Intentionally Awkward Controls

SPINGUN Spingun is a 2D retro pixel “spacewar/moon lander” ripoff with a gimmick. Instead of reasonable controls, the developer decided only left and right arrow will work. Left arrow gives a little thrust to the left, right to the right. Alternating this will propel you like a fish. Tapping both left and right shoots your weapon. Collect weapon upgrades and shoot the baddies. It’s a massive failure in game design if, lacking the competence to create decent graphics, compelling story or gameplay, interactive content, or any of the elements that successful games bring to the table, you instead decide that you should rip off games from the late 1970’s but make the controls worse, because you think players like bashing their hands on two keys like demented chimpanzees....

Quarantine Cutz It’s day 87 of the quarantine, and you’ve run out of options. You’re going to have to cut the family’s hair yourself. There’s just one problem: You have no idea what you’re doing! Choose to play as either Pappa Smith or Momma Smith, each with their own special secret haircut skill. Each family member will ask for a haircut of their celebrity idol, who of course you’ve never heard of....

Quarantine Cutz It’s day 87 of the quarantine, and you’ve run out of options. You’re going to have to cut the family’s hair yourself. There’s just one problem: You have no idea what you’re doing! Choose to play as either Pappa Smith or Momma Smith, each with their own special secret haircut skill. Each family member will ask for a haircut of their celebrity idol, who of course you’ve never heard of....

Probably Archery I’ve played this game since the 7DFPS version and trialed the demo when it was on Greenlight. The concept of the game is unique and interesting, but the execution of the full release leaves a bit to be desired and seems to be a stray shot. Getting the hang of the controls is half the fun. However, once you understand how the bow and the arms work (as a veteran of Probably Archery, and probably a real-life archer), the challenge is significantly diminished since repetition of the correct technique is not at all difficult....

while True: learn() After finishing the whole game, despite of my strong objections that I’ve written about in my original review (below), I’ve decided to change my review into thumbs up. It took me some time to analyze my thoughts, and while I still have strong objections about inconsistency of various gameplay mechanics, the game truly has a charm, is well done and doesn’t deserve negative review, even if as a programmer purely analyzing the consistency of the gameplay I’d rate it negatively without a second thought....

Sloth Quest Enjoyed this more than I expected. At first I thought it looked “kinda silly, kinda fun…” I wasn’t wrong but it’s more “lots of silly, lots of fun.” Give innovative “sloth-based” mechanics a go. Kotaku summed my first impression up well when they said “Sloth Quest looks stupid, but I still wanna play it.” Took a bit to get into it at first (the controls take some getting used to) but it’s been a blast!...

Ambidangerous This is definitely one of the most unique games I’ve played. The learning curve it pretty steep initially but not overly difficult. You control two separate characters in a top-down shooter with a single controller. Your left hand controls one character and your right hand controls the other. Think of it as if rubbing your belly and patting your head got converted to a video game. I reccomend either putting both characters together initially so your movements are identical or just shoving one guy in a corner where he is safe....

Happenlance A beautiful and addictive addition to the asldfj;oaisheouhigoiu genre. Highly recommended. – Real player with 28.4 hrs in game Read More: Best Co-op Physics Games. I like the game. Happenlances approach to teach things is like how it was done back in the 8bit days. Levels are designed in a way that you have to learn to do new tricks in order to continue, and you don’t get any annoying tooltips or small videos that show you what you have to do....

Quarantine Cutz It’s day 87 of the quarantine, and you’ve run out of options. You’re going to have to cut the family’s hair yourself. There’s just one problem: You have no idea what you’re doing! Choose to play as either Pappa Smith or Momma Smith, each with their own special secret haircut skill. Each family member will ask for a haircut of their celebrity idol, who of course you’ve never heard of....

BH Trials This game feels like learning to walk after suffering a stroke. At first your movement will be uncontrolled and you will flail your limbs about the place helplessly. But soon you’ll get the hang of it and instead stumble about like a drunken toddler. Great fun! There is quite a bit of content and extra challenge, as each level offers a collectible and a highscore list where you can try to beat the times of your quadriplegic fellows....