Troubled Passage
Troubled Passage is a Roguelike ARPG with a very peculiar combat system based on mouse swipes. This system allows for some interesting combat encounters that feel more engaging and rewarding. The mouse is an extension of your sword.
You are set to travel across five regions and reach an old port. There you will take a ship that will take you far away. That’s all you know for now. But beware, these lands are filled with undead creatures, traps and other nasty travelers. You should always be careful, even if you decide to share the road with a companion.
Character Creation
Choose your character appearance and select a trade. Trades are like character classes that defines with which types of weapons and types of damage your character is proficient with, gaining a buff when using that type of weapon.
Combat
Attacks are performed by swiping your mouse in a certain direction (up, down left or right). These swipes will trigger the combat skill that you have assigned to that direction.
There are multiple skills to learn throughout the game for each type of combat:
Unarmed
Onehanded
Twohanded (skills are missing at this point of development)
Bow (skills are missing at this point of development)
Loot
Troubled Passage loot system is built on the idea that “if they have it, you can have it”. No longer will you get disappointed if a heavy-armored-cool-looking enemy only dropped a knife and an apple. You want that armor! Well, good news! In Troubled Passage, enemies will drop exactly what they are wearing (stats included). You can strip your enemies of everything and claim it for yourself. This means strong enemies equals strong loot.
Companions
From time to time, you will encounter recruitable companions that can help you in your quest. They may be expensive, but they are a great help in dealing with enemies. All companions are randomly generated, and so are their motives.
Rivalries
Companions react to your attitude towards them. If they get mad at you, they can become your rivals and appear later on to seek revenge as a mini-boss battle.
Traders
Visit traders to buy and sell items. Blacksmiths will even allow you to forge your own weapon from a list of components and manage the weapon stats.
Random Levels
To ensure that each playthrough feels different, levels are randomly generated. So there are new areas to explore each time you play, and loot is distributed at random. There are still some “static” levels in terms of layout due to workload, but later they will all be fully random.
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Gang of Paws
Fun game!!! Hard, but very fitting for a roguelike. Quite unique battle system and CRAZY cute animals (obviously the development team of this game has a great sense of humour). There is a lot of content and different ways to build up your character with different spells and power-ups. A sort of strategy and action game combo!
– Real player with 66.7 hrs in game
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Gang of Paws is a roguelike deckbuilder with real-time battles.
You start with the bunny and need to find a portal on each map. After beating the boss, the portal will appear and you’ll get onto the next map. If your HP reaches zero, the run is over. You can get new powers, cards and upgrade them throughout your run.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
An Amazing Wizard
Gameplay
What do you get when you combine a roguelite with metroidvania? A RogueVania!
Explore procedurally generated levels with over 250 Artifacts, more than 100 Spells and dozens of Magic Weapons to unlock and use. After every death you’ll respawn in one of the four nature-inspired magicial worlds.
Story
A bad Necromancer has placed you in his Magic Realm. Because of that few Magic Hands started to follow you. They are able to cast powerful spells. Find items to make them stronger and free yourself!
Key Features:
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Procedurally generated world - Explore a unique world every time you play.
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5 Nonlinear Levels - Only 5 levels? Yes, but each time you die you’ll respawn in one of the four nature-inspired worlds and face other enemies based on current biome.
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Few Difficulty Levels - Every time you kill the end boss, you’ll gain possibility to change the difficulty level and face stronger foes.
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Many Bosses - After every level you’ll have to face a merciless boss.
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Action RogueVania - This means permanent deaths where you lose every item you’ve found, but there are some permanent upgrades available.
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A lot of Secrets and Mysteries to discover - No spoilers!
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250+ Unique Artifacts - Every artifact has it’s special use. A lot of them change your Basic Spell behaviour or add special abilities. Literally countless combinations.
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100+ Spells - Cast Fire Balls or Tornados, Summon Creatures, Slow Time, Create Gravity Zones and many, many more…
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Dozens of Magic Weapons - Use one of many Magic Weapons to help you survive!
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Dozens of Upgrades - Upgrade your starting items or statistics. Add more elements to the world, increase your chance for finding better items and many more!
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Hours of fun - This one depends on your skill. Something about 30-60 hours or even more.
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Multiple Save slots
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COUNT THE DEAD
I cannot quit from settings, i have to force quit from the game. You should fix this situation. You can add music on game. After that it should be perfect game!
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Mortal Sin
The most intense and exciting Roguelike ever made! Steel yourself in this brutal nightmare and grab the most powerful weapon you can find. Hack and slash your way to victory and destroy the source of evil that has cursed you.
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Beautiful graphic novel inspired art style
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Brutal dismemberment system that affects enemy behavior
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Environmental hazards and traps to knock enemies into
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Completely randomized levels and items for infinite replay value
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Open ended game world with different paths
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Tons of items, spells and perks for endless gameplay variety
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Spooky atmosphere and shocking scares
Ignited Steel: Mecha TBT
Aiming to fulfill its expansion instinct, humanity created an A.I. which controls and manages all necessary resources to expand the human race throughout the galaxy. Soon, a fatal flaw in the A.I. “PharOS” code was discovered: it could not and would not stop expanding.
With the hope to halt PharOS’ expansion, the human race depends on “The Ignited Steel” program, a plan reliant on outdated technology which PharOS cannot control.
Old Mechs from past wars are now humanity’s only hope.
Attacking and moving mechs requires energy and can overheat the mech. If overheated, mechs output more damage while being more vulnerable to enemy attacks.
A key element to gameplay is finding the perfect balance between damage and vulnerability.
Pilots from every corner of the universe volunteer to the Ignited Steel program, each bringing their unique personalities and tactics.
As the Ignited Steel program regains control of the galaxy, new pilots will join the cause against PharaOS.
There’re 3 types of mechs: Juggernaut, Stalker and Javelin, each with their own advantages and counterplay.
Mechs are built using unique modules each with their own purpose. As the Ignited Steel program liberates the galaxy, they will earn and purchase new modules with unique traits.
The galaxy is full of contrasting planets and stories to be told. By jumping from node to node the ignited steel program will discover the galaxy’s stories, and add new modules and pilots to the crew. New planets, pilots, modules, events and missions in every playthrough!
LeHweng LeHweng
If you want some fast,funny, puzzle. Play this game B)
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Minotaur Maze
Oh no! The Minotaur got me… I’ll have to play until I find a proper shotgun!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
I’d recommend this game, it’s a nice little dungeon runner game.
Your goal is to navigate through mazes to rescue the princess and then …
The controls are simple and effective, you can adjust your camera angle too if needed.
You go through seven different mazes while the Minotaur is hunting you too.
Each maze gets bigger and the Minotaur becomes faster.
The game fullfills what it has announced, it has nice music and audio and a pleasant looking artstyle.
And it’s free.
Overall, i think it’s a nice little game to spend time on, relatively short depending on your pace but the Minotaur might surprises you around a corner.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
HighFleet
Great game that combines strategic gameplay similar to submarine simulations with tactical air battles between flying tanks.
You command a fleet with the aim of capturing the enemy capital city, while fighting off enemy fleets searching for you. Fleet movement is a game of cat and mouse using a very well realised radar system, aircraft carriers, cruise missiles, intercepting enemy radio signals and much more. When two fleets meet, the game switches to tactical battle in which you directly pilot a ship and fight against the enemy. You can design individual ships in your fleet from the groundup and then use them.
– Real player with 233.4 hrs in game
The all-time best ever flying submarines in the sky game ever made. Although I have spent most of my time obsessing over ship design, “submarine airship game” is the best description for this FTL-like rogue-like UNFORGIVINGLY Difficult game I can come up with; in campaign, you spend a lot of your time trying to manage 15 different simple things (signals analysis, threat tracking, resources and fleet management, navigation, combat, landing, and then the global story/factions/political overlay of story driven decisions). The ship editor will drive you on the express train to crazytown; every. single. decision. carries huge implications for your campaigns when you start running custom ships, and this gets into the infinitely complex fleet design (what roles do you want your ships to play is critical, and the game lets you figure out your own ways to fail). This is one of my favorite games of 2021.
– Real player with 84.1 hrs in game
Anti Frank’s Wrath
Anti Frank is unleashing his wrath on the universe! Play by yourself or with a few friends locally to take down hoards of zombies and stop Anti Frank! Play as one of four unique characters and buy new upgrades and weapons as you rid the universe of zombies.
Anti Frank’s Wrath is a top-down arcade shoot-em up based in the futuristic 1980’s. It supports 4 player local co-op (or steam remote play).