Gunsmith
So I left this review simmering for far too long - and I have been admittedly fraudulent in not giving an update. However, I will say that I’m glad I waited as long as I did, because there is literally not enough good things to say. Am I writing a review for a completed game? Absolutely not. However, I’m reviewing a game that at its current state is 100% playable and enjoyable.
I’ll begin by correcting the claims from my prior review - the economy is now stable and effective, the gameplay is devoid of all major bugs, with the minor ones being easily self correctable with no negative impact to the progression. For an assembly style game, the aesthetic feels great, the engine is not taxing on the computer, and the overall assembly process feels great with plenty of room for individual optimization and creativity.
– Real player with 242.2 hrs in game
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As much as I’ve played this game, after all said and done, I just wish it had more content to keep you invested, but it is in Alpha and this is one to keep an eye on if you like this style of game as the developers release patches and content consistently. I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game for the first 20 hours or so but it became extremely repetitive once you optimized certain production lines and did all the research possible.
The bones of this are good, the graphics are great, and there’s something extremely satisfying about tweaking a manufacturing line until it’s optimized, then further adding other producting lines and having certain machines do the work of both lines so you can eliminate waste (i.e, having 2 lines use the same sewer/zipper, etc.
– Real player with 183.1 hrs in game
Ecoplanet
Ecoplanet is a tycoon-based eco-simulation game with a variety of opportunities to manage, design and expand your own islands. You are free to place whatever animals, plants and scenic objects you desire. But be warned because every action has a consequence and you wouldn’t want your ecosystem to collapse! Work with E.Corp to become an island expert and make your millions.
You will be working with a company called E.Corp who are your friend when it comes to making money and progressing through the game! You will need to send them your animals to help them out, whether it’s for a new exhibit in a zoo or to be used for research. You should assist them as much as possible and make a pretty penny at the same time!
As you get deeper into the game and earn more money, you will be able to unlock many new species of animals and plants! There are various ways that you can do this, the easiest is by completing missions. The next method is animal research, this will cost you but after funding the research of an animal you will be able to unlock and purchase them for the island. Finally, you will get random visitors throughout your time playing Ecoplanet, to get them to stay you must meet their requirements and convince them your island is the best to call their home.
Open up your very own island tours business and let guests view your island in boats, helicopters and submarines. Open up food, drink and souvenir shops to maximize your profits and keep your customers happy. Increase your island rating to attract more customers and become an even richer island owner!
Breeding is one of the most important systems implemented in the game, not only will it be necessary to maintain a species but you also have the creative freedom to selectively breed your animals to produce animals with specific traits/genetics. Some of the genetics that you can breed for are below:
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Height
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Hunger
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Speed
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Lifespan
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Reproduction Rate
Using the terrain editor you can create tall mountains and deep rivers to accommodate for the animals on your island. Let your creativity flow and create an island exactly to your needs!
Ecosystem designing doesn’t stop on the land! There has been an abundance of marine creatures made for life in the ocean! Make sure you learn to build above and below water to maximize your profits whilst creating beautiful islands.
Its just me! My name is Brad and i’m the solo developer of Ecoplanet. The idea started in September 2018 but it was designed to be an educational simulation tool as part of my university degree. However after two years of developing, once graduating I decided I wanted to turn it into a commercial game. I have always been a fan of tycoon games ever since I started playing Roller Coaster Tycoon so I have used that as inspiration to fuel the tycoon side of the game, with other inspirations coming from more of my favorite games such as Viva Pinata!
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Endless ATC
This is an amazing little game.
The game starts out very simply, with just a few planes to control. As you guide them successfully to their destinations, the number of planes in your space increases, and so does your mental load.
A simple and effective interface lets you put your air traffic plan into action almost as quickly as you can think it (via any combination of keyboard, mouse, and touch).
Before long, you must be completely focused on managing the traffic to keep everything running smoothly and your score increasing.
– Real player with 512.4 hrs in game
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I’m not easily impressed, but this is really good.
It has all the complexities of the real thing:
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Standard Instrument Departures
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Standard Terminal Arrivals
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Parallel approaches
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Airspace restrictions
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Minimum Safe Altitudes
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Separation criteria
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Wake turbulence separation
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Emergencies
And it’s all packed into a UI that is so easy to learn and simple to use, it actually makes the complex task of controlling air traffic look like child’s play.
Designers of RL ATC software, move over! Look at this title and explain to me why “the real thing” always looks so damn complicated, because this simulation here proves what an intuitive UI can look like.
– Real player with 73.2 hrs in game
Jury Trial
Interested in creating your own cases? With the ingame case editor you will be able to write your own cases and share them with the community. Whether fictional or recreated cases, the ingame editor got you covered.
In this law simulation RPG you will join a group of innocence lawyers who take on the fight for justice, representing the poorest of the poor, the victims of the criminal justice system and the wrongfully convicted. However, defending the defenseless costs a lot of money. Therefore you will also be in charge of high profile cases to generate funds for your fight for justice. Work through the case material, find inconsistencies and discover new evidence, analyze and select the jurors and experts, question the witnesses and convince the jury at trial. Your clients depend on you for they have nowhere else to go but prison…
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Play the campaign, the single case files or download new cases created by the community from the Steam Workshop
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Create and upload your own cases using the ingame case editor
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Search for evidence in a variety of different case materials
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Question witnesses and jurors to find their specific traits and opinions
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Choose the jury that fits your client
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Try the case in the court of law
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Solicit legal and illegal help to find the loophole or evidence that breaks the case
The game is set in a fictional country deeply divided by racial profiling, prejudice and social injustice. A deep bias runs through the country and its people. Apart from your courtroom skills as a gifted negotiator, it’s crucial for you to find a jury that gives your client a chance. Otherwise every argument and scientific fact might be in vain because no one will listen.
Your potential jurors consist of:
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Ten unique regions
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Four ethnic groups
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Six religions
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Four political currents
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Four levels of wealth and education
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And six further defining traits out of a pool of over sixty traits
This game is a passion project of two indie developers and we’re looking forward to hearing your feedback. If you have questions, suggestions or might be interested in a offering your help as a potential beta tester or translator, please contact us using the Steam Community section or via social media on Twitter, Discord & Instagram:
Taekwondo Demonstration Team Simulator
You get your money’s worth just for having access to all the poomsaes being executed by these cool characters.
The game itself is actually overly simple but it’s still cool if you like Taekwondo.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
To The Rescue!
TLDR: I’ve quite enjoyed this game so far, worth the thumbs up, but there is room for improvement. Give it a go if you’re a fan of organization and multi-tasking, but be mindful that eventually at some point, sooner or later, the challenge fades away. The game lacks consequences.
Strap in lads this is gonna be a long one.
This is my first review of any game ever, nearly 50 hrs deep, I feel pretty divided on this game. I really have enjoyed it and I can’t wait to see where the developers will take the game from here. Yes there are bugs, but I do want to say you guys have been so prompt with updates and fixes, what felt like after the weekend the majority of bugs I was experiencing had been completely fixed. We went from nearly unplayable because the game simply ceased to function whenever I spoke to anyone to the worst, but probably funniest, being today helplessly dragged along with the newly adopted puppy by a old woman out into the carpark. Understandably bug fixes and crashes come first, but in the long run will there be any major changes to the game play itself? Or will it remain as is? Either way Devs you guys are amazing and keep up the great work!
– Real player with 47.1 hrs in game
My save file shows a time of 6:37 and steam 14.2 - and I feel like I have no reason to play anymore. I really wanted to love this game but it’s just too..aimless? short?
I was completely addicted to it during the demo, where the limit was 5 in game days! Don’t get me wrong, despite everything, I enjoyed playing the game. But at present I’d only recommend it at a larger discount unless you’re happy to play endlessly without any real goal.
I’m a really goal orientated person when it comes to games like this - if I don’t have a story-based task, or I’m not trying to unlock something useful, if there aren’t any meaningful objectives/level progression then I lose interest. There’s no difficulty increase or anything like that, if anything the game only gets drastically easier. The Mayor stops coming by after you complete her tutorial-esque tasks and apparently comes back at week 9 with an evaluation report. I’m on week 5, and I’m kind of too bored of the game to worry about seeing said report - I stopped playing.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
Ostranauts
Caveat emptor: this game is in super ultra bleeding edge early release. Lots of forthcoming features are not implemented yet. There’s still weird bugs. If you’re looking for a mature Blue Bottle Games title, go play NEO Scavenger and come back in a few months once the rest of us have playtested and QA’d this game into shape.
With that being said:
Ostranauts is an effective, entertaining spiritual successor to NEO Scavenger. You begin by using a sink to choose your appearance and gender/pronouns (you can be male, female, or nonbinary - big upgrade from the original!) A randomized personal history generator now precedes the trait selector, and your choices when generating your background influence how much starting cash you have available to kit yourself out before going hunting for a derelict to fix up and call your own.
– Real player with 103.4 hrs in game
A quick preface here: This review is based on the early access release as of 12th October 2020. This game is BROKEN and needs a fair bit of patience to play. There is only the one save slot and it’s easy to overwrite it and wind up with all your effort so far being lost. This is very-very Early-Early Access, bear that in mind.
That said, it’s a great game (the huge number of bugs, some game breaking, notwithstanding). The lack of a tutorial makes it hard at first to get your head around it but basically you play a spacer in a huge space junk yard. You start off with a little money and a tiny shuttle, you have to buy the gear you need and fly to, then fix up, a derelict space ship. That’s pretty much it at the moment but as you have an extremely complex control system where you have to scavenge parts from a number of hulks before you can fix up the trash ship of your dreams, and everything is included: Floors/Walls to make it airtight, doors to compartmentalise, temp gauges/heaters/coolers to control the temp, O2/N2/air pumps to control the pressure and breathability, beds, fridges, toilets, sinks, food, water, money, power plants, batteries, wiring, lights… believe me, it’s enough to be going on with.
– Real player with 39.6 hrs in game
Weed Shop 2
Although I was disappointed to find the game was no longer available on the Play Store, I found an APK ;)
Now for Weed Shop 2: Basically the same as the previous generation, PC tuned graphics still aren’t mindblowing, but they’re decent enough and bearable. Updates are still rolling out; I have to say I’m quite impressed by the presentation of such a good game from a solo developer! Keep up the great work kid! Procedurally grown weed is fun to watch; knock out burglars, and vandals, and spice vendors harassing your customers, roll and smoke joints, blunts, bongs. Mingle with people on the beach by walking outside the shop! You can even adopt a cat*!
– Real player with 438.2 hrs in game
This is one fantastic game it haves everything you expect in a game and it is very original such a new idea that works i just hope they go further with it and add much more DLC this is a winner of a game and must be a big money maker for the devs i have played it for some time and on level 70 and i enjoy this game so much had no issues with the game so far not been arrested yet for growing and selling weed so this is one game you can grow and sell weed in safety with no fear of police raiding you lol.
– Real player with 156.5 hrs in game
Monastery Builder
Monastery Builder is a simulator of life in a medieval monastery. Take up a monk’s way of life and see if you can handle the daily challenges that come with it.
Ora et labora - pray and work. These are the main rules that guide the way for each monk. Only so much and so many. If you think it’s nothing, then you’re in for quite a surprise. Each day is subject to strict organization and there’s no time to get bored in your monastery. Complete all tasks in line with this motto, gain new experiences, and become an important ‘somebody’ in the monastic hierarchy.
Arrange a proper agricultural base. You have to plant cereals that you can use to bake bread and distribute among the poor. It is also important to take proper care of vegetables, fruits, and herbs growing in the monastic gardens. Without them, you won’t be able to prepare potions for the sick, or wine for trade. There are plenty of similar challenges ahead.
Grow your monastery. Expand it with more buildings and develop the infrastructure. Medieval monasteries were famous for having exceptionally rich hospitals and educational facilities. They also served as sanctuaries for weary travelers and played a vital role in supplying nearby residential settlements with products. You have to build it all by yourself, so you better get to work!
Pizza Shop Manager
Played it for a little over an hour and am quite disappointed.. I realize the game just released today but it is extremely frustrating from the start. Expectations are set high as the customers want they’re food fast and the machines work slow and they’re is no way to build up an inventory of pre-made dough which takes the longest. I might play it in the future with some updates.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Gameplay is slowburn and passive but sometimes it gets overwhelming.I would’ve love if there is more in depth tutorial. There is a bit of a learning curve to this game. I like this game because I like games which give me entreprenurial rush. Game is just release today I hope developer will keep improving game.
PS: Please add an option to go to main menu from setting panel.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game