Relentless: Ranger
Relentless: Ranger is a fantasy side scrolling rogue-lite RPG. Slash, shoot, sneak, die, and repeat as the next strider to brave the impossible mission. Each ranger lives once. Once he dies, you must select another to attempt the quest.
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EXCEPTIONAL SOUL-LIKE COMBAT
Bows, swords, and spells. Use a variety of weapons and magic to overcome your opposition in tough but fair combat. Beware that brainless button mashing will get you nowhere fast. You must also utilize dodges, jumps, and impeccable timing if you hope to survive.
THE TICKING CLOCK
In a land where evil reigns, not only are the odds stacked heavily against you, you must complete the quest in a limited time. With each passing day a ranger spends, the Dark becomes more powerful until the challenge becomes inevitably insurmountable. Will you spend extra time to heal in town? Or will you trudge on to save time and hope you get lucky?
RANGER SUPERPOWERS
Nine disciplines to train from Archery to Beastmastery to Acrobatics. Combined with inherent talents and flaws, each ranger will play differently. Perhaps you will pick a Legolas-like archer of death who can plow through levels through sheer arrow power? Or select one who relies more on stealth and magic? Or another who relies on the aid of forest animals?
SURVIVAL MANAGEMENT
Rescue villagers, find artifacts, or just invest money in the town. You will be rewarded with better weapons, more potions, and beds with less fleas. Help make the town a better place and the mission less unreasonable, if not for you, at least for your successors.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH
Choices matter in addition to the procedural generation of fate. Each ranger will encounter different people and situations during his quest. Depending on your choices, his subsequent path will be altered, taking him to new locations, dangers, and treasures. Although all seek the Seed, no ranger will travel the same path.
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20XX
As a fan of the first Mega Man X game, and not really any other Mega Man game (at the time of this writing since I’ve not really put time into other Mega Man games), I have to say this game is amazing. The RNG can be frustrating, but it’s also what sets this game apart from Mega Man X. The randomly generated level layouts and powerups make each playthrough a new adventure, but also similar enough to where you start to get better at passing certain obstacles.
I like to play as Nina a lot since she controls just like X and uses a buster gun, but Ace can be fun too with his sword. The best part is that you can have BOTH! That’s right! 2 players can team up to run and gun through the levels (or more like slice and slash for the Ace players). Although a “balanced” team is Nina + Ace, both players can be Nina if they wish, or they can both be Ace! No limitations in that regard, which is great! The game even uses an alternate color scheme for the 2nd Nina/2nd Ace so that it is always crystal clear which one you are controlling during cooperative play. Nina is blue, 2nd Nina is red. Ace is red and 2nd Ace is blue. No matter who you play as, one of you will be red and the other will be blue.
– Real player with 3304.6 hrs in game
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20XX is one of the best Mega Man experiences out there, and is currently my favorite game of all time. While this game is definitely worth the $15 price, I’ve seen negative reviews from players who did not read the description, or simply don’t know what a roguelite entails. Maybe it’s silly to hope that they’ll read the reviews by chance, but it’s worth a shot.
Roguelite Details
20XX has permadeath, which means you have to beat all 8 “robot masters” and the two Sigma-esque stages with their respective bosses all in one go. This will be a lot trickier than normal, since the levels are generated using hand designed segments, so memorizing the levels isn’t an option. To compensate for this, there’s a variety of powerups that you can receive along the way which will make the trip easier, and they are much more powerful than you would fine in an X game. You’ll be receiving large boosts to your damage, speed, jump heigh, health, and max energy. There are also more unique powerups, like shooting through walls, different busters/blades, a front facing dash shield, etc. In addition, pits and spikes do not instakill you, so don’t worry about that.
– Real player with 1453.2 hrs in game
GoNNER
GoNNER is a game I give a very qualified reccomendation. It’s yet another indie-procedurally generated-permadeath-sidescrolling-action-platformer with a quirky artstyle. The saturation of these sorts of games in recent years has become tiring, and while GoNNER has some differentiating elements, it falls into a lot of the same pitfalls other games of the genre do. It’s an enjoyable game, but it still has a lot of room for improvement.
GoNNER has a very simple premise. Run, jump, shoot and use items to get to the end of the level. Every 4 levels there’s a boss, beat the boss to continue to the next world. Lose and you have to start the run all over. Starting a run you essentially choose a “loadout” of a Mask (which serves as your health pool and gives you passive bonuses like a third jump or reduced cooldowns), a weapon, and an item that can be used on a cooldown to give you more ammo or give you temporary invincibility. Anytime you take damage your stuff drops and you enter a state where you are invincible and sort of flop around so you can try and get your stuff back. Since your Mask acts as your health bar, getting hit without it is an instant kill. Other masks, items and weapons will appear the levels and at stores where you can pay gylphs to buy new items, ammo, health and other useful things. Gylphs are currency found in some hidden areas, but are primarily aquired by comboing, every 5 enemies killed within a short period of time gets you a gylph and the more you combo the more gylphs you get. Gylphs are also used to revive you if you die, the cost increasing as you get further into the game as well as with each revival.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
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Be careful not to lose your head too many times in this game, ;] especially by the unique art design.
GoNNER is a tough procedurally generated rouge-lite side-scroller platformer with shooting in mind. The game manages to combine all of its genres flawlessly with fluid and pleasant movement mechanics with a unique art style being the top of the cherry here. Recently (December 2018) the game even had its first DLC which is for free on top of that - BlüEBERRY EdiTION 2 years after the game first launched.
– Real player with 14.2 hrs in game
High Dimension
High Dimension is a roguelike where you explore in search of the High Dimension puzzle of events involving science and magic.
Take on the role of Leinad, an intelligent medieval nobleman, or Carol, a strong fighter who doesn’t bow to anyone, explore environments in pixel art procedures.
It happens in a realm so far away. There was an event called High Dimension that merged our dimensions in relation to time and space. The king called two young men to find out what was going on. The world is upside down, always forming new realities, your mission is to discover the cause of all this. Upgrade equipment, swords, use items strategically, with action combat.
Main Resources
No instructions. No help. No hand holding. Start without exploring, learning, perfecting your moves and killing enemies.
Pixel Art Visuals:
2D characters.
New randomly generated dimensions:
Want a new dimension? Smoothly! At any time, you can generate a new seed from the living dimensional world that hates you and wants you to die.
Light&Dark
What is this?
Light & Dark is a roguelike platformer. You play as Victoria Bloom, a young girl trapped in an old mansion afflicted by a mysterious darkness. You have to find your way through the dark and face the horrors inside, with only your flashlight to light your path.
The mansion is always covered in complete darkness and randomly generated so each play-through feels different and you never know what might be lurking behind the corner.
A lot of different light sources, tinkering modules and items are hidden throughout the mansion and help you along the way.
What do you do?
The main mechanic of the game is how you control and use light. Your light comes from several different sources. You have your flashlight as your main source of light but you can pick up several different sources such as matches, that you can throw at enemies, firecrackers, that clear darkness, lanterns that keep you safe…
With your light you can clear the darkness to uncover your surroundings, defeat enemies, collect resources, find hidden areas and more. You can also modify your flashlight with tinkering by finding modules that can increase range and radius or deal more damage to enemies.
Who is Victoria Bloom?
Victoria Bloom is, and has always been, a tinkerer. She always had a talent for taking things apart and putting them back together in new and interesting ways. She would spend most of her play time making her gizmos and thingamajigs. Her mother always says she got her quirky talent from her grandfather, the world famous inventor Percival Abernathy Bloom. The once famous inventor now lives in his Old Bloom Mansion on top of Pinewood Hill.
This is coincidentally, where our story begins. With our young Victoria visiting her grandfather at the Old Bloom Mansion on top of Pinewood hill, like she does every winter, only this time things seem different…
Spirits Abyss
Anthony Case is essentially a Stephen King of rogue-lites, and probably the most self-aware game developer when it comes to this not so humble genre that dominates the indie scene. This game is clearly inspired by Spelunky but I think we can safely say that it has plenty of features that make it a unique experience. What I love about Caiysware games is that he understands the genre so well, it becomes a liability, I think the developer is too smart (as you can see with 2% of players that found the final boss). Just a warning, this final version of this review is going to be pretty biased and perhaps justifiably so, I very much love this game, in more ways than one, it reminded me of ‘no hand-holding’ classics that are so dear to my heart. I bought it about a year ago on the first day of early access, I knew it was something really special but I still could not grasp the full picture because there is so much hidden content. Even for a genre veteran like me, this game had more than a few surprises.
– Real player with 134.0 hrs in game
Overview
Spirits Abyss is a challenging 2D platformer with online leaderboards, multiple game modes, randomly generated levels, numerous references, plenty of unlockables, and a lot of heart.
The Good
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Plenty of game modes
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Lots of items
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Unlockables including cards, characters, level variants, and game modes
– Real player with 83.1 hrs in game
Super Fowlst 2
Super Fowlst 2 is the best kind of sequel, everything great about the first built and improved upon. once you get acclimated to moving about it’s glorious chaos all the way through, explosions tossing bodies around, bouncing off of flippers and bumpers, ride ons and farting homing rockets. It’s a great game, there’s real talent behind this. I would urge you to check out the original which is only available on mobile currently, but it is free and ads are very minimal. Both are highly recommended and well worth the asking price.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
I enjoyed this developers previous 2 games a bit “Dadish” 1&2 (platformers) but this one just doesn’t quite hit the mark for me personally.
Its basically flappy bird + Roguelite.
My main problems are the grindy/tedious mobile upgrade system, the jerky camera, and the pretty cosistent stuttering/freezing that happens every 45ish seconds.
If those issues were resolved the game might be a slight recomendation, however even despite those issues and while the gameplay is a unique concept, the gameplay wasn’t super satsifying to play. It just felt just a bit too sloppy and chaotic at times, difficulty would often swing from trivial to unfair due to how enemys would randomly decide to clump together.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Caveblazers
Caveblazers is a mechanically sound action rogue-lite platformer in which you traverse a cave system, utilising many weapons, items, accessories and powerups while engaging in satisfying combat against the local flora and fauna whilst on your quest. In short, Caveblazers is a more combat focused Spelunky and that means it demands your utmost attention otherwise you’re going to die.
TL;DR
Caveblazers is a great rogue-lite platformer with an exquisite combat flow, interesting supporting mechanics and intelligent AI design where the game flow demands your attention in order to make progress throughout the game.
– Real player with 657.9 hrs in game
Caveblazers is a nice game. Fine-looking, polished, and with good original soundtrack and general audio.
One current issue that most negative reviews complain about difficulty being uneven. Let me clarify,
Say, health. Depending on starting loadout, you have anywhere between 60 to 150 health (mostly 100). Enemies hit for 10..20 damage at most. Healing items drop at random (from enemies, crates, bosses) and heal between 10 to 40 health per piece.
And it’s generally fine, but the pure randomness of it has it that there’s no amount of health you can expect to recover per stage. The game might rain healing items upon you, or you might get a single one for a level full of dangerous layouts. Even bosses may sometimes not drop health, which looks like mockery when you’ve already been on brink of death for a few levels.
– Real player with 210.4 hrs in game
Neko Journey
Neko Journey is an adventure platformer where you’ll follow the trail of an elderly wizard and rescue the kidnapped creatures. Beautiful locations will not let you get bored and make your path truly interesting and exciting!
Travel through juicy locations - from green jungles to cold winter expanses, from underwater and mysterious, to amazing places soaring high above the ground.
Move calmly and carefully, because the journey is not as easy as it seems.
Complete the engaging story, save your sister and all the creatures kidnapped by the old magician.
Customize your character - put on the available outfits. It is also possible to dye hair and body.
Features:
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Boss fights;
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Parkour;
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Glider flying gameplay;
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Runner gameplay;
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Roguelike
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Character Editor
Pirate Island Rescue
Pirate Island Rescue* is a fun little casual side scrolling platformer.
Pirate Island Rescue is a simple platformer but it’s looks nice and is fun to play. The platformer part is pretty easy but you need to be cautious of some of the enemies, particularly the ones with the pistols. It’s easy to pick up and play and is a great way to kill a few hours if you want a relaxing but still fun game.
Hint- sometimes when you kill the boss pirate at the end of an island there are a few pirates waiting between him and the boat, if your not careful you’ll get shot.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
This is a fun little game that you can easily complete achievements in and is also a great time killer. The graphics are good for a side scroller and the controls are very fluid. The levels are procedurally generated (randomized). If you are looking for an easy and relaxing game, this is it!
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game