The Dwarves of Glistenveld
It has been a while since I posted this review and much has changed since then. Having played the game now for a total of 300+ hours (and there was me saying I don’t get much time to play games), I have explored many of the game modes. My favourite right now is the Skirmish mode where you can hand-craft your map options, such as the number of enemies, their initial strength, the map size and style, etc. I am currently working my way up to more and more difficult settings to see how good I really am. My other favourite mode is the cavern mode (the game’s sandbox mode ) where I have also spend many hours. In this mode you can slowly build your base to ever increasing size while improving your tech tree. The current tech tree is already in place for the upcoming next chapter of the game and it allows you to build a railway network so that your miners don’t have to carry everything back to your base, improve and automate your defences, build automated farms for farming roots and mushrooms, light up your neighbour hood with lanterns, build cooking stations and much more. I have also played with the map editor and will be uploading my own hand-crafted map very soon. ‘hwill’ has uploaded a new map to the workshop which I enjoyed very much. I must add a comment.
– Real player with 638.7 hrs in game
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This game, is absolutely fantastic! This RTS adventure strategy game is about leading a tribe of Dwarves trying to take back their homeland from the goblins that have ran them down underground. There are so many things that you find out during every level, there are nice challenges such as the achievements and the schematics that you have to find to advance with technology, there are song hidden choices through your first play through (such as when you meet Fishbeard’s first guard) it’s amazing, it’s so replayable and enjoyable for sooooooooooo many hours even when there is only 6 levels at the time of writing this. Along with the mechanics in this game are so nice and fluid such as the base building part, and the class switching system, the AI is pretty on-point, it’s not one of those games where the AI struggles with some of the commands that you try to give it, in this game, it just does it immediately!
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
Kingdomonium
Kingdomonium is an indie medieval procedurally generated side-scrolling real time strategy game. Build up and command your medieval kingdom to explore and conquer the land. The game at its roots is a real time strategy game with the unique mechanic of playing as a side-scrolling 2D platformer. You play within a procedurally generated sandboxed open world environment which allows activities such as foraging, chopping, digging, mining, building, fishing, sailing, exploring, strategic combat and many more!
So what’s so special about this game?
Most traditional real time strategy games play from a top-down perspective. Kingdomonium plays as a side-scrolling 2D platformer. This combined with the fact that the world you play in is procedurally generated with aspects of destructible terrain makes for some very intriguing and enjoyable gameplay!
What can I do in this game and what is the end goal?
The game allows you to take command of a medieval kingdom. You give orders to various constituent units (some of which are mentiond below) to perform tasks such as foraging, chopping, digging, mining, building, fishing, sailing, exploring and tactical combat. There are many goals in the game but the main overarching one is to expand your kingdom and take over as much land as possible. Other goals include exploration, finding rare items, overcoming various obstacles and enemies and many more.
What commandable characters or units are in the game?
Below are some of the basic units planned in the game. Of course this is only a small sample. There will be many others and advanced versions of these below in the final game!
#### Villager
Villagers are the heartbeat of the kingdom. They perform a multitude of tasks such as wood-cutting, mining, building and crafting. Without them the kingdom cannot function
#### Swordsman
The short swordsman is a staple infantry unit. Although basic they are a formidable force to be reckoned with when commanded in groups for close range melee battle
#### Archer
The archer is another staple infantry unit. They are very effective for planning strategic range attacks and defending the kingdom from higher vantage points and gaurd towers
#### Knight
The knight is a more capable, experienced and equipped infantry unit. They possess a great amount of armour and durability as well as quicker attack times and greater hit-point damage
#### Cavalry
The cavalry are highly durable and effecient combat units. They possess a great amount of stamina and hit-point damage against any opposition as well as having the ability to traverse vast distances quickly
#### Priest
Priests can heal wounded units as well as cast spells against the enemy during battle. In addition to these they also possess further mystical powers yet to be revealed
#### Catapult
The catapult is a basic artillery combat unit. Highly advantageous for launching ranged attacks with large splash damage. Especially useful for destroying buildings and other structures
#### Transport Ship
The transport ship is essential for moving troops, equipment and supplies across sea to neighboring lands
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Bomber League
A bomberman a little more complex than usual.
Choose your character who has his own special skill, make your choices strategically because you will need it to hope to win in this great Bombers tournament!
#### Characters:
Each character has his own special skill, a skill that he can only use at specific times by earning enough points.
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Agent S.: Drops a smoke grenade to smother the bombs in the radius.
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Ramboum : Launches an atomic bomb that sprays absolutely everyone in its path, beware, it’s more than deadly!
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Icy : throws a modified water bomb. Beware, in reality it’s nitrogen and freezes everything in its path, even the blocks are not safe.
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Raiden : fascinated by electricity and lightning, he created a bomb that could paralyze all his enemies who would cause him even the slightest bit of trouble.
#### Items:
To add a little more life to the field, we have a few items that might be interesting for anyone in the middle of a fight!
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Rocket launcher: Shoots and destroys all the blocks in its path until it explodes and projects a long flame perpendicularly.
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Recharge Bonus: Allows you to recharge your special ability faster.
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Speed Bonus: Allows you to move at the speed of light.
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Mines: Be careful where you walk, one wrong step and it’s the end for you because even the terrain could play tricks on you.
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C4: a little technological gem allowing you to make a good racket and good damage whenever and wherever you want.
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Shield : Protects you from a deadly explosion…
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Red Sun Raiders
Join the last humans aboard the vast colony ship Tarian. Moving through the remains of the galaxy in front of a nameless dying sun destroying everything in its path.
Red Sun Raiders is a strategy game with elements of trading, levelling, looting, resource management, basic combat and exploration. This is not a combat based game, the gameplay involves building farms and mines to maximize loot collected, exploring to find keys and gold deposits, and trading to get a good price for your loot.
Structura
This is a niche game intended for a small group of people that enjoy the concept of turning DOS into a game, and manually handling every aspect of base building and logistics through text commands - in lieu of having situational action buttons that figure what you are trying to do when you aim at x thing.
I am not one of those people. I don’t know any of those people.
But I do hope the devs find their audience.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
NEO: Commanders
Just bought the game and already experiencing bugs. The full screen settings button doesn’t work properly. Also whenever I load into a game the full screen isn’t there. It’s as if part of my game is blacked out on both sides. the blacked out spots cover my game mini map and the Star Base menu to build ships. I do not recommend this game until this bug is fixed. If anybody has a fix for this please let me know.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Not bad but need more work
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Dwarfs - F2P
Dwarfs F2P is the free version of the full game Dwarfs!? in which you take control of dwarfs and need to dig, dig and dig some more. Originally got this to get the achievement for KF1.
Pros:
-Gameplay is rather fun. Controlling various little dwarfs throughout the game digging for gold and overcoming obstacles such as lava, water and large spiders keeps you on your toes while playing.
-The free to play version offers quite a bit of content for being free. The full game can be bought through DLC which aren’t too pricey either.
– Real player with 44.6 hrs in game
Let’s be honest here. We all got this game so that we can unlock that awesome axe in Killing Floor.
Making me play this game so that I can get something in another one- good job Tripwire, you cunning game developers you!
But I must say after I’ve played it for 3 hours (going through all the tutorials, codex tips and actual game playing till I get the achievement for the axe) I found out that I really like this game. It has funny dialogues, interesting premise and overall a good theme to it. Who doesn’t like magical underworld realms, where dwarfs fight gnomes and mine gold?
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Grid Miner
Grid Miner is a real-time strategy puzzle game where you mine asteroids to gather resources and expand your space station. Unlock new tools and utilities as you progress through levels. Maintain your quotas and learn more about your employer and coworkers at Hypergo Industries.
Features
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18 unique buildings like power plants, asteroid crushers, tractor beams and more!
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8 levels to test your skills
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Rich backstory about Hypergo Industries and its employees
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Unlock rewards and new buildings as you progress through levels
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Relaxing original soundtrack
ILL Space
ILL Space is a survival space station sim with elements of tower defense!
Construct your rigs with loads of different modules and grow them into fully-fledged autonomous mining colonies. Mine asteroids, manage colonists and crew and defend against the ever increasing cosmic threat!
Creativity is key, or enemies will soon overwhelm you. Will you spread your resources to create a fleet of smaller rigs with designated roles, or will you construct a bulky and slow station with some serious firepower - the choice is yours!
Take on various missions in the sector for the highest bidder and eventually create your own mining empire! You will haul cargo, conduct research for new modules and tools, scan asteroids, build stations and extract resources from harsh environments all the while defending from ancient alien force.
MINE asteroids for resources and position your rigs optimally for the highest yield.
DEFEND your assets at all costs.
BUILD your stations with loads of different modules.
PILOT and maneuver your rigs for tactical advantage.
Dungeon D14
Fun little toy. Not super deep and you only really play it once or twice, but for the price its good.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
needs more info. unplayable in current state. you will fail because of a resorce you didnt know you needed to make another requires the first, and a string of 3 more, however this is more info on that fact then the game will give you. playing you will have fun untill you grind to a halt because you didnt rush iron-steel bars-copper- copper bars-copper plates-microelectronics-gas-fuel cells, if you get behind you have lost, there is no coming back from one of these buildings losing power, your guys are best suited to doing one or at max two jobs as they run around like chickens with there heads cut off chasing invisible resorces. i lost 2 times one because i didnt understand my guys have ZERO controll minus telling them were to mine or build, not to mine or build. and a second time i microed my 2 chaines well and didnt figure out that coper plates/microelectronics were part of the power the building chain, lost because you cant make enough to power that chain with one building, meaning you somehow have to create extra energy or never build a building incorectly dont try for shoes or armor or anything cool it will ruin the power chain you have to run, taking the power grids away from the main chain will also resault in one or more of your buildings going unpowered, and they compeat for resorces with your units “life” bar battery thing, taking iron bars and a fair few people to make it. the food/ o2 system will almost never come into play if you take 1 min every half-hour of play to mine water/seaweed from the ground. this is the best tutorial for this game out there btw. cement=hard rocks , sand , water . steel bars= iron ore. coper plates= coper bars= coper ore. batteries=acid+steel bars. acid=sulfer. food=seaweed+water. o2=water. legit better than ingame id sugest if you get this get a notebook and wright it down, share it with the next chump afterwords.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game