Road Builder
I felt like the concept of a road building game where you’re limited to a square grid was a good idea. So to get to the puzzle stage, you’ll have to start building the roads up to the intersections-points, which becomes tedious because you have to click so many times to swap between different straights and curves. Once you figure out where roads have to cross, you have to guess your way around the extremely limited intersections. Intersections has “ghost”-tiles that are very hard to figure out how they work. It’s a guess-work which is made difficult because of the limited feedback on pathfinding. Essentially you have to connect all points, then hit play, see a binary “it works” or “it doesn’t work”. With the update you can at least see for each endpoints, but just hovering on an entry/exit should really show the path the cars will take to the opposite.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
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It’s really lovely game with a good concept and cute graphics.
I thinks it’s definitely worth the price (includes a lot of level, an editor, and Workshop support).
However, some of the puzzles are hard and the games is sometimes a little click- and mouse heavy.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Carrier Command 2 VR
I have only played a brief little bit, but so far I have been able to control my units, drive the carrier, and do the first island mission without any problems in VR, but I am using Valve Index Controllers so I do not know how it will work on other types.
My only concern is that the carrier’s main camera looks a little funky as it is like a big circular 2D screen inside a glass sphere that you are standing in and for a few moments I didn’t know what I was looking at or why the screen was in my way. Once I started moving the camera and zooming in it all made sense and I was able to use it no problem. It does look weird though and makes you wonder where you are and what happened the first time you use it.
– Real player with 30.9 hrs in game
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Yes, now I can recommend this game since the latest update allows all functions to work with my Odyssey+, even though the devs don’t officially support WMR. (I’m hoping they will later, however.) I did have to use a community-made set of bindings, but everything works with the only exception being the air/sea radar, where I can’t seem to increase or decrease the scan range. Fortunately, the default value of 1250m still works just fine, so it’s not a game-breaking issue. I haven’t tried modifying the bindings, so it’s possible that I could still find out the fix for it. I spent about 2 hours capturing 3 islands and I had no trouble using all the same tactics that I would in pancake mode, although it took me the first 30 minutes just figuring out what all the controller buttons did. But once I did, I was bounding between screens and stations, giving orders to units, operating gimbal cameras, manipulating maps, and driving the carrier with ease. The only really hard part was doing it all standing up… I need to get a chair next time, as my feet were starting to hurt by the 3rd island captured.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Swiss Alps Jigsaw Puzzles
This is a nice jigsaw puzzle game that only costs a couple dollars. There are 80 pictures to choose from, but only a few of the pictures are really attractive. You can also choose how many pieces you want to be in the puzzle. Glass Masquerade is the only other jigsaw puzzle game I have seen that I like a lot more than this.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
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Tyrannis
This is a brilliant example of the kind of wonderfully niche games that steam makes possible. The mechanics are simple and (mostly) intuitive. The AI is surprisingly clever and will catch you off guard if your not careful, and the lore and aesthetics are excellent, Well worth the price.
Only two points of criticism:
First, some of the terms and concepts aren’t properly explained, Raiding (which I think just means when rebels attack though I’m not sure) is one, coalition building is another. I cant figure out how to chose who is in my coalition and it makes the endgame a bit frustrating.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
An absolutely kickass game with a lot of potential. Not only is the gameplay great, but the story and all of the intel reports are top class. Since this was made by a TNO dev, it has a distinct TNO-type vibe to it that I absolutely love.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Death Drives A Bus
Very charming game! I knew from the get-go I’d like this game.
So death' side job as a bus driver comes in handy when his horse falls ill. So drive around, pick the dead up and drop them off to heaven or heck.
The puzzles become, in my opinion, quickly challenging, but not frustrating. It helps a lot with the simple interface and quick rest.
Also, the i.d.’s of the dead people, doesn’t do anything but it’s such a great detail to add in.
At the moment of writing (sept22,20),
the achievements on Linux (mint) do not work, but an in-game save keeps track of your progress.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
It is quite fitting that the road to hell heck is littered with traffic jams. Death Drives A Bus is a great little package. Most stages seem to have multiple possible solutions but that doesn’t stop them from being quite perplexing from time to time. If you’re a fan of puzzle games you really can’t go wrong with this title for the price it’s being offered at.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Harbor Tycoon
#### Have your own sea transport company
Transport cargo across the sea, buying and managing your ships and your team.
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Coordinate cargo transportation and earn money
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Choose the best ships and complements at the dealership and make your harbor in the best way for you and your company.
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Hire and control your employees and have the best people at your side to help the company grow.
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Manage your properties and expand your business.
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Control your finances and invest your surplus money in the bank, or in difficult times try to get a loan from the bank manager.
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Sign transport contracts and transport things massively, earning a lot of money
Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!
Success in sight, are you ready?
Deal closed!
Line Loops - Logic Puzzles
Straight forward great game. Lots of levels.
– Real player with 85.1 hrs in game
Line Loops: Logic Puzzles asks the question: “What happens when I don’t know how to do my math homework, so I try to turn it into a game instead?”. The answer: You fail. Fortunately, the game doesn’t.
The Good:
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Kid-friendly-Silent-Hill OST.
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The tutorials give some good hands-on practice with the game’s concepts and show different ways to utilize them.
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4 daily puzzles that are different difficulties.
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Infinity mode.
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Not too many gimmicks: hidden numbers, larger boards, more numbers.
– Real player with 32.9 hrs in game
Merge Chess
Merge Chess is a brand new approach to Chess! Blending the strategy of the ancient game of Chess with simple puzzle game mechanics.
Use the mouse, keyboard of game pad to shift the board pieces in any direction. Same pieces of opposite colours that touch will be merged.
Keep merging to take more and more pieces, progressing from Pawn to King. A new piece will spawn every time you move without merging. Be careful not to fill up the board with pieces! The aim of the game is to be left with only one King in the shortest possible number of moves.
Dung Beetle Strike
Looking for a new home, the DungBeetles accept Dr. Moska’s challenge, but end up on a dangerous journey, DUNG BEETLE STRIKE is a cooperative puzzle game, call your partner and have fun!
- Local cooperative, double the fun! Option to play in pairs, keyboard + controller
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5 levels with totally different biomes.
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Several enemies and types of attacks.
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Equipments that helps in your progress and solve new puzzles.
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Buy items and facilitate your game
Pax Narcotica: Trafficker
BECOME A DRUG LORD
Take on the role of cartel kingpin In Pax Narcotica: Trafficker. Develop smuggling routes, establish distribution across the US, corner the market, and defeat your competition using violence and strategic intelligence .
Choose your own approach to expanding your empire - spread aggressively across the US, or concentrate on specific cities and markets. Use your funds to hire soldiers and buy weapons to defeat your rivals, or bribe key figures to disrupt their operations.
Manage every shipment how you wish, with a fleet of vehicles on land, sea, and air - invest in counter-measures and build impenetrable supply lines,
Violence is not the only option: Undercut your rivals’ prices and steal their clientele, or supply rival gangs with weapons and product and let them do the dirty work.
Hire a team of engineers and chemists to build a network of meth labs, weed plantations, and weapons factories, and reduce the risk of costly international seizures.
Send money and weapons south of the border to build up your base of operations and take over rival territory. Increase the size of your shipments north, or recruit mercenaries to expand your control into new cities.
RISK vs REWARD
Every shipment comes with a risk of seizure by the authorities, or hijacking by a rival, but when a shipment gets through the rewards are enormous. You must decide how to reduce the risk, with simple measures such as decoy cars or concealment, or buying shell companies to transport cargo across the country.
PLAN EVERY MOVE
At any time you can stop time to plan your next move. Arrange a chain of shipments; send operators to a city to assassinate a rival; transport cash across the border to pay for the next consignment, then watch the actions play out in real time.
TAKE OVER REAL CITIES
Expand into over 50 US cities, each with different demands and underworld networks. Choose your clients, negotiate the highest price, and help them build their market share.
CLEAN YOUR CASH
Invest in front businesses and real estate to clean your money, then send it south of the border to expand your power base. Always pay your suppliers on time, or risk losing the source of your power.
KEY FEATURES
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Play your way: Expand quickly and aggressively, or build up methodically
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Attack your rivals directly, or undercut their prices and cut off their funding
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Cut your product to maximise profit, or sell the highest quality merchandise to corner the market
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Choose how to invest your money; Buy larger shipments, or hire soldiers to expand your operation
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Build meth labs, weed farms, and weapon factories, and hire engineers and chemists to maximise their output
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Recruit a network of cops, politicians, and lawyers, to build your empire, protect your cargo, and clean your money