Operation: Pinkeye
Operation: Pinkeye is a first-person shooter throwing back to shooters from the 90s by the likes of Rareware and Free Radical Design.
Set in an alternate Universe where the Acts of Union in 1707 never happened, Scotland and England remain independent and tensions between the 2 remain very high.
A journalist has been killed in a hotel in London near a political rally, his room was ransacked, as if their murderers were looking for something. It was believed that he held important documents containing plans by the English to invade Scotland. Fearing that this is the case, The Scottish Secret Service (The SSS) assign their best agent, Ken Maxwell, to obtain the stolen documents, and find out exactly what they’re planning.
Traverse through 15 levels of high-octane spy action, with music from the composer of Planet X3, and FMV cutscenes filmed in Scots!
Features
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Relive memories of ’90s era shooters without the annoying bits
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Faithful old-school graphics
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Multiple language support, including Scots and Gaelic!
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Customisable mechanics and controls!
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Music from the composer of Planet X3 and Half-Life: Dark Matter
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Shoebill
Shoebill - platformer that plunges you into a world called The Void and tells the story of Shiro, a small shoebill. Having celebrated his thirteenth birthday, Shiro notices a strange creature, which he caught and then realized that his life was a lie. Embark on a journey and help Shiro find out exactly who he was in a past life.
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A single-player platformer, with difficult obstacles that you will pass far from the first attempt.
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A variety of enemies, each of which needs to find its own approach.
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Abilities, having received which, the gameplay becomes more interesting.
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Pixel graphics and atmospheric soundtrack.
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Made by 2 students who are surviving in a difficult world.
The game is in development, screenshots and description will be changed!
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Bor
Link to my review: https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/09/video-game-review-bor/
Bor doesn’t offer anything game changing in the realm of platforming mechanics, but is still very enjoyable with enough content to back up its price.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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Plenty of better indie platformers out there. THis is nothing special if it isn’t in fact a asset flip.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Dizzy Two
So there’s a DIzzy game on Steam! Not really clear what the involvement of Codemasters, the Oliver Twins or whoever owns Dizzy these days is, but I’m accepting this in good faith.
This is a fairly typical Dizzy arcade adventure, resembling the 16-bit versions with full colour graphics rather than the black sky 8-bit originals. It starts out in an actual house instead of one of those treehouse things, seeming to put Dizzy in more of a realistic setting than usual. I’ve played for a bit and found some annoying platform-jumping bits where you’ll struggle for a while just to get back to where you started… Which is, of course, totally on brand for Dizzy. The puzzles I’ve encountered so far make sense; if anything they’re a bit too obvious.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
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– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Slab
I played this game for quite a while hours how could I not like it? Here comes the weird part I did for a bit. However, I am not recommending this game because quite frankly there seems to be a gross lack of effort by the dev of this game leading to the point of it being borderline unethical… also the bugs and oversights. So long story short just get a different game, it will play better and you won’t have to deal with this mess.
Glitches
So starting with parts the people just looking to play a game would be concerned about the bugs
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
Slab is a rather mediocre 50 level Arkanoid clone offering nothing new whatsoever. The objective is to use a paddle and ricochet a ball around the screen until you demolish all the destructible bricks on that said level and then move onto the next and do the same.
There are a handful of power ups that will help you in that task by granting either multi ball, the ability to shoot bricks, speed decrease, paddle enlarger, ball enlarger, score increase and extra life. The extra lives seem to be capped at 5 and to get another you will need to lose a life first. On the flip side there are negative power-ups that you will also need to avoid obtaining. Mainly paddle shrink, score decrease and instant death.
– Real player with 32.0 hrs in game
蘑菇的冒险 MoGu’s Adventure
MoGu’s Adventure is a simple 2D platformer where you move left, right and jump, with a single action of cooking and throwing a bomb. The artwork looked nice from the store page and I got a copy for free, so I dove in, hoping for a good time. I didn’t.
The movement felt awkward right away. There’s too slow of a momentum build up from rest just to gve going. While this is somewhat realistic in a sense, the amount of times that you have turn around and go the other way makes this really annoying. The jumps are also quite floaty and you bounce upward to an unexpect height off of enemies and bombs.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Captain Coffer 2D
Nice.
– Real player with 69.0 hrs in game
It’s one of those cutesy challenging platformers that will probably make you scream. A great throwback game and freshman entry from this one-man dev team.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Cheer and Track
Great mechanics, great game, it had some really good pros, but no flaws at all. Character models are just amazing, artwork is stunning and my friend was able to play with me online. 10/10
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Crimson Ranch
The atmosphere is really effective, you feel claustrophobic even in the open areas, I was alert the whole time.
The art and music (specially the music) highly complement the experience.
I liked the puzzles too, nothing was unnecessarily complicated :)
I got the characters mixed up all the time and I’ll have to replay it to get the full story but that’s on me.
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
The story was short, and very nice.
Best I could expect from 2D graphics, all this dev’s games have the same style.
Sometimes it is hard to figure out what you’re supposed to do, but nothing a bit of spamming the interact button can’t fix.
Lots and lots of dead animals.
Very good game for three dollars.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Agent 64: Spies Never Die
A retro FPS inspired by classic 90s console shooters. Explore new locales, accomplish varied objectives and fight against state-of-the-art 1997 enemy AI. A work of love by a dedicated fan.
The Agency is sending you on missions all around the world, in order to save it!
Each story mission is a self contained environment where you have to accomplish varied objectives, such as hacking terminals, steal secret plans, free civilian hostages and much more. All the while fighting armed guards in epic shootouts.
Be Agent number 64, the most elite operative the world has ever seen!