BOOMER SLAYERS
“The Boomer Slayers come to purge the world of filth and bring masculinity and brutality back to society”
BOOMER SLAYERS is an indie game by a single Russian developer. It is a mix of an old-school gameplay and modern-retro looks with boomer humor and some Slav jokes.
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Use your BADASS character to clear The Building by using brute force! Use your JUSTICE PUNSH to interact with enemies and environment.
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Eat NANO-FOOD to restore your health and try not to die in combat mayhem.
Play with your badass friends in local co-op mode!
Try to do your best not to die of laughter.
When you’re ready, switch from GAME JOURNALIST DIFFICULTY to NORMAL and test your might in a REAL CHALLENGE. Slay your enemies LIKE A BOSS!
(Some in-game jokes may be understandable only to native Russians)
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Rogue Star Rescue
Rogue Star Rescue is a fun top down twin stick shooter that really shines when it comes to multiplayer. There are a variety of guns, each with a fairly unique feel, to find and use to blast through the levels. The main story mode features a variety of levels connected in a branching map (think Starfox 64). Each different path has a potential way to reach one of the 32 different endings. This coupled with the randomized room layouts, guns, and items gives Rogue Star Rescue a fair bit of replay-ability. The core gameplay loop is fun, and there are multiple higher difficulties where enemies are more numerous to keep things from feeling too easy. There is a whole trap system, but that only comes into play during boss battles at the end of each stage. There is a wave survival mode focused around those boss rooms if you want to focus on the tower defense aspect of the game.
– Real player with 88.7 hrs in game
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This is a great multiplayer game. I had plenty of fun with friends on this one. It can be challenging but not alright unforgiving. A good game to pickup for professionals looking for a slightly more relaxed time and some laughs, or for a new player to this genre to pick up this style of game.
There is multiple routes, a few characters, unlockables, and difficulty selector for one to want to replay the game multiple times. There was some quirky moments like somehow I’m inside a room and my friend will teleport into the room and land right into enemy fire, or on rare occasions where the door won’t open for them at all causing me to have to clear the room by self. Overall, no too devastating bugs that is a deal breaker. I am sure they will be smoothed out over time.
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
I’ve had half of an eye on Stardust Galaxy Warriors since it hit Steam Greenlight. I bought it, and my impression of it then was that it was an alright introduction to shmups. I’d hoped to get some of my friends into shmups by playing this with them, but due to my IRL friends being non-gamers, this didn’t pan out. I’ve attempted to get myself through some of the achievements every now and then, so I’ve put an hour into this game “here and there,” and then I put the game down again because I wanted to play something else - I must admit that this game was not made for someone like me. Yet somehow, I keep finding myself playing this game alone, and every time I pick it up I am not disappointed. This game has, so far, been the highlight of my quest through my backlog.
– Real player with 36.5 hrs in game
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To start off, I highly recommend anyone that enjoys side scrolling shooters to purchase this game, it is a must have. Feel free to keep reading if you want to know my reason.
I’m not a hardcore fan of shoot-em-ups, I didn’t even know what the word “shump” meant until today, but what I do know is that this game is really fun.
The game is very easy to pick up and play, the controls and mechanics are simple and none of that convoluted stuff, which I feel is a great thing. I don’t want to spend an hour learning about wierd game mechanics when all I want to do is just destroy enemies.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Crimsonland
Crimsonland is a classic top-down twin-stick shooter. The game focuses on the important things of the genre like good controls and fluent gameplay even with massive amounts of enemies on the screen, and skips uninteresting things, like a Story.
### Controls:
And since we are at it, the controls are smooth and working precise at any given moment. I played the game with keyboard and mouse. I haven’t tried it with my controller yet.
### Technic:
In my whole time with the game I never had any stutters or fps drops. The game ran smoosh at any given time, even when the whole screen was filled with enemies and effects.
– Real player with 59.0 hrs in game
With a very fitting soundtrack, amazingly fun and big mix of weapons, perks and power-ups and the ability to speed the gameplay up by 1.5x creates an epic, fast-paced twin-stick gore-fest of a game that is extremely difficult to beat on the highest difficulty.
This game has received many updates throughout it’s release on Steam and I think the game is currently at a good state of balance.
Including many other changes, the biggest is that previously you could not use perks in the quest game mode, which you now can by enabling it from the options menu, which was a part of the original 2003 game.
– Real player with 39.7 hrs in game
MARK-I: Mission Pilot
Good way to spend evening, with your friend! Pretty fun and intense on extreme difficulty, we wait for new levels :)
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Good shoot-em-up
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate
Despite the deep hues, this game feels more approrpriate for the Spring season than Autumn. I’m not sure why that is, but I correctly trusted my gut. I ended up finishing this well into the summer, mostly due to IRL obligations and my desire to find every gem & scientist.
I love this game because there’s less emphasis on killing organisms and more importance placed on navigating the environments to save humans from perishing. I have to commend Q-Games for that direction, something that I wish wasn’t so rare in the contemporary videogame landscape.
– Real player with 21.7 hrs in game
★★★★☆
PJSU is a great coop experience, but weirdly enough you’ll notice a bunch of levels seem to be made with the mindset of a singleplayer game, as some levels felt too cramped and tight for the double action. Luckily, these levels appear a view times, mostly only in the second half of the game. This half happen to be my least favourite part, because the first half just had slightly better level design in overall.
I’d like to point out again how much fun the game is with a collabortive partner. Most levels are kind of boring by yourself, but are more intense and interesting with another player next to you as he or she can harm you too by accident. Nevertheless, while hunting down the last achievements by myself (because of a specific tracking bug), I still did enjoy the music (when it works 60% of the time) and the water mechanics. It’s always satisfying to shoot open a hole where the water bursts out of and negates the magma below.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Retro Wars
Overview
Take on an entire army in this 80s inspired retro top down vertical scrolling shooter.
Be a one man war machine or take a friend into battle for some fun 2 player local co-op.
Rescue POWs before they are executed
You will be heavily out numbered….
You will be heavily out gunned….
Advance through the levels tactically so you are not over whelmed!
Cautiously make your way to the enemy base on each of the 8 increasingly challenging levels and use whatever cover you find to evade enemy fire.
Use grenades to escape if you are pinned down by the enemy troops or trapped by an enemy tank patrol.
Features
Single player and two player couch co-op action
8 campaign levels to blast your way through
4 difficulty modes which can be set independently for each player
Rescue POWs before they are executed in front of you
Parachute munition drops to be collected
Throw grenades at enemies to take out multiple troops at once
Destroy enemy vehicles for bonus points
Customizable joystick sensitivity
Use level objects as tactical cover
Retro 8 directional movement to take you back to the 80s
Balacera Brothers
Balacera Brothers is a steam videogame featuring a nasty backlash informants in a phase of traveling sections in slime covered levels…somewhat a smart bristling game with cropped creative boss battles in a discreet search smuggled to the top distinction of love i give this game a 10/10 a umbrella stick of sharpening stones of chaos blistering action rowdy in a bundle of bones love the burrito master!!!
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
If you like the Contra/Probotector games, then I highly recommend this game.
GAMEPLAY:
The game plays like the Contra/Probotector games. Which means: running from left to right, shooting bad guys as you go and avoiding hazards and pits. You can do this alone or with a second player. You can collect various types of weapons and hold two of them at a time. However, if you die, you will lose the weapon that you were using. The game has six stages. Each stage getting more difficult than the last.
Difficulty:
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Bartlow’s Dread Machine
Check out the full written review: https://www.confidentgamers.com/blog/bartlows-dread-machine-review-pc
Bartlow’s Dread Machine takes us back to the simpler times when arcade machines were more mechanical filled with gears, pulleys and levers. This twin stick shooter injects a small dose of style and imagery which we quite welcomed. While not perfect, Bartlow’s Dread Machine does hold our attention long enough, taking us through a story filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense.
The twin stick shooter has been around for awhile, but Tribetoy and Beep Games have presented it in a new stylish package. The details of the moving mechanical gears and parts to the old time amusement park music, Bartlow’s Dread Machine is a refreshing entry in the gaming market place. This game is simple, but also throws you into the gauntlet which puts a smile on your face when you make it out.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
I’m generally not a fan of Early Access, so this was the first time I’d ever bought a game early. From the second I saw a trailer, I knew I had to have it. Months ago, I enjoyed the first few worlds. Today, there’s some good and bad within the full product. There are a few difficulty spikes in the later half of the game, and the unfavorable lives system causes some frustration. And sometimes the environments are a bit too dark to really get a good grip on things. But outside of those few gripes, this is a twin stick shooter unlike any other I’ve ever played. The one hundred year old style is really cool, reminding me a lot of pinball. The way the levels shift, the way everything is attached to metal rods, and the way the characters automate are all really delightful. Going all-in on that presentation reminds me a lot of Puppeteer (PS3) which I find is extremely underrated. There’s a lot of love that went into fully realizing what a turn-of-the-20th-century game would look, sound, and feel like. I wasn’t initially sure how the traversal would feel, but moving around the slotted tracks as you blast the various types of foes is both satisfying and fun. Fans of serviceable gameplay, who really love games with rich, unique atmospheres should find plenty to enjoy.
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Dead End Job
Ok, finally beat it…I think if I understood things more it may have happened faster. I dig the gameplay. I only played single player. I think the explanations on items are in code…I mean come on…item descriptions are so vague. Some items don’t even do anything…then their worth after the level was a joke. Maybe that is what they were going for…Maybe I am too serious. Overall things were repetitive but I enjoyed it…nice colors and sometimes I got hit by what I don’t know…health was pretty abundant. Hint: make the vac stronger. I totally recommend if you like the dungeon never know what your walking into but excited to shoot things. Also I used the steam controller the whole time. Use your items people!!! I bought it on sale :)
– Real player with 22.0 hrs in game
Dead End Job is a roguelike/roguelite shooter game in which you play as a ghost hunter.
There’s not an awful lot of narrative to the game, but there are plenty of different ghost types (which get progressively harder as the game goes on), booster items, and skills to unlock as you level up.
It’s a pretty hard game, and took me one playthrough of a few hours to get the hang of it, and the second playthrough to actually beat the game.
The music is monotonous and becomes annoying after a while, but the visual aesthetics and colour scheme are pleasing to the eye - as many have said, they are inspired by John K of Ren and Stimpy fame.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game