Primal Hunger
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Hunt or be hunted. Eat or be eaten. Evolve or die. Play as a fledgling creature vying for dominance. Eat. Kill. Evolve. Dominate the evolutionary chain, and crush those who challenge your right as the Alpha Predator.
You must slay other evolutions to gather catalyst. As you gather catalyst you can evolve into more powerful creatures eventually turning into an Alpha Predator, capable of wiping other players from the game permanantly.
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Carpoon
What happens when you fuse a harpoon gun to a tow truck? Twin-stick car harpooning action! Harpoon and reel cars in, then tow them into the recycling crusher before time runs out.
Designed for one to four players locally or over Steam Remote Play, get the most points in a versus match to win - even if it means recycling your friends and harpooning through their ropes. Or fend off foes from your extra lives in stock taker mode and be the last truck driving.
Not feeling like beating up your buddies? Play together in co-op while towing off waves of potential parking perpetrators.
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MIR4
This game has a lot of potential but it is overrun with bots and there is nothing being done about it. Bots have been an issue from the start of the game and all it would take is a few minutes of active attention on each server per day to identify them and ban them. Even if you dont get them all the first day the numbers will dwindle quickly. Normally you could just play around the bots but these bots are actually taking up the most valuable resource in the game. This resource can either be mined, received as a quest reward, or purchased. The resource is used in over 90% of all crafting, enchanting, upgrading your character in anyway, etc. The bots are able to teleport, and knock you off of the resource without actually damaging you. This wouldn’t even be ok if they did damge you so that you can kill them and get your resource back, because there are so many bots they are programed to have one knock you off and another take the resource that way you cant kill the one who got your resource. Even if you do kill them, they can resurrect and teleport back to the node in seconds where it should take them several minutes to get back on auto run. Another issue is that pvp is so heavily punished in this game that if you kill a bot that was there just to take your resource and not damage you, then you end up suffering more because you can no longer gain xp at full value. Thats right, the pvp penalty effects your growth as a player which is another thing the bots dont care about as they are just after the resource. Once you gain negative propensity because of killing a non hostile bot you are then freely targeted by other players while you try to get rid of the negative propensity. The penalty for killing one none hostile bot is -999 propensity which means you need to kill 400 monsters within 5 levels of you to get back to getting full xp again.
– Real player with 2036.5 hrs in game
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Typical auto-quest game with tedious quests to repeat over. Traps to pay at level 30 - 40.
So many hackers ruining game-play across all servers.
I’m few days into the game and here’s my take on the above.
At level 30+, you will face the problems of having no slot to keep all the important items.
I think this is deliberately designed so people would have to pay some bucks to buy more slots to keep all the items. It becomes very annoying to progress if you don’t pay for extra slots.
At level 40, if you are free-to-pay, you will experience super slow down in quest completion as your starting gears (with free-to-pay upgrade along the way) and stats improvement started to hit the bottleneck. The time to complete each quest becomes 2x-3x and the story quest also become much harder. Yet another trap for you to either go back to auto farming materials for a long time to get a rare item or pay to buy “blue rare starting sets” at the cost of $29.99.
– Real player with 990.0 hrs in game
Commoners
You were nothing more than a commoner among others. Now, you must do what it takes to survive. Kill, slaughter and pillage to success as the kingdom you once knew has fallen and the harsh realities of life is upon you. Now without a home, you will find yourself struggling to fend off against once forgotten beasts alongside other humans. Your throat will bleed as it thirsts, your belly will yearn for crumbs. Be careful, as injury can mean death. Do as you must, no one is watching… or are they?
Commoners is a massively multiplayer online medieval role-playing survival game. With nothing but a small set of tools, venture about and build your way to the top and become the most feared player in a now decayed kingdom you once called home.
Wander about the island; hunt for food, gather for resources, fight your way to success. As you collect, craft new armor and weapons and better yourself for survival in this harsh world. Ask yourself, is this man or woman who stand before you friend or foe. Are you their friend, or are you their foe? Make moral decisions as you befriend or kill other players who may be able to help you or bring death to you.
Chop a tree, fish a fish, cook on a fire; build your first home, craft your first sword. Do as you must in this PVP, PVE old-school RPG inspired game. Your wealth and value in this world is directly tied to what you have earned and stolen.
Key Features
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Large procedurally-generated worlds – explore uniquely generated worlds to provide a different playing experience
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Immersive Experience: Realistic focused graphics and sound with minimal user interface to ensure an immersive experience.
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Cross Platform Co-Op PVP and PVE: Whether you play on Windows or Linux, play with your friends or with strangers as you work to survive in this harsh new world.
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Unique Creatures: Players are not the only being to be afraid of, there are creatures specific to day and night that will hunt you if they see you. Be prepared as those without the will and means to survive will become their meal.
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Intuitive crafting system: Forge weapons and armor, create food and drink
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House and Base building system – Create from the materials you collect and craft an expansive home to protect and store yourself and your items.
Beast Hour
Beast Hour is a dark 3rd person PvP game where you run, hunt and fight!
Play as Raiders – use parkour to explore a forbidden territory of an old haunted сity to find Arkana – unique fuel that powers up your abilities. Compete with other Raiders to get more Arkana to have a chance to stand up against Beasts – vicious predators serving the сity’s Keeper. You can escape or you can fight – the choice is yours.
Play as Beasts – hunt down your prey in the sacred сity of the Keeper. Prove yourself to be the most brutal and furious monster by protecting the divine Arkana from Raiders and kill other Beasts as there could be only one Alpha.
Key Features
- Fast-paced Parkour Chases
Use varied parkour moves and combos to overcome every obstacle on your way and dodge enemy attacks. Every piece of the сity is yours to explore.
- No Allies
No matter who you play as – Beasts or Raiders – you constantly compete with everyone for either the valuable Arkana or just to have a chance to live another minute. Everybody is a rival and may turn against you.
- Violence And Darkness
The world of Beast Hour is a grim and unforgivable place. Be prepared to fight in cruel battles for the world’s most precious resource – Arkana.
- Feel The Hunt
Beasts complete tasks to sense Raiders and follow them to ambush and attack. Raiders must always be on alert and get enough Arkana to have a chance to confront Beasts.
- Unique Heroes
With the help of Arkana technologies Raiders wield different elements such as electricity and poisonous gas. Beasts possess unique and powerful abilities like climbing walls, jumps all over the map, and hunting roar.
- Leveling up
Level up during the game. That allows Raiders to unlock new abilities and Beasts to bust their strength. Shape your playstyle on the go.
- Your Progress Changes The Game
Be the first player to reach the highest level and start Beast Hour – the final battle that defines the most dexterous Raiders and the strongest Beast.
World of Beast Hour
1886. The uneasy truce is breaking down. The world of Beast Hour is on the threshold of a new and the most violent war of all time. The War for Arkana is about to begin.
Arkana is a special substance that fuels machines and gives unprecedented strength to the human body and mind. Arkana has become the reason for rampant industrialization and exponential technological progress over the last decades.
The value of Arkana is unimaginable – this resource is scarce and can only be found in the most dangerous corners of the world. Raiders – outstanding soldiers and mercenaries – look for this demanded substance to support their side of the conflict but, most of all, powerful and mysterious Order.
However, these places are ruled by Keepers. Beasts from all over the world come here to receive their blessings and prove they are the ones to lead the world to a new age prophesied by Cult.
Choose your side – Beast of the bloodthirsty Cult or Raider of the totalitarian Order. Win the war and uncover the dark secrets of Beast Hour!
Hunt: Showdown
I’ve held off writing a review for hunt mainly because I’m lazy and have had no motivation to do such a thing. But now that I get a shiny badge, well, here we go. However rest assured, I will strive to give this game the review it deserves.
Hunt is a PvEvP game, where a match is limited to 12 players sharing the simple goal of locating a bounty target banishing it and then extracting with the bounty. Matches can also either be single bounty or dual bounty. The bounty lair is found via clues located within compounds, each clue removes several compounds from the map until only one is left. Hunters must then deal with the boss located within the bounty compound by killing it and then banishing it. After the banish is complete a hunter can loot the bounty and then make their way to 1 of 3 extraction points on the map, whilst defending the bounty they hold from other hunters attempting the claim it as their own.
– Real player with 1173.5 hrs in game
steep learning curve, watching someone else play helps tons, map knowledge you can only learn over time, weapons and their effective range and how to play around that, but great and friendly community, meaningful fps fights, and sh!t ton of weapons to choose from. games pretty glitchy ngl ie items falling through floors, objects no-cliping through walls, Desync issues you will 100% face, but kinda learn what you can jump on what you can’t, hit or miss Crytek servers, and sometime patches introduce bugs ie 1.7 but when it comes down to it the gunplay is extremely satisfying and when you or one of the boys clutches it makes up for all the bs
– Real player with 1094.0 hrs in game
Shark Attack Deathmatch 2
First of all, let’s start out with the positives and end on the negative notes. You buy this for the single player experience because the multiplayer aspect of it is DEAD. Abandoned by the developers to work on another game, which I find to be a real shame because this game had all the makings of a unique underwater 1st person PVP experience.
POSITIVES: There’s no real learning curve and part of the reason why this game is so fun, because players can jump in and start partaking in the underwater violence of killing, surviving and besting each other and the sharks in a variety of modes. Shark movements and behavior is pretty spot on and the graphics are hauntingly beautiful: from the texture detailing on the sharks, to the various marine life hovering in the background and to the way the sun’s rays penetrates into the ocean as you swim towards the surface. The controls of this game is also very basic and casual friendly, with only a few buttons assigned that serves as the focal point of the combat system. However, this doesn’t mean that your adrenaline won’t start pumping as you struggle, slash and evade your way to survive a group of hungry makos and tiger sharks darting straight at you from the heart of the ocean dephs.
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
Gnash your teeth through a series of challenges in order to come out on top as the fiercest predator of the sea. Tear, shred, pierce, or shoot your way as you go: the possibilities are endless.
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Gameplay
If you ever wanted a game that allowed you to play as a shark, or even kill a shark, then this is the game for you. In Shark Attack Deathmatch 2, you are both the hunter or the hunted. Regardless of what class you select, you have a simple task: eliminate and survive.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Finding Home
I’m really enjoying this game so far!! I love the open sand box feel, with the cross of zombies and survival, It’s a perfect concept. Even though this game is still in Alpha it really is growing fast. So far there have been updates weekly and any suggestions or concerns mentioned in their discord from the community have been discussed and acknowledged. You can really see that the Devs want to bring this game to life with the input from their community. Its great to see an indie company listen to their community and work with them hand in hand. The fact that the company is only charging a 1 time price to buy the game and no future charges for any new maps or DLC is huge too! I cannot wait to see what the future brings!
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
The game is a very early state but shows lots of promise.
Creator looks into feedback on their discord and is looking to constantly improve the game.
Looks like a fun game to watch and see how it grows!
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
PROPHUNT™
PROPHUNT, a hide and seek type of game in big development where you have hunters vs props. Choose a prop and blend in the map. Hide behind containers, trashcans and whatever you can find. Choose a lot of props and try to win the match without being found. You have to be aware that you can use ‘fireworks’ that gives you points. The seeker will see or hear where you are and will try to find you.. Not knowing you could have ran away to a different spot to see the seeker looking at everything he or she can find.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
I played the free version with some friends and I loved the game, but now I have no one to play with.
And because I had no one to play with, I walked on every map trying to find bugs.And I managed to find only one bug as prop.The bug comes at the disadvantage of the props. Sometimes when you change from a small object to a large one, you are left with low HP.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Depth
So is this game worth your time?
TL;DR - Absolutely! Its for those who love the team-deathmatch dynamic with a little twist (the sharks).
I have always loved ocean life, and sharks and the mystery of diving into the unknown is a huge fantasy for most. In Depth you get to explore that world with some goals set in place. Blood & Gold is the most popular game mode in Depth, so my focus will be on what this game mode offers for this review. In this game mode, the divers (4 members) enter the ocean accompanied by a ‘S’ubmersible ‘T’reasure ‘E’xtraction ‘VE’hicle or S.T.E.V.E.. The role of the diver is to scour the ocean for any and all gold, ensure that S.T.E.V.E. successfully retrieves all gold from the safes (4 in total), and protect S.T.E.V.E. through the extraction process as well as the long trek back to the pickup point. The sharks (2 members) are aware of the divers’ presence however. Sharks seek to kill all 34 divers or disable S.T.E.V.E. before their own tickets run out (32 in total) or S.T.E.V.E. escapes. While divers benefit through all gold received through the unlock of new gear/weapons, sharks benefit from every kill made (translated as evolution points) which allow them to unlock new abilities. The 3D navigation for both sides, forced movement through objectives, gradually diminishing visibility, and progression of unlocks makes for an even balance in gameplay (in my opinion).
– Real player with 1902.1 hrs in game
What I think About Depth
Big disclaimer: this whole review is not fact, it’s opinion.
This review is based off sections, so you can review gameplay reviews for diver & shark respectively. Only looking to play shark or diver? This’ll make it easier for you (BUT I seriously recommend playing both at some point!)
Shark Gameplay Review
1: It’s easier to learn shark than diver, I’ll just be straight up honest. Shark you only need to worry about accuracy for grabbing divers, and being sure to net at least two kills for every death you have; trading lives won’t work!
– Real player with 552.7 hrs in game