Impossible Pixels

Impossible Pixels

Love this game! Reminds me a little bit of old arcade games but with a more modern twist to it. I really like the music and the art as well. Overall I think this is a great game, even though sometimes it makes me a bit mad with how hard it is, so I’d definitely call this a rage game :D also there is a lot of flashing lights on the screen, but I think it’s okay for anyone who doesn’t have a problem with migrens and stuff. I actually think those flashing lights are the thing that make the game unique and different to all the other games.

Real player with 4.4 hrs in game


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Good game. In later levels gets little bit hard. Nice soundtrack.

Real player with 1.8 hrs in game

Impossible Pixels on Steam

Super Captain 3D

Super Captain 3D

You are Super Captain 3D: You are sitting at home enjoying a peaceful day on Earth, when the newscaster announces an invasion by pixel invaders. You know instantly it is your calling to save the earth and the universe from the evil invaders and you leap into action. You must utilize all of your hero’s abilities to defeat the pixel invaders and save the universe. You must fight across 8 stages against over 20 types of alien with 4 Epic Bosses. You only get one shot at saving the universe; die and its game over!

Real player with 5.7 hrs in game


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Crim’s Humble Opinion Curator

One Hero To Save Them All

Super Captain 3D is a pretty fun little shoot em up game. It was crafted using gamemaker. The graphics run pretty smoothly. The music is diverse enough and fitting. I played with a controller as was recommended and had no issues. You play as a hero that fends off against pixel invaders from outer space. The game is short but it’s got a nice amount of diverse content and fun gameplay stuffed into it to make it a competent title for the asking price. There are four areas that are two levels each giving you a total of eight levels. At the end of each area there is a boss to fight. None of the bosses have a similar attack pattern. If you look hard enough you can find enough golden ships throughout the game to unlock a secret boss.

Real player with 3.7 hrs in game

Super Captain 3D on Steam

Saturday Morning Rogue

Saturday Morning Rogue

Saturday Morning Rogue is the top-down 2D roguelike where custom crafted weapons are the only way you’re getting out alive. Pick up persistent custom weapons and armor of past players that are now stuck in Saturday morning forever. If you’re going to defeat the villains of each realm and destroy the corporate machine you’ll need to build some serious equipment of your own. Want more damage? do it. Need to push yourself across the map with explosive recoil? Go wild. The power is yours to create terrifying tools of destruction or hilarious weapons that never should have left the toy aisle!

You’ve been sucked into your favorite Saturday morning cartoons and must fight your way through the Hierarchy’s boomer bots in the zaniest bullet-hell challenge this side of Sunday. Thwart the Hierarchy’s plan to steal the power of your imagination and feed the cereal laden action figure printing machine. Start at the bottom and defeat their plot for profit by climbing the ladder and pushing bosses down another rung. It’s time to weaponize imagination!

Features:

  • Create extremely customizable weapons and armor that appear forever in the game, dropping from enemies for other players to use.

  • Every stat is yours to fine-tune. Modify damage, recoil, critical hit rate, and many more to craft the ultimate weapon!

  • Explore twisted procedural levels from the LepreFaun’s playful maze forest to the Boomer’s corporate castle and the Bone Apple King’s dungeon of empty bowls.


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Saturday Morning Rogue on Steam

Half-Fly3

Half-Fly3

Half-Fly3 is a colorful action shooter without a heavy story but with some Rogue-like mechanics such as:

  • Random shop items.

  • Random rooms and events.

  • Random Pickups, Curses, Blesses, Skins…

    Key Features update for current Early Access version

      • Events
      • Unlocks
      • Score and Hiscore
      • Second shop
      • Flies
      • Skins
      • Physics update
      • Major audio update.
      • Light and shadows update
Half-Fly3 on Steam

Mokoko

Mokoko

Really nice game in which You have to select and take over areas. I’d say that the genre is very simple (I even forgot that this kind of games existed as I played games like this around 10 years ago) but in this game every level feels unique. There’s story mode with 3 stages for each girl and if You want it You can install optional free patch that adds nudity. There’s also arcade mode with global scoreboard which is kinda mid-level difficulty to get top score in because of the score multipliers being bigger with difficulty increased. I’ve got 4th place playing every level on hard but I kept dying on one level so I gave up. The art style is nice and gameplay is satisfying as long as You don’t grind arcade mode for top scores and keep dying in the same level. Difficulty changes include changes to player/enemy movement speed, negative bonuses from boxes and scores multipliers (x1, x2, x4). If You’re aiming for good score the game can be really hard with each level unique mobs movement and attack patterns. Here’s an example of one of the unique bosses

! in one level there’s a guy yelling to his father to stop downloading while he’s playing and the game keeps freezing every few seconds saying “waiting for other players” Girls and bosses have voice acting which is really nice. Overall I recommend buying it on a sale as the story mode is 1-2 hours and not everyone’s gonna grind arcade mode for score. I think I spent too much time doing it as I kept dying many times which resulted in 8 hours of total gameplay until I finally decided to just play it on easy to get the achievements and finish the game.

Real player with 8.0 hrs in game

Great game! Brings back memories of playing the original prototype known as Gals Panic back at selected arcades in the 1990’s. Honestly no one cared back then when a swarm of teens were over the Gals Panic arcade cabinet in the imported arcade wing at the local arcade. Giving this game an adult content rating is a bit strong in my opinion even with the optional complementary adult add on. The complementary adult add on adds nice visuals that are tastefully done. Nothing out of the ordinary in my opinion. I’ve seen much more graphic adult instances in general anime. What is so taboo about showing a adult-cartoon body? However, violence, foul language/profanity, death, and body part decapitation is perfectly normal in the majority of modern video games these days.

Real player with 5.0 hrs in game

Mokoko on Steam

Victory Heat Rally

Victory Heat Rally

Welcome racers to Baytona beach!

We’ve got some sizzling news lined up. Victory Heat Rally is inviting all racers to set their sights on the VHR tournament when it launches in 2022.

Choose your driver, customise your car and put the pedal to the metal as you let your opponent eat your dust as you race to victory!

Features:

  • Choose from 12 characters and 12 cars.

  • Customise your vehicle.

  • Challenge yourself with all 36 stages across 12 locations.

  • Split screen multiplayer.

  • Game modes: arcade, time attack, rally mode and more!

  • Unlockable content: bonus mini-games, easter eggs, and more.

Get your engines ready in 3, 2, 1… Go!

Victory Heat Rally on Steam

Zyconix

Zyconix

Not a help screen in sight. I couldn’t get it to recognize my controller. And honestly, in my opinion, just slamming on a DosBox was not the way to drag this into the modern day. I’m having it refunded and I suggest you steer clear as well.

Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

Zyconix on Steam

Fire Boy

Fire Boy

The game tells the story of a boy whose life is changed when he finds an unknown artifact, soon after, a strange being appears asking for his help to recover the dinosaur eggs that were stolen from his planet, the boy receives a beautiful sword and silver fire armor, soon after being trained to master the fire, he begins his adventure by going to the planet Monstrengos in order to recover all the dinosaur eggs that have been stolen.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE GAME:

Unique Phases - There are 50 stages of pure fun, each stage a new mechanic or new enemy, flying platforms, which disappear and rotate, interaction with the scenario, enemy monsters, friendly monsters, one thing is certain, you will see many cute monsters and ugly ones too, in each level you will have to find 3 dinosaur eggs, and don’t even think it will be easy to find them, the little monsters hid them in unimaginable places.

Nice Gameplay - On the keyboard you play well, on the controller you play even better, controlling the hero is a pleasant and cool experience too.

Game Differential - The player will hear comic comments from the hero while playing, but will have the option of not listening to them.

Cute Graphics - Colorful, cute and nostalgic designs.

Original Soundtrack - With lively songs that make you want to hear them.

Armors and Swords - Each armor has its sword and a unique power.

Cool Collectibles - Achievements that will make you happier.

Find Love - I am creating this game with a lot of love and affection in my house, my focus is on the fun, so come and help the Fire Boy quickly recover all the dinosaur eggs and become a Hero.

Fire Boy on Steam

satryn deluxe

satryn deluxe

Satryn Deluxe is a fun reimagination of Robotron/Llamatron, an 8-directional twin stick shooter. Shoot all the baddies and collect friends to increase your multiplier. When you die you lose a life and half of your friends. Every 75,000 points a new powerup will spawn.

The levels are procedurally generated, the RNG is a bit strong with levels varying in difficulty and some containing much more friends than others.

It may or may not be the best to way to play it but the game does support (a one handed) controller+mouse in addition to the standard keyboard+mouse and dual stick controller. Which is nice because my dual stick is out of service for the moment and I don’t want to use the keyboard to move my character.

Real player with 17.3 hrs in game

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A love letter to Robotron 2084 and a great companion title for twin-stick purists who can tolerate only a little spin on a classic. Nice enemy variety and number of weapon drops will keep you engaged. The action is tight but this burns a little slower than its grandfather, quickly allowing new players to play for twenty or more stages after only a handful of runs. That’s okay; this isn’t a greedy arcade machine trying to eat all your quarters as quickly as possible. The late game challenge ramps up nicely and lingering around on one stage is clearly discouraged. All in all, this should be one of those ‘one more go’ games that will keep you up when you should be in bed.

Real player with 15.4 hrs in game

satryn deluxe on Steam

Trapmania

Trapmania

Trapmania is one of those ‘I can’t stop playing’ games for anyone who enjoys comedy, strategy, or action games. The music is pretty good, and makes each map seem even more unique. The graphics are great. Lot’s of comical animations and sound effects. Would recommend for anyone looking for 10-15 hours of intense and challenging strategy.

Real player with 7.0 hrs in game

Trapmania on Steam