RetroArch
At last, the ultimate emulator front-end has arrived on Steam. As someone who loves playing retro games, RetroArch has been my personal preference for emulation for the past 3 or so years. While it takes a little getting used to, the features it provides and the emulation cores (the actual emulators) it has are superb.
On top of simple emulation and your standard emulator quality of life (like save states, fast forward, rewind, etc.), RetroArch provides netplay (allowing users to connect each other online for a simulated couch play) though Steam itself also provides this; shaders to enhance how a game looks or to recreate the original console’s appearance with CRT filters; a built-in video record function, achievement support via RetroAchievements; per-game controller bindings and configs; and a bunch more.
– Real player with 50.0 hrs in game
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Despite there being plenty of problems to complain about - long-standing issues with control mapping being one of the major ones - RetroArch is still easily the best emulation software I’ve ever used, and my experience goes all the way back to Nesticle in the late ’90s.
The major benefit of RetroArch is being emulate pretty much every console or computer system prior to the PS2/GameCube/XBox generation, plus a few more modern ones like the PSP. Not only that, but the available cores also tend to be more accurate when compared to standalone emulators. This is particularly notable for systems like Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1, and Sega Saturn, all of which were difficult to emulate for many years, but today have high-accuracy cores available in RetroArch.
– Real player with 47.7 hrs in game
Bigscreen Beta
This has been the app I have used the most since I bought an oculus quest. I don’t really like the price of the movies that they offer to watch. You end up paying $4.99 to watch a virtual movie that is in 3d. I can’t get into this 3d movie stuff, makes my eyes feel crossed. What I really really enjoyed about Big Screen is the fact I can use their remote desktop and play movies from my giant collection at home. I have been hosting 80’s/90’s movies for people to join and watch since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and have been watching 3-5 movies per week. Sometimes people pop in for a moment to see what is going on and others will stay through most of the movie. People for the most part have been quiet and respectful in the movies. For the ones that come in trolling, there is an option to kick them from the room. After this they can’t rejoin. This is oddly enough a great opportunity to talk to people from around the world using the internet. You can go to the lobby that is set up like a real theater with a snack bar popping popcorn and all the movie theaters to select which movies you want to watch. Here is where several people will congregate and socialize. They just need to add a friends list. I have met some really cool people on here. When you host a theater, they give you several different options on how the theaters look. This ranges from a simple small home theater to a retro style theater. There is even a space station theater where stuff you throw will float because of less gravity. By the way you can throw objects like tomatoes, drinks, and popcorn at stuff. Not bad at all for a free app
– Real player with 775.2 hrs in game
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I’ve used this app virtually every day, It has become my go-to app for all things movie and video related. I’ve recommended it to friends who have vr headsets, and visitors have seen my personal home theator with the help of this app.
For me what sets this aside from many other apps is the fact that I can lay in bed and watch movies, every other app seems to limit the view for a sitting position…. This sucks for long sessions. The other feature I enjoy is the single handed use. Many others try to force you to use both hands to get around. Let me ask and devs who might be reading this: How many tv’s, dvd players have you purchased that came with 2 remotes each? Perhaps 1 for play, pause, and a second remote for the arrows. With that logic, you’d have 4 remotes for your two devices. On that subject; how many people have you heard say “i wish my tv forced me to use several devices before I could watch netflix on it”?
– Real player with 158.5 hrs in game
Make Me LAG
Definitely an interesting game to try. Many games become easier when your pc is better. This is the only game that becomes harder as your processing speed gets higher. Beyond that, I just think it’s neat to see a game which has all of its gameplay outside of the game itself. You can play this game literally any way you want because in order to accomplish your purposes, you need to change your computer’s state, not control the game itself. I thought the description meant that there was actual gameplay, plus you had some sort of advantage if you got the game to lag. This was certainly different. There are literally no controls in the game. Every action happens based on your fps.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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Make Me LAG is a free game with a new control scheme. It worked on Win 10, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. You have to make the game Lag to perform game moves. You sort of have to figure out how to make the game Lag consistently to actually succeed in this game. Has 5 open steam achievements. Has a timer that you have to beat.
Try it for the steam achievements.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Coloring Book for Kids
Coloring Book for Kids™… What more can be said about this game that hasn’t already been said about Minecraft, Tetris, Skyrim… Peaksel has once again revolutionized the Kids' Coloring Book genre with this criminally underrated gem. The game is packed with hundreds of levels that will ensure hours and hours of fun for everyone who decides to give it a try. The controls were very responsive and the lag was always at a minimum! The game never tanked below 60 fps throughout my first playthrough (i have a macbook pro). The graphics may not be as good as you’d expect, but for a game of its time, they hold up very well. The story was fantastic and ties in perefectly with the game mechanics. I felt so connected to all the characters.
! Try not to get too attached though… The gameplay was easy to learn, yet hard and fun to master, and there were close to no microtransactions, unlike other modern AAA games that aim to rob you of every last penny!
– Real player with 22.8 hrs in game
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– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
MOENTO - Modular Environment Toolkit
Let me start by saying that this is one of my favorite games at the moment.
I think we all have times when we just don’t know what to play, or you just want to relax and not play CS:GO against spinbotter… This is the game that fills this gap.
I randomly saw this game and instantly fell in love with the assets.
In the beginning it was a little hard to get an overview of all the buttons, but they were all pretty self understanding. After I played a little around I started working on a house. And let me tell… it is SO SATISFYING to do build anything in this game… the animations are on spot 3 I posted it on the Discord of bblessed Gamestudios and the Developer loved it… so sweet.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
This is really, really awesome. Once you get used to the controls and how to work things, you can throw together pretty much anything. I give this game a 10/10
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
Fuse
NOTE: This is a review for version 1.0 of FUSE (though I’ve been toying with it since its initial release)
TO POTENTIAL BUYERS:
In truth this product is a mixed bag of nuts. Mixamo is trying to do something truly great here and if they adjust their approach to customer management and marketing with this product they just might build a very powerful indie-focussed tool to quickly build out a cast of characters on a fairly reasonable budget. There is certainly a market for this, and with enough customer buy-in they could become an industry staple in this regard. With that said, the tool isn’t there just yet.
– Real player with 248.2 hrs in game
First of all - almost all the negative reviews I see here are wildly misinformed! You should know what you’re getting with this software (unlimited free character models with textures - and 2 free rigs a week) - and it is an ENORMOUS time and money saver for those who need custom character models on a budget.
Let me clear a couple things up:
1. You can ABSOLUTELY export your characters as OBJ files and load them in anywhere
2. If you want to rig/skin your characters for animation you upload them to Mixamo - and get 2 free per week.
– Real player with 236.8 hrs in game
MOLOCH (Zero)
even the game got no secret ending or ending, achievement, some secret code.
But,i’m still think it got the potential of bringing any future game to justify the meaning of this game.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
When I played this game, it was fine other than the fact that I couldn’t find any horror aspect to it….
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Virtual Cottage
This program is not a game, but a timer, that you can use to track concentration sessions. It’s good to use with the Pomodoro technique.
Some things that I suggest as an improvement are:
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allowing one more sound to be played besides (wind) and (fire), so that you could hear wind + fire + rain OR wind + fire + snow; and
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make a “mini view” possible, displaying “clock”, “minutes to go”, “sound effects” controls and “music control”, in a smaller window size.
If the creators really want to “gamefy” this app, I suggest offering in a “shop” different objects to decorate the cottage: vases, plants, calendars, pictures, books, cookpots, rugs, lights, mattress and pillows colors, etc. We’ll not buy those items, but rather receive points on sessions completed according to sessions' durations of time. Then, we can you those received points to “buy” those itens in the “shop” and build our own inventory.
– Real player with 210.1 hrs in game
Let’s start with the fact that it’s not really a game, it’s fancy timer and as timer it totally could do better.
You set a name, a time and if you want a signal when it’s out and when it is you may set new one. If you ask me I think it would be nice to make kind of “pomodoro mode” and allow to set 2 timers, for work and for break, so when one timer is out you press “next” without spending time on writing. Though one is nice too.
I love there’s set of white noise generators - can pick few at a time and pretend it’s gross weather outside while you sit here warm by fire. Having a plaid irl totally helps with mood. There’s also music option but nothing I personally like or usually listen so 🤷♀️
– Real player with 184.8 hrs in game
Virtual Becomes Reality: A Stanford VR Experience
It’s a short yet affective experience that points a finger towards the possibilities that VR can offer to everyone in the world. It talks about some interesting psychological experiments which peaked my interest to research more articles relating to what was shows in this experience. I recommend it to everyone who has a VR, it’s simply 15~ minutes long and you get to learn some interesting thoughts!
I thank to everyone who put their time and effort into this project. I too hope that in the future, we’ll be able to have portable VR technology in our daily lives that are used not only for entertainment but also used for enchanting human interactions and focusing on education aswell. Who knows? Maybe the time where we’ll have Augmented Reality (AR) and/or VR contact lenses is closer than we imagine.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
That was cool! I was at Stanford many years ago, and would’ve dropped by in 2020 if our road trip hadn’t been cancelled. It was a pleasure to meet you guys by using the VR equipment I invested my holiday savings in instead - making the best of the situation indeed! Cheers from overseas!
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Pixel Art Coloring Book
As someone who does cross-stitching, which is pretty much like this, cross-stitching is more rewarding and engaging, cause you actually craft the dots yourself, but this is a great game to come to if you’ve always wanted to do something like that, cross-stitching, but want to do it a nice, simple easy way, or a free, cheap way, cause this is game is free-to-play; cause this is basically what this game is, a simplified version of cross-stitching, but just electronically, on a computer. Or it’s just simply a great game to come to if you just love colouring in, especially the colour-by-number, cause they tell you what colours to use with each picture in this game :)
– Real player with 90.0 hrs in game
Relaxing pixel coloring game with very simple to the more complex pixel art.
I love it !
Meanwhile after +35hrs playing:
Yes yes indeed I’m still playing this very addictive game !!!
I like the pitoresk houses very much.
The only and for me personally downside is that the achievements doesn’t count on your profile !
But I keep on playing the standard free version !
Greetz and keep on coloring folks !
– Real player with 78.3 hrs in game