Dead Ink
In the year 2207 the quantum state of your brain was encoded in a stream of photons and beamed into the cosmos. A pioneer of a glorious new age of light-speed travel, destined for fame and glory… at least that was the plan.
Fight
Plunged into a hostile world where every being is made of ink and manufactured at 3D printers, you must harvest ink to survive. Fight your way down a hand-crafted labyrinthine tower in this hardcore melee combat experience.
Escape
Choose between printing the best gear with your hard-won ink, or using it sparingly to get more chances. Can you escape from the tower or will you run out of ink?
A Hardcore Experience
Dead Ink is designed as a hardcore experience with uncompromising and punishing combat. Running out of ink will result in a game over and starting from scratch.
Features
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Souls-like with a unique 3D-printing core mechanic
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Unravel a nonlinear, hand-crafted vertical environment
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Anticipated 6-10 hour play time with a variety of weapons, enemies and bosses
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Harvest ink from enemies and use it to print your corporeal form, weapons and items
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Choose how to spend your ink — on better gear, making more attempts, or on blueprint upgrades
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Running out of ink is game over
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Mithos
The last moon needs you
Mithos is a semi-open world fantasy Filipino 2D ARPG featuring a vast world of pre-colonial Philippines with historical polities, traditions, architectures and brutal weapons of war set in late 1400s. Join Bughaw as he fight ferocious mythological beasts and monsters in a Real-Time combat system to save the last moon against the Great Four Moon Eaters.
Hirangbanwa, A Medieval-Themed Philippines
Explore the archipelago of Hirangbanwa where multiple polities like Tondun, Kaboloan, Sibung and Butawan rule over the islands. Discover the culture and livelihood of multiple polities, from the way they live, The gods they worship, and political conflicts.
Coexist with malevolent creatures
The world is filled with dangerous and evil creatures that has been told by the ancestors of the land for centuries. From the impish Duwendes, Blood thirsty Sigbin even the larger Juggernauts like the Ikugan (Filipino Bigfoot) and Bungisngis, the giggling cyclops are there just waiting for you to make the wrong move.
A very simple Action RPG game
Improve your reflex skills by reading each monster’s unique attack pattern and skills. Discover which type of weapon works better for a specific monster and how would they react on those specific weapons.
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DarkMaus
Pros:
Thoughtful, weighty combat
Eerie, atmospheric music
Interesting use of light and line of sight as a gameplay mechanic
Well designed bosses and general enemies
Doesn’t hold your hand - allows you to discover mechanics and preferred playstyles for yourself
Cons:
Simplistic art style
Awkward controls
Frequent crashes
Friendly AI often bugs out, sometimes with frustrating consequences
Possible to miss important items early on, making the game much more difficult
DarkMaus is an interesting, generally well made top down RPG which takes clear inspiration from Dark Souls, though it has enough unique and interesting mechanics to hold the player’s attention. It may not be as long as a Souls game, but this means that it doesn’t outstay its welcome and, overall, is a very good experience for the pricetag.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
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THIS IS A VERY LONG REVIEW/THERE WILL BE A TL;DR AT THE BOTTOM
After a much longer length of gameplay than expected, I’d finally completed Dark Maus, albeit with a sour taste in my mouth. Before you read, please know I am a veteran Souls player. I’ve spent, literally, thousands of hours in these games, collectively. Also know, that I don’t see any of those four titles as perfect. Each one has some pretty strong weaknesses, but generally these are overlooked because the games are so well crafted. I strongly urge everyone AGAINST using this in reference to, or as part of the Souls series style of games. This game differs heavily and it’s most prominent features make it more akin to a horror game with action/rpg elements.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
10mg: HANDMADEDEATHLABYRINTH issue 0
Removing the procedurally generated aspect from the beloved roguelite seems like a risk, and it is – but with careful game design, Handmadedeathlabyrinth delivers: through incisively selected data that carries over across runs, and a dungeon that goes by faster and faster as you learn its inner workings, a convincing argument is made that procedural generation isn’t necessarily integral to the roguelite feeling. And learning is indeed the name of the game here: studying how traps and enemies work – trying new methods of handling what’s thrown at you – is a delightful journey of discovery. From start to finish, barring extra content, the game is only 30 (not quite 10!) minutes or so.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
I purchased the full 10 Minute Game Collection and am going to play them in the order they appear in my library. That means this is #4 of 10.
Know in advance what you are getting. As the collection title suggests, a ten minute game is not a triple A title. It is a short game-jam-esque proof of concept / working prototype / execution of an idea. At least that’s what I’m going to infer from first impressions.
So far the quality of these little 10 minute games has been superb. Let me say this from the outset; this game is a mini masterpiece.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Don’t Fall
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Dont Fall is a game i would HIGHLY recommend for people who stream or you just have a group of friends you want to have some fun with! When i played with my friend Neenjeba and Vampy1001 on stream this game made me laugh so much i had a ton of fun in stream with this treasure. All the weapons have their own unique qualities it needs a little fine tuning but all in all its a great little game if you just want to relax and have fun! I will be playing this again with friends and yes at first glace this doesn’t look like much of a game but this is so fun! Dev’s did an amazing job on this one well done!!
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Where do I start? I got this game for free to stream it as I was sponsored to do so. I was excited about the sponsorship and the game actually looked like fun. THAT is where the excitement ended. It was painfully hard to keep playing for the minimum required 2 hrs. Now I WILL say,the game does have a lot of promise. But that is all I can say positive about it. Unless you have people already lined up to play with you,you will be waiting forever for anyone to queue in to play with you. The instructions/tutorial is VERY bare bones. The keyboard mouse configuration sucks and is awkward to use. The option to use a controller would be MUCH appreciated. BEWARE! If you are using a headset and turn the game on for the 1st time,the main screen music will blast your eardrums until you manually turn it down. The colors are dull and could use some brightening up. Choosing items in the game is awkward,which AGAIN could be easily remedied by having controller support. Also the sound effects are minimal and the game play could use some ambient music in the background. I am NOT giving up on this indie game,but neither am I very optimistic. 2.5 out of 5 stars.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Dragonpath
This reminded me a bit of playing Sunken recently, I like the combat and mechanics alot better here, Sunken has nicer graphics but lacks dashing and combat speed. Wish they would team up to make the best of both worlds.^^
Played the first 2 levels and I must say the dodging, blocking and attacking feels great.
Downsides are on the sound design (not bad, but you can tell there are some free stock sounds in there), graphical detail (the head of your character looks a bit like a potato) and trashmob design (like 1-3 mobs per room instead of typical arpg hordes, bosses were fine tho)
– Real player with 29.5 hrs in game
Can’t really recommend here’s why…
First off I bought this on sale. 66% off… what a Deal!
There is 4 chapters of play, with 4 levels in each chapter. Items are very bland and generic, and you can just upgrade them in the “outpost” and gold is so easy to get you will always have them maxed out, I’m pretty sure I used the same set of gear from my first run threw as I did up threw newgame+4…. Had a weapon with Bleed and Thundering, and a trinket with lifesteal it was over from there on everyone was smacked around like it was nothing, And there was no way for me to get weaker, I just had to stop at a outpost and upgrade my gear to my new max… I wish this was more then it is, because I kind of like it, but at the same time there is to much and to little going on at the same time..
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Loot River
Transform the world
Set in a series of procedurally generated labyrinths, Loot River is a dungeon crawling action roguelike that combines tense, real-time combat and dark fantasy settings with spatial block-shifting.
Defeat bestial abominations
Armed with the power of the Relic, players can shift the ground beneath them, sliding floating ruins together in a series of tile puzzles. As players venture through these endless catacombs, they’ll encounter beasts, lost travelers, and bosses. These cosmic grottos offer a wealth of new weapons and gear to discover, as well as unholy knowledge to unearth for permanent upgrades.
Game Features
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Slide ruins of an old dungeon to defeat your foes
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Forge your path through ancient abandoned fortress
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Meet horrifying beast from alternate realities, as well as other wandering nomads
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Wake up in a parallel universe after each death - navigate through thousands of unique, yet familiar dungeons
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Defeat enemies your way - unlock many different abilities, items and weapons, each with unique look, animations, powers, and style
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Gain knowledge and experience, level up, and defeat powerful bosses
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Immerse yourself in a beautiful, hand drawn, pixel art with fluid animations, real time 3D shadows, and astonishing water simulation
The Bounty V2
monsters, traps, puzzles, dungeons, secrets, enemies, treasure chests - perhaps the best game i saw that is made with an rpg maker!
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
The Bounty has to be one of the most unique games I’ve ever played. Myself coming from Nex Machina and Pacman 256. I needed another high scoring nostalgia type of game. And this is where the Bounty comes in. This is not your ordinary RPG game. It’s a high scoring RPG. A humorous one at that. This is described as a Dragon Quest type of game. Which could be true but I’ve never played those. But this game reminds me of nes classics like Zelda, Final Fantasy and Uncle fester’s quest(music wise). The music is really good in this game. Really captures the feel of the 8 bit era. The game is not super hard but challenging enough. The puzzles really challenge your common sense. I can even use a Dog whistle to signal a partner for my battle. Overall. It’s a fun game. I recommend playing this especially for $4.99. It’s really worth it.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Titan Souls
For people who’ll TLDR, here’s the verdict. This game is amazing but it’s specifically aimed towards people who like a darn good challenge and don’t care about dying a LOT. Not like in Super Meat Boy where it’s fast paced but still holds a lot of the trial and error.
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I don’t think the constant not recommended reviews said to be the most helpful give this game the right kind of justice. This game is very, very good. I had way too much fun playing it. It’s really short however, and would have liked more bosses to fight.
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Playing status: 100% achievement
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (24 achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): Yes (~12 achievements - the game is hard).
Intro
Titan Souls is a boss rush game with a unique concept: one life for you and your enemies. There are 18+2 bosses in total, each with varying difficulty.
Pros:
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18+2 bosses
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New game plus with modifiers for those who want some challenge
Cons:
- No mouse support - aiming with keyboard is difficult
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Unsouled
I was a backer of this project and have play-tested the early builds before the developer has announced that this game is going to be published by Neowiz. If you really want to see the game that pushes the limitation of stamina-action game mechanics (AKA souls-like), You guys need to play this game. Imagine someone mixed Hyper Light Drifter, Sekiro, 3D Ninja Gaiden, and Tekken in an iron pot and condensed it into 5~8 hour game. Definitely one of the best action games in 2021, even without the context that this game was developed by one person for five years.
– Real player with 33.2 hrs in game
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Review by Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam.
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Is this game a masterpiece? No, I don’t think so, at least not for everyone. It is a very combo-focused, fast action RPG. The pixel art is good (your character and enemies are quite small), but the combat is something to get used to. You won’t get very far with just normal attacks, you really need to learn those combos and execute them lightning fast and with good aim. If you like that, and normal button mashing combat is too easy or repetitive for you, then take a closer look at this game. You will not be disappointed.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game