Code Arcturus
its ok
nothing to write home about
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Orthodox jump action and shooting.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Running Water
Fun little game for passing the time. chapter 2 things got more intense
– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
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COSMOS
EDIT: Since posting my original review, the developer has gone in and addressed some of my issues. I originally did not recommend this game, but I have updated my review to reflect those changes.
Here’s what you do:
You play through vertical scrolling stages, climbing, jumping, and shooting enemies. You can aim freely of your movement with either a mouse cursor or right stick on a controller. There are six world with up to 20 short levels in each (each world varies). There are no boss battles. One hit will kill you, restarting the stage. The goal is to get to the top of each level while taking out all the enemies (and surviving).
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
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Fun platformer run and gun game. Short, but enjoyable. The only thing I would change, though, is more customizable controls. The aiming is much easier on mouse and keyboard, but I ended up playing on controller because I prefer not using the space bar to jump.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Galacticon
Galacticon is a video game with the look and feel of arcade cabinet games from the early 80’sin the style of Williams classics: “Defender” or “Joust”, with the gameplay of legendary “Jetpac”, and with touches of “puzzle” to increase bonus points and enter your score in the local high score table or even in worldwide high score table.
STORY:
Humans are tiny creatures of an outer belt planet that thanks to their biomechanical monstrosities have invaded, exploited ans enslaved most species in the galaxy.
The interestellar council has met for the first time in eons ans has determined that there is only one option left to exterminate this plague… an option that has always been feared beacuse it could be as powerful as dangerous:
Invoke the Galacticon, a deadly legendary creature -half God, half machine- and pray everything goes well…
KEY FEATURES:
• Awesome gameplay.
• Direct and frantic action.
• 8-bit aesthetics
• Infinite levels with a progressive difficulty curve.
• Extremely smooth and precise control.
• Easy to play … difficult to master.
• Optimized to be used in arcade cabinet machines.
• Secret bonus on each level.
• Local Hi-Scores table, and worldwide table through QR code reading.
Iblis
The great ruler of the underworld rose to the surface in order to destroy the last stronghold of humanity and the light forces. A storm of war is brewing between the forces of darkness and light, and you will side with the devil in this war. Show all your majestic power and frighten your enemies with your infernal flames.
Iblis-Top Down Shooter with 2D graphics, where the player acts as the devil and destroys the forces of light, you control various variations of the devil’s weapons and can use the hell mode, a skill that will slow down your enemies plunging them into hellish horror.
Blaster Shooter GunGuy!
I really wanted to like this game, but in its current state, I cannot recommend it. I wrote some suggestions for the dev a month and a half ago since he appears to be active in the community discussions, but he has not addressed them despite responding to the posts above and below mine.
What’s sad is there is quite a bit of content here that most people will never see because the game is unfair with regard to taking damage. There is no delay between taking multiple hits, so falling in spikes will literally kill your three hearts in about 1 second. The lack of proper controller support is also a complete turn-off. You shouldn’t need a third-party tool when the Unity engine supports controllers already.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
Blaster Shooter GunGuy likes to pretend that it’s a precision platformer yet the character movement has been implemented very poorly. There is no variable jump height, no wall jumping, and with how the game has been programmed it’s also possible for jumping to become unresponsive when near a ledge. Considering how many small platforms there are, and how many projectiles you must dodge, it’s absolutely hell to play.
The GUI is a mess, most in-game text is distorted and nearly unreadable. Controllers are supported but the keybinding graphics will not change to support this. Many buttons do not conform to what actions I’d expect them to make.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Blender Bros
(Review posted: October 30, 2020)
This is a game that’s always been dear to my heart ever since playing it as a child, back when I got the GBA version. It’s so obscure though that not many people know about it, and the only playthroughs I’ve seen of it online are people playing it for the first time, with little to no knowledge of the game. I always wanted someone to make some sort of guide of this game (someone that knows enough about the game to talk about almost everything, anyway), but got so fed up waiting for one that I decided to use the knowledge I got playing this game for hours as a kid to make one myself. Despite this, I figured not many people would care about it because this game never got any sort of sequel or remake, and any hopes of one were shattered when the company that made it went out of business.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Wow this was really cool. Upon some (very brief) research, it turns out this is a PC “port” of a GBA game by the same name. That’s why the graphics, sound, and everything felt so… oddly familiar to me. I had not played the original, mind you.
I LOVE the artstyle of the characters. Graphics were great, music was awesome, characters were all super adorable and nothing in the game ever felt too frustrating (except some bosses).
In depth review:
Your moveset:
Besides moving left and right and having a basic jump, you can duck and press an attack button. There’s some intricacies here though that are quite interesting. For example, if you hold “down” in the air, you’ll flip upside down and bounce on your ears to reach greater heights. You can then attack while in this state to do a sort of drill move (I honestly forgot you could to this during boss fights and thus never used it. Mainly because hit detection is too generous for the enemies to hit you so you can never get too close to them.) You can also keep pressing the attack button to widen its range around you, as well as pressing the button repeatedly in the air to spin and glide. Pressing and holding the attack will charge up an attack with super far range (I just spammed this on most bosses as they were too hard to get close to, like I said.) It was super fun pairing the ear bounce with air spins, I felt surprisingly maneuverable. Oh you can also grab a flight “power up” and climb pipes.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Duality of Doodles
Pros:
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the character customization is pretty cool, reminds me of that old DS game, Drawn to Life
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gameplay is ultimately fun
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good amount of content for what this is
Cons:
- poor sound design
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Epic Diavolo
Mr Creepy is making a special concoction which is partially made out of Epic Chicken, but his only real friend is the devil himself Epic Diavolo.
Mr Creepy turns to flee, however the home field favors him…
EpicDiavolo and his friend journey trough the dangerous path to have their revenge and to stop the sick madman.
Lot Of Secret Challenges
Skins
Golds, Souls
Boss Fights
Collections
10 Episodes + Creature Surge
AK-xolotl
What happens when you combine a hungry axolotl with an AK? You get a ‘lotl of killing!
AK-xolotl is a top-down arcade battle arena shooter featuring the cutest amphibian. You’re an axolotl with an AK (duh!) that goes on a rampage, shooting down their next meal! Your goal? Dominating the leaderboards, of course.
Face off against increasingly chaotic waves of walking preys, with the aid of powerful weaponry and abilities. In single-player and co-op modes, hunt your meal and feed the baby axolotl who look insanely bad-ass with a gun.
Want to impress the community? The more enemies you demolish, the higher your score! Keep it going and you’ll be splashing onto the leaderboards in no time.
Fun fact: Did you know Axolotls can regenerate their limbs?
Some of AK-xolotl’s features are:
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Tons of different weapons w/ stat Roles and rare variants
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Multiple power-ups to beef up your Axolotl
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Over 20 types of enemies, Axolotl’s meal will be buffet style!
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3 maps with multiple variations
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Cute unlockable skins
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4 different game modes
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Fully supported online leaderboards