Escape Planet 17
In Escape Planet 17, you are under the skin of Natan, a detective from the Narcotics Department. While investigating a new drug circulating on the streets, Nathan sees his partner being killed and both are framed for involvement in trafficking among others crimes. Nathan is unjustly accused, convicted, sent to a prison planet and removed from his family. During his stay on planet 17, Nathan devises a plan to escape, but a series of macabre crimes initiates a security protocol and prevents his plans. Get involved in an obscure plot involving violent gangs, synthetic drugs and a symbiotic experiment company. Giving up is not an option, escaping the planet is your mission, even if you have to get your hands dirty with blood.
Well-established platform game mechanics, with adjusted controls.
Skills such as double jump, dash, wall jumping among others.
Unique system of interaction with characters: Choose between bribing, influencing or threatening characters.
Use shields, vests, and bandaids to protect yourself and recover your life.
Unique system to equip weapons and multidirectional aiming.
An Interactive Inventory system with the ability to save, load, drop and other options to manage several items.
A game with fluid narrative and a great and unique History.
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Draw and Handle Weapons:
The game has a unique weapon draw weapon system, inspired by the classic megadrive game Flashback - The Quest for Identity.
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Hacking:
You have the ability to hack some terminals to activate doors, elevators, manage your Notoriety and more.
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Fighting Skills:
Use your close combat skills to fight enemies, very usefull when your weapon is out of ammo.
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And much more;
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Bridge to Another World: Secrets of the Nutcracker Collector’s Edition
A good holiday season HOPA game. It’s not especially long, but had some advantages over other “Christmas” games I’ve played:
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the story is well-imagined and draws from the original without repeating it
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there is variety both in the puzzles and the HO scenes
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the music is relaxing and classical (and changes as appropriate), but isn’t “Christmas music”
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the secondary characters are relevant and well-designed, even if they don’t have a lot of depth
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the voice acting is… well, it varies in quality, but generally works with the characters
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
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This is an enjoyable HOG game, if you like those types of games. The minigames aren’t too terribly difficult (compared to others that I’ve seen in some games). I didn’t need any hints and didn’t use any skips. It just took some time to figure things out.
This game has a guide, including a section that shows where the collectibles are.
It has a map you can click on to travel and that shows where you’ve got activities you can do.
It has multiple difficulty settings
I also has 2 types of collectibles (Glass globes and morphing objects)
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
The Christmas Spirit: Journey Before Christmas Collector’s Edition
Bug in the end of the game, cant finish so this is crap. :D
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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Didn’t take too long to beat this game (3.5 hours or so), but you might be able to stretch this out to 5 or 6 hours. Not a particularly long game either way.
Having come from Mystery Case Files (the earlier ones not the later ones), I was expecting a Hidden Object game, but while there is some hidden object gameplay here, it’s relatively sparse in comparison to MCF, and nothing too difficult. The puzzles are not particularly hard either. Otherwise, you’re mainly just running around trying to collect items and use them elsewhere in order to get more items.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Silence in the Dark
Jon Morgan mid 30s ex-cop now private detective. Stumbles on one of a kind case that turns his world around. After finding a book in one of main suspects room. He brings the book home and tries to figure out what is going on. The game begins in a abandoned town called “Lamias Wake”. And you as a player have no memory how or when did you came here. Solve puzzles, survive, hunt or be hunted. Answer answers that left unanswered.
Cybernetic Fault
From the very beginning I can say that the game surprised me a lot. I didn’t expect this from an indie game with a couple of reviews. The game has everything from puzzles to plot. The graphics are nice, the tasks themselves (quests, puzzles) are very high quality and interesting, it is a pleasure to pass them.
Summing up, I can say that the game is definitely worth its money and even more.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Cybernetic Fault surprised me a lot because I didn’t expect such a high-quality indie game.
The gameplay is based on the principle of seek and think, the necessary things are scattered throughout the level and only appear if there is a story advance. The controls are very simple, but it is strange that a person cannot overcome some obstacles by jumping or sitting down. The graphics are great, the optimization is also fine. As a result, it turned out to be a cool and very entertaining game.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀
A kinda hectic run-around-but-think game, nicely themed around quasi-Soviet missile intercept site. Be prepared to value every second of your time. Missions are around seven minutes each, so this is also a “just another bite” thing. I picture this in the evening, a mission or two every now and then. Then again, I love the setting too : )
– Real player with 38.9 hrs in game
This game is sort of Papers, Please.
During game you need to shoot down all incoming rockets. But task is not easy. You must properly configure every AA missile while trying to get enough resources to produce new missiles, or for upgrades. You alone in that base so must run on foot to every point of interest.
Actually I like games like Paper, please, so this game is my type of games, and I recommend it to buy. Its cheap enough.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Rascal’s Escape
“Caution: High risk of wanderlust!"
Join Squirrel and Bear on their adventurous journey through Europe.
Alone or in co-op with your favorite travel companion!
Rascal escaped! Work together to follow Rascal’s traces. But don’t worry, while traveling, you can take your time to explore each country, learn foreign languages, eat lots of delicious local food, climb famous sights, engage in traditional festivals, collect souvenirs, capture pictures and make dozens of local animal friends along the way.
Satisfy your wanderlust from the comfort of your living room - alone or together with your favorite travel companion!
Discover Europe’s true treasure, its cultural diversity, and catch Rascal!
What are you waiting for?
Grab your luggage!
Key Features:
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Satisfy your Wanderlust
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Take your time to explore Europe’s cultural diversity
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Meet more than 60 friendly local animals
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Bounce around, climb and jump with Squirrel
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Get muddy with Bear push and stomp away leaves, dirt, and snow
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Collect souvenirs, delicious food, and fashionable outfits
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Receive recycled clothes collecting trash
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Learn counting and greeting in 10 European languages
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Enjoy cooperative play for two, together with friends and family
Gameplay
In single-player mode you can play Squirrel and Bear.
In local co-op or split-screen mode, each player navigates one character.
Combine Squirrel with Bear for the ultimate team experience and
reach secret places with Squirrels super jump.
Squirrel can:
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climb trees and buildings
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jump on platforms and obstacles
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carry small objects
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activate levers
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collect souvenirs
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talk to animals
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recycle trash
Bear can:
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push obstacles
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stomp to uncover hidden objects
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carry big objects
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flip levers
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collect souvenirs
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talk to animals
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recycle trash
Follow Rascal’s traces on Badgergram.
Good thing Rascal shares their journey through Europe.
Enjoying amazing food, listen to Europe’s foreign languages,
collecting souvenirs, and capturing famous sights.
Rascal’s Escape is a Jump & Travel adventure game.
Bram The Toymaker
A scary bedtime story or a horrid physical entity?
The story goes that the toymaker is an undead figure who comes out at night leaving a toy on the children’s bedroom window to lure and capture them. Upon finding an old hidden journal, Blake discovers that a folktale passed through generations in his family might hold some dark secrets. He embarks on a journey to unravel what’s behind his ancestor’s mysterious journal.
Return to your family roots, deep into a long-forgotten isolated 19th-century village called Grimmville where time has stopped.
Upon arriving at the abandoned manor, once you set foot inside suddenly you find yourself trapped. Equipped with a flashlight you must explore the rooms. Some of them are escape-room style. Your main objective is to look for clues in order to solve timed puzzles that will give you the necessary items to progress further and make your way out.
Maniac Path
An addictive game with excellent graphics and varied levels.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Pretty boring.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
HINGE VR
Hardware for this review: Valve Index, RTX 3080, i9, 64 GB RAM
The developers had a long hard road to go here and that is why there are some really bad reviews here.
As the game was released it really had flaws like lacking of optimization, dropping frames and crashes. Yes, even I was unable to play the game, but I sticked to it and gave them the chance to do better as the devs were always honest about the progress and the state of the game.
That said I just can tell you about HINGE performing on my system.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game
CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Played on a 2019 gaming laptop with an i7-9750H processor, 16 GB of RAM and a nVidia GeForce RTX 2060 card. Windows 10. 38 hours of playtime. 3 full playthroughs.
The Good:
This is one of the few Lovecraftian VR games ever created, so, it definitely deserves a chance if you’re a Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos fan such as myself.
The game ran perfectly fine on my system. There were a few hiccups here and there when the game had to load a certain big area (Main Hall with Elevators) but it was probably due to my laptop not being a beast of a system. So, no complaints there whatsoever.
– Real player with 37.7 hrs in game