Touhou Luna Nights

Touhou Luna Nights

You’re a knife throwing maid who can stop time and slow time and it’s awesome. Slowing time constantly and weaving through Patchouli’s almost unavoidable attack patterns just now was seriously some of the most fun I’ve had in a game since I was a kid. I haven’t even beaten it yet, but my feeling is this game is a solid 10/10. Boss fights are really quite fun. Marissa’s was great too. Regular enemies range from super easy to somewhat difficult and sometimes enemies or traps will be immune to time shenanigans. There are some neat time puzzles involving fluid dynamics too, but I think where the game really shines is the boss fights and the time mechanic. You can also heal a little bit by getting very close to enemies or their projectiles, so it encourages a high risk play style that feels great when you pull it off. The art style and music are good too. Great game.

Real player with 20.8 hrs in game


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A beautiful Metroidvania game. The music is incredible, the scenery is gorgeous, and the gameplay is fast paced. Even if you’re not a metroidvania fan, I feel that you could play this and enjoy it nevertheless.

Real player with 20.0 hrs in game

Touhou Luna Nights on Steam

东方鬼神玉 ~ I wanna be the Yin-Yang orb

东方鬼神玉 ~ I wanna be the Yin-Yang orb

Big event in Gensokyo! The coins in Hakurei Shrine is missing!

Although there weren’t many coins, if it was discovered by Reimu, it would be an epic disaster!

In order to stop all this, you need to control the Yin-yang orb of Reimu, head to the magic forest of night, go through the maze of barrage laid by the fairies, and recover the lost coins.

This is a well-designed barrage labyrinth game. You need to collect gold coins and turn on the machine while avoiding the barrage to pass the level.

Although it is a labyrinth, it is still dominated by gorgeous barrage of high difficulty and refuses complicated roads.

This game incorporates the setting of the unlimited challenge of the I wanna series. You will be teleported to the nearest archive point when hit by the barrage. And you can reborn for unlimited times.

If you like to challenge difficult and interesting barrage, don’t miss it!

Operation

Keyboard

WSAD or arrow keys to move

Hold SHIFT to switch to low-speed movement

Press Z or Enter to save near the save point

Press ESC to open menu

A total of 3 archives can be created, press DELETE to delete the archive

No mouse needed


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东方鬼神玉 ~ I wanna be the Yin-Yang orb on Steam

The Deepening: Eco-Offensive

The Deepening: Eco-Offensive

The Deepening: Eco-Offensive is a spin-off video-game series set in the “The Deepening” book universe and features the protagonist of the story, Kyle, in his adventures prior to the events in the Book.

With merely a few years left before The Deepening Campaign (a massive solar system taming event) kicks off, Kyle has taken up the mantel to help protect those leading the charge from ferocious beasts that threaten daily working life.

The Deepening is coming, do you have what it takes to ensure its survivability?

Presented in a casually-challenging, neo-minimalistic 8bit package, and strapped with a classic platformer control set – think Mario – you will surely experience some nostalgia-with-a-twist while running around this modernly-polished space adventure.

Travel between the worlds aboard Kyle’s ship by making use of “Rails,” enormous rings orbiting around various planets in our system used for immediate and direct work on and off planet.

Prep various planets in our very own Solar-System by defeating an array of alien beasties with an arsenal of Eco-offensive weapons, and convert them into useful Bio-Essence to help the Research and Development of sustainable atmospheres on the respective planets.

  • Admire a minimally retro inspired, but modernly polished art-style set in an 8-bit Space Opera Universe.

  • Hop between worlds, each with their own unique gravities withing classical platforming action.

  • Take on bounties against large, ferocious beasts, and collect Bio-essence from the lesser for a bonus.

  • Explore increasingly dark caves with beautiful 2D lighting to guide the way.

  • Upgrade a series of tools to help explore every inch of the worlds.

  • Discover secret collectables and upgrades on each of the levels.

  • Unleash Kyle’s true potential with his ultimate Hydro2 Armor.


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The Deepening: Eco-Offensive on Steam

Geo-Duck

Geo-Duck

Why in the world is Buddha Hitler

Real player with 3.6 hrs in game

Cool game

Real player with 1.6 hrs in game

Geo-Duck on Steam

Gensokyo Night Festival

Gensokyo Night Festival

Should you get Gensokyo Night Festival? Well if you are here, chances are you are either a Touhou or a Metroidvania fan, so it’s most likely yes. But why though?

The game is fast-paced, visually stunning, with complex mechanics to explore, and most importantly fun; however, it is currently very short as it is early access. As it stands, it has about 30-45 minutes of gameplay at the time of this review. Even so, expect two boss fights!

Touching on the mechanics, there are air and ground combos, ranged bullets, dodging, grazing, and a density/sparseness mechanic that affects them all. Density focuses on explosions, implosions, fast movement, and bit hits! Whereas, sparseness focuses on control, freezing, summoning, and area control. Both have their benefits, but I imagine density will be the speedrunner’s choice ‘cause you go dang fast! One concern I have at the time is the lack of incentive to engaged with regular mobs in combat, but that will likely change later on.

Real player with 15.1 hrs in game

Gensokyo Night Festival is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever seen, for real.

-Pixelart is just phenomenal and I’m in love with it

! my god that Marisa fight, beware epileptics, not kidding.

-Animation is really smooth that makes messing with Suikas powers twice the fun, with minor things (that I do apreciate) like rain droplets popping on impact or tiny windmills spinning when you run by them.

-Pretty backgounds/“rooms” along with some calming music.

-Somewhat difficult Boss fights

Real player with 5.6 hrs in game

Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam

Queen of Seas

Queen of Seas

I like this game. The pixelart and the premise of the game is well done. The story is neat in itself. The gameplay is simplistic but rewarding. You can feel your own evolution in this underwater adventure.

The controls are simple. Move left and right with arrows, Spacebar is to jump and down on the arrow key is a ducking motion. Avoid sharks that spawn from the right side of the screen and jellyfish that spawn underneath you. Move about 2000 clicks and find you a topless mermaid (Don’t even, low pixels and artstyle, nothing “graphic”). Give it a flower and farm coins for levels.

Real player with 6.3 hrs in game

A fun arcade platformer for a couple of hours in which we play as the son of a fisherman in order to get to the Queen of the Seas - Yemanjá.

We will begin to overcome obstacles immediately under water, in a diver’s suit. The path is always one (to the right) and the distance to the cherished goal is also (2000 meters). The meters are “counted” right on the screen, which is very convenient, you can always see how much remains to go. Only a few types of enemies will interfere with the journey: sharks and jellyfish.

Real player with 4.4 hrs in game

Queen of Seas on Steam

The Struggles Of Stefan

The Struggles Of Stefan

An adventure that takes persistence and passion from not just Stefan (the protagonist), but also the player. Brace yourself as you are guided by Stefan’s conscience to confront enemies, take countless leaps, and engage in progression of a storyline regarding the acceptance of oneself.

  • A 2.5-dimensional platformer with a plot of accepting life choices, and their potential ramifications.

  • Acquire particular items to accomplish each level quicker & easier.

  • Basic controller mechanics.

  • Multiple chapters consisting of numerous themes.

The Struggles Of Stefan on Steam

YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin

YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin

With its beautiful aesthetics, fluid controls, fun designs, and amazing movement, YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin has become my favourite platformer. The learning curve starts gently and introduces its mechanics well, but make no mistake, the end game offers enough challenge to give a real sense of accomplishment for beating it. The challenges ramp up, but never feel tedious or arbitrarily difficult like “gotchas.” I do strongly recommend against starting your first run on Expert, because it scales up the damage, and it will cause many many enemies to 1-shot you.

Real player with 192.9 hrs in game

Warning: Do not attempt Expert mode until you finished Adventure mode first, do not underestimate it even if you think you are good at games.

This game is great in almost every regard but it’s problems only become really apparent in Expert mode.

I will explain where the difficulty comes from and what kind of game this is:

If you are in Expert mode keep in mind this, almost anything will kill you in one hit and send you back way back, if you lose all of your lives you will get send back to the beginning of the level and healing items will become irrelevant, Levels are pretty long so it will require you to play perfectly but for that you will have to know how the levels look like first, so there will be a lot of trial and error.

Real player with 27.4 hrs in game

YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin on Steam