Der Geisterturm / The Ghost Tower
Der Geisterturm is a game i could only describe as “hostile”.
It’s a grid-based, first person dungeon crawler not unlike say, Warhammer 40k’s Space Hulk, except you’re piloting a mecha - and i don’t mean the “protagonist” kinda mecha. You’re essentially stomping around in the kinda grunt suit that gets oneshot by the Gundam 5 seconds into a battle setpiece. You know, a Zaku I basically.
Now, while nothing in the game will actually oneshot you, what this means is that combat is often going to be an extremely risky endeavor, as to even have the slightest chance of survival you’re going to have to learn to:
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
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The spin-off sequel to the mecha dungeon crawler Das Geistersciff. Der Geisterturm improves on every aspect of the original title. Like the original game, an emphasis is placed on moving with purpose instead of slowly farming experience for levels. The player must manage limited resources such as ammo and the overall durability of your Robotic Combat Suit through the use of repair stations scattered around the tower. The player also has to worry about the health of the suit’s pilot as durability decreases, putting a heavier emphasis on avoiding enemies and damage whenever possible.
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
CodeWalkers
Remember the old days playing on your Digimon at school, well this game reminds me of that.. but on my PC playing over the net with friends. I have it on in the background as I’m working or playing other games. I’m really enjoying it and look forward to updates the Dev’s are working on.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
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Simple, yet requires a lot of strategy to set up character builds. Fun to play and break. Remember O' Developer, the Beta Champion will one day beat you.
Also, I would recommend buying 11/10.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Melordandek
Nice game with plenty of levels to play, the difficulty increases step-by-step, and if you get stuck to a level you can use another path and come back later to the level. It is quite addictive and you can be quickly hooked (or hanged :) ) to this.
Some points may be enhanced for a smoother gameplay:
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if you lose in a level and press “space”, try again the level instead of going back to the selection menu
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when you keep “return” key pressed, keep reverting moves instead of just removing one
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a tutorial to know how to use the cracks
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
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edit: 30 levels and some quality of life stuff got added, so I edited the review a bit. then the price got lowered, so edited it again.
melordandek is essentially a draw a single line puzzler, the don’t step on the same tile twice variety, same general idea. 345(!) levels, divided unevenly into 10 zones as the visual novel-style story keeps unfolding, voiced in french (horrible quality from what little I heard), not voiced in english. cutscenes can be reviewed in the main menu, separate volume settings, brightness, lots of color manipulation, even a grayscale option, windowed mode and resolutions, plus the all-important timer toggle in case you don’t want to be bothered or stressed out by a time limit.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Unlock The King
Shuffle chess pieces to clear a path for its titular centerpiece in Unlock the King. While its 100 stages aren’t of consistent quality, the sheer quantity offered for its minimum price point make it an easy shoe-in for brain teaser fans.
Similar to its developer’s other works, UTK is about making way for its central figure. Apart from pawns, every piece makes an appearance here, differing primarily in quantity and stage geometry to keep you invested. It’s a simple formula that’s guaranteed to work, though it is admittedly repetitive. Bread-and-butter chess boards make way for switches in its late half, transforming the playing field and opening up new possibilities.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Imagine it’s Black Friday, and you’ve made the misguided decision to take advantage of some deal you are convinced is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (if only because you went and got trampled). When the clock strikes midnight and myriads of strangers produce an assortment of cutting utensils—some legal and some not so legal—you realize you goofed, and it’s time to abort. You shove strangers, dodge descending blades, leap over toppled grandmas, and shimmy through paths so narrow they would make a spelunker fill their adult diaper. You now understand the gameplay concept of Unlock the King.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
Unlock The King 2
2D is replaced by 3D puzzles. It is more complicated now, harder to manage and understand all the possible move options and possibilities.
At least Undo option is added - that I missed during the Part 1. But this option is buggy sometimes, made the piece invisible.
Level 14 - this was not explained before that you can rotate the view with your right mouse button. Discovered that the second before I was giving up and planned to look for solution. And the rotating stops working sometimes, you need to close the game to make it work again.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
upd: What you can read below is my original review of the first version of this game. I was pretty upset with my first impression which didn’t live up to my expectations, as you can see it. After I posted this review, the developers were fast to respond, and they fixed things I noted here, and I really, really appreciate it. I played this game to the completion and I must say that now it is a good example of a minimalistic puzzle. So feel free to try it and support the developers. Also, I want to thank Raphael, one of the devs, for the answer you can also read below. It means a lot for me, too.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Cubiscape 2
It COULD be a fun puzzle game but the movements are confusing since you might move in the wrong direction because you thought W took you in a different direction to where it actually moves you. it should just be you click the adjacent square you move to
– Real player with 147.4 hrs in game
I see no downsides. Here is a list - a small one - why this game is good.
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free to play
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nice logic puzzles
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build your own puzzles
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start with easy riddles end with brain breaking hard ones
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regular updates
It’s a yes from me. If you want to chill, beat some time and solve riddles. This could be a game for you. :)
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Reskue
Silence on cosmic station somewhere in deep space. Scientists no answers.
You are a agent, who must inspect station and save people and science ultimate discovery.
Scientists in a cryostasis sleep, system of station awakens and unfreeze people, but scientist hard to thinking.
Enemy is unknown, technics engaged destroying people, materials, ammo.
Stock still have equipment can you use in mission.
Your ship use radioactive fuel.
Save scientists, take care of science, and good luck!
Space Drone: Rescue Mission
This is actually a good little puzzle adventure.
Rooms can get quite difficult as you proceed further into the game.
Also its cheap and entirely worth the modest price being asked.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Ok, this game has taken me by surprise. I was expecting something easy and fast, but this game has some puzzles that forced me to stop and think what am i doing - what isn’t something bad, to the contrary, is extremely good. It gets harder the more you progress, and i still didnt finished it (pretty close to the end tho), but, until now, i having lots of fun with this.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Unlock The King 3
So, you haven’t learned your lesson and you’re here for your third outing on Black Friday. Set your watch and hit the panic button, because it’s go time. When the clock strikes midnight and myriads of strangers produce an assortment of cutting utensils—some legal and some not so legal—you realize you goofed, and it’s time to abort for the third time in a row. You shove strangers, but not too many since it’ll make it easier for the devil to follow you. Dodge descending blades, leap over toppled grandmas, and slap on your gravity boots so you can take to the walls and bypass the mob. You now understand the gameplay concept of Unlock the King 3.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
The bugs, poor camera, and annoying 3D boards of Unlock the King 2 are gone, but now the camera is Y-inverted, there are fewer levels, and it feels as though the developer just didn’t care about the quality of the puzzles anymore. So many sections of puzzles, including pieces and buttons, go unused – and not even in a “red herring” manner. They don’t serve to distract or confuse because there’s no reason to consider them.
It’s cheap and I didn’t hate it, but it’s not really worth the time. The first in the trilogy was the best.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Unshaded
You like big Guns?
You like shooting your Way through hundrets of Enemies?
You like Bombing everything away that comes insight?
You like your Enemies hearing you coming in a distance from over 1000 Yards?
Wanna be like RAMBO?
Then you are wrong here. Sorry.
Here you will only have a Katana and your Skills.
You can be like SNAKE EYES!
Come on, thats the cool Ninja from the G.I. JOE Series.
BUT you have hundrets of Enemies!
Welcome to UNSHADED!
Somewhere in a dark Future, in a World ruled by Corporations, plagued by corrupt Police and Gang Wars you, the mysterious Fiend, are hired by one Corporation to test new Technology. Thats also your Chance to clean this World from the Scum that infested it.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
I dont play stealth games often but this was actually not that bad. Apart from the gore it has. The enemies AI walk into thier own traps HAHA probably the most funny thing about this game I would say you should probably buy this when its on discount otherwise there are better games. Good game. Needs more Updates and Levels
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game