Hellbreaker
The dev posted a thread about this a few years ago and I picked it up. The movement is fast and fun, and the guns are very satisfying. I had a performance hiccup once in the outdoor level but it got fixed, and thanks to the limited visuals it runs at full blast with 100+ enemies on screen with no issues. Good art direction keeps the game looking nice despite those visuals and there’s good variety in how the levels look and play. Chasing gold medals is extremely fun and the game is very straightforward with the criteria for a gold rank, a big plus. If you like Doom, Quake, or UT this game is a great deal for a few afternoon’s worth of fun, I’m looking forward to what this developer does next.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
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Hellbreaker is a fun game, not sure why it didn’t got more attention…
Looks like it flew under everyone’s radar, haha where are those so called “influencers” when you need them ?
Non stop fast paced action, put your brain aside and kill everything type of game.
Nothing really good though, it could have been better if it was a bit more polished and balanced.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2207917763
I’m getting some QUAKE II vibes with the levels artstyle and ennemies design.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
State of War : Warmonger / 蓝色警戒 (Classic 2000)
So this game is a lil younger than me, i’m 21 and I remember when I got this game from a carboot sale when I was around 9… Years pass by and i’m now 19 years old trying to find this game i used to play as a child… No idea what it’s called… just a vague idea what it looks like.
Then one day I just so happened to appear on a Facebook Marketplace ad “State Of War PC” - “$50(ish)” to some that sounds like a lot of money, however reliving a childhood memory has no price.
After looking around the internet to find “Warmonger” with no luck I actually PM’ed Cypron Studios (Who are now called Cypronia and took me ages to find that out) and asked them if they could add it to steam.
– Real player with 76.6 hrs in game
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I’m writing this review, because this is a game I truly believe in. I used to play this a lot of a child, and now it is available on steam. This is definitely not for everyone but for RTS players I think this game has something to offer.
The game includes the game state of war, but also a level pack which is where the warmonger part come in. Together it should be around 25 hours of content, but quality is more important then quality so let’s talk about that.
This is one of those games which basically have only gameplay to offer, story-wise it basically does not exist. The graphics are fine for such an old game. Everything else (like sound design etc.) is pretty unremarkable as well.
– Real player with 69.7 hrs in game
Brutal Fate
Brutal Fate is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro first-person shooter inspired by 80’s and 90’s sci-fi movies. As a marine from the Global Order Alliance sent to Callisto to take over the local corporate government, you find yourself surrounded by legions of demonic alien invaders and you must fight for your survival.
It blends the best features of classic shooters such as non-linear level design, a huge arsenal and large enemy variety with some modern aspects, making it a unique mix that does not try to hang on nostalgia, but be something of it’s own.
This game is a finely crafted first-person experience designed to be the most satisfying and detailed possible. Enemies that can be dismembered and exploded into pieces, destroyable environments including lamps, cars and even trees. All many details that makes you really feel like you are in a real living world.
Do you want to know more?
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This game features a huge arsenal of weapons that may require the use of all your keyboard numbers to scroll through. We got battle rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers, smart missiles, laser rifles, you name it.
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Immerse yourself in a 3 episode campaign, with branching patches, multiple endings, and a story full of twists.
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Fight an entire circus of monstrosities, carnivorous demons, zombie-like cultists, shuffling supernatural incomprehensible abominations from beyond, and corporate henchmen that want to make sure you won’t leave this haunted colony alive after seeing everything you just did. Just like in classic fps style, each enemy type acts like a piece of chess made to compensate the weakness of another. Gib them into delicious meat pieces, burn them to ashes, almost every enemy features locational damage and dozens of death animations, including different deaths for different weapons used.
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Explore huge non-linear levels, look for secrets to find special rare alternative ammo types for your weapons, health and armor upgrades, and much more. No “procedural generated levels”, no faux-retro arena level design, just handcrafted levels by someone with over 10 years of experience in classic game level design. Get the feeling of exploring believable highly interactive locations, fight enemies in many different scenarios, scripted or not, pick them alone or in small groups and sometimes try to come up with a strategy to fight up to 50 enemies at once.
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Command your fellow marines out of this hell. Your character’s rank as a Staff Sergeant isn’t only for show. Find any survivors of this disastrous operation and they will follow you. They have an acceptable AI that will actually follow your commands, won’t block your movement, and will kill enemies for you. Magnificent, isn’t it?
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Mod it until it breaks. Running on the highly reliable GZDoom engine, this game is extremely easy to be modified. You can make mods, add custom weapons, enemies, levels, and entire new user-made campaigns.
Plot
In the end of the 21th century, after a catastrophic nuclear war followed by a famine that wiped out half of Earth, the remaining governments united their military under the same banner in a vow to prevent another disaster, and so the Global Order Alliance was born.
Later the G.O.A. united with corporations in an effort to terraform and colonize other planets in the solar system, by using a method that allowed artificial black holes to be created at the center of the planets to imitate Earth’s gravity. 60 years later when the terraforming of Mars and Jupiter’s moons were completed and mass migration started, the corporations betrayed the Terran governments and decided to declare independency and not use their newfound resources to help Earth get back on it’s feet. Their moto was “We terraformed these planets and now everything on them belongs to us. If you want these resources, come and take it."
Betrayed and left for dead, the peoples from all around the world vowed to invade the colonies and take back what belongs to Earth. The armies of the G.O.A. which were once considered heroes and peacekeepers of mankind, became a violent, fanatic, imperialistic military legion. They launched military campaigns against Mars and Io that lasted for decades. Now the year is 2297 and the people of Callisto started rebelling against the corporate rule due to recent strange phenomena caused by the planet’s artificial black hole, all the interplanetary communications are shut down by the regime, and the G.O.A. sees this as a perfect opportunity to invade the planet and “liberate” it with the local population’s support. The corporate conglomerates warns that the situation in Callisto is “complicated” and warns Earth to stay away from it.
You are part of a special international battalion of the Space Division of the G.O.A. Marine Corps sent to intermediate the situation. After a four month journey, you arrive at the planet with orders to destroy the corporate government forces and secure their industrial facilities. Drone scans shows literally hundreds of thousands of dead bodies littering the streets, apparently they genocided the local populace which saves you from the work of having to watch your targets… Your orders are clear: Descend into the planet with companies of battle-hardened Marines, combat androids, tanks, mechs, gunships and orbital artillery, and eliminate any colonial military forces you may find. They are considered dangerous irregular war criminals and you have no legal requirement to grant them any human rights, engage on contact. All weapons are clear… Exterminate with extreme prejudice, just the way the Marines likes to operate.
The Marines quickly find out that something is wrong. The planet is dead. Non-combatants and colonial guard alike were slaughtered, women and children included. No signs that a war happened here, some bodies defiled in unspeakable macabre religious rituals.
You realize that what killed these people weren’t humans, it weren’t using guns, and it’s still here. An unfathomable evil from beyond lurks these dead streets, its hungry eyes are gazing upon you. Do you have what it takes to survive?
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Wrack
Wrack is an awesome single-player arcade FPS, developed by small indie. It was first released in Early Access and been there for a year. One of those Early Access games that didn’t fail with some drama and actually delivered.
Wrack is a old-school FPS game on the first glance. Yet when you get more in-depth you will notice that it’s actually more like a mix between Arcade style gaming and FPS genre, than a blind tribute to Doom. This game doesn’t make itself look oldschool on purpose either, it has quite a modern look and controls too.
– Real player with 404.6 hrs in game
Brad “Carnevil” Carney, having developed a source port named Skulltag which revolutionized Doom’s multiplayer community, decided to make his very own first person shooter. Now here it is, the cartoonish, oldschool, arcade and fresh FPS called “Wrack”. But, did it turn out well?
The first thing you need to know that it’s a fast paced, skill based shooter with a bigger emphasis on the gameplay rather than story. If you except this to be a military(like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor or Titanfal), tactical(Counter Strike, Arma, Rainbow Six), story driven(Bioshock, Half Life) or puzzle based(Prey) shooter, then be informed that it’s nothing like that. This is definitely closer to shooters like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, Serious Sam, Heretic and other oldschool, fast paced and with the only story being told is “Kill all that moves!!!” shooters. However, it’s not exactly the same thing as them. Wrack aspires to be an arcade shooter, so it takes inspiration from games like Mega Man and Contra. Console platformers and PC shooters of the 90s are loved by rather different communites, so Wrack attempts to fuse both into one game that will hopefully find fans in any community.
– Real player with 29.4 hrs in game
Crystal Caves HD
I first played Crystal Caves when it released back in 1991 and I loved it. In my youth, I spent many happy hours with this 2D platformer. I was so glad to see this (the original version is also available) here on Steam. One of the biggest drawbacks to older games, in my opinion, is when they just don’t work well on newer systems. While I contemplated whether to get the original or this HD remake that was the deciding factor for me in choosing this version over the other. In addition to better compatibility with newer systems this also includes a new additional level and an option to create your own levels.
– Real player with 415.0 hrs in game
“If it ain’t broke…”
Sometimes all that’s needed to remaster an old game is to port it to a new engine with a fresh coat of paint, and keep it more or less the same as the original game – And this rings true in the case of Crystal Caves HD.
In the age where retro-style indie games are rife, CC HD fits in well, even if it’s a recreation of a genuinely retro game which used to be a fully fledged title during the early days of PC gaming. However, the original game was fun, so that’s not a bad thing. It still holds up today as a decent 2D platformer: Each chapter has a level hub with 16-18 or so short levels. Collect all the crystals in each level to beat the chapter. Shoot monsters, or avoid them to conserve ammo. Collect bonus items and look for hidden crystals to increase your score.
– Real player with 80.0 hrs in game
Krakout challenge
Welcome to the ultimate Challenge! Brick breaker games never were so exciting, fun and challenging.
The game where you can improve your reaction and creativity. “Krakout challenge” is not a simple game where you do not need to think and must wait for random bonuses. Every level covers self bonuses, a self tactic to go through. During the first time, it can be a little bit challenging, but I hope you like challenges and complete all 300 levels and we will see your records on the top of the leaderboard.
The game has an integrated level editor. So you do not need to play just in-game levels. You can use your creativity, make level-sets and share them with friends and compete: who beats you level-set faster or collect more points.
This game is multiplatform and can be played on many platforms such as PC , Mac, Linux or mobile devices. You can create a level set and share with friends no matter on which platform your friend play this game.
Key Features
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Arcade Cabinet Style and Pixel Art Graphic;
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arcade mode with 3 level sets ( 300 levels) up to 7 hours of gameplay (if you are lucky or very skilled).
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integrated level editor;
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levels can be exchanged with Steam friends or via a local network. And no matter on which platform play your friend;
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many types of blocks (simple, unbreakable, multi-hittable, cloneable, movable, time …);
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many types of aliens and helpers (include ball eater :) );
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supports global Steam achievements and leader board;
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stop and continue to play any time you want.
So, if you like brick breaker type games, you will do not miss this game.
If you have never tried brick breaker type games, you will try and I think you do not disappoint.
WormJuice Skateboarding Olympics
Ollie straight into a vibrant nes colored world!
Skate and compete in premade Arena tracks, download new ones, or build whatever you like with the provided voxel-styled objects (by poetic voxels).
Ride down the Mega Ski Ramp and jump onto the speedrun track!
Try to get that fastest time or make the speedrun machine generate your favorite new track.
In short
WormJuice Skateboarding Olympics keeps you going for hours, losing track of time with plain old fun.
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Blewie
Very satisfying and challenging puzzle game that will keep you thinking outside the box. Simple rules with brilliant execution. Plenty of content with over 100 stages, boss battles, and unlockable bonus mini games and powerups. An ultimate (and maybe a little sadistic ;-P ) 8-bit brain teaser with some epic tunes. I just cleared it all, can you?
– Real player with 18.1 hrs in game
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https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/
I usually review weird hentai games so when my curator friend asked me if I wanted to try BLEWIE and the FUN HOUSE let’s just say I found those words misleading. In reality, it reminds me of some games I’ve played on very old computers with green screen monitors. I really miss one where you’re an ant trying to escape a level having to dodge what looked like wasp heads chasing you. You could drop boulders on them or shoot them. Can’t remember the name though. Anyway, this game is kinda like that but in color and the music is really good.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Delta Light
Cool take on the old Jezzball concept. It’s got a few bugs but overall solid. Definitely worth a try!
– Real player with 30.8 hrs in game
This game is awesome and very addicting. It has many levels, so you do not get bored. It’s music is nice and retro. The concept is very smart. I fully recommend it.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
GraveRun
Early access from 2016 so have to assume this is probably all we get. A bit of a shame really as it has a lot going for it. it’s a really fun little twin stick zombie shooter with a bunch of neat mechanics, upgrades and cute pixel graphics. Seems primarily designed for multiplayer/co-op but it’s great fun solo too. Unfortunately probably owing to early access the campaign is pretty short, still pretty fun though.
Some games that don’t get finished you shrug and move on, some are missed that little bit more, this is one of those that had some real promise to it so it’s a shame we didn’t get to see a bit more it even now.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Fun game to kill time, easy to play and get addicted to. Pixelated graphics, smooth gameplay, many different combinations of weapons allows you to regulate the difficulty of playing the game, some are stronger and synergize better with certain weapons. Although coop is recommended, buying the game at full price is not so.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game