Interregnum Chronicles: Signal
First advice: Read the game description closely :)
This plays like a “walking” simulator inside a satellite called “Harmony” that accommodates one person, so you’re floating in microgravity with ways to grab onto things and push yourself around. The core of the game is to tweak signal processing using human interfacing terminals, and that mysterious signal of unknown origin and requires decoding to find out what it is/says/does. At first the system doesn’t have the capacity to process the entire signal so an Operator (you) needs to approve lots of AI upgrades. See where this is going?
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game
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So I have played this game a fair bit and tried to “get into it” but honestly, it’s pretty awful. I’m writing this review with steam saying that I have had 11 hours playtime, but really it’s more like 5 or 6 because I would leave the game on to “idle” in order to farm the necessary resources to progress the story.
And that is pretty much the game in a nutshell. Leaving it running to obtain an ever increasing targeted number of resources that are basically just numbers on one of several terminal screen’s. There are Networking, Data Processing and Memory “resources” that you need to increase in order to upgrade the stations AI and each resource is tied to the others with glass ceilings that you need to break by obtaining more of one of the other resources. There are ways to expedite the process such as using up to 4 batteries on a terminal but honestly, that just gets annoying. The batteries will explode if you overcharge them (or at least damage the stations electrics) and when you do use them they don’t last long at all. I haven’t timed them but I would be shocked if they actually last more than a minute or two at most. When you do have to recharge them as well, you can only carry one at a time and so you have to take each one from where you need it back to the garden where the charging ports are. Obviously you can’t plug one in and leave it charging whilst you fetch another as it will likely overcharge and short out the electrics so you end up floating along carrying one for a 2nd, dropping it to pick up another, dropping it to pick up a 3rd and so on until you get them where you need to go. Obviously you are in space with no gravity and so they drift…. a lot. Yeah, lets just say that gets old. Fast.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
Crypto Mining Simulator
Can’t really recommend this game. Seems to be pretty poorly constructed. I’ll try to point out some of the design flaws.
Game crashed and dupped the rig I was working on. I broke the game and I wasn’t even trying
UI is pretty confusing. You can’t tell what is buttons and what isn’t.
Inconsistent UI, i.e. you can sell Eth from the escape menu but have to go into the market to sell BTC.
Outside of the tutorial, which is short, there’s really nothing to do but let money accrue. Might as well be an idle game.
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game
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Before I slam this game for all the problems it has, I will say I’d be willing to revisit this after they fix the issues and make some enhancements moving forward.
Pros -
1. Fairly easy to move forward with mining and building
2. Allows one to redesign there room
3. Offers a sandbox environment.
Cons - (there are a lot!)
1. Customer builds never seem to work, After accepting a task, building to spec, placing in customer pickup area …nothing happens.
2. Sometimes buying a rack comes completely assembled
– Real player with 16.7 hrs in game
Laptop Tycoon
Pros:
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Good UI (in some places)
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Logical review system (i think, did a few tests and seems that way)
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Can get your own OS on the ratings
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Smooth animations are back
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Leagues better than the crap mobile version
Cons:
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MAJOR graphical issues from newest update, everything is pixelated no matter what settings (still not fixed, devs ignoring this bug)
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Never gonna receive updates (this company never add features post-release)
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Lots of minor and some major bugs that will never be fixed
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Bad UI (in some places, like how you can’t view laptop reviews after its out, hard to memorise everything they said in that 1 panel)
– Real player with 18.8 hrs in game
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–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
Naked News
One of the funniest games ive played in ages. I havent been laughing this much since … i dont even know anymore. Its a wonderful game and definitely worth its price. Oh and since the credits encouraged me to give the creators of the game some feedback: ITS AWESOME, YOU DID A SPLENDID JOB GUYS AND I HOPE THERE WILL BE MORE OF THAT. No but seriously, im willing to spend all my hard earned money on games like this. As uve stated in the credits jokes are getting a worse image day by day and so i love to see guys like you who dont hesitate do be a little bit more daring than most of the other devs out there. Seriously, the price is fair and square for what we get, its a great game and im looking forward to see more of you :)!
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Having played Randumb Studios, this one on it’s surface seemed much different as most of the others are horror themed. Fun little game - it’s brief but definitely worth the price and you will get some laughs out of it if you aren’t too dead inside.
I also suspect the game itself is a piece of a larger puzzle that I have yet to figure out but has me intrigued to no end. Recommend this and the other Randumb Studios games!
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Incremental Cubes
At this time I feel like you should probably not get this game.
Quick notes:
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The game is free, but you should be warned that the game is still buggy and the balance is out of whack.
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Also not very obvious in the video or description is that while the game is free, there is an in-game store where you can purchase stuff like temporary speed boosts, extra slots, and permanent upgrades to the game speed. You aren’t explicitly forced to buy anything and there is a daily bonus that can give you a bit of the in-game currency, but it’s random and even with the best luck (always getting the 3% chance reward) it would take 10 days to get anything really worthwhile.
– Real player with 272.9 hrs in game
Most recent update destroyed the game. In discord the Developer said;
“[v 1.0.7 “Hot Fix”]
Offline bonuses and helper updates
Adjusted to reset the original maximum value on prestige.”
These “helper updates” have caused people to no longer progress in the game at a reasonable rate. Game is now in a dire need of rebalancing. game is currently UNPLAYABLE as of November 22nd 2021. I will not be playing anymore. I will consider my $10 that I paid for the “starter pack” a “cost” of trying out this game. I do NOT recommend to anyone who likes Idle or Incremental games.
– Real player with 212.9 hrs in game
Darwin’s Aquarium
The game is a realtime fish simulation with realtime learning artificial intelligence.
Build up a tank, start training and breeding your own fish and maybe some day, start defeating the big evil bossfish!
Earn money by advancing your breeding capabilities, improve your breeding grounds and unlock more valuable fish.
You’ll see plenty of unbelievable fish interaction: Fish that start hunting, fleeing, cooperating. Some might learn to farm algae, other might start to bait less harmful fish… who knows..? There is no limit to the interaction of the fish and every evolution of species can bring new features. Make sure you select your fish carefully and only breed the fittest, so you can compete against the other fish.
It’s up to you and your fish to cooperate with other players or just defeat them- but be warned: Your fish are getting intelligent. They might have their own will soon!
Fat Prisoner Simulator 3
Might possibly be the best game on the market currently. The graphics, the gameplay, the absolute talent required to even TOUCH this game is insane.
– Real player with 58.3 hrs in game
quite the exceptional game i would recommend this game to others in the future 10/10 from me
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
HOPE VR: Progressive Meditation
seems like voice commands were removed, and perhaps for the best!
menu commands work perfectly and respond instantly.
definitely recommend it at this stage, my favourite is the snow area at night with the aurora in the sky!
i’ll keep an eye on this one as the developer promised more updates to come.
Edit:
the game changed so much from the release date! Kudos to the developer for sticking to it, now the game has alot more to do and I’m loving it!
– Real player with 38.8 hrs in game
you’ll need a big chungus PC if you want to run this game on epic settings in VR, but it was well worth it. though please add more depth to the experience, the world needs to be more “Alive”, perhaps trackers for when you log in daily as I’ve used it for a couple of days and an incentive to keep logging in would work wonders
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
Idle Monkeylogy
This game is based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem, which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text. This explains the main function of the game in which you get gold for trying to type words, the more letters you get correct the more gold you receive.
All the words you’ve correctly typed give you a +1% bonus to gold, these words and the bonus can be checked in Vocabulary. Every so many words give you a permanent bonuses which is done so by going into Edit, however you reset the bonus given in Vocabulary and have to retype the words to get their bonus again.
– Real player with 91.1 hrs in game
I genuinely enjoy this game!
For an ‘idle’ game, it has a truly unique concept (based upon the ‘infinite monkey’ theorem, but unique for an idle, or any game, to the best of my knowledge, at least) that makes it fresh and fun!
I especially enjoy that whilst you absolutely can leave the game idle and make progress, you also have the option to play the game actively, and it’s fun!
Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to ‘make a dictionary’ under the edit tab. Each time I try, it simply resets my progress without allowing me to create my own words list.
– Real player with 73.2 hrs in game
Quantum Project
The Premise
This review contains no spoilers.
Quantum Project (QP) is a side-scrolling shooter / platformer hybrid set in a post-apocalyptic, war-torn future Earth. Players impersonate a soldier part of Team Alpha 3, that fights against an army of deadly robots and other enemies, while being assigned with progressively more difficult missions in each level, often behind enemy lines.
Quick Sum-Up
| 🟩 The Pros | 🟥 The Cons |
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
In general, a good platformer. You have to fight hordes of hungry creatures, to resist an army of robots. Quite good voice acting and musical accompaniment, the game has very good animation of movements, the gameplay is on the verge of tactics and action.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game