Sacred Citadel

Sacred Citadel

With Sacred Citadel there’s a lot of fun to be had or at least enough here to distract you.

A pitfall of this game is the intermittent platforming sections. The game figures your level time into the level completion screen. This means you run almost everywhere while navigating screen to screen. I always felt as if I was flying into holes on accident and that it really broke up the flow of the game to slow down and carefully jump across smaller gaps. As someone who quite enjoys platformers this behavior could’ve been cleaned up a bit even though this is mainly a brawler style game.

Real player with 51.3 hrs in game


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There is a review says it dont save local co-op, that is untrue. It does save it but in a weird way. i at first i thought it didn’t aswell (because of that uninformed review), but it does I’ll explain how it works. This may confuse you but it is just a strange way of saving. Ok in local co-op you enter lets say you and other players, your name will be your steam name the person that joins you will be player 1 and 3rd person player 2. As you progress through co-op local play your progress is saved to a file, but player 1 & 2 saves to a separate file specific to each person. So now lets say you playing solo sp when you go in you’ll see what ever char you used leveled up to w/e you got in co-op, but the chars player 1 & 2 leveled up will not be leveled up, reason is as I explained above the progress is saved but for each separate name in its own file. So progress does save in local co-op just only way player 1 & 2 levels up and progresses is when they are being used in co-op. In vice versus case what ever char you, your steam name progresses in sp will not be usable for player 1 & 2 because like i said your save file and progress is specific to your name.

Real player with 19.3 hrs in game

Sacred Citadel on Steam

Another road

Another road

This game is pretty fun for the price! But only if you have someone to play with… I happened to come across a stranger and he kept threatening to say the word over text to speech and my mum was listening to my pc and she got really angry and she took my pc away for an hour but other than that the game was fun! I’d give another road I one half carrot out of I one half uneasy face..

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game


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i ran into this really cool dude with a top hat and a moustache, the only way to communicate was text to speech, i’m pretty sure he was russian. anyway, i really wanted to say this word, but he also was forcing me to say it, so i don’t know if it was truly me who wanted to say it or if he was peer pressuring me. i think i fell in love with dwayne the rock johnson during this, something about the character models…. what?? did i just say that out loud???. yeah ah hehe uh woops, anyway….. 5/5

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game

Another road on Steam

Final Exam

Final Exam

Basically, buy it because it’s cheap might eventually lead to Mighty Rocket doing an Obscure 3.

Core gameplay is fun, the beat ‘em up parts work pretty well, the characters are samey but have slight differences. Mostly, one “Always on” skill and some special moves, and the damage they deal with specific weapons. It’s more fun with friends, but so is anything up to and including getting slaughtered by an ax-wielding maniac. Even the weapons are pretty samey, but it’s fairly straightforward to start whacking enemies and never get touched, stringing S combos together in no time.

Real player with 57.9 hrs in game


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This game right here - 2.5D Side-scrolling PERFECTION, An absolute PERFECTION.

Plays like a dream, its flawless in almost every departement (the important ones :P) and if you like side scrolling games you will not be able to put it down once you start playing. And dont give up, like I have few years ago - when you unlock some skills, get better weapons and get some practice - it becomes unadulterated pleasure to play.

As Graphics goes, it looks absolutely beautiful for what it is, its cartoonish, but that fits soooooo much. Letter fonts, menus, post mission screens looks like you are in some comic. Reminds me of Batman Arkham Asylum style, and this one here is even better. It runs like a charm, no frame drops to speak of, not a single bug, glitch, crash…its just works…like and old school mercedes. Even when all hell is breaking lose on the screen, with explosions, enemies coming for all sides, up, down…nothing will come in the way of your fast reactions, and you will need quick dodging reactions here, especially on harder diff. levels, or when going for high combo counts.

Real player with 24.7 hrs in game

Final Exam on Steam

How About Spikes

How About Spikes

Well, the Music is pretty good though.

Real player with 8.3 hrs in game

Es ist so ziemlich Dark Souls nur spielt es in Bielefeld

Real player with 5.0 hrs in game

How About Spikes on Steam

9 Monkeys of Shaolin

9 Monkeys of Shaolin

A great, modern beat em up that dared to be different instead of relying purely on nostalgia and making a carbon copy of already existing games. This game is basically everything I wanted Streets of Rage 4 to be.

Positives:

  • Decent story. (Not that stories in a beat em up ever mattered)

  • Very fluid and satisfying gameplay. When you get the hang of the mechanics and skills, you can do some awesome combos, linking the different attacks and abilities together. The fact that you can attack in 360° instead of being forced to a 2D pane doing only left/right attacks is a welcome change. There is a bit of ‘automatic lock on’ for the moves to help with this, but you still feel in control of the character. Sending enemies flying and watching their rag-doll bodies fall/smash against the environment is never not satisfying.

Real player with 38.4 hrs in game

Disclaimer: A copy of this game was provided by the developer.

9 Monkeys of Shaolin is a beat em up about a chinese fisherman/monk fighting the japanese pirates with a staff.

The main appeal is the satisfying, fluid and responsive combat. It has good skill expression with three different attacks that later get upgraded each with two different stances, a 360 degrees parry skill that requires good timing and can reflect enemy projectiles back at them and a dodge. Once you upgrade the attacks, you can fly across the screen with a kick and feel like a real Shaolin monk jumping and weaving attacks between multiple enemies. The use of magical seals disrupts enemies in an area that in my opinion make the game too easy even on the hardest difficulty. The enemies have a visual indicator, a brief shining light and take some time to execute their attack which usually makes them easy to defeat one on one. The only unfair element is sometimes ranged enemies shoot you from outside the screen. You will fight them in small groups in a locked zone until you defeat them and new enemies that need to be approached in a different way are introduced progressively. Finishing off the last enemy in a locked zone comes with a satisfying blow and slow motion.

Real player with 11.6 hrs in game

9 Monkeys of Shaolin on Steam

BlastZone 2

BlastZone 2

My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, ‘If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.’. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- ‘Don’t ever smoke. Please don’t put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because this game gave me cancer anyway.

Real player with 208.4 hrs in game

Apparently the blast zone is actually quite large. BlastZone 2 is a short indie side scrolling shooter (ala R-type but I wouldn’t say this game is that similar to R-type) made by solo developer Mat Edzenga. It features a number of different ships with different load outs, 8 stages filled with enemy ships, interesting 3D graphics and a few extra modes to try your hand at once you have beaten the main game. It also has local 2 players, controller support and costs only a few bucks.

Good

Real player with 9.6 hrs in game

BlastZone 2 on Steam

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

If you’re thinking this is just going to be another double dragon game then like what Captain Tenneal likes to say on the show MXC: “Well, YOU’RE WRONG!!!”

This game incorporates some of the most advanced mechanics you’ve ever seen in any beat-em-up. And mind you these two games came out wayyyy back in 1996. Expect to see: Critical hits in your attacks, spell casting, combos, FOUR PLAYERS!, backstabbing, infinite combos (if you’re good enough), secrets, forked paths, different equiappable weapons, level ups, and unlockable in game perks such as arts, galleries, and even house rules to play around with.

Real player with 598.0 hrs in game

Gather your party before setting forth! Or just yourself. That way you don’t need to see the disappointment in your friend’s eyes as you die to a kobold.

“BY THE ABYSS

- Fighter, every time he falls down. Every time.

Chronicles of Mystara is two ported games with some retro flair - Shadow Over Mystara, which is a cult classic beatemup which has as much accolades as Gary Gygax giving birth to the 20-sided die, and there’s Tower of Doom, which can come too.

They’re coin-op arcade games with a flair for the tabletop, giving you classes, items, branching paths, Tower of Doom even has effects for enemies failing saving throws. All of this makes for a game that’s novel, intricate by nature, and has earned its cult classic status.

Real player with 28.7 hrs in game

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara on Steam

Simple Fish Adventure

Simple Fish Adventure

Do you like fish? Do you like rage? Then you like rage fish game. This was perfect, and I mean PERFECT for my rage filled Penalty Stream. The last area is by far the hardest!! So be prepared to get SALTY!!

Awesome job to the Devs for causing my high blood pressure and loss of voice during the stream. 3

Real player with 4.7 hrs in game

The first few checkpoints were great and it was fun figuring out the boost. However, the AI or whatever controls the birds is, to put it nicely, frustrating. We breezed past the other checkpoints up to the beach in about 5 minutes, and then spent 70 minutes trying to get past the birds. They spawn randomly but not with enough time to charge the boost at all, sometimes with 4-5 birds on one player. Nice demo game in the beginning though. Would be great if the rest of the game were playable for normal people with normal time.

Real player with 4.4 hrs in game

Simple Fish Adventure on Steam

Toon Shooters 2: The Freelancers

Toon Shooters 2: The Freelancers

We enjoyed this game. My wife and I played it only once… and we were hooked for over 3 hours without realizing it!

The game is fast paced, hard but not too hard (don’t forget to buy upgrades for your character) and there are already players online! Wow!

We could have been playing it even longer if we didn’t suddenly arrive into a creepy level with ghosts called “The Temple of Evil” or something like that. I really liked the space boss fighting part, but I really hate that occult vibe that all those games are trying to push all the time.

Real player with 3.4 hrs in game

  • Fun gameplay. Tight control (it works fine with X360 controller).

  • Nice graphics, if you like cartoony style. It’s crisp, colorful, and clean. You don’t lose track of what’s happening on screen.

  • There are a decent variety of ships to upgrade and items to buy. The replay value is good considering its price.

  • Minor cons. They did a poor job at explaining upgrades (but it’s not too hard to guess) and you can’t adjust audio volume in-game.

Real player with 2.0 hrs in game

Toon Shooters 2: The Freelancers on Steam

Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation

A beautiful and challenging puzzle game with plenty of variety and clever mechanics to keep you interested and perplexed.

Positives

👍 Clever, interesting and diverse puzzles

👍 Pretty graphics with detailed environments with a fantasy ambience

👍 Charming story nicely told by narrator

Real player with 25.8 hrs in game

–-{Story}—

☐ Doesnt have (Not counting historical stuff)

☐ Something isnt nothing I guess

☐ Not greatly told

☑️ Average

☐ Good

☐ Lovely

☐ Will make you cry or smile a lot

—{Gameplay}—

☐ Try not to get addicted

☐ Very good

☑️ Good

☐ Nothing special

☐ Ehh

☐ Bad

☐ Just dont

—{ Grind }—

☑️ Nothing

☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks

☐ Isn’t necessary to progress

☐ Average grind level

☐ Too much grind

☐ Insanity

—{Graphics}—

☐ You forget reality

☐ Masterpiece

☐ Beautiful

☑️ Good

Real player with 9.6 hrs in game

Degrees of Separation on Steam