The Riftbreaker: Prologue
ARPG combat + the base building/macro aspect of RTSs + fighting off massive waves of enemies, like tower defence titles (but better than most, due to enemy number).
Fun.
Movement and combat flow is fairly smooth and responsive. The visuals are great, and, on my end, runs fairly well (max settings, mostly running @ 60 fps, some weird dips here and there, and some big dips near the end, when the massive enemy waves hit; 8th gen i7, GTX1070, 16GB DDR4, Win10).
Sounds have ‘oomph’ (although I wish some of the ballistic weapons had ‘snappier’ sounds), and the voice acting is quite good.
– Real player with 51.9 hrs in game
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Its like they took the best bits from all the good RTS, Tower Defence and 3D Platformers that they could think of, then blended it all into a visually STUNNING game!
I will definitely follow this!
Also, for an Alpha build demo! It ran at max settings flawlessly for hours, at around 120fps avg @1440p without cooking my hardware. Great Job!
I think the build and inventory menus have room for improvement and polish but still useable.
Would be nice if you could map the mouse scroll wheel to weapon cycle/change each hand, Right now it doesn’t allow you to use the scroll wheel for anything at all…. But to see button binding options in an early build at all is kinda amazing! Xbox controller works really well but mouse is better for building quickly in straight lines and aiming.
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
Everpixel Valley
Action RPG meets farming simulator.
You’ve inherited a dusty plot of land. With your trusty axe, you set out to establish your pixelated dominance. Can you turn your farm into a bustling empire? It won’t be easy - you’ll have to fight off hordes of enemies seeking plunder. But you won’t have to do it alone - raise an army of tutu-wearing dinosaurs , obese unicorns, and sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads to take the fight to your enemies.
Features:
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Turn your dusty plot of land into a bustling farm! Sow crops, raise critters, and gather materials. But be careful - you’ll need to build defenses. Invaders will seek to pillage your hard work.
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Hack n' Slash ARPG: Defend your farm - wade into the fray and make your enemies regret coming to your turf.
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Character development: Over 24 perk trees to choose from! Choose carefully - you can only choose one primary and three secondary trees!
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Dynamic Landscape: Specializing in a tree changes the farm around you! Pyromancer’s farms become grow hot while Toximancers poison the very land around them! Choose your crops accordingly - not every crop enjoys fire; not every crop is hydrated by poison!
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Crafting: Everything you grow, every material you gather from your foes can be used for crafting. Forge slime swords, gem-infused chainmail, or tools to accessorize your buildings. The materials you use determines the enchantments you get!
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Critters: What farm is complete without dinosaurs, wiener dogs, and walruses? Raise your livestock from eggs into your greatest allies! Bring them into battle or use them as mounts. Your critters eat different crops and produce different materials, so experiment to find the combination that suits your taste!
About Us:
Doom Dino Games is currently a one-man show. I am a professional software engineer that never forgot why I became a software engineer in the first place - I wanted to make great games. Eclectically inspired by games as varied as Diablo 2, XCom, Stardew Valley, Super Mario, Battle Brothers, Dwarf Fortress and Baldur’s Gate 2, I am passionate about making games that I want to play myself.
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The Riftbreaker
First of all, thank you Exor Stuidos for this wonderful game and allowing me to participate in its development cycle to help make it a better game by simply being one of the many bug testers. I have stuck with them from the beginning and watched this game grow over time and am today to finally see its release is a happy day. My review of the game is as follows:
Simply put, it is a legendary game. You play as a mech named Mr. Riggs piloted by Ashley who is on a mission to make this new planet ready for colonization, but its full of crazy lifeforms never seen before aka aliens and strange plants and beautiful sights. In this game, you mostly explore and gather intel of the various lifeforms and plant matter, but need a working base to power up a rift to new areas and ultimately back to Earth. Unfortunately, the aliens want you dead because they do not take too kindly to Mr. Riggs and Ashley stomping around in their yard, so game becomes a tower defense with lot of exploration. Game rewards exploration by ability parts for Mr. Riggs and cosmetics. There are many weapon types, weapon mods, tower mods, many tower types, lots of base mechanics, and lots of combat.
– Real player with 59.1 hrs in game
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Incredibly fun and gorgeous mix of the best elements from a few different genres, in dire need of more complexity and variety.
Don’t get me wrong, I completely recommend Riftbreaker to everyone. I got a solid 46 hours of enjoyment out of it, I can probably push it past 50 even. And the game has been incredibly fun during that time. However, that’s my main issue. I am already at the point where I feel like I’ve done everything, seen everything, and there’s no room for replayability or challenging myself, after “just” 46 hours. Maybe I’m just spoiled by games like Factorio, but I really was expecting to get at least double that time and get a replayable experience. And I feel like the game COULD be that, it could be greater than it is. It should be and it deserves to be.
– Real player with 46.7 hrs in game
Monster Outbreak
About The Game
Monster Outbreak is a wave defence game at its core. You start with a resource building and gathering phase, followed by a wave of monster combat. How you do it is up to you, but you need to craft and build your tools:
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Melee and ranged weapons, from swords to bows to magical staffs
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Weapon based structures like the bomb slingshot and crossbow turret
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Trap structures like spike traps and bomb tripwires
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Weapon enchantments for elemental attacks
Feature List
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Wave survival. Fight as long as you can!
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Single player campaign, local split-screen, and online co-op
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Variety of monsters! The dimensions are always letting through new creatures, from carnivorous plants to wolves!
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Bosses that spawn as you go, including the giant rock golem
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Weapon and item crafting with the items dropped by monsters and scavenged from the battlefield
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Structure construction like the crossbow turret and the bomb-javelin launcher
The Story
It all started when they found the Dimensional Orb. Humanity just couldn’t help themselves. The Orb was too tempting. We now had the ability to explore alternate realities, see things that we never could have imagined ourselves. Of course, when the orb began to go out of our control, we were now faced with an invasion from multiple dimensions.
Yulia, a surviving Royal Guard is now the last hope. With monsters everywhere, the only way forward is to find the orb and destroy it once and for all.
Romancelvania
Romancelvania is a both a loving parody of Metroidvanias and fresh take on dating in games. It’s an RPG that features in-depth weapon and magic based combat, exploration based platforming, and a cast of gorgeous monsters that you won’t be able to resist.
You play as the legendary playboy vampire himself, Drac, as he battles and romances his way across Transylvania. After being reluctantly recruited by the Grim Reaper to star in a “reality dating show,” he’s on a mission to find the world’s most eligible monsters, get them to move into his party mansion, and restore his former glory by killing everything in his path along the way.
Introducing the Thirsty Metroidvania - Romance your way across Transylvania, encounter absurd monsters, craft weapons, learn magic, and more.
Build your castle - Grow the party mansion as you convince more cast members to move in, and decide where monsters live to get stat and skill bonuses.
Enjoy the Showmance - Take the cast members on outlandish dates, massage your sweetheart to unlock more conversation options, and spend time getting to know these supernatural hotties.
Carth
Carth is a multiplayer medieval light fantasy rpg that brings an enormous open world map to explore. The open world on Carth is filled with dozens of unique enemies, legendary items, scores of towns, and truly beautiful scenery. Carth is meant for long time game play and persistent worlds with heavy focus on survival, building, crafting, and the freedom to do what you want. Not to mention many smaller maps meant for faster game play types such as Siege, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, Last Man Standing, Tournaments and more. Players shall be able to host their own public or private servers and select the type of game style they wish.
#### The Four Sibling Gods For hundreds of years the inhabitants of Carth lived in relative harmony. Carth was home to a multitude of different races, factions and clans. Though conflicts would arise from time to time, trouble would soon dissolve into the usual balanced equilibrium so typical of the land. All of this meant little to the four god siblings residing over the realm. The youngest of the four, Taernath, saw the inhabitants of Carth as weaker beings. At first, the dwellers of Carth were mere playthings. Slowly and subtly these manipulations turned towards true evil and corruption of their souls, minds, and bodies.
#### The Evil Within Taernath found the more souls he converted towards his ideals and worship the stronger he became. As a result, the Schism of the Gods came to pass. Once Taernath’s powers grew there was nothing his siblings could do but try to reason and slow his corruption. Their words fell on deaf ears and in one brilliant flash of cosmic light he reduced his siblings to nothing more than shadows of their former selves. With no one left to oppose him, Taernath was consumed by the very evil he once wielded. A darkness fell over Carth that had never been seen before. Portals to other realms opened by Taernath flooded the land with dark shadows and terrors. Tribes of orcs invaded further south from the Clincolt, unholy beings walked through the rifts, and peace was but a distant echo of the past. These are the times that you find at your feet.
#### Can you Survive Can you Survive with evil spread throughout all of the lands how shall you live your life? Shall you bend a knee to the evil that undoubtedly awaits you, or shall you stand and fight? Fight to survive, fight to live, or fight to end this darkness brought forth from Taernath? Can you survive in these times? Welcome to Carth…
Renown
Key Game Features:
*** Fast-paced medieval survival with a strong emphasis on melee combat.
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From building humble farms to huge fortresses, the choice is with the player.
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A focus on horses, carts, and cavalry warfare.
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Custom armor system that deflects ranged attacks.
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Group systems for making Claims, taking titles, giving ranks and more.
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Server Progression and Wipe systems, for an engaging and vastly replayable experience.
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Tools for Community Hosts to help tailor their servers. Future plans for extensive moddability.
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Functioning Combat Alpha waiting for players**
What is Renown?
Renown is a multiplayer survival experience set in a vast and ever-changing medieval world. Players begin with nothing, gather resources, build a kingdom and fight to survive in the hopes of becoming renowned across the land. At its core, Renown is a first-person medieval fighting game, with a strong emphasis on competitive skill-based combat.
Renown takes the most enjoyable and popular aspects from contemporary open-world survival games which include Building, Progression and Social Politics. These are then combined with close quarters, skill-based combat to create an immersive and engaging multiplayer experience.
Key Game Features:
The three main gameplay features which act as the pillars of Renown are:
Combat
The combat system functions with a set of easy to learn, hard to master fighting mechanics. The system is also built so that it is very easy to understand, allowing new players to easily learn the basics. As players become comfortable with the system, their developing level of skill becomes a major source of enjoyment.
Building
The building system uses an easy-to-understand and deploy method. This allows for greater depth when creating both small and large castle or village-type structures. From a small house with only a door, players expand into fully customized castles, creating structures truly unique to the person’s ability and experience.
Raiding
The raiding system represents the pivotal activity that all types of players can undertake in-game. What’s the point in building a great castle if you can’t level someone else’s to the ground. In a way the players are always in an “Arms Race” to see who can build the strongest, smartest, and most awe-inspiring structures. We want to provide you with just as awe-inspiring weapons, siege engines and all the utilities required for an ongoing medieval war.
Harsh
An incredible indy game! fast paced and fun to play.
– Real player with 42.7 hrs in game
The Game is still a little clunky, the AI tends to ignore you until you interact with NPCs and creatures ( but then they fight till one of you die evan the turtles ) . It is early access, but I see it as a STRANDED DEEP or HOLD YOUR OWN meets SAVAGE LANDS with a little extra magic tossed in. It still needs polishing but I think mthis game has real potential watch video:
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Survive Into Night
Hello ! First of all I want to say that I love Retro Pixel games and this game has unique atmosphere, very big potential to become amazing game. I really like the concept and ideas which are used in this product. I hope it will be still developed and I can’t wait for more updates :) Best greetings for Genetix Studio. I wish you all the best during work on the production of this game !!! Very very big thanks for the key of the game and I love this mini game with flying pig :P ;) I can imagine it takes a lot of time to make a game like this and I appreciate the work and idea put into this game.I hope the game will develop in terms of story, new quests, crafting and maybe even base building. I wish you perseverance in the further work on this game.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
I got a key from the developer so thank you for letting me try your game.
I wanted to try this game because I enjoy top-down horror games like this, sometimes when I was playing I couldn’t pick up items for some reason took me a while to figure out how to get into my inventory but that’s just me i’m thick.
I went to the hospital but couldn’t find any trace of the person I was looking for but again maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place.
Overall I really liked it and gave me retro vibes of playing back in the 80’s and 90’s I made a video with no commentary just having a look at the gameplay.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Actraiser Renaissance
First of all, this is a QUINTET remaster. The mere fact that this game exists is a tremendous blessing for a certain cult fanbase.
The obvious bias aside, is the game good?
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE
It’s obvious that a lot of faithful effort was put into remastering this game. From including Yuzo Koshiro’s amazing soundtrack and accompaniment to the astounding artwork given to the many characters, menus and intro cutscene. People put their sweat and tears into this, and it shows in that regard.
– Real player with 54.0 hrs in game
A great example on how to make a remake. Renaissance does an excellent job of bring the original SNES games action and town sim into a modern era with new graphics, classic and remixed soundtrack, and expanded story that makes you feel more immersed in what was a somewhat bare-bones world before.
The new artwork is great and the story telling is actually quite deep. Everything reads like a positive psalm with the writing really showing some great character development and overall storytelling. Which is good as all the new characters do little gameplay wise. The story is the only way you will interact and learn about the characters and their backstories.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game