BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
For those of you who might be considering buying this as a Fallout-like game set in a post-apoc South Africa..don’t. While it may appear otherwise at first its entirely a point and click adventure game that while fun has little in common with Fallout. Combat is limited to a handful of incidents, always involves some sort of proxy, and outside of a single instance is purely optional. Something that can be missed if your not careful along with the bits it unlocks.
Now for the unpleasant bit.
! I really wanted to like this game, I really did. I found the setting charming, its NPCs well rounded, and the story had me hooked…right up until the literal last minutes of the game. When you finally talk with Darius after realizing (something I suspected since the start) that you were playing out a pre-written prophecy jotted down by an entity who does not see time as a straight line.
– Real player with 22.2 hrs in game
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Wakanda place is this?
Move aside Afrofuturism, District 9, Black Panther, Elysium, Chappie and all you other African takes on sci-fi, because one thing’s for sure… I can easily tell you that I’ve never seen anything quite like the world of Beautiful Desolation.
If you are South African like me, then you must already know that you’re gonna experience it in a slightly different way to the rest of the world and may get a kick out of various elements that feel familiar to home. Beautiful Desolation is without a doubt, a whole new bag of Simba chips. It launches you into a future so far ahead that the South Africa you might know (and the people who lived there) are completely unrecognisable. The more this story of crazy futures and prophecies unfolds, the more interesting it becomes.
– Real player with 22.1 hrs in game
Universe For Sale - Prologue
The prologue of this game is really interesting, I love the atmosphere and the settings are so peculiar and immersive.
The plot seems intriguing, I look forward to the complete game release which I’ll definitely play!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
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This is a prologue for the game Universe for Sale. A prologue is like a demo. You might be wondering what the difference is between a prologue and a demo. Not much. Both are ways of promoting interest in the full game. The main difference is that a prologue has its own store page and a demo is on the store page of the full game. A developer could theoretically release the same content as both a demo and a prologue.
This prologue gives an introduction to some of the characters in the full game. The full game might have potential, but the prologue is rather short. You talk to a few people and that’s about it. Thumbs up for the easy achievements though.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
CHRONOPHOBIA
Driven by grief through the recent loss of his son, Aidan embarks on a time-bending journey in attempts to revive him back from the dead. But by the end of the journey, the horrors that are witnessed will make him question the credibility of his actions.
PLAY AS AIDAN AND TRAVEL THROUGH TIME TO VISIT HISTORICAL PERIODS IN A FUN AND NEW WAY THROUGH A PIXEL-ART STORYTELLING HORROR ADVENTURE!
SOLVE PUZZLES BY COLLECTING AND USING ITEMS IN THE ENVIRONMENT!
AVOID MYSTERIOUS TIME-BENDING MONSTERS IN THIS LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR ADVENTURE!
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INSOMNIA: The Ark
Insomnia: The Ark has a long development backlog and a really big world, pierced by hundreds of intersecting threads, lines of various characters you’ll meet or not meet on your voyage through a giant half-abandoned spaceship inhabited by distant descendants of fugitives fleeing from a war-torn planet.
The game’s grand, by many role-play gaming standards, and I wanted to play it from the first moment I occasionally saw some gameplay videos on YouTube. The game’s grand, but even now, a year after the release date, it’s still a mess, in a big way.
– Real player with 171.1 hrs in game
An absolutely incredible game. I would love to recommend this, but there are just too many problems with it. While the story is well written, the atmosphere is perfect, and the environments are detailed and unique, this game suffers from a series of poor game mechanics and design choices made by the developers. Let me get into it:
1.) Bugs: They weren’t that noticeable for the majority of my playthrough, but the one’s that were noticeable really broke the game. At certain points the game would randomly crash (mostly when trying to load a previous save point), or I wouldn’t be able to select items in my inventory without scrolling to the top of my item list, selecting another item I didn’t want to view, and then scrolling back down to the one I did.
– Real player with 63.3 hrs in game
Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki
Отличная покупка за 100 рублей
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
A very picturesque and detailed world, amazing work was done! Steam punk atmosphere in some kind of alternative Soviet reality. Totally recommend it!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
Recommended? Sort of.
I bought this at a steep discount years ago (less than 10 bucks), and have alternately loved and hated it ever since.
The game was originally released in a mid-alpha state, resulting in a lot of the rage evidenced in some reviews. After a free expansion, about 50 mid-sized patches and over a hundred micro-patches, what you have is basically a game in permanent mid-beta.
Most of what could be fixed without a complete redesign has been. What remains is an extremely time-consuming, mostly rewarding game that will occasionally infuriate you.
– Real player with 2953.3 hrs in game
3/24/2014
I currently have over 1,000hours in this game.
Here a list of things within the game on a scale of 1-10
Individual race design- 8/10 (each race still feels completely unique and fresh like they did in the first game)
Artificial Intelligent race design- 10/10 (this was actually done flawlessly and very unique compared to
other artificial intelligent races created in the same and even other sci-fi genres. It’s a very fresh new look on AI playable races)
Story- 2/10 (there is no story, other than the lore you get from either the forums or within the encyclopedia their really nothing else.)
– Real player with 1290.7 hrs in game
Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
~T.S. Eliot
I really wonder why they keep re-releasing this game… I mean, OK, PC port makes perfect sense. I’m all in for video game preservation and there’s no better way to save the certain title from being lost in history than releasing it for personal computers. Every single game should be playable on PCs. Just because PCs are the only platform that stays with us no matter what. But seriously, since the very first voiced (and censored) port of this game was released in 2006 (the initial uncensored Windows version came out in 2002), Utawarerumono was released for six different platforms. Six… different… platforms, Carl! It also got both manga and anime adaptations. So, here’s my question again – how in the freakin' world did this game get so much attention? And the answer is… I honestly don’t know.
– Real player with 80.1 hrs in game
TL;DR: Fun game, would recommend, I will get the sequels. Surprisingly fun game play and an enjoyable story, though not as great a story as the reviews I’ve read here make it out to be.
Long Version:
First, the story, since that is the meat of the game, and also what people rave about. The game is very much a visual novel with tactical combat elements included, rather than being the other way around. The story is engaging, there are enough hooks to keep you interested even during the slower areas, things hinting to the player that a larger game is afoot and your (forgotten) past is almost certainly important to these at first seemingly unrelated events. (The primary character has amnesia, partially for story, partially to let you ask world building questions that any normal in-universe person would know, but that we the player are obviously clueless about.) I will say that for the most part I really enjoyed the story, there were a surprising number of moments that really got to me, where I was right there with characters, feeling their moments of happiness or pain, victory or defeat, anger and sorrow. It is for these reasons and the general story arc itself, which kept my interest, that I will pick up and play the next two games in the near future.
– Real player with 55.0 hrs in game
Enherjar Synergy
Well, I saw this game and I thought the neons looked cool, so I decided to give it a download. I really like shooters, even though I can’t say that I usually have high rankings in other multiplayer games, it’s always still alot of fun to hop into matchmaking with my friends when they want to play and this one caught my attention. What I like about Enherjar Synergy is that it seemed really easy to get started playing. They have bots that are pretty fun to train with and get to know the maps, and they also have a Student Aim Assist which really helped me get the hang of shooting with all the different guns in my first few matches. I never played other fps games that were so beginner friendly, like, I’ve played Apex and Overwatch and got slaughtered my first few matches, so I just stopped playing them right away. This one I feel like I can actually play with others at my skill level, which is awesome because I really love multiplayer shooters and it’s nice to be able to play one where I feel like I can do alot of damage to nubs hahaha
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
This game is INCREDIBLY hard to look at. It is by far the ugliest game I have ever played. The environments are built with just WAY over the top Neon and Boom. Your enemies are just beams of light by the looks of it and to top it off, there’s an UGLY as hell dirty visor screen filter thing going on and it’s horrendous. I streamed my first-time experience with this and I couldn’t finish a game because it’s just so difficult to just look at despite several attempts. I have no idea whether the map designs are good, or if anything else is good because the visual aesthetic is not it chief.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
CAT Interstellar: Episode II
CAT Interstellar: Episode II
Return to Mars as a UNC Marine for the second installment of the cult classic CAT Interstellar.
Episode II picks up 24 hours after the first episode and primarily follows the United Nations Common (UNC) Marine Sergeant Gary Freeman. In this episode you’ll navigate a treacherous Martian passage, drive a 4WD rover through Turing Canyon, and blast your way through a Martian laboratory as a Marine Sergeant on a mission to deactivate Android 42.
This experience is intended to be ~1 hour long and follows a very similar structure to the first game. It is a linear story with both first and third person gameplay.
Colossus Mission - adventure in space, arcade game
I think the people most likely to enjoy this are fans of cave flyers, so I give it a recommended rating since that appears to be the game’s target audience. Meaning if you look at this list and think to yourself “yeah my kind of games,” then Colossus Mission will be for you. Everyone else will probably want to hold off on it, or at least wait to see if it gets any substantial updates.
In about an hour of play, I completed 55 of 73 levels. I expect it would take me another hour to beat the rest of them; the later levels were really becoming a steep challenge for me. The scoring system allows you to spend your earned points to skip stages if you find them too difficult. Each skip costs 5 points, and you can earn up to 3 points per stage depending on how well you perform while completing them
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
COLOSSUS MISSION is an arcade game with raw and slightly angular graphics and a various levels of difficulty.The first stages are easy but then the game becomes much more difficult. I recommend it to players who are interested in flawless playing games on time.
Check my other reviews at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38149651/ ☺️.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game