Archero
Dear archer hero, it’s time to answer the call of the world and complete the necessary challenges to become a god!
Using your skillful archery skills, different arrows and the blessings of the bow gods, you can easily destroy all kinds of enemies and complete a variety of challenges.
Don’t forget to defeat your challengers, they don’t want you to become a god!
Shoot!
Draw an arrow from your pack, then build up your strength and shoot at the enemy! The greater the force, the faster the arrow and the more damage it will do to the enemy.
A shot that hits an enemy may break their joints and slow them down. There is a chance of a blast effect or even a kill shot!
Enemy armour
Enemies do not always reveal their flesh and blood, but usually wear armour of varying strengths in different torso positions, including light, medium and heavy armour.
Usually some enemies will be able to tell at a glance which type of armour is dominant, while others will need to be tried with an arrow.
Each part of the armour has its own durability value and will protect its owner with a response damage reduction parameter until it is depleted, but some arrows can penetrate directly regardless of the armour.
Types of arrows
When facing enemies without armour, or wearing light, medium or heavy armour, the different types of arrows are more effective and are
Normal arrows - average muzzle velocity, penetrate light armour and dent medium armour, but break when encountering heavy armour
Barbed arrow - higher muzzle velocity, penetrates and deals a lot of damage to unarmored and light armour, breaks on medium and heavy armour
Flat arrow - low muzzle velocity, dents almost all armour and loses a lot of durability
Sharp Arrows - Very high muzzle velocity, can penetrate all armour types including heavy armour, but do less damage
Normal arrows are infinite and you will automatically harvest other arrows from the Bow God on a regular basis, so remember to be flexible!
Growth
You gain experience by hitting enemies. Each time you accumulate a certain amount of experience you can upgrade and choose one of three random growth paths. Feel free to choose your own direction of development!
God Wishes
Wishes will accumulate automatically over time, and each successful shot will accumulate more wishes. When they are full, they unleash powerful aspirations.
These skills last for a while and come in different types: from rapid fire and knockback to charm and disguise, each of which has its own use to help you defeat the enemy.
Divine Rites
Each time you achieve a part of your goal, you will receive a gift from the gods. You can choose from a variety of different rewards, from special passive skills, divine wishes or special arrows.
Bow
Find bows with different attributes from all over the map, or from dead enemies, and use them with a passive skill or a divine wish to achieve outstanding results.
Quests or the Bow God
Complete a series of quests for the Bow God and collect crystal shards to cement your path to godhood. As your strength increases, you can receive various levels and quests such as defence, assault, sneaking and collecting.
Special helpers
Skeletons in tombstones, locked gates, stone throwers for defence, carefully erected stone balls, rickety suspension bridges - the mechanics in each mission will be a great help to you!
Development Plan
DEMO
The Archer Hero DEMO is now available for play. Come and experience the unique dual-stick archery gameplay and tell us what you think to help us iterate!
Feedback
You can give us your feedback via Discord or the Steam community. Have fun!
Read More: Best Early Access Twin Stick Shooter Games.
Chronicles of Galdurvale
Welcome to the mysterious world of Galdurvale.
Join the huntress, Amelia Moonglow, as she embarks on an action-packed quest to master the five elemental crystals and rediscover the floating isles of Sky World, home to the Dragon Riders of old.
Along the way, she will uncover ageless secrets, traverse cunning environmental puzzles and overcome foes of every shape, and size.
Galdurvale is yours to explore: either on foot or through powers that make each new area a joy to traverse. Guide Amelia across the treacherous dunes, through the wetlands, snow-capped mountains, and into the vast caverns below.
Amelia is no stranger to battle.
All manner of adversaries awaits the steel of her blade – from hulking beasts to bandit kings, and powerful warlocks – each with their own distinct strategies, and abilities.
A variety of swords are hidden throughout the lands of Galdurvale, granting powerful bonuses and unique attacks.
And that’s just the beginning…
Ancient secrets abound in this rich, fantasy world, revealing tales of yore and magical knowledge, aiding Amelia in her adventures.
Read More: Best Early Access Dragons Games.
Project Absentia
Who Wants Some Wing?
From the creator of Daytime Drama and Scoot Hard DX comes the most violent yet cartoony shooter you’ll ever play.
You play as Abby - an angel with an attitude and a mysterious past.
After you and your friends are taken away to the dreadful Orkan Corporation that has taken over Heaven, you decide to do the only thing you’d rightfully do - kick ass!
Abby must go through the Orkan Corporation and kick ass and take names to get her friends back!
However, not is all as it seems, as Abby soon will uncover a conspiracy that goes deeper than Heaven itself. She then will have to travel through all the dimensions of the universe to get answers.
Buckle Up For One Hell Of An Adventure!
#### Neat Features
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High Verticality! Jump and glide around to get at your enemies.
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Full voice acting for the characters!
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High-res vector artwork for the enemies for that 2000s Newgrounds asthetic!
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You’ll find plenty of Low-Poly 3D models on your quest, which can range from helpful pickups to interactive objects.
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Build engine comes to GZDoom with levels based on real locations, attention to detail. Props, posters and huge set pieces!
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Wield rocket launchers of all sorts. Use the Hailer to freeze your enemies. Shock enemies and suck enemies together with the Plasma Rifle. Atomize your foes with the Rainbowitzer, and shred your enemies with the Tornadozer. And these are just the weapons in the first episode! There’s more weapons as time goes on!
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Blow stuff up! Shatter toilets! Use vending machines! Destroy vases, flags and parts of the level itself!
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Destroy your enemies with blood and guts flying around like confetti. Blow off their heads with well placed machine gun fire. Destroy their corpses!
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Three Episodes in the final version! Dozens of levels ranging from dark factories, large cityscapes, hellish carnivals, dark factories and castles, and a chaotic realm with such sights to show you. Heaven, Hell, and The Elder Realms are your backdrop as you blow everything to pieces.
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A neat story with really cool characters, all of different walks of life… but all friggin' insane.
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Powered by ZScript for some neat effects not possible in DECORATE+ACS alone. This ain’t your kid sister’s GZDoom based game.
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An original soundtrack by Metal Neon, that blends various 90s styles into a cohesive experience.
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Turn off in-game or cutscene subtitles. Turn off Abby’s one-liners. Scale the UI up or down. Turn down the gore puddles… or turn them up. Fine tune the game to your liking with a plethora of in-game options.
Read More: Best Early Access Satire Games.
Spirit Bounce
This is the best new Arknoidoidish game Eva!
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Beacon
Updated Added 3/24/2019
Keep in mind this is a game still in beta phase, so it’s not quite finished. I’ll likely update my review as Beacon continues development.
I absolutely love top-down shooters and Beacon is no exception, in fact, it makes me appreciate them more. I’ve stuck around playing since it was released on Itch. It’s changed quite a lot, such as additions of enemies and bosses, loot areas, and of course all the bug-squashing, both technical and literal. It’s a little terrifying that there’ll be even more enemies and bosses later, which means plenty more ways to die, but hey, mutations are a thing.
– Real player with 68.5 hrs in game
Beacon has a nice low-poly artsyle, a pretty good soundtrack, and interesting writing and ideas. It has some weird design choices regarding weapons and enemies, but is over-all rewarding, if not occasionally frustrating due to a few enemies.
The gameplay is pretty typical: you can use 2 guns, have 1 equipment, 1 consumable/held passive, a grenade type, and as many passive non-held items as you want. You can smack things and dodge-roll, too.
The big game idea is that, when you die, you use DNA pickups you collect from enemies and can “mutate” next run… Or you can do what I did and beat it without mutating, which is pretty doable. Mutations change how the character looks/acts/stats and how the character reacts to items and story elements.
– Real player with 48.6 hrs in game
Cepheus Protocol
an open world RTS game the description can be a little confusing to the ear as what makes an “open world rts” other than an RTS with a really big map?
it is in fact justified, in that the mechanics differ somewhat from your typical RTS game. specifically the ability to build almost anywhere and the unique emphasis on resource utilisation as opposed to procurement and steam rolling, rushing and turtling as you may in other titles. whilst these methods are indeed still viable it by no means guarantees success as sticking to any one template will often result in your defeat.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
As someone who normally plays steam games and doesn’t keep up-to-date with patch notes and news related information relayed by developers, Cepheus Protocol stands out as one of the first games where I genuinely take the time to read Dev letters and patch notes. Without considering the overall story, the visuals and gameplay of Cepheus Protocol are always engaging for me and the dynamic between the CERC and the infected really sets the tone for how the game plays out, as I often find myself underestimating the infected and their sheer numbers, paying for such mistakes dearly. It definitely puts me on the edge of my seat and contrary to other games, I find myself often taking the time to put the game in slow motion or pause to consider future actions instead of trying to speed the game up- a clear indicator to me that strategy cannot simply be waylaid by overwhelming firepower for early to mid game. Once you do acquire overwhelming firepower at the end game though, the game simply becomes more fun and casual as you can enjoy the visual and audio effects of clearing out hordes of infected with air support and your geared ground troops. I cannot wait to see what the developers of Cepheus Protocol have planned for the campaign with what I have experienced in their open world mode, and I look forward to seeing the release of what I hope to be an engaging story alongside the already great RTS element that has been introduced. TLDR pros and cons below:
– Real player with 31.9 hrs in game
Viscerafest
Viscerafest
Viscerafest is a piece of playable poetry wrapped around a bloody gut-punching, alien shooting, retro-style shooter, that seems to be heavily inspired by games the likes of Duke Nukem and Quake.
And not just heavy inspired; Viscerafest literally plays out and feels just as good. Lead by a tenacious, narcissistic female protagonist who doesn’t care about anything other than quick cash out and goes the extra mile to cause as much mayhem as possible, a fitting personality for the game I must say.
*– [Real player with 77.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198329404521)*
Usually I don't do reviews, but this time is exceptional
Let me cut to the chase. This game is good.
I'll try to not over praise this game because now avaliable only one episode and it's too early to say, how good full game will be, but at this moment everything in this game makes me scream "Bloody hell, that feels good!!!". Movement is fast and smooth, gunplay is good and well-balanced, enemies are tough and every one of them requires a special approach to kill them, levels are complex and really creative.If you are a big fan of oldschool shooters and you're looking for real challenge - Viscerafest is your choise.
*– [Real player with 11.8 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198283906827)*
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## 盘丝洞惊魂
"Thriller of Pansi cave" is a horror adventure game based on journey to the West: Pansi cave and combined with modern urban legends. Different from the traditional horror game, the horror degree of the game can vary from person to person, absolutely suitable for young and old. The two heroines of the game are pure and hot. You will play games with them in the mysterious underground world, make your choices and experience different endings.
Story background:
I met her at a college competition. I was born poor and looked ordinary. She was of noble birth, white and beautiful. All the boys in the game were excited about it, and I was no exception. I thought there would be no intersection between us, but I didn't expect an accidental contact. We talked happily. After we got home, we still chatted online. We usually didn't know what to say after a few words with the girl. I talked with her until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night every night. On weekends, my sister directly asked me to go to her house in the evening. Although a little timid, I still summoned up the courage to rush to her house
#### [/] game features
Multiple outcomes
The game contains multiple endings. You don't need to make a deliberate choice. You just need to follow your heart to play the game, and you can get your own ending.
Exquisite role
We use the latest character rendering and motion capture technology to create the most realistic real-time rendered characters. At present, we are still testing and optimizing, and the effect you see now is still not the final effect.
Exquisite and huge scene
Different from the narrow space of the traditional decryption game, we have created a huge world in the game. In addition to our daily apartments, luxury villas. We also provide a huge underground world, including intricate caves and underground palaces, which contains a large number of scenes of ancient legends.
Appropriate difficulty design
We have conducted a lot of testing and Optimization for different game difficulties, so that hard core players can experience challenging decryption and battle, and players who like plot and tour can feel at ease to experience plot and tour the mysterious underground world.
Salty for young and old
If you are afraid to play horror games, we have prepared some props that will not affect the game content but can give you courage. You can choose to take him with you so that you can play the game happily.
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## Dream Cycle
Highly recommended.
This is a really great game. I love how vertical the game is as well as how very broad each map feels.
Let me just give some tips instead of an in-depth review because I almost feel like me trying to describe this game might do it injustice.
1\. Music and ambient noise helps broaden the feel of each map. Birds, footsteps and instantly changing music help to give this game it's unique mood.
2\. Stealth is your friend. You CAN fight everything you see head-on, but why do that when you can avoid taking any damage or putting yourself at risk?
*– [Real player with 40.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972144438)*
Taking HP Lovecraft's Randolph Carter stories and adapting them is an inspired choice. For once it's not just another Cthulhu game and playing as Carter's great-grand-niece is a nice way to bring the Dreamlands into the present day. Voice acting and characterisation is great too. It's early access yes (v1.1.6 here) but it plays well and looks great.
The procedural generation is pretty robust and with each level taking between 10 and 30 minutes it's a game you can pick up and put down. There already seems to be a fair bit of story content too. The levels might get repetitive in its current form and first-person combat, at least the melee part, is a panicked button-mash at first but after a while you learn to slow down, dodge, kick and pick your attacks. As a 'tomb-raider/dishonoured rogue-lite' it's got the gameplay and by not picking the Cthulhu mythos as its main story it's finally a game with a good HPL story. And when the Dreamlands encompass everything from Leng and Kadath to Celephais, Dylath-Leen and Ulthar there are plenty of opportunities for extensive locations beyond the Enchanted Woods of the initial release. The residents of the Dreamlands already include gugs, ghouls and zoogs and the source material has clearly been taken to heart. I'm not sure I want to run into a night-gaunt any time soon.
*– [Real player with 29.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971084381)*
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## Glimmer in Mirror
#### Find the truth in the collapsed world
The girl awakens from a world of nothing, and in front of her eyes appears a giant mirror that towers above the clouds. She's drawn to the beautiful world reflected in the mirror and reaches out to it. Suddenly, the mirror shattered, and the beautiful world in the mirror falls apart in an instant. When she wakes up again, she is already in the collapsed mirror world, and the hidden truth behind this world will be gradually revealed in the her adventure.
#### Get immersed in the fascinating world
◆ Beautiful scene
· Tranquil natural forests, mysterious bell tower, historic ruins of the royal city… The wonderful scenes will bring unique immersive enjoyment.
· The beautiful soundtrack created by the Windbell_Project dedicated to bring a more immersive game experience.
◆ Gripping story
· Meet new friends with different personalities, and gradually enrich the inner world of the protagonist Shiro.
· Grow up with Shiro and make different choices about the future of the mirror world to reach different endings.
◆ Deep and fun combat system
· The classic metroidvania level designs, gather the glimmer to converge into a ranged attack to defeat your enemies.
· Acquire new skills along the journey, you can explore unknown maps and gradually find out the combat style that suits you.
· Collect different mirror spirit companions, each spirit has a unique ability, combine multiple mirror spirit to form a battle strategy unique to you.
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