Liberation Mutagenix
Liberation Mutagenix is a fun game that feels reminiscent of the older lemmings games, but stands out with its own identity of a uniquely polished artstyle. I really enjoyed playing through each of these levels and thinking about how to beat it until everything clicks. The game allows for you to trial and error as much as you want with being able to restart levels even with your tools already placed down, allowing you to figure out more complex puzzles levels without having to waste too much time on setup.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
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Very cool puzzle game.The mutations are a genius idea and provide great progression to the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmsuZ945c64
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Terrorarium
After just over a whole month of developing levels for the Murder Garden Contest, it’s time for my review of Terrorarium.
TLDR:
Terrorarium is a fun and creative game with an interesting concept and encourages community participation. The developers are always active in the Terrorarium Discord server and always take suggestions by listening to their fans (Which is rare these days). Plus, You can make awesome levels for your friends and others to play and murder them with ferocious plants! What’s not to like? Since its in early access, it’s likely to be cheaper now than when it releases, so pick it up and try it!
– Real player with 95.4 hrs in game
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7/28/20 UPDATE: The game is out now with new levels and new features, so here is my current day review!
The game can be broken down in to three major parts: The main story, the community made levels, and the level maker.
★ The Main Story plot itself is fine. You get to understand the character you play as and the the little pikmin-esque creatures you play with, etc., etc… It certainly adds to the game, but what really matters (in my opinion) are the levels themselves. There are 26 levels ranging from very easy to very hard, some of which are designed extremely well! Some of them however aren’t. I’d say around 85% of the levels are satisfactory, while the other 15% just aren’t either aesthetically pleasing or the puzzle/mechanics are a bit wonky.
– Real player with 35.0 hrs in game
Call of the Ninja!
A poor quality rip off of Lemmings. Really easy too.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Really needs to give the player a little time to work before the ninjas start running…some levels are impossible to save all the ninjas because it starts immediately after the first icon is placed. Black cracks in the graphics due to not enough masking pixels on the edges of the sprites. I loved Lemmings, think I played all the way through it way back when. I’d really like to recommend this as it’s similar and I like the ninja theme. Right now it’s a bit too frustrating. A few little fixes and this could be great! Thumb sideways?!
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Tin Hearts: Prologue
2 Minute Video Review → https://youtu.be/slPuCooKGbg
Tin Hearts is a lemmings type game. Tiny toy soldiers march forward and it’s up to you to guide their path to the goal.
You don’t control the toy soldiers directly, you need to change other objects to steer them. Starting with just simple blocks to make them turn, but eventually you’ll be manipulating other toys to steer them. And there’s some creative contraptions that get involved as well.
The levels start small, but eventually you’ll need to guide the soldiers through large toy shops.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
The most beautiful VR game I have ever played. Each puzzle room will amaze you with its idyllic charm. You almost forget about the puzzles and just want to look around and play with the different assets. Unfortunately, most of the assets are there just for decoration as you cannot interact with them (outside what the puzzle wants you to interact with to solve the puzzle).
The puzzles follow along the normal Lemming-style puzzle challenges. However, several of the mechanics are done keeping with the toy workshop theme. You can stop time, forward time or reverse time. You’ll use toy blocks to guide your toy soldiers. They will jump on toy drums, take a balloon ride over obstacles, or bounce off a book or toy train. There will be obstacles such as the Jack-in-the-box to avoid.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Dwarflings
This is a really likeable tactical puzzle game with oldschool taste which feels like the mix of Lemmings and Commandos. Here’re some reasons why you would like it (without particular order):
1. Art is simple, but very nice and with great attention to details, and quite a lot of them make you smile.
2. Rules and controls are very easy to learn, you do not really question how to play the game, you just play.
3. Levels are well-thought and each built around its own idea. There’s no complexity for the sake of complexity. Many of them will make you scratch your head, but once you get it right you go through. It never gets too long to bore you. Harder levels are sometimes followed with the easier to relax a bit, and then there’s a new puzzle.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
Do not buy this, it is a terrible excuse for a game. It says it is “Lemmings meets Lost Vikings” but both of those were clever, well thought-out games that were fun - this is definitely not. Add in the covert in-app purchases and I think you have the measure of its design.
In short, you click one of a few icons to get the dwarf you are controlling to do something. The game has no charm, subtlety or depth. I am fairly sure that very few people continued far in, judging by the % ratings on each achievement. It only appears that I have played it for 11 hours because I idled it for the cards. I will now be uninstalling it and not wasting any more time on this poor effort.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
Underland
Thumbs-up love for indie game artists, but could have improved on a lot of things. As has been observed, two people was never really necessary beyond prolonging repetitive actions. There was no button-holding or anything to necessitate the second guy, so all it did was frustrate the timing-based bits near the end.
Also the story felt a little shoe-horned in at the beginning and the ending. I was hoping the elevator would go down, you’d get a cutesy game-end splash with a shot of some cthonic city, and there-ya-have-it. Instead the wee bit of narrative felt a little pushy if anything. Sometimes less is more.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
A great first entry in what looks to be a series of these light puzzle games. Half way through I was like “Why do some challenges make you save one guy and you always start with two?” But, there’s kind of a Spooky Narrative Reason by the end!
If you like this game, certainly pick up the second one, it really expands on the concepts and introduces new elements!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
MANIC MINERS
“Its like a raw diamond which needs to be cut and polished…”
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=873444184
As one of the less people who played this game maybe a bit longer (next to the main Dev of course), i guess it would be time now to write a review about this game - next to this i waited a bit before i write the review since the dev added a lot new things and stuff into the game and those might would have changed the review ever i would written it.
So after he also told me its now a good time to write one, i do it now.
– Real player with 14.6 hrs in game
Charming old school mining game!!!
BEWARE!!! you might have to learn how to play this game!
Remember when we used to print those things to go around the keyboards?
And your going to loose a lot of good men to attain some knowledge of the world.
The game lets you play away how you like.
You start with a 5 miners and a set amount of moves you can use like ‘bash’ or ‘build’.
Using these miners and moves you navigate through the floor and try to get some of the wee buggers back home.
Where you get some pennies for gems mined, buy up your moves and maybe some miners if you did well. And off you go again.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Underland: The Climb
Underland: The Climb introduces moving enemy sprites as a resource on the map which you have to avoid or manipulate around the maps to press buttons, etc. In addition to that, a pickaxe takes the place of the saw wheel from the first game and overall the layering of the puzzle elements both as a factor of timing and sequencing is kicked up a notch!
A fun and short game, with a few maps that really take a few tries. It seems like the dev was really expanding the concepts shown in the first game and I can’t wait to see what they come up with next! This game’s puzzles really feel cohesive and like the game teaches you how to think and play.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
The BAD:
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No separate music volume slider.
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You can’t create any save points or quick saves during a level. If you make mistake, you must restart the level. This inflated the playtime and made some levels tedious rather than a joy.
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The main character, EVERY time you click them, will either say; (most of the time) “What’s up” (though it sounds more like “What the”) or “Hey” or “Hi” in an upbeat manner as if oblivious to nearby danger. I don’t need the character to greet me hello yet again seconds or minutes apart just because I needed to click them again. Became annoying after a while.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Hell Invades Heaven
Read carefully, as this story is too boring to read it again.
You, an absolutely newbie hellish commander, gain the possibility* to prove that all rumors about your person are at least 28% wrong, and you are in fact capable of commanding small forces in the greatest Hell vs Heaven war that ever happened**.
Put on your Unterleutnant uniform and do your job.
What you probably want to know:
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15*** almost beautiful, challenging levels on Hell, Earth and Heaven scenery.
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10 different minions, so you don’t need to do everything yourself.
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A lot of challenging puzzles that may be impossible to solve for people under 5 y.o.
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Interesting dialogues for full silent cinema experience.
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You can decorate Devil with tattoos****.
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Beware of holy water!
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_* of course if you buy or torrent game, otherwise you will be seen as uncappable of this tasks for the rest of your life
** at least in this dimension; C137 and D2R2 are much more interesting in this case
*** circa about, I run out of fingers counting
**** butterfly on back is strictly forbidden!_
DOGNUTS
More than a greedy and adorable dog, it’s a challenging game and at the same time a lot of fun, but it’s going to be hard to fatten this dog up, my donuts are on the way :(
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Cute physics/logic game.
Some levels are quite provocative, in the sense of how many different aprouches you can use to win.
Very nice.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game