Astra: Fading Stars
The universe of Astra: Fading Stars is all brought to life by traditional, 2D, hand drawn animations and surroundings that compose the atmospheric look of the game.
Engage in this action adventure with classic gameplay, daunting enemies and ancient riddles. Explore multilayered secrets, discover hidden truths and gradually reveal the mechanics and the lore of this world.
Game Features
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Astra Call, an ability springing from your soul. Utilize it to interact with the environment on a variety of situations that come across you.
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Highly responsive controls that permit flow and precision.
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Traditionally animated characters and world.
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Clues are scattered around the world. Connect them to unravel the truth.
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Collect Astra and use it to upgrade your strength.
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Meet a variety of species, hostile or not, that react according to your actions.
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Numerous otherworldly enemies block your path. Among them, dangerous bosses and mini bosses.
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Multiple scores of original, instrumental music.
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World randomization, gameplay elements can change on every run.
A rich story unfolds
The past haunts the future. Two opposing forces compete, will your astral soul be strong enough to fight the corruption?
_The stars are slowly fading
one less each time
not long until
they’re gone
forever_
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Bushiden
Your sister has vanished and rumors swirl that Gaoh has been resurrected with an evil army at his command. Explore for cybernetic upgrades until you are powerful enough to defeat the diabolic Gaoh and his cybergentic army once and for all in this futuristic, action platformer!
Features
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7 levels to explore plus a prologue area!
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Survive epic boss fights to unlock new traversal and combat abilities!
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Unique “crowd control” combat system gives the player powerful options for dispatching hordes of foes!
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Oirbo
Assemble yourself in a hostile spacecraft where almost everything that moves is trying to get you. The reason? Yours to discover! Explore, fight and learn your purpose in this galactic action-adventure.
Oirbo is a 2D action-platformer adventure that takes place on a huge spacecraft divided into interconnected areas. Search in every section for the pieces that make out the history of the journey and enhance your skills and components to get to new heights.
Explore every section of the spacecraft to reach your goal, but beware of the army of robots that are coming for you; avoid them; fight them or simply outsmart them on this futuristic hand-drawn adventure in space!
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Beautiful hand-drawn art
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Classic platforming and combat system
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Choose your own path to explore a monolithic spacecraft
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Not a single line of human text to read!
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Discover new skills and put them to the test on challenging platforming puzzles
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Piece together a fragmented story from the past
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Responsive controls with either keyboard or controller.
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Dozens of enemies to fight and overcome
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5 bosses to vanquish
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Playthrough attempt here: https://youtu.be/HpmQMt1Wybc
Absolutely not if you don’t speak the native language of the game developers which I believe is Chinese. You have to guess your way into making the game English then when you get in game there’s no controls explained at the start, if you majestically find your way out of the room (interact key is i) you can then talk to something which tells you the controls in Chinese even if you’re in the English version of the game. There’s nothing that tells you where to go the building you’re supposed to go into I’m assuming has a glass door that blends in pretty well with the other glass on the building. There’s so many vacant buildings on the way they’re it makes you assume that all the buildings are vacant to be honest with no dialogue or direction from the game. These shooting robots legit made me rage quit they legitimately have almost no spacing in between they’re shots you’re swing time causes you to get hit unless you have the timing of the gods. You can’t crouch swing you can’t interrupt her animation to crouch the bullets make her flinch you have NO I frames. The game tells me I have a shield generator to equip, but doesn’t tell me how to do it I went through every option tried every key I could think of and nothing let me put on or even see a shield generator. Honestly I could be missing an essential game mechanic, because the game isn’t translated well which is why I preface this towards people who don’t speak the native language, but this was absolutely rage inducing.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Elypse
Every ten years, a sacrifice must be made to protect your people from the Abyss, a place as worshiped as it is feared… This time you were chosen and thrown into the darkness… Nobody has ever returned but perhaps you can achieve the impossible ?
Welcomed by Nyx, living alone with its boulders in a cave, you have survived for ten years. With his help you will try to reach a portal that could finally let you escape the depth of the Abyss in this metroidvania platformer.
Key features
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A 2D action platformer with a Dark and Gloomy style - Elypse is a 2D metroidvania combining platforming and action that takes place in the depths of an infernal world.
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An environment fraught with traps and dangers - Discover the depths of the Abyss with a light and nimble-footed character. Dexterity and perseverance will be needed if you are to explore and escape the Abyss unscathed.
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Traverse the Abyss with the intuitive dash and slash system - Use a tuned and intuitive dash and slash system to face a treacherous environment and vicious foes.
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Evolve with new skills and abilities - Take advantage of a variety of unlockable skills and abilities in order to survive the gruelling trials of Elypse.
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Explore striking environments, oozing with atmosphere - Discover this universe with magnificent settings during your desperate attempt to escape the Abyss once and for all.
Will you be the first to escape Elypse’s darkness and discover its secrets?
GoldFish Brain
Goldfish Brain is a nice Metroidvania style game with a really nice aesthetic. The art direction is really nice and the game players well overall. It does have a few problems with an inconsistent difficulty, and the translations are a little rough, but overall it’s definitely worth playing.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
super duper hard.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
PATHFINDER 08
Listen. This game has some serious fundamental flaws.
There’s a window where your attacks will just outright NOT come out if you press the attack button just after you stop moving forward. This happens a bunch as you use movement to position yourself (hopefully).
Jumping adjacent to walls will shorten your jump height. You always get the same height jump no matter whether you tap or hold the jump button. But if done next to a wall you’ll only go up halfway and if you’re holding into the wall you’ll remain hovering there and not come back down until moving away. This is a valid issue as there’s one tile wide vertical paths you need to jump through and spikes come out one side of the wall. But then your jump gets halved because you were too close to the wall and you’ve moved into spikes as a result.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
The Serpent Rogue
The Serpent Rogue is an action-adventure game built around exploring a medieval fantasy world, mastering the art of alchemy, and taming wild creatures.
You play as the Warden, a mysterious alchemist, who needs to put their skills to protect this realm from the encroaching Corruption. Craft, brew, boil & concoct and protect the realm from The Serpent Rogue!
EXPEDITION THROUGH THE UNKNOWN
The Serpent Rogue has laid down roots on Mount Morbus, wherefrom its seething Corruption spreads and threatens to overwhelm the realm. It is your task as the Warden to confront it and restore balance to the natural order of things. Explore every corner of the map, unearth secret passages and gain knowledge to stand against the incoming disaster.
CRAFT POTIONS & EXPERIMENT
The game is heavily focused on crafting and experimenting with multiple types of potions and receipts. Use alchemy skills to transform or create situations to your own advantage.
Set up your mixing table and help the denizens of this cursed land; take their quests and earn resources to further your exploits.
CHOOSE YOUR ACTIONS
All your actions can create interesting sequences of cause and effect. Gather too many pets in one place and this will attract blood-thirsty Reapers that feed on alive. Forget to bury the perished ones and your location starts to attract corpse-eating ghouls, which attack everything on their way. Gather too many items in one location and be ready to deal with plague-spreading vermin.
EVOLVE
You can transform yourself or anyone else into… well, anyone! Brew potions that change certain aspects of creatures you meet on the way. Alter your body, so that poison will heal you, or use special abilities to other species.
Wreak havoc or create a flawless mechanism from a chicken farm that produces shovels…
It’s all up to you!
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Zolg
It kinda tries to be a metroidvania in the form of a top-view shmup. There’s only ever one path that leades to progress, though, whereas all the others lead to optional extra max HP, so it isn’t really. This is fine, though. The difficulty is distributed properly, the levels seem to have been made very thoughtfully, and while there are many redundant achievements, I think the most challenging ones are good for adding replayability, if the simple but fun bosses, speedrunable nature of the levels and a certain spazzy enemy type aren’t enough.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Key features
Top-down retro-style twin-stick shooter and dungeon crawler.
Gameplay, technical issues, controller support
Gameplay in itself is pretty decent, you start out with a tiny health bar, slow speed and no shield, and gain abilities as you progress and collect powerups. However, the movement of the avatar never feels ‘natural’ – it is like riding a tank where you can only turn by slowing down the left or right tracks. I consider this game unplayable using keyboards and mouse, you definitively need to use a controller.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Blue Rabbit
ITALIANO
Gioco appena iniziato, ma scrivo una recensione, o meglio una prima impressione, dato che non ve ne sono altre, perlomeno nelle lingue da me scelte.
Altro motivo che mi ha spinto a dare un giudizio al titolo, seppur non completo ovviamente, è la sua qualità generale e a mio avviso la buona realizzazione di tutti i vari aspetti, semplici e non troppo pretenziosi, ma davvero ben congegnati e dalla qualità che sicuramente ripaga del costo del gioco.
Innanzitutto ottima pixel graphics, in particolare resa ancor più attraente dall’uso dei colori e dallo stile dell’ambientazione.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game