Airball
This is an extremely challenging and often unfair classic that relies on memorization of the level and delicate controls. Unfortunately this is a DOSBox emulation of the PC game, which did indeed include the graphics of the 16 bit Atari ST and Amiga versions, but doesn’t seem to have any actual music. At least I couldn’t get it running. The game folder has .MUS files but the original manual doesn’t mention any music settings. As is, you get PC speaker noises as your sound and you’ll like it.
The controls aren’t explained in-game. Use arrow keys to move, Ctrl to jump and Space to pick up/drop items, P to pause. You will need to find a light to safely navigate dark rooms. You will also probably need to draw a map to keep track of this huge game.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
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Armored Xpress
Armored Xpress is a new unique story-driven Match 3 game built with rich RPG elements.
Embark on an extraordinary journey with Armored Xpress Agent 117 and MECH as they set off to deliver a top priority package all while fighting dangerous pirate gangs hired by the villainous “Defiant BOB”, who by the way has put a bounty on the package. To traverse through Sector 2 a region on the planet Entriga, the Armored Xpress Company felt it necessary to implement a more protective measure. “MECH” an advanced military grade delivery robot which can be equipped with an array of weapons and items allowing agents to defend against hostile threats. While delivering packages you can choose to help the towns people through various side quests which can unlock special rewards.
In combat Armored Xpress MECH uses energy from supply crates that are matched during play to power its weapons and systems. Weapons are available to fire at specific power levels with a maximum of 4 levels. You can strategically fire each weapon at will or wait until they are at their maximum level. This strategy allows you to reserve a weapon or unleash all the weapons at once for a truly devastating attack. Each supply crate matched with its corresponding color in groups of 3 fills the matching weapons power gauge. Supply crates matched with more then 3 of the same color generates a special care package crate. When broken these crates drastically boosts the corresponding weapons power gauge. Items and other abilities are powered by MECH’s ability gauge/ABG system which fills over time. Sequential matches in a turn generates a combo which fills the ABG faster allowing you to use abilities sooner.
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Story-Driven campaign - Help Agent 117 deliver a top priority package through perilous hostile region.
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Active Time Battle system - Actively battle your opponents without waiting.
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Fully explorable world - Explore a detailed and engaging 3d world.
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Full array of weapons and items- Purchase and equip up to 4 weapons onto MECH. Use restorative, supportive and attack items to your advantage. Equip various accessories for passive abilities.
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Unique Bosses and Enemies - Faceoff against colossal bosses and a host of devious enemies that use different abilities and attack patterns that can be affected by in-game world events.
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Experience based leveling system- Earn experience points from battles and quests to level up MECH.
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Quality - Armored Xpress is a premium game with no pesky in-app purchases here or ever.
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Django
I liked this game, and first of all look at the graphics its artistic. I was needing some hint at the starting but eventually after seeing the blossom kinda of tree ( meivazhi tree ) it was beautiful so what i did was straightly run to it. And the cut scene came. So i kinda had a idea about the tree. And the dog is fantastic, doberman is cool. Story was amazing too, the tiger scene absolutely cool. So yeah i recommend this game completely.
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nice background music
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cool story
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finding the way seemed hard but after completing its cool.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
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Downloaded this game as the price seems less.
My RIG is I5 6GB RAM and 4GB Graphics – Game Graphics High works.
No Direct Hints in this Game. Found out each and every story screen has the hints.
Wild Natural scenario are Good
Story of the Game is great. A Dog Find way back its family through a woods parallelly Father and son conversation about the dog and their past how dog help their family made the story still interesting.
Pros:
• Interesting Story
• No Direct Hints makes the game hard (hints are in the story scenes)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Don’t Dive Deep
Don’t Dive Deep
A sci-fi story of a face blind assassin sneaking into the spiritual world. Explore target memories in unique hand-drawn 2D scenes. Facing mental pollution. Unravel people’s thoughts and revise their thoughts.
Story:
The protagonist has facial blindness, but the protagonist can use these mental items to identify the target and modify the spirit of the target character. Players gradually discover the out-of-control problem between the reality and the spiritual world while investigating the world. The game started in the 2050s. The development of the spiritual network is mature. People directly use the brain to transfer information and knowledge to each other on the Internet. Due to the extensive expansion and application of the spiritual network, the spirit began to affect real life. It also opens up another spiritual dimension, where the spiritual world and the real world influence each other. As a result of Valentine’s Day love typhoons occur, resulting in increased emotional problems of mankind.
In the spiritual world, the spirit is embodied in the ecosystem. Emotions such as joy, anger, love and happiness have become various creatures. Various thoughts become different roles. The mental world and the real world influence each other and even lead to various out-of-control. The protagonist is commissioned by the government. Participate in the government’s investigation of the massive increase in mental attacks.
Interact with the investigative team’s partners, spiritual creatures and other characters to deepen the relationship. As the player investigates the mission objectives and local spiritual ecology. Players will gradually discover the reason why the boundary between the spirit and reality of this country is gradually on the verge of being out of control.
Gameplay:
Take psychology as the ecosystem. The gameplay is designed to incorporate psychological analysis.
2D horizontal exploration combined with reasoning and puzzle-solving gameplay. Players need to “explore” in the scenes of each map. Enter each spiritual space or the memory space of others to find clues, memories and other important items needed for the task.
“Reasoning and solving puzzles” will post clues collected by players through exploration on the clue wall. Players can connect relevant clues. Establish a mental model of task goals. Analyze the target’s “personality” and “thought” through clues. As long as the mental model is correct, the player can choose to add different new ideas to the target. For example, turning Christians into Buddhists and liberals into conservatives influences the development of the plot.
Monster Outbreak
About The Game
Monster Outbreak is a wave defence game at its core. You start with a resource building and gathering phase, followed by a wave of monster combat. How you do it is up to you, but you need to craft and build your tools:
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Melee and ranged weapons, from swords to bows to magical staffs
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Weapon based structures like the bomb slingshot and crossbow turret
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Trap structures like spike traps and bomb tripwires
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Weapon enchantments for elemental attacks
Feature List
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Wave survival. Fight as long as you can!
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Single player campaign, local split-screen, and online co-op
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Variety of monsters! The dimensions are always letting through new creatures, from carnivorous plants to wolves!
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Bosses that spawn as you go, including the giant rock golem
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Weapon and item crafting with the items dropped by monsters and scavenged from the battlefield
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Structure construction like the crossbow turret and the bomb-javelin launcher
The Story
It all started when they found the Dimensional Orb. Humanity just couldn’t help themselves. The Orb was too tempting. We now had the ability to explore alternate realities, see things that we never could have imagined ourselves. Of course, when the orb began to go out of our control, we were now faced with an invasion from multiple dimensions.
Yulia, a surviving Royal Guard is now the last hope. With monsters everywhere, the only way forward is to find the orb and destroy it once and for all.
Space Empires I
I remember playing Space Empires way back ages ago, so I was pretty excited to pick the series on steam again and replay them.
Sadly, Space Empires I is NOT FUNCTIONAL on windows 10 at this time. It cannot process a single turn, crashing to desktop when ‘end turn’ is pressed. game load and save functions also do not work either.
This should have been tested more before release.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
I had no idea Steam was carrying the Space Empires Series, and was incredibly shocked to see SE I and not SE II on the store list. So a little bit of history here. Aaron Hall back in 1993 was working on his personal project Space Empires and formed this game as a prototype for something bigger and in 1995. We got Space Empires II.
Space Empires II was technically the first product released to the public and I remember sending in a money order to purchase this game after playing the shareware forever back in the mid 90s. I also got the CD when buying the complete bundle with Space Empire 4 Gold back in the early 2000s. Which was the only way I knew at the time, on how you actually got the original Space Empires prototype.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Adventures in Morality: An Interactive Case Study
First to the creator(s) of the ICS, you should be aware that there appears to be a bug with the cassette recordings. Every time you find one and play it, it also plays all the ones that you have found and played before, simultaneously, making understanding anything pass the third one nearly impossible. Onto the review.
This is an interesting experience. The idea being that an AI is the one conducting the Case Study on you is both intriguing and perhaps a bit alarming and I mean both of those ideas in as to whether you accept that at face value or if you accept that as part of a fictional narrative. I was actually most interested in finding and reading the log notes about the “childhood” and growth of said AI, and I got a good snicker at the mention of bonono monkies (i dont have to google, i actually saw a N.G show on them so totally got it ;) As for the Subject of the case study, this idea of sympathy types, while the particular labels used to describe said types might be newish, the idea behind it is not. I was reading about where people fall into self, tribe, and human kind in self help and spiritual enlightenment books back in the 80’s and 90’s. And those authors were NOT representing the knowledge as something new; but, rather as something very old and mostly forgotten or purposely suppressed (Those in power naturally tend to keep those below them divided and weakened through the use of Us vs them, whether thats Individualism vs Communism or Tribalism in one form or another.) The one thing none of those authors ever did was threaten to use the knowledge being shared to bring about an apocalypse and try to divide up the world based on results of some case study. Really not sure what to make of that.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Opening video has a couple good lines.
The rest is random questions that don’t make any sense as a test of morality. Not to mention that just by walking around you get 80+ ‘Humanity’ rating.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Defense of the Oasis
I picked this up after being mentioned on Crate and Crowbar as a puzzle game with very short rounds appealed. It fits that comforting spot very well. I can play a few rounds while other stuff is happening around me in the house. As an older game it’s also at the right price. I have never been a graphics obsessive, but to me these graphics have an old-school style, but work fine on my 1yr old Windows gaming laptop, and I never have trouble working out what a particular tile is. The game structure is an elegant idea with not too many pieces, where the pieces combine well to create lots of interesting variation.
– Real player with 85.4 hrs in game
I bought this game a long time ago - forgot about it, tried to find it again a few times over the years since and it was impossible to find. I was so excited to see it finally on Steam! However after 2 minutes it’s clear that it is just a port of an amazingly old game. Going into full-screen mode immediately breaks the game and makes it unplayable with a ton of graphical glitches. I’m glad its available to play though, but be warned that it’s a bit ugly and potentially buggy.
It has been described as ‘Civ meets Minesweeper’ and if that sounds like something you’re into I recommend it.
– Real player with 57.0 hrs in game
Flotilla
TL;DR: Great fun for the humor, visual style and tactical combat. Less satisfying for the fact that it’s game over after a set number of jumps and the core gameplay might get boring within a short span of time. If this game attracts your attention I would recommend waiting for a sale unless it really appeals to you.
Flotilla is going to be a hit-or-miss kind of game depending on your tastes, but I recommend it for its unique concept, satisfying core gameplay, and odd sense of humor.
Let’s start with the good points: It’s got a certain vibe and atmosphere that worked for me, both in terms of simplistic visual appeal and the tone of the events that you can encounter during each adventure. I admit that both the graphics and worldbuilding/humor aren’t for everyone.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
Flotilla is a very fascinating take on space exploration. There is no saving, you are the captain, and you are stuck with a fatal disease that will take your life in a predetermine amount of turns. Flotilla offers a lot of real time choices that directly affects your fleet of ships. Some scenarios include saving a group of space-llamas and adding them to your fleet, or destroy them for ship upgrades. The combat is turn based and takes place on a 3D plane; you can command your ship to fly in any direction and fire at enemy ships. With tons of combat choices and flanking decisions your head might explode from strategizing, as a result I can’t recommend this game to strategy noobs. However, if you use to fight alongside Napoleon and George Washington back in the day, I highly recommend this game. Oh ya just play hardcore mode, in normal mode you just end up dead faster from your “disease”. There is virtually no difference in gameplay difficulty by playing in hardcore over normal.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
haunTD
Overview & Key Features:
The game of haunted contraptions.
You wake up on an island as a ghost. The land is scattered with ruins from a not-so-long-ago disaster, and the fallout is creating swarms of hostile mutants. This isn’t the afterlife you had envisioned.
Explore the world, defend against a mutating enemy, and discover what brought you back here. In this tower defense game, enemies get stronger with every passing minute, gradually transforming and acquiring abilities and power. Every 3 nights, a new boss will appear. Gather resources & build a strong enough base to defeat all 12 bosses to win. haunTD was designed with new and experienced Tower Defense fans in mind. Clearing the main “levels” in a successful run takes approximately 90 minutes, but like similar games, it will take much longer – between 12-18 hours of gameplay – to fully experience the game including all unlockable towers, outfits, and story pieces. haunTD is currently single-player, but with framework and plans in place for 4-8 cooperative multiplayer in the works.
Gameplay Mechanics:
haunTD is a Tower Defense game at heart, with new mechanics that give a creative and open-ended feeling.
Uncover the story through key artifacts and locations.
Haunt anything you find to unlock new vehicle and tower parts. Defeating enemies gives you more energy & allows you to haunt more powerful tower parts and upgrade modules. Destroying the hardest enemies will give you access to the rarest tower parts.
Haunting is hard work. Start with the basics and work your way up to more powerful contraptions.
Modular tower building: Combine different turret bases, weapons, and effect canisters that you find to create powerful contraptions with unique, synergized effects. Each tower part is unique - some heal you and other towers, some attach bombs to enemies, and the list goes on. Get creative and make whatever baddie-crushing tower you want.
A ghost can go anywhere and haunt anything, after all.
Synergy: Tower parts work together, and so do towers. Build up a base strategically, upgrade, and repel hordes of mutating enemies who gain or lose abilities over time based on the defenses they encounter.
Achieve victory through supernatural tower defense tactics and a bit of luck!