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
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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
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
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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
The Sinking City
NOTE: Despite my recommendation, don’t buy the Steam version. The publisher is screwing the developer (google “Frogwares lawsuit” for more information) and I’d have bought a version that supports the devs directly.
I saw a lot of reviews saying it’s glitchy. It’s really not. Skyrim is a thousand times worse, and so is FO4. Furthermore, Frogwares withheld the final version of the game (AFAIK) until the publisher paid them, so I can only imagine the final version that we’ll get after the courts sort everything out is way better. Worst glitches I ever came across were some weird clothing physics and the clothing of the main character being inconsistent between cinematics and the game. That’s it. If you’re worried about glitches the game is fine. There are reused assets (the most egregious is the diving cinematic) but they have absolutely no impact on playability or the game itself. It’s just a bunch of whining GamerBros.
– Real player with 54.5 hrs in game
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It’s an okay game if you get it on sale (below 10 dollars), otherwise it’s not worth it.
The open world is just for the namesake, most of the areas (indoors & outdoors) are just copies of the same 3-4 areas.
The combat is below average almost all the time.
The one thing going for the game is the detective part. I really enjoyed that.
Also there is absolutely no mention of the publisher “Nacon” in this version. Just putting this out there for all the people worried about pirated copy.
One more thing, just buy the basic game and avoid the “Necronomicon Edition”. This bundle just provide two side quests, one costume and allows you to use Pistol from the beginning. The side quests are just there to prolong the game and it’s not good at all.
– Real player with 52.8 hrs in game
Deadly Cosmic
It’s a short but very cool game, I liked the creatures and the mystery in the plot, I also liked the little moments of humor. In fact I wanted the game to be bigger because I was very involved, but it makes sense for the price. From my point of view it is a game that worth it!
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Loved the premise of the game, and the graphics definitely give it that unique feel and add to the creepy vibe. I had a little trouble with the perspective, especially when there was a creature just off screen that I could no longer see because of the change in perspective, but you learn to maneuver and function quick enough.
Took me a while to find and operate the toilet… longer than I would like to admit. Overall, I would definitely recommend playing through this one, it is worth it!
Here’s some gameplay if interested (first stream terminated with no warning and I had to restart the stream)
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Vugluskr: Zombie Rampage
In this video I take a look at Vugluskr: Zombie Rampage, a third person zombie shooter.
Don’t get me wrong this is a very low quality game…. but…. I enjoyed it! It’s the level design that won me over. You need to activate these zip lines to complete the level and find the keys. Each zip line requires 15 crystals to activate so you need to play the levels cautiously so you have enough crystals to get out from where you put yourself. It’s quite fun.
Now for the low quality parts… pretty much all the rest. There is nothing (that I have encountered) that was game breaking apart from when I hit escape to try to find options for key bindings only to discover it just leaves the game if you do that. I had to start my video again. :( There’s no jumping, poor shooting animations/sound effects, poor menus, etc, but it was fun and that’s ultimately what it’s all about. So if you don’t mind games that look cheap but play well your in for a treat I think, a cheap one too at $5 USD. Anyway, take a look at the video to really see what it’s like.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Cult of Dawn
Experience the story of two characters attempting to survive as a mysterious event strips away the bounds of reality itself in Cult of Dawn, a third person horror adventure inspired by classic survival horror titles of the 90s and early 2000s. Featuring tank controls, fixed and over the shoulder camera angles, old school inventory management and more.
- Fight off mysterious entities while exploring a variety of locations, from an abandoned mansion to ancient catacombs, desolate woods, an old apartment complex, dark, urban alleyways and more
Sanatorium «Anthropocene Retreat»
Sanatorium Anthropocene Retreat
cons:
lack of instructions.
no sound.
no options.
sucks.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
I heard how bad this game supposedly was. Watched very negative reviews on youtube. But something made me want to try it anyway. Got it for $5 on a steam sale and I’m happy I did.
This is not a bad game. Not a good game, But certainly not bad, I’ve played several games that were far worse this year alone. At launch it may have been bad, but it seems after some patches in the years following its release, they fixed a lot of the criticisms.
The atmosphere is pretty nice, Some spooky locations on dark stormy nights, abandoned mines or in a graveyard for example. There is a voiced narrator that adds a lot to each of the 4 characters journey. The character models were good and the levels were overall nice looking. A Few glitches. And while not a good game, it kept me wanting to play it. Each character is unique and plays differently and has their own story. I can see this game being fun as a multiplayer experience with friends but works as solo player.
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
I’m going to go against the general opinion here when I say that I do recommend this game, at least, I do since the June 2016 patch.
Alone In The Dark: Illumination suffers from one major design flaw that’s caused it garner such hate from it’s audience… the fact that it’s called Alone In The Dark. Whilst I am a small fan of the AITD franchise, I am also open-minded when first playing a video game and play them without expectations or immediate judgement. Alone In The Dark this game certainly is not, as it features nothing of the tropes that the franchise normally features, what it IS though is a competant and fun third-person horror/action game.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
Remnant: From the Ashes
Good game, but beware of over-leveling! The more you level up, the more the threats level up and the harder the whole game becomes. If you have an elite or boss who’s always killing you, look to your gear and/or tactics. Leveling up to beat the challenge is NOT the way to go in this game. Just something I learned the hard way.
– Real player with 126.0 hrs in game
This game overall was a very nice pleasant surprise , A third person shooter with a few of the ‘‘dark souls’’ gameplay mechanism like rolling around to dodges but controls that just work much better with a mouse and keyboard.
the game is not overly difficult outside of a few specific boss battles , the challenge is very well balanced and you can always crank the difficulty up if you find it too easy also.
checkpoints are common and you always have one right before a boss battle so even if you die you rarely have much to redo and you also don’t lose currency when you die.
– Real player with 106.3 hrs in game
project BLARI
For a game coded by a single person, Project BLARI is a game that at first, seems to be a simple retro / horror game like any other, but I can tell you it isn’t !
Pros :
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The Enemies you encounter are easy to predict and counter if you know how to, a brand new player will have some trouble at first but after some playtime, you can basically counter all enemies easily. (this can be a Pro and a Con, depending on personal opinions)
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The attention to realism is well made ! you can’t just turn your camera and check behind you, your view is represented by Terence ! The LORE of the game only adds up on it, the small details can tell you a lot about the complex story this game has !
– Real player with 18.1 hrs in game
very old school game with several routes and endings
but watch out its also creepy and spooky
i love that mechanic of spamming a button to run instead of just pressing it, its kinda more stressful in a way which fits the situation
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game