Orb and the Stars
Fun and challenging platformer where you have to reach the exit as an orb while you can collect star shards in each level. The graphics are rather simple, but the game is fun and challenging.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
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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
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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
Hard Rock Pinball
PLEASE NOTE: This game is still being developed! So this is more or less an early access review.
Hard Rock Pinball as the name implies is a pinball game with a hard rock music theme. Each of the present 3 tables are themed accordingly and the developer is actively working on this title. The game itself plays okay and some of the recent additions make the game more palatable as his work continues, however, at this point the game is playable and may be enjoyable to some, but without rule sheets and achievements (which don’t appear to be working), it may be a little hard for some to take. The music in the game can get a little grating for long game players. Color scheme is still feels to old school for me, but everyone has a preference. I personally say give it a try, for the current price it is very reasonable, but who knows if you will like it, maybe you wont.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
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-Gameplay is boring.
-Ball is more like a pea than like a metall ball.
-Strengths of the Flippers is very weak.
-Power of the Bumpers and Slingshots is just not existing.
-The main music is a simple short drumloop which start to get nerving after a short period.
-The advertised sounds of guitars and synthesizers are just short one shot samples on bumpers and targets.
-No pause mode available
-No settings menu to change controls.
-Cutting half of the points just by bad luck is a no-go (even 2 times on a single ball)
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
KYOKI
Kyoki takes the concept of original goal board games and makes it more fun to play every day. Kyoki is a three mode board sport. In Kyoki the aim of the game is to clear the play area of all the coloured tiles. Whenever two tiles of the same colour touch each other, they disappear from the board. Can you grow to be exceptional at this Carrom boardgame, all and sundry can become a carrom master with football idea game play. Kids and adults can play and enjoy together.
Kyoki has Three different modes of play:
Oik 3D
Oik is now in 3D!
The return of your favorite game in new quality: now you have to solve a series of puzzles in three-dimensional space!
The player needs to deliver the blue cube to the desired point before getting rid of the blocking elements. A colorful clicker puzzle simulating the laws of physics will help your entire family relax at the computer!
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
Ordinem
They take over the railing system in Ordinem.
Your objective is simple: match the ware to the right colors.
Manage one or more rails and match the ware to the right colors. Remember: no ware should pass and matching the wrong color means losing score. Your objective is simple but tough. You can use the rails with button [1] to [3]. It’s only important that the right color is moved over the right field and you push the right button at the right time. If the wrong color should pass, not a problem, you have three lives. If three wrong ware are collected, it’s game over and you collect your score.
Hint: Don’t complicate things, three rails can be confusing. Keep an eye on the whole map and work foresighted.
You can unlock new maps with points, that get more difficult and represent new situations. If the standard modes are too easy, try the modes [Inverted Ways] or [Random Maps], where the normal rules don’t apply.
Super High Ball: Pinball Platformer
I never knew I needed a genre fusion of Pinball and Platformer until I played this game. Executed brilliantly, Super High Ball gives the player an amazing sense of control through each level and provides a great challenge (diamond rankings) on top of fun and unique gameplay.
– Real player with 63.9 hrs in game
This game is fantastic. It’s definitely not a typical precision platformer and doesn’t feel like one, but is more… adventure pinball for speedrunners? Something along those lines. Regardless, it’s fantastic. If you like precision games at all, get this–it’s worth full price.
– Real player with 51.5 hrs in game
Witcheye
A green-skinned young witch named Mabel Syrup turns into a big, bouncy eyeball (why not a boob, liver, or buttock?) to recover her stolen magical ingredients in this incredibly novel take on the breakout subgenre. While smashable blocks are there in plenty, the majority of the challenge comes from the huge roster of foes and their extremely well-animated attacks, which increase in number and swiftness with the jump to hard mode. Normal is pretty dang easy on the whole – almost casual in spots – so I would encourage veteran 2D gamers seeking a bigger bang for their buck to immediately go for hard after beating the base game; all bosses are noticeably beefed up, not with more life or attack power, but with trickier patterns and maneuvers, and this is objectively the correct way to do such things. Bravo!
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Pros:
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Only mouse is necessary to play
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Has the charm of platformers from the GBA and DS era
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More to do after the main story is complete
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Has both mini bosses and bosses
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Awesome OST
Cons:
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Multiple playthroughs required to unlock other modes and difficulties
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No powerups at all (except for an optional one for one level)
All in all it is a simple adventure game that mimics the charm of a kirby game. It is short, but it is a 5 dollar game that still manages to provide value past those 5 dollars. A good enough game that I hope the developer(s) can follow up with a sequel that this game deserves.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
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