SENSEs: Midnight
Uesugi Kaho is an outgoing and adventurous college student and member of her school’s occult research club. When Returning to Japan for a family visit, the other club members dare Kaho to investigate an infamous urban legend; The Midnight Door of Ikebukuro Walking Park. Of course Kaho jumps at the opportunity to prove the legend true and capture positive proof of the paranormal. However, entering the long abandoned park just before 12:00 a.m. and opening the Midnight Door may be the worst mistake she will ever make…
SENSE/s: Midnight is a full 3d survival horror game taking major cues from Fatal Frame and Resident Evil, featuring TANK CONTROLS and FIXED CAMERA ANGLES in order to capture the truest essence of classic survival horror titles. Discover the secrets of the park via environmental storytelling and lore, manage your limited inventory slots carefully to avoid backtracking, weigh risk and reward on puzzles that may alert the vengeful spirits of the park, use hiding spots to temporarily elude your pursuer, and remember, there is only one place you can safely save your game… Expect the Ikebukuro walking park to ooze dreadful atmosphere while the ever-present threat of a relentless Onryo stalks and chases you wherever you go!
SENSE/s: Midnight is the first part of the anthology style sequel to Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120560/Sense___A_Cyberpunk_Ghost_Story/ by SUZAKU games.
Capital Island
Simple but good trading game.
If you’re not looking for a ‘cozy’ trading game, though, definitively go with ‘Challenge’ mode. Being able to visit shops multiple times (in ‘normal’ mode) means you eventually end up able to sell basically any excess resources you’ve got, which kinda takes the ‘trading’ out of this game. Just becomes logistics. Don’t get me wrong, I still had fun, but I like ‘cozy’ games sometimes. Probably pretty easy with Challenge on too.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
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This game takes a bit to get into and requires some patience to continue. There’s a lot of repetitive actions but after about 30 minutes of playing you’ll notice the game advancing.
I’m sure this game is deeper than what I’ve initially seen so I will go back and continue to play.
The music is amazing, so peaceful and calm with an island flair. I can tell the dev worked really hard on this game.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Machina of the Planet Tree -Unity Unions-
An entire play-through is about 2 hours 30 minutes.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Beyond that its fine. Not great.
– Real player with 42.4 hrs in game
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Summary
This is a magic flavored action game where you fight enemies by shooting magics and summoning minions. The emphasis of its progression system is on levels and gears; there is not much you can do action-wise except for kiting. The gears are collected as drops with at most 4 random attributes, where the attributes may be transferred to other items to create your desired set. Later in the game, most of the fun will be around gathering drops and combining them to make your character more powerful, and doing time attack runs.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
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
Iselin Saga
I enjoyed this game for story, artwork and puzzles - a good variety but nothing over complicated.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Very amateurish game. It feels more like is made by a single guy than by a team. Stripped of almost all “game” aspects but the uninteresting HOS and ok puzzles.
Dated and uninspired graphics. Confused and not interesting story.
Not worth the money.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
The Abnormal Place
Abigail has awoken in a strange world, and otherworldly resort and hotel that’s made for monsters, and she’s also lost her voice?! That’s a lot for a young woman with no special abilities.
The Abnormal Place is a spooky 3D platformer with a deadly environment, light puzzles, collectibles and an interconnecting world which has weird irritable looking monsters that will send you on ridiculous quests.
In The Abnormal Place you’ll have to find your way through an environment that is purposely designed to be lethal.
Project Bullet
Project Bullet is a side-scrolling bullet hell game, which sets in Pistalia, the fantasy world where people get the blessing from their god this power came to be known as ‘‘Bullet’’, Escape from the evil empire, find valuable allies, arm yourself with powerful gadgets and destroy all your enemies!
Main story : Project Bullet
Experience the story of “Mikan”, test subject of “Project Bullet” and you the Inspector of the project who decide to go against the evil empire, as they escaped the empire facility to find what was taken from them. The journey had only begun and the future is your to see.
Assemble Your Team
Project Bullet’s Team System allow to customizes your team to play as :
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1 Main Character to be on the play field.
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2 Support Character to be called for support skill.
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6 “Bullet Gadget” to be equipped and boost your team’s performance.
3 Main and Sup characters on release each with unique playstyles and many more on the way!
Over 20+ gadgets customization for your own preferences and strategic gameplans!
Dungeon & Bosses
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Fighting in dungeons reward you with great loot and gadgets.
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1v1 Battle against the Boss, are you well prepare for an all-out confrontation?
Challenge Mode
Challenge your own limits in undesireable situations!
Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend
I’ve been playing Sigma Team’s games for years, and I really like Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend. As someone who has played through AS2 - Reloaded and ZS2 a bunch of times, there is a LOT that I like in this game that expands on the previous titles in interesting but not too overly complicated ways. But there ARE issues with this game that will hopefully be patched in future updates.
I may make a longer post about pros and cons somewhere in the discussions. But for now, I’m going to share only the most enjoyable pros and annoying cons I’ve experienced in my current play through (not as much of a review for new players as more of a feedback report for the developers and any other players familiar with their games).
– Real player with 362.1 hrs in game
With update 1.3 the developers finally addressed a major point of criticism: They made the repetitive filler missions optional (destroy X teleporters, kill X aliens, hold position for X minutes, collect X ammo, food, metal, bones, artifacts). Now you can skip them and only do the real campaign missions. This has reduced the amount of mandatory missions to about 70 from a 150 total. This change was very welcome.
At this point I considered a thumbs up, but there’s one thing holding me back: they added an artificial weapon recoil, which makes your crosshair move upwards every single shot. And it only moves up, up, up, and never back. This constantly forces you to reposition your mouse, even when targeting static spots, makes you miss monsters, and shoot walls instead of the actual target. It’s absolutely annoying. This feature has to be removed.
– Real player with 108.8 hrs in game
Arid
Arid is a completely free student project created by potential graduates of the Breda University of Applied Sciences located in the Netherlands. There they cater to international students offering both bachelor and masters degrees in both media and game technology. Priding their expertise in the Houdini Engine for Unity among other things. Their focus is on creating AAA games and some students manage to progress even further eventually working for companies such as Ubisoft and Guerrilla.
Arid is a ‘unrealistic’ desert survival game. I say unrealistic because you literally starve, drink and need shut eye constantly even on the easiest of settings. The survival reminders are relentless and before long you’ll be praying that the game give you at least a moment’s rest so that you can gather yourself.
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
For a free game, Arid is really good, in my opinion. It has some bugs here and there and could use some polish in some areas, but so do lots of games. I had it crash a couple of times, both times connected to saving, but it turned out the save had worked anyway so it was alright.
Overall, without having ever been to the Atacama (and bearing in mind it’s been enhanced for video game purposes), it felt properly punishing. I’ve wished other games that featured large desert areas had something like the sun exposure mechanic; on the hardest difficulty in this, when there’s no UI element to tell you what your exposure is, the sun is very scary. You end up reapplying clay obsessively, and scuttling from one shaded area to another, and doing a lot of your work at night. I also enjoyed the mechanic of finding dirty water and having to filter it. Other games have similar things, but this felt very natural, part of the daily tasks.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
Ghostist
I think I’ve racked up enough hours to give this a real review now.
Ghostist; is a pretty casual, but definitely charming; 2d ghost hunting game.
You play alone as you work to identify ghosts across different job sites.
And, as you complete jobs & earn money; you can buy extra items to assist in your investigations.
There’s a good variety in ghosts, & jobsites. And, investigations usually don’t take too long to complete.
So, it’s definitely a game I like to jump into for some quick, play sessions.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Thanks for so many hours between guessing and goosebumps.
A game for in between, but unfortunately the in between often gets longer than expected… :-D
It is nice to experience how the game and it’s content are growing! Maybe there will be a mobile version for more “in between” on the road?
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game