Venaitura
Very solid NES style JRPG, with more strategic depth than many of the classics. Most enemies (I think it might be all) are weak to a certain weapon type, but most characters can only equip a few of the weapon types. There’s a also a slew of very useful status effects when brute force isn’t working.
And to round it out, the writing here is pretty good. It’s not going to win any awards, but important characters are fleshed out enough to be interesting, and some of the dialogue is genuinely funny. The random NPCs are plentiful and build the world quite well, but don’t waste your time with pointless dialogue.
– Real player with 37.1 hrs in game
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Venaitura is a short, fun, charming and sometimes serious game with a good balance of ease and difficulty. With twelve character classes and an absolutely huge variety of options for party balance, my first play through might just be a little biased since I chose Wiseman, Savior, Druid and Companion.
I am one of the early playtesters of this game and although I have not found any bugs, I’ve heard from a few other players there are some, BUT the game dev, Ephiam is very active and I haven’t heard of any game breaking bugs.
– Real player with 31.8 hrs in game
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!
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Big City Rigs: Garbage Truck Driver
Big City Rigs: Garbage Truck Driver
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
This seems to be a rerelease of an older game. It doesn’t support modern resolutions and generally looks old and clunky.
It’s kind of not what I was expecting, in that it’s not much of a simulator; driving the truck doesn’t feel realistic and isn’t even a big part of the game. It’s mostly focused on collecting garbage, taking it to the truck and then taking the bin back. Controls are unintuitive, making you press space to hop off the truck even though it feels like trying to move should do that automatically.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Driftpunk Racer
Notice how the trailer is barely 20 seconds long, and of that you see a few seconds of a car “drifting” on the track?
Don’t be fooled, this game is no better than the free mobile car games you can download on your phone, and probably plays worse.
I sacrificed an hour of my time to get all the achievements, but bear in mind this game has “Profile Features Limited”, so these won’t count against your epeen tally on steam anyway.
The price is a joke, fortunately I got this in a bundle.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
an easy to learn retro arcade style racing/drifting game would reccomend to anyone
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Kazakh Drive
This is an endurance racer: You have to drive for an hour or so without crashing to pass the first task. The apparent best strategy is pretty mindless: drive on the shoulder, keep your wipers on all the time, and spray fluid when the windshield gets dusty. The oncoming traffic lane is way too risky to use because you can’t usually see if it’s clear.
I do want to like this game, and certain improvements could make me recommend it:
1. controller support
2. some kind of meaningful decision to make while driving. There needs to be some reason I shouldn’t just drive on the shoulder to pass.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
This is one of the best games here on Steam. Scenario, game play - everything is just great. A lot of possibilities to discover, I’ve just started the game, but I already decided to spend the entire weekend playing Kazakh Drive for the sake of Uncle Eldos. You know, boards can’t bring themselves on their own.
Best regards and ALGA
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Okinawa Rush
Yeah, sure, whatever.
Patch 1.3 Please, pick it up on patch 3.1, however right now it’s a great game to gift to someone you wanna piss off;)
1. When building your dojo Items will disappear, only to never again reappear. This will also happen outside of the dojo building BS like when running thru level’s.
2. Requesting special items from the vendor, forget about it those get stuck somewhere between Okinawa & the North Pole.
3. Sometimes you jump thru walls like about 9&3/4 of the time, which would be great if this was a Harry Potter game, however not trying to get to Hogwarts here.
– Real player with 61.5 hrs in game
If you like Metal Slug & Martial Arts this game is a ton of fun, beautiful and varied levels, awesome music, cheesy voice acting and impactful combat that lets you do piledrivers on samurai into announcer tables and giant swings on ogres, as well as use your accumulated score to buy alternate colors from the shop, decorations for your dojo shelf and stat boosting amulets.
Tons of difficulty range for both accessibility (it uses a traditional belt system, going from white belt to black belt, then 1-8th dan, then Grandmaster and one special difficulty beyond that) and replayability through the higher difficulties that add more and more enemies. as well as 3 endings for all 3 characters, two brothers who are quite similar but have different key moves, and one girl who has a cool kung fu moveset that’s entirely different from the other two (you can do wing chun chain punch in this game).
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
In My Defense
This is a challenging, old-school, retro, side-scrolling shooter. You must defend your base, against the onslaught of alien attackers.
Features:
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Radar of entire playfield, shows where threats exist
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Picture in picture view of the base, so you can keep an eye on it
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28 waves
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15 power-ups. Power-ups can be combined
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10 bonus twin-stick shooter levels, starring Hitch, the security robot, take place under the base. Many enemies on these levels are spawned by generators, that must be destroyed. Ensects attack power generators, damaging the base. There are gas outlets that cause large explosions, if shot.
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Multiple weapons, including: Lasers, Bombs, and the dreaded Sonic Bomb, which can mass-kill enemies
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Many enemy types, each with unique abilities
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Boss battles
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Snow, thunderstorm, and darkness environments. Dark environments must be lit with flares
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AI-powered wingmen can be summoned to assist. Careful, they can be turned against you
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Rock launchers help you defend the base. You can pick them up and re-position them with your ship
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You can escort evacuation ships to the opposite side of the playfield. If they escape, you are rewarded with resources
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Defensa- your ship’s computer voice. She informs you when you activate power ups, warns of threats, and makes comments about the unfolding events
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Original Soundtrack- original soundtrack written specifically for the game by six different composers
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Optional arcade style controls, where the joystick on the gamepad only moves your ship vertically. Horizontal movement is done via thrust and reverse buttons
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Randomized waves - no two waves are the same, for improved re-playability
A gamepad is recommended.
Photosensitive seizure warning
Thunderstorm levels have lightning flashes in the sky.
A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including flashing lights or patterns that may appear in video games. Even people who have no history of seizures or epilepsy may have an undiagnosed condition that can cause these “photosensitive epileptic seizures” while playing video games.
Immediately stop playing and consult a doctor if you experience any symptoms.
Iron Age
Iron Age is a First-Person hack and slash with random item mods and semi-randomized dungeons. A classic dungeon crawling experience.
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Hitbox based melee combat
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Procedural generated dungeons with several bosses
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Randomized loot attributes
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Delve while avoiding deadly monsters and traps
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Customize your character’s appearance
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Build off a branching skill system
Kargast
“You just woke up but… oh, wait! This is not right! Everything seems weird and.. where did everyone go?”
Kargast is a dark, hand-crafted, story and narrative driven turn-based
RPG where every choice you make matters. It tells the story of an unwell
child on the brink of death, and his adventures through his surreal,
cryptic surroundings. You must guide him through a place of torment,
confront the unknown and make vital choices along the way. Travel
through dark and mysterious environments with your shiny little
companion, fight your way through dozens of odd and malformed creatures,
and uncover what strange truths lay hidden before it’s too late.
Features:
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A story-driven turn-based RPG where your choices matter.
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Authentic synthwave soundtrack that fits the atmosphere.
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Original art with thoughtfully crafted locations.
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A naive protagonist.
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Ability to make friends, unlike real life.
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REKKR: Sunken Land
I have been playing first person shooters for a while and this is a new favorite. The combat is nicely balanced and quick and frantic so better have quick reflexes or your going to valhalla before you complete your mission. The maps are beautiful with the amazing viking theme, and not to hard to navigate if you have a decent sense of direction and there are lots of cool weapons and secrets for you to find. if you enjoy games like doom or quake then pick this bad boy up and get to monster slaying!!!
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
I’m not sure exactly why—maybe because this comes with a version of GZDoom that’s better set up for the game than my own installation, or because of the gameplay changes, most notably weapon speed (and maybe more generous soul pickups?)—but, despite bouncing off the original WAD after the first few levels, I’m liking REKKR a lot more this time around. The sprite work is as handsome as ever and the levels flow beautifully, without the slaughtermap-esque difficulty of a lot of modern WADs; alongside the minimal but atmospheric music, it’s not hard to imagine you’re playing a lost Doom engine classic rather than a new game, a sort of less abstruse Hexen.
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game