Tesla Force
Note: Updated after first patch.
I have completed the higher difficulty (game+ cycle 2) on early access. So far so good. Pretty polished EA game. I like the shoot’em up game play. As I progress, there are enough varieties to keep me interested. Basically, there are different objectives for each map. Easy to pick up. But can be a challenge to complete depends on the progression on each encounter. So far, no two games are the same. And previous success doesn’t guarantee future success. I.e. you may find one game rather easy to complete (pro tip: stick with BFG gun) but you may struggle with the next one depending on the guns you use and the perks you have got (and the missions as well).
– Real player with 21.9 hrs in game
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie
Tesla Force is a gloriously over the top, roguelite twin stick shooter and a tale of Nikola Tesla inadvertently opening a portal at the Wardenclyffe Tower and awakening the cosmic horrors while trying to provide free energy, wireless transmissions and a life of leisure to everyone. In 1916.
Let me just continue with that bonkers story for a second. Before everything goes Cthulhu, a young Marie Curie pops out of a second portal in an almost Ghostbusters uniform and yells at Tesla he kind of goofed. Tesla stoically accepts that, picks up a shotgun and one of his inventions and proceeds mowing down cosmic monstrosities and closing down portals in a tutorial mission that ends with him flying off in a mech. Now if that doesn’t sound like electric currents of fun and escapism at its finest, I don’t know what does.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
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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Flight of the Athena
Lots of variety with bosses and enemies. Includes interesting time-based events mid-mission and enemies that come from all four directions, which gets pretty exciting pretty quickly. Well done, A To Play Ltd’s Flight of the Athena is pretty damn fun and very replayable!
While the portrait art may be lacking the rest of the in-game art are quite nice. Some odd design decisions on the tactical map but the actual battles and bosses are loads of fun. And multiplayer!
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– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
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This game is excellent! It is a flashback to games like this that I played when I was younger but with great additions! You have two guns (one on a turret) which you control using the 2nd stock on the controller; this is great! Also there is an RPG and randomness factor which add to replayability. Got to buy it!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
LOCIS
I’m a beta tester and I played the game since the first releases.
LOCIS is like a purgatory, a world where the good and the evil are one thing.
Player will catapulted in LOCIS without much explanations and suddenly it will be like being in a dream, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say like being in a nightmare.
Time is an enemy, but it won’t be the only one. Player will be faced with numerous dangers and monstrous entities, so it will not be easy to survive. I found a lot of variety, and even as a veteran, when you’re sure you’re ready for anything, it doesn’t take much to find yourself dying or lifeless.
– Real player with 79.0 hrs in game
This game was very interesting to play. This game it’s not like the majority of indie horror games that you can find here in the Steam store, Indie horror games are not very appreciated, due to the way they are made, without any care and attention to detail, realized with Graphic engines that use pre-packaged assets.
Why you should try it:
LOCIS is a very well thought-out game, despite the weight of the game files, it’s a very rich in content, despite being still early acces. The graphics is retro style and reminiscent of the old ps1 titles like Silent Hill, even the soundtrack it’s very well done and effective, very apt with the game, it gives that sort of restlessness and sense of mistery to the player. The game is divided into different areas, generated randomly, the game develops horizontally, you have to go through long and infinite corridors in whick there are many doors on the sides, locked and that can be opened, they contain interacting objects and furniture inside them. Inside them there are notes that are left by travelers of LOCIS, many are notes of mad peoples that have only meaningless or frustrating phrases, while other notes are very useful to understand what are the dangers of the area. In the rooms you can also find two types of keys and blue flames.
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
Luck be a Landlord
The negative comments on this game talk about how the balance is very unfavorable to the player and in order to win, you have to be very lucky. These complaints are valid. But they leave out an important piece of context: This game is being very actively worked on!
The developer is constantly tweaking with the game balance. If you look over patch notes, you’ll see tons of changes to how individual items behave, new items being added, and entire new game systems being included. Over the months, these changes have been very favorable to the player. It used to be that you’d have to play many rounds before you had one where winning was even a possibility, but now most games are winnable as long as you have a decent strategy in mind.
– Real player with 225.0 hrs in game
I LOVE the concept and the game is good but it could be better. Which is about right for an early access game.
The biggest issue is replayability. For a ‘rougelike’ that is a big deal and this game has limited replayability. Every run begins to feel pretty samey after you’ve pulled off a handful of different synergies. So far the only efforts made to address this have been adding more symbols and a handful of items. While this adds replayability it is a limited option. Every new symbol and item added makes it harder to find things that go together which lowers the fun and viability of the game. Having 100 new synergies doesn’t make the game more replayable if you can never actually get the pieces together to do any of them.
– Real player with 126.9 hrs in game
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.
Relentless: Ranger
Relentless: Ranger is a fantasy side scrolling rogue-lite RPG. Slash, shoot, sneak, die, and repeat as the next strider to brave the impossible mission. Each ranger lives once. Once he dies, you must select another to attempt the quest.
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EXCEPTIONAL SOUL-LIKE COMBAT
Bows, swords, and spells. Use a variety of weapons and magic to overcome your opposition in tough but fair combat. Beware that brainless button mashing will get you nowhere fast. You must also utilize dodges, jumps, and impeccable timing if you hope to survive.
THE TICKING CLOCK
In a land where evil reigns, not only are the odds stacked heavily against you, you must complete the quest in a limited time. With each passing day a ranger spends, the Dark becomes more powerful until the challenge becomes inevitably insurmountable. Will you spend extra time to heal in town? Or will you trudge on to save time and hope you get lucky?
RANGER SUPERPOWERS
Nine disciplines to train from Archery to Beastmastery to Acrobatics. Combined with inherent talents and flaws, each ranger will play differently. Perhaps you will pick a Legolas-like archer of death who can plow through levels through sheer arrow power? Or select one who relies more on stealth and magic? Or another who relies on the aid of forest animals?
SURVIVAL MANAGEMENT
Rescue villagers, find artifacts, or just invest money in the town. You will be rewarded with better weapons, more potions, and beds with less fleas. Help make the town a better place and the mission less unreasonable, if not for you, at least for your successors.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH
Choices matter in addition to the procedural generation of fate. Each ranger will encounter different people and situations during his quest. Depending on your choices, his subsequent path will be altered, taking him to new locations, dangers, and treasures. Although all seek the Seed, no ranger will travel the same path.
Rogue Harvest
Something happened. You wake up in a forest. Now you have to survive! Run, the ents are coming!
This is a great game and try to be cautious, surviving the first night won’t be the best. I started to think the best way is just running for your life. This is a complicated survival game or complicated and funny survival game where you have to create the best shelter to avoid the enemies at night. Yeah, they are not so great at day but the skeletons.. and other things, you know. They going to destroy your shelter. Now you know!
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
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TL:DR: Cheap but fun roguelike survival game, some way to go before it’s finished, but well worth the price with the current content! 7.5/10
Review
Rogue Harvest is a roguelike survival game, with permadeath and gameplay similar to that of hardcore Minecraft or Terraria. In Rogue Harvest you play as the survivor of a plane crash fighting to make sense of and survive in the hostile world in which he’s found himself. The gameplay is fun and currently semi-deep, there’s several tiers of content for each item (from 2-4 depending on the item) and you are free to create some awesome looking houses to defend yourself with.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Alchemic Dungeons DX
Last week I bought the original Alchemic Dungeons on 3DS. Then just yesterday I found out this came out and bought it immediately. It is challenging and fair. Every time I died it was because I screwed up and didn’t use the right tactic. I love this game and I plan on playing it many many hours.
– Real player with 91.2 hrs in game
Criminally underrated game.
While it looks simple and generic and starts very easy, the final 3 dungeons offer a good challenge. While it seems like a relatively generic roguelike, the crafting system does add a lot of depth to resource management, and while it looks simplistic it will keep you on your toes. I also think the UI is reallly good and easy to sue when you get used to it .
It also has a lot of distinct classes (8 initially with a secret one to)
– Real player with 77.7 hrs in game
Dunnigan’s Trail
You’re a merchant looking to strike it rich. Lead a wagon of hired swords on a trail of danger and hijinks that’s a different experience every time. Defend your wares in turn-based tactical battles in this choose your own adventure fantasy roguelite. Make decisions, manage resources, and survive!
Features:
Never the same trail: navigate the generated trail and manage your party through a variety of biomes. Each biome has its own unique encounters and enemies;
Heated turn-based battles: defend the wagon from a variety of threats in complex turn-based tactical battles on procedurally generated battlefields. Take control of your hired swords to strike down your foes or run when you are outmatched;
Decide your own fate: and the fates of your companions. Make tough decisions in choose your own adventure events that have lasting impact on your journey. Options and results vary depending on your companions and biome;
Manage your party: of generated characters and recruit more along the trail. Equip them with your exotic wares to give them an edge or save the items to unlock elite classes;
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