Death Wish
Death Wish is an adventure game where you accompany the last boss of the game who, tired of waiting for the player to farm, starts looking for the hero who disappeared during the game.
During your adventure, you will have to defeat enemies using your telekinetic powers, such as village guards, focal NPCs in the story and even bargain with the death itself, so that it catches the hero’s attention and unleashes the battle that our character so desires.
The game contains several different areas with different ways to be completed, as well as bosses that you will have to defeat along the way and several secondary NPCs who just want to know what’s going on.
Venture into this world following the opposite path that the hero followed behind clues and crumbs, exploring the fantasy world in pixel art and listening to beautiful music along the way.
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Freedom Planet 2
Join the heroes of Avalice as they face their greatest challenge yet! An ancient terror has emerged from the depths of the ocean. Merga, a water dragon from Avalice’s oldest and deadliest war, has been freed from her crystal prison as a consequence of the Kingdom Stone’s destruction. War is imminent once again, but this time, the heroes are split between sides. As friendships are tested, will the girls stand united when Bakunawa rises?
Features
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Four playable characters available from the start, each with her own unique fighting style: Lilac the Dragon Girl (Speed Type), Carol the Wildcat (Brawler Type), Milla the Hound (Explorer Type), and Neera the Frost Knight (Power Type).
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Explore the world of Avalice in Adventure mode. Travel through a sprawling world map filled with treasures, landmarks, and over 100 unique animal NPCs to interact with and catalog.
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Dive straight into the action with Classic Mode. A streamlined navigation screen gives you quick access to stages and other important features without the need for travelling.
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Test your fighting skills in the Battlesphere arena. Once reached, the Battlesphere hosts a variety of challenges featuring enemies and bosses you’ve previously encountered, along with brand new surprises!
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Parry enemy attacks with the new Guard button. If timing’s not your thing, an Auto Guard item exists in the game that makes your character automatically guard against attacks if possible.
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A new Revival system gives you a chance to clinch victory during very close battles. Use it wisely - it costs a stock and one more hit will knock you out again!
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Power up your heroine with customizable potions. Collect and mix a rainbow of ingredients that boost her vitality in different ways, such as increasing her stock count, shield durability, attack power, speed, and more.
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Change the rules with a multitude of equippable items. Amulets and Charms provide helpful effects, while Brave Stones make combat harder in exchange for bonus crystals.
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Insectophobia : Episode 1
this game changed me. Gameplay is truly out of this world. Hyped for part 2!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
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please, NEVER buy this game, this game is a method of torture used in the cold war.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Leopoldo Manquiseil
A challenging yet fair platformer with around 3-4 hours of content. Levels consist mostly of environmental hazards like spikes and rotating platforms instead of enemies.
The only major blemish is that there are a few lines of text in the game that weren’t properly translated into English, but it’s not a plot driven game.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
Leopoldo Manquisel falls flat on its face because of the extremely finicky controls. The jumps are extremely high, so your main concern is to not accidentally headbutt into an enemy. The collision detection is suffering for large hitboxes. If you stand close to an enemy your shots litterally go right through him. It is next to impossible to jump+dash over hazards in a narrow corridor with a low ceiling (this is mainly an issue when using a controller). And on and on it goes with unfair deaths. Oh, I almost forgot, ‘shoot’ and ‘dash’ are reversed from their conventional position on the controller.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Tiny Thor
What’s this game about?
Tiny Thor is a platformer with a 16-bit aesthetic and fresh gameplay. Central to the game design and in the grip of the protagonist is Mjölnir, the legendary hammer. It can be freely aimed and bounces off of surfaces and enemies, enabling all kinds of trick shots.
The game has been carefully designed around this premise: Hit enemies in their weak spots, trigger that switch behind the corner or jam it between a wall and the boss for consecutive hits, while you dodge its attacks.
The combat takes turns with platforming, sometimes tight and precise, sometimes loose and flowing, and is regularly escalated into exhilarating boss battles, which will test your mettle.
Some light physics puzzles which utilise the unique mechanics of our second, bouncy protagonist round off the experience.
All of this happens within a meticulously crafted and beautifully rendered world that holds many surprises, secrets and wonders waiting for you.
Features
16-Bit pixel art by the legendary Henk Nieborg
Pumpin’ soundtrack by the equally legendary Chris Hülsbeck
Master the ricocheting hammer throws to overwhelm enemies
Learn awesome special capabilities and weapon upgrades
Explore over 30 handcrafted levels across three distinct worlds
Challenging boss fights, each with unique mechanics
Pick your brain to solve environmental puzzles
Discover lots of **secrets ** and collect the hidden gems to unlock challenge levels
A small story about a boy taking responsibility
Bring Back The Sun by Daniel da Silva
Playing status: finished the game, 243 deaths
Intro
Bring Back The Sun by Daniel da Silva is a platformer game where you need to traverse the area to reach the exit. It offers a simplistic control where you only need arrow keys or WASD to move.
Pros:
- A lot of levels
Cons:
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Sometimes you can’t see what’s beneath you, forcing you to take a leap of faith to jump
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Some mechanics feel cheap
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The fast camera movement when you are jumping can give you a headache
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
this would be a neutral review if steam had one
bring back the sun is a game made by a small developer
its a platformer game, nice music
i didn’t get to fully experience the game because i cant get used to the camera movement when jumping, it makes it hard to play
(kind of makes you rage)
if you can, please improve the jump camera and make it so you can zoom out a bit more as you cant see whats below you most of the time
price is also a bit higher than it should be
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Cold Hill
Nice platformer with good vibe
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Mostly Boring
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a platforming game where you play as a pair of characters that can switch on the fly, changing the environment, the enemies, and in a lot of parts, the available collectible crystals. Crystal collecting and switching are at the core of this game, and not much else.
Don’t expect much of a story. I’ll be honest, I found none myself, so this is really just pure game. The problem is that the game it is isn’t very good.
Navigate levels by jumping and either spinning, which turns the character into a kind of cannon ball that can break walls or attack enemies; or twisting, which allows the character to descend slowly and with more control after a jump.
– Real player with 54.7 hrs in game
Personal rating: 8/10
What about Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams?
This seemingly cute and unambitious platformer will prove that you should never judge a book by its cover. It sports increasingly challenging level making use of the core mechanic; dual world that can change how enemies and the environment behaves around you.
The game is so cutesy, it must be easy! Hint: It is not
Although the game starts simple and easy it soon becomes one of the most difficult platforming games with long levels full of secret paths leading to more gems, which you will need to explore if you wish to earn the best rank.
– Real player with 29.0 hrs in game
Master Whip
This game is not AIDS
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Master Whip is another GameMaker Studio asset flip from serial copy+paste infringers, ImperiumGame. All these guys do is rip off game templates and projects from the Yoyogames/GameMaker Studio store and try to scam people into paying for someone else’s work on Steam. They have run asset flip scams dozens of times, and this is no exception. It’s nothing but a cash grab.
This time they’ve ripped off a basic template for a 2D retro pixel platformer.
In line with dishonest asset flippers, the game was dumped immediately at launch into DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles. It’s massively overpriced. Even if this wasn’t just an asset flip, it would be garbage. Impossible to recommend.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Must Reach
[0.2] Controls & Training & Help
[0.1] Menu & Settings
[0.1] Sound & Music
[0.1] Graphics
[0.3] Game Design
[0] Game Story
[0.1] Game Content
[0] Completion time (level/game)?
[0] is it Enjoyable & Fun?
[0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again)
[0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related
[0] BONUS point: Review for VR
Stars received: 0.9/10 ___ Note: v.4 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
Game description key-points: poorly designed plat-former
Overview: low quality game
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Must Reach is a “template flip”, that is to say, it’s a “game” that has been produced by copying a game template from GameMaker Studio, changing a few things, then dumping the barely functional “product” on Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. In this case it was a GameMaker Studio template for doing a simple retro platformer game.
GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and results in terrible games like this one.
No professional effort was made in terms of game development, using a game construction kit requires no game development talent, and unsurprisingly produces products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. It’s almost as bad as an outright asset flip.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game