GigaBash

GigaBash

After centuries spent slumbering in the bowels of the earth, the primordial beasts known as Titans have awoken. Now they must battle humanity - and one another - for total world dominance.

GigaBash combines the chaos and creativity of titles like Power Stone, Super Smash Bros Ultimate and War of Monsters with the jaw-dropping scale of the classic kaiju movies. Play as either a rampaging Titan or a Titan-hunting mecha; summon lightning from the heavens, use a radio tower as a baton, or roll a whole district (and your enemies) into a single massive snowball. Wreak enough havoc and you’ll evolve into your final form, the terrifyingly titanic S-Class.

UNLEASH THE BEAST

Choose from a colourful roster of 10 unique characters in Battle Mode, each with their own moveset and playstyle. Can you master them all?

STOMPING GROUND

Dive into a fun frenetic free-for-all with as many as four other players, duke it out in Battle mode, or pair up in 2v2. Wage war around the world - from cityscapes to exotic locales, nowhere is safe from the wrath of the Titans!

HOMEFRONT

Hop on the couch to challenge up to three friends with local multiplayer. Nobody home? No problem, just head online!

EASY TO LEARN, TRICKY TO MASTER

Time your attacks, block your opponents, use grabs and specials and build that meter to reveal your final form!

CLASH OF THE TITANS

Discover the origins (and misadventures) of the Titans in four unique single-player campaigns, each with their own oversized protagonist.

HALL OF THE ALPHAS

Go head to head in Duel mode, challenging another player to see who is the true King of the Titans.

MULTIPLAYER MAYHEM

Experience the ultimate party mode with a variety of minigames designed for maximum fun. Only available in local play.


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GigaBash on Steam

Warlock Bentspine - Toilet Edition

Warlock Bentspine - Toilet Edition

It took me awhile to figure out that there were upgrades, but after I did, LOVED IT!

Real player with 10.3 hrs in game


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nothing especially bad about this game, but it almost seems to pride itself on being lackluster. It’s competently made and fairly polished, but I can’t help but feel like there was a great game just beneath the surface that didn’t come to fruition.

it’s not particularly fun, but it wasn’t annoying enough for me to stop playing. music is good, sprites are charming but poorly colored. level design is pretty standard fare, systems (upgrades, weapons) are intriguing but don’t make up for the repetitive and uninteresting enemy behaviors.

Real player with 3.0 hrs in game

Warlock Bentspine - Toilet Edition on Steam

Mey Rescuer

Mey Rescuer

Fun and good game to play and pass the time!

Real player with 3.0 hrs in game


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cool atmosphere, great colors, perfect gameplay, my new year-end hobby, I loved it!

Real player with 2.4 hrs in game

Mey Rescuer on Steam

Super Bloo Kid Adventure

Super Bloo Kid Adventure

Bloo is back!

After rescuing his baby-girl from the hands of the Green Knight, Bloo Kid and Pink Girl enjoy life with their little family. But then, a whole new adventure starts just out of the bloo…

Super Bloo Kid Adventure is a classic fast paced 2D retro-style platformer experience with lovely designed pixel-graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. Run, jump and swim your way through the huge worlds. Master brutal bossfights and discover lots of secrets in the world of Super Bloo Kid Adventure.

Super Bloo Kid Adventure on Steam

SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS.

SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS.

SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS. is an action-adventure platformer. Join Crunk and Paco on their quest to thwart the plans of Dr. N. Dows, C.E.O. of the Lufa Corporation. Their latest business venture, the release of the TurboChin, will be their most impactful; striking consumers in such a way the company has never before seen. Will LufaCorp follow through with their plans? Or can this greasy gang save the day? Find out in SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS.!

Features:

  • Graphics and gameplay elements inspired by games and media from the past

  • 8 worlds each containing intricate and interesting level designs, and boss fights

  • A large cast of eccentric characters

  • Time trial / speed run mode

  • Change the way you play with power-ups like the skateboard and balloons!

  • Original score composed by Sigmuuu

SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS. on Steam

Poi

Poi

I’ve been playing this game since the very, very early versions of the Early Access release, before cameras and costumes were a thing, but I’ve taken a long, long time to write a review, mostly because I’m having a hard time to fully express my feelings about this game. There are way too many things to talk about, which means this is going to be a rather lengthy review, and it might also be all over the place due to the amount of stuff that comes to mind, but let’s dive right in.

I’ve spent most of my teenage years and all of my early adulthood wishing for the “perfect” 3D platformer, one that combined most of the things I like in a single, awesome package. I dreamed of a game with a rich, vast world to explore. It had to have a lot of secrets and tricks to discover, but it also had to have well designed platforming and action to boot, and the atmosphere had to evoke feelings of childlike wonderment and adventurous endeavors in boththe soundtrack, the visuals and the story. The characters had to be adorable and stylish, and the gameplay had to be smooth and thrilling.

Real player with 84.1 hrs in game

Poi is a good Mario clone. End of story now get out of the review section and buy the game if you want to kill a good 32 hours collecting things.

okay that’s not entirely true so read this instead

PLOT

You and your sister run away from the city in order to find Adventure. On your adventure to find adventure you meet up with Mario in his mid 80’s who asks you to get his sonic ring with ribbons attached to it down from a tall stump due to him being a crotchety old man who can’t do it himself. So you jump to the top of the stump, grab his ring and when you bring it back to him he tells you that the ring is called an “Explorers Medallion” and they are foudn all over the world. So he asks you and your sister if you want to get on his magic flying whale blimp to find him and since choice matters as much as it did in TellTale’s Walking Dead Season 1 in this game, you say yes and off the three of you go to go get the Medallions and save the world or something

Real player with 16.8 hrs in game

Poi on Steam

Fear Protocol: Shadow Paradigm

Fear Protocol: Shadow Paradigm

The game isn’t particularly “good”, but you can beat it in 6 minutes while laughing about it in Discord & it’s free so play it anyways.

Real player with 1.3 hrs in game

Do you enjoy

Guns?

Explosions?

Action?

A soundtrack that almost never suits the atmosphere?

Hand to hand combat?

A thrilling story?

Violence?

Highly inaccurate hitboxes?

Gore?

BIOMONSTERS!?

Saving California?

Life or death decisions?

If you answered yes (and even no) to any of these questions, then this game is for you!

On a completely real note, I streamed this game from start to finish and had a blast almost the entire time. Is it a triple A title? Absolutely not. Is it a humorously entertaining hour or so? Absolutely.

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

Fear Protocol: Shadow Paradigm on Steam

Mira’s Brush

Mira’s Brush

Cute, colorful, and full of lighthearted humor. I had a little trouble getting a feel for the color-swapping mechanics, but other than that, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played so far. Looking forward to seeing how the game develops as it gets close to full release.

Real player with 1.9 hrs in game

Mira’s Brush is a colorful take on the side-scrolling pixel-art platforming genre, a genre that defined early video games and has persisted through the years. The basic idea is that all the color has been stolen from Chromaland which is now greyscale and it is up to Mira and her brush to restore color. You can steal colors and paint and do a host of different shapes and colors to defeat or blend enemies. Sadly it is marred by clunky gameplay and tutorial and clunky menus.

The platforming aspect of the game is pretty icy and takes some frustrating moments getting used to. I found it difficult to jump high enough sometimes and it really takes more technique to get on to stuff but it is manageable, but it should be like 10% higher. The tutorial floating text is terribly placed and floats off screen and is difficult to see. Sometimes matching enemies to the background does not work.

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

Mira's Brush on Steam

American Theft 80s

American Theft 80s

It’s the 80s, so put on your nostalgia glasses (even if you weren’t there)!

From the creators of Thief Simulator.

Every house, bank, shop and museum can be robbed with the right tools, you just have to know how to do it.

Earn your way up in a county full of corruption and crime while discovering what the residents are hiding.

That’s right, if you see a house, bank or a shop you can get inside, but learn about the tenants first. You don’t want to get caught.

Remember VHS, cassette players and CRT TVs? No? Well now you can get to know them. Tenants will surely share them with you, albeit not knowingly.

Earn cash and reputation in the underground world filled with corruption and crime.

Sometimes the only thing you can do is get in the car and drive as fast as possible. But be careful, the cops are not playing around and will chase after you.

Make sure to bribe the police to avoid being wanted.

There are many classic styled minigames available. Beat the highscores and get achievements for it!

Use tools like crowbar, bolt cutters or lockpicks to help you in your jobs.

KEY FEATURES:

  • steal from houses, trailers, banks, shops, mansions and more

  • use lockpicks, crowbars and other tools to break in

  • finish shady jobs for cash and reputation

  • drive around seamless sandbox

  • buy and steal cars

  • buy houses and decorate them

  • disguise yourself as an electrician or a policeman to fool tenants

American Theft 80s on Steam

Commander Keen

Commander Keen

I love this game but wasn’t planning to review it. However, after seeing the E3 Trailer it inspired me to sit down and write a review about what makes the series great. Now other reviewers have pointed out that this is missing two games from the series; namely Keen Dreams and Aliens Ate my Babysitter. These are missing because the rights to these two games are owned by other companies not interested in selling them; but the games you do get are amazing.

Keen 1; Marooned on Mars was my first platformer. It starts off simple but gradually ramps up the difficulty. My four year old son loves this game; and he can complete most parts (still needs dad’s help for the big jumps and for killing the Vorticons (Kangaroos he calls them). As far as level design it has the most thought put into it and has many little tips and tricks.

Real player with 152.2 hrs in game

NOTE: This is not the “complete” CK collection. It’s missing CK 6, and from what I understand, it’s because ID software lost the rights to publish it. Also the games run very slow on full screen and while they run fine when windowed, it’s far to small then. This seems to be the case since steam uses an out dated dosbox(0.70 I think). You can update the dosbox but you need to go to the community guides. I didn’t like the hassle, so I played these games outside of steam. All these things are a very resonable deal breaker. However, my review will be on the games themselves.

Real player with 24.9 hrs in game

Commander Keen on Steam