Hiro’s Escape
Hiro’s family has been scattered by the Onin War in 1467 feudal Japan. He must sneak past guards using sticks and wits, making his way through the Yamana clan’s growing territory. Maneuver past guards or bait them into their allies' arrows and sword slashes. Get ready for close calls, narrow escapes, unintended solutions, and unexpected danger…
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A moving, 10+ hr refugee story spanning 100+ engagements in a beautiful 4-color GAMEBOY-esque art style
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Approachable, simple but deep stealth action gameplay with puzzle-like elements. Manipulate enemy AI to break down obstacles, change positions, and more!
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Experience 3 regions surrounding Kyoto Japan in 1467 Japan: the lush Higashiyama Forest, the winding Takano River, and the overrun Shokoku-ji Buddhist Temple
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Be careful. Be creative. Some levels have clear paths, others are open-ended
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Hiro’s Escape is planned for a 2021 release on PC and MacOS.
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Until Sunset
Until Sunset is a stealth puzzle, you need to think carefully before making any decisions.
You find yourself in a school shooting, you need to go out and also understand what happened. There are clues about what happened throughout the school, use this to your advantage.
There are several shooters in the school, try not to confront them, stealth is always better. Are you ready to escape this?
Main Features
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Puzzles
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Stealth
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Story
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Gunpoint
Gunpoint is a sidescrolling stealth platformer with smooth jazz, guns and cool hats.
I’ve never been a gigantic fan of platformers, but this game is a big, big exception in my library, and I felt I needed to address this by updating my review in 2020. I’m going to reinforce this by saying that I have MANY more hours than steam says, and it provided me with endless entertainment on a couple of bus rides half way across the country, and that says something!
Gunpoint is unique in that it’s stealthy gameplay extends much further than ‘sneak around, shoot guy’ with some pretty complicated puzzles made by the in-game wiretapping feature “Crosslink”, which leaves every level open ended, akin to something like Metal Gear Solid V in a completely new medium.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
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-Quick Review-
Gunpoint is an indie puzzle game with loose ties to “stealth” and “technology”, Gunpoint was developed by Suspicious Developments and released 2013.
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Story: The story is all in written format, somedays I feel like reading all that is writen in a video game, other times I see a chunk of text and think “I don’t really care” and skip right into the mission.
Gunpoint lets you skip dialogue and jump right into the puzzle solving action if you feel so inclined, however the story is quite well written. You’re a detective and have multiple choices for interaction with your clients. (Naturally I was as condescending and insulting as possible – the reactions were very much worth it!)
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
I, Zombie
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I, Zombie is a puzzle game with some occasional stealth elements. It plays a lot like a web game, with clear inspiration drawn from games like Infectonator.
The basic mechanics of each puzzle require you to either turn everyone into a zombie, or turn a specific character into a zombie. You accomplish these tasks in two different ways. For the levels where you have to infect everyone, you will generally try to sneak up on easy targets to help build up your zombie army, before taking on the more difficult targets. There are a variety of tactics you can use, although you will quickly figure out the best strategies. You have loose control over your zombie army, but nothing like an RTS game would have. The second type of level, where you need to infect one specific person, has much harder enemies so you can’t just build up an army to win. These are essentially stealth levels, where getting shot once usually means death. They aren’t terrible, but the are definitely less fun than the normal levels. Some of them are frustratingly designed, requiring you to have almost perfect timing, but in general they are okay.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
This is pretty decent little action puzzle game, albeit with not much in the way of replayability beyond redoing the levels until you find the way to keep all your zombie minions alive on each level.
The gameplay is pretty simple - you start off a lone zombie who has to infect everyone in the level (with a couple of exceptions where you have to dodge the patrolling guards and just munch on the scientist at the end, and one case where you start off with a single turned zombie on the opposite side of the map with yourself trapped and unable to move), and each level basically you have to work out which groups of civilians or soldiers you should attack in what order, and with what timing on their patrol route in order to avoid getting your brains blasted out before you get to them. Early levels are pretty straightforward, the later levels tend to require a bit more planning of where to go and when, plus along the way there are a few tips and tricks you can pick up of how to manage your fellow zombies.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Semispheres
I played through this game in one sitting and found it very enjoyable.
I didn’t try it without a controller but you’d proooobably be okay without one? You control the two “things” with two joysticks, but I can’t remember any part that took extremely precise angles or coordination so wasd/arrow keys are likely adequate. There are two other buttons necessary (shoulder buttons on controller), so thumbs/pinkies would be needed too on keyboard. Definitely recommend controller if at all possible, but you can always try it out and refund it if the controls are annoying.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
If you take a brief glance at a video for this you may think it’s all about timing and dexterity but it’s nothing of the sort. This is a puzzler through and through.
You have two rooms: orange on the left, blue on the right, with a jellyfish in each. The two rooms are usually identical, sometimes there is a small difference. Using your left and right controller sticks, you have to move both of your jellyfish to the exit portals at the opposite ends of the rooms. Doorways are guarded by sentinels with vision arcs, and if one of your jellyfish gets caught by an arc he’s zapped back to his starting position.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
The Great Chicken Thief
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– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
DanCop - Daniela on Duty
A fun stealth game. It’s not too hard to get through the levels, but getting the extra achievements like beating the clock and picking up the hidden badge add a nice extra challenge.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Simple yet effective stealth game. Now without achievement breaking bug !
Took me 7h to 100%. Some of it is agreeably challenging.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Dark Crypt
Dark Crypt is a wonderfully spooky puzzle game which not only is it a great addition for your collection, but also great to chill and play around Halloween. Enjoy a turn based adventure through a crypt full of the undead to stop a slumbering evil from rising to power.
Every few levels or so introduces a new mechanic which so far as I’ve played, adds to the fun. The turn based movement and undo system means you can take all the chances and time you need to get through a level, but you can also skip levels if needed. The puzzles can be challenging but it feels good figuring out how to proceed and reaching that next level. To top it all off, the game has great atmospheric audio and music which blends well and compliments the visual tone of the game. If you’re looking for a cheap and interesting puzzle game to play, then give Dark Crypt a go.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Damn, this is a smart game!
Reminds me somewhat of the Lara Croft GO-Game, and also Hitman GO (whereas the latter was more Quantity than Quality) … DARK CRYPT brings a Roguelike-Aesthetic to the table, but at it’s heart it’s still a Puzzler: it eases you into it’s mechanics, every new obstacle has an introductory level, and then it combines them all together into a mindbending turn-based Stealth-Conundrum, where you have to navigate a spooky Dungeon and time your steps with the patterns of various Traps and Fiends, always having to think one step ahead.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5. The alpha is 6/10 for me. Here are the Positives, the Art-style of the game is beautiful, the Controls and Physics are way better than the first game in my opinion, and messing around in the game is really fun especially seeing how the “AI” reacts to certain things.
Here are the Negatives, The Game is extremely un-optimized like I’m getting 30 fps sometimes, the puzzles are really difficult and random. For example, there’s a bored up window on the outside of the house and there’s a tree right next to it. Most would think that the tree has no collision BUT IT DOES! So you have to jump on the branch of that tree and throw an item through the window to hit a lever. WHAT THE HECK?!? and Finally my last complain is that the GUEST IS ALWAYS ON YOU! after going inside the house once he is always on you. That’s my review hope it helped a lot.
– Real player with 30.3 hrs in game
There are a lot of bugs here and there and there seems to be a countless amount of downgrades from the gameplay trailer we all got to watch and love but that doesn’t take away the outstanding new game we all are going to get sometime in 2021. The new gameplay features added to this new roleplaying horror game makes the series all the better. A brand new story with brand new characters cannot be denied as a good and well created game. Over the updates and new alphas this game will get, I truely hope this game will become what we all saw and loved from the gameplay trailer and that they clear the bugs and glitches. And with all that being said, this brand new sequal to this series is worth trying out and hopefully gets the attention and love that this game deserves.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
Larcin Lazer
Larcin Lazer is a puzzle game in which your memory is put to the test. Each level is filled with lasers that disappear as soon as you start moving. Move discreetly, relying on your memory to get to the end of the course. Be careful, lasers are not the only dangers standing in your way!
Larcin Lazer also come with:
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Guards, teleporters, locks, but also ghosts, giant lasers, weird buttons and a whole bunch of obstacles to put your memory to the test!
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More than 150 screens to explore and solve
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5 worlds with unique visual and sound atmospheres
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Super hard bonus levels, for players with the best memory
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Jazzy music to delight your ears