Rising - Hungry Lizard

Rising - Hungry Lizard

Have Courage, Have Rage

Rising is a survival game in 8bit pixel art which will ultimately comprise multiple episodes, each one being autonomous and depicting a unique story, through the game, a la Another World (Eric Chahi). Set in nature, inspired by various trips in Brazil, Africa, India, France, Japan or Turkey, each episode will tell the quest for life of a living form on earth or beyond.

Episode #1 : Hungry Lizard

Play a lizard aiming to survive in a dangerous natural world. The lizard can eat butterflies and worms but has to prevent parrots’ attacks. He can hide, stop his movements and choose to eat his prey at the most precise moment. A satiety bar forces him to consistently eat preys. You only use the directional pad of the keyboard to navigate through the map, but the physic is precise and the lizard can move freely and stick on walls or trees to find the ideal path for his quest. It’s a cruel world and each action has to be chosen within the right moment of significance. Dedicate yourself entirely to sacrificing the flux of time for the right moment.

Hungry Lizard is a haiku

Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Hungry Lizard consciously evokes the presence by the absence, with its pixel art graphics and sound design elegantly blended into a Zen, minimal and spatial floating world.

Truth lies in one single moment

Hungry Lizard is an arcade game and must be played as such. You can play Hungry Lizard slowly, and actually make a better score in staying in the first zone. You can optimize each movement. You don’t need to see the ending even though the game has a beautiful one. The concept is to continue playing, short or long runs, few or many points, the beauty is there nonetheless. You will eventually die. You can restart the game or let it run for itself and take a breath, enjoy the graphics, the music, the physic, because it runs for itself marvelously. Each death is different and demands a moment of recollection and contemplation. Time is therefore dedicated to seeing and experiencing.

What is essential is the isolated moment and not what comes before and after.

In Hungry Lizard, it feels like we are seeing the world for the first time. Everything is so beautiful all at once. From so many angles.


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Rising - Hungry Lizard on Steam

Chrysalis

Chrysalis

Chrysalis is a hybrid tower-defense/survival RPG set in a world of natural mythology, with an emphasis on procedural generation, customizability, and replayability. Play the role of an incorporeal Wisp tasked with defending a magical chrysalis against forces of corruption and darkness. Search for resources and enlist the aid of friendly plants and animals as you explore each randomly generated level. Fend off waves of monsters, with each level offering new challenges, specialized wave types, procedurally generated bosses, and more.

Key Features:

  • Symbiosis: take control of any friendly plant or animal in the game.

  • Metamorphosis: level up your creatures and plants, transform them into more powerful versions, and apply elemental Spirits for further customization.

  • Mutation: a complex mutation system combines different species to create new creatures with unique sets of abilities and metamorphoses.

  • Customization: at the beginning of each playthrough, you choose a Chrysalis that caters to a specific style of play, with unlockable abilities that increase your power as you progress. By defeating waves of monsters, you will earn Boons which grant additional passive or active abilities, offering further ways to enhance your controlled creatures.

  • Modability: add new creature and plant species, abilities, art, and more by simply editing text files and dropping your images into the appropriate folder. Specific instructions and documentation will be forthcoming.


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Chrysalis on Steam

Desktop Dinosaurs

Desktop Dinosaurs

Enjoy watching cute hand animated dinosaurs inspired by 90’s Tamagotchi live directly on your desktop. Manage your environment, resources to raise and evolve your dinosaurs during their entire life. But don’t forget to show them love! Dinosaurs need love!

Features 🦕

  • See your dinosaurs live (eat, sleep, die…) directly inside your windows desktop

  • 2 species of dinosaur currently available (more to come)

  • Your progression is saved

  • You can name your dinosaurs

  • Randomly generated dinosaur colors sets inspired by NES console color palette

  • A shop where you can buy new dinosaurs eggs, plants and decorations


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Desktop Dinosaurs on Steam

Kestrel

Kestrel

This Game Was Fun!

Real player with 13.9 hrs in game

A great game, I would say it is definitely not for everyone, but super fun arcade style game. A lot of replayability making it worth the cost in my opinion.

Real player with 6.1 hrs in game

Kestrel on Steam

Save Aisha

Save Aisha

The Game-Play is a little bit hard ,I love it so much.

But I think the story can be better.

still , really good 2D game.

Real player with 4.3 hrs in game

حاليا خلصت اول 30 مرحله في اللعبه في البدايه ما فهمت للقيم بلاي لكن مع الوقت بديت استفييدك من مهاراتي وقدراتي في اللعبه وفعليا استمتعت فيها

الموسيقى في بعض المراحل كانت جدا ممتازه وفي بعض المراحل جدا عاديه وفي مراحل سيئه

تصميم المراحل في منها الممتاز وتحسه فعلا يقدم تحدي وفي منه العادي جدا

اللعبه من خلال انطباعي لها اشوف تستاهل الحقيقه التجربه واتمنى التوفيق للشباب الي اشتغلوا على اللعبه

اتمنى ايضا انهم ما يتسعجلون على موضوع الثري دي مستقبلا لين ما يحسون انهم فعلا تمكنوا من التو دي اتمنى لهم التوفيق وراح اتابع اخبار العابهم الجديده باذن الله وراح اخلص هذي اللعبه

Real player with 1.8 hrs in game

Save Aisha on Steam

Dojoran - Steam Edition

Dojoran - Steam Edition

It’s so good I picked it up and played it for 6 hours right after I bought it

I have some minor complaints, like for example the camera is too zoomed in and jerks around when you change directions, the monochrome pixel art sometimes makes it hard to see certain hazards, and it takes longer than it should to respawn considering how much you will die.

These minor complaints are utterly dwarfed by the smooth controls, stylish pixel art, and challenging levels, each of which have several collectibles to add extra challenge and replay value. This is easily among my favorite precision platformers along with Celeste, Rite, and N++.

Real player with 21.1 hrs in game

booting emotion simulator 1.0.exe

If you want to experience all the human feelings that humans feel, you should download this computer programme to your personal computer. Have fun fellow humans.

Sincerely

Marc Zuckerberg

Real player with 5.7 hrs in game

Dojoran - Steam Edition on Steam

Earthtongue

Earthtongue

This review is an analysis of how the ecology functions and entertains you. It will point out quirks that you will learn as you play for hours on end. It covers the base game-world, but the resources that you manipulate in the game has patterns and limitations, and will appear in any game module.

Working with the game ecology and finding the in and out of sustainable systems, i want to say the ecosystem is flawed, and the 2d nature of the game is part of the reason. The game life finds local maxima to survive and will burn out over time. Life in this game works like wild fire burning dry trees, leaving behind ash for the next generation to regrow. Maybe this fire analogy is an accuracy way to expect how life will NOT continue to thrive without considerable maintenance by the user to ‘fuel the fire’ of this system.

Real player with 475.1 hrs in game

I feel funny reviewing this, since I bought it with leftover money from my Steam Wallet, but after some thought and looking at the truly nice levels that both come with the game and as fan addons I decided what the heck.

Like the game, my review will be to the point. This is an ecosystem puzzle game, and the best game your not playing yet. Yes, it has pixel graphics and not much apparent complexity. But if this digital simulation where quite as simple as it looks, I would have taken it back by now. Keeping every organism alive in any level long enough to get its journal entry is actually pretty tough. This takes tactical thinking and a degree of patience, the lucky thing being its not the kind of patience required to play a Sims game or an RPG with two much time spent going from A to B. I’d call it tactical patience, and a slight tolerance for things not going as planned. After all, if things get really hairy with that fly overpopulation, you can hit them with an asteriod.

Real player with 72.1 hrs in game

Earthtongue on Steam

On My Own

On My Own

I wish the game would let me know that I should have some food prepared between biomes, before telling me I starved to death on my way to said biome and then deleting my save file of 3 hours. I also got really focused on finding foxes and forgot to eat. I had plenty of food, but then I “starved to death” and another save file of 5 hours was deleted. I understand it’s trying to be realistic, you should think of this intuitively, you should figure it out, etc. but forcing a complete restart after hours of tedious gathering and crafting just feels like a slap in the face.

Real player with 16.6 hrs in game

just a garbage game.

Graphics 4/10 - kind of cute and retro.

Interface 1/10 - Feels like a bad phone port. it’s very clunky.

Music 2/10 - it gets unbelievably repeative hearing the same loop.

Guidance 3/10 - It doesn’t hold your hand. It pushes you from behind and laughs. then ignores you forever.

Saves 0/10 - Manual saves are overwritten by autosaves making M. Saves pointless.

Overall 2/10 - I’d return it if I bought it specifically. but it came in a bundle. I’ll check back in a month and edit this review if things improve. Right now? DO NOT BUY.

Real player with 7.2 hrs in game

On My Own on Steam

Paradise Marsh

Paradise Marsh

Every single star fell down from the sky into Paradise Marsh, a perfect endless wetland crawling with wildlife.

Wander around equipped with your trusty bug net and find a way to replenish the empty night sky.

Along the way, pick wild flowers, discover lost poems and meet intriguing and colorful characters who need your help…

Features:

  • Scout the diverses biomes of an endless wetland and observe harmonious and unique procedurally generated landscapes

  • Catch small creatures with your net and document your findings in your adventure journal

  • Restore fallen stars in the empty night sky and interact with intriguing and colorful characters

  • Collect long lost poems floating adrift

  • Take you time to enjoy nature Eat wild berries, skip stones on water or sit on a nice soggy log for as long as you like…

  • Beautiful Sound Design by Disasterpeace! (FEZ)

Paradise Marsh on Steam

Sokobear: Winter

Sokobear: Winter

Pretty cute art and nice gameplay! If you like others sokobans games you will like this for sure!

Real player with 8.7 hrs in game

Great game with clever puzzles, very good art and some nice jokes here and there. A fun time for sure

Real player with 2.7 hrs in game

Sokobear: Winter on Steam