Operation: Tango
Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical co-op game (similar to a game like We Were Here) where one player plays as an agent and the other as a hacker, and you must communicate with each other to progress through the game. I generally found the missions to be interesting and challenging, with parts of one or two missions being a bit unclear what you were supposed to do (even after having completed it as both the agent and hacker!). There are 6 missions and 10 challenges, with the missions taking about 6-7 hours to complete, and the challenges taking 3-4 hours to complete at the highest level. The game’s overall aesthetic and UI is nice, and I enjoyed the music.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
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Goods about the game:
Hella fun if you like cooperative play
Big teamwork, make sure you get a good gaming buddy
Bads about the game:
Not really a lot to play
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Mark & Lara: Partners In Justice
=== [ 🎯 Difficulty: ] ===
🟥 No Difficulty
🟨 Easy
🟩 Standard
🟥 Big Learning Curve
🟥 Hard
🟥 Impossible
=== [ 👪 Audience: ] ===
🟩 Everyone
🟩 Kids
🟩 Teens
🟩 Adults
🟩 Mature
=== [ 👀 Graphics: ] ===
🟥 What Is This?
🟥 Bad
🟥 Acceptable
🟥 Good
🟩 Great
🟥 Stylistic
🟥 Beautiful
🟥 Masterpiece
=== [ SOUND/MUSIC ] ===
🟥 Bad
🟥 Nothing Special
🟥 Good
🟥 Great
🟩 Beautiful
🟥 I´m Gonna Cry
=== [ 🌏 Story] ===
🟥 This Game Has No Story
🟥 Nothing Special
🟥 It´s Alright
🟥 Well Written
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
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Bought this game tonight and immediately played though it. My friend and I are huge fans of the “We were here” games and have struggled to find similar ones after playing though the first two. We tried “Tic Tok” and a few coop platformer but nothing could really match up to “We were here”. Until now at least.
“Mark & Lara” is an amazing coop game. You don’t need the internet, just the game and you are set for about 2,5 hours of fun. That’s about how much time it took us to play though it once and we will again soon in order to experience the story out of both character’s perspectives. So for 4 bucks you have ~5 hours of playtime, which is solid imo. The story itself is amazing and really pulled us in. It really feels like investigating and we really enjoyed it. The game consists of talking to one of the two suspects, “official” documents and documentations of conversations. You have to really concentrate and look for the details and compare what the two suspects say in order to find the solution. Teamwork is necessary. The story was surprising in quite a few points and it was refreshing to not have a standart “why I killed him” plot but something more complex. We developed a good amount of theories of what could have happened and none of them turned out to be the correct one in the end.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Bake ‘n Switch
There’s lots of love and effort put into this game. The breads are super adorable!While you can play the game with 2 players, it definitely gets more fun if you’ve got a full party.There are a couple of levels that could be balanced a little better. In some you can get away with camp stacking the spawners which can get quite mundane. But you’ll realize there’s a wide range of difficulty once you play the stormy levels or try to complete each level with 3 coins.The highlights for me are the boss levels. My hands got real sweaty taking them on.
– Real player with 79.2 hrs in game
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This game is deceptively difficult. How can so cute be so challenging?
The gameplay feels like a high bread (ha ha!) between Moving Out and Overcooked. Finishing levels is doable first try, getting 3 stars is a lot harder on many of the levels. Storm levels - geez, those are tough!
One thing I would love to see is adjusted star level scores for additional players (3-player should have a higher score needed for 3-star than 2-player).
Overall, an adorable game with challenging gameplay that feels like it will take quite a while to actually complete. Here’s hoping there are 4-star levels when we get there.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Dungeon Defenders II
I tried. I really, really tried.
Ever since I bought this game in 2014, I continued to throw my time and genuine effort at it, hoping to get at the very least a decent sequel to DD1. I even ignored the very clear warning sign that was the release of DD Eternity (DD1 was abandoned to hackers, then repacked and…sold again under a new name, wham, bam, profit). Today, with the game about ready to leave yet another developement stage, instead of having hope and tons of fun playing the game, I am disgusted and bitterly dissapointed.
– Real player with 1862.6 hrs in game
Don’t bother with Dungeon Defenders 2 or Trendy Entertainment. Their incessant greed has instilled levels of disgust in me that I scarcely could previously fathom.
For a bit of background, allow me to preface this by telling you that I hold no nostalgia for the original Dungeon Defenders. This is a combination of their lack of security leading to rampant hackers and my disdain for the original character styles. I played this game a bit when it first came out, and dropped in now and again to see how it was doing. My tenure here became permanent with the Terraria crossover content, and I’ve remained fairly steady to the game since. I’ve done some Mastery, climbed up Onslaught, and dabbled in Ancient Power Resets. I’ve seen a lot of what there is to see, and let me tell you, originally, the allure was the cartoony, bright graphics and enjoyable combat. However, beneath this veneer of vibrant paint lies a decrepit, hollow experience designed to consume your wallet.
– Real player with 1216.2 hrs in game
POSTAL Redux
After waiting for this game to come out since the moment it was announced, I’d say that my opinions about POSTAL Redux are a bit mixed. I like this game, but I wanted to love it. Here are the pros and cons.
Pros:
*Better gameplay than the original, it plays like an actual 3/4 isometric shooter, no-more tank controls.
*Rampage mode is awesome, especially that alternate ending!
*The new remastered OST is amazing, I just wish that all of them were remastered and not just most. Also amazing are the tracks for Rampage mode
– Real player with 29.0 hrs in game
4.2.1
A remake of Postal in UE4, supposedly remade from scratch that may be a little too faithful to the original. Along with the good comes some of the same issues the classic had.
Redux comes with multiplayer deathmatch/co-op, the classic campaign along with their expansion levels, and the new single player mode, Rampage, where an actual scoring system comes to play.
The controls in Redux are far more superior to the classic tank controls, but the game’s nice enough to add tank controls anyway if you so wish to play it that way. You can now run and shoot with better precision and it plays more like an actual twin stick shooter with full controller compatibility. The game is much lower in difficulty compared to the classic thanks to the ability to properly run & gun.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
Undercrewed
J+M+J
It’s fun, though the bots are well… still bots, but that’s to be expected, at least they aren’t bad, they just aren’t to terribly great either. (They’ll do stuff like get stuck in a room, or pilot your about-dead-ship into mines that could have very easily been avoided or destroyed… but they’re pretty good in general with the rest of their duties)
I’d really like to see more missions go into this game, but as to the ones that are up they are fun (though, they could do with a bit more variation… especially exploritory-wise, as traveling through space doesn’t seem to terribly interesting, but I’m not sure how you’d add more variety to that, besides maybe having a map where you have to carefully pilot around obstacles, or maybe pilot your way into a hanger/base of some sort).
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
I’ve had a blast playing this with my friends. I backed the kickstarter so I’m excited this is out. Currently there’s a good amount of released missions for a few hours of gameplay, but since it’s possible to highly customize your ship it’s still very fun replaying those same missions, usually with a different crowd. Since you can play the multiplayer locally and the game is very easy to get in to it works well as a party game.
In early access there are still a few bugs, but for the most part the game is bug free.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Haunt Chaser
Short story: BUY THIS GAME!
Longer story:
The game is still in early access at review point, but I wouldn’t have guessed it if I didn’t know it in advance. What I’m saying is that it’s very well made. Not to forget that it’s a small group of developers making such a great game! The game is ideal as a multiplayer game, as there is 4vs1 (chasers vs entity). So if you are like me and love multiplayer games and keep looking for them - this is definitely a game you should give a try.
It does take some time to navigate around and figure out where you’re going and what you are suppose to do, but after a few rounds you should start getting a hang of it and see some possible tactics to use. The first time you open the game you also get a “how to play” telling you about the different abilities as chaser and entity. I suggest reading these, as they’re a huge help in the beginning. I can’t wait to see how the game expands, as it have so much potential both with customising, extra maps and new tasks.
– Real player with 27.1 hrs in game
I’m a big fan of Phasmo and have an interest in most co-op horror games (I watched several of them instead of playing tbh) and I have to say I was impressed by Haunt Chaser.
So what is Haunt Chaser?
There is an entity, a player with special powers.
There are puzzles on the map that the 4-person player team needs to solve and get pieces of a doll.
Once they solve 4, they need to burn the doll.
They do the whole thing one more time and the heart of the entity is revealed and the entity can be killed.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Aloof
Aloof has a lovely unique atmosphere and simple to pick up gameplay but with insane depth. And I think I only started scratching the surface. It also has many multiplayer modes! Start for the vibe and stay for the combo’s.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Cool puzzle game
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
Amoeba Battle: Microscopic RTS Action
Personal review
Much better than the DS version. I love the bouncing mission visuals. There’s finally a choice of difficulty for the campaign, but some of the missions seem nearly impossible on brutal. As far as I can tell, the only difference between difficulties is the AI damage is insanely boosted. And my locust gets easily 2-shot by sharks. I’m not a fan of battle royals, but this was better than I thought it would be. Interesting upgrades that you don’t see in the campaign, but still improves the battle royal. Over 50 different tastefully colored amoebas. Overall, better improvement from the DS version. I hope more content will be added in the future.
– Real player with 93.8 hrs in game
The funniest RTS I’ve seen in my life.
It’s a pure joy to see and control this cute little amoebas. Clearly, developers put all of their heart into this beautiful game. In my opinion, this is a wonderful example of a polished game. Game mechanics are well-thought and balanced. It has a lot of strategical depth. It becomes the most clear when trying to beat the campaign on the last difficulty =D
Sadly, the game didn’t get the attention it deserves, so right now playerbase is pretty low. But It took me about 30 hours to beat the campaign on the last difficulty (which is great by the way) and get all the achievements (they are great too), and I haven’t event touched skirmish mode and Outbreak vs AI, so there is really a lot to do here even without multiplayer.
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass
Look, was it fun? Yes. My friend and I played the entire story on both roles. So, my hours reflect two completed campaign runs, 100%ing the game besides for achievements. Nevertheless, my friend, who was the one who bought the game, was very disappointed by how few missions there were. He felt that he didn’t get his money’s worth out of the game. If you and your friend are willing to have a short lived experience, then go ahead and get the game. However, if you are expecting a little more meat and potatoes than a campaign that can be completed in 2 to 3 hours, look for another game.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
“We were here” mixed with “Keep talking and nobody explodes’ ‘. I thoroughly hope that this game will show the world that asymmetric coop games are one of the best multiplayer experiences you can have.Both sides have their own view of the world, and have different tasks, but can only complete them when working together and communicating with each other.
It only takes about 3 hours to complete, but it contains some story time, and a lot of condensed gameplay.
The world is neatly built and the way forward is clear as long as you communicate with your teammate.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game