Incarnata: Dormant Stories
Incarnata is a text-based game where everything is procedurally generated: offering an incredible depth, within an infinite world.
Dive into this adventure simulation and become everything you decide to be. The game adapts and builds challenges, creates unique characters, places, and goals for you to weave your own story.
Gameplay depth
Will you aim for your enemy’s throat or maybe their left eye? Will the memory of this fight stop your character from sleeping tonight? Are you wearing enough layers of clothes to protect you from the cold? Create your own story by playing with an unprecedented level of depth.
Procedural everything
Everything in Incarnata is generated by a complex algorithm. The world, the items you find, but also the story you are going to live through. Love, Betrayal, Twists, and Challenges are all handled by an algorithm meant to always keep you on your toes.
Extremely moddable
About everything in the game can be changed. Play as a human in a medieval fantasy world, a cyber human in a dystopian future, a wild animal with godly powers. Anything you can think of, the game can be made to play.
As a modder, you are able to change the world the players will explore but also the very actions that are at their disposal. Incarnata works as the platform where your dream world will come to life.
Your custom-made content is incorporated within the procedural generation algorithm, allowing creators to be players in their own world.
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Gamedev Beatdown
The game is awesome. I had fun playing and making different decisions for my games and felt addicted at some stages. Non-game developers will definitely get an idea and insights into the game development process after playing this game.
– Real player with 81.2 hrs in game
Gamedev Beatdown is a turn based action rpg game with a quirky story depicting development of games in the gaming industry.
The game revolves around different playable characters from different departments of the gaming industry and gives the player a unique incite into the decision making that goes into making a game.
Even though you will end up making difficult choices that can impact your game in terms of sales or customer satisfaction, the game has a pun based humorous dialogue lines that will make you laugh and make the tough decisions look trivial.
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
Wizards and Warlords
This is the good stuff. I have 13 hours played and I started playing it less than 36 hours ago. It gets the ‘one more turn’ feel just right, and has enough depth to keep things interesting, but is a bit un-optimized in terms of interface and mechanical transparency.
The Dev (yeah, the one dude making it on his own) is basically the paragon that all early access devs should try to be, constantly pushing updates and tweaks and engaging the community in respectful and productive discourse with humility and ingenuity. His turnaround time on new ideas is alarmingly fast, which is why there are multiple patches every week.
– Real player with 228.5 hrs in game
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I very much wanted to this game to be great. The references to Dominion but with a different take on it.
There’s so much in the game, cool thought out magic, cool proc gen world, cool city development, cool leader development. But it’s so shallow. I didn’t care about any of my leaders, all the cities were functionally the same.
And the list of resources is insane. There’s a ton of resources to be gathering, but most have only a single use. It’s annoying to play a Fae wizard, get herbs and fairy dust, and have little use for it. You chase more resources until you realize you have no use for mithril. I’d rather have a smaller more concentrated list of resources that did something.
– Real player with 104.0 hrs in game
Road 96 🛣️
Full video review: https://youtu.be/qJ7308la4hI
Summarized version below!
I consume way too many of these narrative-driven games for my own good, but I’m always on the lookout for one that tries to do something new, something cool - so I was excited to give Road 96 a look.
Note: Trimmed review to fit character limit, check video for full version!
Gameplay:
Road 96 is basically a more involved “choose your own adventure”-type game. There are decisions to make and these decisions end up affecting what path you go down and what ending you get. You don’t just play as one protagonist, but multiple. There is a small cast of recurring characters you will meet along this journey and that’s where the meat of the game lies.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
This is the model that all walking simulators should follow from now on.
It’s really good. Like most “choice” based games, no, there isn’t as much variety in actual gameplay as was originally suggested in the trailer. Many of the games roughly 200-300 conversations play out similarly in one playthrough to the next, but they may occur at different points in your journeys, and with different people. I would say that is better than most of these types of games allow…think Life is Strange, Firewatch etc, where you are on rails for pretty much the entire game and there are only changes in the flavor text as a result of your meticulously thought over actions.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
SPECTEARED
You wake up in the room which resembles of old bunker, you don’t remember anything.
You notices that you’re wearing military suit and some kind of helmet you can’t get off and can’t move lips to create any sound.
In the room there is a lot of CCTV cameras which are watching you.
Suddenly, intense light hits circle around you like you’re stage actor.
From the speakers on the walls some voice starts talking to you, you’re in SPECTEARED, live show stream of survival horror!
Green light starts to shine in other side of the room, heavy doors opens revealing giant mysterious tunnel.
There is no other door, you have just this way to go.
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Upcoming features:
Game implements custom solutions for animating characters, simulating audio waves, AI of spectators and procedural level generation.
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Each character in the game is animated with simulation of real muscle behavior and inverse kinematics manipulation to erase artificial animation feeling.
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Audio waves simulation provides new way of identifying danger in really immersive way, audio is very important for the game mechanics.
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AI of spectators making game flow balanced, controlling slightly attraction for enemies. If player would die too soon, spectators can talk through speakers and turn on some siren in far rooms to keep enemies away for a moment, or in reverse when player is just hiding and doing nothingm they lure enemies towards you.
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Custom Procedural Generation algorithms will generate each set of facility in different way each time played, which also applies to multiplier!
Game is open for people who enjoy jumpscares and for ones who don’t like it.
In any time of playthrough you can switch intensity of jumpscares with simple slider.
I’m Not Jelly
Use the best Nojellian warriors in a war between jelly-like creatures and their plant-like enemies, in battles full of vibrantly colorful violence!
#### DEVELOP YOUR SKILLS
A skill-based roguelite, complete missions in different planets composed of rooms with objectives to complete.
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Use different Nojellian characters, each one with unique attacks, abilities and skills.
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Multiple enemies with powerful champions and deadly bosses to face off.
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Unique perks and skills influence each fight, putting a twist in every action.
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Beware of death, if defeated, the Plantizards will consume the Nojellian body and become stronger.
#### USE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
The Nojellian Empire created several strategic warbodies to fight each one with a variety of abilities and skills-sets. Take control of a warbody before each mission and master their different combat styles.
#### WIN THE WAR
Face the Plantizards and defeat their army Captain Bosses to take over the dominion of planets. Plantizard come in various forms, from a small sharp theet lettuce to big reptile-plant that performs big chomps .
Select carefully your next objective as the war evolves, after a mission is lost or won a new one is generated based on the results, creating a unique narrative.
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Fog Factory - Game Maker
I expected much more. This Game-Maker sadly suffers from a lack of ambition and creative thought. The UI design is lacking, the audio rarely works and the game is incredibly imbalanced. Hopefully in the future this can be improved, although that may take a lot of work.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Pipe Dreamin' VR: The Big Easy
A clever combination of VR puzzle games and VR climbing games.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
I was a fan of the old 2D puzzlers Pipe Mania and Pipe Dream, and this is a worthy VR successor. If you can tolerate a few minor imperfections and you are driven by steam achievements then it’s a fun 2.5 hours of 3D puzzling. For some strange reason it started as a slide show and I had to turn my SteamVR resolution down to 1700 x 1700 before my RTX 3060ti would make 90 fps on my Vive Pro 2, yet it still looked full resolution.
– Real player with 2.9 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
Starr Mazer: DSP
Starr Mazer: DSP
It has been fifteen years since the G’ell have been defeated! But they are back with a larger and stronger fleet than before. Mankind faith is in the hands of a few skilful pilots. You are now in charge to select the best fighters for the survival of mankind!
Star Mazer: DSP is an Action/Side Scroller/ Shoot’Em Up game where you take control of a squadron of pilots who fight against the alien fleet of G’ell!
You will start the game in Act One with three pilots in your squadron. Your goal is to clear all Acts with the pilots you have at your disposals.
*– [Real player with 8.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198003030375)*
"Starr Mazer: DSP" is a horizontal shoot-'em-up where the player controls a squad of fighter pilots, each fighter having their own characteristics such as power, speed, and rate of fire. Gameplay is typical of the genre: it consists in eliminating several consecutive waves of enemies with a climax battle at the end of each stage. Some enemies drop orbs upon being destroyed, which can be collected for points ("sk:ore"). These points can be spent to buy new pilots should your current squad be completely wiped out.
*– [Real player with 5.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198022877775)*
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