Lounge zone
There is literally no game here. The entirety of the rule set is:
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Start at starting point.
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Role a single 6-sided die once per turn and move that many spaces forward.
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If you land on one of two skull spaces, return to start. Otherwise, complete action listed on card.
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If you make it past 50 spaces, return to start point and continue.
There’s no score, no ability to bring in more than 1 player, etc. There is literally not even enough here to constitute a prototype of a game of any sort. It is just assets strewn together to appear to be some sort of avant garde board game.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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Sixteen
Sixteen is a small casual indie puzzle game similar to a vintage board-game from 1987.
Organize the fruits into groups based of what type of fruit. Increased difficulty provides more fruits as well as a larger area to solve.
Features
Difficulty: Choose between three difficulties.
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Small - A 4x4 grid to get a feel for how the game works.
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Medium (unlockable) - Wider 6x4 grid that makes it a bit more interesting.
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Large (unlockable) - An 6x6 grid that can be pretty challenging.
Game Modes: There a two game modes to choose from.
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Group - Put the same kind of fruits into groups to win the game.
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Sorted (unlockable) - Not only put the fruits in groups, also need to put them in the correct order and place.
Steam Features
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Stats: Your progress will be saved and can be used for unlocking higher difficulties and new game modes.
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Achievements: Provides 15 achievements. All should be able to be obtained after a few hours of play-through.
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Leaderboards: Your best combination of Time and Moves on specific Game Mode and Difficulty can be uploaded and compared with others.
Graphics
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DirectX Real-Time Ray Tracing: Improves the quality of the Shadows, Reflections and Ambient light (Requires a compatible Graphics Card.)
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Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS): Can be used to improve performance, especially when using Real-Time Ray Tracing (Requires a compatible Graphics Card.)
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High Dynamic Range (HDR): Makes details ‘pop’ by adjusting the brightness and contrast (beta) (Requires HDR compatible monitor.)
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18Korea
You should know what you are getting with the 18xx games. This is pretty good, both as a client and as an entry in the family of games, including elements that are questionable if you are a purist but are pretty nice if you like your board games to have replayability and some minimum degree of asymmetry, and I am referring to the pre-game draft of assets cards. Also the theme is great and enriched by the Korean war elements.
Buyers beware: there is NO single-player or versus-AI mode. This is a multiplayer only game. As it should be.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
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As an avid 18xx fan, I was very hopeful for this title. I’ve only played through a 2 player local multiplayer game(vs myself) to get a feel for the rule set and interface. This rule set is more of the “running good companies” style of 18xx vs the Stock manipulation style of game. All train routes are autocalculated which is a huge time saver over the tabletop games, interface was relatively simple to figure out.
This game has a very unique(as far as my exposure to 18xx which is pretty extensive) mechanic with half of the map getting wiped out once you advance to Era 3(brown tiles). This is the Korean war. Map gets cut at the DMZ(which you can traverse before it happens), North becomes unavailable and all cities in the South are wiped out and have to be rebuilt. I understand it works for a smaller map, but not sure how I feel about it after only one play through but its intriguing for planning and strategy.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Eviron’s Chronicles
Changing my review to a thumbs up.
This game should really be labeled as early access as there are many bugs, although not game-breaking or super annoying. Mostly just ui bugs that you can work around. It could use a little more documentation as well.
Other than that this is better than other TCGs, IMO.
You are able to level up your player (not sure what it is good for except you get small rewards when you level up and your level can be seen by other players). You can also level up your general, albeit very slowly. When your general levels up you are able to adjust his health and attack power and also choose is portrait and abilities. You can level up many of your cards as well, with dust. You can get gray dust as rewards for completing adventure matches and colored dust by destroying cards you might have. attained other than by destroying your cards. There are several colors of dust used to level up its corresponding car set, you can use any dust but you don’t get full effect for using dust not made for your set. Lastly, there are rare evolution cards that you may use rainbow tokens to alter their powers. This allows you to spend a little extra energy in a match to change your units abilities.
– Real player with 80.9 hrs in game
Generally an OK rpg game with a steep pve difficulty curve for the player. Don’t expect to get a lot of quick victories with starting decks unless you spend a fair amount of money. Should I play? Well if you can tolerate a fair amount of time and limited money then it’s a positive.
– Real player with 74.6 hrs in game
Jigsaw Pieces 2 - Shades of Mood
Excellent puzzle game with high quality figures to reconstruct because they are HD photos.
Every time you start the game there is a daily reward, there are many puzzles that you can choose, it contains 7 packages of 45 figures each + the last package to unlock with 30000 gold pieces that you collect by playing.
These packs are divided into 7 themed chapters:
1 Nature
2 Feast the eyes
3 The wonders of the world
4 Affection and love
5 THE food
6 DIY jobs
7 The colors of nature
There are many options in the game that you can use to make the puzzle more enjoyable, before starting you can choose: 1 Rotation on or off of the pieces,
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
The best part of the Jigsaw Pieces series so far! Enjoyed multiple, great looking puzzles already and happy there are still many more puzzles to play. Would recommend this game to everyone looking for a nice Jigsaw game to play!
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
The Hustle
The Hustle is an open-world board game where you can go anywhere - anywhere - to build your fortune from the bottom up.
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Go Left, Go Right, Do Whatever - winners don’t respect board game conventions. Winners cut through the middle of the board and tell Candyland to shove it.
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Meddle with Forces Beyond Your Ken - Every round, players vote to change one rule about the game. Adjust your strategy to succeed, or get left in the dust!
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Don’t call it “Bribery!" - That’s the invisible hand of the free market shoving $100 into your jeans.
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Ruin Real-Life Friendships - Cut the dead weight from your social group in classic board-game style!
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Build a Legacy - Will you be remembered a Miser? A Titan of Industry? A Peasant? Every smart move is another scene in your Oscar-winning biopic, and every dumb move is another shovelful of dirt in your stupid, stupid, anonymous grave.
Puzlkind Jigsaw Puzzles
Update(?): They have stopped updating the counter/leaderboard since July 2021.
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I love puzzles, especially 5000pc. Although this table top mod’s maximum pc is 2000, it is enough to occupy your time and mind like doing a real puzzle.
This game is created by a collaboration of 3 persons in a community where they meet up for Pie and Puzzle Sunday : ) before the the 2019 Pandemic.
+Strong Positives(Great choice of Software) :
Those who have tried ‘playing’ Tabletop/board games on Steam would know that, those ‘games’ do not come with instructions and tutorial, hence most of the time 2 players would be confused and just be flipping or throwing chips and cards around the board as there is no program to set the rules for where the chess pieces can go or cannot go.
– Real player with 948.9 hrs in game
If you like puzzles then you’ll like this game. Very relaxing to sit and do this in the evening with my glass of wine.
– Real player with 110.0 hrs in game
Dragon Drop: Tabletop Multi-tool
It’s a solid product. Could definitely use a variety update, but it works perfectly as intended and is very visually appealing
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
For what it is, I would recommend this item. Everything is basic, but if you wanna run a game on a budget this is probably your better option. Only issues so far is that items are all tied to mouse click. So if you want to select something you are gonna move it as well. Only other thing is if you accidently make more maps, you can’t delete them. At least from what I have tried.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Dudes on a Map: Virtual Grid Paper
I can’t say enough about how great this tool is for helping with running my game! It’s simple to pick up and start playing with, without having to study tutorial videos. Easily import your own maps in jpeg form, and you’re on your way to having a great time with friends. There are some ‘fancy’ features, like having 2 different types of fog (one standard and one for secret areas you don’t want to accidentally reveal), marking up areas of effect, initiative tracker, add in your own monster/NPC tokens, and a dice roller (with the option of using symbol dice for different game systems). While these are great, you don’t need to use them if you don’t want to. I tired of trying to learn how to use other systems, and my experience of using dudes has convinced me that I don’t need to while still having a great time with my friends.
– Real player with 241.7 hrs in game
Been playing since the earliest Alpha releases. Also, for respectful reasons of this review, I did not get it for free but I am close to the creator so, anyone reading this, perhaps you’ll feel that there’s bias BUT, I will happily preface it at the top here first.
Dudes On A Map, for me, can be described as the easiest non-tech proficient program for playing RPG’s online with your friends. While some may say “Scoff, there’s not nearly as many tools and all these bells and all those whistles.” I would reply to them “Good, I don’t want all that and, to be honest, I don’t want to take a small 101 course just to get my games running.”
– Real player with 125.0 hrs in game
Dynamic Dungeons Editor
For those who don’t know, this is a complete re-do of the old Dynamic Dungeon Editor which had a some what dated feel to it.
The new DDE is built with Unity and has a much better feel to it.
If you play table top role playing games on a TV, monitor, or projector setup with people physically in the room with you (not playing remotely) this is the best software currently out.
It has a small learning curve in my opinion, but honestly anyone can use the basic features: load a map (animated or static) and start playing Dungeons & Dragons or whatever RPG your heart desires.
– Real player with 142.4 hrs in game
I originally purchased Dynamic Dungeons through Patreon and it has been a game changer for our DnD games. The ability to use a quick change map, pre-build the campaign, download or create custom props and then reveal it all slowly with fog of war is just amazing. Add to that the options for particle effects, motion background and immersive environmental sounds and you have a classy set up for your DnD gaming sessions.
I do all my creation on my robust PC and then copy the campaign over to the laptop for the session itself. We set up a 40” LCD TV on a pool table with Plexiglass on top to set out miniatures on. The players move their minis and I control NPCs, fog of war and other features from my laptop for them to view on the screen.
– Real player with 72.0 hrs in game