Dungeon Chest
Dungeon Chest is an old-school puzzle game. You play as a young man who has recently learned the exciting legend of the Treasure of Akzbezth. Eager to obtain the many riches undoubtedly stored within, he travels to South America to enter an ancient Inca dungeon where the treasure is said to be hidden. However, he may soon find that it will not be as easy as he thought.
Features:
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Charming pixel graphics.
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Fun puzzles.
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More than 100 rooms.
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Simple gameplay
Note: 10% of the net revenue earned from this game goes to the World Monuments Fund.
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America is Doing Great
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Immersive RPG. A narrative-driven role-playing game. Unite the region as a post-nuclear drug-running god… guinea pig for science and scavenge as a peaceful vagrant… or experiment as some third kind of person so indefinable you upset the elderly
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Freedom of Exploration. Navigate by landmark as you explore the dilemmas of this rich, open world’s factions and inhabitants. Try to help, ignore them outright, or play both sides as you see fit
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Unforgettable Encounters. A cast overflowing with unique characters, each with secrets to uncover and problems to solve. Have deep conversations, philosophize on society, investigate, rant, provide therapy, or manipulate
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Intricate, Branching Stories. Secrets are devastating in the wrong hands and actions taken at the wrong time can be catastrophic. Numerous endings differ drastically based on player behavior
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Imagination Fuel. An ambient, unobtrusive soundtrack provides each location with a unique theme and underscores the lonely spaciousness of the open prairie
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New World. Discover dozens of bizarre post-apocalyptic locales as you trek the barren landscape. Piece together the connections that tie this world together
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Sea of Blood
Okay, first of all, it looks like this game uses the uMMORPG asset kit available on the Unity asset store as it’s template:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/ummorpg-51212
The fact that this developer uses this asset kit doesn’t concern me because it looks as if he’s made his own story, his own quests, his own maps and dungeons himself, and that’s great!
Here’s my first impressions livestream playing this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJE1FcyhMk4
As you’ll see in my stream, this game is simple, and fine but the fact the the in game FPS tanks every ten to fifteen seconds is a big concern. I can stand in place and do nothing and still watch the FPS drop from 60 to 23 every few seconds. While in combat or while running, these fps drops are very much felt. I have a brand new gaming MSI Trident 3 with an i7 10700 ### 3.4 Ghz, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super with 8 GB DDR5, and 16 GB of Dual Channel DDR4 RAM. Graphics like this should not be bringing my computer to its knees!
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
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no thanks
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
And All Would Cry Beware!
A neat little FPS Metroidvania romp through an alien and dangerous world of polygons and stark colors. Short but with intriguing lore, And All Would Cry Beware evokes the spirit of going beyond the veil that marks games like The Dig, Axiom Verge, and Remnant: From the Ashes.
The player takes the role of an unknown survivor of a ruined future Los Angeles, who ducks into a building in the hopes of evading a “kill gang” only to find that the building belonged to scientists who found a means to travel beyond Earth via portal. Finding a pistol and the means to activate the portal, there seems to be no way to go but through. On the other side is a world we know only as “Xanadu”, and the scattered log entries left behind by a previous expedition make more then a few references to the poem by that name.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Cute for what it is, but 10 USD is a rip for around 2 hours of content, much of which I spent trying to glitch myself up walls and sequence break. This is about the quality you might expect from a good, free itch.io game or the like. Some neat ideas, but not long enough or polished enough to really be anything great. Particularly the game suffers from sections being hard to navigate due to the limited textures used. In the caves and forest areas, the floors and ceilings look almost identical, and it makes navigation a pain. Once I found better ways to navigate and just jump over all the entire map, it felt much better. Other major note is that the volume has a tendency of resetting to full when you load back in to a save file, and the controls option menu looks like it was just a base default of whatever engine this is on, really throws me out of the moment. On the positive side, the enemies and bosses were all very creative and had good, simple patterns that made fighting them feel fair and enjoyable. The music was catchy but nothing memorable.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
CHILDHOOD GONE: SHADOWED WAND
Pretty good game. As soon as you start, it reminds you of an old gameboy RPG. The atmosphere reminds of old school Lavender Town from Pokemon, except with the creep factor dialed up. I recommend this to anyone interested in some eerie old school gameplay.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Escape Room VR: Vaudeville
First two rooms are great. Then comes the 3rd room light puzzle. You will hate this puzzle, I guarantee.
[This section removed, as it’s no longer pertinent.]
UPDATE: Changed review based on the dev’s graciously patching the game to allow bypassing this puzzle.
2nd UPDATE: I have now finished the game, and my recommendation status stands. The remainder of the puzzles are challenging, but very feasible. And the ending’s kind of cute. If you enjoy escape room VR games, then I feel confident saying you will like this one as well.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
like the setting and the old posters and classic books, puzzles are great and now you can skip the light puzzle, the only one I got stuck, really enjoyed this game, maybe next you could do a Victorian setting of the spiritual era, puzzles with some Daniel Dunglas Home, spirit cabinets, table tipping lol, on played on Rift s , Ryzen 7 3800X, 6800 XT, windows 10 64.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Terra Ventura
SELECT PLAY STYLE
Select your character with distinct characteristics and abilities from four different characters, each with inherent advantages - Archer, Musketeer, Explorer or Fighter.
COLLECT LOOT AND MANAGE INVENTORY
Get lucky or get unlucky. Variety of items can be obtained randomly across the maps. Loot gold and silver coins or find armor, weapons and other inventory items. Visit alchemist, smith, merchant or tailor to buy additional items, trade or repair gear.
DEVELOP SKILLS and ABILITIES
Develop your character through skill tree paths, gain powerful bonuses by collecting runes and improve basic skills. Invest into explosives path, attacking path, health path, alchemy path or materials path.
EXPLORE FANTASY WORLD
Immerse yourself in a medieval fantasy world. You will encounter a town setting, underground caves, lava lakes, winter conditions, toxic wastelands, desert dunes and much more. Approach situations with combat or use acquired skills. You will encounter 30 enemies with different abilities and strengths.
To Kill A King
To Kill A King has a classic feel, and a fresh dose of aggression said classics don’t really let you express. I’ve played a number of older games where the heroes are only too happy to go along with whatever is asked of them without a hint of frustration. Add to that the grinding that is always sure to make a person (i.e. me) very frustrated. Rots definitely gets that anger across, the game also has a lot of mechanical call backs to older games that I feel like people who like grinds will call back to.
– Real player with 96.2 hrs in game
Kriophobia
The Cold is Just the Beginning
A science expedition was sent to Zhokhov Island to study recent occurrences of magnetic anomalies in the region. Amongst them was Anna, a young geophysicist, along with her mentor and a small military crew. As her group investigates the cause of the anomalies on the island, a sequence of disastrous events unroll trapping them in an unknown underground military complex, under the extreme cold of the Russian climate. Now, Anna desperately tries to survive and find a way out, but something down there disturbingly draws her deeper, and that unknown haunting place bizarrely welcomes her more and more…
Kriophobia is a survival horror in third person, inspired by the old-school games of the same genre. Immerse yourself in a Cold and Inhuman World of Mad Obsession, Extremist Patriotism and Disturbing Relationships, presented with a Unique Art-Style that mixes comics and painting.
FEATURES
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Immersive psychological horror storyline that explores a twisted and abandoned world
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Hidden Past Secrets to be found, inspired by real events from Russia’s Darkest Times
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Cold, Obscure and Terrifying scenarios to be Explored
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Evasive Combat centered on fleeing and hiding from gruesome abominations.
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Survival with Limited Resources against Freezing Temperatures in a hostile place
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Dark Visual Style that blends Comics and Painting in a unique way
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Fully Illustrated Game World displayed with modern Static Cameras
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An Exclusive Russian-Inspired soundtrack
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition
TL;DR for the Gamers:
If you enjoy a good dungeon crawler and games like Wizardry and Dungeon Master (or more recent titles inspired by these classics), but tire of the classic square-dance mechanics of most modern entries into this genre, then you could easily fall in love with the Fall of the Dungeon Guardians. This game mixes the feel of real-time combat with turn-based strategy through skill queues and a unique pause/play system. It features an optional slider to customize the battle speed (if you would rather handle party actions in real-time) and in-game pause with a menu full of auto-pause options reminiscent of games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Pillars of Eternity (for those of you who like to crank up the difficulty and sit back to think). With a variety of races, classes with their own sets of specializations, and the ability to create hybrid specializations, party creation and customization is definitely available here. Mix these features with auto-attacks, cooldown skills, and a solid threat management system, and you get a highly addictive dungeon crawler that plays like nothing I have ever experienced before. And, with a variety of difficulty settings covering the spectrum from casual adventurer to die-hard tactician, there is a comfort zone for anyone.
– Real player with 300.7 hrs in game
Dungeon crawlers
The vast majority of people on this planet don’t know, and will never know, the beauty of it. Every time I play one, I feel I belong to a secret society. Is it all nostalgia? The countless days, nights and weeks playing FTL’s Dungeon Master back in the late 80’s on my Atari ST? Or is it simply a matter of taste, this genre rubbing me the right way? I’m not sure, but I will do my best to analyse my thoughts about this game, The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians (TFotDG), created by French indie developer Mana Games.
– Real player with 100.5 hrs in game