REVO
REVO brings back vibes I have not felt since the late 80s and early 90s.
This is a fantastic space shooter! If you liked games like Galaga back in your day, then this game is for you.
-Shoot up space ships of varying styles and difficulties
-Unlock new weapons by defeating bosses
-Earn tech points to gain more lives
-Gain ammo by killing enemies
-Conserve Ammo because you can run out of it (If this happens there is an ammo supply drop)
-Beat the game and unlock hard mode.
-Fantastic Soundtrack
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
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When I was 11 my uncle had a Galaga machine in his basement. I spent a whole summer trying to beat my Dad’s high score. I’m a professional streamer now, but that is one of my most cherished gamer memories. Revo takes me back to that summer. It’s the first game since geometry wars to capture that feeling. My Dad would have loved this game and when I play it I feel like I’m still trying to beat his Galaga score. That really means a lot to me.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
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?
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Alpha Particle
Alpha Particle is one of the most innovative, creative games I’ve played in a while, a really fresh take on the genre. If you’re curious and up for a challenge, give it a go. Be prepared to explore and experiment. Check it out!
Like a top-down shooter but you can’t shoot so you have to get creative. A fast-paced thinking man’s game with highly polished graphics and sleek gameplay. Loads of variety. Unique, challenging, fun
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– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
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What is Alpha Particle?
Your going to have to find out and you’re going to have an awesome time doing so.
Excellent level design,imaginative enemies,rewarding progression all wrapped in an amazing digital blanket sound track.
Rock solid game.
Play it now!
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Anstorm
If you like simple top-down twin-stick shooters give this one a try. Anstrom seems to be inspired by Ubermosh and TTV and basically offers a mix of both, though it’s not so much hardcore arcade-style. There is a campaign (story mode) with bosses (ans some are pretty good, classic 2d Contra-like). The campaign alternates between arena actions with different objects (clear area, run, survive x seconds, find something, destroy something, and more) and fewer maze levels (TTV-ish with enemies). And then there is Survival mode which comes in two separate flavors, Maze and Arena, that is more arcade.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
A very solid 2D-Arcade-Shooter. It has it’s charm even though character movement can lookt a little bit janky. I helped to translate the game so if you don’t understand something it is probably my fault. The dev is open for criticism so if you want to help improve the game just help him out.
Also here is the full interview: https://youtu.be/rLb-UKHcge0
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
By far IMO the most inviting game I have ever played has everything. A must have for strategic players of resource , exploation and combat. Its graphics could use a redo but MAX is tremandous again IMO. The games are lokb the combat is awesome staratgy very key.
Con: Game plays well vs one opp. 1 Funab vs, AI exoert good solid game.
But go with a Human vs. 2 AI game crashes. just like it did when it was released and was never updated or patched properly
MAX 2 came out….Absolutly SUCKED!
This release on Steam was dreat down side is NO Mulyi player Abilty to connect to other uman OPP.
– Real player with 672.5 hrs in game
Freedom to upgrade anything you want, however you want, and whenever you want! This game is the only game that allows such freedom, I have yet to play any strategy game with such freedom to upgrade. Because of this base building is fun, your upgraded turrets kill everything at a distance allowing you to just build to your hearts content. There are 2 ways to upgrade, gold for instant upgrade and research buildings which take a number of turns. AI is not to bad and will rush you if you have poor defenses early on. However once you have built a strong base with a number of long range missiles and anti air defenses, the AI attacks on your base becomes easy to defeat. Despite how old a game this is, it is still the best base building game that i come back to when i have the itch to build a base.
– Real player with 121.2 hrs in game
Rabiez: Epidemic
It’s an RTS but the S stands for something other than “Strategy”, i’m afraid.
You control 3 stubborn cops that don’t really do what they’re told. They also seldom shoot when they see zombies but only when they feel like it.
And if they do shoot, they make sure to take 10 steps back because they’re apparently firing nukes at the zombies. Which is pretty ironic since the zombies themselves do take 500 shots to be put the down.
Even though you are the commander, they don’t really always respond to your requests. It does not feel like you’re giving orders at all. It’s like they don’t really care about you.
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game
Tags: Casual - Twitch & Arcade
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Flash game quality. Blitzkrieg on a small scale against humans. Zerg the board to use infection vectors to your advantage. Few amount of levels, loses novelty quickly.
You control a few units RTS style and have to kill zombies - and whoever they infect - then you can control the zombies and try to evade the little shooty units. Only about a dozen levels, the concept is okay, but this belongs on a website for free and holds very little entertainment value. It becomes very much a chore very fast, but if you really want to strategize and take this game seriously it can provide a challenge.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Subterrain
Update Supplement:
So, after getting involved with helping out with Subterrain, my opinion is obviously extremely biased. However, I still defend my position by not being involved with Subterrain at the start. The game has improved a bit since I first started playing it, and many aspects of the gameplay have changed considerably based on player feedback. The gunplay is faster, there’s an in-game minimap to help players navigate, randomization was expanded and a big chunk of content was added to the game. Even with all these drastic changes, Pixellore managed to preserve what made the game special in the first place. The changes were successes all around, as far as I’m concerned.
– Real player with 220.2 hrs in game
While I would recommend it to people into this style of game, I do have to say that the game is rough around the edges. It shouldn’t come as a surprise being an indie-game title. I’m not saying the developers of Pixellore are bad, far from it after playing through their first published work on Steam, but don’t come in expecting it to be ‘perfectly polished’. Their tech support is very responsive and friendly if and when a bug come up! (even 4 years after release)
That said, let’s get into it!
– Real player with 207.1 hrs in game
Trident’s Wake
Wonderful cooperative action game, I have had many hours of fun frying aliens with friends, customizing my sentinels, unlocking special abilities and improving my weapons.
The game is in early access and I assumed that it could have many bugs, but after play it on a friend’s PC, I saw that it is perfectly playable and I loved it. I bought it last week and I have played around 30 hours (be careful guys, it’s really powerful).
The sounds of the shots are wonderfully well done and the lighting is well enough adapted to generate some suspense and mystery but allowing fluid combats.
– Real player with 114.4 hrs in game
I’m recommending this game because on the base level, the game is playable and easy to pick up and play, however the game has been left in a bit of a broken state and is no longer supported by the dev team according to their discord , so any glitches, bugs or texture issues you may come across while playing the game may not be fixed or patched in the future.
That said, the game is a simple twin-stick shooter where you play as a Robotic soldier called a “Sentinel” tasked with clearing out the “Trident”, a type of “ark” that holds human embryos and Humanity’s last hope for survival amidst an alien invasion. you can play solo or with a group of 4 to fight through and take back control of 4 different sectors on the ship before moving on to the final “Strike Back” phase where you activate the Trident’s defense turrets and fight off the alien attackers.
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
Alien Breed: Impact
My playtime: 36.7h (based on steam, 100% achievement).
~9h finishing the game in Rookie difficulty
~24h finishing the game in Elite difficulty
~3h finishing all multiplayer levels
Grindy Achievement: No.
Optional Achievement: Yes (11 achievements, although you’ll mostly get 3 of the optional achievements after you finish the game).
Difficult Achievement: Yes (2 achievements, might be more or less depends on your skill and (or) internet connection).
Developer Response: No (last response is in 10 Feb 2016, i think).
– Real player with 36.7 hrs in game
Not sure why this game gets the hate it does. I certainly didn’t play this for the 15+ hours it shows on Steam but probably at least half that. The controls work well on controller, it’s honestly a rather great control scheme for controllers and it makes sense, this is a TWIN STICK SHOOTER. Not a M+KB shooter. I play FPS and TPS games with a mouser and keyboard but I play anything like this with a controller. People also complaining that the game is difficult or the enemies are cheap. I played on the hardest difficulty and it was a BREEZE, I didn’t die a single time. Make better use of your items and learn to scavenge if you’re having a hard time.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
Final Frontier
The design brief for this game was quite simple: ‘Create the most advanced strategy game yet seen on a home computer’.
The scenario was unimportant - game play was all that mattered, the computer opponent had to be the most intelligent.
The controls: Total simplicity.
The players learning curve: Steep.
Addiction factor: High.
Visual appeal: Vital.
Possible strategies: Endless
The result: FINAL FRONTIER.
Quick to learn but hard to master, FINAL FRONTIER is a fast, full icon operated 1 player vs computer strategy simulation not unlike a real time chess game where the player can design his own pieces and structure his own moves.