Treadnauts
Treadnauts is the kind of game that hits all the bases. Everything I want from couch-gaming can be satisfied after playing just one match.
Pros
-It’s flawless movement mechanics make the game feel buttery smooth with a controller in hand.
-The art style is unforgettable, it’s suave and leaves a smile on your face.
-Jazz never felt so smooth, as in, the music is dope as heck and sticks in your head like a child’s favorite cartoon theme song.
-Caring developers who update the game regularly with relevant and meaningful changes.
– Real player with 701.6 hrs in game
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Note: Review was updated after Early Access ended.
Fantastic game for playing with other people! The game mechanics are solid and the controls feel great. Development on the game has stopped so we won’t be seeing more content, but what we have right now is more than enough for playing with friends. The community surrounding the game has died down from the activity that it boasted during the Early Access period, but the small community that remains on Discord is very friendly.
Pros
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
Double Turn
You can be knocked out of your own combo, characters lack much difference between each other, and AI is easily exploited. It’s not a very fun game. The potential is there and its core loop is interesting but there is too little here for it to be recommended as is.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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Nice idea and design, poor realization
The game can’t be considered as a finished project even if one overlooks the lack of content, because some fundamental features don’t work:
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- AI in Practice mode doesn’t work: an NPC just stands still and meekly gets player’s hits. If it’s supposed to be so, then the developer should have added several options to adjust the NPC behavior like make it always blocking or jumping or performing a sequence of movements.* A player’s profile disappears after closing the game, that leads to disappearing of a gamepad custom configuration also. Moreover, the game doesn’t allow me to create a profile with the same name again although I don’t see it and can’t choose it.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Divekick
BUY/SALE/PASS: Buy - Feel free to buy at full price
Divekick is a recent addition to the fighting game genre developed by Iron Galaxy Studios and released in late August. Everyone loves fighting games, right?
No. Not everyone. But why?
The fact of the matter is that for most fighting games the barrier to entry is complexity. Players must learn about each of the characters, how to perform special techniques, and master precision combinations on a six-button layout just to be able to compete.
– Real player with 239.0 hrs in game
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Divekick is a fighting game you won’t need to spend hours in a training mode practicing combos that’ll never land anyway in order to get better. You may not immediately click with its unique parody of fighting games and general poking fun at the fighting game community, but at the very least, you’ll probably be pretty good at Divekick by the end of your first match due to its elegance in simplicity.
1 Dive Button.
1 Kick button.
1 hit and you’re dead.
5 rounds won and you’re godlike.
1 hell of a good time.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Bamerang
Very fun Game for an evening with friends. The game is multiplayer only though but at that it succeeds quite well I think.
The artstyle and music are both very refreshing and fun.
Through steam remote play even online play is possible and functional.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
I love this game!
Already played the Warm-Up before.
Pros:
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Great Music
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Great Artstyle
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Fast paste game
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Lost me a lot of my nerves playing against friends
Cons:
-“only” Local Multiplayer (Steam remote play can be used to combat that)
- no Computer Enemy / Shooting Range to practice
Great to play in between to have some fun.
Perfect as a Party game.
I would recommend this game!
Happy Boomerang throwing!
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Miner Ultra Rag Smash
Pretty good
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
BRAZIL GAME OF THE YEAR 2020
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Velvet Guard
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Review by Sven Evil - Steam’s largest local 4-player curator! See 100s of more local 4-player reviews at my curator page !
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Sometimes you unexpectedly find a real gem. This game is such a hidden gem. A small, but very polished game that I never heard of before, but understood in seconds and had fun with immediately!
The premise is simple: Kill your opponents, like in Towerfall or Duck Games. You got only one bullet. After shooting it, you have to retrieve it before you can shoot again. The different levels contain death traps, like spikes or lava. Also each character can choose a super ability, like the possibility to kill opponents by jumping on their heads. You also have a few options to select and gamemodes to choose from - and then the fun starts!
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
An awesome multiplayer game to play with your friends, to a good price too. There’s even possiblity to play online with Parsec!
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Samurai Gunn
SAMURAI GUNN IS A LOCAL MULTIPLAYER GAME
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With this in mind, it’s a frenetic combat game which is quick to learn but takes a long time to master. The controls are very simple but also have a lot a slight complexities which make matches against friends feels absolutely epic. It’s hands down the most competive and entertaining local multiplayer game I’ve enjoyed with my housemates. If you like Smash Bros, Towerfall, hell even mario kart, you’ll enjoy playing this with your mates.
– Real player with 75.0 hrs in game
Amazing game. Spent hours and hours and hours playing this with people. It’s probably one of the easiest pickup-‘n-play fighting games on Windows and really gets everyone going. I definitely think this was my game of 2013. I’ve spent far more time playing it with guests than any other game I own since I bought it on Christmas.
Because there’s absolutely no documentation, there’s a lot of learning in terms of moves and rules. For instance, if you press your sword and jump and a direction at the same time, you do a mightier jump in that direction than normal. Also, you’re limited to 3 bullets a life (gets rid of bullet sniping or camping), and you can hold down to play dead (you’ll die in water if you do this). There are a bunch of stages all with their own little intricacies. If there’s any game I’d recommend for party play on Steam, this is it.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
8Bit Fiesta - Party Game
8bit fiesta is the greatest party game ever created. My hours represent about half the time I have in 8bit due to one of my other bois having it and putting in work on that steam account as well. We have gladly pulled elbows over UFO Contact. A wise man in our group once said “there is nothing I respect more than 8bit.” I couldn’t agree more. We love it so much that we even created a team mode because we got tired of waiting for 8bit 2. For those interested in the team game we use the rules below.
– Real player with 357.3 hrs in game
Multiplayer (especially Fiesta Mode for irresponsible adults) is fantastic. Totally worth the money. I’ve had hours of fun with friends playing through the myriad of minigames, and my friends that don’t even like playing video games still enjoy this game.
I find it interesting that the load screen always stops on the “Bull Shit” game splash screen during multiplayer - except when it is going to be that minigame. Minor inconvenience. (Has no effect on gameplay.)
NOTICE: THE REVIEW FROM THIS POINT IS FOR ONLY THE SINGLE PLAYER MODE OF THE FULL GAME.
– Real player with 58.5 hrs in game
Guntastic
1v1 me
– Real player with 37.9 hrs in game
I tried out the game and its really fun. As a pixel artist myself, i love the use of pixel art. A few things i think they could improve and i know it still a Early Access game. But the things they could improve on are the following: better controls for mac users (i cant customize to WASD for movement), more maps and finally more characters. I know that the last 2 are probably planned for the future of this game. But the controls are a problem for overall player satisfaction.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Made to be Crushed
Made to be Crushed is a strategic and nervous local multiplayer shooter where you must succeed in trapping and destroying others.
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Up to 4 players in local multiplayer !
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Carefully designed maps for great replayability!
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A training mode to play alone or in co-op against bots!
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A strategic game with simple rules and easy to learn!
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Configurable keyboard and joysticks!