Blockships
Now this game… I’m so happy I went to EGX: just for finding out about this game. You will not find anothergame quite like this. It is so fun. The game is so well refined, being a bit fiddly to rotate blocks and remove blocks from corners of a cube structure. But this shouldn’t push your choice away from it. If you think you could enjoy it, even if the features such as online multiplayer and bots arn’t there yet, support it, buy it, try to get some friends to try it out with you.
Bottom line is you won’t regret backing this game as that £4.99 / $6.25 / €5.89 will aid these talented people form a full game of content.
– Real player with 19.5 hrs in game
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Been playing Blockships for a long time, at various trade shows, and it’s just pure unadulterated fun. Everyone from young to old gets it immediately and then it’s just game after game of explosions, laughter, and victorious cheering.
It’s easy to pick up but there’s a great amount of depth and strategic awareness to the gameplay. You try to keep track of both the contents and positioning of your opponents' ship parts, the blocks scattered around the level, and the blocks you have available. Building to counter opponents on-the-fly is super unique, and the entire battlefield can change in an instant with a skillfully placed shot.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Scrap Galaxy
The first game from Catalope Games is just as great as it looks.
For starters, it’s absolutely gorgeous.
Fast paced action for 1-4 players as well as lots and lots of fun.
Recommended for anyone who likes party games, geometry wars or just indie games in general.
– Real player with 31.7 hrs in game
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The camera is the biggest enemy in the game. It does and WILL pull you into asteroids, enemies, and bombs.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift
The game is good for casual players who like to make some chaos on the maps but also for tactical-focused minds that analyze every turn. I love versatile weaponry with its various differences in games mechanics. However, unit types could be more distinct.
Gridless movement is quite unique feature in tactical games and it’s really fun to work on positioning your units on a playfield: “Hide behind his rock so I could lean out my rifle but not stick out too much not to get hit”.
Teleporters do the job of adding a new layer to this two-dimensional game. Great idea. They could be used in more places though.
– Real player with 82.7 hrs in game
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The game is “tactical” all the way - it requires thinking and few mouse-waving skills. It does not require reflex. It’s also not a fast-paced game and gives you a fair amount of time to think. I’ve played chiefly the campaign mode.
There are always two phases: prep, where you decide how to equip your platoon, and the action phase, where you’re deployed. There’s some AI behind the enemies, so they don’t behave identically in every run, so sometimes the ‘improved’ strategy you came up with after a failed run also fails.
– Real player with 21.9 hrs in game
Space BloX
Space BloX is a very simple 2D side scrolling retro pixel shoot ‘em up, with a difference. Instead of adding interesting enemies that shoot you, like other shooters do, the developer decided to turn things down a notch and just put blocks in. That’s why I feel like this might not be a regular asset/template flip, because no actual developer would bother making a game template/tutorial this bad.
The quality is bad. Lazy pixel “art” used instead of proper graphics. The developer couldn’t come up with a compelling level/story design so decided to use samey procgen as a substitute for content. Controls and resolution are locked and can’t be changed.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Spacebar mashing simulator! 11/10 would play again!
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
BFF or Die
A nice cooperative puzzle game.
CRASHES when trying to use Remote Play Together. This is too bad. I really wanted to try it out with some help from my far-flung friends.
The initial levels of the game are different based on the number of players. If you want to teach friends how to play, I recommend playing the first 7, or so, levels in TWO PLAYER mode. The early levels of other modes might fail to teach important aspects (like how to get out of the flashlight booth).
This could be a nice title for some “Games Night” cooperative frustration, err I mean fun.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
The game is like a physical puzzle game but with action elements to it. And if you play multiplayer, the extra dimension of needing to figure out what each player needs to do and when to complete the level. It can get crazy hectic and tense, especially when your teammates mess up or something unexpected happens. But it never feels unfair or too punishing. Plus you always get time to plan at the start of each level / puzzle.
My only criticism is some of the menu options don’t work with keyboard, but nothing that stops you playing the game.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Varion
Great game ! Fun, fast & tricky : everything i love !
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
I enjoyed the beta version and now this is an instant buy!
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Cygnus Pizza Race
space car go brrrrrr
Okay, meme aside, this game is freaking awesome! Please try the demo and get as addicted as I did! The developers are amazing people and this game is crazy fun! F-Zero, Wipeout, and Hydro Thunder come to mind when playing this, but I never got as addicted to those games whereas this game has its hooks in me. Come race me and try to beat my leaderboard times on the forums!
– Real player with 180.8 hrs in game
This game is fast paced, has beautiful graphics, and is very smooth and polished! A lot of effort went into this game, that’s for sure! The steam remote play is a great feature because you can race against your friends for bragging rights without them having to own the game themselves! The music…omg it’s amazing! Very cool music to listen too as you fly around tracks all over the galaxy! For less than the cost of your lunch tomorrow you can get this game, get 11 tracks instantly, 1 new track monthly for all of 2021, and a monthly tournament with cool prizes for the rest of 2021!! So much content! I highly recommend you get this game!
– Real player with 37.8 hrs in game
Epic Loon
What a crazy awesome game !!
Random thoughts :
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Weird parody universe that made us binge-play until all was unlocked
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Flappy tongued diplodocuses. Very tongued. Very very flappy.
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The soundtrack is incredible !! :3 meow
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If you finish a level first, you get a physics gun to troll the other players. That the best part !!
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Or you can just self-explode and mess the physics for others ^^
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Overall, it’s an addictive physics game with a steady learning curve. Quite difficult at first, and rewarding when you get better at it !
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
Epic Loon:
I am one of those people you would call a movie buff. I love watching movies and series, and I have a tendency to collect French movies (especially the ones from the 60’s, 70’s and 90’s). So, I was totally amazed when I was introduced to Joe, from Epic Loon. This guy has an incredible collection of VHS movies and his bedroom walls are decorated with posters with thousands of VHS tapes. A perfect setup for any movie fan! Joe shared with me an amazing story that happened to him recently. His beloved VHS player start malfunctioning, and in desperation, he ran to the hardware corner shop to see if he could find any sort of instrument that would help fix his VHS player. There, the Chinese owner told him about this miracle tape cleaner that would make his VHS player work again. What the owner specifically forgot to mention is that the VHS tape cleaner was a prison for four little aliens, and from now on he has to watch his favourite movies with these little buggers moving from one scene to the next. Welcome to Epic Loon!
*– [Real player with 7.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198003030375)*
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## Evolver
Gameplay Synopsis:
Evolver blends competitive fighting with quantum-cyberpunk-scifi to create a world of bizarre weapons, unconventional fighting styles, and wildly eccentric characters. Fighters wield weapons such as hand-held guillotines and giant surgical lancets, and couple them with super powers and martial arts to (sometimes literally) destroy their enemies.
Evolver’s combat mechanics are unique among 2D fighting systems in that it combines elements of traditional fighters with those of platform fighters. It also replaces traditional blocking with a unique evade-and-parry based defense system. Additionally, players choose their attack sets before each round with each character having 15 unique moveset combinations. Evolver’s combo system is friendly to inexperienced players and button mashers thanks to it’s auto combo mechanic, but also rewards seasoned fighting game players who put the time into creating complex attack sequences and mixups.
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## Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition
I'd recommend this game but with a few caveats. I'd encourage the developers to patch it with a couple of things:
Some of the missions are buried in the game in a way that could have just little more convenience built in to finding them. There are even dialogue boxes that say for the player, "I thought I was done with the campaign." Kind of cute. Mostly irritating.
The more difficult missions, especially the big race, are so difficult that they are likely to be redone. Please don't make a player click fifty times through the same flavor text every single time the mission is reset. That's a mid-90s rookie mistake in any game design–like the long cut scene that can't be skipped. Do it once, give us our laugh, and then let get about the business grinding away at a nearly impossible mission.
*– [Real player with 70.8 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198255596335)*
Great, great conversion from the board game. This is one of those board games that was looking for the perfect digital adaption and they nailed. I only wish they didn't TAKE SO LONG to make it playable on my OS, and that my version wasn't still in the habit of making all my options on the home screen come up with a question "Do you want to quit?". That is some serious glitch. Every time I come back to the home screen I'm forced to quit the game if I want to do anything because I have to restart it to use any option on the homepage. Other than that the game is free of glitches, and just excellent on every level. I want different musical options too, though I'll probably not use any of them much. Another expansion would be good too, but the included one still has me busy :)
*– [Real player with 39.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199081941154)*
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