Kingdom: New Lands
An otherwise simple and fun little survival game ruined by frustrating mechanics.
Kingdom: New Lands is a simple survival sort of game. From what the tutorial, in the form of the previous ghostly monarch, tells you in small words, you have to “Build, Expand, Defend” It’s fun at first, you have a couple citizens, you buy tools to make them builders or hunters, and you build, expand, and defend, and than you might just have doomed yourself already.
First off, everything in this game is done by the power of money, you use coin to do everything, and anything. If you don’t have any coin, you can’t do a single thing but wait. Through the final words, build, expand, and defend, your first run may have you do just that, build your walls, expand them, than defend at night. First wave comes, it’s easy and you survive. All seems well unless you’ve fallen into a major mechanic the game hasen’t told you. You realize your hunters arn’t making any coin, which is because you may of over-expanded and now those little rabbit spawn points are behind your walls, which makes them despawn, therefor killing your economy. Thankfully there’s some treasure chest around the map to give you more coin to do things, so if you thought to explore and find them, you can play a little longer.
– Real player with 68.5 hrs in game
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Summary: Even more waiting and more RNG
Multiplayer: No
Completion: 19 hrs (previous experience)
Cards: Yes
Cloud:Yes
Kingdom: New Lands is the sequel to Kingdom: Classic and is bigger in scope in every way. Much of what I said for Kingdom: Classic holds true for Kingdom: New Lands as well, but there are quite a few changes that need to be addressed.
First of all there’s multiple stages this time around. The victory condition in this game typically involves rebuilding the ship (around 50-120 gold) to sail to the next island (up until Skull Island). You may ferry over a handful of troops and builders to the next island, so carry what you can, because you’ll need it.
– Real player with 54.5 hrs in game
12 locks and keys
If you’re looking for something without any logic, go ahead, this game is perfect for you.
(By the way, I forgot to stop the game, you can finish it in around 10 minutes).
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
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Lucky me has the dubious honour of writing the first review of “12 locks and keys”.
“12 locks and keys” is a 2D mobile app tier puzzle game slapped together with the godawful GameMaker Studio video game construction kit, by copy + paste merchants, wow wow Games. All these guys do is take construction kit garbage and asset flips and try scam people into paying them for someone else’s work.
In this case it does look like a little work went into filling out the Yoyogames/GameMaker Studio template for a 2D puzzle game… but not much. The game doesn’t even work because it doesn’t properly register mouseclicks. I guess since wow wow Games don’t do any game development and just copy/fill out game templates made by others, it should be no surprise they don’t do any software testing either.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Biolab Wars
Uma boa surpresa, confesso que minhas expectativas eram baixas. Um jogo simples mas bem feito com boas músicas estilo NES (principalmente da fase veicular). Se o jogo tivesse uma apresentação com desenhos um pouco melhores vendeira muito mais.
Na próxima sale eu compro o outro jogo do estúdio.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
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I usually pay up to $10 for similar retro games so getting a decent one for $1 feels pretty good. It’s clearly meant to resemble Contra , although you can’t shoot at an angle which limits your approach to fighting. You can pick one of three characters, but as far as I can tell they are mostly cosmetic. Each character also gets a unique ride during the driving stage - I like that kind of attention to detail, even though it doesn’t do anything. There are 7 stages that last about 10-15 minutes, you can complete the whole thing under 2 hours. The difficulty is pretty fair, once you complete any level you can start from that point, but you will loose your current high score. Unfortunately, there is a way to farm points to infinity with extra lives, I hope the developer will fix that. Aside from that, I was surprised that you can remap a controller (used F310), and it has a decent soundtrack to go along with nostalgic gameplay.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Chicken Utopia
This is the best game i’ve ever seen in my life!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Don’t Disturb
I bought this game after seeing it advertised on FB mobile, I instantly fell in love with the art style and soundtrack. It’s a lovely little game with a unique narrative about asian views of the afterlife, using text bubbles and atmosphere to tell the story. The music is a mix of modern and traditional sounding instruments, such as a piano with hints of a shamisen(?) playing in the background, and the composition adds to the atmosphere. The art style is absolutely gorgous, in the style of traditional asain watercolour, and if you look closely there’s a slight paper - like texture to the game, which I believe is a stroke of artistic genious.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Sorry. I cannot recommend this game at all, at any price, if you do not speak and read Chinese, and are not aware of, and accustomed to Chinese culture. Yes, there is the option to have the game text in English, but the translations are poor, and the Chinese characters in the background art (signs and such) do not translate, and will have no meaning for English-only players, while they may convey some lore or story importance to those who speak and read Chinese. No way for me to know, I do not speak or read Chinese.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
HABITAT: Race To Mars
I was looking for a survival game and was very impressed with this one! Lots of stuff to do/puzzles/ect, the characters had me laughin, fire soundtrack, and the sky is nice and trippy lol Very chill lil game. Doge to the moon!!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Illusoria
A combination of crappy controls and one hit = you are dead make the game a bad buy whatever price it is on it.
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Every time you pressed the run button, the character ends it with doing a deacceleration animation that blows a bit of dust at his feet, it takes more then a second to watch. During this time you cannot do anything and it’s the main reason you die in this game, since you need to run all the time.
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If you want to sit down to make an attack you can do while sitting, the character very ofter roll into an enemy and die instead. Why? I don’t know.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
Dark story dispite the perfect world it sets up. I like it!
Clunky but challanging gameplay
Just needs to open itself at the user perfered settings
This game needs optimization, the lag is atrosious for a sprite based game.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Lost Twins 2
Lost Twins 2 is an incredibly cute puzzle adventure that will challenge, entertain and maybe even inspire you. Guide Abi and Ben on their journey to find a way back home across a whimsical polygonal playground crafted with an enormous amount of care. Is the mystical Fenghuang leading them home or steering them down a rabbit hole?
Inspired by Miyazaki, the art style merges soft, painterly backgrounds with simplified, memorable characters and fluid animations. Each frame is crafted meticulously with pride - specific lighting techniques, thoughtful composition, and immense attention to detail mean that every single moment you’ll spend playing Lost Twins 2 will be a feast for the eyes. The original musical score is atmospheric, soothing, and thematic to complement the art style.
The puzzles in Lost Twins 2 are painstakingly designed, with elegant solutions that make you feel, momentarily, like a genius. They are hard enough to present a challenge but logical enough that you’ll be able to solve them within a few attempts. There is a joy to be discovered in every level in Lost Twins 2.
A signature sliding puzzle mechanic forms the core complemented by mechanics such as pressure switches, water gates, breakable domes, lifts, elevators, and more to ensure that the pace of the game never falters. There’s no repetition in the puzzles, each new puzzle will feel interesting and unique.
The goal is to delight both children and adults with a gameplay experience that is based on discovery, tinkering, and exploration–not on conflict and threat. There are no timers, no enemies, no deaths, not even any dialogues to read - just a poetic, visually breathtaking world full of puzzles challenging your wits. A cerebral and pleasant experience for everyone, never frustrating without proper reward, never dull or monotonous.
Ostrova Koshki
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1205680
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SOMETHING ABOUT IT
Imagine a small snowy island surrounded by an endless ocean from whose waters giant birches grow. There is nothing more in the whole world. The only people are a small tribe.
According to tradition, each child must go through a complex ritual to get rid of the evil spirit that lives in everyone from birth. This is the only way to get a name and become an adult.
The Boy has one last attempt to go through the ritual, and he goes on a journey for Magic Water that can make any person strong. But this potion is protected by a Grim Creature that lives in a Dark Cave.
Will the Boy be able to resist the danger, overcome all the difficulties, fight the Beast, become strong, return to the surface in time and undergo the rite to become part of his tribe?
Well, of course he will.
SOMETHING ABOUT YOU
The Boy is not a typical platformer hero: he is sensitive and fragile.
Will you listen to the Boy’s worries, choosing a safer path, or will you risk not caring about the child’s feelings, just to get through the game as quickly as possible?
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Control your mental state and stamina level.
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Try to avoid cold water.
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Look for shelter so as not to freeze.
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Go to bed to restore your strength and save game progress.
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Learn how to overcome various types of enemies, traps, and mechanisms.
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Get to know new proverbs and sayings to better understand the nature of this world.
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Pay attention to the details to discover a new depth of this story.
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Eat well and rest well.
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Get back to the village in time.
You only have one chance to go through the rite. When you fall, the game is over. There are no continues, my friend.
SOMETHING ABOUT US
We are a team of two novice developers from Irkutsk, Russia. This is our first experience of game development, and we have many interesting ideas that we want to implement.
Ostrova Koshki is a very personal game. I think it’s easy to guess that I often imagine I’m the Boy, and the Cave is a video game development. The release of the game is a ritual, the culmination of many years of work, where I have only one attempt to prove myself.
If you find our game at least a little cute, add it to your wishlist and come see my growing-up ritual when the game is finished.
SOMETHING ABOUT A CATHOOD PARTY COMEBACK COLLECTION
Cathood Party: Comeback Collection is a game series consisting of four games:
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Game of the year, a rhythm arcade about the importance of simple moments when you can just fool around with your friends and forget about all your worries.
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Shaman You, a casual novel about mental and physical health on days when life turns upside down.
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Cathood Party, a JRPG in which you play the role of the party leader and your strongest weapons are ethics and empathy.
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Ostrova Koshki, an action platformer about teenage issues in primitive world.
These games are autonomous, but all together they are telling an entirely new story. You will find out about it soon enough.
Thank you for your attention.
See you
Someday, somewhere
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
