Exophobia
Exophobia is a retro-inspired first person shooter with fast-paced combat. You wake up to find yourself alone in a human spaceship infested with hostile alien soldiers. Explore your surroundings while you uncover piece by piece the backstory and destiny of its human inhabitants. Shoot, dash, stun your enemies and more, in your path to escape!
KILL
FPS action where fast reflexes and clever positioning are vital. Learn enemy behavior and use all your movement options and your surroundings to eliminate diverse groups of alien armies as fast as possible or before they kill you.
EXPLORE
Discover a labyrinthine spaceship with multiple floors and uncover the past events that led to this high-stakes moment. Get lost in hostile environments and traps while doing your best to survive. Be curious enough and you might find some secrets that will make you stronger.
UPGRADE
If you find a specialized room, you can improve your weapon with a new ability. These drastically change your combat tactics and will be used to open up previously inaccessible areas in the spaceship required to progress.
DIE
Ruthless difficulty with diverse combat situations with different enemy types and attack patterns, including menacing bosses. When you die, you respawn in the last visited checkpoint in the spaceship, so beware what you might find in the next room.
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La-Mulana
La Mulana is…. an unfortunate game. It is very interesting and has a lot of potential, but it commits many gaming sins that can’t be overlooked. This is a NES era kind of game that is designed to force you to use some kind of guide when playing it (think castlevania 2). If you respond to this, don’t just say ‘the game is supposed to be hard’. Dark Souls is my favorite game; I know the difference between a game that is difficult because it’s designed well, and a game that is difficult because it is designed badly.
– Real player with 160.1 hrs in game
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Do I recommend this game?
No. You can read the reviews and decide for yourself whether you think you’ll be able to stomach it, otherwise I see little value in trying to play it for simple reasons such as liking the art, or metroidvanias, or puzzles, or because a lot of people say it’s amazing.
Something I’ve noticed while playing La-Mulana is that an overwhelming majority of modern (and not-so-modern) games have quite some of the so-called “handholding” in some shape or form. This includes games being touted as having nearly no handholding such as Dark Souls (I’m sorry, I need to draw comparisons simply because other people probably draw them but for the wrong reasons, and it’s a good difficult game that is similar but also incredibly different).
– Real player with 129.7 hrs in game
Million to One Hero
I am having fun with it, but don’t get your hopes up for new levels being made. I had this game for about 1 1/2 months and have only seen 1 other person make 2 levels (the game has a lot of older levels though). Also, I have like 3 to 4 people clear the levels I have made (only can see who has cleared the level and not failed it.) , and people can’t up vote a level until they have cleared it.
You can also increase your rank by doing task in other players levels ( kill baddies with a bow, or collect orbs), but the rank doesn’t seem to do anything that I am aware of. Good luck trying to get a task done though if players don’t use certain things in their levels.
– Real player with 267.4 hrs in game
Another underrated lever editor platformer, Million to One Hero hits a great balance of fun platforming and adventure-based story. While the editor can take a bit to learn, it has a few key additions that separate this game from other level editors, such as NPCs and dialogue. It also features an adventure creator, where you can string multiple levels together to make a larger story.
As is, Million to One Hero is a solid level editor game, and while it could use a bit more work to make it great, it is certainly one worth checking out and I heartily recommend it.
– Real player with 16.3 hrs in game
Watcher Chronicles
Oh, ye poor gamer, I pity thee… for in your journey through Steam, you have found yourself on a dark page where the straight way is lost… You can not turn back, for you’ve found the suffering you yearn for… Prepare thy thumbs and trigger fingers for your penance has begun…
Purgatory has been invaded by an unholy threat. A group of fallen ones called “The Watchers” now seek to transform it into a new hell. Lost souls must unite or face utter annihilation…
Features
Fast Skill Based Combat - Challenging but fair souls-like combat with tight and finely tuned controls. Dodge, block, and slice your way through enemies.
Large Interconnected World - Explore every crack of a purgatorial realm filled with secrets and game changing loot in a non-linear fashion.
Powerful Magic - Incinerate enemies with waves of fire, lightning, and void or summon the horde with powerful necromancy.
Unique Weapons - Giant swords, blade staffs, scythes, polearms, and more to discover and master. Weapon types all have different move sets that completely changes up the gameplay.
Robust Streamlined RPG System - Carefully upgrade your hero to match your play style and build out your own unique character class. Discover 100+ upgradable armor, weapons, and rings to specialize your build.
Relentless Bosses - Battle over 20+ finely tuned and challenging bosses that require careful planning and significant skill to take down.
New Game Plus - Keep your gear when finishing the game and continue the journey with increasingly harder difficulties.
Oh and you will die… a lot…
Now go forth gamer… Existence itself hangs in the balance… Hit the Wishlist button and the first step of your long journey has begun!
REDO!
BULLET POINTS
Pros:
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Gorgeous art
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Immersive, beautifully bleak atmosphere
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Cleverly interconnected world
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Responsive, satisfyingly hefty controls
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Meaty combat with an interesting touch of strategy
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Maybe the best NG+ ever
Cons:
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Oddly arbitrary ability gating, that can be needlessly confusing
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Shared resources hamper the usability of tools
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Boss fights are too simplistic
THE SHORT OF IT
Play the demo and finish it. It can take a while to understand the mechanics -specifically the rhythm of the combat-, but once you do, and once you get to use the first couple tools, you’ll know.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
Decent post-apocalyptic metroidvania that can be completed in 4-5 hours. After you beat the game you can also access the “hard mode” which changes the pathways, relocates power-ups, and increases difficulty. You play as a human survivor in a Lovecraftian world that is populated by biomachines and human-sized love dolls. Our character receives a message from a mysterious individual who we assume is another human character and our goal is to find him. My favorite part of this experience is the atmosphere - the soundtrack that creates the foreboding mood and the feeling of isolation. The game has a neat art direction which I can only describe as the ‘Village Hidden in the Rain’ - a city overrun by pipes, tunnels, mist, and fungus. As with many metroidvania games, it allows you to complete the areas out of order if you find the correct power-up, but there are only 3 major sections with a few optional locations (not a very big game). Oddly enough there is no map, although you will get many shortcuts if you pay attention.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Redneck Rift
Every problem can be solved with a shotgun and every solution can be celebrated with an ice cold beer.
Help Cletus quench his thirst after a long hard days work as he platforms his way through the bayou, time and back again in this retro styled, difficult action precision platformer game.
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Action packed levels filled with enemies and challenging obstacles
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Mix of closed and open ended levels where you can choose your own path
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Plenty of babes to rescue… they will thank you later
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Beer
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Shotguns
