Dude, Stop
So, Dude Stop… A game that had people waiting literal years for, ever since the demo was released. Now it’s a little short for its price (I won one of the contests so I got a free key), but I actually bought the game before I knew I won (making me have to refund), meaning I was willing to fork over actual cash for it.
Pros:
-Quite fun, if you’re into games where you’re into defying the narrator, like Stanley Parable.
-Entertaining narrator.
-Not very hard to get all the achievements, with or without a guide.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
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I needed a short and relaxing point and click as a breather from competitive gaming. I picked this game up for it’s full price. While it is “relaxing”, it is far from funny.
The narration is probably some of the cringiest I’ve heard in a while. It screams “trying too hard”, and the inflection from the voice actor is so bad, I physically cringed every time he tried to make a joke. Why is this important? Because it is literally the entire premise of the game. You are Player17, doing everything in your power to do the puzzles wrong. The narrator conveys his frustration every time you do something wrong. Because of how bad his voice acting is, I almost didn’t want to work on the achievements because I would have to listen to his cheesy voice lines again and again.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Jigsaw Puzzle - Pixel Art Master
Jigsaw Puzzle - Pixel Art Master Do puzzle in a new puzzle way! Advanced puzzle layout and involving game play will help you to relax after a hard-working day. Jigsaw Puzzle - Pixel Art Master is designed for Pixel art fans.
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5 difficulty settings: Up to 280 pieces!
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80 Anime puzzles
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Every puzzle is unique: Different piece shapes every time!
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Saves all puzzles in progress, so you can work on several at the same time.
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1080p HD Graphics.
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Support multiple screen sizes.
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Mercury Abbey
【1】Retro pixel style with impressive lighting and shading
The game uses pixel sprites, with characters drawn in a classic American comicbook style. Fossil halls, greenhouses, hedge mazes, botanical gardens, underground cave systems…scenes appear one after another, presenting a visual feast. Unique lighting and shading technology creates an engaging atmosphere and a wonderfully immersive experience.
【2】 Classic cultural elements meet a unique worldview
The game embraces the spirit of early suspense novels, interspersing classic cultural elements throughout the story. Adopting an overhead world view, the world is composed of anthropomorphic animal (furry) characters; the social structures, folklore, and ethnic relations of this world are all waiting to be discovered by players!
【3】Engaging story
Strange things seem to happening one after another at the mysterious mountain sanitarium, and the curse of the alchemist family is spreading. Legends, midnight societies and ghostly patrons are just a few of the curiosities to be investigated, but maybe the mystery runs deeper than once thought. Gather clues and delve into the mystery to discover exactly where this story will go…
【4】 Lots of items and achievements to collect
Discover a large number of collectable elements along the way, including character information, folklore, objects, copied notes, photos, and even intercepted gossip. The game also features a variety of achievements, with certain choices and actions unlocking them. Fortune favors the bold.
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RETRO-PIXEL COLOR PALETTE: Color by Number
I just bought this. but i don’t like the fact its single click per square to fill bulk of colours in. i like to be able to hold down and use one colour to fill in a lot of colour at once, apart from this I do love the creatures. i will most likly recommend and also be getting all the DLC for this game :) keep it up and I hope to see new things coming to this soon.
So you also pullthe colour chart sideways to view more colours, took me a while to work this out. you can not use your scroll button to zoom in or out but there is a slider at the top of the page to zoom in and out so you know what colours go where. i was not able to look up any controls or how to play. i just worked it out myself. this could do witth a few tweaks but over all it is relaxing but it made my wrist hurt doing the flower monster.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Arcane Golf
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The one thing it needs to make it perfect is a replay shortcut button because it’s tedious to go to the top left corner every time. Also the yellow replay button is unintuitively placed in between the exit and “next” button. I think those should have been placed vertically instead of horizontally but nvm.
– Real player with 21.5 hrs in game
Arcane golf is, well a golf game, kind of. You are expected to put the ball in a hole, but going through 2d levels it’s closer to a platformer with golf controls than to other minigolf type games.
The visuals of the game are very pleasing, and the game actually has some story behind it, with a character talking you through as you progress with the levels, nothing special but adds some to the world.
The gameplay for the most part is also fun, but there are a few exceptions, most levels are designed with a specific way of beating them in mind, but during some I just couldn’t figure out what that way could be, since they were really open, with no real indicators what the devs had in mind, some lightly tinted wall bricks as to indicate a first hit, or a place to aim at would be a nice touch, as it was admittedly a bit frustrating to just be stuck and try to find a valiable strategy, while messing with angles, places to shoot from or speeds of the hit. It was rare (only a few levels like that) but as there are no guides for the game it was bothersome.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
Cardful Planning
A fun puzzle game with a dash of metroidvania. It might not be the longest game ever made but it sure is fun. A speed run and least deaths mode also add to the replay value if you want to challenge yourself or others buy topping the leaderboards.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Enjoy your puzzle platformers, check out Cardful Planning! Feels like it’s missing some culmination levels at the end but the dev’s looking into adding those. In the meantime, there’s already 50+ challenging levels and three game modes to get the most out of them.
Cardful Planning is an exciting little puzzle platformer that features four key abilities, 50+ levels, and three game modes that really add to replayability. Challenging and cleverly designed
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– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Crypto Is Dead
it’s a very zen game, with random bills and rules being a plus in my book. if there were any complaints, it would be about the pens and the scale, they don’t seem to serve any purpose.
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
I want to like this game, I really do. For the size of the game and the 2 hours I put in upon writing this I feel I have enough time spent to see the problems, so let me list them as Pro’s and Con’s.
Pro’s:
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I get a huge Papers Please vibe from this and that can be a good thing to some, as some people like work simulations and feel they can have fun doing such thing without real life problems.
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The challenge aspect is nice, you start off generally putting out lot’s of notes and overtime it gets more busier and you see yourself putting less out there, I suck at numbers and letters so I’m really slow but I don’t find myself bankrupted.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Daylife in Japan - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle
Please add more puzzles!
I love pixelart, so to find a puzzle game that had animated pixelart was great. Love the idea, so would like to see more added in updates or packs.
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the lack of contract between some of the colours like white and light blue can be too difficult when in Pro mode.
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the discounted price was about right since there are so few puzzles at this stage, I wouldn’t have paid more.
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I ended up muting the music and playing my own lo-fi; getting more of a selection would be good. Sfx with scene could be cool too.
– Real player with 79.8 hrs in game
The pixel art is good as standalone art, but work poorly as jigsaw puzzles due to very poor contrast and color variance that turn the higher-difficulty puzzles with smaller pieces into a guess-and-check slog unusual even to real jigsaw puzzles. For instance, picture #4 has objects along the edges, but the middle 2/3 of the image is a completely monochrome sky – no features, only a few very small clouds, not even a gradient, just hundreds of blank featureless blue pieces with no variance in piece cut. Picture #5 has sections almost the same color as the application’s own background, making it nearly impossible to see some of the pieces at all. It was just very poorly conceived.
– Real player with 38.0 hrs in game
Limiter!
This is a very good puzzler with a great OST .
Sadly this one goes in the buried gems category, it is always sad to see a quality game like this not getting more attention.
The game has some very smartly designed and tricky levels, more then enough content, most of the game is medium difficulty but there are harder levels and for me they are a highlight of this game.
This game is pure quality in every aspect and worth every cent.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
The movement is intuitive enough for you to work backwards - so you can get ideas as to what needs to be done without the entire puzzle being spoiled. I’d recommend it if you’re looking for a ~10 hour ish puzzle game.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Miguelshroom: First day at school
Interesting way of doing a jigsaw puzzle game. Each puzzle is related to the same world, and you can walk through the scenario like a topdown classic RPG (by the way, this could be a nice idea)
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Small indie jigsaw game with a twist: you can walk in the scene and follow the story once you finished assembling each of the 12 puzzles. Puzzle pieces don’t rotate.
Playtime estimate: about 2 hours, maybe 3 to collect all achievements.
Pros: Nice graphics, wholesome relaxing vibe, very cheap. Minimalist interface. Nintendo-like.
Cons: Sometimes pieces appear to get stuck (use the refresh button). Movement is restricted when exploring the puzzle, would be nice to have a button to interact with objects. Only a single short song on repeat (can be muted). I’m having a little save hiccup/reset on launch day.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game