The Amazing American Circus
Target Audience: Those Willing to Take the Lows With The Highs in Card RPGs
Summary:
This is a recommendation in essence, but for a specific subset of people.
I’m going to be straight up from the get go here: The Amazing American Circus is one of those games that I want to love up and down, but ended up being the biggest thorn in my side due to what happened during the review period. To say that I faced some of the worst bugs: specifically saved game bugs, in my review career would have been an understatement: I had 8 separate runs break wildly in that period where I could not continue to make progress. While those bugs seem to be fixed now, I have a form of PTSD at this point. Every time I play, I’m waiting for the game to break again. Hell, even the video I made had a major bug in it. There’s a reason I have around 40+ hours of gameplay without actually beating the game, and to say it hung over the experience would be an understatement to say the least.
– Real player with 57.7 hrs in game
This is not a Slay to Spire, this is not a Monster Train. The Amazing American Circus is not a roguelike-roguelite card game, it is more like a card game built around a campaign, with some management sim built around it, in which you need to cover the costs, upgrades etc from the incomes you get during the shows.
If you more curious about the game, and want to check a short, ~20mins long video in which I showing what content you could expect from the game with one circus show (card battle) included, then here is mine:
– Real player with 29.8 hrs in game
Elusive World
One night after being pressured by his mom to be responsible, Ben, a typical teenager, bursts out and walks off. He ends up lost in a parallel world. The struggle now is to find his way back home.
With no other way to get back to his old world rather than to fight, Ben must find the courage to face this current reality. Witnessing the violent state of things, he has to choose whether to get involved so he might see his family once more or be trapped forever.
FEATURES:
- Survive against wild animals, common bandits, and overpowering rulers.
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Summoner’s Mess
Worth every cent (and much more) of its price, it’s very entertaining to discover the map and each unsuccessful run makes you go for another one to see how far can you go this time.
It has a really nice art direction, and the sound ambiance goes perfectly with the game. Just buy it, with that price it’s like a gift.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
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This is a very nice and interesting game, the graphics, the music, the mood… everything fits perfectly.
I really enjoyed playing it and doing all the possible endings. It is cool to be able to easily remember the rooms and little by little knowing all the place like it was my own house.
If you enjoy games where the progression is based on your own knowledge instead of unlockable skills, then give it a try!
The game gives you a proper amount of hours of game time given the fact that is super cheap!
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor is a narrative horror puzzle game set in a beautiful and enigmatic victorian era manor with a dark secret.
Unravel The Mystery
After working for more than ten years as the private assistant of the enigmatic railroad magnate Hadley Strange, the news of his sudden and unexpected death along his entire family takes you by surprise. Now you have been appointed as the executor in charge of fulfilling his last will,and take care of his majestic manor, a luxurious property on the outskirts of London. Upon your arrival to the mansion you find an envelope with your name containing a letter bearing a cryptic set of instructions that might change your mind about who your former employer really was.
Delve Into The Manor
Explore a beautiful Victorian Mansion filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical contraptions that will reveal to you even the most intimate aspects of the life, past and legacy of its former residents. Decipher curious locks and find key items and objects that will help you make your way through the 24 manor rooms in a non linear way, each room has a unique beauty and new pieces that will help you unveil the dark secret kept by the residence.
Solve The Puzzles
Solve clever riddles and fascinating mechanical puzzles crafted to ensure that only the right person could unveil the mansion’s secret. Look for clues and take a closer look to your surroundings to discover the shocking truth about the mansion and it’s mysterious residents. Find items and manage your inventory to make your way through the different passages of the mansion, examine many detailed items and discover how to use them to unlock all the rooms and get all the pieces to solve the manor puzzling secret, one so shocking that will leave you breathless.
Features
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Well Balanced Logic and Inventory Puzzles
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Non Linear Exploration Gameplay
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Rich but not intrusive Story
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Multiple Play Modes & Collectibles
Alice Trapped Beyond Wonderland
A very interesting game, the puzzles are good, some of them are more abstract but usually you can figure it out if you take 1 thing at a time. I played the entire game in one video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tq7XLmEFow
It’s a magical world filled with beautiful castles and images, sometimes you see more “mature” things like a prison cell or an abandoned train but it’s great for kids and adults. The whole game is about 1 hour long, it will take most people 4 hours to beat. It’s great for this price
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
if something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s most likely a duck. and while alice trapped beyond wonderland looks like a hidden object game, it doesn’t have any quacking hidden object scenes, so I gladly took a gander.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition
Ah Ironseed. A hidden gem of the 90’s. I played this one 25 years ago. A 1MB file hidden among 600 others on a CD. This remake is quite faithful the the original, though the difficulty has now been notably reduced. I haven’t played enough to know if all of the old systems are here, but what I see so far has been quite impressive.
If you are tired of all the “newer” games that put graphics over gameplay, give this one a go.
– Real player with 49.2 hrs in game
its like the dos version back in 1994! it was revlotary for its time! if you liked playing the dos vserion this verion is even better when you get used to it! while it might have some bugs in this version its still true to its dos version! but a bit more easy compared to it! if you lked the dos vseron then this vseron of iron seed is even better! i give it an 8/10 to 10/10 becuse of good it is! if you buy this game it will help the deveopers to make an even better remake or seqal of this game!
– Real player with 36.5 hrs in game
Of Blades & Tails
A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach. Discover a fantastic land populated by different animal tribes.
You play Riff, a clever member of the tribe of foxes. A chain of unfortunate events involves you in a quest of vital importance to all the peace-loving creatures of the realm. You will have to leave your home village and explore the world to become strong enough to stand up to evil. (In other words: There will be a storyline but it’s still in the making!)
The game is inspired by classic Hack & Slays like Diablo and turn-based RPGs like Rogue’s Tale or Stoneshard. However there is no permadeath in this game. Your progress is always saved once you enter a new area.
As you explore the land, you’ll gain experience and unlock new abilities. Not all inhabitants will be friendly to you. Some will help you with information, others are only interested in trading, and still others will get in your way.
Improve your equipment and collect useful resources in the environment to have a decisive advantage in battle.
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Turn-based Combat that allows for quick action or strategic planning
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An Open World with lots of places to discover
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A fresh, animalistic setting in a vibrant pixel art look
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Procedural generated dungeons and caves
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A Main Storyline and various side quests
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Classless Character Development with many abilities to unlock
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Equipment of different qualities and Unique Items with special powers
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Hunt giant bugs or gather herbs and other useful resources
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Many Enemy Types with different skills that may require tactical decisions
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Trade with rats and other profit-seeking animals
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… and more to come!
The game is still in early development and more details will follow!
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Alien Life Lab
The entire station, known as Alien Life Lab, has lost communications with society and fallen into chaos!
It’s up to you to traverse through Alien Life Lab Station to find any survivors, recover valuable lab resources and find what caused the station to go haywire.
-Procedural Generation to give you a new level every time!
-Electric Tranquilizer Gun uses actual (in-game) physical bullets to stun violent aliens!
-Tranquilize hostile aliens with sci fi pistol, shotgun and sword.
-Find survivors and tag aliens to earn credit coins.
-Go deeper into the station.
*Experiences Will Vary.
Story & Lore:
Several months ago, the Lab went black… Communications were lost with the outside worlds.
Residents on-board have no idea what triggered the Lab into stasis that released the dangerous exhibits to roam throughout the cargo-holds to search for sustenance.
Everyone and everything on the Lab has been reduced to utilizing whatever resources they have or can find to survive, not knowing when, or even if, help would arrive.
In the deep of space, you board the seemingly dead ghost ship…
Project Ultra
Early access game with potential
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Ship Graveyard Simulator
24 hours played now and about to commence work my second large ship. Really enjoying the game. I’ve “completed” most of it, but Starting to go through different ships and will also try the new update.
Note: The recent patch has addressed some of the things I’ll talk about. i’m going to talk about what I like and don’t like from my experience with the game and discuss suggestions each time.
Starting with nothing is great. But you don’t spend a lot of time on the beach before ordering your first ship. The game itself is relatively short, the new changes set to address this by adjusting money and XP from completing work orders. Workorders is an insanely quick way to gain levels. I hope the update switches the balance to gain XP more from dismantling ships.
– Real player with 54.2 hrs in game
Game had wasted potential a lot
if you expect to dismantle ships, go play something else, maybe hardspace shipbreaker.
There ae lot features or even fundamentals that does not make any sense, in all fairness there is less that makes sense than things that are nonsense
1. you “rent” ship to dismantle, when logicaly you should bid (buy) ship at fixed price and whatever you sell goes to your profit.
2. hammer … most of thing you hammer, you would cut away
3. arc/plasma cutter … most of thing game expects you to cut with these you would with angle grinder/ripsaw and vice versa
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game