ExSpire
ExSpire is a bullet hell dungeon crawler where time is a currency. Explore what makes you tick, manage your seconds, and climb The Spire to undercover its secrets. Create an adventurer, roll your stats, and fight your way up by surviving the tests and challenges trapped within levels of this dangerous tower.
The Spire: A fresh and new experience every time. Explore vast dungeons full of challenging encounters, dilemmas, and situations designed to pressure you to use your time efficiently. Every level is procedurally generated and designed to gradually increase in difficulty and react depending on how much time you spend. Despite the rewards that await, every adventurer inevitably falls to The Spire. Will you be able to climb to the top?
Time As A Currency: Everything from the items you buy, people you meet, the doors you open, and even the time you use deciding just how to spend your time, all bring you closer to your doom. Killing the enemies that inhabit The Spire will surrender their seconds to you, allowing you to continue your climb. As hard as you might try, eventually the timer will hit zero, how long can you survive?
Bosses, Enemies, Items, Encounters: Choosing what you do with your time is just as important as how much you spend. Throughout The Spire, you’ll encounter challenging enemies, interesting items, and moral encounters, all of which will tax your precious seconds. Only those who choose well and quickly can survive, and eventually challenge the bosses inhabiting The Spire.
Beautiful, driving, originally produced OST: The entire soundtrack is produced by talented EDM producers in Seattle. Listen to powerful electronic music to accompany you on your climb of The Spire.
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Red Sector
Fun arcade style game that gives you that, “I want to complete the next level” feeling. Still early doors but I feel sure the road-map of improvements will be coming soon.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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There are a bunch of things I like about this game. Start with the creative “sector” element of an arcade shooter. Moving to different sectors to clear out before giving the player the decision as to where they want to go next makes it a bit more controllable while breaking up the action in parts.
I also like the visuals. Simple but appealing too.
Really nice product!
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Breach Wanderers
Breach Wanderers does an excellent job of putting a fresh spin on the Roguelike Deckbuilding genre without needing to completely re-invent the wheel.
There are two main changes that make the game work:
First, unlike in other games you have control over both your starting deck and your card pool. Your starting deck will be 12 total cards and you can include up to two copies of any common rarity card you have unlocked. This means you always have a functional deck from the start of the run and can immediately focus on a specific strategy.
– Real player with 492.7 hrs in game
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This is a very promising game, but at the moment it’s a bit lacking with the content. I recommend if you just like these type of games and looking for something new to play. Not enough card selection and too many cards are kind of useless. It feels like I’m mostly using the same small amount of cards and playing a couple of very specific ways. I’m not that wild about how you pick the cards that you might get as rewards. You basically pick the pool of cards your rewards will come from and when you beat an enemy you get to pick from a couple of them.
– Real player with 90.4 hrs in game
ETERNAL BLOOD
This game is amazing. I love that it is an real time aim trainer and movement simulator. This has helped my movement and aim in so many FPS games. I have nothing negative to say about it.
The ONLY thing I would like to see is maybe, Ice and Electric abilities, and maybe 3 skills trees. one for each type of ability, other than that. Phenomenal :)
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Eternal Blood is intense fast-paced shooter, wich reminds me heavily of Serious Sam.
The further you progress, the harder it gets to survive because of enormous amounts of enemies on the screen.
To survive the horde, you should collect souls that drop from dead enemies and “towers” that spawn them.
(this is your only one reliable way of healing)
At a time of writing this there is only 3 ways of attack:
Fireball at M1
Charged Fireball with splash damage at M2
And to prevent you from overwhelming ammounts of enemies there is magic splash around your character on middle mouse button
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
The Chaser’s Voyage
You have only one hundred days. One hundred days to pay off your debt to a dreaded pirate lord. Luckily, you have friends, and one of those friends has a spaceship… and an idea: transport people from planet to planet! Seems simple, but this part of the galaxy is riddled with endless dangers. Paying back your debt will be one thing, surviving this voyage will be another.
You are the Captain:
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Take-off on your rogue-like adventure with a fully-voice acted crew of eccentric and diverse characters.
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Take command of the Chaser and pilot it through treacherous terrain, while escaping from deadly space pirates and relentless bounty hunters!
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Manage power between the Chaser’s weapons, shields, engines, and auxiliary systems.
Pay Back Your Debt:
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Earn money by transporting clients across the sector.
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Survive multiple encounters as you travel to your client’s destination.
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Each encounter is randomly generated based on how many days you’ve survived, who your client is, and which territory you’re in.
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Make enough money in 100 days to avoid the wrath of a notorious pirate lord!
Fly Through a Small Part of a Larger Galaxy:
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Uncover tons of lore by unlocking entries in your crew journal. (Release TBD)
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Explore your crew’s backstory and learn about the galaxy through their eyes.(Release TBD)
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Learn about over 250 planets, along with the species that inhabit them, such as the Pajus, the Ka’koi, the Feaians, and more! (Release TBD)
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Witness an escalating galactic war, as two major powers fight for control of the sector.
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Use this knowledge to plan out your trips to ensure successful missions.
Additional Features:
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Enjoy the game in three modes that shape your experience.
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Fly casual in Voyager Mode. In this mode, you have unlimited respawns and plenty of options to control the game’s difficulty.
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Survive in Captain Mode. As time goes on, your adventure gets more and more challenging. You only have one life, so make it count.
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Prove you’re the best in Ace Mode. Encounter any of the hardest challenges in the game, right from the beginning, while also taking increased damage.
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Enjoy an epic soundtrack.
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Customize the ship’s colors and the metal UI color.
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Practice your skills by recreating any scenario in the Flight Simulator. (Release TBD)
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Equip over 20 insignias that change the way you experience the game. Fly as a member of a variety of different factions, take on new challenges, or even change the Chaser’s capabilities!
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Keep track of your records for each insignia across each mode.
Directive Nine
Very good for what it is, lacking in some areas, but that can easily be fixed with new content in future updates. A very solid base and easily worth the $10 in it’s current state, can’t wait to see what the future holds for this title!
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Warning: Somehow the game is not being developed anymore and the Developer appears to not give any kind of message since April.
The game was great and it was evolving with features !
But somehow on the last update is unplayable now for me, because you have no pointer to even select to start the game.
I managed to start it anyway by luck and reached a level where an invisible wall blocks me and the enemies on the other side so basically there is not even a game to play.
So I do not like to post a bad review because the game was really fun when it worked, but right now this is an alert to avoid doing discovering this dissapointment and refund.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Draft of Darkness
a fantastic blend of card based rogue-like with survival horror elements and atmosphere.
there’s a good amount of content here for the asking price (around 15 hrs+), giving you a great introduction into what this game has to offer, after playing through everything there is currently available I thoroughly enjoyed my experience from beginning to end, any issues/bugs I experienced where minor(and also easily report-able within the game).
these where only things I could find fault with,
the gear can be a bit cumbersome to keep up with(it would be nice if it was a bit more visible what gear was higher level/higher rarity, I understand there is a sort tool but I wish this could be a saved setting instead of resetting each run), the UI is however very good at providing detailed comparisons between what your looking at and what your wearing.
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Very fun and genuinely unique as far as this roguelite deckbuilder genre goes. The atmosphere often reminds me of STALKER in terms its lore and world being enigmatic. If you enjoy digging around for lore and what the hell is going on (at this point with 10 hours in I still can’t confidently claim to know myself what is up.) then you will deeply enjoy this game. It may be early access but has enough content to chew to justify picking it up just to toy around with. The combat is very odd when it comes to timings but you’ll get use to it. My favorite part of this game is the flowchart. While i’m not 100% sure what all it encompasses it basically is just helps paint a better picture of what events lead into what.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
fullybroKEN - A Unique Mix of 4X / Post-Apocalypse / RPG / Roguelike
Overall I think the game has tons of potential, but I think that it still needs some time to iron out some of the flaws it currently has.But as it is early access I am hopeful the flaws will be fixed.
Overall
+interesting challenging gameplay
+roguelike elements that improve the game general post-apocalyptic/survival feel
+replayable
+interesting use of match-3 mechanics
+potential to be a great game
+innovative gameplay
-not quite there
-emergent narrative is still lacking(but as I understood the developer is working on it)
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Fast paced and fun, a bit too challenging sometimes(maybe the dev can balance it better?). I didn’t had much chance to play and the game is in need of some bug fixes polish and as I understood content additions, but I do hope that during the early access the game will become only better.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Mage Mountain
A little unbalanced, but it’s early access and fun to play. And it’s got STATS
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
We all know that synergy is the best and most satisfying part of any deckbuilder. Well, this game is ALL SYNERGY!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
The Blood Games
100 players awake in a room alongside a prize of $1 Billion. Your goal, pass 7 deadly challenges and be the last one standing.
Each player death will add an extra $10 million to the jackpot.
Make friends or enemies, attempt to team up and split the prize or go alone and fight to claim it all. One question remains, who can you trust?