Ambidangerous
This is definitely one of the most unique games I’ve played. The learning curve it pretty steep initially but not overly difficult. You control two separate characters in a top-down shooter with a single controller. Your left hand controls one character and your right hand controls the other. Think of it as if rubbing your belly and patting your head got converted to a video game. I reccomend either putting both characters together initially so your movements are identical or just shoving one guy in a corner where he is safe.
– Real player with 103.1 hrs in game
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Awesome mechanics and weapons!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Alexio
A great retro platformer with a stunning style, thoughtful level design and honed gameplay that will not get bored for a long time. Well, for lovers of collecting and discovering secrets here is a real expanse!!
Великолепный ретро-платформер с потрясающей стилистикой, продуманным дизайном уровней и отточенным геймплеем, который не надоест продолжительное время. Ну а для любителей коллекционирования и открытия секретов тут настоящее раздолье!!
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game
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A solid old-school platformer with nice pixel graphics, good level design and really challenging difficult. But, however, a 4-year-old child really likes the duckling (the child loves similar games at Nintendo Switch) and can try and try this levels for a long long time. Funny achievements with easter-eggs also adds some sort of charm to that game 3
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Second to Nun
Do you want to become the TOP NUN? Are you nun enough?
Second to Nun is a top-down fighting game where you fight a variety of creatures and enemies on the Island of Trials and Tribulations in your quest to become top nun! Careful not to fall or be beaten as enemies come at you from all angles, face them all and take home the thousand-coin prize!
This game is a budget-friendly pixel-art retro top-down fighting classic, easy to learn and impossible to master!
For a budget-friendly game, Second to Nun is bursting to the brim with features for you to enjoy!
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Fully Controller Compatible (and playable with Keyboard)
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Play in two different game modes, Arcade and Endless
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4 Difficulty Levels and an unlockable customisable difficulty
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36 Achievements and Leader-boards to fight for worldwide top nun
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Keep track of all your progress with a fully unlockable Monsterpedia of beasties
This game has been fully optimised to be compatible with game controllers from start to finish!
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Toodee and Topdee
Toodee and Topdee - Steam Version - v 1.0.0.4.
The metagame is a boom of creativity and knowing on algorithmic thinking. In contrast it is an aesthetic promise above gameplay. The “cutscenes” are more the game than the player’s experience.
Is this an indie game for sure? In fact it is a game made by only two brothers from Palestine (Israel indeed, see below). Despite of this the final game was in partnership with Super Rare Games publisher (based in London) mainly for marketing. In the press kit website content we can get: “The jam version received great feedback, and so Gonen and Ori decided to make it their first commercial project”. I suspected that it was a game jam game, it has many compact features typical of a game jam game. You can search for the original Ludum Dare 41 entry - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/toodee-and-topdee and play the pre-alpha/alpha version - http://www.gpstudios.com/games/view/toodee-and-topdee .
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
A wonderful puzzle platforming experience.
Toodee & Topdee was basically described to me as playing Super Mario Maker in editor mode, except editor mode is an actual character that has to deal with their own challenges.
You play as Toodee, the platforming character, and Topdee, the top-down block-pushing character, alternating between platforming and block-pushing to navigate the two to an exit portal. Each chapter comes with its own mechanics and trials to overcome, becoming steadily more difficult as the game progresses. This game has the appearance of being good for co-op, but in practice, both characters are not active at the same time, but instead must be swapped between, like in Donkey Kong Country. This suits the game better to a single player experience, though I do think there is still some fun to be had playing with a friend.
– Real player with 30.4 hrs in game
Micro Platformer
This game is one of the best platformers I’ve played. Here’s why:
1. This game is like many platformers, minus the BS. Sick of enemies whose movements are hard to control or predict? Sick of sitting around, waiting for frustrating cycles which make every death feel like a massive waste of time? My two favourite games of all-time on Steam, Celeste and Super Meat Boy, both drove me insane with features like these. This game is the first proper platformer I’ve played which doesn’t, and it’s made me realize just how much I hated those sections in both of those games. You respawn near-instantly, and it’s just pure precision platforming. No BS, no cycles, no enemies, no missiles or lasers or RNG. It’s just you versus the game.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
This game is great. It has its goods and its bads though. First of all I want to praise its simplistic aesthetic, a black background with simple levels. There is no sound in this game so you can you put music on listen to that whilst playing or put a video on in the background and just have a nice stress-free time.
The bad thing is that level 1, the tutorial, and level 2 (there is nothing wrong with these levels) is nice and relaxing but then it just switches to level 3 which is a big difficulty change taking me personally a while to complete it also has to many stages to get through for a third level. If I was the developer I would put a level in between 2 & 3 and I feel like when playing both of those levels that’s when level 3 will become easier to complete.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition
I can see how this game shows quite some good potential for growth. I wasn’t aware that there was a whole Pixel Cup franchise, but it seems my time will be rather appropiately spent with this one as it looks like a considerable better development than the before editions.
Looking forward to those new features!
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
The good:
-Beautiful pixel graphics
-Plenty of competitions, teams, stadiums and more to choose from
-Good sound design
-Fun gameplay, easy to understand and get into
-Basic and good controls
The bad:
-Kick offs are a bit broken, if you align your kick off kick to the middle and shoot at max power, there’s a 90% chance your shot is going to be a goal, weirdly enough, this seems to work better at some stadiums than on others
-AI for defenders is a bit bad, sometimes all your defenders will go up to attack and leave the defense empty for no reason
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
Danger Ahead
You are a lone alien robot lost in some kind of space void where there is only strange signs and nothing but death in front of you.
Danger Ahead is a precision platform game that is designed to challenge the player to get through each level with increasing difficulty.
This is a short experience that was built off the backbone of a previous Game Jam project of the same name.
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Minimalistic level design.
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Challenging, hard-as-nails platforming.
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Three different game difficulties to encourage replaying for harder challenges.
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Steam Achievements.
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Over 6 Game Levels with all original art and custom music.
Goblin and Coins
If you grew up playing classic platformers, you’ll feel right at home in Goblins and Coins. Don’t be fooled by its ‘cute’ aesthetic, it’s actually really quite challenging. I definitely recommend playing with a controller for this. On a great note though, the controls feel really tight. You’ll need that precision since the game amps up in difficulty over the course of its 5 worlds. I consider myself pretty decent at platformers and honestly I’m not sure if I’ll be able to complete this one on Old School difficulty, where if you die, you restart over from the very beginning. Luckily there’s a casual difficulty where you only have to restart that level if you lose all your health. Even on casual, some levels you may find yourself repeating multiple times just to get through. Each world ends with a boss fight, usually centered around a new mechanic introduced during that world. There’s a lot of content here for only 2 dollars.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
It’s a nice little platformer, but sadly it felt like an average game to me. I mean, it works, it doesn’t crash, it has unconventional story, it has smooth controls. But it’s missing the feature which could make it a gem or excellent game. The camera could be a bit smoother, the speed of game could be a bit slower (though you quickly get used to it). Some sounds are funny and most of them feel appropriate. Music is ok. At the moment of writing this review, I didn’t finish the whole game yet (stopped just at the end of world 4, world 5 is the last one). I might update this review after I finish the game, but I doubt it will change much.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
HopSquash!
So far, pretty fun! I like the music, the art style, its great! My only complaint is the lack of online battles. I want to play locally, or match up with my friends via friend battle. Thats just my nitpick though. The AI is challenging so I don’t mind too much.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Fan of the old jump n bump from the 90s. Used to sit there playing jump bump as we called it. As kids 4 of us on one keyboard those were the days . This is very similar. I really like this game. I certainly would like more levels but I guess maybe one day lol.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Mantle
Loving the game! I Beat it a couple days ago and now i’m thinking of speedrunning it! The game has so much potential and I look forward to more content like this from the developers!
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Great game. It takes me back to the side scrolling games I loved as a kid, though it has more depth and explores the concepts of mental health through beautiful visuals and complex stage design. I cannot recommend this enough, I love it.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game