Hurl humans into helicopter blades! Butt slam into crowds of terrified citizens! Eat people for nourishment! Smoosh them all to save the planet!
STAGES!
Do what the game tells you across a variety of levels! Kick cars into buildings! Rescue the cats and dogs! Total a tower in record time!
FRIENDS!
Got buddies? Good for you! Put them to use by getting them to join you for some local co-op carnage! Up to four friends can cause terror together!
Time Traveling Raptors
Time Traveling Raptors is a 16-bit inspired, action exploration platformer across time and space. Take on the role of Ari on her journey through time to restore the world to the way it once was and uncover what happened to set off the cataclysmic event that triggered all of the time portals and consequently, the dinosaurs.
Roskis: A Boozy Beginning
This is the funniest game I’ve played this year. It is a relatively short (three hours) puzzle adventure with a slot machine combat system. Many unique ideas here, along with memorable character designs and a great soundtrack.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
SO DARKSYDEPHIL HAS BECOME A TENTACLE MONSTER CAW CAW
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT WANT TO SEE CAW CAW
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Survival RPG 3: Lost in Time
As its two predeseccors, it is a nice simplistic adventure and survival game. It is a little bit more complex. I enjoyed it very much and hope for more in the future!
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
Fun casual crafting adventure
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Dinogotchi
Dinogotchi reminds me of all the tamagotchis I had as a child, they’re all dead… But Dinogotchi is different, the game has a nice and cute art, the music and sound effects are nice but I feel like the game in general could have a extra polish.
I recommend the game, especially for those who already had tamagotchis in their childhood or for those interested in the genre.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
I am editing my review to update my opinions on the game, I will keep the original at the bottom of this for context, my biggest issues with parts of the game being unplayable is fixed so I think it’s fair and time to change this. :)
The developer of this game has done a good job at making a cute game and being open to criticism and fixing the problems. All the issues I reported were fixed really fast and it gives me a lot of hope for future updates.
The pixel art in the game is really well done, all the dinosaurs look cute and recognisable and overall really pleasant to look at. The UI is really nice and was updated recently to make the happiness, hunger and energy icons more clean which wasn’t necessary but a really nice change. The music is also very nice and cute, I enjoy it a lot, more songs would be nice but this is still good.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game