Castle Flipper
i had 9 games on my wish list for the last 6 months and finally one of them came out—Castle Flipper. I love House Flippers and have about 400 hours on it. My first thought was this would be similar, but after reading the numerous negative comments, I realized it wasn’t. There were also complaints that the quests were completed in 10-12 hours and that was also a turn off. However, the Devs responded and explained the concept of building a castle after the quests.
The game was listed for about $5 (i live in a lower priced Country) and after some thought, I decided to give it a try. After all, everyone has different tastes. Boy was I glad. The setting and music are beautiful. I started by completing a couple of tasks and then was told to build my house. It only required a 4X4 floor plan and took no time to build. Then there were 2 new tasks, one of them was to clean up a ship. While that sounded cool, I realized that was the problem those negative reviewers had. They rushed, rushed, rushed. For example, one player I won’t name gave it a bad review saying there was little to do except the quests that took just a few hours. Yet, this player took the time to make a You Tube video of him playing the game. I watched it to pick up some tips. He rushed, rushed, rushed to complete the quests. This isn’t real life where we live in the fast lane. Slow down. Take a breath and enjoy the game. There is no prize for finishing the game quickly. He even commented that it only cost $10 so not worth the time to ask for a refund. What? Not worth the time. It takes less than a minute to ask for a refund on Steam (I know, I’ve refunded over half my games because they were too difficult.) If someone’s one minute of time is worth more than 10 bucks, then I’m in the wrong business.
– Real player with 42.9 hrs in game
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First off all, I love these kinds of games. Building and maintaining your own settlement is something I can spend many hours on. Saying that you would think I would recommend this game seeing the endgame is based all around that. But sadly I cannot. The idea is there, build your own castle and collect rent. But the way this has been implemented simply isn’t satisfying. The world feels empty and barren, nothing happens beside the occasional ‘clutter everywhere incidents’ that makes you run around all the houses n clean stuff up. The visuals are great but without life within the game you quickly lose the drive to do anything.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Medieval Machines Builder
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066390/Chernobyl_1986/
You had the spark for inventing right from the childhood. The time has come to prove yourself as a young ballistic engineer! Your weapons will serve the King and his Kingdom, so be sure to make the most powerful and innovative contraptions possible! Start from scratch and reach for the fame as one of the most renown inventors in the whole Middle Ages in Medieval Machines Builder.
Beginnings are always quite challening, so your very first machine won’t be your opus magnum. There’s a long way for you to go. Starting off with your first job, creating something from scratch might prove itself being a bit difficult. No worries! You can buy a blueprint to base your invention on. They come for a price, but having a firm foundation is always a great start. The more people you know in the city, the more ways to aquire new blueprints will pop up. Not all of them 100% legal, of course. Next step? Gathering and processing resources. Only then you can sit down, relax and use your imagination to create the greatest or most weird looking war machine of all time.
What happens next? You may sell your invention to the Kingdom… or someone else, whoever needs to do a siege in this particular moment. Cash you’ve earned and experience you’ve got will help you grow personally and your next creation might even go for a small fortune. Of course don’t forget to do a small “test drive” before sending it to the buyer! In Middle-Ages return policy might come with your head! And a head is quite useful for Medieval Machines Builder!
Features:
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Create amazing war machines!
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Deep simulation and tycoon elements
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Test your inventions before selling them
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Let the imagination be your guide
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FlowScape
My favorite purchase all year.
If you’re wondering what I’ve been able to do with FlowScape that led to my review, you can take a look at all of my projects here .
I knew the moment I laid eyes on this, I would most likely love it. It exceeded my expectations as a casual design & illustration tool that just about anyone can use. I have spent many hours putting together village & macro background scenes. The Sculpting tool allow you to create mountains, hills, lakes, rivers, as I see fit. The Painting tool allows you to create walkways. I can construct anything from realistic waterfalls to lost ruins with the Transformation tool to manipulate just about any object.
– Real player with 2803.3 hrs in game
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Wow, it’s difficult to say in words how impressive and relatively deep this instant gratification “game” is! Marketed as a game, but used by many as a 3D design tool. Oh, it’s not Maya, or Lightwave, or even Bryce or Blender, which is cool because we already have those. This is something different, and special, and FAST, and easy! And for all its limitations, what IS here is a lot deeper and impressive than you might imagine!
I’ve made a nice living from building scenes in 3D software for many decades, and I’ve spent countless hours working with wire-frames and pallets of textures and bump maps and lighting devices, and scratching my head over each new entries' exploration into the 3D modeling' procedures. It doesn’t replace those high-end spreads for many projects, but this WILL be replacing the high-rollers on a few projects and making my life so much easier!
– Real player with 2204.8 hrs in game
Dust and Salt
Dust and Salt
| Genre | RPG |
| Version | 1.1.3 |
| Campaign | Yes |
| Game Length | 2-5 hours |
| Difficulty modes | 1 |
| Achievements | easy to average |
Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative mixture of adventure and RPG.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
I enjoyed playing this game, have not tried anything similar before, apart from gamebooks of course. I am really happy to see a new Bulgarian studio releasing a game of such genre, storytelling and graphics. I am thrilled to see some additions in the patches and a future game of similar type from Prime Games.
Nonetheless, I have some things on mind that I would like to propose and would be happy to see you consider them.
- I know it is about reading and making decisions but the game would definitely benefit from a more stategic-like combat. I guess you could add a magic type of troops that cast certain spells from a spellbook, you know like in Heroes of Might and Magic.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game