A Winter Story – Original Edition and Highly Difficult
Curator Review:
Finding You Before Spring Coming is a Indie RPG, that feels like the classic Gameboy days.
You wake up to a calm winter’s day, as you take a look out your bedroom window - you see that it is snowing - the sun gleaming through the window. You feel calm and collected, ready for a big day of adventure.
The times of war are over. The Children are free to live a happy childhood, with the young people heading to School to study. Everyone else disappears to the City to find work, some choose to become Traders, others Banking.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
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What can I say about A Winter Story?
A Winter Story is a game I received through Curator Connect, and a game I would have otherwise not picked up. This game gave me feelings of “made with RPG Maker”, which means I must try it out since they are trying to make their game better than I am. While this is admirable, I didn’t enjoy my experience, and had to put the game down not even 40 minutes in.
First off, I had a hard time discerning whether this game was about to be some kind of H-game with a cutesy RPG cover. The game is translated, and while I’m unsure from which Asian language it is definitely-not translated professionally into English. This causes hilarious mix-ups once you’ve realized that the game is not about selling men into sexual slavery at the age of 29, and often leaves you laughing while holding your head.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Red Sails
Sand swallows everything: houses, resources to survive, people, and the bonds between them.
Play as Sil, rescue the stranded people of the desert, speak with them, restore their trust in each other, and bring them to their destination.
All of this will help you find more information about the rest of your clan, the Red Sails, that may be still roaming the desert.
Sail
Learn to master your ship and dominate the wind while experiencing a fresh semi-realistic sailing gameplay. Feel the nervousness of speeding through the dunes.
Explore
Explore at your own pace this wide open world, set in a desert full of secrets!
Let your curiosity take over, discover the many memorable villages, places and ancient monuments that are scattered all around the world.
Connect with people
Exchange with the people you meet and travel with about the world that surrounds you. Learn about their life, views, beliefs, challenges, and the different tensions between them. It is up to you to bridge the gap between the villages. Remember that each encounter is a new opportunity to get closer to the rest of your clan.
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Trash Panda
It’s garbage night, and there’s no human in sight! Explore neighbourhoods of Toronto as the unofficial mascot of the city: the Trash Panda.
Make a Mess!
As a mischievous raccoon, make the biggest mess you can knocking over trash bins lining the streets. The bigger the mess, the higher you score. Some of the trash is yummy-yummy treats giving you additional points. Find power-ups too!
Explore the Real-World Streets of Toronto
The maps of Trash Panda are created from real-world street data of Canada’s most populous city. See if you can visit every street on the map!
Challenges!
Some crescents and dead-end streets are home to territorial raccoons that don’t want you knocking over their bins. Should you enter these areas, a nemesis raccoon may challenge you to a match! Which of you can knock over the most bins? Winner takes all!
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Laser Maze
This is a great puzzel game and for $5. The grafics are pleasing and it is easy to control with a great soundtrack to go with it. I highly suggest this game especially if you are new to puzzel games.
– Real player with 24.7 hrs in game
As the title suggests, Laser Maze is a game that is all about redirecting laser beams through maze-like areas with the help of mirror devices. I haven’t found all secrets yet but I finished the entire campaign and six bonus puzzles, and I can already say that this game is well worth the price of around 4€ (at the time of release) if you are into 2D laser redirection puzzles.
In the game, you are a maintenance robot on board of a space station and it is your job to figure out what happened to the crew. The robot is steered with WASD or arrow keys and you can aim the laser redirection with the mouse. This mechanic generally works very well. On your path through the station you encounter computer terminals that give you background information and goals to pursue.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
MEGALAN 11
nice game!
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
This game has a quirky art style with some nice sound effects. It’s very relaxing and the puzzle’s are not frustrating, but rather enjoyable. Sit back relax and tinker around fixing doors and turning on various machines. Good fun. A few bugs and spelling mistakes but the developer has responded straight away, which is nice.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Red and White
Red and White combines metroidvania-style exploration with puzzle elements and an abstract art style.
Explore a vast world and restore to it the colors it once used to have. Each time a color is restored, the walls that used to be of that color will act differently, and with clever use of them, you’ll be able to reach new areas you couldn’t previously.
dead run
A surprisingly compelling little mood piece, unfortunately hampered by bugs. The game uses real world map data to cool effect, generating a new ‘world’ every run based off real roads. This amplifies the sense of surreal isolation that is the strongest asset of this game for mine. The gameplay is very simple; you’re searching for basic survival resources, putting simple upgrades in your car and driving to the next point. Don’t expect anything deep mechanics wise, but it’s effective for what the game is going for.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
This game should be titled early access. Not only is it full of bugs, the gameplay is boring and monotonous. One doesn’t play this game so much as hold a key down and wait patiently for something (anything) to happen.
Buildings don’t load, trees located in roads, it’s just a boring expanse of trees that you keep running into. I stopped playing when my car got wedged between two trees, unable to move and making me regret the time I had spent thus far.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
LowPolyExplorer
Good graphics, smooth gameplay, and overall enjoyable experience. Can’t wait to see what comes next!
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
This game is really fun i like how you can traverse a different world and if you want you can try to do tricks by ramming into stuff to shoot you into the sky or throw yourself into a crater(of course all of that might be fixed in later updates but hey its fun while it lasts)
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Nira
Nira is a pixel based RPG which heavily reminds me of the old Holy Grail on the Atari 800 from back in the 80s.
The price is very generous for the content, hard time, and updates to come.
I purchased this game moment it was released as I could not bare to be without Nira once the beta ended.
I had the opportunity to play this game and help with debugging and suggestions along with many others who helped out as well.
The game is quite simple to learn, and very enjoyable. It’s one of those games you start playing then realize the day flew by.
– Real player with 144.8 hrs in game
I’ve been really enjoying playing Nira, so far, I know it’s early days right now but I find the gameplay engaging and the items satisfying to obtain and use.
It’s very easy to get into; the way that the tools progress leads you nicely through the crafting tree, the combat is simple and rewarding (especially once you have gathered enough resources for projectile weapons), and I enjoy the foraging/farming aspect, it’s nice to see crops that you have gathered, or traded for, grow.
I cannot speak to the multiplayer myself, as I have yet to try it, but I enjoy the single player mode immensely.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
Screeps: World
I have played lots games over the years. have forgotten 95% of them, 4.9% of them i remember due to them being an excellent game and myself enjoying, Paradox games I love but don’t rate as in the top .1%. Only a very rare game has me remembering epic or defining moments that really set that game apart for me. EvE online is one, for creating a sandbox of such freedom, politics, warfare, resource gathering, trade, which all helps to create proper player driven stories.
The other is Screeps….which has given me my most proud moments in any game i have played. The games are of course markedly different but also surprisingly similar. Screeps like EvE has trade, crafting, factories, land ownership, politics/alliances, resource gathering, warfare, but ants instead of ships and where in EvE when u get killed you take a big loss, in Screeps it can mean game over, time to respawn from scratch……again.
– Real player with 3117.3 hrs in game
Note: I am not associated with the developers in any way, I’ve just been playing a lot recently.
Screeps is a game for programmers.
But it is possible for someone without any previous programming experience to learn it with enough dedication, though I recommend at least learning some basics of programming/JavaScript from somewhere like codecademy first. And try the free tutorial before you buy the game (I am still running code that started out based on the tutorial code, 2 months later).
The game has deceptively simple visuals, but a lot of increasingly complex systems that you gain access to as you progress within the game, providing interesting challenges for your programming ability. How complex it ends up getting depends in part on how much of it you end up wanting to automate. Pretty much anything you can do, you can get your code to do for you.
– Real player with 2606.2 hrs in game