Frag Grounds
I saw no reviews and I got curious.
First impression, Servers are completely dead. They’re so dead in fact, Steam Charts can’t process the level of JFK dead this game is. SteamDB can though, and there were 2 players on Jun 9th. Peak playerbase was 5 players, on July 23rd, 2020. I hope everyone had fun when they played the game.
My central issue with this game is simple: The singleplayer mode has one map, and the multiplayer, the meat of this game is, as stated, quite dead. In fact, to run a server, I had to rent one from a shady Euro site, whom kept shutting down my server due to the game lobby having a max of 12 players, and the server only being paid for 8 players. That’s on 4NetPlayers however, not the developers.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
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Frag Grounds is an abandoned Early Access FPS arena shooter with a militaristic “tacti-cool” theme. There’s a multiplayer mode (no players) and a wave survival shooter mode where you start in a building and dozens of completely identical AI come running at you for you to shoot.
The developers abandoned the game less than a year after it launched to the sound of crickets. The last update for the game was in April 2021.
The quality here is deplorably bad despite the venerable Unreal Engine backing the game. It looks like many of the game assets are just asset flips from the Unreal Asset Store.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
41 Hours: Prologue
Fun and unique fps with traits from Crysis and Bright Memory.
The official press info:
41 Hours - is a first-person shooter dramatic experience that follows the narrative of Ethan, a workaholic scientist in search of his long-lost wife.
Join his trip through the parallel universes and make those trying to stop you from getting back your love suffer.
You get to master devices that enhance you with super-human abilities:
• Telekinesis (mind manipulation of objects at distance) -
• Time manipulation (fast reaction over slow motion)
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
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For me this game is more promising than other reviewers have found it. I’m not usually crazy about too much story line (too much for my taste in Crysis for eg) but with my favourite shooters going down the campaigns as thinly disguised survival scene after survival scene, where you face ever increasing and ultimately, pointless hordes of enemies to disguise a lack of imagination (think Doom Eternal - Ancient Gods, Serious Sam 4) this game strikes a nice balance for me. Sure there’s bugs, but there’s popular well established games out there with bugs that have never been ironed out. Happy to give this one a chance.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Exoplanet: First Contact
UPDATE below the original review, 23+ hours in the game
I currently have close to 9.4 hours in the game, and I’m at the current ‘end.’ As such, I’ll provide my thoughts thus far:
1st question most ask, is it worth buying? In its current state, at 10 hours of gameplay, that’s a tough sell, but having a chance to perhaps have some input on how the final product turns out may be the tipping point for some.
I’ve had fun. I’ve thought about this game between sessions, which is usually a good indicator that it’s interesting enough, even in its current Alpha state, to keep me guessing. I really hope this winds up as a completed project (have seen a few Alphas sputter and die, let this not be one!)
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
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What if Firefly and Mad Max had a Western themed love child…?
Add in a healthy dollop of Fallout and you’d be looking at Exoplanet: First Contact a real find for those of you lucky enough to stumble across it’s store page.
At the moment - Update 7, mid Jan 2018 - sadly almost nobody has heard of this early access gem. This game is a serious sleeper. It’s a clever, novel concept, the gameplay and the story suck you in from the beginning. I’ve seen criticism of the graphics in other reviews but I guess that was prior to the last update because the desert looks great to me.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
Pick, shoot, repeat!
It is a gun-building game, where the goal is to survival as long as you can to unlocks new maps. The mechanic is:
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PICK your upgrades.
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SHOOT to survive.
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REPEAT the process.
35 upgrades
12 levels
Endless combinations, but which one would help you survive the longest?
It’s time to get out from the solar system
This is an extremely low quality vertical scrolling arcade shootemup/bullet hell game. The objective is to fight through waves of enemies, perform limited ship upgrades, and eventually escape the solar system.
While the quality here is very low, the developer didn’t use retro pixel graphics, which makes this immediately better than thousands of games on Steam. The game runs properly in fullscreen and even supports 4K graphics, again better than thousands of games on Steam. The downsides, however, are significant. The graphics are of very low quality and bad to look at. The controls are lethargic and the ship moves like a slug. The translation is too terrible to make the story digestible. It’s just not fun. And what’s with the unskippable intro that replays when you die and goes on for an eternity?
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Back in 2014 this was not the worst shoot em' up on steam for under 5$. It it still not the worst shoot em' up on steam in 2020. There is plenty of other shoot em' ups this generation for the same price. This game is lacking content compared to todays shoot em' up and this game is no longer being updated or supported. So if you are looking for e decently fun game for about this price, this is fine but keep looking they is alot more out there.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Antibody
You are the cure.
Sanguon, an otherwordly and newly discovered planet, has found itself the hotbed for a highly infectious alien lifeform. After intercepting a distress call from the surface research colony, you conclude the infection rate will outrun your efforts to contact your fellow humans. It is up to your piloting skills and the peculiar cleansing capabilities of your allied Chonklers to save Sanguon - and indeed the universe - from Viroid assimilation.
Multitask to victory.
Efficiently and continuously reposition your Chonkler companions to impede the rising infection. But stay alert, as your friendly critters are completely defenseless and will need your maneuverability and firepower to keep them safe as increasingly dangerous waves of enemies amass to attack.
Their loss is your gain.
Viroid corruption siphoned by the Chonklers can be converted into power-ups by your ship. Radar improvements? Piercing shot? Do you save up for big upgrades, or do you enjoy a flurry of smaller ones? The choice is yours.
A blast from the past, in the present.
A love letter to shoot ‘em up classics like Gradius, R-Type and Defender. Undeniably gameplay driven and thoroughly indulging in 80’s sci-fi pulp, Antibody is sure to excite arcade enthusiasts.
Empyrean Scout
Maneuver your scout corvette through a wonderous but hostile domain. Abuse its superior agility to grind enemies for gear and XP, empowering you to venture further. Empyrean Scout is a space combat Action-RPG, built from the ground up for VR.
Supported by a discomfort avoiding locomotion system, you will toss yourself intuitively through space with one hand while aiming the guns of your corvette with the other. Play seated, standing or in full room scale.
Endurium
Really fun, good workout
– Real player with 19.1 hrs in game
In this game, you wield two “plasma wraiths”, which are essentially lightsabers but with a few extra tricks up their sleeves. You face off against bots as well as 4 different types of drones. Different types of attacks must be countered in different ways: slash, double slash, charged slash, block, deflect, and dodge. You also collect energy that when fully charged allows you to launch a special attack.
The primary game mode is level based. Clear enough levels to unlock the next tier of difficulty, which involves more opponents, tougher opponents, and increased speeds. It took me quite a while just to unlock the third tier, so I can’t even imagine what the highest difficulty (there are 9) is like. Clearing levels also unlocks upgrades to your attacks and defenses. There is also an endurance game mode which continues until you lose.
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
CyberCorp
OmniCity is an overpopulated Eastern European megalopolis where many social classes try to live—or at least survive. The poor districts are controlled by gangs that terrorize citizens and even corporations. Unable to put an end to the crime, the government contracts CyberCorp to eliminate its source—the gang leaders.
You’re an agent of CyberCorp, a megacorporation that owns a revolutionary system: the Synths, or bodies storing personalities of its employees. It’s the Synths that are deployed to the city’s hot spots to carry out missions.
Yours is to take care of the gangs and restore order on the streets of the city of tomorrow!
Level Variety
Complete missions in various locations and explore the futuristic city.
Level Difficulty
Pick your own difficulty level and controls.
Unique Progression System
Enhance your loot and improve your Synth through a card-based system of weapon and armor upgrades.
Deep Mechanics
Capture control points, defend important objects, hack into security systems, and more.
The game also features multiplayer.
Complete the game with your friends or random players.
Glitch Assassin
I picked this up for less than a pound.
It is full of problems, and took some faffing to get it working on index controllers. But I enjoyed it, and had about 3 hours of fun with it.
I couldn’t finish the game because of a checkpoint glitch in mission 4. Still. For less than a pound, this was a blast.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
This game is great, got fun gunplay, good level design and enemies, with enough content to last you for a good while. Story is a bit basic and the graphics arent the best but you don’t tend to notice it during the gameplay.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game