Danger Scavenger
Cautiously Recommend–Feels Very Much Unfinished
Stumbled upon this a few days back, wishlisted it and bought it today on a whim really digging the music and look the game has. Sometimes you strike out, sometimes you hit paydirt. This is paydirt, a diamond in the rough that after time can be awesome.
It’s VERY rough around the edges and definitely could use lots more polish but it’s highly addictive and the fun factor is very strong if you can get past the many nuances that hold this game back from being amazing.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
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I’ve written a fairly neutral preview for this game on Gamer Escape, which you can find here: https://gamerescape.com/2020/06/29/preview-danger-scavenger/ . At that time, the game had just switched from being official release to Early Access to address the user feedback based on the mixed steam reivew score (At Gamer Escape we do not do scored reviews for Early Access games)
Within days, the devs for this game have already gone to work with their stated goal: Make the game more appealing to both the twin-stick shooter fans and the roguelike fans whom both had issues with how these mechanics were combined. They have added “Arcade Mode”, which removes the roguelike permadeath mechanics, but also in this mode, each character starts from a different tower, so you get more of a distinct experience with each character in this mode. While it kind of comes off as just a lowered difficulty setting, it does open the game up to a lot of people who find the punishing nature of the roguelike style more frustrating than fun.
– Real player with 14.2 hrs in game
Blastboard
I’m playing this now with 3 friends and I have to say…I’m very surprised! This is actually a real fun game to play in a group and a great time killer when solo. I run 3 screens and it works fine. More features/DLC would be cool or even Workshop. For the price you can’t lose IMHO.
– Real player with 116.1 hrs in game
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Blastboard Impressed my friends and I We are always looking for multiplayer games that are fun! This just made the list. For the price you can’t go wrong, hours of fun with friends. Do i recommend Blastboard… Hell Yes if you have friends and a pulse this is worth checking out. …….what are you waiting for ;-)
– Real player with 79.1 hrs in game
DollKart
Do you like a challenge? A race game? What about a race against time? Well when you buy this game I assure you that you will inevitably fall or harm the driver; but with great sacrifice comes… (add inspiring stuff here). Back to the point: It’s a challenging game but enjoyable nevertheless. The new update added new “karts” to play around with also bug fixes! Hurrah!
I also really like the aspect of having millions of tracks to try; a new game always has a fresh taste.
So overall its a fun game, reccomended.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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Very fun game! Can’t wait for more updates! MP is fun worth spending the money for this game. lots of tracks!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
BFF or Die
A nice cooperative puzzle game.
CRASHES when trying to use Remote Play Together. This is too bad. I really wanted to try it out with some help from my far-flung friends.
The initial levels of the game are different based on the number of players. If you want to teach friends how to play, I recommend playing the first 7, or so, levels in TWO PLAYER mode. The early levels of other modes might fail to teach important aspects (like how to get out of the flashlight booth).
This could be a nice title for some “Games Night” cooperative frustration, err I mean fun.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
The game is like a physical puzzle game but with action elements to it. And if you play multiplayer, the extra dimension of needing to figure out what each player needs to do and when to complete the level. It can get crazy hectic and tense, especially when your teammates mess up or something unexpected happens. But it never feels unfair or too punishing. Plus you always get time to plan at the start of each level / puzzle.
My only criticism is some of the menu options don’t work with keyboard, but nothing that stops you playing the game.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Grand Class Melee 2
This is one of the best local multiplayer games that I have ever played- period. I played the first Grand Class Melee on my friend’s Xbox 360, and had such a great time, because there is so much freedom in your character, and in countering the other characters- and that means that every game is unique in how you have to play. It means that gameplay can be incredibly meta and powerful, or cheap and gimmicky. This game is very similar to the first, but almost exclusively an improvement over the original. The lack of split screen games on the market makes this game a real treat to play, and is an excuse to get friends to be together. If there are any negatives to me, they’re the lack of online, and the strength of the homing projectiles. The online is admittedly a not crucial, but the fact that these projectiles, which usually only move in 4 directions, are able to move any which way for a nearly unlimited time, it just too strong to not pick if you play to win. But overall the game is great, and I won’t stop playing it for a long time.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
I don’t want to be cruel with the developers and say that you shouldn’t even try this game. But well… you probably shouldn’t.
Even thought you can see what they tried to do, an arena fighter with different characters and abilities, in the end it is not satisfactory. It is kinda confusing to understand what is going on, since the UI is so simple that doesn’t even explain things to you. The combats are VERY unbalanced and the game is not fluid. Not to say that the AI is just unbeatable (you’ll only win by the unbalance factor).
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Munchie Match
A simple and effective falling block match3 game - with the ability to go head-2-head against someone with couch or remote play. Singleplayer puzzles force you to destroy cute monsters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgchEOZzlcQ
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Absolutely love this Steam edition. Two player mode is also a great addition to the game. Munchie Match is very involving, and it is rather hard to quit once you start playing it. Hours of challenging gameplay. Recommend for all lovers of the tile-matching games.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Sure Footing
Saw this game at a local Gaming festival (Norwich) and on the basis of a few minutes playtime and the fact it was only £7.99 bought it. Love playing this game mainly coop with my daughter (8) as it’s fairly simple controls and it looks simple, but it does test us! We really like the online leader boards as it makes us want to keep going up the listings. When her friends come round they like playing as well. We have clocked up 14 hours so far, so at present we have had loads of fun for 50p an hour which isn’t bad.
– Real player with 18.0 hrs in game
Sure Footing is a nice variation on the infinite runner theme. It has lots of upgrades, characters and other stuff to unlock so you have something to do other than just extend your run. And with the procedurally generated levels you don’t get bored running the same bit over and over. As such, if you’re an achievement hunter there’s a lot of value here.
It’s not without its problems though. The menus are very annoying to naviage by keyboard and there’s no mouse support at all. I’m not usually one to mention frame rate in games, but there are massive hitches from time to time. They don’t make the game unplayable, but they do detract. Lastly, if you are one of the few people who discovers you can change the difficultly level through the options menu, you’ll find that at higher difficulties the level generation becomes not just more difficult, but ludicrously unfair/impossible (e.g. multiple red crates in a row; unforseable dead-ends, etc.)
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Infinity Tempest
I like the simplicity well executed, I confess it’s not my favorite style of game, but playing with my son is really fun, of course I just lost it.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Cool runner game. Very challenging.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
The Elm Game
An abstract board game for two players - human or AI - that is easy to learn yet hard to master, played on a tree stump with beautiful procedurally generated backgrounds.
CPU PLAYER
There are three CPU players to choose from. Or ignore them and play against another fellow human. You can also sit back and watch the computer play against itself (helpful for learning the game).
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The Fly is the easiest AI, meant for casual players or beginners.
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The Beetle is a more advanced AI for people who want a challenge.
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The Snail is the hardest AI, meant for highly professional players.
FEATURES
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Local multiplayer / Remote play together
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Single-player vs. computer with three difficulty levels
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Steam achievements
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Simple controls suited for mouse, controller and touch input
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Quick reference describing the rules, controls and some tips for beginners
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Randomly generated backgrounds
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Runs on low end hardware
GAMEPLAY
The players Black and White take turns. Each turn a player chooses to either place a stone on any free point of the board or to change the color of any trapped stone. A stone is trapped if two or three stones of different color lie next to it. The game ends when there is no free point left and whoever has the most stones on the board wins.
Asteroid Arena
Asteroid Arena is a player vs player, space ship battle arena, where you gather up your “friends” and have fun shooting around in an asteroid field while trying to be the last ship standing. World is shrinking, time is running out and you need to find the other ships, weapons, protection and boosters before the others find you!… Or just hide in a nebula cloud until everybody else have destroyed each other.
The game is played with 2-4 players either on the same computer (with split-screen) or on different computers by inviting your Steam friends.
For playing on the same computer it is highly suggested to use gamepads as some keyboards have limitations on how many keys that can be pressed simultaneously.