PlayZ

PlayZ

Nah.

Real player with 0.7 hrs in game


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Watch the 2nd video on the store page; you’ve now seen 80% of this game’s content, except for the buggy as fuck ‘reversed controls’ ice section in the last level. It’s 3 demo levels that you can finish in 20 minutes or less while meaningless achievements pop up.

The Mirror’s Edge style level is amusing since wall running is spammable, though.

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

PlayZ on Steam

Dragon Mission

Dragon Mission

Has a heart of fire!

A simple but engaging action-platformer

with a rewarding score and ranking system.

A mix of Wonder Boy III and classic Castlevania.

The good

  • Everything looks adorable, great spritework

  • A superb soundtrack that gets better each stage

(It’s worth buying the soundtrack!)

  • Varied, thrilling boss battles

  • Dragon protagonist

  • Going from F- rank to S+ feels amazing

The bad

  • Most of the story had to be cut sadly

  • Quite short, but priced appropriately

Real player with 7.4 hrs in game


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this realy is a nice game to play and there is an big update planed that realy will ad alot to the game but even now its good it can be somewhat difficult at times but there are checkpoints so you wond have to do all of the level again and just before a boss it gives you alsol an checkpoint so you dont have to worry too much and the art animation and more so the musik are all realy good even more so the musik wich you can alsol buy the soundtrack of it to listen to your favorit song the soundtrack will alsol get updated i hear so even better so give the game a try i realy recommend it even if its still not the big update that will REALY ad alot to the game and if you like the soundtrack you can souport the dev even more i realy recommend you to buy the soundtrack too (oh that first level musik the castle has SUCH A GOOD SONG)

Real player with 3.8 hrs in game

Dragon Mission on Steam

Operation: Pinkeye

Operation: Pinkeye

Operation: Pinkeye is a first-person shooter throwing back to shooters from the 90s by the likes of Rareware and Free Radical Design.

Set in an alternate Universe where the Acts of Union in 1707 never happened, Scotland and England remain independent and tensions between the 2 remain very high.

A journalist has been killed in a hotel in London near a political rally, his room was ransacked, as if their murderers were looking for something. It was believed that he held important documents containing plans by the English to invade Scotland. Fearing that this is the case, The Scottish Secret Service (The SSS) assign their best agent, Ken Maxwell, to obtain the stolen documents, and find out exactly what they’re planning.

Traverse through 15 levels of high-octane spy action, with music from the composer of Planet X3, and FMV cutscenes filmed in Scots!

Features

  • Relive memories of ’90s era shooters without the annoying bits

  • Faithful old-school graphics

  • Multiple language support, including Scots and Gaelic!

  • Customisable mechanics and controls!

  • Music from the composer of Planet X3 and Half-Life: Dark Matter


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Operation: Pinkeye on Steam

Pro Pain Labs

Pro Pain Labs

Pro Pain Labs is a 2D platformer game with a retro art style. This game seems to looks simple, but the overall quality and art style makes it a good game. The player’s journey starts with easy obstacles and slowly, it becomes difficult, but not impossible.

Real player with 5.5 hrs in game

Game is a mostly fun platformer with emphasis on momentum.

major problems with design of stages leaving me to feel like I am forever waiting on platforms to respawn or return on their journey across the entire stage and back.

Gave up after a stage had me wait on a button for a door to raise.

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

Pro Pain Labs on Steam

Slab

Slab

I played this game for quite a while hours how could I not like it? Here comes the weird part I did for a bit. However, I am not recommending this game because quite frankly there seems to be a gross lack of effort by the dev of this game leading to the point of it being borderline unethical… also the bugs and oversights. So long story short just get a different game, it will play better and you won’t have to deal with this mess.

Glitches

So starting with parts the people just looking to play a game would be concerned about the bugs

Real player with 32.1 hrs in game

Slab is a rather mediocre 50 level Arkanoid clone offering nothing new whatsoever. The objective is to use a paddle and ricochet a ball around the screen until you demolish all the destructible bricks on that said level and then move onto the next and do the same.

There are a handful of power ups that will help you in that task by granting either multi ball, the ability to shoot bricks, speed decrease, paddle enlarger, ball enlarger, score increase and extra life. The extra lives seem to be capped at 5 and to get another you will need to lose a life first. On the flip side there are negative power-ups that you will also need to avoid obtaining. Mainly paddle shrink, score decrease and instant death.

Real player with 32.0 hrs in game

Slab on Steam

Aebal

Aebal

Aebal is a procedurally generated rhythm game, basically, you dodge enemies synchronized to music, any music you want, the patterns generate by themselves.

Aebal on Steam

Exp Parasite

Exp Parasite

An unidentified alien parasitic entity has been caught by scientists and enclosed in a specially created virtual simulator in order to study its capabilities. Take control of the parasite and infect different mechanical objects, overcome countless obstacles, and fight powerful bosses.

In this retro, hardcore 2D arcade game, you will defy gravity by moving in any direction to take control over objects and gain their abilities. Each managed object is unique and gives its own gaming experience in a world where every minute the gameplay changes.

Features:

Each Minute of the Gameplay is Unique – Exp Parasite was developed with an emphasis on diversity. Every minute the gameplay changes thanks to varied gameplay filled with countless obstacles, enemies, interactive elements, leveling, bonus items, changing environments and more.

Superpowers – Gain and improve powerful abilities such as Slowdown time (time in the game slows down for a short period of time) and Invulnerability (gain full immunity to any type of damage for a short period of time).

Rewards – Earn rewards at the end of each level in the form of a limited number of power-ups (hyper cores). The maximum for each level is 4. If you’re is unable to collect all four cores the first time, you can replay the level and pick up the remaining cores. These rewards can be used in the store to purchase additional lives and certain abilities.

Unique Levels with Unique Bosses – Play a diverse range of levels each with their own boss that challenges you with their unique capabilities, techniques, strategies, and attacks. In order to advance to the next level, the player must defeat the boss in a variety of fight scenarios.

Exp Parasite on Steam

Goblin and Coins

Goblin and Coins

If you grew up playing classic platformers, you’ll feel right at home in Goblins and Coins. Don’t be fooled by its ‘cute’ aesthetic, it’s actually really quite challenging. I definitely recommend playing with a controller for this. On a great note though, the controls feel really tight. You’ll need that precision since the game amps up in difficulty over the course of its 5 worlds. I consider myself pretty decent at platformers and honestly I’m not sure if I’ll be able to complete this one on Old School difficulty, where if you die, you restart over from the very beginning. Luckily there’s a casual difficulty where you only have to restart that level if you lose all your health. Even on casual, some levels you may find yourself repeating multiple times just to get through. Each world ends with a boss fight, usually centered around a new mechanic introduced during that world. There’s a lot of content here for only 2 dollars.

Real player with 6.7 hrs in game

It’s a nice little platformer, but sadly it felt like an average game to me. I mean, it works, it doesn’t crash, it has unconventional story, it has smooth controls. But it’s missing the feature which could make it a gem or excellent game. The camera could be a bit smoother, the speed of game could be a bit slower (though you quickly get used to it). Some sounds are funny and most of them feel appropriate. Music is ok. At the moment of writing this review, I didn’t finish the whole game yet (stopped just at the end of world 4, world 5 is the last one). I might update this review after I finish the game, but I doubt it will change much.

Real player with 5.5 hrs in game

Goblin and Coins on Steam

MALWARE Rewritten

MALWARE Rewritten

Malware Rewritten is a retro-looking action platformer where you are a virus sent into a computer system to destroy everything you see and gather data on the way.

You warp on a level, find a key for each gate that is blocking your way, and find Datapacks if you can. With every level, levels themselves get progressively more complex as each time, something new appears, which also includes new enemies you may encounter. But sometimes, a big mean antivirus may block your way to stop you from going further. With every boss you beat, you get better upgrades that make you even stronger and deadlier.

MALWARE Rewritten on Steam

Agent 64: Spies Never Die

Agent 64: Spies Never Die

A retro FPS inspired by classic 90s console shooters. Explore new locales, accomplish varied objectives and fight against state-of-the-art 1997 enemy AI. A work of love by a dedicated fan.

The Agency is sending you on missions all around the world, in order to save it!

Each story mission is a self contained environment where you have to accomplish varied objectives, such as hacking terminals, steal secret plans, free civilian hostages and much more. All the while fighting armed guards in epic shootouts.

Be Agent number 64, the most elite operative the world has ever seen!

Agent 64: Spies Never Die on Steam