Forgive Me Father
Score: 7.5 / 10
Price/Value: FULL
Time: 2-ish hours
Difficulties played: Extreme
A retro Lovecraft themed FPS that I was really glad to see got a demo in the last Steam Next Fest - one of my favourites - and the main product is more of that eldritch goodness.
You play a priest coming to an Innsmouth style town looking for answers and packing some serious faith lead. You will have access to upgradeable weapons in the form of a:
- Knife (bread and butter weapon)
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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tl;dr, good game at present, can be a great game with some improvements - solid 7/10 currently. I really liked it and I’m looking forward to more.
Detailed pros, neutrals & cons below, but includes some spoilers as to content.
Pros
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Game controls very well. Character is fast and fluid, which suits the backpedal/strafe style required.
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Gunplay is excellent, guns have good feedback and they feel effective.
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Graphics are excellent. Enemy design is unique and enemy telegraphing is fairly clear. Level aesthetics are varied.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
600Seconds ~The Deep Church~
More than any other, I think the word “odd” describes 600Seconds the best. More compelling than the sum of its parts, 600Seconds combines exploration with a fairly short and straightforward third person shooter adventure through a church. Exploring the empty church in the waking world for items for ten minutes before your siege in the nightmare seemed, at first, an unnecessary and kind of obnoxious feature (ten minutes is a long time!) though it does help set a certain kind of mood, but after dying in the nightmare once or twice the interest was made more clear to me.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
First and foremost, I think it’s best to remember that this is StudioGekko’s first title. So know going in that it’s not very complex, not very long, and may be prone to jankyness. All that in mind, I still had plenty of fun with the game.
Item placements are not random, so learning the layout of the church and location of everything was really fun. I like that there’s no text or story to read and that I can just make my own assumptions about what’s happening, though maybe a little more to see would’ve been nice. After my first couple of unsuccessful runs, I thought I was done with the game but I found myself coming back to it the next few days to learn more and give it another shot.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Archons of Doom
This can be a fast paced game, but if you are very crafty you can slow it down and make it yours, but you will have to have worked on your skill with your spells and any objects you may find.
You can think you are winning and then BAM you are lost! Very good challenging game play by the enemy Archons, they’ll trick you and surprise you with their antics!
A very very addictive game. You lose so you want to try again, you win so you want to better your score. Very repeat playable. I Beta tested this but there were times I loaded this up just to play it anyway as it is that good!
– Real player with 306.7 hrs in game
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This is in the top 10 games of any turn-based game on the market. I is in my top 20 of all turn-based game I’ve played, ever. It takes a while to hone one’s skills, but that is the fun of the game. I was fortunate to beta-test the game and subsequently I learned a bunch about the mechanics. However, the finished and polished game is even more challenging, despite me knowing several of the maps.
We can also create our own Archons! Having played around 175 hours when this specific feature was added, I thought, “oh, I’ll mop up with my hand-designed Archon along with a hand-picked team. Nah. Wrong. This game is challenging. There is always another Archon with minions that counter your advantages.
– Real player with 187.1 hrs in game
Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype
Ok after update seem to work very well , now its more interesting and can troll that ugly guy . I already finish the game few time’s and what i can say its… i’m waiting for more content and puzzle’s and why not some Dificulty : normal , hard , insane , deadly ( in high mode , map to be covered with fog and so on )
Good luck !
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
The game is pretty playable, if you wanna play an mix of puzzle and horror. This game is %100 better than other usual horror games. I hope the developer will continue his progress with the game.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Appetite for Detestation
Great Game, Loved how much fun i had!
– Real player with 130.1 hrs in game
So you’ve read the description and now you’re down here in the comments trying to figure out what’s it all about. Click the video above to see some of the gameplay, mechanic and hear my thoughts on the game.
Appetite for Detestation is a 3D beat’em up set in the Victorian era where you get to play as the monster reeking havoc on the citizens in order to satiate your blood thirst. After reading that description I am sure you are, like I was, hype to jump into the game and get to slaying. Well, let’s talk about the positives of the game first. The music is probably the best part of the game. It’s eerie, inviting and sets the mood for a monster of the time. The environments are also well designed; plenty of destructive pieces and platforming to be had in each level.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
So far I have read the equivalent of a 300 page book and I’m only an hour in. I don’t mind that there aren’t any voice actors. What bothers me is that every place our hero goes, he “finds” a stack of books and instead of going about his business, decides to pick each one up and read from it. I understand there’s a theme to the books, but why would you kick off a game with this much reading? Our hero goes into the library where there are about 20 shelves filled with books. I’m not exaggerating when I say that he picks a book from each one of the shelves and reads about 3-5 paragraphs from each book. Then he goes around and reads books on stands too. I love to read but today I decided to play a game instead of reading a book. Unfortunately, the game disagreed with me and made me read a book anyway.
– Real player with 15.0 hrs in game
Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars is a beautifully great haunting Lovecraftian game; okay let’s talk about the story.
It’s a cold wintery day as Michael Kearney is on a train with his wife Lily and their daughter Gabrielle as they head to their new life in the little town of Haven, where they can put all their troubles behind them and start anew.
But Michael has been having strange dreams about dark waters and an unknown ancient evil resting beneath the cold waves, what could it mean? Is it just anxiety or is it something else. Whatever it is if Michael is not careful it could destroy his whole world.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
Azy - Old School FPS
Azy is a skilled demon hunter. Having learned about the infernal cult, the main character went in search of the lost hall, which connects six worlds. Now you have to destroy the inhabitants of each of these worlds.
Retro first person shooter.
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No sections with platforming that can be annoying at times.
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No petty enemies.
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Each boss has a HealthBar.
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No reloading weapons.
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Six different themes and each theme has its own unique enemies.
The Bolt Age
It has some great aesthetics and a nice story, but the game needs to be polished, I will return to this review at a later date, after some updates have been made to remove the bugged enemies, which can spawn in walls, be unable to die, be invisible and there are issues with an inability to change weapons at time.
Pros
Good Aesthetics
Nice Story
Great Graphics
Smooth animation for the electricity
Level design is decent
cons
It is just way to buggy at the minute to be playable, WITH UPDATES this will be a very PROMISING GAME but it just needs some fixes to make it playable.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
I was excited to try this game out as from the trailer it looked like a game a really enjoyed in my childhood.
It did turn out to feel that way, the visuals were pretty cool and the weapons felt exciting to use. Unfortunately my laptop has served it’s time and can’t handle this game’s VFX so I’ll pick it up again when I get a new rig.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Dreadful Shadows
Looks super promising, cant wait to see where it will end up!!
– Real player with 309.0 hrs in game
The Victorian style really caught my eye the monsters seem decent and the game play looks compelling, its really nice to see so many indie game devs these days breathing fresh air in an otherwise stale market, keep up the good work
– Real player with 91.8 hrs in game
What Lives Below
Hunt massive sea monsters armed with just a harpoon and a simple fishing boat.
Play as a lone fisherman, who takes on the gods of the sea.
In this fast-paced intense boss-rush game, there are various huge creatures to take on. From an electric leviathan to an volcanic octopus, the odds are not in your favor.
Currently, the Game Features
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4 Leviathans to Be Hunted
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Procedurally Animated Bosses
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An infinite procedural ocean world to fight the monsters in
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Interactive ocean simulation and boat physics
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Harpoon throwing with bullet time
This game is still early in development. The full release will have more bosses and the game is subject to change across development.