Larva Mortus
This is a small top down shooter that is a horror based dungeon crawler. It’s actually pretty good for a small independent project like this. It’s not super polished, but it’s not overwhelmingly amateur either.
The game does have some bugs here and there, and one that can really hurt your achievement hunting, so be careful of that.
The game has a mix of it’s normal campaign missions, as well as randomly generated missions that appear on the map as yo complete more. Most of the campaign missions are level locked, including the first one so you have to play a couple of the random missions to level up enough to access the main missions. This is fairly easy anyways. There is an good mix of enemies and weapons you fight and get. It does get harder as you go, though there seems to be a point where things don’t get any harder despite you leveling up. However there is the difficulty setting where you can set from easy, normal and hard, and change it at any time from the map on your save file. You will want to start on easy as even on normal the difficulty ramps up pretty high with more enemies and them hitting you much harder.
– Real player with 43.4 hrs in game
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General
Larva Mortus is a typical example of a isometric budget shooter with semi-cartoonish graphics. The interesting in it is the extremly low price due the constant 90%-off price label, which puts it into the bellow 50 cents category. And for that it offers quite a few good things.
Gameplay
We are controlling a monster hunter looking guy from a birds perspective, which gives us a quite good overview trough combat. Our hero is easy to work with, which is definitely welcomed as combat always happens in cramped rooms. The mechanics is exactly this - you basically go from room to room and clean them out from monsters. Levels are generated randomly so you never know into what you go, but as long the level design regardless of the environment serves the same purprose, it doesn’t really requires you some change in tactics or would surprise you in any way. The enemies vary from basic undead, flying bats to spiders and poison spitting fat zombies. Except the boss level templars, they don’t really represent any serious force and usually are trying to make up for the lack of their power with rather high numbers. Very importantly - try not leave the room until is not cleared out entirely, cause the room will reset even if only one enemy remains and you need fight the horde once again. Exceptions might be missions where you need to rescue a certain number of civilians, blasting trough the rooms and just focusing on the rescue can save some time and nerves.
– Real player with 14.0 hrs in game
Action Commando 2
This is more of a Neutral case than a real recommend. While this game generally falls short of expectations, it is still enjoyable, the gameplay is solid, the game itself is stable. I still had fun. Yet, read on and weigh whether it will be worth it for you.
Let’s start with the negative to balance out that this is a Recommend review.
- Very short. I beat it on normal in about 2.25 hours, and that’s with some messing around wasting time. The first game took me about 3.5. (Note: I was already used to the gameplay having played Town of Machine ((the superior of the three)), so the time difference between the Action Commando games was not due to getting more used to the style).
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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Action Commando 2 is extremely rushed. I wouldn’t mind “more of the same” if there was at least some attempt to make it seem like the next chapter… but there isn’t. The only area that looks different is, deceptively enough, the start so you’re lead to believe that at least the aesthetics are different. But no such luck. Very soon we’re back to the same old underground corridors that look exactly like in the previous game. Oh you like that cool background with asteroids and space ships? Well, better take a good look because that’s the only time you’ll see it! It gets so bad that the final level literally reuses areas from Town of Machine and our big payoff for finishing the game is… Nothing! I mean it, there’s not even a text at the end. You just press a button and that’s it, credits roll. Not to mention it’s even shorter than AC1. This game costs almost nothing and yet I still feel ripped off.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Team-Z
EDIT: This review is already very long, so I will post a video. However, the developer fixed almost all of the issues within a couple of days of my original post. THANK YOU! I changed my mind about recommending this game after seeing the developer’s diligence. I think there is a little ways to go still but this is definitely going to be a great game!
ORIGINAL:
There is a lot of potential for this game and I want to like it but I think it needs some more development. However, there is one major issue that would make this playable beyond 30 consecutive minutes for me: the player character sticks to everything in the environment. This means that there are about five times the usual amount of keystrokes required to navigate through the town.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
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It’s a cool game. If you’ve seen The Walking Dead - just like Rick you wake up and don’t know what’s going on. You discover you’re in a post-apocalyptic and there’s a zombie apocalypse going on.
You can walk through the town and find items like guns, money, and quest items. And meanwhile it gets increasingly more difficult with stronger and stronger waves of zombies spawning every couple of minutes that you have to survive as well.
There’s a variety of zombies attaching you, like some sprinting zombies, rotting ones, exploding ones, and massive “boss zombies” with armor and stuff. The other characters in game are fun too, including the random catchphrases your own character has
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Whiskey & Zombies: The Great Southern Zombie Escape
Loving this game so far. Super fun top down game, kinda like a slower and more suspenseful version of Hotline Miami. The game is fun but also super hard (almost to the point of frustrating, but I keep coming back for more). Never screamed so much playing a game I think. The zombies sneak up on you and the horde is real!!! A good combo of strategy and fighting.
100% recommended!
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
Fun as hell, I played it on comic con like three years ago and bought it the other day. The game is still really buggy but I know it has potential.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
SpaceSeals
Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, nothing more
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Star Witch
‘Star Witch’ is an Oculus Rift Only action shooter that for some reason doesn’t work on the Oculus Rift. In fact, the frame rate is so low this game is pretty much unplayable and definitely so nauseating that you wouldn’t want to play it anyway. It seems to be a poorly made shooter with some of the worse voice acting you will ever hear. I know £3.99 isn’t a very big asking price, but asking anything for this at the moment is asking too much, avoid this for now until it gets fixed. See video for issues/gameplay - https://youtu.be/w4Wd538VBdU
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
God’s Trigger
God’s Trigger:
Well, depending on your belief, when you take your last breath, you may end up either in Paradise or in Hell. It could be helpful to write your good deeds and not-so-good deeds on a slate in order to evaluate where you might be going in the afterlife. Of course, that would be very a subjective evaluation, but if you had no time to reflect and the Apocalypse was about to occur, what would you do? I guess you’d be praying for a miracle. Well, you’ve been heard! Heaven and Hell have combined forces to defy the archangel Gabriel’s plan to start the Apocalypse in God’s Trigger!
*– [Real player with 15.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198003030375)*
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The fallen angel and demoness unite to confront the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Big guns, many explosions, angelic swords, many psychedelic fantasies (each Horseman has his own insane flock, obediently following any of his orders). “God's Trigger” is a top-down shooter, in which both the player and the enemies fall from just one successful shot, with a very fast and dynamic action, a skill leveling system and (suddenly) puzzles. There are a lot of things involved in the game, it is noticeable that the developers decided to embody a lot of creative ideas, the question is, did it all work 100%
*– [Real player with 14.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048668312)*
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## Evil Heart Fever
Bear with me, this is my first long review. Overall I'm recommending this game, as it was decently entertaining and it's only 1$ (and I got it on sale 40% off).
The gameplay is solid enough, basic twin-stick style shooting to take down waves of enemies coming at you from the sides of the screen. Your character shoots at crosshairs where your mouse is located, and can do a quick dash every 2-3 seconds depending on your stats until it reaches the crosshairs. The progression is fairly solid, staying relatively challenging without any real difficulty spikes aside from possibly the bosses, who are chosen at random; some bosses are pretty easy to downright unthreatening, while others can be incredibly difficult to deal with while still fighting the swarms of basic enemies. These bosses show up every so often (with health scaled to your level), and regular enemies stay spawning during your fight with them at no slowdown. You can even end up with multiple boss angels simultaneously if you don't kill each one fast enough. As you kill angels you gain levels and earn perks, a choice of 1 from a random 3 possibilities, thus allowing you to get stronger to face the tougher stock enemies the game will flood you with. You can even get one of five special transformations, each with their own unique perk, by acquiring three specific perks related to the transformation. Pretty simple, but a decent enough gameplay loop for a dollar.
*– [Real player with 9.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046193684)*
A really fun multidirectional-shooter-roguelike mashup thing, amazing product for a dollar. It's theme feels nice and cohesive, between it's mix of Lovecraftian and religious items, enemies, and the player itself if a nice touch, and works well. The game looks alright, nothing amazing, but it does the job and doesn't hurt to look at. There are only a few flaws with the game, such as what I assume are bosses being really fucking hard to kill, meaning you need to get lucky and be beefed up or have a synergy by the time one comes. There's also the kinda of small library of upgrade items, which is about 35-40, and while that isn't too small of an amount, some more items would be pretty dope.
*– [Real player with 5.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198269016245)*
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*– [Real player with 1.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198178738410)*
Stars received: 0.5/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: sim to disassemble a truck
*– [Real player with 1.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199094146993)*
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## Elementite
Elementite is a third-person shooter RPG that fuses natural elements and futuristic firearms in a vast chaotic open world of challenges and secrets in a way never seen before. You control Chrono, a combatant who has the unique ability to control the time element, allowing him to control battles using close-quarter combat skills and to finish off enemies with a heavy arsenal of firearms imbued with natural elements. Use fire, ice, electricity, and poison to unleash an incredible amount of combat combinations and strategies to overcome your opponents, while experiencing the ultra-realistic graphics powered by the Unreal Engine with Ray Tracing.
The idea for the game came from the references:
Film "Project Power" (Netflix 2020) that tells the story of a world where humans awaken magical powers when they ingest power pills.
Devil My Cry series, mechanics of Hack and Slash.
The Division, mix of elements of third person shooting and RPG.
Dark Souls, boss mechanics and dodge.
#### **HISTORY**
Humanity has discovered a mineral that can be used to strengthen the human body. This mineral can awake a natural element in the person's body, making him immune to almost anything that is harmful, including firearms. For some people it can grant powerful control over some elements.
The formula that is used to make this mineral strengthen humans had become a powerful tool for corporations and organizations to earn money, and eventually it became an uncontrolled fever worldwide.
Decades later, humanity begins to fall. The overuse of the mineral had caused diseases, loss of consciousness among other bizarre side effects. However, for groups that have the pure form of the mineral, they were able to evolve their physical capacity to unbelievable levels.
Without governments, the conflict is managed by big and powerful companies that control the extraction and research of the mineral. The society as we know has collapsed. Private armies, terrorist groups, rebel factions and dozens of lost addicts wander the cities that are at war for controlling the mineral.
Civilians are trapped in their homes.
The game starts in the ruins of a metropolis, in the distant future, after a great war that ended the last democratic government in the world. You play Chrono, a former fighter from the last government who escaped from a research lab where he was a victim of experiments with Elementite. Chrono has awakened the unique ability to use the element of time and is now hunted for it.
#### **CHRONO**
You play as Chrono, a very talented ex-soldier of the Global Council. He fought alongside Brigit, his ex-girlfriend, for years across the globe to prevent the fall of civilization, until he was captured by the Corporation after the fall of the Council. He was put under lab experiences that awoke powers he had never seen before.
#### **THE GAME FEATURES**
Elementite System
The elementite combat system is divided into two distinct modes, the melee mode and the shooter mode.
-In melee mode Chrono uses his knife imbued with the element of time provided by his own body and performs various combos and abilities that influence time and space such as teleports, slow, time dilation, among others.
In addition, he has the ability to perform physical strikes from other elements if acquired in the skill shop at higher levels.
-In shooter mode Chrono can use up to 4 firearms at the same time that fire shots imbued with the 4 elements fire, ice, electric and poison. As elementite gives enemies the power of element damage immunity, the player must switch weapons to shoot the enemy using his weak point element.
Ice enemies take fire damage, fire enemies take poison damage, and so on.
And this is how the combat system of the Elementite Game works, the player will have to use skill to choose weapons and physical attacks adapted to the enemy's element in real time.
As in all RPG Chrono has a system of talent points that can be used every time he level up, he can focus his talents on 3 types: Power (Damage), Vitality (Resistance), Agility (time skills).
Another Features
- Stealth or armed combat.
- An open world with several primary and secondary missions and the freedom to play the level as many times as you want.
- An inventory with creation resources. Skill trees to develop your character in a way that adapts to your style of play.
- New armor, firearms and melle.
- Shooting mini-games, battle arenas in other dimensions.
- Cinematics, battles with dynamic bosses.
- High End graphics using UE4 and Ray Tracing
**#### About Me**
My name is Danilo, I am Brazilian and creator of the game Elementite. This game has in development since May 2020\. My prediction is to finish in 2022.I have been a gamedev for 6 years and worked in other indie games like Room 404 (PC), BlackIris (PC), Eternal Soldier (Mobile) and Volcan Defend the Tower (PC). Due to the pandemic, I am developing the game by myself at home.
I want to create fun and challenging gameplay for Elementite, but for that I need constant feedback from the community that is interested in this type of game. I will always be active on social networks sharing with everyone each new implementation of the game looking for opinions, ideas, and help to test.
The Demo version of the game is available for a limited time so that everyone can get to know a project proposal, however during the months of development I will encourage players to purchase the early access version. The early access version will receive constant updates with new challenges and scenarios and will be the best way for players to share with me the mission of transforming Elementite into a great game.
Hope you like it.
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