HeartHarp Hubble
Slide, Hop, Ride, Plop!
A puzzle game where you need to get the animals to the bubbles, just be careful not to sink.
All animals move differently resulting in simple to complex puzzles.
Seals Slide, Penguins Ride
Bunnies Bounce
Foxes Pounce
Don’t Sink
Bubbles Win
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POPOP!
its a good concept but it runs TERRIBLY the optimization is absolute DOGSHIT.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Sky Tale
A fun game to pick up and enjoy some nice hours in sandbox mode or try to get the highest points possible. Quite simple but still enjoyable overall.
The achievements are fun and challenging, but the windmill/wheat field one seems to be broken/wrong, as with all 8 wheats placed directly next to water tiles seems to never trigger a progress on the achievement itself.
Some polishing might be required, so that users can actually know how many resources there are on a tile (X rocks, X trees), how many resources are taken by each building (e.g. by hovering over the tile) and how many points you get at the end turn from certain buildings (houses)
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
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sky tale is an islanders -like, so I’ll be making a lot of comparisons to it (you might want to check the link for my review). this one’s on a grid with a bit more to it than plonking down random buildings where they give you the most points. sadly, neither lets you re-visit previous islands without copying files over, and this only keeps the one currently in progress, not all your previous attempts like islanders. I was hoping they wouldn’t copy this aspect as well…
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Eufloria HD
This is a fun little game and will chew up your free time if you let it. Supposedly relaxing but can be quite hectic on some levels.
There is one major flaw in this game - one of the achievements is impossible. The “Hero” achievement is broken. Level 12 is supposed to have 100 seedlings you can find/rescue on the map (on top of your starting 100). There are only 60. The devs acknowledged this issue and promised a fix several years ago. It has not eventuated.
As I am an achievement hunter, this ruins the game for me completely.
– Real player with 45.4 hrs in game
The game has a nice atmosphere, but the gameplay is repetitive once you get passed the levels that introduce you to new features(increasing the stats of your spawned units by sacrificing enough of them to a planet, making enhanced units or bombs with occasionally generated extras from the planet), but frankly these are all VERY optional.
You can win every level with some iteration of the same strategy: Beacon all your units to one planet and roam around bulldozing the enemy, add the beacon to the new cluster of units, rinse and repeat. Using other features helps, obviously investing in stronger units aids the brute force, but in the end it’s still just a brute force strategy.
– Real player with 29.4 hrs in game
First Days of Atlantis
It’s definitely a step back from traditional city builders, but in this case that’s kind of a good thing. It’s challenging enough to pique one’s interest trying to unlock the higher tier buildings, but relaxing enough that it’s a good time sink if you just need something to do while you relax. All in all, not a bad little game, especially if you catch it on sale.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Great mix of City Builder and highscore hunt. I especially like the little details like boats, people and sheep (which you can pet btw.) that move around and make the city you build feel alive.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
ISLANDERS
Islanders Review
This adventure never ends!
Some key points that this game offers:
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Procedural Generation; the fun never ends!
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Two gameplay modes
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Indie Gem 5/5
Gameplay & Controls:
The game is played with your keyboard and mouse; the layout and keys are pretty simplistic. This is in no way whatsoever a bad thing! This is simply a minimalistic game that doesn’t require much to offer you hours of joy.
You start the game on one island, choosing between two build packs. Once chosen it is up to you to determine where to place your buildings. Depending on the position that you build, you will receive a score for each placed building. There are several factors that multiply the score; it can either be increased or receive a loss. It comes down to some strategic thinking.
– Real player with 122.9 hrs in game
THE ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY…
Islanders is a simple yet sophisticated city builder that is both incredibly relaxing and delightfully addictive—and a VERY worthy addition to your game library!
[➕] THE POSITIVES
- The ART STYLE. The game makes the absolute most of its colors and shapes to provide a minimalistic setting where you can build and grow your idyllic island city. Everything is themed to “fit” together—from the sprawling farmlands to the Tetris-like cities and manufacturing areas—and ultimately results in an island-scape that feels like your own, personal creation!
– Real player with 73.9 hrs in game
Terra Nil
Terra Nil, from eco-warriors Free Lives (Broforce) and recycled publisher Devolver Digital, presents players with the task of environmental rejuvenation.
The phases of wasteland reclamation
Begin with the water system, slowly purify the soil, and cultivate pioneer greenery. Embark on more ambitious tasks, restore biodiversity, fix the climate, introduce wildlife, and finally recycle all the structures you used to get there, leaving the environment pristine.
Unique, procedurally generated maps
Each region of the game has its own flavour and procedural generation palette. Yet even within a region, no two playthroughs will be the same.
Picturesque landscapes
Navigate sprawling, verdant, hand-painted environments where everything but the rocks move and breathe. A meditative soundtrack and stunning audio palette will accompany your efforts.
Fireside Hero
Find and defeat five legendary monsters before time runs out.
Hire adventurers, explore the map, identify monster hideouts, and win tactical combats!
“This is a game I would like to see succeed”
— Ian Livingstone, co-creator of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy; former CEO of Eidos Interactive
Interactive hand-drawn game world
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Emergent story with bite-sized narrative
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Dynamic map events
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Elements of procedural generation — each replay is different
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Rich landscape ambience
Original puzzle mechanics
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Buy clues about the monster hideout
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Narrow down possible locations
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Mark the hideout for your hero to investigate
Cunning enemies
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Original combat rules based on rock-paper-scissors principles
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14 monsters with sophisticated AI
Powerful items
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12 Artifacts
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6 consumable herbs
Role-playing
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4 hero types
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6 secondary skills
P.S. Beware of the perils!
Home Wind
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A Minimalist, Relaxing and Cozy…
… game that allows you to build large settlements in no time!
Plan Strategically…
… to get high prosperity points, allowing you to scale the settlement further.
Let your creativity loose…
… in a grid-less procedurally generated world and spend a chill evening building something that pleases your mind.
If you are considering downloading Home Wind, is important to know that the game does not have the deep systems or mechanics that you might expect from a classic RTS or city-builder.
Home Wind aims to simply make your spare time more pleasant and relaxing. Just sit somewhere comfy and create your home settlement 🧡🧡🧡
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a game that lets you create unique ever-growing farming villages set in ancient Greek style. In this game, you have to transform a lonely house into a charming hamlet by placing your buildings strategically, raising their level, receiving various adjacency bonuses, and expanding your territory. Magna Graecia is suitable for both who want to relax, slowly filling their village with olives and grapes, and those who want to test their strategic thinking because every ill-conceived building can be one of the last in your Greek village.
You start the game with one house in the center and six empty hexagonal tiles around it, which you have to fill using a randomly generated sequence of buildings and resources: crop field, winery, forest, and so on, gaining points along the way. To expand your village, you need to build a house that adds all adjacent tiles to the territory of the Greek hamlet. In this game, you can (and should!) level up houses, wineries, and olive farms. Leveling up mechanics are simple: 3 same first-level buildings, where each is adjacent to the other two, turn into one second-level building, which gives you amazing bonuses. For example, a second-level house adds all adjacent tiles in a radius of 2 to the village (the radius is doubled). The game ends when the limit on houses is exhausted and all tiles in your village are filled with buildings and resources.
There are two key resources in the game – olives and grapes. We can say that this is the real pride of your Greek hamlet. You should place olives and grapes on the adjacent tiles to olive farms and wineries respectively because adjacency bonuses play a very important role here: each resource gives +1 by default, and for each farm adjacent to it, this indicator increases by 1. Farms level up the same way as houses. Their radius of influence and adjacency bonuses will be doubled (now +2!), significantly increasing production in the village. Remember, that’s a very powerful tool. By placing buildings correctly, you will literally become an olive oil and wine tycoon, thereby adding a lot of points to the overall rating of your village, which will show at the end of the game, how well you did in creating a Greek farming village.
Magna Graecia offers you:
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Evaluating different options. Should I place it here? Or here?
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Reflection process. There is no timer. No one is rushing you.
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Overcoming yourself. Wanna beat your previous score? Do it.
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Free camera. You can just stop playing and fly around the village.
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Growing olives and grapes. This is the most important.
Magna Graecia does not offer you:
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Triple-A game experience
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A cinematic story
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Microtransactions
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Character customization
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Battle royale
Game mechanics are inspired by Dorfromantik and Triple Town.
Graphic design is inspired by Islanders and Kingdoms and Castles.
