Bludgeon
Bludgeon is a death match between bird-riding warriors wielding flails. Evade the spikes and your enemies' weapons in your feeble attempt to survive and become victorious. Grab some controllers and some friends, and prepare to be bludgeoned!
Inspired by games like Joust, Towerfall, Super Smash Brothers, and Bomberman, Bludgeon is being built with love, knowing there are few things more fun and worthwhile than a room full of friends enjoying a good video game together.
Features:
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Simple but polished gameplay, centered around use of the flail – swing it, block with it, and throw it!
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A unique, sensible control scheme.
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Risk/reward based gameplay:
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If you have your weapon out, you can attack, but it hinders your movement.
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You can throw your weapon, but that leaves you temporarily defenseless.
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Keep your weapon out longer for a super-powerful charged attack!
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Up to four players at once.
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Several characters and stages to choose from.
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Pain and death at the hands of your enemies – or, if you’re fortunate, sorrow and guilt as an undeserving survivor in an uncaring world.
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Boreal Blade
easily the best melee “fighting”/slasher style pvp game in the vein of jedi knight 2/JA (inc. with mods like MB and OJP/JKE), in my opinion, of all time. whatever genre you want to call it, it’s a coming together of classics like the Jedi Knight series, Die By The Sword, Chivary, Mordhau and to games like Absolver as well to a degree.
To me this game is a beautiful marriage of the elements that made me love “melee slashers” and it’s plagued by none of the issues of other titles.The movement, animation, attacks, attack feedback, abilities and customization are all done beautifully and you can tell what’s going on regardless of how new you are to the game. The controls take a short amount of getting used to, after that it’s incredibly intuitive. It’s an incredible amount of fun to play, shockingly easy to learn and just the right level of hard to master. I haven’t enjoyed being owned by far better opponents or enjoyed owning less skilled players this much possibly ever. It all comes down to the aesthetic, combat feedback and combat design that is IMHO unparalleled by any other game on the market. Name a game with combat that’s more intense, well-thought out and encourages the least anger towards the game than this. You can’t. These developers deserve all the support anyone can give.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
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Edit: I wrote that because I kept trying to post my review, but I thought maybe it was too long or something so if I would just type something short it would post then I could edit it later, but then it didn’t work, but I guess it did.
Oh my oh my oh my. The beta was already super promising. Sure I didn’t get to play much in the beta since they weren’t many games running, but it was a blast. And I was expecting to pay $20, and then it’s $4, but then on sale for 10% because why not, and, and less than one 5th of the price, and, and… Oh yeah I have to talk about the game.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
Full review (including score): https://youtu.be/YI-pcCdmMU8
Written review below!
These two may not be full-on remasters, but an enhanced port available on modern platforms is more than we have already.
Note: Trimmed review to fit character limit, check video for full version!
Gameplay
While I may have been familiar with this series, this would be my first crack at it. And I gotta say, I went in expecting something like Digimon or Pokémon (two games this franchise gets compared to A LOT), but got something completely different. It’s much less a full-on adventure RPG and more so a life simulator RPG.
– Real player with 30.1 hrs in game
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One of the best PS1 games is back after many years.
Monster Rancher is a great series and the 2nd game is probably its most solid entry. Released originally in 1999, the game stands strong and provides a good monster rising experience that was surprising for the time and one that you still don’t see this well executed nowdays. It has a lot of depth that, hopefully, may meet its full potential with the online features that have been introduced.
This port needs some work, but in no way it gets in the way to enjoy those two games. Also, Monster Rancher 2 has an added “fast-forward” option that really saves up a lot of time and allow you to rise quickly your monsters. The introduction of the “database search” is also a nice way to make the disc stone concept work today and allows everyone to get all the monsters that we couldn’t back in the PS1 era.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Wands
I genuinely love this game. Wands has a totally unique style of gameplay that strongly emphasises strategy. It’s PvP wizard dueling!
Some important points:
There is no free movement here; instead, you teleport to a fixed set of “tiles” in each of the six arenas. This has two implications for your experience: 1) it’s super comfortable; the only motion you experience is what you physically do in your space and 2) the gameplay comes down to your ability to control your opponents' access to these tiles. Sure, it’s limiting. You don’t get to whiz around in VR using the latest creative control scheme. However, gameplay-wise, this is probably Wands' greatest strength; the limitation of movement makes this essentially a full-information game. There are very few cutsie tricks that you discover from the arenas by way of experience (though there are a handful) as you would find in other PvP games. Most importantly, your opponent can’t hide. If you understand each arena and each spell, you are perfectly capable of formulating a unique strategy that will surprise even the most experienced opponent.
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
This game is brilliant. I had it on Viveport subscription for a month and consequently decided to buy it on Steam.
It’s a PvP game where you battle it out with wands. Quite a strategic game and highly addictive. Especially when you really, really want to beat that one person who keeps killing you.
If you don’t like PvP it’s not for you, as there’s no real single-player mode. But if you want a PvP VR game and you’ve always fancied yourself as a wizard or mage, then frankly you need this game in your VR library! Plus it’s actually offered at a reasonable price.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Don’t Fall
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Dont Fall is a game i would HIGHLY recommend for people who stream or you just have a group of friends you want to have some fun with! When i played with my friend Neenjeba and Vampy1001 on stream this game made me laugh so much i had a ton of fun in stream with this treasure. All the weapons have their own unique qualities it needs a little fine tuning but all in all its a great little game if you just want to relax and have fun! I will be playing this again with friends and yes at first glace this doesn’t look like much of a game but this is so fun! Dev’s did an amazing job on this one well done!!
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Where do I start? I got this game for free to stream it as I was sponsored to do so. I was excited about the sponsorship and the game actually looked like fun. THAT is where the excitement ended. It was painfully hard to keep playing for the minimum required 2 hrs. Now I WILL say,the game does have a lot of promise. But that is all I can say positive about it. Unless you have people already lined up to play with you,you will be waiting forever for anyone to queue in to play with you. The instructions/tutorial is VERY bare bones. The keyboard mouse configuration sucks and is awkward to use. The option to use a controller would be MUCH appreciated. BEWARE! If you are using a headset and turn the game on for the 1st time,the main screen music will blast your eardrums until you manually turn it down. The colors are dull and could use some brightening up. Choosing items in the game is awkward,which AGAIN could be easily remedied by having controller support. Also the sound effects are minimal and the game play could use some ambient music in the background. I am NOT giving up on this indie game,but neither am I very optimistic. 2.5 out of 5 stars.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
This game has most of what you’d ever expect out of a Tower Defense and more.
- There is a campaign that as of writing this contains two chapters(more coming) with plenty of achievements tied to it that you can go for if you want a bigger challenge, it will most likely take some figuring out either way, especially if you want to clear it on Very Hard. You get points for clearing missions and use those points to customize your loadout for each mission. I enjoyed this part of the game more than I expected seeing as I’m not much of a “campaign guy”, but there it is, the developers did a great job on it.
– Real player with 1609.5 hrs in game
If you have ever liked tower defense games this is for you. It has everything; challenging campaign with achievements, hints if you work for a living and can’t devote endless hours to devise the best strategy, hints that you can also turn off if you like the hard path. You can change the modes from easy to insane, multiplayer with leader boards, a variety of maps, and they are changeable to your style and preference of play. I normally play everything from WOW, Diablo and Starcraft to Steam games like Blackthorne Arena and Ultimate General to Civ6 in a given week, but that has stopped since I found this. I was consumed with beating everything through Chapter 3 and getting 4 stars on each part of the Chapters and all of the achievements. Absolutely the best game for this price on Steam today. I want to do Chapter 4 now but since the patch I am even more interested in replaying all of the first 3 chapters again. That says it all right there. This game is just fun and I haven’t even tried the multiplayer yet because I didn’t think I was good enough until I mastered the chapters in the campaign first. Oh and it can be paused while online so you don’t have to worry about spending 45 minutes into a survival game and right when the ronalds hit real life interferes and you either have to pause the game or lose everything. The creators thought of everything in this game. My highest recommendation for anyone that likes this genre.
– Real player with 637.2 hrs in game
SpellPunk VR
I am not into writing reviews but I think that SpellPunk is underestimated, that is why I decided to say something about it. I truly enjoy this game. It is hard to find a good spellcasting vr game with beautiful graphics, working controls and entertaining gameplay. SpellPunk has all of these. The game is super immersive. I truly admire that its developers have gone the extra mile giving us the possibility to play with a full-body avatar instead of the usual flying hands. This feature makes me feel like I am a pure-blood magician. I can’t find the words to explain the feeling of winning a magical duel after successfully casting your spells. I feel even more powerful than a Harry Potter wizard, because I don’t even need a wand. How amazing is this?
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
TLDR; Worth supporting, but a long way to go.
This game is a work in progress, there are definitely some wrinkles that need to be ironed out. Having said that, there is a lot of charm to the concept of core gameplay. I feel like there’s a lot of potential and while you may not love the game now, it could grow into something special with support. There are a lot of problems that I will lay out so while I am giving it my recommendation, it’s current state may not satisfy you. Here we go.
WHAT I LIKE:
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Circle Empires Rivals
Circle Empires: Rivals is the multiplayer successor to Circle Empires. At its core, Circle Empires Rivals is a 10-25 minute long real time strategy game. Despite the short game length, it has quite a lot of content and depth, and easily gets a strong recommendation given its moderate to low price point.
At the time of writing this review, the game has 7 different game modes, 26 commanders with unique army compositions and bonuses, 6 difficulty settings, 5 different map sizes, and within the various game modes (such as stop the army and monster hunt) there are also different scenario selections available. The different game modes range from very easy to very difficult, and even with 4 people working together in a co-op game certain modes like Defend the Castle mode is extremely difficult on even moderate difficulty settings, so if you like a PvE challenge, the game has this available.
– Real player with 66.5 hrs in game
Must buy for every RTS fan and people who would like to experience something unique with alot of variety.
You can play this game on easy mode or incredible challenging. There are a lot of game modes and coop makes alot of fun too. The game is also very well made no bugs and a great interface!
Got 32hours on the first one and with this game I expect getting closer to 100+ hours for only 8-12 euro you got great value.
If you want to play this coop, but don´t have someone to play it with, I am always looking for people to play it with, since it just makes even more fun in coop-mode.
– Real player with 44.5 hrs in game
Granblue Fantasy: Versus
Neutral, slightly positive recommendation. I spent most of my time playing online in ranked and EU lobbies. Master Rank Lowain.
It’s an absolutely amazing game, and very easily the second best fighter in the eyes of this fightstick addict. But oh boy does it suffer from a lack of love from its devs and publishers…
You expect an anime fighter like BlazBlue or Guilty Gear but instead you get a super “pure”, polished game centered on footsies and fundamentals. It’s great for both beginners and experts and gets mechanical simplification right (I’m looking at you Fantasy Strike).
– Real player with 368.6 hrs in game
So I think this might be my first ever Steam review? But anyways, I play a lot of fighting games, and played the hell out of this on PS4 before it came to PC too so my hours might not reflect my actual gameplay time.
But I think this is deserving of a talk about as unlike most fighting games, this game is designed for both longtime fighting game players and new/casual players coming into it.
PROS:
- Simple to play, hard to master: Granblues specials are not like other fg’s where you have to always use things like dragon punch inputs, fireball inputs, charge motions etc to access them, they offer simple inputs as well as manual inputs. This is good for newer players who may struggle with these inputs while still encouraging to learn the manual inputs as the penalty for it is a slightly longer cooldown on the skill for using the easy inputs. Supers can also be done with simple inputs. But yeah, by far this is the biggest reason I love this game, I love the accessibility of it and yet how hard it can be to beat someone better than you in this game. It’s very simple to see where you are going wrong, and it’s a great game to improve yourself in, that’s what I love about this game the most.
– Real player with 270.3 hrs in game
Royale Age: Battle of Kings
Wow! This game is really fun! If you are looking for a casual game that has multiple layers of strategy and that is fun to play then this game is an excellent pick up! It is imo easy to learn, and great if you only have 15 minutes for a play session. Definitely worth the 10 bucks. And to the people complaining about bots, one - that doesn’t make it a bad game and two - that just gives players like me an opportunity to learn the game inside and out. But it. Two thumbs wayyyy up!
– Real player with 69.8 hrs in game
Okay, first, I’ve something bad to say, but I hope this will not discourage you because this game really needs you, if you’re here because you thought this game is a great game, please, just take it, it’s really what it looks, if not better.
Now… this game is f*****g amazing, what we have here is one of that brilliant ideas that we fear the world will never see, why I say that? Because besides this game has this fantastic gameplay / Design / Strategy+Luck Synergy / Sound / etc… It has the biggest flaw of this video game era, it’s a small game, forged by a small group of people, and it’s paid, ok ok ok, it’s REALLY cheap, and I think the price is too low for this good game, but it’s a paid competitive game in a world of competitive free games, this game (I hope I’m wrong, I hope the devs have a plan) will die without see its full capacity.
– Real player with 17.8 hrs in game