Krakout challenge

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

  • Arcade Cabinet Style and Pixel Art Graphic;

  • arcade mode with 3 level sets ( 300 levels) up to 7 hours of gameplay (if you are lucky or very skilled).

  • integrated level editor;

  • levels can be exchanged with Steam friends or via a local network. And no matter on which platform play your friend;

  • many types of blocks (simple, unbreakable, multi-hittable, cloneable, movable, time …);

  • many types of aliens and helpers (include ball eater :) );

  • supports global Steam achievements and leader board;

  • 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.


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Krakout challenge on Steam

Power Ball 2021

Power Ball 2021

Overview

Power Ball 2021 is here to provide block busting, ball bouncing, gun shooting action for 1 or 2 players.

Play through 50 levels solo or with a friend in local co-op as you enjoy the casual simplicity of this retro inspired gem.

Levels peppered with hidden powerups will quickly change the pace of the action and do their best to distract you from main ball.

Inspired by great bat and ball games of the past

Features

50 Levels of increasing complexity

Multiple powerups

2 Player action (Play against your friend or work together to make it through the entire game)

Guns generate when there is only 1 block left to make that final block a piece of cake


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Power Ball 2021 on Steam

Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure

Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure

Very average. Plays like a poor man’s ‘Arkanoid’ and the story is kind of preachy.

As for this being a PC port from the Playstation game, they could have at least added a ‘exit’ button to the main menu. It was built for Playstation users to quit via the ‘PS Button’. This is a rather annoying oversight.

Real player with 2.4 hrs in game


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A great entry into the brick breaker genre. Controlling up to 4 paddles at once offers a good challenge, especially when combined with increasing ball speeds and a time limit. The main story can be completed in around an hour but there are a lot of alternative play modes which should provide more entertainment afterwards.

A few gripes:

  • There is no way to aim the ball (as per a lot of older brick breakers, something solved by newer games like Shatter, Ultra Break etc). This can lead to frustration when going for the last few bricks, especially when combined with a time limit. A way to aim with precision would have been welcome.

Real player with 1.8 hrs in game

Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure on Steam

Pinball Arcade

Pinball Arcade

If you are interested in Real pinball, as in machines out in the real world. This is the game for you.

All the tables are based on real tables, and does a pretty good job of it. So after playing the tables in this game, you already know what to shoot for out in the real world, and your scores will be that much greater.

However, Make sure you run this game in DX11, and make sure you adjust the lighting. (I usually go for 10-15% room brightness and 90-100% lamp brightness, to better emulate how games typically will look like in the real world.)

Real player with 1091.2 hrs in game

As pinball goes the game play is terrific and Pinball Arcade has been absent from Steam for far too long. The fact that it had to go through Greenlight is more testament to Valve’s incompetence and lack of understanding of the genre.

Farsight includes a free table with the distribution of their platform. Tales of Arabian Nights is outrageously good. Personally I can sit in one spot from dusk until dawn ignoring hunger or nature calling playing this table. The music, sound and game-play are all top notch. Unfortunately the pot ain’t all roses and there are some weeds, hopefully not permanently.

Real player with 312.1 hrs in game

Pinball Arcade on Steam

Whizz Ball

Whizz Ball

A friend recommended Whizz Ball to me as a good party game, and we have had a lot of fun playing with 4 players. Using the after touch feature to redirect the ball towards other players creates a great sense of competitive fun. Single player is still a challenge, but playing against friends is really what it’s about, even if it’s you and one other.

Good selection of powerups, although they might need a bit more balancing, but these can be turned off in the options. Also came across a couple of minor issues but nothing game breaking, which is fine by me.

Real player with 6.8 hrs in game

At time of review (Aug 2020) this is currently early access. I’m really enjoying the concept and the style but at the moment there is a significant playability issue. Each player simply has too little to control. You can only move your bat in a very short range above your blocks (essentially three positions). Sometimes you can redirect the ball in flight (the rules on this are a little unclear) and sometimes you can shoot. Most of the time is spent watching the ball bounce around and waiting often for quite a long time before it hits you.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

Whizz Ball on Steam

Tomb Keeper Mansion Deluxe Pinball

Tomb Keeper Mansion Deluxe Pinball

this game is amazing, love it. maps are super fun and exciting. has everything you would want.

Real player with 3.5 hrs in game

This is a good little collection of pinball games made by Pinblend Studios. Right now there are three pinball tables that they made and are all included in this game. I actually won this game in a tournament they had so I got this game for free! Two thumbs up.

Real player with 0.8 hrs in game

Tomb Keeper Mansion Deluxe Pinball on Steam

Top Billiards

Top Billiards

You can play 2 player local. I don’t believe you can play online. Though the game play itself is not bad, the concept of single player game is bad. You start with 6000 coins and can play a single match betting 0, 100, 500 or 1000 coins. If you win, you get more coins and can buy better looking cues. If you eventually lose all your coins, then you will need to in purchase coins. There’s no point of this game, there’s no tournaments or multiple opponents. Opponents always about the same ability, they’re pretty good.

Real player with 7.4 hrs in game

Issa scam for some reason

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

Top Billiards on Steam

Pinball Lockdown

Pinball Lockdown

Good tables, another effort in development and it will soon perfect ( especially several cameras)

Real player with 2.3 hrs in game

not a bad game, needs some general cleanup ( minor portrait mode issues, some interface cleanup/button work) overall tho, fun I’m not going to compare this to TPA, or FX3, it’s not a fair fight. it works well, good flow to tables, good themes, fun to play… its developing quite well.

Real player with 1.9 hrs in game

Pinball Lockdown on Steam

Pinball FX3

Pinball FX3

FX3 could have been decent enough update even with the addition of the XP/leveling up mechanics to the tables that are required for maximizing your high scores. This was tolerable and even somewhat amusing to do for the first few tables but after playing a few more on top of that the novelty wears off and you quickly realize that the grind just gets in the way of enjoying the pure pinball experience (it isn’t strictly required since there’s a ‘classic mode’ but all the real competition is on the now regular mode, and unfortunately the level up mechanic is still active in this mode as well). The biggest issue with all this XP accumulation and leveling up is that it causes performance issues and random lag that in pinball means missed shots and needless gutter drains that are about the worst thing that can happen in this type of game where one single delayed input could mean the difference between a new high score or not. Multiply that by it happening continuously throughout your play session and its just a recipe for frustration.

Real player with 532.7 hrs in game

Pinball FX 3 is a continuation of a great pinball series, that has continued to grow in number of tables as well as improvements in game play and modes. I have played the full Pinball FX series and am not disappointed in how the game has progressed.

Most tables from FX 2 have made the climb into FX 3, with the tables from FX 2 getting somewhat of a overhaul if there were issues with the table, so some of the problems/bugs with tables from FX 2 have been corrected. With 90 tables available, there is a wide selection of fun tables to pick from. There is however a little bit of a glut of Marvel and Star Wars based tables, which isn’t horrible, but I would like to see more new fresh IP tables based on other movies, and non movie connected totally new concepts etc. Also, Zen studios has recently acquired the Williams pinball contract giving them a new base to make tables for. The tables so far have been good, but as an owner of The Pinball Arcade it’s kind of not such a big thing to get the new tables on release.

Real player with 522.6 hrs in game

Pinball FX3 on Steam

Zeke’s Peak

Zeke’s Peak

Last year I saw a digital Ice Cold Beer in a video of SpaciesArcade. I didn’t think much of it but soon after YouTube showed me an old mechanical cabinet version of the game and I got interested since it has some similarities to pinball which I love. I watched a few more related videos which YouTube remembered because it suggested the Zeke’s Peak trailer to me a few months ago and I put the game in my wish list. I bought it the day it was released in Early Access.

Features

At this moment there are five worlds, a beginner world to get familiar with the controls, an arcade themed world, a jungle themed world, an ice themed world and the final world is an expert world. Each of the first four worlds have one or more classic levels based on the old mechanical cabinets, the other levels, 69 of them, are obstacle courses. The expert world has endless versions of all the classic levels.

Real player with 142.0 hrs in game

Normally I shy away from Early Access games from past experiences, but having played this as a child in arcades when it first came out in 1983 I could not wait for this game to come out. It’s early and doesn’t have much yet but it’s off to a great start-essentially you have 4 play modes-a series of tutorial levels culminating in unlocking the original arcade version, 3 other themed series of levels and the alternate original version called Ice Cold Beer, which I didn’t know even existed (but then again I was 5 when it hit arcades).

Real player with 4.1 hrs in game

Zeke's Peak on Steam