Pilgrims
A beautifully realized digital storybook filled to the brim with Amanita’s inimitable charm.
The different characters and their little story arcs could come straight out of an old folktale, and the soundtrack (once again by the phenomenal Floex) fits this atmosphere perfectly. The animation is another highlight. As often in Amanita Design’s games, it’s simple yet ridiculously charming. Representing both your characters and items as a set of playing cards is a clever spin on classic adventure game conventions, and it works very well.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
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Fun little game, basic, but quite amusing.
A nice break from all of the drama and “git gud” crap in Gamerland™ these days.
Just silly fun.
One map, that starts small and opens up after you progress the story (fairly quickly).
Story is simple.
Art is silly, hand-drawn appearance, not too hard on the eyes.
Short, but will take several playthroughs to unlock all achievements.
Yes, there are guides, but for me the fun is collecting the different cards from each location, and seeing which characters and which cards produce different results (in the same or different locations). Sure, use the guide(s) if you get stuck, but the game is short, multiple playthroughs don’t take long, and you might find a new combination that works to pop an achievement that isn’t mentioned in the guide(s). You might find an unexpected bit of silliness, too.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
ASMR LIGHTness - Light painting 💡
A great little puzzler to stimulate your mind. If you’re a fan of Hidden Object Games you may have come across this type of puzzle before as you try to untangle a series of nodes connected by stretchy bands with no crossovers allowed.
Gentle music and soothing lightning make for a nice peaceful game. I enjoyed solving a puzzle or three at the end of the day to unwind. You’re rated one to three stars on completion based on, finishing the puzzle, the fewest number of moves, and then on the smoothest execution/speed.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
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loved it nice to do when ya dont wanna really play anything to strenuous loved the music and sounds to it to :)
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Pangea
Distant future. Research spaceship faces with unknown physical phenomenon in a faraway space.
The outcome is safe - the spaceship manages to overcome the anomaly without visible consequences. Though, on arriving to the Earth, the crew discovers it not the same way, as it should be. It seems, the anomaly represented a point of contact of several parallel layers of reality, where the events were happening a little bit differently. When the spaceship went out of the anomaly, it appeared in another layer of reality, not in the same when it got into the anomaly.
In that reality the Earth was not affected by a meteorite, which killed dinosaurus. Giant reptiles remained the dominant form of life, and mammals were poorly developed. As the result - the intelligent life and signs of civilization appeared much later, and by the current moment the society is on the level of Stone Age.
Primitive tribes and dinosaurs, magic and futuristic technologies are waiting for you.
In the “skirmish” mode you have to find and destroy the other players bases. In the campaign, you must complete the mission task.
For each victory, new unit types will be unlocked.
Pangea is a hybrid of turn-based strategy, tabletop game and roguelike. Heroes' moves across the playing field are determined by dice rolls. Turn-based tactical battles take place in a separate hex based arena.
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Explore procedurally generated maps full of prizes and dangers
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Enjoy colorful tabletop game styled graphics
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Lead 4 unique factions with their own set of units and structures: a warlike primitive tribe, guardians of the forest thickets, terrible monsters and highly developed aliens from a parallel world
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Influence the playing field - change the landscape, construct buildings and set traps
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Unlock many bizarre creatures and lead them into battle
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Uncover the secrets of the Pangea world in a story campaign
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Space Gladiators
It’s a very good roguelike, and if you like side scrolling shooty roguelikes, you’re probably gonna like this. The visuals are gross and cool, and everything flows well. Controls are tight, it feels good to move around and they are responsive, and you’ll need to get good at them because this game is hard. Characters can vary wildly and you’ll have to make important stat choices because in this game it varies wildly, you can have negative stats. You can figure out what kind of builds the rng gives you and make a plan.
– Real player with 77.8 hrs in game
I don’t ever write reviews. In fact, this might be my first review ever on here. I’m only about 4.5 hours in since I picked it up yesterday, but WOW! Out of all the roguelites I’ve bought and played, this is hands down my favorite one since Dead Cells. There’s just something about it. It is so fun to play. The fluidity of the character movement in combat just feels so damn good. Unlike a lot of others I’ve played where it seems to be all about luck with upgrades on a run rather than skill, this meets a great balance of challenging without being too punishing or rage inducing. Simply playing and getting better is enough to help you get further. Thank you, Thomas, for such a fun game! Looking forward to many more hours of this and future updates and added content hopefully in the future.
– Real player with 35.7 hrs in game
EarthNight
EarthNight is an absolutely fantastic runner game, where you skydive (spacedive?) though each successive atmosphere, while landing on, running across, and slaying massive dragons. You can tell how much love and passion was poured into this game from every angle.
Every run, you collect pieces of the dragons, which unlock new temporary power-ups when collected for the first time. These power-ups then show up on runs, and you have to collect them to get their temporary effects. You can also use your currency, water, to buy the power-ups early, if you’re finding a dragon too difficult or not fun and just want the power-up. You also collect eggs each run. Every dragon has 3 eggs, each one makes you do more damage against that dragon on that run. Eggs and dragon pieces are also used for upgrading your items and water tank.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Auto-Stunner
Yes. Get it. Or play it on Apple Arcade. This is such an interesting one.
This weirdness. A seven years in the making autorunner from a studio whose founder said of the genre ‘People got bored because it’s boring.’ THAT’S where you need to start when you’re aiming to upend a genre. Also, a title pitched to bring mobile gaming its own Spelunky. You could say it was unpunctual to that aim given the releases we now see on the small screen or, perhaps, just in time for Apple Arcade’s mainstreamification. In any case, what a mission statement; what a millstone of expectation and prospects round a studio’s first game’s neck. How’d it do?
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Tess Elated
Inspired by Minesweeper but unlike anything you’ve tried, Tess Elated is fresh and inspiring.
The vibrant and diverse cast of characters makes the story both interesting and rewarding with plenty of laughs.
With a colorful and fun art style and a joyful soundtrack, the game is sure to keep your interest.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
“Tess Elated” is nothing new. In fact, it’s a direct copy of “Cavesweeper”. Also it’s NOT a logic puzzle as they claim, because it requires guesswork. A logic puzzle never requires any guessing, only logic. The game has no instructions or a way to skip the long repetitious dialogues between levels. The Medium and Hard modes use three and four colors, so you will spend most of your time guessing, unlike Minesweeper which inspired it. Also, the Achievements are broken.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Four Rendezvous
Correct Visual Novel. A good work with the Russian dubbing voices. A bit short though.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Frozen Mystery
Whack.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Sorry to say, but boring
Played through in 25 min.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Mean Routine
A fun, simple game. Perfect for casual players.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Need a neutral option.
In reality don’t see how all these department heads would be in such meetings together, nor how and why you would be involved if not being a department head yourself.
Its almost more like you are in an interview with the whole company board where Its a people pleaser game: make suggestions that pleases the right person on questions asked and you end up with a job in that department.
With such unrelated randomness to issues the game might as well just be a dart board or form of roulette game.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Overhaul
Overhaul is a puzzle rogue-like dungeon crawler that combines fast-paced action, quick logical thinking and rich systemic gameplay.
As Ikalee, venture deep into the abandoned Power Plant to bring the power back to your village. A place that has now been taken over by hostile and mysterious life forms.
#### Game Rules
Each room of the Power Plant is built around a grid puzzle similar to Sudoku. The puzzle is solved when the grid is filled with numbers and the same number can only be placed once on the same row and column. But unlike Sudoku, some cells indicate superiority over another cell, which acts as a clue to help solve the grid faster.
Solving the puzzle is your objective, it will grant you power ups, resources and unlockables. But the Power Plant’s new hosts will challenge your ability to think fast. You’ll have to get rid of hostile entities, dodge incoming attacks and use your items' abilities to get to the Core!
#### Game Features
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Logic-based Sudoku-like puzzles mixed with fast-paced top down action for a unique experience.
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Pick up enemies, carry objects and outsmart the most vicious of situations!
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A hand-crafted rogue-like experience. Hundreds of rooms, each tailor-made to bring new challenges!
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A rich cast of mysterious entities. Experiment and learn how they can interact with one another and take advantage of it! Some will try to take you down, others hide powerful secrets.
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Carve your own path through the Power Plant. Each room is different, pick a difficult one for better rewards or an easier one if you want a smoother ride.
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Each completed room will generate power. Use it to unlock new content and grow permanently stronger or save it to open up alternate paths and supports.
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Track down secrets and breath life back into the Hub. The more you engage with the game, the more beautiful the Hub becomes! (You may even get some company who knows)
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A carefully composed score that matches with your progression. From moody melancholic ambiance to blood-pumping melodies!