EchoBlade
EchoBlade is a puzzle-combat dungeon explorer. You find yourself blind and trapped inside an expansive tower labyrinth. Shrouded in total darkness you must navigate your way to freedom using only sound as your guide.
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See the world in ultrasonic: every footstep, every metal clank of armor, or swing of blade illuminates your path. Stride with care to avoid pressure plates that spring a variety of traps.
Equip your sword blade or let loose crossbow bolts when encountering the armored crusader knights who lurk the dark dungeon hallways.
Explore the perilous tower. Each level is built with varying mechanics: patrolling prison guards, uncover hidden switches that open secret doors, and solving puzzles with platforming elements.
Venture forth and find your way to freedom.
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The End o,,,o
You are a slow-moving pixel zombie who can shoot fireballs and just wants to get home. This is a very (VERY) old-style, slow, MS-DOSesque platformer(?). Very short, very vague, and very odd. Single life- you screw up, you’re starting over. And that dude moves REALLY slowly. Good luck building up the patience. The music isn’t awful but just kind of drones on slowly.
Gameplay: https://youtu.be/sKpDX2KKuP4
It will likely take you all of 10 seconds to download, so check it out I guess? I say this often- but– give us a ‘Neutral’ option, Steam. I don’t really recommend this, but there’s nothing worthy of a thumbs down. It accomplishes what it’s trying to accomplish.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
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O,,,O is the sad story of a fire demon that wants to go home. You control a purple undead by using WASD and SPACE to walk, jump, hit next and throw your fireballs. A tiny retro treat that fullfills its simple ambitions. Interestingly enough, this title was originally developed for the C64, but I’m glad a free PC port made it to Steam because now we can all bask in all the glory of its 3FPS. However, because of this glorious framerate, the controls can feel clunky at time – but nothing serious enough that will get in the way of your journey back home. The soundtrack is a depressing 5 second loop, but the enemy deathcries are so jarring they might as well be jumpscares. In addition, despite being heavily pixelated, O,,,O successfully creates an eerie atmosphere that makes the player feel like if they were walking through a graveyard in the dead of night during a full moon. Moreover, the game ends with
! a bloody question mark, meaning that there might be a sequel depending on the traction of this demo. Let’s hope so!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Dawn of a Soul
This game really works your brain in a good way. One of the most relaxing games I’ve played as well.
– Real player with 47.3 hrs in game
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This mathematical puzzle game has a very creative concept you would maybe expect on mobile platforms, but uses the PC’s wider display for deeper in-depths mechanics and levels. It has an original approach on the casual-friendly puzzle genre by finding the optimal chain(s) in combining the numbered nodes and switching the colours on the right spot to increase the multiplier.
You don’t need high mathematical skills to solve the puzzles, simply counting to a reasonable degree is all you’ll need (the game keeps track of your equation in the bottom) and the routes are often quite intuitive. The final score you need to reach is given in any level, while often there is a second, lower score to move on to the next level and coming back later. New mechanics are added along the way, but always with very easy to learn tutorials. But make no mistake, the higher levels are very challenging and will need your focus to master them.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Blindia
A novel experience that more people should have, it’s good. Clapping to get enemies to shoot each other is a satisfying activity, and the standard top-down shooting benefits from the enemies being sometimes tricky to detect.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Neat game. Echo is not a game mechanic used enough.
The environment sound is pretty good, the shell hitting the floor, clock beeping, you can have a good idea of what most of the things are pretty easily.
The AI is a bit questionable sometimes. I can kinda understand what’s going on with the normal enemies shooting each other, but grenadier blowing himself up is kinda weird.
But overall it’s a nice little game. Running around like a mad man or luring and gunning are both rather enjoyable.
PS: Found a bug, if you tab out then go back, the blood texture will disappear.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
P0
P0 is a fun, very challenging puzzle game. I got stuck not that far into the game and keep saying just one more try over and over. If you like challenges and puzzle games you will like P0. It was odd at first but after 5 minutes I got the hang of how to play.
I recommend using a controller you will find it easier than using the keyboard. Also when you open the game it is in a small window so you need a program called Borderless Gaming to play this in full screen.
7 out of 10
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– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Rather annoying game concept, already at the 1st level. The movement system is rather janky, diagonal movement-inputs (such as W+A or Up+Left arrow key at the same time) get quite often registered as only a horizontal or vertical input, which causes you to basically instantly fail in some levels, forcing you to fully repeat them again.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Ritual
This is a sort of pulp-fictioned art-house meme graphic novel.
Story is utter garbage. Writing is down right horrible. Pictures are all stock or stolen. Not sure about the music.
Вообщем это шлак. Отвратный шлак. Такой каким в ларьке еду оборачивают.
Написанно словно 13-летним ярым поклонником книг про сталкеров.
Картинки скоммуниздины с нета.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Salio
A really well-done and polished game made by two of the most dedicated people I know. The developers put hours upon hours of tears blood and sweat into this game and it shows. I have never played (and probably never will) a better game than this masterpiece. If you haven’t already i strongly recommend buying it!!!
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Amazing game!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Zombie Murder Hell Arrives
It’s not that bad but there are so many better top down survival shooters you could play (like crimsonland).
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Obsolete
~FUN INTENSIFIES~
An enjoyable game, I really appreciate my run! Considering it’s the developer’s first game, I must say I’m really impressed. You can feel it was made with a lot of passion and a lot of reflexion to make it nice. There are a lot of secrets so don’t rush it and take your time to discover everything!
The world is truly immersive, I was really touched by the story and I liked discovering it all along the levels. The MC is incredibly LOVELY (he’s so cuuuute when he walks!! Even when he dies. Which sadly happens often with my pitiful skills).
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Simple but enjoyable atmospheric platformer. Well constructed and fun to play through - can be completed quick if you’re good, but the puzzles are fun enough to keep you engaged.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Flex hooks
flex hooks is basically the love child of hook and sinkr , with basic functionality that’s missing from the former and without level reset upon making a mistake, which is present in both. it’s still not just a bunch of trial & error, though I found it hard to tell sometimes what goes where exactly, and it would’ve been really annoying with more punishing gameplay.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
This is a nice quick puzzle game with a clean, uncluttered look. Some of the puzzles could be harder or more elegant, but it’s worth the price.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game