A-Star Theft

A-Star Theft

What a fun game. Combine Hotline Miami, Payday and Superhot and you have this. The levels get tough pretty fast, the story is a bit generic but true to life for low level criminals trying to make a big score. I played the demo for around an hour before committing to buying this. Really enjoyable, fast paced and very rewarding game play. Only a few missions into the game but loving it.

The weapon system is excellent, you can’t have 5+ guns like some games, it runs off a credit system. The credits represent free inventory slots. With this system it makes you think about your approach, will you need more space for cable ties? Or will you go in with guns and explosives.

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game


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The game is a lot like Payday with a Hotline Miami Top-Down perspective, you do heists stealthily or not.

This offers very interesting mechanics compared to Payday, in particular the fact of being able to move the tied civilians and to hide again his weapon in order to remain stealthy.

I hope it will become more popular and evolve through updates.

Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

A-Star Theft on Steam

Operation: Pinkeye

Operation: Pinkeye

Operation: Pinkeye is a first-person shooter throwing back to shooters from the 90s by the likes of Rareware and Free Radical Design.

Set in an alternate Universe where the Acts of Union in 1707 never happened, Scotland and England remain independent and tensions between the 2 remain very high.

A journalist has been killed in a hotel in London near a political rally, his room was ransacked, as if their murderers were looking for something. It was believed that he held important documents containing plans by the English to invade Scotland. Fearing that this is the case, The Scottish Secret Service (The SSS) assign their best agent, Ken Maxwell, to obtain the stolen documents, and find out exactly what they’re planning.

Traverse through 15 levels of high-octane spy action, with music from the composer of Planet X3, and FMV cutscenes filmed in Scots!

Features

  • Relive memories of ’90s era shooters without the annoying bits

  • Faithful old-school graphics

  • Multiple language support, including Scots and Gaelic!

  • Customisable mechanics and controls!

  • Music from the composer of Planet X3 and Half-Life: Dark Matter


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The Black Hole

The Black Hole

The Black Hole is a TPS with puzzle solving elements. You’ll play as a secret agent in the Black Hole Agency.

Defeat enemies with your gun and solve puzzles.

Collect mysterious items in the levels and survive a conspiracy.

Encounter various traps, enemies, and puzzles.

Let’s enter the world of secret agents!


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The Black Hole on Steam

Whiteside

Whiteside

About This Game

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” Whiteside is a first-person survival horror game. As an investigator of the Common European Asylum System, explore an island where they keep the mentally insane that are beyond help, uncover the truth, but don’t believe everything.

Setting:

On an island that is now used as a mental/prison facility, part prison part asylum terror and horror awaits at Whiteside Asylum. An old hospital for the criminally insane who are hopelessly past rehabilitation. The island was deemed an ideal location for a prison/asylum. It is assumed no prisoner could ever escape or survive the cold ocean that surrounds it.

Acting as an investigator of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) it’s your duty to inspect the asylum to make sure it up to standards. Up on arrival straight away things seem off, and what you discover is only the beginning.

Features:

  • Survival horror: You will have to use all your wits to try and seek the truth but also survive in this horror slasher.

  • Enemy AI: Enemies will not be predictable there is no set path way, they can come anywhere and at any moment, you will feel very unsafe

  • Graphics: Whiteside utilizes the unreal engine 4 and has made use of nearly all the engines features, including real time volumetric lighting, high textures, pushing the boundaries of what computers can do to give of a truly AAA quality in the graphics department

  • Rich Story and multiple endings: Whiteside focuses on story as much as it does on graphics and performance and game play, in this rich story telling game the player has choices that can be made which will effect the outcome of the story, not only that but environments have different entrances and exists meaning there can be multiple ways around the environment.

  • Random Jump Scares: Whiteside has hand crafted jump-scares made to scare the player but only a few will generate during each play-through giving the player more reasons not to play again

Whiteside on Steam

Hello From Darkness

Hello From Darkness

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Real player with 40.6 hrs in game

I like this game concept, but you cant invert the mouse. so if you are used to playing FPS’s then you know that this is quite awkward. This is a FP game, and you would think that an invert mouse selection would be appropriate. very hard to play without it.

Real player with 11.9 hrs in game

Hello From Darkness on Steam

The Soldiers Factory

The Soldiers Factory

The Soldiers Factory is a top-down stealth game and the start of a trilogy.

Go undetected and sneak past enemy soldiers or secretly kill them. Overcome surveillance cameras and laser barricades. Use the room scanner, the taser pistol and many other weapons. But remember, the alarm will make the mission even more difficult.

The playing time on the NORMAL level of difficulty is approximately 12 hours. Of course, it depends on the player. The story takes you to several locations, which is divided into over 60 levels.

The Soldiers Factory on Steam

LiBER

LiBER

What will happen if an ordinary student falls into the hands of an ancient book with the texts of a forgotten civilization, capable of transporting the reader through space and time? Find out about it in Liber - a 3-d person action adventure, where fragments of past eras are mixed like a kaleidoscope!

In Liber, you have to try on the faces of two completely different heroes who find themselves in an unfamiliar environment. What adventures and challenges lie ahead? Will they be able to find a common language with each other? How will the incident affect them? Will they be able to find their way back?

Let’s find it out!

  • Unique among games setting of the hitmen;

  • Lots of ways to interact with the world;

  • Deep plot and colorful characters;

  • Integrated combat system - hand-to-hand combat, fencing, shooting;

  • Variability in the passage of sections of the game;

  • Large locations, different in visual and mechanics;

  • High-quality and detailed picture created with UE4.

Liber is developed by the independent Russian studio Olkon Games.

LiBER on Steam

Ransack Raccoon

Ransack Raccoon

It’s a very cute, but sadly short game. I was confused at first as I had not played all the way through the first time, so returning to the game I was disappointed that there wasn’t any progress saved- until I realized it was meant to be a one shot play-through game. I think this game honestly has some great potential to branch out into a full length game. Getting around the security lights proved to be more challenging than I had expected it to be, and it was a rather endearing little adventure, but I would love to see a sort of story line put into play as well as some more challenging levels with perhaps power-up options.

Real player with 1.4 hrs in game

Ransack Raccoon is A Pocket sized Puzzle game that is good for if you have a bit of time to waste but dont want to get distracted in a huge scale game that takes longer than you need to even start.

Time length: 1 - 1 , depends on how much time it will take you to learn the game, and figure out each level, You can expect to finish this game decently quickly.

Complexity rating: Medium - May take time to figure out, Contains areas that require you to squeeze by and general understanding of the actual spotlight size.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Ransack Raccoon on Steam

Hyde and Zeke

Hyde and Zeke

Please. Read this entire review before you come to a conclusion about whether or not to try this game & remember that most of the following complaints come from the last mode, Sage mode, & all my losses were mostly my fault. While the RNG is either the worst or most noticeable in that mode, I got impatient & left my cover when I thought I had enough time, so a lot of my rage was self-inflicted.

As problematic as this game will sound, as awful as I’m going to make it appear, please understand that it functions perfectly fine & is still a product of effort, clearly seen in the art & AI.

Real player with 11.2 hrs in game

I Like this game but i might be a little biest because the animater for the game is my Art touter so ya here is her link: https://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/KaylaArtLessons this game is a keyboard game so there is no mouse controls you press A to start and S and W to go up and down very good game highly reccomend

Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

Hyde and Zeke on Steam

Veneficium

Veneficium

I’m a pretty big baby when it comes to horror and the game did a really nice job at getting me scared enough to have a lot of fun. The atmosphere is on point, it falls short on it’s AI however, I noticed the monster teleport, both me and the monster could occasionally phase through trees and rocks which is a shame because it instantly takes me out of the immersion that was so well set up. I feel like there is something lacking with the spellcasting, the lack of animation or really just any sort of magic particles that don’t completely blind me (looking at you shadow-step) dissapointed me. it was short and sweet I liked exploring the world, trying to avoid the creature while I watch it in the distance, and collecting plants (even though I feel like this forest has more than a couple invasive species with how much muckweed there is) I had a lot of fun

Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

The introduction for the game was good, I liked the map layout and the general look of the entire area along with the tree branches that heavily imitated the enemy. However, there wasn’t really a creation of atmosphere to me because although the models of the creature was good, it didn’t feel creepy due to what felt like a very fast walking speed for what appeared to be a slow monster that would loom over the forest floor as it hunted you down. It also seemed too easy to avoid the enemies as you could mindlessly crouch walk throughout the forest and they seemed to barely come near you due to the wide area given for just one creature.

Real player with 0.8 hrs in game

Veneficium on Steam