Druid
Druid is an enjoyable puzzle quest. You play as a Druid who goes to a magical forest. He wants to find a mentor and become wiser. It is very difficult to find the right path in the forest: there are many ravines, reservoirs, impassable thickets. To get into inaccessible areas, the Druid needs to learn new abilities that are activated using magic runes. They can be obtained by helping animals in the forest. Runes can be combined.
Nice graphics, unobtrusive background music. The game is worth the money. I highly recommend it for playing with children. Although it’s hard to find the right path without a forest map.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
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This is like a ‘metroid-vania’ game but instead of action-adventure, we have some light puzzle elements.
To put it another way, it is like if you replaced a point&click adventure game’s mechanics with the ‘HM moves’ that you use in Pokemon to open up new areas of the overworld map.
You are a druid seeking enlightenment in the forest, and you slowly gather a series of magical runes that let you interact with the environment, or take on animal form, to conveniently get past oddly specific obstacles you find in the forest.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
No One’s Earth
No One’s Earth is a 2.5D action/adventure Metroidvania set in a post-post-apocalyptic Earth, which had been dominated by two alien races and are now at war.
Play as Harlie Jamoor, a member of the team responsible for evaluate the habitability conditions of the Earth, coming from the space colony that shelters the human refugees from the climatic catastrophes that occurred on Earth. Harlie must rescue team members who have entered the Earth and mysteriously lost contact with the ship.
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Explore the abandoned CCTA (Climatic Control Testing Area), looking for the plants to complete the mission to help the Nularis so they can help to rescue your team.am.
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Watch closely and shoot anything that looks suspicious, dangerous enemies, or secret places.
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With just a visual reference and a brief description, venture through all of CCTA’s natural and artificial alien environments to find the plants almost hidden across the map that can save the Nularis from extinction.
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Acquire new abilities that need to be well managed by the consumption of the two types of energy that circulate through your suit, which can be expanded and also affect map progression.
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Survive the dangerous animals and security systems, which will try to stop you at all costs to prevent you from causing damage to the valuable species preserved in CCTA.
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Be careful with the movement of the Ceresti, responsible for creating the virus that puts the existence of Nularis at risk. Avoid getting their attention, run away, or fight them if you are capable.
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Shadow Complex Remastered
First things first: I do recommend Shadow Complex to any and all with an interest in Metroidvania titles. It’s more Metroid than Vania, mind you, despite the whole arbitrary leveling system and even more arbitrary (and actually entirely useless) stats gained from leveling up. Furthermore, I’ve played it for at LEAST 150+ hours in total across platforms, so I know the game better than 90% of all the people who’ve ever played it. But anyway… movin' on.
I’ve actually been holding off on writing my review for Shadow Complex, mostly ‘cause I’ve played it so many times on Xbox 360 and the free copy I got through EPIC’s own Steam-esque service, but also because… I have no idea, actually. Anyway. One thing I noticed with Steam’s version (that I never had ANY issues with on EPIC’s version nor the X360 version) was that there were a whole lotta more bugs and glitches in the game.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
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Shadow Complex was once an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive that broke sales records at the time and its Remastered (Unreal Engine 4) launch was free for nearly a whole month last year as a Holiday gift via the Epic Launcher. I got it just recently through Humble Bundle for a dollar. They didn’t have to do any of this, so it’s worth mentioning.
In Shadow Complex you play a guy and you will have control over a very powerful suit, which you put together piece by piece by following the story. The story is about rescuing a girl and killing bad guys, barring the twist at the very end. This is wholly uncharted territory for writers, so I’m glad someone was finally brave enough to craft this original tale. In all seriousness, it’s fine, but a “faceless” villain is no excuse. What matters is the overall experience. Much like Crysis, this game is about having fun with a suit. It’s also a game of collecting items and the stronger your suit, the easier it gets. Opening a map to get health, armor, weapon and ammo upgrades is a thing you do here and I like doing it. You also collect keycards and gold, to access a suit upgrade and to open a secret room respectively.
– Real player with 21.6 hrs in game
Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition
Anyone seen my Keys to the Batwing?
Sidescroller meets Batman! but how well did the mix go?…
This is the 2nd Game in the Arkham Series storyline. It is noticeably different in terms of gameplay and the players perspective when playing. This biggest difference to other games that this has, is definetely the Side-Scrolling Style. It is a 2.5 Dimensional Experience (Wrap your head around that!) -Basically mortal kombat 9..
The main reasons for the change are:
-Armature Studios (Known for Metroid) created the bulk of content here.
– Real player with 54.8 hrs in game
It’s called Retieval Mankind’s Batman
Fatabatarang
Fatabatarang
Batarang~ ♫
~Stuart Ashen
Ah, the spin-offs… Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can’t avoid ‘em. There’s something popular? Publisher starts with all sorts of stuff to make more money from it. At the point of 2013, we’ve already got ourselves two Arkham games for mobiles (Arkham City Lockdown and Arkham Origins, not to be confused with the one we have here, in Steam), both of which were pretty much the same exact thing (some sort of touchscreen-oriented fighting games), but there was also this. A spin-off game for PlayStation Vita. You know… PlayStation Vita? A brilliant system that was ruined by SONY’s greed and stupidity? It was a pretty cute and powerful little beast, so… it was only logical for it to get its own Arkham game. Surprisingly, what we’ve got here is not… really a proper Arkham game. I mean, yeah, we’re talking ‘bout the portable system here, but like I said, Vita was pretty powerful and it was more than enough to provide us with proper Assassin’s Creed experience for example. Sure, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation was smaller and more limited than its bigger brother, but come on! It was a proper Assassin’s Creed. In your pocket. Here? It’s entirely different story.
– Real player with 51.3 hrs in game
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a heart-warming tale about how even a woman who spent ten years in a coma can get up and be in better shape than you are.
You play as Miriam, a walking fashion disaster. A bunch of alchemists performed evil mad science on her, giving her a host of strange and unnatural powers. Chief among these is the ability to grow stronger and healthier simply through the power of diet and exercise. She can also bind demon souls to her body to gain magic powers, but this is par for the course in games like these. Together with her personal trainer Johannes, they seek to convince an old friend to go back to the good old days of loving his body, again, and save him from his toxic, unrealistic body standard girlfriend.
– Real player with 67.3 hrs in game
I’ve played almost 50 hrs and got all the achievements, so lemme tell ya
This game is one of best metroidvenia i’ve played.. however, story-wise it’s normal.
The controls and movements ain’t as smooth as other 2D games, but ti works fine
There are a variety of weapons, armors, skills and shards to use and upgrade.
The game is full of castlevenia references but the story-line has nothing to do with it,
I got the game on a discount, so i will suggest you wait for a discount before paying full price
– Real player with 51.2 hrs in game
GRIME
Spiritual sequel to the DIRT games, Dust games, and all MUDs
Grime is… SUBLIME.
Just in case you need more (but why would you?), here we go…
Am I wild about 2D soulslike games? No. Blasphemous is the odd exception based on its presentation alone. Am I wild about labelling every other action role-playing game and metroidvania a soulslike? Yes.
Grime is distinctly ungrimy. As it admits itself, it’s more surreal, otherworldly, and unearthly. Stone and sand spring forth with anatomical features of faces, eyes, mouths, and hands. They make up the background, your platforms, and your enemies. In contrast, the protagonist has a black hole where their head should be. I can sympathise. That feels like my head most days.
– Real player with 36.9 hrs in game
Well, I guess everyone has to make their first “thumbs down” review after all. Never thought I’d see the day.
I’ll start with the positive first. Graphics are spectacular, even with the limitation of designing everything with a rock motif, levels are incredibly varied and beautiful. The game is filled with rocks, sand, debris, gemstones, then later architecture that mix in all sorts of ways that give flavor to every area in the game.
Background/skyboxes are also no slouch with all the equally gorgeous landscapes, often in open areas that add a sense of vastness and scale to this world.
– Real player with 34.4 hrs in game
Mechinus
Embark on a clockwork puzzle-platforming adventure set in a mechanical ecosystem as Cognito, a curious creature whose duty to maintain the lifecycle of this captivating world leads him on a journey to heart of the machine in order to save it.
In this metallic jungle - where life is mechanical, rather than biological in nature - evolution has given rise to a beautifully orchestrated set of behaviours, which underpin the tactile clockwork puzzles and dynamic platforming of the game.
Reina and Jericho
Caught unprepared and unarmed, Reina must find a way to rescue a prisoner and break out of the underground fortress they are both trapped within. Carrying a powerful artifact she didn’t know existed, she must master its abilities and defeat the evil tyrant standing before her freedom before it’s too late.
Find powerful artifacts through exploration or by defeating adversaries. Travel back through time to previously impassable obstacles and overcome them with the knowledge and abilities Reina has acquired. Create the perfect chain of cause and effect. Find a Way.
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Explore multiple environments, time-travel, and the impact different choices have on the future
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Solve time-bending puzzles that rely on the player’s ability to manipulate cause and effect
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Fast-paced melee combat that allows for expressive play by combining Reina’s diverse combat abilities
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Exciting platforming action
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A touching story about love, loss, and finding the strength to push forward
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Player-influenced story developments, a built-in randomizer, and speedrun mode provide endless replayability
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Original piano-driven soundtrack with acoustic and synthetic instruments
Refactor
Every day in the world of Refactor thousands of puzzle pieces are created for the explicit purpose of playing “The Game”. Requiring perfection, only perfect puzzle pieces are selected for use and those who are imperfect are shunned by society and decommissioned. Thrown into this hostile environment, it is up to a couple of misfits to find their place in this unbending society.
Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game. Uncover secrets, acquire new abilities and upgrades, and discover where you fit in the world.
Shattered Soul
About the Game
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Shattered Soul is a modern game that interprets Beat’em up by adding the fun with a charming narrative based on Metroidvania-styled epic action. Explore a fantastic world that intersects medieval Europe, follow stories of adventure in search of lost soul and bodies.
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You become ‘Ireth’ and venture out looking for her lost memories. She explores the forests, cathedrals, and snowy villages of the border area, and battles enemies by using various techniques against bandits, fanatics, demonized humans and mutant animals. ‘Ireth’ discovers secrets all over the continent to find her soul with shattered sword ‘Bias’.
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As you hack-and-slash your way across town - either solo or with a friend in local co-op - you’ll gain new skills, chow down on power-ups, wield an assortment of weapons, and unleash an arsenal of combos, throws, and special combat moves for both fighting enemies and platforming challenges
Key Features
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Classic side-scrolling action, with all the modern trimmings.
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Tightly tuned 2D controls. Dodge, dash, and slash your way through over 24 enemies and 6 epic bosses. Face ferocious beasts and vanquish ancient knights on your quest through the lost kingdom.
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Five large city regions to fight through, complete with shops and side quests.
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An expansive world filled with unique dungeons, quests, and secrets.
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All in classic hand-painted original 2D drawings.