Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Reactive Drop
The sequel of Alien Swarm, an top-down cooperative shooter released by Valve back in the days.
History
Alien Swarm originates from an unreal tournament mod back in the days and was acquired and re-released by Valve in 2010. This game combined elements from survival games like shadowgrounds and left for dead. For a free game, it had a good presentation, nice gameplay and good graphics. It only lacked two things: content and community.
The gameplay
Like Alien Swarm, Reactive Drop is a cooperative top down shooter. The player plays with other marines against hordes of aliens, in order to complete different objectives. In the game, there are 4 different classes to play, each one consisting of two characters with different statistics including some class restricted weapons.
– Real player with 2188.7 hrs in game
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Friendly Fire is anything but friendly, medics are flavour and death, death do be part of the game. Try to keep up with your team and defend when necessary, picking a firing line and keeping it will increase everyone’s chances of survival. That said, in general, the game is Chaos.
People can and do play solo, but these are usually awe inspiring ASBI players. For the rest of us, team play is integral and trust is key. Communication in game is vital and facilitated in-game with voice communication, a text chat feature and a radial menu for quick communication emotes. Although after a few rounds, you’ll learn to read other players marine placements and apply your own work around tactics of support. The community is active and full of modders aiming to enhance your bug hunt with custom challenges, HUD’s, skins, sounds and levels. Additionally, there are dedicated servers from all around the globe, providing a place for you to meet new and interesting marines, in your fight against the swarm.
– Real player with 1836.3 hrs in game
Walkover
The graphics might be a lot outdated, and you might not understand anything of the game at first… but once you read the really short manual that teaches you the controls and such… the game is fun, and relaxing.
After a stressed day, sometimes I just boot up this game, and have a really good time. There are some gamemodes, but you should stick to the main one that is killing the aliens and destroying the nests (played some times the CTF mode but I found that really broken, and also you don’t see much people playing this game).
– Real player with 35.4 hrs in game
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This is a really old game I played in my childhood and I am surprised to see it still being alive, so I gave it a try.
Game description:
This game is a 2D top down shooter reminding of the movie Starship Troopers. Humans versus buglike Aliens. Join up with other players and a lot of AI soldiers to combat the extremely fast breeding and aggressive alien menace.
You will need to lead the AI soldiers and use them to secure spots on the maps with turrets and further soldier spawners. Collect different weapons, earn experience by bug killing and choose from a few skills to get you alive through the map. Exterminate all bug spawners and fight till the last bug is dead.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Bingo VR
Can only play game once every 37 minutes. unable to get more lives. :(
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
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This is fun for all ages. keeps your eyes sharp plus keeps your mind moving.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Get Off My Lawn!
The second game I ever played on Steam, If you are a free to play steam user, give Get off My Lawn! a go. It’s funny, it’s simple, and plain simple fun.
Premise is about a grumpy elderly man named Murray Mendleson who is greeted by aliens only to turn his gun on them to their visit.
Most people who play would just play for a few rounds and go, it’s similar to Plants vs. Zombies with the tiles and incoming enemies, but controlling and elderly man with guns shooting at approaching aliens. Plain and simple.
– Real player with 117.8 hrs in game
IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN SHORT:
SIMILAR GAMEPLAY TO: Space Invaders.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Casual mobile port. Alien invasion theme. Vertical lane shooter. Buy boosters via MTs. Shallow, repetitive gameplay. Compiled graphical assets. Pay-to-win (faster).
ACHIEVEMENTS: GRINDY. 1x Purchase required for one achievement.
STATUS: COMPLETE.
WHEN TO BUY: NEVER. Its free.
More info below….
THE LOWDOWN:
Get Off My Lawn is a free-to-play vertical lane shooter. Your role is to take control of a old age pensioner with a liking for guns and defend your home from alien invaders. Enemies descend vertically from the top of a 7x7 grid in waves, which become progressively harder to defeat. Gameplay consists of moving the character left and right across each lane while shooting the advancing aliens before they can reach and damage your house. If they are not killed before they reach your home, it takes damage until it is destroyed. Then its game over!
– Real player with 57.8 hrs in game
Hive Slayer
A short, simple and fun wave shooter (standing with a bit of optional leaning).
Presentation is good, I think better in game than the screenshots give it credit for.
Give it a look.
Played on the original Vive, and worked well under Proton 5.13.
Donated a couple of dollars and downloaded a (DRM free, I imagine) copy as a bonus.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
This is a very simple game, but that’s to be expected from something you can get for free. It’s amusing, and a good way to enjoy some simple VR fun.
It controls well, much better than some other VR shooters I’ve played, and has solid graphics especially at the (nonexistent) pricetag. Each game of Arcade mode takes around 8-10 minutes depending on your skill, and is overall just a bit of fun.
Easy for a short VR session, and the lack of any movement means this is a great game for new VR players to get their feet wet without worrying so much about possible nausea issues. Also, the fact that you’re basically standing in one place means that even small VR play areas work well for it; you definitely don’t need a full room-scale area available.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Retro Vaders: Reloaded
All the fun and tension of Space Invaders with lots of little extras.
Only had little go but quickly found myself being hooked and wanting to have one more go. Like the score table as this is another incentive to try and get into the top 10 :-)
The background music is excellent & really suits the game.
I haven’t played much yet but sure i will be buying the DLC after a few more games.
Good quality little indie game based on the classic space invaders and for free. Highly recommend.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Good take on the classic game. I enjoyed the boss battles and depth of the challenges of the levels.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Project Senko
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– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Project Senko
fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on,
good game.
Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.49 Or Less During Sale
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Operation: New Earth
Initial review" “Good game, it’s not the “free to play but pay to win” kind of game. It’s worth a try, but the servers are crapy….during pvp events it becomes impossible to play…..hope they will fix this.”
Review after 450 hours of gameplay:
After many hours of gameplay and a couple of bad updates that broke more things than they fixed, I have to change my initial review.
Pros:
The people playing the game make or break a MMO game, and so far the people I’ve come across are great and make the whole game experience that mutch better.
– Real player with 9321.0 hrs in game
This games seemed to be good. The problem is that the higer players and the guys in groups can dictate what you need to do.
I am not going to buy shards onl to get smashed about 5 times from the same guy every day. I am a new player. But I am going to quit if this hit does not stop.
– Real player with 3111.5 hrs in game
UFO Online: Invasion
The game has been in my opinion unfairly criticized in the reviews.
UFO is along the lines of Fallout 1&2 as well as X-COM regarding the graphics and gameplay.
I have seen a ridiculous amount of reviews with people whining how you cannot succeed with the game because the Russian players have been playing the game for years before it was available to players in other countries therefore nobody else can prosper in the game. Folks, this simply is not true, but rather the whiny rants from people who do not want to put the time into developing a character.
– Real player with 1451.3 hrs in game
Ok After 65+ hrs time to review.
I nearly didn’t try this game, mainly cause of the massive amount
of neg comments about P2W and overall “fairness”.I am thankful at these times i make
my own choices and not follow the “trendy” crowd looking for games to play on “easy”.
Firstly, This game is NOT pay to win. There are NO weapons, armour or items in the
game to buy that you cannot get by grinding or crafting. so lets stop “crying” about P2W.
Pay to progress is more like it, I see nothing wrong with this as dev’s have the right to get
– Real player with 539.3 hrs in game
Idle Expanse
I quite like this game!
To describe it for idle game enthusiasts, it is a fairly well polished ‘active idle’ game where you send troops out to planets to fight and get you money. By active idle, I mean you progress faster by having it windowed and minimized than by closing the game and just starting it up later.
Pro:
I have not seen any bugs or memory leaks, and it keeps running smoothly.
Troops wandering around on their own to fight! After years of having to micromanage units in various games, having them do so on their own is a real blessing. Their pathing is also consistent, so it they survive a place once, then with nothing changed they will survive it every time.
– Real player with 844.0 hrs in game
Context for this review - I have very little experience with “idle” games. I downloaded the game, popped it open, and all of a sudden two hours had passed.
Pros:
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Plenty of interaction for your mouse to click on, at least in the early game. I imagine as the game progresses and the missions grow in length that will slow down a bit, but dang it’s engaging.
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Well-designed interface with polished visuals. You can’t hover over an option and get a pop-up tip, but you don’t need it. I’ve never played a game quite like this and it was all still pretty intuitive for me.
– Real player with 200.0 hrs in game