Downward
There are some very good things about this game, but the bottom line is that I cannot recommend it to anyone.
The best thing about Downward, and what made me want to play it in the first place, is the explorable world, which opens up to you more and more as you gain certain abilities (the Metroidvania genre). This promise is essentially fulfilled, with plenty of environmental challenges in many carefully crafted levels. It’s wonderful to discover a new area, or to go back to an area you visited a while ago only to find new delights and secrets available to you.
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
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File under: surprisingly great first person open world platforming/exploration game.
There’s been some sort of disaster brought about by the arrival of three planets. Almost everyone’s been wiped out, but this isn’t the type of apocalypse that makes everything look brown. In fact, once you appear out of nowhere, one of the first places you get to is downright paradisiacal.
The land you’ll get to wander around in is divided into large, intricately designed areas, all beautifully rendered and most of them boasting a great eye for verticality. Your next goal is always marked, but you’re free (and encouraged!) to go off-track chasing the thousands of collectibles littered everywhere. You could just chase the objective marker, but then you’d miss out a ton of places and most of the fun the game has to offer.
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
Prince of Persia®
| Title | Prince of Slides |
| Review | If like me you had become increasingly frustrated with the direction Ubisoft had taken with Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Warrior Within then Ubisoft Montreal’s 2008 re-imagining should serve as a reminder as to why you fell in love with the series in the first place. Where Warrior Within and The Two Thrones followed a dark and violent path full of frustratingly constricted enemy encounters and a tone gratingly out of sync with The Sands of Time , this reboot reverberates like a breath of fresh air, the kind of gust that makes you forget about the diminishing returns delivered by The Warrior Within and its sequel The Two Thrones
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– Real player with 52.4 hrs in game
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My Personal Thoughts on Prince of Persia 2008 Reboot
Let me begin this review by saying I have mixed feelings with this game and if Steam had an option to give a neutral rating that’s what I would have done here.
Starting with visuals, this game looks beautiful! It could be the most beautiful game in Prince of Persia series up-to date (we’ll see how the Sands of Time Remake stacks up against this one). The art direction is great! The music is good and the calm music got stuck inside my head, great job by Inon Zur (also the composer of Fallout 3 and 4). The gameplay is solid, platforming is fluid and works smoothly. The voice acting is very charming.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™
Utterly Forgettable
As someone who loves the Sands of Time Trilogy, I absolutely cannot recommend buying this game. Reasons why are below.
Plot: Not much of a plot. The Prince visits his brother (huh, he has a brother?) in Azad and they have boring banter. Something something, the brother unleashes an ancient army, something something, sand monsters, something something,
! brother is taken over by an evil djinn. Honestly, I took a three month hiatus from this game and when I came back wasn’t overly compelled to restart, and I still don’t feel like I missed much of the plot, as forgettable as it was. 1/10
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
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I totally understand the disappointment, without Mechner looks like Ubisoft didn’t find the balance, the golden row.
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The Level Design is perfect. This is where this game really shining. It’s very enjoyable finding out all the platform elements. I think maybe a second run even better than the first. I just find it funny how all of the places nearly the same as in PoP SoT, there is a Throne Room, there is a Courtyard, Observatory, Baths, Ruins, Prison, even a Clockwork system, maybe the Library was the only thing what was missing.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
Styx: Master of Shadows
SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT BUT WELL-EXECUTED AND TRUE STEALTH GAME
There are three things you need to know about this game.
1. It’s chock full of potty-mouthedness, including from the main character.
2. It is NOT a game you want to play if you like being the alpha badass.
3. It ranks up there with the original Thief games and others (skip down if this is all you care about).
I’ll address these and more in sequence in this review. It’s a long one, but maybe worth the read.
First off, as regards #1 above, if you’re too young, or if you, your parents, or your professed god do not approve of you being exposed to cussing and other adult humor, skip this game, cuz it’s not for prudes. That said, it’s all just words, put-downs, and sarcasm–only a little more advanced than the stuff that your average first-grader might hear daily on the playground or in the back of the school bus. I didn’t see any nudity or erotic content, so you won’t have to worry about that. Nobody was particularly racist, gay-bashing, etc., although masculine status does get insulted in a few spots. There was at least one subtle joke about masturbating–again, nothing that kids don’t know about already. Guards pee, and you can see the stream from any angle, but the source organ is never rendered; in fact, pants never come down, although associated movements do occur. I’d give it a PG-13 if it were a movie.
– Real player with 138.0 hrs in game
Caveat: the recommendation is intended for existing fans of the stealth genre. If you’re not familiar with espionage/infiltration gameplay, you’re unlikely to gain an appreciation for it in “Styx.” Though the story is decent, that plot progression is gated behind some maddeningly patience-trying stealth sequences, especially at the end.
Hope you’re looking for a challenge, because “Styx”, like DMX, is gonna give it to ya. Some of this difficulty is deliberate (enemies such as Knights and Elves, difficulty selections such as ‘Goblin’, mission insignias, etc). Sadly, some of it is a consequence of mixed design goals and sloppy controls/interface. What’s more frustrating than getting caught because, instead of dropping off the ledge to slip past a patrol, you instead slid across that same ledge and climbed up onto the next platform? Rather than the clever use of environmental interaction that worked in the same situation earlier, the same commands now send you on a completely unanticipated course, like some kind of slapstick scene in a comedy show. And in full view of the two Knights and elite crossbowman who had nothing better to do than hang out on the same balcony. All. Fucking. Night. The answer my friends is nothing. Nothing is more frustrating than that.
– Real player with 74.6 hrs in game
Fantasy Bump
Fantasy Bump is a parkour party platformer for 1-6 players that mashes single-screen battle shenanigans with super JRPG feels. Choose your job class and out-jump your opponents in each bumptastic game mode with oodles of stages to choose from over a host of fantastical locales.
Leap to new heights of glory in this, the legendary Fantasy Bump!
~ The Many Modes of Fantasy Bump ~
The finest games in all the world await!
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Bump Match - take each other on in stock or timed matches, it’s bump or be bumped!
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Color Dash - fill the stage with streams of your team’s color before time runs out!
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Crown Command - wear the crown as long as possible but beware, all wish to be king!
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Gem Rush - collect gems and bump them loose from rivals as the clock ticks down!
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Grand Chase - race to the end of twisty & trap-laden courses, don’t get left behind!
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Tourney Royale - fight your way around the Bumplands tournament-style!
~ The Many Features of Fantasy Bump ~
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Cross-platform Multiplayer for players to connect and compete regardless of OS
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Multi-gamepad Support so up to 6 humans can bump on one machine
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Streamlined Controls for perfect play with arrow keys, WASD or any four pushables
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Finely-tuned Platforming with the most maneuverable jumps this side of Samus
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A Continuous Play Experience where the explorable town is all the menu you’ll need
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Cute ‘n Charismatic Pixel Art that’s a heartfelt tribute to the 16-bitted beforetimes
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A Chiptune Soundtrack loaded with catchy melodies and heroic themes
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Achievements & Trading Cards to round out the Steam experience
~ The Many Funs of Fantasy Bump ~
With its riotous multiplayer, charming cast, spit-shined controls, color-laden worlds and filled-out feature set, Fantasy Bump expands on the best that retro has to offer with all the modern trimmings.
Get ready to bump with the best of them!
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
This was a huge favorite of mine back when it was originally released, so in spite of my reservations about haphazard ports, I was happy when this unadulterated version was released on Steam. As far as I could tell, it seems to be a pretty direct copy of the original. The graphics have been touched up a bit, but the gameplay, content, menus, and music all remain the same as they were a decade ago. Steam has this tagged as “partial controller support”, but aside from a few things on the menu, the whole game is controller friendly.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
This game is COOL,serious this game is GOOD. It takes the best from Sands of Time and Warrior Whithin and combines it in gamaplay and story. In a sort of meta narrative the game explores the aparent double personality of the Prince, that went from a likable talkative acrobat in SoT to an angry bloodthist warrior in WW, plus it’s a throwback to the mirror/shadow Prince from the very first 1989 game
While Warrior Whithin improved the combat , this game improves the plataforming. The Prince can do some new acrobatic tricks ,like sliding up or down between close walls, rebould on wooden plates that throw him at great distences and use it’s dagger to attach hinself in some specific mechanisms . The beloved wallrunning receives a small new feature too, now Prince can run in curved walls, extending the possibilities of this mechachinic that i consider the best in the series
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Escape from Naraka
I think Escape from Naraka is similar to SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell.
But In Escape from Naraka, your overall score will be tallied up from crystals and artifact collected, damage taken throughout the level, and the time it took to complete the level (No level select option)
Gameplay is great, good graphics. My biggest gripe in this game is the Enemy AI . AI is attacking/moving too fast, it FEELS like you’re surrounded and there’s nowhere to run, the only option is to fight, but you cant….kill (mostly) or outrun them (mostly).
– Real player with 11.9 hrs in game
Game yang sangat menarik,, mekanisme game yang simple dan juga puzzle yang cukup buat saya degdeg’an bukan karna gampang atau susahnya suatu puzzle, di stage 1 saja puzzle dan jumpscare bisa muncul bersama’an yang membuat saya harus waspada pada puzzle selanjut’a. dan mungkin untuk stage selanjutnya akan menjadi lebih susah lagi dari sebelumnya.
Selamat buat Xelo Games yang berhasil membuat game dengan nuansa Bali, dan juga untuk Soundtracknya juga enak didengar dengan campuran Gambelan dan musik modern. dan saya berharap kedepannya nanti Xelo Games bisa menghadirkan game - game lain dengan Nuansa Lokal lainnya.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Forest Dash
This was advertised as a game where you can dash through a forest. It has exceeded expectations by allowing me to dash in other locations, such as a cave and a temple
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
It’s a game, jk. Only on the second level so far and the vertical section messes me up a bit since it’s possible to do by going to far in both directions. The screen moves while the character has to survive and get to the end at the cameras pace. only like $3 and it’s good I would recommend it. Reminds me of a mobile game, could probably be ported there but don’t know how.
Best game of the year so far, blows werewolf action game out of the water with this visceral experience that will have you come back and back again.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
A Story About My Uncle
A delightful bedtime story
Overview
A Story About My Uncle (ASAMU) is a first-person platformer set in a world picturing how wild a child’s imagination could get. A world of gigantic floating rocks coupled with a charming story, odd-looking creatures, and somewhat gravity-bending abilities to let you turn everything upside down.
Story
🔸The game focuses on the narrator as he tells a bedtime story to his daughter about Uncle Fred and his adventures. It’s about the story when Uncle Fred didn’t return home after his last adventure. The player takes control of the narrator in his youth searching around Fred’s lab for clues when he finds a mysterious suit with many abilities. Now that the young boy’s confidence is boosted by wearing the suit, he decides to go looking for his uncle in strange lands.
– Real player with 13.5 hrs in game
God bless Steam! I can’t stop praising it for making it possible to make new cool connections and meet people around the world with common interests. These people always remind me about some games, that I had on my mind for a long time and then forgot.
But what is much more important is that games they recommend me always fit my mood in a proper way, just like in a right place in a right time. The same happened to me with A Story About My Uncle. I had a bit harsh weekend, which started with fixing my broken PC on Saturday, then I was forced to do other stuff I really didn’t feel like doing and after all these events I felt like I squeezed lemon, so I really needed something chill, relaxing and just kind, without any violence. So, after a quick conversation with a friend on Steam, I realized, that I bought this game few years ago, I guess and still never touched.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
I just……. can’t really Overappreciate the masterpiece that is Shadow of Mordor- a perfectly balanced blend between visual artwork, story, combat/stealth gameplay- and the whole newly- introduced with the series Nemesis system- Yes, I KNOW it’s glitchy sometimes - but it does Not mean it’s not worthy of any gamer’s attention due to lack of attention to detail from the Devs- since, they got occupied with the sequel….
A great ARPG, with tons of Possible builds for the main character, as well as even more possible boss -encounters…… And YES the Bosses are almost unique to each player - as well as their story with those bosses….
– Real player with 716.9 hrs in game
The general consensus regarding this game is absolutely spot on.
That is to say - It’s a fun action game. It looks good. It plays good. Everything about it is decent or at least acceptable enough to give a pass mark to.
But then the games unique selling point, the ‘Nemesis’ system single-handedly raises it from good to great. Worth playing just to experience the total craziness that occurs with that genius game design.
7/10
– Real player with 45.2 hrs in game