Pew Pew Puzzle Defense
I’m reviewing the game only based on my experience playing it with a controller and I haven’t tried local multiplayer yet.
DEVELOPER / PUBLISHER REVIEW 👍
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
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Most towers are manually fired, which is fine in and of itself. however, the basic tower requires button mashing to fire at a vaguely reasonable rate, and when you’re firing you can’t run around collecting coins. When you’re running around collecting coins, you can’t fire. The flamethrower tower can fire just by being held down, which is fine, but it’s very short range, so it’s not usable as a front line of defense. May be more fun with multiplayer, since one of you could be collecting coins while the other shoots, and you can double up on shooting when you’re close to losing. The button mashing killed the game for me.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
World of Pets: Match 3 and Decorate
at level 50 you end up playing the same level over and over with hardly any chance of winning. The booster bar does not work, it resets in the middle of blocks falling. I hope they fix it, its cute but not worth the time.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
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You may find it odd that I had a refund while also recommending the game, so I’ll get that reason out of the way first. Speed. Some levels have a 1 minute timer which was not mentioned in the description. A tiny timer is not good for this old person and I got well and truly stuck on level 20, replaying until frustrated.
Don’t let my personal hang-up put you off, though. The game is cute and colourful, with adorable animals, and offers a challenge early on. The main M3 mode is limited moves, a favourite mode of mine as it allows you to take your time and strategise. This is better than hurtling around with the mouse for a minute. Each level has different tasks to meet and there are also additional daily tasks with awards and a daily free spin of the wheel to win goodies.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
Back Alley Inn
Would definately call this a game with a lot of fun ideas mixed into it. The tutorial is both relaxed and not information overload, and even if you accidentally skip a tutorial, you can probably work out whats going on (hint: dont skip the adventure one like I accidentally did!). Developer is currently responsive and it seems will be making changes so even though the game is pretty solid, with a few small non-gameplay breaking quirks, I anticipate very good things for this game soon.
– Real player with 22.8 hrs in game
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The game is buggy and missing tooltips. The gameplay is extremely RNG heavy and unbalanced making the game unplayable without giving you a clue what you might be doing wrong or how to fix it.
The game appears to give you a massive amount of space to build in but the vast majority of that space actually can’t be built on.
- First of all, the energy system is very annoying. You have to wait for energy for everything and the fast forward doesn’t work. This makes trying to figure out the extremely poorly documented features an exercise in frustration because the buildings aren’t expensive but require energy which discourages exploration.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Troll Patrol
This is a game that is very heavily inspired by the mobile game “Dungeon Raid” (my personal favorite of all time tbh, rip 32-bit support), so if you know what I’m talking about you already know if you’ll like the game or not.
For complete newcomers (aka most of you), the game has a simple premise: match tiles and collect loot/do damage. It isn’t the Bejeweled type of matching however; you draw a line between similar types of tiles and collect every tile the line goes through. You can continue the line in any direction as long as there’s another tile that can be matched with it. It’s not a very “puzzle-y” type of match 3, but a strangely compelling type. In terms of what your brain has to do, you can’t completely zone out, but you can play effectively while paying attention to a movie or something on the side. Of course, you can focus entirely on the game as well, and that can lead to clever plays that make/break the run.
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
It’s a pretty good game to kill some time without turning off your brain completely.
Works great on Linux too. Thumbs up!
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game