Beyond Mankind: The Awakening
jesus christ, were to begin. this games premise i like….. what you expected me to heap praise on this broken thing? it take LITERALLY 5-10 mins TO LOAD A SAVE IF YOU DIE. on top of this the enemies are aim bots, some enemies are brain dead. and its just so FUCKING BROKEN. i literally stuck in a railway where i have to trigger to soldier to exit. seems fine ya? well they instantly start shooting at you, pin point accuracy. and your in the open. hardly any armor, little health, and it kills you in 2-3 shots. EVEN HEADSHOTS WHICH SHOULD BE INSTA KILL ISNT, THEIR BULLET SPONGES!
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
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Hard to review this game.
Usually I post the positives then the negatives but here ill start with the negatives.
*The game is way too short (only 6 hours and I’m done)
*There are many game breaking bugs, who you will need to somehow go around by asking help in the forum.
*There’s not really any meaning to raising skills or any of the characters traits whatever you chose you will have the same or mostly the same paths making this also very short and pointless journey.(tbh it doesn’t feel like a journey, more like a short window to one)
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
INSOMNIA: The Ark
Insomnia: The Ark has a long development backlog and a really big world, pierced by hundreds of intersecting threads, lines of various characters you’ll meet or not meet on your voyage through a giant half-abandoned spaceship inhabited by distant descendants of fugitives fleeing from a war-torn planet.
The game’s grand, by many role-play gaming standards, and I wanted to play it from the first moment I occasionally saw some gameplay videos on YouTube. The game’s grand, but even now, a year after the release date, it’s still a mess, in a big way.
– Real player with 171.1 hrs in game
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An absolutely incredible game. I would love to recommend this, but there are just too many problems with it. While the story is well written, the atmosphere is perfect, and the environments are detailed and unique, this game suffers from a series of poor game mechanics and design choices made by the developers. Let me get into it:
1.) Bugs: They weren’t that noticeable for the majority of my playthrough, but the one’s that were noticeable really broke the game. At certain points the game would randomly crash (mostly when trying to load a previous save point), or I wouldn’t be able to select items in my inventory without scrolling to the top of my item list, selecting another item I didn’t want to view, and then scrolling back down to the one I did.
– Real player with 63.3 hrs in game
DAEMON X MACHINA
Armored Core Lite.
This is the closest thing to Armored Core on PC, honestly. It feels and plays like watered and dumbed down Armored Core 4. It lacks customization from AC, but gameplay loop as well as presentation (aka being hired by various Corporations that fighting each other) is very close. Story is absolute cringe and not worth discussing nor following. I can point out some pros and cons to break down the game
Pros:
-Closest thing to Armored Core on PC
-Plays and feels almost as AC4
-Had people who developed AC in dev team
– Real player with 43.8 hrs in game
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I can highly recommend this game, it’s no armor core that’s for sure however the game does provided a lot of customization however most of it would be “locked” until you encounter that part for the mech or weapon type but overall the game is fun, story is excellent and characters are splendid I actually like about 3 or 4 that are my favorite that doesn’t the rest are bad it’s just my personal tastes really.
– Real player with 30.1 hrs in game
Dustwind
Let’s start by saying that I really wanted to love this game. I was swayed by nostalgia over Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel but was ultimately confronted with the realization that Dustwind still needs a lot of polish to compete with modern games.
The AI, in general, isn’t anything special which in some cases takes away any bit of immersion you might wanted to experience. Enemies screaming HELP due to low health, but insist on running towards you, or staying completely stationary while being shot at with sniper fire.
– Real player with 50.4 hrs in game
I cannot give a positive review of this game. I tryied… but this is getting worse everytime i play on it. I really wanted to love this game.
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DEAD This game is dead, in all ways. No one plays PvP, no ones play PvE. If you have friends to play with… give it a try but do not expect playing solo.
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DIFFICULTY The difficulty of this game will make you nuts.. it is hardcore on every map unless you know exact positions of every enemies. It is a TRY HARD game until you finish successfully a mission.
– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game
Lockdown Hero
A Collectathon Platformer with Farming mechanics, Lockdown Hero is a 3d platformer where you explore your surroundings,gather materials ,learn skills in order to combat the threat of a virus. Gameplay reminds me of early 2000s platformers and farming/gathering mechanics from games such as stardew valley and animal crossing. The premise of the games is quite simple really collect resources such as alcohol and toilet paper while evading or tackling the virus. The virus itself instantly kills your player as you come in contact with it thus you need to find alcohol which kills the virus. You then manage your supply of Toilet paper and alcohol in order to buy/trade with npcs throughout the map. Npcs may also send you to do tasks that reward you such as with unlockable skills,clothing and resources. Exploration is a must as the city is where you spend most of your time and need to take a boat in order to access the other areas. Controls of this game such as double jumping and dashing feels like any 3d platformer unlocking more of these skills greatly helps your movement ability. All i can say is that Lockdown Hero is an enjoyable game with many things to do and unlockable content justt waiting to be discovered
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game
Pros and Cons
Pros
– Lockdown Hero is a game that feels like a completely new concept and not just a (good) recycled one.
– There are many side quests in this game next to the main quest.
– There is a casino with many mini-games to play where you can earn new equipment.
– You can learn many skills to access new areas.
– The progress system feels fair and is also rewarding.
– The game continues after you have found the cure instead of just rewinding time to before finding the cure.
– The game is one of the most addictive ones I have played in a while.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Scraplers
I think the idea is nice, and also the game implementation is not bad (given the very low price). It sure lacks improvements in many areas and also a few basic items (I couldn’t even find a way to exit the game or go back to starting menu, there isn’t a command/key list). The main problem, even given the fair price, is that to me the game is too grindy even from the starting point; I’ve played maybe 6 or 7 games in 3 hours, and never managed to gain enough money to do anything before dying against a swarm of 3-4 tanks or a huge one that easily absorbed my shots before transforming my little machine in a pile of fuming scraps… After death you go back to the starting camp in an even shittier situation, stuck in a tiny machine with no weapons and no way to survive. I think the combat itself is good, landing a nice shot while evading enemy tanks is somewhat rewarding, but the cost of repairs, fuel and ammo easily eats most of the money gained, and the repetition of combats, deaths and having to restart from the beginning made me gave up on the game.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Scraplers, what is there to say about this title.
I think the dev team wanted to create a steam punk pirate game.
You own a landship, which have properties(guns placement and troop carrying capacity),
and you raid around to get bigger a boat and have more troop capacity.
The concept is interesting.
Sadly, at this point in the development,
there doesn’t seem to be something to do with those mechanics.
You can grind to get bigger boat but beyond that the world is bare.
System to raise relations with NPC are in place
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Sheltered 2
There is a good game waiting to happen here but right now it is still a product that should be in Early Access.
There are TONS of bugs and features that simply don’t function well and the game balance is pretty much non-existent as it stands.
Bug example:
Your Shelter (which you have painstakingly expanded and built onto) is breached or invaded. You use the very rudimentary control scheme to position your survivors right in front of the door as they are cutting through, ready for COMBAT!!!! Then, nothing as the collision detection fails utterly and every invader literally clips through your survivors to go on and loot whatever they want.
– Real player with 111.4 hrs in game
Hooked on this game for a while. Plenty of bugs back then. But a lot of issues have been fixed, although there’s still few remains but worry not, they always working on the game! Beginning part of the game has always been fun to me, as you get used to it. its get easier later unless you are playing on harder diff cause breaches could be brutal if you aren’t careful enough. Overall, pretty chill game to spend few hours in!
– Real player with 98.7 hrs in game
Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
This game plays a lot like a choose your own adventure visual novel. It has a lot of various places to explore and a multitude of quests to play through besides the main quest line. The combat in the game is either wordplay based or trivia based (much of it being US history).
I really enjoyed my playthrough of the game and will likely replay. Even though I’ve played thru it once, there still were many side quests I could go back in another playthrough to do and various options to drive the story other ways. The humour in the game was a plus for me too.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
It’s 2017 and the Apocalypse is years ahead of schedule and the gods have disappeared. You, a Deep One, have awoken from the Dreamland and must find the Necronomicon before Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos and his 7 gods does and restore things to how they were or bring in a new age.
Alright, so SAT3: TST2 is the third VN in the series and it’s not nearly as cool as I made it sound in the paragraph above. This VN is, at its core, pure insanity and chaos. It’s a Lovecraftian adventure where you fight monsters by answering trivia questions (Brush up on your Shakespeare.) and fly around on a floating ship/city while “fighting” Microsoft paint horror monsters and creatures. One moment you’re in Antarctica making friends with a… yeti girl with pointy teeth (?) and the next you’re challenging Alexander Hamilton to a rap battle and signing the declaration of Independence. (Reminder: It’s 2017.)
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
As We Know It
I saw this tagged as “sci-fi” but I don’t know if it should be categorized as that. It’s a post-apocalyptic story, but the science/technology in it isn’t fictional at all. Anyway, it’s got Mad Max: Fury Road vibes, but takes place within a setting similar to that District 13 underground city from The Hunger Games. The implication is that climate change eventually impacted the livelihood of humankind, and for some, the answer was to move into underground city shelters.
Good Stuff
- Racial diversity. More than half of all the characters are not white.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
I played Pinewood Island first and had high expectations for this one! I bought it during a sale since I couldn’t bring myself to buy it at full price!
Long story, short? I really enjoyed this game! Customization of your character was simple but I felt it added to the immersion of the game! The plot is phenomenal and I wanted to know more and more about the world we’re in! As of writing this i’ve gotten 2 out of 30 endings; 30 endings?! That’s insane but it shows how much thought went into this!
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Broken Roads
Born of a love for traditional computer role-playing, Broken Roads provides a rich, engaging narrative in which players make their way across a desolated future Australia. Blending together traditional and all-new role-playing elements on top of a classless system offering nearly unlimited character development options, Broken Roads presents players with an original morality system: the Moral Compass. This novel design sees dialogue options and questing decisions influence, and be influenced by, a character’s philosophical leaning.
Features
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All-new post-apocalyptic setting
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Unique morality system influencing dialogue, quests and character development
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Authentic Australian locations and environments
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Blend of traditional and original RPG mechanics
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Up to 5 party members
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Turn-based tactical combat
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Hand-drawn artwork
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A content-rich and densely-crafted world