Neon Dragons
Neon Dragons is a fast-paced roguelite spaceship action, with item collecting mechanics, and retrowave-style visuals. The player’s objective is to survive as long as possible in each stage and eliminate all bosses in the game.
Explore different universes full of danger, adventures and surprises, while eliminating enemies and collecting resources.
Play your way, creating your own strategies while surviving as long as possible.
Key Features
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Increasing difficulty
Plan your steps well within the universes as enemies will grow stronger as the waves pass, demanding more skill and attention
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Powerful items
With a wide variety of active items, you’ll be able to create different combinations of items to cause the greatest possible destruction.
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Constantly changing
The game universes are never the same, always with different challenges and unexpected dangers. With different items and attributes, no match will be the same
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Retrowave visuals
Destroy enemy ships and dodge missiles in the best Retrowave style, with neons and vibrant colors that bring the universe to life
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Powerful Bosses
Survive long enough to face powerful and challenging bosses who will put all your skills to the test
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Progressive evolutions
Play and unlock upgrades that accumulate as the game progresses, making the game more and more interesting as time goes on
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Unlimited play
Even after completing the game, you will still be able to continue playing to increase your highscore and compete for scores with other players.
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Rocket Cave Adventure
Brand new adventures
Explore procedurally generated levels every time you start a run! With each area bigger and stranger than the last, you’ll have to pay attention to your surroundings to survive!
Physics-based movement
Playing this game is more than just running and jumping! Movement is feel-based in Rocket Cave Adventure- you’ll have to master the controls and weight of each vehicle to be able to traverse deeper and deeper into the caves.
Randomized skill tree
Throughout each run, you will be given a skill tree that will be populated with different skills each time you play! However, you won’t know the skills you are given until you unlock them by collecting enough XP from enemies- so don’t rush too fast through the levels.
Meta progression
Gather gold throughout your runs and spend it on long-term upgrades back at the starting hub. Upgrade your starting health or increase the size of the skill tree for your runs!
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In Game Adventure: Legend of Monsters
Usually you would look at the one dollar price and make an assumption of the bad quality of the game.
Well, this game can have a lot of more features. But the selling point is that it does good with what it has.
Story wise, you just blitz through the levels, upgrade your weapons, defeat the weak boss and save your sister. Nothing much there.
But you’ll see some attention to details -
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The monsters of this game are smarter than your usual top-down
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Your screen is your vision range. Enemies off-screen can fire at you, and you can attack them too (fire where the laser sight is coming from)
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
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Just found this game by pure accident, and I am glad that I did!
These developers are way underselling this super fun little indie gem for just 99 cents when I feel it offers plenty of value and replay value to warrant a $10 price tag!
Watch my “First Play Impressions Video” right HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4A2ABr6LxA&feature=youtu.be
While this game has a couple of minor little bugs, it still scored an impressive 95% score using my unique scoring system which grades indie games more on value and fun that it does graphics. Because of the high score and my recent discovery of this amazing little game, I started a whole new series on my YT channel called" Discovered Hidden Gem!" just for games like this one here!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
One Step From Eden
the dark souls of rockman.exe
– Real player with 120.3 hrs in game
Takes a few hours to get used to but it’s great afterwards
– Real player with 116.0 hrs in game
Seconds in Space
Use ships to attack and destroy enemy space stations in real time. Navigate through different randomly setup star maps to get to the exit and win. It’s a 2D single player space game that’s massively replayable. No matter how many times you play you’ll always have fun and feel dumb for making simple mistakes. There’s a wide range of difficulty levels so you can start simple then build your skill to experience the full depth of the game.
Destroy Enemy Space Stations
Command two groups of ships to attack and destroy enemy space stations. With a bit of practice you’ll quickly learn where to place each ship, when to attack what turret and how to counter their abilities, the hard part is mastering it. Only the enemy turrets have abilities so you must be extra focused on using your units as a team and their positioning. Dodge projectiles the best you can and when you make a mistake move a ship to safety and another one in to take some hits.
Just Get to the Exit!
Navigate through different randomly setup star maps to get to the exit and win. They have fixed layouts but the rewards and exit point are in randomized locations. Some rewards will help you and some will harm you. The better you think, plan and understand what to do the more prepared you will be. Even a slight difference in the layout of the star map can greatly change how you play it. Don’t worry though they are relatively easy to understand you just have to remember to take a moment to stop and think.
Try the Demo
Want to learn more? It’s small (about 30 MB) and it’ll download and open really fast.
Cavity Busters
Cavity Busters is a rogue like in the vein of Isaac or Gungeon.
While it’s still in early access, it has a decent amount of content.
The amount of enemy and boss and mini boss you’ll encounter is good enough for now. Not that while there is multiple bosses on floor 1 and 2 (out of 6), it isn’t the case afterwards. An after taste of what might be coming down the road in term of enemy variety.
The amount of items (be it relics or diseases) is in a good spot with more being added with the first few patches. The best thing about them being that very few are just stat increase, instead you get interesting effects. This game tries it’s own take on the bad relics you can find in games like blazing beaks. While the relics are just positive effects, the disease come with both pro and cons. You can remove the cons by spending some ressources at a specific NPC (health and mint) leaving you only with the benefit. You can leave them behind at the cost of increasing the difficulty in a good number of ways. I personally find this dynamic great.
– Real player with 36.6 hrs in game
Short explanations :
Great roguelite, with a good variety of items and good ideas. If you liked Isaac, you will probably like it. Accessible for everyone on normal difficulty without being a SHMUP wizard. The hard mode isn’t a joke.
More datailed explanations :
Cavity Busters is roguelite which came as a really nice surprise.
The game has a good number of floors. It isn’t too long. You find it tooshort ? Just dig doors to add new rooms to any floor.
Then come various ennemies and upgrades. Maybe bosses lacks of variety. But after trying a bit of hard mode, I won’t complain. The few bosses I reached on hard had enough shooting patterns and as a none shmup player : I don’t want more bosses anymore.
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
Dungeon Rushers
So here is my review. I just pulled it straight from the discussions page where i wrote it. Sadly its all true, and none of it is subjective. These issues all exist. So if you can justify playing 20$$ to put up with all the below issues, have at er.
Glitches/ bugs . update the game
Hello,
I purchased game and have played about 5 hours. I already have discovered some major glitches.
- When you win a fight, and collect reward, you are often ripped off out of your loot. For example almost any time the game tells you recieve more than 1 of any given crafting item, you only actually recieve 1!!!! 3 iron and 3 skulls as reward it says on screen, nope you get one of each. This happens almost every time, especially with iron, the ONE resource you seem to need for everything.
– Real player with 59.9 hrs in game
Dungeon Rushers is fun turn-based rpg focused adapting to different enemies and situations as you progress. While I have been playing I have seen several updates to fix what the game currently offered, was well as new content added in that has made the game even more enjoyable.
While the gameplay can be seen as repetative at first, it does become more interesting as you progress. The gradual addition of enemies as you progress as well as new team members positioned throughout the campaign add a level of fluidity to the combat system so it does not get too dull.
– Real player with 49.4 hrs in game
Fission Superstar X
A good side scroller shooter roguelike game. Graphics are tight, but fit for the genre and run without bugs. The concept is cool and bizarre: player must try to travel trought solar system in a starship carryng a powerfull bomb , fighting enemies, landing in every planet to offer an odd concert or blow it. Mechanics is well and simple; there are 9 vehicles to unblock, one for each planet blowed, 3 main types of weapons, many kinds of common foes, 10 mini-bosses and planetary bosses.
The action sets in a highway shown by a side view-screen, with varios diferent events and obstacles, like big starships, space creatures, asteroids and mine fields, ion and solar storms… Player can hires until 4 crew to operate the 4 weapons domes, to pilot, connect the shield, repare ship or heal other members. Every passanger has 3 skills with 10 grades each. There is no map, only a long way in 9 stages of increasing difficulty with encounters randomized, like shops to buy weapons and enhances for the 4 starship parameters or place to hire and heal crew.
– Real player with 61.1 hrs in game
If you liked Death Skid Marks (the creator if this game was a co-developer of that one) you will like Fission Superstar X. Similar gameplay, different setting, same sense of humor. Be warned, it is a roguelite, so it can be brutal. Even a single misstep can destroy your ship and end your run. That said, it is designed to be played over and over. There are many ships to unlock and tons of different things about the game to discover. There is a lot of quality playtime here for not a whole lot of money.
– Real player with 42.5 hrs in game
Light&Dark
What is this?
Light & Dark is a roguelike platformer. You play as Victoria Bloom, a young girl trapped in an old mansion afflicted by a mysterious darkness. You have to find your way through the dark and face the horrors inside, with only your flashlight to light your path.
The mansion is always covered in complete darkness and randomly generated so each play-through feels different and you never know what might be lurking behind the corner.
A lot of different light sources, tinkering modules and items are hidden throughout the mansion and help you along the way.
What do you do?
The main mechanic of the game is how you control and use light. Your light comes from several different sources. You have your flashlight as your main source of light but you can pick up several different sources such as matches, that you can throw at enemies, firecrackers, that clear darkness, lanterns that keep you safe…
With your light you can clear the darkness to uncover your surroundings, defeat enemies, collect resources, find hidden areas and more. You can also modify your flashlight with tinkering by finding modules that can increase range and radius or deal more damage to enemies.
Who is Victoria Bloom?
Victoria Bloom is, and has always been, a tinkerer. She always had a talent for taking things apart and putting them back together in new and interesting ways. She would spend most of her play time making her gizmos and thingamajigs. Her mother always says she got her quirky talent from her grandfather, the world famous inventor Percival Abernathy Bloom. The once famous inventor now lives in his Old Bloom Mansion on top of Pinewood Hill.
This is coincidentally, where our story begins. With our young Victoria visiting her grandfather at the Old Bloom Mansion on top of Pinewood hill, like she does every winter, only this time things seem different…
Ruin Raiders
EN: If you like rogelikes, this game is a must for you. The aesthetics are beautiful and controls feel smooth. I love raider’s interactions between them. The main mechanic of the Game is well executed, alongside with the RNG, which feels fair, though sometimes you would like to smash your keyboard because you’ve failed an 87% shot chance. I cannot wait to reach the goal of the game and unravel its secrets, alongside with its easter eggs. Thank you so much, again, OP Team. Looking forward to know what else you are capable of doing :)
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game
Great game, if you just like the combat in turn based tactical games, minus the over world and doing research.
Instead upgrades are droped, looted or crafted and permanent upgrades are made before the start of each run, making up for the rogue-light side of the game even when you die, you can use the currencey you made while playing to make meaningful upgrades.
Each biome has 3 levels on the 3rd level is a boss fight, as many other rogue-like/lights each biome has a theme and adjusting your gear and playstyle for each biome can make or break a run.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game