Cartel Tycoon
First of all, don’t mind the playtime. I am one of the early supporters of the game and have some 280 hours on my profile for the “Earliest Uncut” version of the game. I provided extensive feedback for the game and used to be one of the community playtesters for early builds in the past.
By concept, Cartel Tycoon is a great game. The recipe for this addictive drug is “Tropico meets Frostpunk meets Narcos series”. Visuals, narrative, characters, music - all that is done well and does a lot for the immersion in the setting.
– Real player with 116.1 hrs in game
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For the person reading this hoping it’s the cartel management game they’ve always dreamed would be released… here it is baby.
Nothing quite as satisfying as watching a convoy of trucks carrying 100 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside a chicken drive right past the Federales convoy on their way to t1tty f*** your cocoa farms.
Or burning down a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with cash rather than letting the DEA seize it.
So much potential for this game. I played the demo months ago and literally called out sick the day it dropped.
– Real player with 47.3 hrs in game
Resolutiion
My playtime: 40.8h (based on steam, 100% achievement, 2x playthrough)
Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (1 achievement).
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (10 achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): No.
Intro
Resolutiion is a fast-paced action-adventure game with exploration as its focus. The game has a lot of vast maps and secret areas that you have to find.
Pros:
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You can tackle most areas in any order that you want
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Secret areas and optional collectibles to find
– Real player with 40.8 hrs in game
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There are a lot of games that were inspired by ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ and they mostly failed as individual games for various reasons, but out of those that I played I liked this one the most. Despite the visual similarities to HLD that many people are calling a ripoff, Resolutiion clearly had a talented artist and I don’t want to take anything away from him; the games might look similar but it’s not a clone of HLD. Surprisingly the best part of this game was the story, the writing was just excellent and absorbed me into the universe, although the delivery of that story was somewhat questionable, mainly because I felt like the characters came and went too quickly. Still, I thought the lore for the universe was very compelling, from what I understand the humanity was taken over by technological advances and those few that remained isolated started a war against the ‘progress’, although It was kinda vague and confusing.
– Real player with 34.9 hrs in game
B-Side
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Navigate maze-like levels and solve 100+ puzzles with your ability to flip the world.
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Lean on and utilize the unique abilities of 4 different characters.
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Conquer various hazards and obstacles that test your skills and understanding.
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Uncover a mysterious and gripping story of identity and personal growth.
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Reconcile with who you are, or what you’ve become, on your journey to find your B-Side!
You play as Tae, a being who is currently undergoing The Forming. Tae is on a quest to find their B-Side, just like all other beings in their cycle, but it’s not going as smoothly as expected. Now they must lean on the other beings around them and their unique abilities, including their ability to flip the world, to conquer obstacles and hazards of The Forming. But avoiding the Strayed and the Wither is no easy task and they must find their own strength while reconciling with who they are - or what they’ve become.
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Dead Ink
In the year 2207 the quantum state of your brain was encoded in a stream of photons and beamed into the cosmos. A pioneer of a glorious new age of light-speed travel, destined for fame and glory… at least that was the plan.
Fight
Plunged into a hostile world where every being is made of ink and manufactured at 3D printers, you must harvest ink to survive. Fight your way down a hand-crafted labyrinthine tower in this hardcore melee combat experience.
Escape
Choose between printing the best gear with your hard-won ink, or using it sparingly to get more chances. Can you escape from the tower or will you run out of ink?
A Hardcore Experience
Dead Ink is designed as a hardcore experience with uncompromising and punishing combat. Running out of ink will result in a game over and starting from scratch.
Features
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Souls-like with a unique 3D-printing core mechanic
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Unravel a nonlinear, hand-crafted vertical environment
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Anticipated 6-10 hour play time with a variety of weapons, enemies and bosses
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Harvest ink from enemies and use it to print your corporeal form, weapons and items
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Choose how to spend your ink — on better gear, making more attempts, or on blueprint upgrades
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Running out of ink is game over
Starless
A flotilla of three space arks set off for a distant planet.
An emergency has occurred on your ark: the entire team has been infected with a mysterious virus, and the life support’s are damaged.
Trying to save the dying ship, artificial intelligence brings the first colonist out of suspended animation.
Starless is a stealth action game where you as colonists make your way through the gloomy corridors of the space ark. Your main allies are caution and prudence.
If the colonist dies, the next one will take his place, but the number of people on board is limited. Each death is a serious threat to the flotilla’s mission, as a small number of people will not be able to establish a colony on a distant planet.
You are assisted by Aurora, the ark’s artificial intelligence. Her goal is to save the ship at all costs, but the lives of one or two people do not matter to her.
Game Features
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Unpredictable enemies. Be prepared to improvise when you meet them
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A giant space ark that holds many secrets
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Use gadgets: a plaster mine, a teleporter trap, a motion detector, and much more
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The atmosphere of a gloomy cold space
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Contact the rest of the ark fleet and find out what happened to them.
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Mr. Scratch. What fate befell a cat taken on a space trip?
Unknown Scrolls
You always wanted to become a magician, right? Fight monsters, rescue princesses, discover powerful ways to obliterate your enemies? Now you have a chance. Don’t waste it.
Become the Mighty Mage. Head out on an epic quest to purge hellish creatures from the Land of Elements. Discover ancient Unknown Scrolls and combine them for better attacks and protection from your enemies.
Fast paced gameplay
Hate those action games with long intros that make you wait for the actual action? Not here! Action is always and everywhere. WATCH OUT! IT’S STARTING NOW!
Hundreds of Spell Combinations
Tired of fireballs being just fireballs? How about chain-lighting-fireball-slow-motion-aura that let’s you walk through waves of enemies? Sounds cool? You got it.
Powerful Perks
It’s still not enough for you? How about getting a helpful pet, becoming a vampire or just making every enemy you kill explode beautifully?
World of Elements
Roam through floating lands set in different places on elemental scale. Get fired up in Magma Land, fly into the sky in Air Islands, go for a swim in Watery Lakes or just chill in the Ice Kingdom.
Leaderboards
Of course there are leaderboards so you can show your friends you’re better than them. Even if it takes you a week to achieve it. It’s worth it!
Fallow
i’m not one to usually review games, and i’ve been putting reviewing this one off for a while now, but: fallow touched me deeply; it made me feel exceedingly personal feelings that games don’t often make you feel - and i think that you should play it as soon as you get the chance. it’s one of those games that you aren’t going to forget if you’ve gone through similar experiences to the ones presented at all, and the almost 8 years of work put into it really shows. small details, extra content that’s practically longer than the game itself, impossible-to-find dev commentary; a soundtrack that i cannot stop listening to on repeat- i bought the physical edition and am ecstatic about it coming in, if only for the bonus tracks on the cassette alone.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Took a few days to chew on this after finishing it because it’s hard to write a review of a game that affected you so deeply. I’ll start by mentioning that I’ve followed Rook for a few years now so I knew I’d enjoy this game, but I was unprepared for how deeply it impacted me.
In just a few short hours, Fallow managed to touch on a great many of my own feelings and insecurities about things that I often cannot talk about, not out of fear but because there simply aren’t words to describe them. It did this in a way that felt totally genuine. Fallow touched me in a way I would say is underneath words.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
INVESTMENT HERO
I haven’t played for that long so far, but what I have played has been really fun.
There is a time limit to the game that changes depending on your difficulty. Usually I find time limits to be a nuisance but it works really well here and adds some fun pressure that’s needed to keep you paying attention.
Obviously you don’t need to know anything about investing but there is a shares option that you can use if you want.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
This game is the best stock market simulation I have played so far. It convinces with realistic market diagrams and detailed algorithms to simulate the free market economy.
As a long time depot owner and experienced stock exchange trader, I personally see myself in a position to recognize this game as an extremely realistic learning simulation of the market development of commercial registers.
For this reason, I would like to recommend this game to newcomers to the market economy, as the experience they have gained will enable them to suspend their first depot bankruptcy.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Chinese Bull
Not Garbage
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
this is a very game
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Darkwood
One of the best survival/horror games I’ve ever played
– Real player with 69.5 hrs in game
At first i just grabbed this game for something spooky from the halloween sale (which needs to start oct 1st, not 2days before halloween!). After the prologue is wasnt very impressed but the steam halloween sale doesnt have many quality games this year so i kept on playing. Now i cant put the damn thing down, yes its that damn good! Yes its scary but more importantly its has a quality story and it becomes very addicting once you start finding clues and weird items, that you have no idea what they are for till later on. So glad i took a chance on darkwood, and the fact it takes place in the 80s is always a plus. Worth buying full price imo. Cant wait to see if there will be more content added or even a darkwood 2. Darkwood is an easy 8/10 for me and i havent even reached chapter 2 yet. Hurry up and buy!
– Real player with 63.1 hrs in game