Commoners

Commoners

You were nothing more than a commoner among others. Now, you must do what it takes to survive. Kill, slaughter and pillage to success as the kingdom you once knew has fallen and the harsh realities of life is upon you. Now without a home, you will find yourself struggling to fend off against once forgotten beasts alongside other humans. Your throat will bleed as it thirsts, your belly will yearn for crumbs. Be careful, as injury can mean death. Do as you must, no one is watching… or are they?

Commoners is a massively multiplayer online medieval role-playing survival game. With nothing but a small set of tools, venture about and build your way to the top and become the most feared player in a now decayed kingdom you once called home.

Wander about the island; hunt for food, gather for resources, fight your way to success. As you collect, craft new armor and weapons and better yourself for survival in this harsh world. Ask yourself, is this man or woman who stand before you friend or foe. Are you their friend, or are you their foe? Make moral decisions as you befriend or kill other players who may be able to help you or bring death to you.

Chop a tree, fish a fish, cook on a fire; build your first home, craft your first sword. Do as you must in this PVP, PVE old-school RPG inspired game. Your wealth and value in this world is directly tied to what you have earned and stolen.

Key Features

  • Large procedurally-generated worlds – explore uniquely generated worlds to provide a different playing experience

  • Immersive Experience: Realistic focused graphics and sound with minimal user interface to ensure an immersive experience.

  • Cross Platform Co-Op PVP and PVE: Whether you play on Windows or Linux, play with your friends or with strangers as you work to survive in this harsh new world.

  • Unique Creatures: Players are not the only being to be afraid of, there are creatures specific to day and night that will hunt you if they see you. Be prepared as those without the will and means to survive will become their meal.

  • Intuitive crafting system: Forge weapons and armor, create food and drink

  • House and Base building system – Create from the materials you collect and craft an expansive home to protect and store yourself and your items.


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Commoners on Steam

ELDERBORN

ELDERBORN

SUMMARY: Although ELDERBORN bills itself as a “Souls-like FPS”, a lot of the videos show the player frantically slashing and smashing; this might give the impression of a more straightforward heavy metal “Doom with Swords” experience (with all of the high-ledge kicking action of a Dark Messiah of Might and Magic). In reality, what I got was a fairly thoughtful and measured experience consisting of dodging, parrying, blocking, and outmaneuvering dangerous enemies; survival, particularly at higher difficulties, was about fighting intelligently and limiting the number of opponents who could bash your head in at any given time. And to be honest, I think I like it more than the game I imagined I was getting in the trailers. An easy recommendation for anybody who has a craving for some FPS-melee action.

Real player with 14.9 hrs in game


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Elderborn is a great murder simulator. The combat is challenging and satisfying, but usually not so hard that it made me frustrated (Except on the hardest difficulty that can be pretty frustrating.). The visuals are kind of whatever, nothing particularly great, but nothing that bothered me either, and the variety of enemies, environments and murdertools is more than passable.

The combat is incredibly fun and satisfying, and you have lots of tools and abilities to work with. You have 10 (I think, I feel like I may be forgetting one

! , and no the power mace doesn’t count) weapons that you collect throughout the short ~5 hour campaign and a couple of other special abilities that you can unlock through a skill tree, the most notable ones being deflect, where you reflect a projectile back at an enemy, and a charge move, which sends you flying in one direction and knocks down whatever you hit. You are often fighting several enemies at once, making you dodge all around the nice environments and your reflexes will be pushed quite hard.

Real player with 13.1 hrs in game

ELDERBORN on Steam

Trials of Argolis

Trials of Argolis

I’ve done a lot of testing for this game and nearly every time was a joy (bridge boy frustrates me sometimes!! ;-;). Very fluid and smooth first-person combat with challenging bosses and fast paced action. The handpainted artwork lends a really neat aesthetic and overall it looks gorgeous. A great dynamic in play styles despite the rather simple controls and each boss has a particular gimmick to it. Lots of content and deffo worth a buy! ;_; eek

Real player with 12.6 hrs in game


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Good concept but mechanics and actual gameplay is not polished and ass

Real player with 3.3 hrs in game

Trials of Argolis on Steam

Ghoul Castle 3D: Gold Edition

Ghoul Castle 3D: Gold Edition

Only played a bit, but it reminds me of the original King’s Field game for the playstation that came out in 1995 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Field_II ) which I have always been nostalgic for. I really wish more games like this would come out that were a little more nuanced.

Regardless the fact this game was made by one person really impresses me. I would love to learn how he made it.

Real player with 1.3 hrs in game

Ну, очень, очень спорно

[37/100]

Для начала начну с того, что сама игра является портом с мобильных устройств, и сделана она одним человеком. Но одновременно, её продают на ПК за деньги, которые можно потратить на интересные игры на скидках. Поэтому я долго думал насчёт негативной, или положительной оценки. И хоть игра и является “Gold Edition” оригинала, игра всё равно пустая. Очень пустая. Начнём.

Перед тем как продолжим смотреть на саму игру

Я хочу поругать описание, так как немного вранья там есть.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

Ghoul Castle 3D: Gold Edition on Steam

Liquidators

Liquidators

Never in my whole life have I been more terrified within the realms of a video game.

I believe a large portion of that comes from my intense phobia of nuclear power plants, but there’s also a huge variety of aspects this game nails in terms of horror. As someone experienced with music composition and production, the first thing I want to point out is the absolutely stellar sound design. Low, abstract drones bounce off of each wall, and you know it’s coming from… somewhere. But you don’t know where.

Real player with 18.4 hrs in game

It’s a short but tense 3D exploration and interaction game, it happens in several rooms inside a nuclear plant. The story is based on an important fragment of the actual event Chernobyl Disaster.

  • Graphics

Old story in 1986, then not the modern HD style. If you don’t accept pixel things, go to Settings- Video- Filter Strength, turn it Low or None.

  • Music

Radiation detector sound and background noise in plant. No intentional extra sfx.

  • Gameplay

1. There might be some bugs under fixing, but it doesn’t influence the experience if you like this kind of game. The developers are active in the pinned discussion so just ask.

Real player with 6.5 hrs in game

Liquidators on Steam

Bright Memory

Bright Memory

💬 Note:

🔵 Bright Memory was made by a solo developer in his spare time

🔵 This game only contains Episode 1 of the games original vision

📢 Everybody who bought this game will get a full length remake called Bright Memory: Infinite on release

☁️ Performance:

Plays well on GeForce Now

🌕 Pros

📀 Female Protagonist

📀 Fast paced fluid action gameplay

📀 Fusion of fps and blade action combat

📀 Active/passive skills to unlock

📀 Good visuals

📀 Good music/audio

🌑 Cons

💿 Very linear levels

💿 Short game

Real player with 4.3 hrs in game

dmc meets mgr meets dooms it has both hack and slash and shooters elements. I give it solid 6/7 out of 10. The combat is alright at times but slightly jank at times but hopefully when the game is fully released today the combat is more polished. Another bonus you can wear a school uniform.

Real player with 3.9 hrs in game

Bright Memory on Steam

INFERNIUM

INFERNIUM

Very caffeine high while writing this so sorry if it’s rambly:

This is one of the most amazing and unique games I have ever played. If you love Dark Souls, this is a game for you, despite the fact that the actual combat is limited. If you like the nostalgia of old arcade games, this also will probably appeal to your taste. This is such a stream-lined game with minimal controls that just make sense. Instead of focusing on how to fight or do combos, your controls quickly become instinctual so all your focus can go into the puzzles and the beautiful world. It’s also nice having a game that is capable of teaching you gameplay without an actual tutorial. This game is just really well formed to help you learn how to function within it, and find value in things that seem like props at first (maps!). As Carlos has said, this is a slow cooked game, and the longer you play it, the more you can appreciate it.

Real player with 112.3 hrs in game

This is perhaps the most underrated game of all time. Maybe not the best per se, but it’s well up there on a list of the 10 best games ever created in my opinion. It’s criminal how little attention this game has gotten, especially for it’s quality. Starting off; the graphics are insanely good, not just for indie game standards, but by AAA standards too. (In fact, the entire game is good by AAA standards) The puzzles are fun and engaging, and though they aren’t the hardest, the game balances this out by putting perhaps the best implementation of a timer system ever. (Note: not actual timers) During many of the puzzles, the puzzle isn’t so much the puzzle itself, but kiting around enemies and the environment in order to solve said puzzle. (hence, enemies hunting you down serves as a sort of “timer” where you have to think on your toes or get killed) It’s also surprisingly fair in the ways enemies work, to the point where most of my deaths feel like they were in ways intended to catch me and screw me over, but it was my own stupidity and lack of foresight that got me killed, not unfairness. The world is very well designed as well, one of the few in a game where I actually found myself intrigued with the lore and in awe at one particular area, won’t spoil what it is, but you’ll know what I’m talking about if you find it. It’s beautiful and the developer does an incredible job of jamming pretty much as many different types of areas as possible into the map (which is open world, TECHNICALLY) Back on the lore, I did find myself interested with the lore, which isn’t as rare for myself as being interested with the world (something that I can only point to about 1-3 games prior doing) but is still not that common. The lore is pretty simplistic, you discover it through written messages by “M” with various numbers describing their order. The implementation and writing in this is insanely good as well, with different parts given at different areas (for example, 60 showing up before 30, but 30 giving more information despite coming earlier chronologically than 60 ((this example is not necessarily true by exact numbers, but you get the point))) I found myself interested in the story and there were a few surprises in it/explanations for what was going on, all while keeping me in the dark about the specifics of what it all means. It’s worth noting, I haven’t finished the game, though I am pretty close. I recommend this game fully for anyone who likes a good, well built world, and a well designed, if minimal, story. 10/10, and I mean that fully. It was worth every penny.

Real player with 32.2 hrs in game

INFERNIUM on Steam

Lunacid

Lunacid

Lunacid is a first person dungeon crawler inspired by old FROMSOFT games like Shadow Tower and King’s Field.

Long ago a great beast arose from the sea and covered the earth in a poison fog. Now those deemed undesirable are thrown into a great well, which has become a pit of chaos and disease. You awaken in a moonlit subterranean world, having been thrown into the Great Well for crimes unknown. The only way out is to go further down and confront the sleeping old one below. On the way there will be many creatures and secrets to discover.

Lunacid on Steam

Vikings: Age Of The Axe

Vikings: Age Of The Axe

GET READY FOR A LONG VOYAGE

Gather warriors, take your weapon and get on your boat to sail through the sea. Choose one of many available locations to raid and go ashore.

PLAN YOUR PLUNDERS

Before starting the raid, it is worth sending a patrol to discover the location of enemy troops and buildings. Choose your targets order and plan the battle to minimize losses.

FIGHT TO THE DEATH

Slash, throw, thrust and chop to win in the deadly combat. Use a variety of weapons, kill quietly or eye to eye and do everything to not be the one left on the ground.

TAKE YOUR TREASURE

This is the purpose of your efforts - break in, grab everything valuable, loot the dead and burn what you can’t take with you. Exchange gathered wealth for better equipment, skilled people and get ready for further battles.

Vikings: Age Of The Axe on Steam

ENCHAIN

ENCHAIN

You are the Last Deprived, the final corpse to ever rise from the stone depths, dooming all creation to a ceaseless death. This underworld does not welcome you. Unlock the secrets of the crypt, take back life from your fleshless brethren, and fight your own way out of humanity’s tomb.

ENCHAIN links hack & slash juggling and frenetic platforming with fast-paced retro FPS gunplay. Inspired by platform fighters and Quake, smash the undead into pieces with your lantern hook and arsenal of guns. And, with progression and verticality influenced by Dark Souls, tackle a single interconnected world chunk by chunk, retreading old paths and secrets.

Get lost in the chasm. No one will be holding your cold, hollow hands along the way.

  • Grapple, shoot, kick, and dive between platforming and combat

  • Fracture and harvest the bones of the undead for resources

  • Explore an intertwined, non-linear underworld

  • Rest at cozy lantern posts to store the fruits of your travels

  • Listen to atmospheric music by Oliver Trinidad

ENCHAIN on Steam