Contract Killer
Contract Killer builds on retro arcade beat ‘em ups and paper aesthetics with chaotic combos, boss fights, hand-crafted pixel visuals, an original, jazzy soundtrack, and an emphasis on cooperation. Tackle the comical campaign with up to 4 players, unlock skins and new characters, fight against your friends, or try to survive an endless horde mode!
CAMPAIGN
When the legendary Erase-Sir was defeated by the Contract of all contracts, his minions took over, binding thousands to their legal demise. It’s up to Leadhead and his crew to traverse different worlds, defeat the bosses that rule them, and erase the final signature!
CHARACTERS
Meet the cast, each with their own unique move sets and skins:
Leadhead - The pencil mascot himself. This all-around fighter is best known for his angry attitude and furious fighting style.
Penn - Ink it up with this vengeful city native who will stop at nothing to return his hometown to its former glory.
Mark - This clumsy combatant always has a white flag in hand… just don’t expect him to surrender.
Pomp - A pretentious paintbrush who treats every attack as a photo opportunity. Pompadours will never NOT be in style.
KEY FEATURES
● Up to 4 player co-op across all modes
● Unlock new skins for your favorite character
● Experience the Story of Leadhead and his crew and defeat epic bosses
● Fight endless waves of contracts in Horde Mode with the help of various power-ups
● Challenge your friends in player versus player Battle Mode to test your skills
● Use an extensive kit of attacks for all your contract-killing goodness
● Master each character’s jabs, claps, grabs, ground-pounds, dashes, and projectiles
● Take on various corporate lackeys each with distinct behaviors and weaknesses to learn
ABOUT PAPERBOY GAMES
Created by Alex Garza, Aiden Jauffret, Matthew Lawrence, and Leon Yang
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Green Dragon/グリーンドラゴン
Green Dragon is a side scrolling beat em up featuring 16-Bit Retro graphics and a banging techno sound track.
If you like games similar to streets of rage, final fight and of course Double Dragon you will appreciate this game.
The game is still in early development and its literally only half a level long and prone to bugs like enemies walking up a building, towards the sky out of the player boundary, and also prone to random restarts, but its already showing some awesomeness.
I especially cheered when the game paid a little Amiga homage on boot up, nice touch DEV :)
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
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Good things:
The game is working or at least the first part of the first level that was made so far. The sound and music is also working. Character sprites for one of 2 characters are also working and sprites of one enemy that we meet are also working. There is also 1 weapon you can pick up, 1 food item and 2 items giving points. You can walk and hit with fist or jump or even jump and kick! Pixelated graphic is nice and good looking. The good thing is that you can finish the game and get all 5 achievements right now in under 15 minutes.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Internet Generation
Internet generation is a clear version of the action game. You will experience the story about the final collapse of a group chat with the protagonist Ling Qing. The process of the game is not long. Experience the game like a movie.
What will you see in the game?
Nearly a thousand frames of exquisite full hand-painted pixel animation, a number of lovely role vertical painting, dozens of magical scenes, Ups and downs but funny single plot, to satisfy your desire to explore.
What will you play in the game?
Rich skill combo, combat events and combat buff system give you a pleasant combat experience, with dozens of completely different enemies and multiple boss battles, makeing you can have a good time in one breath.
Final
If you ask “what does the Internet look like?” How do you plan to answer this question?
The usual works always like to add a layer of technology veil to the network, using all kinds of things with a sense of technology to describe the network, as if the network is very far away from us. But we are now living in the network, ah, the network for today’s people is like going home as usual. In daily life, as long as you are not related workers, you will not come into contact with code hackers and other things.
What this game wants to offer for you is a daily and warm network. The game abstracts information as shrem, compares the communication between people to a battle, and unfolds a story that belongs to netizens in the new era.
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Bloody Paws: Passion Unleashed
Really great little beat ‘em up! Starts getting pretty tricky after a while
! and the ending’s pretty lackluster rn, though (But hey: It’s Early Access, everything’s subject to change/improvement)
Definitely worth the $5 and I’m looking forward to seeing how this one develops!
For some more detailed feedback & suggestions: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1491780/discussions/0/3092263995629922211/
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
Wonderful game :)
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
Scrap Riders
Scrap Riders is a pixel art adventure game set in a cyberpunk future.
Become Rast, a member of the outlaw bikers gang Scrap Riders, make your way through the wastelands and the big metropolis controlled by corporations. Act as a smuggler with caustic humor to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.
Fight your way through this 2D beat them up using your fists and guns, but caution: the wastelands are not for the faint of heart. There, violence is always the answer, but will not be enough! Without your wits you won’t last long. Talk to the right people, gather clues, and kick bad guys asses!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge features groundbreaking gameplay rooted in timeless classic brawling mechanics, brought to you by the beat ’em up experts at Dotemu (Streets of Rage 4) and Tribute Games. Bash your way through gorgeous pixel art environments and slay tons of hellacious enemies with your favorite Turtle, each with his own skills and moves - making each run unique! Choose a fighter, use radical combos to defeat your opponents and experience intense combats loaded with breathtaking action and outrageous ninja abilities. Stay sharp as you face off against Shredder and his faithful Foot Clan alone, or grab your best buds and play with up to four players simultaneously!
With Bebop and Rocksteady assaulting Channel 6 and stealing super gnarly devices to support Krang and Shredder’s latest twisted plan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge sees the Turtles battling across a righteous range of timeless TMNT locations. From Manhattan and Coney Island, to city rooftops and dank sewers, help the fearsome foursome trounce Foot Soldiers, Triceraton Warriors, and Rock Troops all the way to Dimension X!
Enjoy stunning full-color pixel art graphics and a vintage TMNT vibe that will rock you straight back to the awesome 80s. Every character, vehicle, weapon, item, and background is directly inspired by the 1987 TV show, making you feel like you hopped into the television – with a dope mix of killer humor and action-packed adventures!
● Gnarly game design takes you back to the ’80s
● Beautiful full-color pixel art graphics
● Old-school gameplay enhanced with super-fresh mechanics
● Up to four players simultaneously
● Play with iconic TMNT characters and vehicles in diverse gameplay options
● Radical new story mode
● And totally more to come!
Zeus Begins
You know, I grew up playing games like Golden Axe and the Streets of Rage series, so side-scrolling beat-em-ups games are kinda part of my gaming DNA. So imagine my overwhelming sense of nostalgia when I first booted up Zeus Begins and was greeted with a story told in pictures with text at the bottom of the screen, and then the opportunity to punch random bad peeps to a pulp!
I honestly had a blast playing this, it brought back so many memories, and there are some lovely little added extras (like every boss having it’s own unique little style, and some bullet-hell vertical-scrolling shooter stages between main levels that are reminiscent of games like 1942). And getting to play as an actual god, being able to kick some serious butt only adds to the value!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Zeus Begins isn’t a bad game. It just isn’t very good either. Kind of bare bones in the fighting department, which is the whole reason anyone would be playing this really. Some good ideas, like the shooter travel portions and the unique boss fights, but only barely implemented in a successful way. Solid starting point for future projects, but not worth the asking price.
Full Review: http://www.retrospekt.com.au/2019/08/review-zeus-begins/
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
99Vidas
tl;dr: It is ok-ish but Steam has better and cheaper Beat’em up.
Buy only if you love the podcast and you are familiar with Brazilian culture. Or you are going to be missing a lot of the context.
Pros:
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4 players (local/coop)
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Enemies behavior are quite nice
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Nice maps
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Nice idea of mechanics
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Nice combos
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They managed to do a lot for the game compared on what my friend told em they spend on it.
Cons:
- It gets repetitive pretty fast. Including the Enemies behavior that I liked during my first play.
– Real player with 38.6 hrs in game
How to not make your sh!tty game:
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Don’t make enemies have invincible attacks that can connect any time, even when you are mashing the button as fast as you can to avoid being hit.
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Don’t let enemies chain-attack you, one after another so you lose almost your entire health bar in 3 seconds.
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Don’t give every single f#$king enemy a running attack that they spam at you from the other side of the screen, and even offscreen.
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Don’t make bosses like if they were stupid minigames where you can only attack every 30 seconds or so, after all the programmed attacks he does are spammed first.
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill are movie actors fomous in the 70-80s for their roles in action-comedy movies.
Slaps & Beans is a tribute to the duo. The game tries (and somewhat succeeds) to transfer the atmosphere and the comedy of the movies in a videogame’s world.
The game is a scrolling beat’ em up: a genre that allows a digital representation of the unusual comical fight style of Bud & Terence.
The graphic style is a well realized pixel-art, full of details and references to the movies. This style enforces that sense of retro which is appropriate in a product inspired by 70-80s' characters.
– Real player with 27.0 hrs in game
In the discussion thread belonging to this game somebody started to rage asking why oh why we have to accept such games when Street Rage 4 is already out. For the answer head over to the wiki for Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti and check what they accomplished under the nicknames of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. They had their own movies but the majority of the viewers like (and watch up to this date) the journeys they made as a duo.
Now, Slaps And Beans is an homage. Interestingly, it has its own story but each stage makes you recognise one or several of the duo’s films. In a nutshell, our heroes participate in a movie shoot and when trying to pick up their money for the job they find themselves in the middle of a kidnapping. Terence is immediately concerned about the well-being of the kidnapped lady while Bud only agrees to the rescue as he firmly believes their money is, too, kidnapped.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Eight Dragons
It’s still in early access, but this is already one of the best fighting games i have played. It looks and sounds like it is right out of the nineties, my era, like a Streets of Rage game that Sega or the other publishers never got around to making. I really love it for that, and so many other reasons. Its a shame there are not more games of this style.
With One or Two players it is a kind of tactical game where you pick off the enemies as quickly and as efficiently as you can.
You cannot just wade in hammering that fire button. You have really got to think about it. Do i go left first or right first ?
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
Eight Dragons certainly has already come a long way since it’s first Early Access launch back on April 23, 2019! The team has been actively considering the feedback and constructive criticism provided by the growing community and the game is shaping nicely. At first it was a bit bare minimum, however it was still a solid experience game-play wise. Enemy collisions when thrown into other enemies has improved, Individual unique animations have been reworked for each character, the ability to pick up and throw obstacles is now present, the difficulty has been reworked, new level design elements have been added, and overall game-play mechanics have improved to further expand upon the decently executed engine that was built prior. This game has since seen consistent updates and it looks like it will get better and better as time passes.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game