Necore Tower - Redux Edition
What an awesome experience! Very cool retro game. Very well designed and very well written. The sounds are awesome.
Very, very well executed!
Well done.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
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This is a very cool game by a very passionate and talented developer.
Great art and atmosphere with a deep story.
The way Necore is setup and designed, climbing up through the towers levels, keeps you playing more and more to see what’s next and revel the story as your progress.
I highly recommend you play it!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Loot River
Transform the world
Set in a series of procedurally generated labyrinths, Loot River is a dungeon crawling action roguelike that combines tense, real-time combat and dark fantasy settings with spatial block-shifting.
Defeat bestial abominations
Armed with the power of the Relic, players can shift the ground beneath them, sliding floating ruins together in a series of tile puzzles. As players venture through these endless catacombs, they’ll encounter beasts, lost travelers, and bosses. These cosmic grottos offer a wealth of new weapons and gear to discover, as well as unholy knowledge to unearth for permanent upgrades.
Game Features
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Slide ruins of an old dungeon to defeat your foes
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Forge your path through ancient abandoned fortress
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Meet horrifying beast from alternate realities, as well as other wandering nomads
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Wake up in a parallel universe after each death - navigate through thousands of unique, yet familiar dungeons
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Defeat enemies your way - unlock many different abilities, items and weapons, each with unique look, animations, powers, and style
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Gain knowledge and experience, level up, and defeat powerful bosses
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Immerse yourself in a beautiful, hand drawn, pixel art with fluid animations, real time 3D shadows, and astonishing water simulation
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The Lands of Eldyn
Nice game, needs more players
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
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Too bad I refuse to put my steam login info into their in-game browser so I can buy coins. Not looking to have my account hijacked, sorry.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Dragonpath
This reminded me a bit of playing Sunken recently, I like the combat and mechanics alot better here, Sunken has nicer graphics but lacks dashing and combat speed. Wish they would team up to make the best of both worlds.^^
Played the first 2 levels and I must say the dodging, blocking and attacking feels great.
Downsides are on the sound design (not bad, but you can tell there are some free stock sounds in there), graphical detail (the head of your character looks a bit like a potato) and trashmob design (like 1-3 mobs per room instead of typical arpg hordes, bosses were fine tho)
– Real player with 29.5 hrs in game
Can’t really recommend here’s why…
First off I bought this on sale. 66% off… what a Deal!
There is 4 chapters of play, with 4 levels in each chapter. Items are very bland and generic, and you can just upgrade them in the “outpost” and gold is so easy to get you will always have them maxed out, I’m pretty sure I used the same set of gear from my first run threw as I did up threw newgame+4…. Had a weapon with Bleed and Thundering, and a trinket with lifesteal it was over from there on everyone was smacked around like it was nothing, And there was no way for me to get weaker, I just had to stop at a outpost and upgrade my gear to my new max… I wish this was more then it is, because I kind of like it, but at the same time there is to much and to little going on at the same time..
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Hunt the Night
Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-adventure game that combines a fast, skilled gameplay with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a virtuous member of ‘The Stalkers,’ and explore the vast world of Medhram, a place filled with ruins and horrors. Go through dungeons full of gruesome enemies, fight challenging bosses, and use your arsenal of weapons and dark powers to take back the Night.
It is the 9th Age of humanity. The cycle of day is ruled by humans, the night one by horrid creatures. Despite its efforts, humanity is annihilated with every arrival of the Night.
A group of humans, calling themselves ‘The Stalkers,’ discovered how to use the power of darkness to their advantage and fought the Night. However, it was not enough, and with every new dawn humanity rose again knowing that, with darkness, comes extinction.
Humanity found the ‘Seal of Night,’ an artifact that allowed them to stop the cycle in an everlasting day. In exchange for a blood oath that The Stalkers were willing to pay, the sun ruled for hundreds of generations and, for the first time, hope was a beacon of light. Yet fate proved unstoppable, and they paid the ultimate price.
Now, as the Night starts devouring every single glint of light, Vesper, a Stalker by right and daughter of the traitor, will travel a dying land trying to save the last embers of humanity. She hunts in a race against destiny, as the shadows lengthen both in the world and in her mind.
Dash through enemies while you unleash your combos, use your weapons or destroy them with your dark powers. You can switch between melee and ranged attack in quick succession: slashing enemies with your sword and then dashing away to use your ranged weapons, avoiding enemy attacks.
Endure the ultimate challenge as you fight the ancient horrors of the Night that have been annihilating humanity over and over in intense boss battles. Learn their weak points, attack patterns and survive through the different combat phases as the battle gets more challenging and extreme.
Create your own build that will adapt not only to your prefered gameplay but also to particular bosses. Customize the upgrades of your arsenal and use the equipment that best suits your gameplay: Critical Damage, Life Steal, Poison, Close Combat, Firepower and more. Collect Sanguine vials, Crow Feathers, Moonstones and Noctilium to increase your stats and get ready to face the Night.
Explore Medhram in a combination of action-adventure and dark fantasy lore. Survive huge dungeons full of traps, enemies, puzzles and challenges. Discover all kinds of locations, from ancient cathedrals and libraries of knowledge to lost kingdoms and devastated floating cities.
Accept a hunt at ‘Crow’s Nest’ and track down the dark beast, find where it hides and hunt the most powerful creatures of the Night. After every completed hunt you will get rewards that will increase your health and dark energy bar.
Meet new characters and open full questlines that will vary depending on your actions: deciding to help them or not, finding them at their next location, failing to achieve the mission requirements in time… Everything counts!
Immersive and adapted music to every moment, boss and location, with the collaboration of Hiroki Kikuta, Secret of Mana composer.
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DarkMaus
Pros:
Thoughtful, weighty combat
Eerie, atmospheric music
Interesting use of light and line of sight as a gameplay mechanic
Well designed bosses and general enemies
Doesn’t hold your hand - allows you to discover mechanics and preferred playstyles for yourself
Cons:
Simplistic art style
Awkward controls
Frequent crashes
Friendly AI often bugs out, sometimes with frustrating consequences
Possible to miss important items early on, making the game much more difficult
DarkMaus is an interesting, generally well made top down RPG which takes clear inspiration from Dark Souls, though it has enough unique and interesting mechanics to hold the player’s attention. It may not be as long as a Souls game, but this means that it doesn’t outstay its welcome and, overall, is a very good experience for the pricetag.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
THIS IS A VERY LONG REVIEW/THERE WILL BE A TL;DR AT THE BOTTOM
After a much longer length of gameplay than expected, I’d finally completed Dark Maus, albeit with a sour taste in my mouth. Before you read, please know I am a veteran Souls player. I’ve spent, literally, thousands of hours in these games, collectively. Also know, that I don’t see any of those four titles as perfect. Each one has some pretty strong weaknesses, but generally these are overlooked because the games are so well crafted. I strongly urge everyone AGAINST using this in reference to, or as part of the Souls series style of games. This game differs heavily and it’s most prominent features make it more akin to a horror game with action/rpg elements.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Darkness Eternal
a little short.. beat it in 65 mins 100% no hearts lost. but Im a vet TD player
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Evil Soul
Pro:
1.Acceptable overall quality as a indie game.
2. Interesting heroes
3. Good graphics and not bad sounds
Con:
1.I know this is Ea, but it still looks like unfinished to me, I expect more heroes and enemies.
2. Quite hard to start due to lack of introduction and tutorial
3. The hero Heavy Iron could fall into landscape model sometimes when I use his Q skill. This is a bug need to be fixed.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Horns of Justice
Horns of Justice is a brutal sports MOBA. It is inspired by the MOBA genre and has added the elements of ball sports to the mix. The brutal part comes from the resources you can employ; weapons, spells and basic melee moves. These help you in taking possession of the ball, scoring goals and defending your own goal. It is the tension between the sports field play element and the violence of the MOBA element that creates the dynamic gameplay which makes Horns of Justice the unique game it is.
Pick your style
In the arena the aim is simple: Score a goal. The way you achieve it is up to you. Good old brute force, powerful spells with nasty side effects, or clever ball-passing tactics. Stick with a style or pick your own by blending all the elements into a dynamic strategy that rules the arena.
Online Multiplayer Matches
Join or create a team and play matches online against other teams. Choose your player from a roster of different characters each from one of 6 classes and master their unique abilities and weapons. Choose a fighting ground from a multitude of arenas and engage in single or multiple matches. Become the ultimate player by enrolling in the deadliest tournament in history.
Single Player Campaign
Get to know Horns of Justice’s fascinating universe and characters by playing through the single player’s tournament. Guided by an animated branching storyline where your decisions affect the outcome, this 5 hour campaign offers a tournament that takes you trough dramatic highs and lows.
Learn why the tournament exists and discover its dark origins.
Get Ogre It
cute aesthetics, cool music and great gameplay that makes it kind of a puzzle game, also has great value for its price.
i liked it a lot and recommend anyone to try it
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Challenging roguelike with a non combat twist. Always had to stay focused or i’ll get stabbed
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game