Dear Agony Aunt
A cute, quirky little game about answering agony aunt emails. Very simple but a nice experience. The only feedback I have is that it would be nice to be able to resize the email windows since there’s a lot of empty space on the screen
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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This is a very sweet, relaxing little game. The spam emails are worth a read!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Space Debris
This is a great party game for rock-blasting retro space fun. I love the drop in/drop out feature and the massive number of gamepads supported.
There’s also a bit more to it than you might expect:
Several ships to choose from, each with their own unique style
Bring dead allies back to life
Collect space dust to power up
Collect debris from destroyed alien ships to unlock new ships and upgrades
Play it now! you know you want to.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS.
SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS. is an action-adventure platformer. Join Crunk and Paco on their quest to thwart the plans of Dr. N. Dows, C.E.O. of the Lufa Corporation. Their latest business venture, the release of the TurboChin, will be their most impactful; striking consumers in such a way the company has never before seen. Will LufaCorp follow through with their plans? Or can this greasy gang save the day? Find out in SUPER 3-D CRUNK BROS.!
Features:
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Graphics and gameplay elements inspired by games and media from the past
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8 worlds each containing intricate and interesting level designs, and boss fights
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A large cast of eccentric characters
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Time trial / speed run mode
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Change the way you play with power-ups like the skateboard and balloons!
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Original score composed by Sigmuuu
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Warlock Bentspine - Toilet Edition
It took me awhile to figure out that there were upgrades, but after I did, LOVED IT!
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
nothing especially bad about this game, but it almost seems to pride itself on being lackluster. It’s competently made and fairly polished, but I can’t help but feel like there was a great game just beneath the surface that didn’t come to fruition.
it’s not particularly fun, but it wasn’t annoying enough for me to stop playing. music is good, sprites are charming but poorly colored. level design is pretty standard fare, systems (upgrades, weapons) are intriguing but don’t make up for the repetitive and uninteresting enemy behaviors.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Spy Fox in “Dry Cereal”
SpyFox is bit of a cult classic to those that played H.E. games as a child back in the mid-late 90’s to early 2000’s for Wins 95, 98, and X (Vista and later requires a Emulator, which the steam releases provides).
Able to play this again was a huge nostalgia trip for me, and discovered a few gags I never saw before, somehow, or references I didn’t understand as a child. It has aged well, and is great for kids or anyone new to adventure games.
In this game, SpyFox has to stop a goat named William the Kid from ruining the dairy market by replacing cow milk with goat milk. You’re sent to a fictional greek island to met the rest of your team: Monkey Penny, Prof. Quack, and maybe a bug named Walter Wireless.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
It’s hard to believe that this game is over twenty years old now. I played the demo of this game way back in the dayon one of the HE games we had, well that my little sister got for one Christmas. The demo introduced me to the world of Spy Fox and how to amke a good game for children, that isn’t cheesy and childish. I mostly grew up on the third game in the series, where that game had the demo of the second game included. Way back in 2009 several years after not having played the games because I was no longer a kid, I had a nasty cold, and for some reason thought of the Spy Fox games again, and looked up some Let’s Plays of the games on YouTube, and fell in love again. I managed to pick up the 2007 version of Dry Cereal from EB Games a couple of years ago. So for now I’ll just talk about the first game in the series; Spy Fox In Dry Cereal.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
The Owl Quest
Came across this game from a recommendation. This is a fun little retro game full of crazy wacky storylines. Sure the english is not perfect, but that adds to the charm. I think its fun to lose yourself for an hour or 2 to this game and just enjoy the wackiness.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Mussoumano: Ataque dos Haters
Very good, but why don’t you have Chinese? As the largest market in the world, if there is Chinese, more people will play it.
There are some difficulties in the game. If it can be saved, it will be better if it can be revived from the place of death rather than from the beginning
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Excelente jogo!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!
A Funky Fourth Installment & A Best-Of The Previous Three
Some of the Good
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Remarkable Replay-Value.
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Age-Proven Local Multiplayer.
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Stable Cross-Region Multiplayer.
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A Variety of unlockable features including characters and power-ups.
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Highly Approachable Difficulty.
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Loyal development team addressing bugs & updates.
Some of the Bad
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Low Online Population.
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Chat Requires Keyboard while most comfortable play is through Gamepad/Controller, requiring the use of both.
– Real player with 103.7 hrs in game
ToeJam and Earl: Back In The Groove is a wonderful and super fun game and amazing for multiplayer co-op. This is a remake of the original in terms of gameplay but with extra content and a new story, new characters and new presents. There are lots of new earthlings as well and some new world types (biomes?).
First Impressions / Gameplay Video
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This game is as close to being as good as the original as you can get while coming up just shy of it. I think the thing I found that I liked the least were the new sound effects. It took a while to figure it out but I think if I was able to use the original sound effects in the new game I would enjoy the experience more. The sound effects from new content however are no issue, but all the new versions of the old sound effects are not as good.
– Real player with 38.1 hrs in game
Commander Keen
I love this game but wasn’t planning to review it. However, after seeing the E3 Trailer it inspired me to sit down and write a review about what makes the series great. Now other reviewers have pointed out that this is missing two games from the series; namely Keen Dreams and Aliens Ate my Babysitter. These are missing because the rights to these two games are owned by other companies not interested in selling them; but the games you do get are amazing.
Keen 1; Marooned on Mars was my first platformer. It starts off simple but gradually ramps up the difficulty. My four year old son loves this game; and he can complete most parts (still needs dad’s help for the big jumps and for killing the Vorticons (Kangaroos he calls them). As far as level design it has the most thought put into it and has many little tips and tricks.
– Real player with 152.2 hrs in game
NOTE: This is not the “complete” CK collection. It’s missing CK 6, and from what I understand, it’s because ID software lost the rights to publish it. Also the games run very slow on full screen and while they run fine when windowed, it’s far to small then. This seems to be the case since steam uses an out dated dosbox(0.70 I think). You can update the dosbox but you need to go to the community guides. I didn’t like the hassle, so I played these games outside of steam. All these things are a very resonable deal breaker. However, my review will be on the games themselves.
– Real player with 24.9 hrs in game
Saturday Morning RPG
I love Saturday Morning RPG. It’s so bad.
Remember the eighties?
Remember sitting in front of your TV on Saturday morning, soaking up the cartoon goodness?
How it was all ridiculously over-the-top and crazy, but somehow, at the end of every half an hour episode, everything worked out?
Well, if you remember those days fondly, you’ll find a lot to love in Saturday Morning RPG.
The trouble is, you’ll also find less fun things there, too.
Memory can be a fickle thing.
So, What Is Saturday Morning RPG?
– Real player with 42.4 hrs in game
I find it a shame and astonishing that a game as good as Saturday Morning RPG has not done better commercially. The game has some crazy achievements, such as fighitng 1,000 and even up to 5,000 battles, based on an initial idea of 20 episodes. Since it didn’t do well, they had to limit their ambitions to six episodes, hopefully with a fine tuning of the achievements in the future.
But why is all this necessary? The game has everyone a gamer would be looking for. A series of episodes with a simple story, with tons of nostalgic references for one thing. I mean the main character is a guy named Marty, who rides a hoverboard, and gets his powers from a mysterious man known as The Wizard. The retro graphics are a joy to behold, the music is killer, and the gameplay is a very solid Paper Mario/Super Mario RPG type of thing, with button presses for better defense and better attacks.
– Real player with 15.0 hrs in game