Adventure Time: Finn and Jake’s Epic Quest
What time is it? It’s review time. I’ll get right down to it: this game sucks. At first you think it’s going to be fun playing an exploration game in the vein of Adventure Time, but it’s anything but fun. The “look for stuff and backtrack” design of gameplay is just tiresome by the 2nd world map, and by the 3rd, you just want it to be over and done with. The first Toe Jam & Earl game for the Sega Genesis had a similar feel and look, but was loads more fun.
Not very challenging since you can easily avoid most enemies. Also disappointing that you can only level up to level 15, and as a result, you don’t feel very powerful when defeating enemies.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
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This is a long review so if you just want a brief summary of why I recommend this game skip to Results and read from there.
NGD Studios does a great job bringing Adventure Time to the video game world with this epic hack ‘n slash adventure. Adventure Time: Finn and Jake’s Epic Quest is a fantastic game that mixes the great elements from RPGs with the awesome level schemes of ToeJam & Earl.
Story:
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake’s Epic Quest takes you out of the Land of Ooo and throws you into a new world that splits Ooo into floating islands. You play as Finn and Jake as they find themselves in a video game, which they use to explain all the weird elements. BMO has gone missing and it’s up to you to bring him back, but where is he? As you progress through the game you receive clues that help you find your lost comrade. In order to solve the mystery you must find artifacts scattered throughout the worlds, and eventually you will find the key.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Tank Universal 2
Excellent, engaging game with a truly disappointing ending. I thought maybe it was still in early access? But it’s supposedly finished. There is no boss fight. You meet the boss, then…no fight. A cutscene with a deus ex machina where the boss, the big bad who was built up as unstoppable over the course of two games, is defeated instantly and effortlessly with no action from the player.
This also makes the blue army’s capture of the Revelation pointless, as it’s never used. It disintegrates on the way to the final level. That is awful story telling. It would’ve been narratively correct to have a boss fight, where you and your blue allies fight to a point of stalemate and seem like you’re going to lose, before the Revelation comes to your aid in your darkest hour, delivering the finishing blow.
– Real player with 99.0 hrs in game
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When i came across Tank universal 1 when i was only 12 years old or so back when it was a demo on Wild Tanget. my young mind was blown away as to how cool the game was, i never got to finish it back when i was little as i said it was a demo game. and since i had always had trouble convincing my parents about what games i wanted and the fact that they cost money always made them stingy at droping a few bucks for them.
Now i am in my young adult hood in my early 20’s and now that i have a little more financial freedom i bought both this game and its predicessor, and my eyes once again teamed with excitment when i saw these same old games i never got to finish on steam. and after buying both and finishing both i can summerize why i recommend this game.
– Real player with 67.8 hrs in game
Kine
I really liked Kine. It’s a fun puzzle game about moving one or more of three musical instrument characters around what looks like a simple block oriented course. Each puzzle only takes a few moves but it’s not as simple as it sounds because it involves rotating the character and extending their ‘limbs’ to help movement. Movement from one position to another is very slick and its just as easy to revert a move so the game encourages a try and see if it works approach. The music is fun and there is a story which ties it all together.
– Real player with 35.4 hrs in game
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Quality puzzle game in terms of production value
The most impressive thing for me about this game is the visuals. The comic book art-style is lovely. The music stands out, too, which isn’t surprising in a game where you play as anthropomorphic musical instruments aspiring to be musicians. I did find it a bit too lively and upbeat at times, though, which can be a bit distracting when you’re doing puzzles that require patience and focus to solve, but this is pretty much a nitpick, easily remedied by turning the volume down a bit. On top of that, this is a relatively narrative-driven puzzle game, where the story is told via dialogue by the characters in the form of speech bubbles. There are three characters altogether, and they each have their own personalities! There’s no voice acting in the game, but that is probably too much to expect from an indie puzzle game where a lot of effort has already been put into the visuals and music.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Lawnmower Game: Next Generation
I’ve been playing the game for about 4 hours a week and I’m glad that I bought it and, in general, found out about it. I love to mow the grass, so most of my games are all about them. For a gardener, like a person who loves order, it became a choice for me to buy this game. And so the developers did their best and made a quality game. Very well developed cars and body parts of the cabin, etc., good pine graphics, not bad dynamics and many different additions
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
If you dreamed of working as a lawn mower in your life, but circumstances do not allow you, or you do not have a private home, then you can buy this game and mow the lawn for hours, because no one restricts you (well, except for your mother: 3)! The game looks not very attractive in terms of graphics, but I can assure you that the picture does not reflect the whole essence of the game. After starting the game, you can easily mow the lawn for a couple of hours.
The gameplay of this game is simple: you play as a man of about 30 years old, who rides around on a lawn mower and mows the grass. For each mowed area, you get points that can be spent on new lawn mowers (there are 4 of them in the game, including the initial one). The world in the game is not big, not small. The environment in the game does not shine with variety, but it is also enough for a comfortable game.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Epic Skater 2
Great Game.
– Real player with 148.9 hrs in game
Last review was of the early access version. Only right to do the full version of the game. This game is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2D basically. And by basically, I mean WTF I played this 5 hours straight a day?? The game is great, every problem/ bug thrown at the devs they fixed at a resonable timeframe. Achievements are good to go after, and 100 of them. Devs listen on their discord. For an eternity of re-playability, get yourself a THPS/ THPS2 soundtrack playlist and go on a mix of nostalgia and new age gaming wave to really put yourself in a fucking early 2000’s gaming nuthouse.
– Real player with 104.4 hrs in game
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Summary: Anodyne 2: Return to Dust has a great plot, solid 2D & 3D gameplay, magical atmosphere & fantastic environments that will keep you gripped from start to finish. One of the best games ever made. 10/10
A full detailed video can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgS3lkvHiw
Plot:
The plot to Anodyne 2 is fantastic. It is extremely well-paced and very well written, with twists and turns throughout that make you question what is right and what is wrong, all the while keeping you gripped from start to finish.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
After finishing the game and collecting all the achievements, I can say that this was well worth my time and money. However, I will say that this may not be for everyone. I will include more in depth information about the game below as well as a tldr afterwards. I will try to avoid spoiler information as best as I can unless it is needed for an example.
Story
Anodyne 2’s tells its story in an interesting way. The basic plot is explained to you fairly clearly, but it takes listening to NPC dialogue and some item descriptions in order to get a better understanding of all the facets of the story and world. The game also makes use of abstract concepts and wording in order to create a surreal world with strange and interesting characters. I won’t go into too much detail here because a good portion of this will be spoilers. But before I go into spoilers, I want to note that it did feel like I was blazing through the story, and some events felt like they happened sooner than they should have. You can take this as the game only staying for as long as it needs to, but I felt like there could have been more story beats without becoming like filler. There was also one part of the story that felt like filler, but I’ll get into that in the spoiler section. I want to stress however that I still really enjoyed the story and characters.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
ILL Space
ILL Space is a survival space station sim with elements of tower defense!
Construct your rigs with loads of different modules and grow them into fully-fledged autonomous mining colonies. Mine asteroids, manage colonists and crew and defend against the ever increasing cosmic threat!
Creativity is key, or enemies will soon overwhelm you. Will you spread your resources to create a fleet of smaller rigs with designated roles, or will you construct a bulky and slow station with some serious firepower - the choice is yours!
Take on various missions in the sector for the highest bidder and eventually create your own mining empire! You will haul cargo, conduct research for new modules and tools, scan asteroids, build stations and extract resources from harsh environments all the while defending from ancient alien force.
MINE asteroids for resources and position your rigs optimally for the highest yield.
DEFEND your assets at all costs.
BUILD your stations with loads of different modules.
PILOT and maneuver your rigs for tactical advantage.
Outer Wilds
This is my favourite game now. It’s difficult to describe to people because it really is the less you know about it the better, but I’ll give it a go while staying spoiler free:
The absolutely gorgeous soundtrack is so immersive, from the moment I heard the menu music I was immediately in love. It’s so versatile and yet consistent in theme and quality throughout, I listen to the soundtrack outside of the game. The puzzles manage to balance the line perfectly between being difficult enough to stump you for a while but also having a simple straightforward solution that you can find hints for readily if you just explore enough. The moment of breakthrough each time you figure out something significant is also incredibly satisfying. Having watched a few other people play this game, I can say that everyone’s play through is completely unique because everyone will try different potential solutions and discover things in different orders. The story is really beautifully told and combined with the soundtrack really hits hard emotionally, the most I’ve ever felt from any game.
– Real player with 57.9 hrs in game
Even though it’s been several several months since I’ve beat it. This game’s soundtrack still gives me chills. Opening the game’s page to write this review still had me reliving the emotions I had throughout the journey months after my initial playthrough. I recently played it again to give its expansion a shot, which is also awesome and I am pleasantly surprised to say that it also lives up to the vanilla game.
I’ve played a lot of games, but this is one of the only ones that I’d consider a masterpiece. It mixes music, story, characters, time-looping, and mechanics in a way that is both engaging and so very endearing.
– Real player with 35.7 hrs in game