NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics
Well now, it’s time to review yet another roguelike… or is it a turn-based strategy game? Bullet-hell? Yep, Next Jump: Shmup Tactics is all three of these things at once. These genres seem like they absolutely should not go together… it sounds totally nonsensical. But not only is the combination viable, but it works out really well here.
In this game, your overall goal is to reach the Dragon Mothership and defeat it, because apparently they stole your space beer (???) and ran off with it. Like any good shmup, this means a long battle through about a kersquillion enemy ships on your way to fight the boss at the end. As this game is part roguelike, everything is procedural, so you’ll be getting a very different experience every time.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
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This is a fantastic game if you like small-scale turn-based tactical battles in space. The core gameplay is turn-based shoot ‘em up with simplified FTL-like sector jumping in between the skirmishes. It’s not really much like FTL except superficially. It’s a great game nonetheless!
First, the downsides. It’s a relatively short game. It’s very replayable but even if you like it, you probably won’t play for many tens of hours. It’s also cheap though.
The battle map is small and doesn’t contain much except various enemies. Not realy a downside in my opinion, just a game design choice. Think of the map as a chess board.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
King Bullseye: The Chess Strike
A fun shoot em up, I quite enjoyed this game. Simple to play :)
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
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a very frantic game, and a great warm-up to play an FPS
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
DETOUR
I got this game as a gift in the 4-pack offer from my friend Blackpot.
This real-time strategy game with resource management and tower-defense with online multiplayer is a simple indie game by Geoff ‘Zag’ Keene and Richard Keene. The gameplay involves building roads, structures, planting bombs and missiles, deploying and sending trucks across to the edge of the map before other players and computer opponents.
As an indie game, the gameplay graphics and background music may appear simple, and the simple gameplay with lack of variety and storyline in the singleplayer campaign may not hold anyone’s attention for long. Yet after playing the game multiplayer with 3 of my active and helpful friends in Steam who got the 4-pack offer to get the achievements together, this is the main highlight of the game as the inexpensive price of the 4-pack is a nice way to play some games together with friends in Steam.
– Real player with 23.7 hrs in game
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-Quick Review-
DETOUR is a real-time highway-simulator strategy-game developed by Sandswept Studios. The objective can be summed up as “get this truck across the finish line, on the other side of the map”. DETOUR gets increasingly complex with weapons, buildings, and opposing AI or Human Players (in Multiplayer).
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=505839112
-Detailed breakdown review-
Story: You work for a construction company over seen by not-bob-the-builder. I can’t actually remember that guys name, I just know he sure looked like bob the builder, but wasn’t friendly at all.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
Destiny Warriors RPG
[English Review]
What to say about Destiny Warriors: the Way of the Ninja…
“Did anyone see a ninja in this game? Let the creator of this game know that this is false advertising!”
If it wasn’t enough, this game has ridiculous and badly done maps, uncreative names, bad use of graphic and sound resources of RPG Maker.
The game has third-party systems, graphics and music …and there is no credits to anyone in any part of the game!
Again, if it wasn’t enough, the game is pure plagiarism of the anime Naruto. However not even as a copy the game got to be functional.
– Real player with 35.6 hrs in game
Everything wrong with this game can be summarised in one sentence:
Extremely $hitty battle system.
It’s not obvious in the beginning, but once you level up to 20-something, the absolute r3tardedness of it all becomes clear.
Some examples of what I mean:
- At level 27, ceteris paribus (i.e. all conditions being equal), your normal attack is 61, versus your enemy’s normal attack of 519. This is with the best available gear and maximum power-ups in the form of various item purchases.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
Labyronia RPG 2
BEFORE YOU BUY LABYRONIA 2, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU PLAY LABYRONIA 1. This is because L2 is a continuation of the 1st game and it might not make a whole lot of sense to you if you skip the 1st installment.
ANYWAY…
I was a little skeptical about Labyronia 2 after playing the 1st one, because the 1st one left such a good impression that I was afraid the 2nd installment would leave me disappointed.
I was disappointed. WITH MYSELF AND MY LACK OF FAITH IN THE LABYRONIA UNIVERSE.
Buy it. Buy this game right now. Buy it for everyone you know and love and care for.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
Labyronia RPG 2 is an RPG game with Pokemon-like graphics. Labyronia RPG 2 follows on from the sequel Labyronia RPG 1.
This game requires you to be good at exploring and good at RPG Games.
Labyronia RPG 2 is set in Labyronia, which was once suppose to be a nice place to live in. Evil creatures and dark ghosts invade this land and feed on fear. Their intention is to wipe out everything that lives and make Labyronia a land of nothingness. So, you start of as a Ranger named Garic (Something like that) in a very small town that you are the boss of. You battle a giant wall crusher and you venture on into the frozen plains and help out each land, whilst finding new accompanies to aid you in your quest. You will soon unlock lots of weapons, armours, helments, trinkets etc… Your main objectives are to get all 3 accomplices, save the Queen and the Sun Emerald, Kill the evil Elven Senate, save the city of Carallan, finish the tournament in the Firelands and fight the end boss and restore peace.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
Legend of Mysteria RPG
Legend of Mysteria is an RPG Maker made RPG set as a prequel to another game in their series by the same author. Though it’s made via RPG Maker, it has a different feel to it rather than the typical RPG maker made game for better and for worse.
This game is about the main character Windir, whom you get accused of murder and have to prove you innocence. It’s mainly about exploring your locations, talking to NPC’s, gathering evidences, finding and using items to unlock new and previously locked rooms and area. It has an intruging story that kept me lingering and not much of a combat system (which isn’t a minus), but has a very confusing and uninformative use of items to progress the story.
– Real player with 121.0 hrs in game
One of the most incredible stories I’ve ever seen.
For a guy who is new to the Labyronia Saga, I had fun with it. This game is not much like a fighting type game (you have only more than 3 to 5 fights required throughout the game, others you can take just for fun), but instead it is a kind of puzzle, you need to do some Actions to proceed in the game.
It seems this story is the legend of “the hero of Labyronia,” so for many ppl those individuals are well known, some people will say that the story is not worth it, others will love it, as for me I really loved everyone secrets and twists. It’s a short game, but if it was big would ruined the whole point of the game and the price is very good. (BTW I played with a controller and it actually worked smoothly.)
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Labyronia RPG
Labyrinths and a story that surprises
Enter a realm in which mortals played gods, and ultimately failed.
Graphics: Ø The graphics aren’t surprising, and they are standard - but they are even in their “enlarged” state not ugly and not unsightly.
Sound: Ø Quite standard fare for a RPGMaker game. Nothing outstanding, but also nothing too annoying.
Playability: + The game has some traps laid out, but those actually make the game work perfect in all other areas. The traps are, spots were a low level character can get killed too easily… so take care, and play through the game. I encountered no bugs… some minor typos and a game that ran smoothly and without even once crashing - and I tried hard to get it crashing… No chance at this. You can’t save everywhere in the game which actually isn’t bad at all. And encounters are often visible on the maps (only not on the world map).
– Real player with 39.3 hrs in game
-Quick Review-
Labyronia RPG was developed by Labyrinthine and released in 2015. As it’s name suggests: Labyronia is an RPG. being an RPG there are many common themes that you experience in this genre of games: Emphasis on story, monster grinding, and gear juggling.
-Detailed breakdown review-
Story: You play as Arres, a particularly gifted Mage and student of Ibiz, you start your quest in an isolated shanty, and very little explanation on what to do. Like many classic RPG’s you don’t start out knowing what your goal is, you need to systematically talk to everyone and eventually come across the objective.
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game