War Islands: A Co-op Adventure
I enjoyed the team dynamics and fun characters. I really liked having to figure out how to work together to advance in the game.
– Real player with 18.8 hrs in game
This is a fantastic game! Still in development but everything i have seen so far i can tell this will be one the best in its genre!
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity
The “Don’t Escape Trilogy” is a collection of three short first-person point-and-click adventures with static screens (no camera movement, no scrolling). The games share a creepy atmosphere and a few gameplay mechanics, but are otherwise unrelated. In the first game, you play a werewolf trying to lock himself away before a full-moon night, so that he won’t kill anyone when he turns. In the second game, you’re trying to barricade a house and protect yourself from a zombie horde. In the third game, you’re the only surviving crew member on a spaceship and need to stop “something” from getting out.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
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Even though the entire trilogy is available for free on Armor Games, I chose to purchase this game series on Steam because that’s how amazing ScriptWelder really is. The Deep Sleep and Don’t Escape series were some of the first PC games I ever played, and I have ScriptWelder to thank for making my early experiences so magical. I have followed each and every game you have published on AG, hunted down every achievement, set of choices, and walkthrough I could find… simply, because every single second I spent in any of your games was one of either awe, wonder, fear, or curiosity.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Bloody Trapland
Briefly: Bloody Trapland is a precision platformer of distinct levels. Alright game, yet some game design choices are rage-inducing in a mixed way.
I bought this to a group of friends a couple of years ago to play together. We played it a couple of times (a few hours) and had fun trying to beat “the story missions”. I forgot about it for a long time before coming back on a couple of occasions to beat the rest of the levels by myself. I consider it one of the hardest platformers I’ve played.
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
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Bloody Trapland is a platformer, where you need to reach the end of the levels, avoiding dying in brutal ways.
The game graphically is well made, it contains gore which is looks decent. Also, the different enviroments looks good in the game too. I didn’t saw any visual bug throughout my playtime.
Controlls are really easy. You need 5 buttons to play the game and you can play with controller too, but I recommend playing with a keyboard. Works like a charm!
Music and sounds are okay at first, however for me, later become bit repetitive, because of the few different sound effect and just a few music per world. However, it’s still okay.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
In It Together
In It Together is a puzzle platformer inspired by classic platforming games that makes you complete puzzles with a lot of different mechanics and with varying difficulty. The game has a lot of content with 50 stages in single player, and 50 more stages in co-op. In addition to this there is a Battle mode, which is really fun to play with friends. The Battle mode has 15 more stages, and several different ways to play, so there is a ton of replayability. If you like platforming games with a bit of challenge this is definitely a game i would recommend picking up. If you want to test out the game before purchasing it i would highly recommend downloading the demo as it lets you get a sense of how the game is played.
– Real player with 41.4 hrs in game
So I decided to check this game out as it was made by a YouTuber I used to watch when I was younger, it was cheap and it didn’t seem to get much attention. I’m glad I did because this is a legitimately great puzzle platformer game. Your objective is to go into a small level to collect briefcases and gold bars by picking up and throwing objects that will help you get to your objectives. For example throwing plants to break glass. Sounds pretty simple but each level introduces cool new mechanics and things to pick up that expand on the formula in clever ways, but the level design doesn’t waste any time in getting you to grips with them without ever getting overwhelming, so you’re constantly getting those “aha!” moments you want in a puzzle game without being bored by tutorials or being stuck in the same section for too long. I’m only on World 3 of I believe 5 but I don’t see the game getting any worse (I like it enough to review the game now). The levels themselves are fairly short so it’s a great game to pick up for a bit and put down but it also can be pretty addicting to go for another level right after finishing one. The game also has a pretty cool sense of style with its character designs and white outlines over a dark environment.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Leif’s Adventure: Netherworld Hero
Play Leif’s Adventure, a story-driven cooperative 2d action-adventure about friendship and teamwork. A boy never meant to be a hero, learns that pure strength is not always the answer! Guide two completely different characters through the adventure of their lifetime. Combine the unique strengths of both characters to overcome the evil sources of the Netherworld.
Play Leifs Adventure with a friend in coop mode or play alone in single-player mode. Swap between the modes at will and customize the way you play.
Play with two characters simultaneously. Swap between characters in tandem and utilize different abilities and skills. Leif for fighting, jumping, running. Ghost for exploring areas, activating ghost objects, platforms, and collectibles.
Progression skill-based gameplay, Leif can upgrade various skills including Powerbomb, Airattack, and Throwing weapons as well as upgrade combat weapons such as his signature weapon and available health.
Equip Leif with a huge selection of weapons from long weapons, short swords, and spears, utilize armor sets and ranged weapons to protect Leif and deal critical damage to enemies. Carry up to 10 weapons, each with different abilities to diversify attack strategies and lethality.
Navigate a hugely diverse world filled with adventure and explore six different levels. Battle against huge secret monsters and a variety of creatures, golems, and other deadly adversaries. Combine Ghost’s supernatural talents and Leif’s ability to jump, run, slide, crouch and climb up ropes to explore the deepest reaches of each level.
A huge thanks to these games that inspired Leif’s Adventure :
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Guacamelee
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Hollow Knight
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Dead Cells
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Legend of Zelda
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Metroid
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Ori and the blind forest
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Cave Story
KeyWe
Amazing game. Fun to play with your significant other or a close friend. Requires just the right amount of teamwork where you need to do a level a couple times or more to complete it if you’re going for all the achievements. Overcooked vibes, controller recommended.
This game however, gets a down vote from me due to the TERRIBLE, COMMON, AND MAJOR GLITCHES in this game that completely ruin the experience. Boxes sometimes will not move when you run into them, ruining your time on a level. Boxes sometimes cannot be pulled when you try to pull them multiple times, ruining your time on a level. Dashing will glitch out and make it so you cannot dash anymore for the remainder of the level unless you butt-drop - doing exactly the same thing when you try to dash again, ruining your time on a level. Mail sometimes being thrown into mail slots make it in the mail slots but don’t count towards score, ruining your score on a level. Buckling up the mail while it’s being fed sometimes glitches out completely and makes it so you can’t feed the animal or finish bucking up the mail - making it so you cannot complete the level at all.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
KeyWe is so good i really recommend anyone that likes interesting and thoughtful co-op experiences to give this a try, it’s a truly unique experience. Even though it stands on its own if i had to compare KeyWe to anything I would say the closest gameplay loop is that of Overcooked where you’re trying to complete a common objective and need to work together in order to achieve it. various things need to be done in order to reach that goal and you’ll have to decide quickly who is doing what tasks. If you work well with the person you’re playing with this obviously makes things a lot easier to manage.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Escape from Life Inc
Heard about this game a while back and have had it on my wishlist. Was super excited to try it today and I’m happy to say that I couldn’t stop playing! It was quite a lot of content too! Really good puzzles, a nice compelling story with funny dialogue and lots of little hidden things. Great work! :)
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Negatives:
1. Had to rebind my controls twice when I first started (bound them, scene changed and they’d reverted to default), but once I’d quit and started the game back the controls stayed. Probably just an issue with when the gave saves your controls?
2. Walljumps frustrated me. (You have to hold toward the wall until you jump, and then immediately hold away; I believe most games cancel or delay your “toward” press as soon as you walljump which makes it easier to perform? Not sure, but something about the walljumps gave me trouble.)
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Koloro
Ever thought of driving a car at high speed with no brakes at all while trying to solve a map puzzle with road blocks? Well, this game is precisely that… and sometimes “blindfolded”…
For game control, this is a platforming game with a “sliding” movement and we can’t change direction unless we hit a wall, the only single button we could use to control the whole gameplay is spacebar/mouse button for jumping. The rest of the movements are out of our control…
And, the game require precise timing, only giving a few seconds of rooms between each action point… there’s no HP bar in this game, it’s instant death on a single mistake. And death means you have to restart the whole stage again.
– Real player with 36.9 hrs in game
Music and sound design
I’m not sure how I feel about the electronic parts of the soundtrack but they’re not common and don’t feel too out of place. Otherwise it fits the game’s atmosphere perfectly. The sounds are good.
Visuals
I like the art style and the way the game looks in general but I’m not a fan of the character animations in cutscenes. It feels kind of clunky.
Controls
You only have one button so it’s as simple as it gets.
Story
Starts off very abruptly and then you get almost no story until you reach the final boss. And even then there isn’t much that’s happening. This is definitely not a selling point of the game.
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Handy Dandy
Very cute co-op puzzle platformer. Great fun without frustratingly difficult puzzles, yet complex enough to give you pause.
The alternate dimension aspect of it is really neat, I like the concept of it a lot.
My co-op partner and I ended up swapping sides each level to see where we could/couldn’t go, and then worked our way around the level from there.
I liked having to communicate so we could move in unison to finish some of the puzzles.
Great concept, great game. Highly recommend it.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
Such a charming little game, hearkening back to the old days of playing fun co op flash games with your friends in the school computer lab. A very clever puzzle mechanic that is utilized very well. Me and my girlfriend have been looking for games to play together online since we live long distance, and this little free game proved to be very fulfilling for us on our video call play sessions. Kudos to the developer, and thank you for releasing this for free.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Eye in the Sky
If you have someone around to play this with… friend, spouse, kid, whatever… get this game!
Caveats:
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People who are not very experienced with computer games in general should probably play in VR. The PC controls can be tricky if you are not used to them and it might get frustrating. If both players are gamers, you are sure to have a blast regardless!
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There is no controller support. The PC player has to play with keyboard and mouse or you somehow get a controller to emulate the keyboard (as is possible with the Steam Controller, not sure about others).
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Underrated game!!!
This game is fun! Good coop puzzles. I like the unique “industrial” look. I like the tiny robot!
I played with a Quest 2 + Virtual Desktop + Parsec (for coop) + Discord. Everything worked perfectly.
So the VR player is a flying sphere, which can interact with objects, but only within a limited space. The other player on the PC is a tiny robot that can go in most places the VR player cannot. They have to work together so that the tiny robot can get to the exit.
I like the way the game is explained to you. In fact, you sort of understand everything without a lot of explanation. It is rather intuitive. You can talk to your friend to figure things out together.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game