Gearshifters
A fantastic arcade shooter!
Pros
-Great gameplay
-Creative enemy/faction variety
-Awesome bosses
-Enjoyable progression
Cons
-Starting a boss fight with half or lower health could be an absolute drag.
-Difficult bosses/sections can have you repeating the same levels far too many times to be enjoyable.
Thoughts
-I feel like the bosses would have been much more enjoyable if you always entered the fight with full health. Perhaps after successfully reaching the boss and dying the amount of levels you have to repeat should only be one instead of two.
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
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This game is Fantastic!
I played the demo before and loved it, so I knew the full game was going to be a treat. I know roguelite is becoming quite a common genre now, but it works perfectly with this game. It is so much fun having to play and earn the upgrades which then in turn make the game that little bit easier each time you play. That for me is the perfect way to get you playing and keep you engaged.
This game is a perfect mix of a classic shoot em up while driving a car and dodging bullets, so a car/shoot em up/bullet hell dodging. There are some great bosses to take down as well which are a lot of fun, working out their patterns and ways to take them down. For me its a perfect mix and it works beautifully!
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
Bikerz
Have you ever dreamed about a game where you can just chill, listen to a bunch of good music, while admiring the beautiful landscape and not harming anyone?
Well… You may guess that this will NOT be that game!
Bikerz is a fast-paced, action-packed game where you have only one goal: survive all of the coming levels!
Of course, everyone will be able to choose a difficulty level which will fit their style of play. Are you a casual or a pro gamer? Are you looking for some fun or a real challenge? You’ll get it!
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Wasteland Angel
This game somehow reminds me of the mid-90s sci-fi flick Tank Girl, but maybe the similarity begins and ends with the post-apocalyptic setting, the cartoonish art style and the main characters, both girls whose favourite activity seems to be shooting mutants. You take on the role of Angel, who drives around in her car and saves the inhabitants of post-world war III settlements from mutant attacks. So much for the backstory.
Gameplay wise, Wasteland Angel is a no-nonsense top-down shooter. You’re looking at a desert landscape from an isomotric perspective, drive around with a car whilst shooting at other cars that likewise shoot at you. That’s pretty much all there is. Your main armament consists of two fixed guns, additional weapons can be aquired by driving over power-ups. Each level has three stages and, after you defeat the stages final boss in the third, a short bonus stage that leaves the top-down view and switches to a first-person perspective. The game never breaks from this pattern.
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
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Honestly, this game is exactly what it presents itself as - a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic arcade-style game focused around vehicular combat. Within that mold, there’s some aspects I appreciate quite a lot.
- Civilian towns. The primary objective is not just to survive against all comers, but to protect towns full of civilians - this often, at least for me - created situations where I had no choice but to hold off on blowing up targets trying very hard to kill me in order to protect civilians. This particular feature just seems very well designed - you’ve got enough heallth to sacrifice some if you have to in order to protect civilians, the game smoothly increases complexity from one town on a flat map to multiple towns on a map covered in impassable terrain obstacles, etc. If a bunch of civies are walking back to town after the transport which took them is exploded and you or an enemy runs them over, they die, etc. It’s little things like that which make a good game a great one or a bad game okay.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Retro Classix: BreakThru
Data East 3
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
BreakThru, the classic arcade, just as you remember it. A shooting and jumping car has to reach an airfield to retrieve a stolen plane Breaking Thru five stages. The game is tough at times but fair, and even a mediocre player like me can do it in 45 minutes (or “0.8 hours”, according to Steam).
I enjoyed this game back in the 80s when I played it on my Amstrad CPC computer (it was a very decent adaptation) and now I have enjoyed the very nice arcade version, brought back to you by 612 Games and Ziggurat. Like the rest of the Retro Classix series, you play inside a modest virtual arcade with CRT filters and the works, but of course you can disable all that if you want.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Motor Assailant
Fast driving, regular updates, recommended.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Interesting combination of racing (you have to reach the end of the level before time runs out) and shoot ‘em up, although neither part is really prominent. You will rarely lose a level because of a timer if you just don’t stop moving forward, and the fighting part of the game only becomes interesting on bosses (which are quite different from the main game and could be really challenging sometimes).
Could be fun for speedrunning, most of the time I’ve played it I was trying to optimize my time on certain levels that I liked the most. But don’t think about it as a racing simulator. When you try to go fast your car feels more like a rocket ship, so maybe this game will fit wonky physics simulator lovers more than racing lovers.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Desert Raider
Desert Raider Suicide Mission is an immersive VR action shooting game in a post-apocalyptic setting.
You and your pal Doug are sent to find an unidentified container somewhere in the radioactive zone and deliver it to your boss. Enemy drones are everywhere. Will you survive and complete this last job?
Society has been blasted back to the Stone Age where clans are led by tyrannical warlords. All known water sources are polluted or dry, only the ruins of cities remain.
The Big War has destroyed it all.
Will you be able to avoid cruel commander Sheeba or the hungry Weak Eaters?
Will you survive the lethal wild wastelands?
Is it really a suicide mission?
Desert Raider.
Key Features:
VR Single player action shooting game
Strong narrative set in post-apocalyptic era
10 unique missions
10 unique environments
AI enemies
Unpredictable situations
Video Realms
the closest thing to twisted metal that exists. very good car combat game
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Okay, so…
Fuck the other two games - flesh out Carnage Cross as much as humanely possible. This is the closest the Twisted Metal fan-base will ever get to a spiritual successor since Sony decided to elbow-drop Twisted Metal for good. Wait until at least 1.0 to keep working on Sanitize or Starglades.
I know some of the suggestions I’m gonna make are already on your roadmap - AND I DON’T CARE. I’ll repeat them infinitely into the fucking VOID if need be.
● ONLINE MULTIPLAYER. DO IT.
● NONE of the vehicles should have auto-aim machine guns - all of their guns should fire directly forward. Auto-aim should be either a power-up or a special ability. With that being said…
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Zombie Derby: Pixel Survival
I’t a well made game, but is to much mobile like for a pc, the most anoying is the inconsistent regeneration mechanic that usually makes the player wait for up a a hour before next try ( for 5 minutes of game play) making me frustrated.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
By far the grindiest of the three Zombie Derby games. I thought #2 was bad for this but Pixel Survival is a whole new level! More levels and more vehicles would’ve been welcome rather than SSDD and a graphics spruce-up.
Play the first one and forget this and the second game, it’s more of the same but feels like a massive waste of time because you’re not unlocking anything worthwhile or different.
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game
Lost Wing
Really fun game. I am looking forward to seeing where the dev’s take it throughout the EA. I will update my review as time goes on (below). For now theres the 1, rather long, zone thats fully functional. A second zone looks to be just about ready, and is available for preview (meaning theres no collision, but you can run through it).
Whats available is awesome. Ship control feels good, speed feels good, pickups feel good, and the challenge is most certainly there. The soundtrack suits the game nicely and the graphics are as you see in the screenshots (crisp and spiffy). I totally recommend, especially at this price.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Hi friends
Would like to give a great Like to this game, very good time to play with it. For fun and action when you have a short break. Sure it will improve and develop new stages and infinite possibilities custom ships.
Thanks to BoxFrog and the team for the concept and make happy people with a lot of success for your work and make this possible on not gamers top computers only.
Enjoy to part of the launch of this and keep the future better with big smile and imagination.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Rocket Assault
First of all mad respect to the dev since he made this game on his own!!!
–-𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝘼𝙈𝙀—
So i almost played for an hour now and its a bless, the levels are really nice sometimes hard which makes it more fun the customization is also really cool like moving decals, cars, wings, boost and more! You also got a speedrun mode which you unlock if you have completed all the levels so that’s gonna take a while :) Also freeplay very fun to get used to the feeling of the game and to change your keybinds.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
Where do i even begin…this game is AWESOME! I was super hyped when i heard this was being released after all the talk about it on twitter. I’ve only played this game for a few hours, but i was hooked instantly. so many fun things to do, all the levels are so well made even though some are a challenge. It’s a race against time and yourself to beat previous and world record times. Aerial mechanics are very similar to Rocket League so i was very comfortable, this game is a freestylers dream! I cannot wait to see what the future holds for this game.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game