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Stars received: 1.2/10 ___ Note: v.4 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
Game description key-points: bad experience game.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
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Please remove PFL
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Infinite Cube Defense
“Infinite Cube Defense” is a three-dimensional defense game created under the influence of several flash games.
The existing defense genre games had 2D graphics and 3D graphics, but they all had something in common that they eventually faced enemies crawling on the floor.
But “Infinite Cube Defense” will completely break your experiences.
To catch not only distant cubes, but also rain-pouring cubes just above your head, you have to precisely control your mouse to target your enemies or use mini guns, rifles, shotguns, snipers, and even missile launchers and various turrets properly.
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Survival Z
Lots of small but meaningful choices make it feel like I’m in control of my own fate. The combat feels very fair.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
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Action Commando
Action Commando is a Town of Machine spinoff focused entirely on combat. Hub-based world design, inventory management and most of the character interactions have been removed / de-prioritized in favour of fast-paced combat where your only concern is what’s trying to kill you at a given moment. While it lacks the depth of Town of Machine, it works really well as a coffee break, action-packed, top-down shoot’em up. Unlike in its predecessor you don’t have to worry about inventory space and quests - just go forward and blow things up… and it kind of works. The game is pretty short and unfortunately set almost entirely underground which makes the levels blend together but it’s not that big of a deal considering its lenght. Give it a try if you ever feel like mowing down monsters for a few hours.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
A well-crafted, action-focused twin stick shooter with a good dose of humour. It’s a spin-off of Town of Machine that’s set in the same universe. While it uses many of the same assets as ToM, it’s more action-orientated and simpler to play.
Made by single person, its production values are excellent - gameplay, graphics, sound: all are top-notch.
It’s worth playing Town of Machine before this, but not wholly necessary.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Star Control®: Origins
I have broken this review into a few sections, because I feel like what you need to know depends on where you are coming from.
You played Star Control 2, and liked it a lot?
You should like this game. It basically follows the same formula in terms of story and gameplay, but with some welcome improvements, such as an automatic story log where you can review key details of past encounters, and a searchable star map with the ability to add your own bookmarks.
There are also some other subtle improvements. Enemy factions have more than one type of ship you will encounter, bringing added variety to combat. Your own allies will only provide one kind of ship, but your flagship can be equipped with a wide variety of different types of weapons and other abilities.
– Real player with 79.2 hrs in game
tl;dr; A beautiful and very funny adventure which is drowning in grindy, under- or mis-developed mechanics. [Verdict: 2/5]
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I have bought the game myself and completed it.
Let’s list all the positives first:
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Very good art direction overall. Graphics, animations, aliens: all are very well done and a joy to look at.
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Good story. Nothing super-original, but good enough with some minor twists and turns.
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Interesting lore: using the main and also side quests there is a lot background information which enriches the world of this game.
– Real player with 59.5 hrs in game
The Happy Little Virus
Disclaimer: A copy of this game was provided by the developer.
The Happy Little Virus is a top down shooter with dark humor.
You play as a virus and the objective in every level is to steal the data. Killing all the enemies isn’t required as you can sometimes rush around them. There are a total of 6 weapons to be unlocked, but only 3 of them end up being relevant due to their range and one of them sometimes bugs out. Some levels feature replicators that spawns other viruses that count as extra lifes if you die, they can be told to follow, stay or you can swap to them.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
I got this game for free to show it to my community on stream. At first I was very skeptical however we had great fun. I have not played the complete game until the end so I cannot judge how the story would end and how many maps you would have to beat.
What to expect from the game?
A top down shooter with a cynical story plot and several details in text which could actually be out of real life if you think about it. You have to get used to the controls and it is certainly not a game where you can just rush through every map even if you are tempted to do that.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Axan Ships
Probably has a target audiance, it just is not me…
Nice graphics and idea but feels like it is the section of a larger game.
Lack of continuity is a deal breaker for me. But the price is right.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Elite Tanks
Elite Tanks is a (difficult) strategic game where the player must approach each level with caution. You must take the challenge of fighting through 100 levels while also running into 7 different type of enemies. On top of that, your goal is to go through all these levels and enemies while only having a limited amount of lives.
Throughout the 100 levels, you will face off the enemies in 4 different environments. In those environments, some of the objects will be destroy-able. The player in some cases, in order to advance, must breakdown walls or any obstacle placed between them and the enemies. Only the best will manage to get to level 100.
Flowing Lights
Introduction
Flowing Lights is a puzzle shmup or shooter with a ton of zones you’re encouraged to speed run one at a time. I was given a free copy for betatesting and have played through the whole game. For each zone you have to figure out the best way to clear it, then use your shmup skills to get past the bullets and take out the enemies.
Gameplay
There are 10 levels with each 17 to 26 short zones. The first two levels act as tutorial. Your weapons are regular fire and a slingshot with a slow laser guide. You can also use boosts with a time interval. You start each level with 1 live and you can earn more for clearing a zone without getting hit. In some zones you can earn weapon upgrades for getting combos. You earn a C rank for just finishing a zone but if you’re fast enough you can get Bs, As and Ss.
– Real player with 45.6 hrs in game
A great puzzle shooter game
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
GUNPIG: Firepower For Hire
Gunpig is a colorful and enjoyable little score attack twinstick shooter, starring an adorable cartoony pig character, that has only one thing on his mind: shoot aliens and rack up as much cash as possible!
The game is divided into several levels, where you have to find the main baddy and take it out, although there are some other objectives sometimes, like shooting barrels under a time limit. While flying through the levels, you might also find cleverly hidden secrets, and special cards that unlock character graphics and concept artworks in the main menu. You can change your weapon by collecting fruits from special dispensers - there are a total of 9 different fruits/weapons, each one also having an alternative fire mode, ranging from spreads to mines.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
This is a very short and very easy top-down twin-stick shooter that seems to be inspired mostly by the 1988 arcade game Gauntlet. It’s only $5 but I don’t think most players will get that much enjoyment out of it (I got it for much cheaper in a bundle).
There appear to be several bugs: None of the Steam achievements unlocked for me even after finishing the game. The store page also lists Steam Leaderboards as a feature, but I couldn’t find any way to view them either in-game or in the community hub. The volume slider for the music (which sounds pretty good overall) resets to zero after each stage. And even though the game uses the left gamepad stick for movement, there is no analog speed control. Meaning that even gently tapping the stick in any direction gives you full acceleration, so I spent a lot of time careening across the stages when all I wanted was to make small adjustments.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game