Creature in the Well
Panels;
Oozing with a mossy green, in the silhouette of an old machine, with mysterious songs ringing through hollow halls, and of beady eyes watching you from afar.
Then succumb - as does every engineer, into the never-ending trail of gears… of this well-oiled, unpreserved machine, the perfect provocation for a beast to kill.
But at its core, the beast remains, far too proud and of unearthly fame, and as the town Mirage has soon found out, this a storm that may never come to pass.
And so it goes, for the Creature in the Well, this the story of its ageless schemes and of our righteous revenge…
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
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I love pinball, and I think it’s an underutilised game mechanism.
This game, as you’ll have gathered, uses this pinball mechanism, and brings it to a hack-and-slash-ish experience. You’ll probably die a lot, but that’s fine; shortcuts mean that getting back to your location usually takes 15 seconds or so.
Every “dungeon” focuses on particular mechanisms, and each is more gorgeous than the last. This game is a serious looker.
I think the first 70% of the game took me 8 hours, and the last 30% took me 1 hour. Two reasons for this:
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Rollers of the Realm
Gameplay
‘Rollers of the Realm’ is a game that combines pinball and RPG (role-playing game). And it does so quite successfully.
The pinball aspect of the game is classic: you push buttons (on your keyboard or on a controller) to move flippers in order to control the ball and prevent it from dropping down the drain.
The RPG aspect of the game consists of the following elements:
- The ball represents a player character who has stats and skills. There are 10 playable characters. They each have a ‘class’ like knight, rogue or healer. Each of them has strengths and weaknesses and a specific ‘special skill’ that can be triggered when you’ve collected enough mana (magic points).
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
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Despite being poorly made, this is still a fun pinball RPG… if you play on “casual” so that you don’t have to constantly repair your flippers. An important tip: several characters have multiball abilities. Don’t use them, and don’t waste gold upgrading them! Unlike a normal pinball game where you only need to worry about keep one of the identical balls in play, secondary balls in Rollers are weak, the character still dies if its main ball falls into the drain (and it’s often difficult to tell the balls apart in battle, especially with the Rogue’s balls' dull colors), and secondary balls can’t activate special board locations that advance the level. That last point leads to some almost buggy situations where, for example, on a very long board you can get a secondary ball up to the distant top of the board but the camera won’t follow it. The only good part about multiballs is that the some of the Ranger’s extra balls stick to enemies, so they’re good for dealing with enemies that hang around right beside your flippers.
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
DEMON’S TILT
The Developer has proved that the impossible can be achieved; to actually refine an already perfect game and make it even better with every subsequent update. Pinball goes back decades and the game that Demon’s Tilt is based on is actually around almost thirty years old. The Pc Engine hosted some amazing shooters (including it’s almost arcade perfect version of R-Type), Gunhed and the aforementioned Devil Crash, which was the best occult themed pinball game ever created and nothing could ever come close UNTIL Demon’s Tilt emerged nearly three decades on the heels of Devil Crash. Three decades is a very long time to wait for a worthy successor and surprisingly, nobody tried to replicate or improve on Devil Crash until now…first enter the developer of Demon’s Tilt and later the publisher who came on board and the game went from being pretty special to nigh-on-perfect with scaling, rotation, tons of large hand drawn sprites, shmup elements and the occult. Wow, this is like winning the lottery and every time you play this utterly stunning pinball game you are constantly rewarded with more discoveries and higher scores. The table is good stretching up three screens high and the mood is dark but when things liven up it does get hectic and very colourful. The music is straight out of a Megadrive/Genesis but the core game remains true to the Devil Crash formula. Occult pinball just got better and gets better with every update, the developer has to be seriously applauded for making the impossible happen, can you get better than perfect? He has proved that you can with a resounding YES. Every update of Demon’s Tilt either tweaks or adds something new. And we haven’t even left EA yet. For the price, you get the best pinball on Steam and for your time, you get happy memories created in seriously wanting to beat your high score again and again. Going retro with Occult Pinball with hints of Saturn, Neo Geo, and Playstation thrown in. The epitome of the perfect video pinball game 100/100 and it just keeps on getting better.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
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DEMON’S TILT
DEMON’S TILT is a retro-stylized pinball on a huge 3 sections table. I’ve played with Xbox controller and I believe it’s much more comfortable than keyboard for this game.
I can say only positive things about DEMON’S TILT:
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Gameplay is very addictive and the game is a great fun for short playsessions
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Cool music/sound effects
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Game looks really good + there’s plenty of settings to adjust visuals/colours
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I’m not super impressed by bosses in a current state, but the whole table in general is absolutely awesome.
– Real player with 22.6 hrs in game