I Borrow
You borrow stuff from your surroundings. Nothing more.
In the game you find yourself in situations where you need stuff but the only way to get it is borrowing it unnoticed. People around you are very tolerant, but their tolerance runs out quickly if you are caught borrowing their stuff!
Gameplay mechanics:
Pick up required objects and take them home without being noticed. If you are noticed you will lose trust and the owner will take back his stuff. Once you run out of trust points, you have failed the level. When you bring objects home, you can complete given objectives, for example collecting 3 chairs or building a house out of 4 walls.
Features:
Picking up objects
You can pick items like, a chair, lamp, wall, etc.
Building houses
Assemble your dream house with the walls you borrowed
People protect their stuff
They don’t really want you borrowing their property
Blocking people with objects
When they get annoying
More stuff to do
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Hiding from people with objects that you took
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Collecting items in the goal area
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Local multiplayer
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Papertris
Papertris is an interesting and fun arcade puzzle game in which colored cubes dissolve in all 6 possible directions and you decide where to place your cubes.
In addition, there are also power cubes and numerous possible combinations in a classic but modern and lovingly hand-painted game.
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The Challenge mode is tricky with various tasks where the player has to solve suitable tasks in order to get to the next level, which are more difficult at each level
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In the Endless mode, which gets faster and more difficult from level to level, you can score points as long as you can
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The 2 player VS mode demands tactical skill in which players can use numerous combos to send each other blocking cubes to block the opponent’s options
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Combinations of the cubes in all 6 directions
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Atmospheric music
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Icon option for color blind people
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Dark mode
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Full Controller support
The game itself was designed with a lot of fun and inventiveness with my kids (4y & 2y) and the majority of the game was hand-painted by them, which thus has a beautiful and playful charm.
We really had a lot of fun creating and collecting ideas for the game and hope to inspire you as much as we do.
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Door Kickers: Action Squad
The game is now out of Early Access, so i update this review a bit.
If you played the first Door Kickers, forget everything about it and don’t even think this is a sequel, it plays in the same “universe” but is completely different. Where the first game was basically a better version of Swat 2 with a top-down point of view, this game is a classic side-scroller that triest to be challenging and bring in tactics, i guess the closest comparison (that make me seem like a really old person for knowing it) is Rolling Thunder from Namco.
– Real player with 74.8 hrs in game
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I have to say that I am a little dissapointed in this game at its current state.
I was looking for something that required a little bit more teamwork, tactics, and critical thinking. You basically (kick) doors down and gun down anything on the other side with little to no grace because the game doesnt provide much options on how to clear a room. The maps/enemies are not randomized so once you learn the level, you can easily run thru each room and clear without much resistance and pray that a stray shot from a shooter doesnt waste a hostage.
– Real player with 49.6 hrs in game
Hero’s Hour
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Hero’s Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out.
Turn Based + Real Time
While exploring the overworld and developing your town and army are both turn-based, giving you time to think and plan out your next moves, in battles your units will do the best to fight for themselves in real time - all hundreds of them. Cast spells and give attack orders to swing the tide of battle - or just sit back and watch as your might unfolds.
Procedural Generation
Hero’s Hour brings impactful procedural generation to the strategy game formula, ensuring that every time you play, there will be new areas to explore and strange buildings to enhance your hero or army. Seek out obelisks to start you on small procedural quests that send you around the world. You won’t even be able to use the same build order each time you play the same faction.
Features
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10 factions with special mechanics, strengths and weaknesses
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20 hero classes, with a special skill each
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36 common hero skills
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134 units (without counting upgrades)
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70 unique unit abilities
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145 artifacts
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75 spells & abilities
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Dozens of impactful map buildings
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Local “hotseat” multiplayer
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Co-op with other players or even with the AI
There’s a lot of stuff in this little game!
Being on the faster side compared to other turn based strategy games, you may even be able to finish the hotseat games that you start!
Lornsword Winter Chronicle
Interesting RPG/RTS game. The only issues is that this game seems to built for the consoles and some gameplay decisions. Being on the pc, I had to change the keybinding of Attack from Numpad to 1 on Alphapad near my WASD keys. I don’t like to reach too far on the right side of the keyboard. Only has Single player and Co-op system. Why is there no multiplayer feature? I do like the catch and drop mechanic however there are many ways to improve an rts game. By adding rallying points, retreat commands, and formations. This game mostly hinders the player with gameplay mechanic decisions more so than innovate. Sometimes when you release your units, they attack any random building instead of the one YOU WANT!!! There is no way to select targets unlike a typical RTS game. There are NO checkpoints in this game and you CANNOT SAVE between the missions. Once you die, you have to restart from the very beginning. A bit irritating but you have to deal with it. (Updated: Apparently there is autosave. But it’s bugged. My computer crashed and I lost my progress and it sent me back to the first mission cutscene.)
– Real player with 39.8 hrs in game
This is a fantastic controller-only RTS made more interesting by a high quality split-screen co-op mode.
Controls - 8/10
You have to go into this game with the awareness that it does not support mouse-and-keyboard controls, and that you need a controller for both players. However once you accept this design choice, it becomes evident how well they have engineered the control scheme. You hold down one trigger to add nearby troops to your squad, making them follow you, and another trigger to let them loose to attack enemies. By making you control an actual character, you get to participate in the battle itself, and you have to weigh up how to spend your mana/stamina: on troop movement, on elemental summoning support, or on ranged attacks. It’s a very clever system that in some ways makes the RTS gameplay even more thrilling, because you are at risk of dying yourself in each skirmish.
– Real player with 28.5 hrs in game
Rogue North
Gameplay
Rogue North is a tactical rogue-lite focused on a thick, cold atmosphere, as well as deadly gunplay. Fight to survive in a Canadian snow-pocalypse. Carve a path through the deadly Russian occupation force on the way to escape the turmoil. Reach merchant campsites along the way to restock and outfit your character. Prepare accordingly, there’s a long, cold walk ahead of you.
Summary
The Russian invasion of the Canadian north has been going slow and steady for 3 years now. Even so, many people have decided to stay for one reason or another. You are one of those people; a skilled hunter who has been living self-sufficiently for many years now. However, the pressure of the occupation plus the events of the worst winter in recent history have reached a tipping point. You need to leave immediately. Grab your rifle and whatever you think you need to make the journey. And don’t look back.
Basic Features
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Selectable backpacks, hats, and vests. Each with their own armor, ammo capacity, and warmth properties
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Bleeds, fractures and hypothermia are things you need to be prepared to fix.
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Dynamic, reactive enemies with varying skill levels and tactics.
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Friendly, not so friendly, and hostile factions
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Handcrafted levels.
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Dynamic weather
Ele-Mental
Its a tidy little game with a lot of fun challenging content, for the price there’s no reason not to pick it up and give it a go.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Been waiting ages for this game to be released and now it’s here!
Great game, with endless hours of fun. Perfect for sticking on with a couple of mates around, or, sinking a few hours in on your own, trying to get those high scores!
Would definitely recommend giving it a download. Congrats to the developers!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Story of a tiny earth, the symbolic ages
I bought this game because it was on sale and the developer seems to be actively adding features. I’ve only played the first 3 levels in single player, but I think that is enough to post this review so other people might take a look. This will go into my quick casual games category.
You move around the map to save species which drop a power when you collect the amount of species determined by the level. There are enemies of different colors. Each color has a specific path or pattern which you need to pay attention to decide how to proceed. I’ve only played 3 levels at this time, so I have no idea how many enemy types there are in the game.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Angle Wars
Angle Wars is a light-hearted, top-down war game blending elements of speed and strategy. Control soldiers using a variety of weapons and abilities, across an array of battlefields and game modes. You’ll have to direct your men where to move and at what angles to shoot, taking into account perspective, obstacles, physics, wind, and elevation. Victory or defeat, the balance lies in your hands…because in Angle Wars, you call the shots!
Features
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Do battle with a variety of weapons, from rifles and pistols to mortars and airstrikes.
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Hone your skills while winning the war in campaign mode. Progress through dozens of missions across the European theater, alone or co-op with up to 4 players, doing things only an expert marksman can!
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Use your surroundings to your advantage! Hold the high ground, position your troops in buildings, take cover behind objects for a defensive bonus.
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Master the angles, and then master them again. Ricochet a bullet off a rock, off a building, and into your enemy’s face.
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Take wind into account, or you’ll throw a grenade at your own feet, knock a tree down on yourself, or roast your own men in a grass fire.
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Let destruction be your friend! Take cover in a crater left by an airstrike, or crush an enemy soldier with a falling tree or dislodged boulder.
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Play a variety of game types, such as the competitive, tactical Battleground, or the frantic co-op survival mode.
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Advance through the ranks, and earn medals for your awesome marksmanship and heroic deeds on the battlefield!
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Local multiplayer for 1-4 players.
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Gamepads fully supported. No gamepads, no problem! Inputs are configurable, so 4 people can play crowded around 1 mouse and keyboard. Perfect for local play, or for Steam’s Remote Play!
Omniblast
This game is an absolute steal. It’s clear that a lot of thought went into this.
At first glance, this game seems like your standard, run-of-the-mill runner - dodge randomly generated obstacles and get the highest score that you can. Controls are simple: A and D to move, Q and E to strafe/blink, Left Shift to boost. I found it easier to use a controller, although Q wasn’t automatically mapped for mine - I’ve published a controller configuration that works like a charm that you can use. You’ve got shields, which are replenished by defeating bosses; health, which is replenished by passing asteroids; and charges for both strafe and boost which replenish over time by themselves. You can adjust the difficulty.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
Omniblast is a free to play (but monetised) 2D retro pixel vertical scrolling endless runner. It does have the appearance of an Asteroids/SpaceWar! ripoff but it’s considerably more dumbed down than that.
Gameplay consists of basic dodging left and right, and “boss fights” which just involve dodging stuff for a while then ramming the boss with the “shift” key. There’s a series of upgrade systems and so on, which makes it seem like someone took SpaceWar!, then removed most of the gameplay, then went back and started bolting alternative, less enjoyable gameplay onto the game they stripped down. Essentially, this pig has 6-10 layers of lipstick on it. If it’s not broken, break it, then weld pointless stuff onto it?
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game