Intemporel
[FR] Par ou commencer ? Ce jeu… Une petite pépite. Je ne savais pas trop à quoi m’attendre quand j’ai commencé à y jouer, et j’ai adoré découvrir ce platformer assez atypique, avec un gameplay que je n’avais jamais expérimenté avant. Un jeu qui teste les réflexes (on m’avait pourtant prévenu !), mais qui a une capacité à transmettre des émotions assez incroyables. Des personnages intrigants et attachants (coucou Chester), une BO à tomber par terre qui crée une ambiance incroyable, une DA magnifique… Juste trop bien. Et puis le mieux, c’est que ce jeu nous pousse à nous dépasser toujours plus, toujours plus loin, et c’est très difficile de s’arrêter. Et même quand on pense que c’est fini… Ça ne l’est pas ! C’est un jeu qui est fait pour être fait plusieurs fois, afin de faire des choix différents, pour découvrir de nouveaux personnages, des morceaux de l’histoire, et surtout, les 28 fins différentes ! Petit plus pour les stats avec le compteur de morts, qui s’élève à 1 019 pour ma première run… Mais 6 758 sauts ! Impressionnant pour 8 ou 9h de jeu, non ?
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
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Don’t be late in this race against time runner-plateformer game ! You can make your own choices and write your own story. The game got pretty intense and deep rather quickly and without noticing it you will be drown in the storyline. I would say the storytelling is clearly inspired by the cryptic Dark souls games so I would suggest you to be prepared to explore this world if you want to piece the whole story together and finally have the full picture. I can assure you it totally worths it !
Concerning the gameplay, I can only say one thing : Prepare yourself to split your brain into two parts, you will need it ! Sometimes you will feel like you want to rage and give up because you cannot get through a level, but the amazing soundtracks just won’t let you. When you will finally succeed, HELL YEAH it is so satisfying !
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
a nifty game
[PLAYED ON REGULAR DIFFICULTY]
Just from the brief amount I’ve played, I’m kinda surprised that this game has been abandoned. So, for those who have stumbled upon this game by accident (maybe your friend had it in their library or you got a coupon for in from badges), here’s a quick review for ya.
A Nifty Game is a very simple 2D rougelite shooter, similar to “Enter The Gungeon” in overall gameplay. Where it deviates though is through it’s simplicity and clunkiness. Encounters are very simple as they only involve dodging and shooting, and you eventually enter an overpowered state depending on how lucky you’ve gotten during a run. Still, I’ve found myself enjoying the little spirts of battle in the game, even when the clunkiness started showing up. I’m calling the clunkiness an intended feature of the game, given how it ended. I bring it up since there will be points where you escape from the map or where the visuals will look like they’re broken. Still, I found these bits of clunkiness fine and in some aspects enjoyable. The only real problem I have with the game is the music, or lack thereof. The trailer might be chiptune, but all you’ll really hear in the game is wind.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
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ADIOS Amigos: A Space Physics Odyssey
The best game I’ve played in a long time. What makes the game so good is the awesome physics model and the refreshing new game mechanics. Everyone that has once thought Angry Birds (or some other physics model based game) is great and is not afraid to face higher difficulty levels or roguelike games, should definitely try this. You can even increase speed of time and fly slowly to save fuel and perform gravitational slingshots. Easiest mode is winnable with rudimentary skills, but the highest difficulty level requires either really high skills or insane luck.
– Real player with 147.5 hrs in game
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I am pleased to announce that ADIOS Amigos is the second contender for the iGOTY 2018 award.
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What a quirky yet pleasant surprise we have here with ADIOS Amigos. This is very refreshing in just such a chill way. But don’t get me wrong, there is certainly challenge and drive here too. This title takes some design risks, and I think they pay off handsomely.
Essentially, this is a run-based score-chaser where each level is a solar system. The whole thing is a physics sandbox, and I might add that the physics feels better than most, if not all, in this small genre. The core game mechanic is discovery. Every time you discover things on planets, you get points. These things could anything from dumpsters, to rocks, to aliens, to space junk. You get enough points, and then you are free to jump to the next level/solar system. Obviously if you are score-chasing, you want to stick around and try to get the harder points on the level. Or you could just skim the cream with the easy points and rush off.
– Real player with 37.5 hrs in game
Barbara-ian
Game Details
Published by: Owlbear Ltd.
Developed by: Owlbear Ltd.
Genre: Action/Indie/Early Access
Release Date: 17 Jul, 2015
Completionist Gameplay: Endless
“Barbara-ian, a mythical badass with perma-rage & a penchant for smashing. “
The Gameplay
Barbara-ian is a top-down run and gun action game with a female protagonist. This should already make you want to play the game. If you need further convincing, read on.
With only one hit point standing between you and certain death (and the loss of your beloved Tome of Laser Vision), Barbara-ian is the true definition of exciting. If you liked Hotline Miami, I would absolutely recommend buying this. The game being in Early Access shouldn’t deter you. Barbara-ian is fully playable and is not missing any key components. The only reason it is still in Early Access is because the developers want to continue adding more content for us to enjoy.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
This game is difficult.
This game will anger you.
This game will kill you… a lot.
But all the deaths and quick restarts
make completing a level so satisfying!
Pros:
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Wonderful soundtrack
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Fast-paced combat
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Nice voxel graphics
Cons:
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Can’t switch the weapon
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Sometime is too dark
This is a good indie game!
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Cthulhu pub
Cthulhu pub is a pub simulator with Lovecraft universe lore.
In Cthulhu pub, you can build your own pub or restaurant. Create cute characters, creepy monsters and establish a small pub or make a large cafe with a big amount of options.
Game features:
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Build walls and floor for your pub!
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Build tables and kitchen appliances
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Set decorations
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Hire your stuff: cook chefs, cleaners, and waitresses
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Hire warriors who will protect your pub
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Buy new recipes for the kitchen
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Grow your food
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Earn billions with your Cthulhu pub!
Elemental War 2
Elemental War 2 takes you into a threatened world: hordes of monsters suddenly pour out of the abysses of hell from a faulty summoned portal. Will you manage to build a defense line of defense towers against the forces of evil in time?
Elemental War 2 offers you the popular tower defense feeling combined with innovative game mechanics: as soon as you defeat an elemental - a particularly strong enemy that will demand everything from you - you’ll receive its element stone, which you can use to build new defense towers. As you keep collecting elements, you’ll always have new levels and tower combinations at your disposal.
Only if you skillfully combine the different towers and make use of their advantages will you be able to stand up to the monster hordes. Through in-game side quests, you’ll also unlock items that further enhance the abilities of your towers or decisively weaken your opponents at just the right time!
Elemental War 2 offers you dozens of hours of gameplay to develop strategies, complete all the quests and discover all the secrets of the game world. The lovingly hand-built maps offer you varied games and always new challenges!
Features
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The popular tower defense game principle with new gameplay elements
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Face the powerful elementals and their special abilities
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Solve quests to unlock upgrades for your towers
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Play 11 varied maps in three unique environments: forest, ice and desert
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Play alone or in co-op mode
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Compare yourself with other players in the global leaderboards
Are you ready to face the elementals?
Goat over it
After finishing the game I can finally rage about this damn game. It is definitely unpolished. If, for example, you do a Backflip, your legs turn into cooked noodles and just flip away even though you are landing on your feet and therefore lose. If You do the exact same action twice, you may get different outcomes. For example pressing “E” until the goat can’t turn any higher may result in the goat just standing there(which isfine), or in flipping over(which tilts alot), at the exact same spot(like Starting points). Furthemore the “Hitbox” when you hit your Body on something and you lose sometimes feels just off. Sometimes it doesnt count even though you are clearly hitting it, and sometimes you just die standing close to an object and you guess you hit your head.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Addicting if you like this kind of games
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Never Give Up
To the prospective player:
As a lifelong fan of ArmorGames, one can imagine my delight when I was meandering down the aisles of the Indie Megabooth at PAX West 2018 and saw a familiar face. No, I don’t mean Tasselfoot, whose helpful video walkthroughs helped me through all of my favorite flash games from 2010.
It couldn’t be! The memories flashed by in mere seconds, reminding me of pain-staking hours spent guiding a blue humanoid through a deadly array of obstacle courses, being tantalized by a sadistic robot reminiscent of some of science fiction’s best antagonists, such as HAL 9000 and GLaDOS.
– Real player with 156.4 hrs in game
Let me get straight to the point, is this game fun?
I have 2 answers for that
Yes - if you like hard games that are easy to get into but though to master
No - if the line above doesn’t match
Personally I think this game is pretty fun and it’s worth the time to beat it
My first run was on hard but there is no a shame of going on easy mode
There is a mechanic in this game that I like where if you die 10 times in a level you can give up and go to the next one and then return when you feel ready
(My friend had to give me back 15 dollars for a game that I bought for him and I’m happy that I made him buy me this game)
– Real player with 27.3 hrs in game
Rencounter
This game is not for everyone. This is a challenging, turn based, dungeon crawling RPG.
The game puts you on the bottom of a 10 level duneon. To win, you must escape. You work with 1-3 characters to clear rooms, gain loot and improve your characters so that you can tackle the next level of the dungeon. When you start the game, you won’t get any tutorials or much in the way of help. However, the game isn’t hard to learn and exploring is part of the fun (though many will not agree with this).
– Real player with 342.1 hrs in game
I think this is a very clever game with a lot of potential. It is not of course a fully featured AAA title, and so it isn’t priced as one. Clearly some people have had difficulty with the lack of a manual, but if you go into it knowing that it is Roguelike, and how Roguelikes work, you should be fine.
Thematically, and narratively, the game can certyainly do with more development, and I hope the devs will be sufficiently encouraged to keep working on the project. But what it is at present is a combat encounter system, wrapped in just enough structure to make a certain kind of sense, although frankly, this is not much less than something like Grimrock might offer.
– Real player with 113.1 hrs in game
Tavern of Gods
Do you enjoy autobattlers but find more fun in longer-form, singleplayer experiences? This may scratch your itch.
A little rough around the edges but this has the potential to be a new genre-defining game.
If you enjoy roguelikes – Slay the Spire, Monster Train, etc - you most likely will enjoy this game
If you enjoy autobattlers – Teamfight Tactics, Dota Autochess – you will most likely enjoy this game
If you enjoy both of these genres – you will undoubtedly enjoy this game.
Just be warned – there is very little tutorial and no hand holding, so it may take you a run or two to understand the MANY systems at play here (and there are a lot of systems). While this makes for a steep ramp, this also makes for a ton of replayability.
– Real player with 26.4 hrs in game
As usual steam needs a neutral option.
Auto battler where I don’t have to worry about other people draining the pool of the unit type I want to play is a huge plus. As w/ most of these game it has plenty of types, plenty of items, and this one seems to have an excessive amnt of reroll options.
The bad part of course is the boss system. You have fixed bosses over several regions which you can challenge in any order so you can attempt to avoid bosses that would be a bad matchup for your build type early on. Though I don’t like fixed bosses there is at least some strategy factored into your order of fights.
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game