Gaia Beyond
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG in space.
-multiple save slots, quicksave and quickload, autosaves.
-open world
-quest with multiple solutions
-ship building, upgrade-able weapons
-fight stations with your ship
Sure we’re fans of the genre and bound to like the game more than the usual fare,but those looking for an original and thrilling, handcrafted open world 2d space shooter, this will not disappoint. Gaia Beyond introduced a world with characters I actually cared about, and combat gameplay I could get behind. This game really does have something for every sci-fi shooter fan: Good writing, characters with depth(you get to meet the most spaced-out guys in the galaxy), huge amount of side quests(some with multiple solutions), factions, intimidating ships, upgrade-able ships and weapons, mining, trading, nice OST etc. It was not a very demanding game. You were just a simple nobody mining and shooting your way up, trying to make your way in this seemingly peaceful mysterious space. While all the ships were actually flying in the game world in real time, most of the time it was quite relaxed. Some fights were tough when I didn’t upgrade or choose my guns properly. It played especially good on big monitor(this game has 4K support). No other 2d space shooter I’ve ever played has impressed me like this one. Maybe Starsector has better combat than this but that’s the only thing it is better. I’d played 3030 Deathwar Redux , Star Valor, and Starcom Nexus, this game is better. After playing for around 30 hours , I doubt that I had reached even halfway of the main story, this game is loooooong. Yuki, one of the game writer, said the game is still a bit rough around the edges, but I could see that they were updating and patching up the game almost monthly, and they were quite active on the forum answering questions and acknowledging bugs, so I would not worry about that at all.
– Real player with 51.1 hrs in game
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I would recommend this so much, but…I’d wait until the main quest is extended by at least 300%.
In a nutshell: Great game but I’d wait until the main quest is extended by at least 300%. Don’t bother grinding unless you really want to, regardless of main story.
Long review: This is a very cool 2D “Galaxy on fire 2-ish” space action RPG game where you explore, mine, hunt and upgrade your ships and weapons. Kind of like Zelda / Diablo in a spaceship and a huge map set in our solar system in a dystopian future.
– Real player with 34.3 hrs in game
Dungeon D14
Fun little toy. Not super deep and you only really play it once or twice, but for the price its good.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
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needs more info. unplayable in current state. you will fail because of a resorce you didnt know you needed to make another requires the first, and a string of 3 more, however this is more info on that fact then the game will give you. playing you will have fun untill you grind to a halt because you didnt rush iron-steel bars-copper- copper bars-copper plates-microelectronics-gas-fuel cells, if you get behind you have lost, there is no coming back from one of these buildings losing power, your guys are best suited to doing one or at max two jobs as they run around like chickens with there heads cut off chasing invisible resorces. i lost 2 times one because i didnt understand my guys have ZERO controll minus telling them were to mine or build, not to mine or build. and a second time i microed my 2 chaines well and didnt figure out that coper plates/microelectronics were part of the power the building chain, lost because you cant make enough to power that chain with one building, meaning you somehow have to create extra energy or never build a building incorectly dont try for shoes or armor or anything cool it will ruin the power chain you have to run, taking the power grids away from the main chain will also resault in one or more of your buildings going unpowered, and they compeat for resorces with your units “life” bar battery thing, taking iron bars and a fair few people to make it. the food/ o2 system will almost never come into play if you take 1 min every half-hour of play to mine water/seaweed from the ground. this is the best tutorial for this game out there btw. cement=hard rocks , sand , water . steel bars= iron ore. coper plates= coper bars= coper ore. batteries=acid+steel bars. acid=sulfer. food=seaweed+water. o2=water. legit better than ingame id sugest if you get this get a notebook and wright it down, share it with the next chump afterwords.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Geo
If you like Windybeard’s new pirate game, then you will like this. If you like the decade-old independent flash game “Glean” then you will like this. If you enjoy mindless grinding with no real end in sight, you will enjoy this. I enjoy all three, so I had fun with this. Took me about 60 or 70 hours to reach Division 1.
Here are some tips:
- There are no monsters in the first quadrant and the game isn’t timed, so spend as much time as you like drilling the first few planets. If you drill, for example, 100 blocks of something and you need 100 blocks for your collection, then you will earn money just for that, even if you don’t get to the core or complete your research. So you can drill the same planet like 100 times until you’ve got all the collections you can get from it. [ I enjoy doing stuff like that. If you think that sounds like a grind, this simply isn’t the game for you and we’ll leave it at that! :) ]
– Real player with 227.4 hrs in game
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Windybeard, Windybeard ….hmmmm ah yes! The Developer of the cool SWEEZY GUNNER. I remember.
SWEEZY GUNNER was a cool Retro Shooter with many nice features and a special Graphic Style, a little bit like a comic.
Normally i do not buy Games blind, but the First Game from Windybeard gave me a good feeling so i bought it today and installed it. Starting the Game it was like coming home to SWEEZY GUNNER, because it has the same graphic Style and if i’m not wrong has Characters from Sweezy Gunner. The shopowner in the game, can it be?
– Real player with 141.3 hrs in game
Utopia Colony
First of all it’s a game you play once and never again. Simply because once you complete your mission you win and game ends. It can be done in a w/end.
Game is interesting, it has a huge map you can walk or drive but going from one place to another takes time!
Graphics are not great but decent, there are several bases you can explore and complete some task for credits.
Your main source of credits are minerals can find around, collect and sell for credits. You upgrade your suit with more oxygen capacity, and as you progress you buy rovers, you expand your base and build several buildings like greenhouse which provides food.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Loving this game so far. Love the desolate atmospheric surroundings, and very impressed with my base as it grows. Currently hitting a bit of a brick wall as I need credits to complete the research tasks, but can’t find enough resources to collect, and haven’t figured out how to get my water extractor to work, so having to buy lots of water, cancelling out the credits I earn for any ore do I find on my trips out. I’ve built my greenhouses, and looking forward to when things start go grow. I’ve lost 8 hours straight on my first play, so I really need to go and make my lunch now. Thanks, great game.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
Gold Rush In The Oort Cloud
a strange game i’m not sure i’ve ever played something similar to it.
on one hand - a typical platformer, where you jump and shoot; but on the other hand - its space with asteroids, and their gravity where you can jump from one asteroid to another, and this gravity influences how fly your bullets - and it really makes the game special, not similar to others.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
LandRocker
WHAT IS LANDROCKER?
LandRocker is a play-to-earn online multiplayer game where players can engage in fierce PvP battles, nail-biting vehicle races and most exciting of all mining!
Earn exploration tickets which can be used to launch expeditions to generated planets where vast fortunes of tokens are hidden using zero-knowledge calculations.
Feel like playing it safe? You can sell those tickets alongside a number of other in-game assets directly to other players on the marketplace.
STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN
Pick your faction, Rockeneer or Lantender, and battle for control of Mars Marvel City. Strategize with your squad to take over the seven different sections of the city, each with its own vital role and function. Capturing specific areas will directly impact the rest of the round, so keep this in mind when deciding which areas to capture first. The team which controls four sections at once wins the round.
LAST STAND
Overcome your opponents to be the last rover standing and earn a ticket to mine in Exploration Mode.
SPEED AWAY
Enjoy the thrill of high-speed rover racing on a variety of exciting tracks. Show off your driving skills and edge out the competition. Need a boost? You can upgrade and customize your rover to increase your odds of winning!
TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY
The technology we use undeniably offers new exciting opportunities for gaming. Using this technology we are able to produce and distribute valuable assets throughout the world of LandRocker. This presented a challenge for development however – how do we do it without players being able to predict and abuse the distribution system?
The solution – we developed our own Distribution Method which we call “Proof of Location” which uses special calculations to generate and hide the coins without leaving any trace.
This puts all LandRocker players on an even playing field with the same odds of getting lucky while mining. No one, not even us, have the knowledge to predict the coin positions.
Hunt for hidden treasure
Use tickets you earn from playing LandRocker to launch expeditions to beautifully generated worlds rich with hidden valuables. The distribution of the coins in Exploration Mode is done algorithmically meaning their locations are truly unknown, even to the developers themselves.
Play and win games in various game modes to earn Exploration tickets.
Customize your XCAVATOR to mine more efficiently and make the most of the Exploration tickets you earn.
Ring Miner
Another great lil simulation game from Stolk! The physics are robust and the interface is intuitive. Driving around and digging through asteroids feels good, but at the moment this is mostly just a sandbox to play around in. I’m hoping more missions and things to DO will be added in the future, but even in its current form it’s a good chill-out game for messing around in while listening to some music or a podcast.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Ring miner is a space mining simulator in which you control a lander and a rover. You pilot the lander around a ring of space rocks (around Jupiter), find one that looks suitable (the next one in the ring), land on it, then explore and mine elements in order to collect each one in the periodic table.
This game has complete three dimensional movement, a gravity indicator to help with analyzing landings, the possibility to completely annihilate space rocks, and what is basically an infinite amount of rocks to mine. I have not played anything like this before and I think it’s pretty unique. Check out the gameplay video to see what I mean.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Grid Miner
Grid Miner is a real-time strategy puzzle game where you mine asteroids to gather resources and expand your space station. Unlock new tools and utilities as you progress through levels. Maintain your quotas and learn more about your employer and coworkers at Hypergo Industries.
Features
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18 unique buildings like power plants, asteroid crushers, tractor beams and more!
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8 levels to test your skills
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Rich backstory about Hypergo Industries and its employees
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Unlock rewards and new buildings as you progress through levels
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Relaxing original soundtrack
Hyperspace Harvest
Engineer and mod crops, tools, gear and weapons!
Create your own strands of plants to grow on your whale farm and optimize your crop builds according to preferences/playstyle. Modify weapon creatures with a wide variety of submods, change your tools performance for specific tasks and even alter your own body with bio-engineered symbionts.
Fresh farming in a fresh setting!
Explore the surface of the whale across its season-like life cycle of continuous death and rebirth. Use your multitool in skill-driven minigames to clear cancerous overgrowth, infected feather trees and mineral crustations. Grow self-made crops on the hex-skin of the whale and discover hidden interactions between plants, tiles and native vegetation.
(A system inspired by Permaculture, a real life concept about crop synergies.)
Juicy dungeon crawling!
Explore the different anatomic regions of the whale and fight various diseased cells, constructs and hardlight entities that have turned against their host. Use a wide variety of modable weapon creatures, both for melee and ranged combat. Make use of your Vet-Suit’s superior mobility and manage suit energy to charge shields and weapons.
Streamlined UI and Mechanics!
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Universal tesseract inventory! No need to search through a dozen chests to find that one piece of gold ore.
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Your whaler tool is a single item that adapts to tasks you want to carry out, but can still be upgraded in individual areas.
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The time management aspect of the farming portion of the game does not interfere with the other core mechanics. Dungeon crawling only advances time when clearing a room and time of day pauses completely while moding gear, giving you the freedom to experiment and exploring possible builds at your own time.
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I hope you like smells cause the game constantly tells you the current odor of your surrounding! (with more gameplay implications in the future).
Lost Assassin
The year is 3043. You are an AI-AGR (Assassin Grade Robot). Your mothership was destroyed by an unknown force (spoiler: evil robots). Engage in intense platform-shooting action while seeking vengeance, 12 satisfying weapons, powerups, jetpacks, bionic legs and more. Inspired by 80s sci-fi movies and games.
Featuring
-12 primary weapons, grenades and loads of powerups
-Dialogue system. Choices you make affect gameplay
-AI enemies react and respond to your movements
-Mine resources to upgrade your arsenal
-Jetpack and double jump to reach those tough spots
-Cutting edge 80’s inspired sprites with modern lighting effects
-Huge levels to explore with precise controls …and much much more
