Dead Era
Dead Era is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer zombie action RPG. Kill zombies, loot unique items with powerful upgrades, and explore the dead world with your friends.
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Wrath Of The Mad King
Wrath Of The Mad King is a top-down action RPG set in the year 2042. In Wrath Of The Mad King, you are a B.E.C. A Bionically Enhanced Collector, searching the world for mechanical scrap to sell for credits at Collector Corp. You have one hobby, creating all kinds of gadgets and contraptions.
Little do you know, your talents will be needed in the upcoming battle against an unknown species from outer space.
Always come prepared. Fight head-on with your bionic abilities, or target enemies from a distance with a multitude of weapons.
The arrival of the Sentians has altered planet Earth. Discover all sorts of mysteries during your adventure in a semi-open world.
Gadget parts & blueprints can be found anywhere on Earth. Combine the right parts into all kinds of gadgets and contraptions!
The same place is never the same during night and daytime. find out how the world changes each day.
The world is changing and is in need of a hero. Decide what hero you’ll be.
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DataJack
A sci-fi dive in the 90s, both for the game design + gameplay and for the dystopic cyberpunk concept style.
Gameplay per se is a bit wonky and you have to get used to the stealth mechanics, which are really retro-style by all means.
Still, the game is pretty enjoyable, the atmosphere is right and the lore is well thought out, which you can extrapolate by the mission briefing/debriefings and from the files you download from the terminals, giving the appropriate feeling and background, much alike to the first Deus Ex game.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
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You are a one man go in and solve the problem type of covert or overt operative whom corporations hire to do their dirty laundry. Covert if you move effortlessly like a ninja from shadow to shadow, crouch like a tiger, and jump like a spider waiting for the right moment to feed needles into the skull of your enemies. Or overt if you prefer the cacophony of machine guns and the smoke C4 makes when you are fed up with doors that don’t greet you with open sesame right at your arrival.
You can even hack systems, steal company data and make some side income by grabbing datacubes and other interesting things that come at your way. And since this is a Cyberpunk/Neuromancer inspired game presumably made by transhumanist wonks who enjoy running around with subdermal chips under their butt-cheeks, replacing limbs and adding subdermal armor and other kinds of protections are also available.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Marmoreal
Marmoreal is a Bullet Hell Action RPG with magical girls, swords and fully automatic crossbows.
Join the Mages of the Arcanum and the Warriors of Melkirion in their battles against the armies of the undead in their quest to stop the evil Necromancer from becoming an immortal Lich!
Features:
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Two full-length story-driven campaigns. Play as the Mages of the Arcanum and the Warriors of Melkirion as they wage separate battles against a common enemy.
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Six playable characters. Play as a varied cast consisting of mages, knights, soldiers and living suits of armor, each with their own unique abilities and weapons.
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Lots of bullets and enemies. Your enemies aren’t pulling any punches, and will try to overwhelm you with hordes of footsoldiers and swarms of bullets.
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Varied enemy factions. Fight against the undead armies of the Necromancer, the spirits of the forest, the remnants of an ancient empire and various other factions vying for power in these undead lands.
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Procedurally generated loot. Enemies drop rare and unique equipment, all with their own procedurally generated stats and attributes.
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Trait-driven progression system. As you gain levels, you unlock various traits that improve your characters, ranging from simple health and damage boosts to character-specific unique traits.
Penimorta
Penimorta is a delightfully charming yet challenging bullet-hell experience that is chock full of stellar sprite designs and thoughtful level design. The movement is fluid, controls easy to handle, and the presentation of the game itself is quite polished. I was incredibly pleased with Penimorta and would emphatically recommend it, although it had just one minor qualm which I will address later on in the review.
Let’s start with the sprite design. Penimorta’s enemies (and especially its bosses) were incredibly well animated and aesthetically pleasing. The overall quality of the artistic direction of this game is superb, and easily makes it stand out among other similar indie games. The mage (the second boss of the game) had one of the best designs in the game, notably because of how well his appearance changes accompanied his second phase. The enemy attack patterns never felt boring, and were rather refreshing due to the pleasant palate of colors selected for their pellets/bullets. I also appreciated the slight distinctions in color and shape for the enemy bullets as it helped make navigation and movement more refined.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
This game is great, but the snake boss is the worst thing to happen to humanity. The entire game before the snake boss was easy, I only died around 3 times before it appeared. I hate the snake boss, please make the game more balanced.
Edit #1: Turns out that the warden (the final boss I think) is even worse than the snake. It has basically every negative affect, and for some reason there is a cage it randomly puts on you without any sign, the cage moves randomly too, damaging and blinding you whenever you touch it. I could keep on complaining but that would take a while. But please just balance the game, everything but the last 2 bosses is like 1/8 of the difficulty.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Xander the Monster Morpher: Universe Breaker
This is a very fun game, definitely worth the price!
– Real player with 55.2 hrs in game
Do you like catching monsters?
Do you like… BEING the monster?
Do you like fusing monsters together and making ridiculous and almost broken monsters?
Then I’m pretty sure you would like this game
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
Castle Of Alchemists
In this tower defense/top-down action hybrid, play as the Bellator, alchemically enhanced super soldier and the first of its kind, to fight against invaders that are trapped in the castle. Delve into the castle, set your traps and towers, equip powerful weapons and gears, and reclaim ground piece by piece. Unlock new powers, traps, and weapons as you save the survivors and gather the lost knowledge.
Decades of failure to achieve the ultimate goal, Philosopher’s Stone, led the masters at the Castle of Alchemists, to impatience, and at their lost of virtue, they made a terrible mistake.They have started to study heretical arts of sorcery to hasten the Magnum Opus. Instead of finding the Philosopher’s Stone, they have opened portals to unknown elemental realms, pouring malicious creatures into our world.
Castle’s defense systems trapped both creatures and the residence of the Castle inside. This solution is though only temporary, since creatures started to break free from this entrapment. It is now up to only a handful of apprentices, and the alchemically enhanced defender of the order, Bellator, to save the castle from the marauders of elemental realms.
As the alchemically enhanced super soldier of the order, Bellator, keep mutating to meet new challenges on the way as you level up and decorate yourselves with an amazing arsenal, powerful armors and a wide variety of equipment. As you progress, find and unlock new schematics for crafting more powerful equipment with unique randomised abilities which expands on gameplay.
Be the first example of Mankind-Perfected as Bellator.
Clash with fire realm invaders in forges, clean the golems of Earth Realms from mines, progress through the halls overrun by ice-realm creatures! A wide variety of enemies with different distinctive abilities, resistances and weaknesses to enhance gameplay and force you to change your tactics to meet ever changing challenges. environments and different goals; preventing invaders from escaping, protecting valuable assets to saving trapped masters and apprentices; to offer a fresh scenery as you progress through the castle.
Build defensive towers to house semi-auto ballistas, revolving cannons or steam powered mounted gatling guns. Install traps including deadly spikes, flame pillars, acid showers, rotating-dart throwers and many more. As you progress, unlock upgrades and different versions of your defenses such as changing your cannons to add a spin to cannonballs so they ricochet from the ground with an extended range, coat your spikes with poison that also slows down, and many more.
Use the synergy of traps and your abilities; by expanding the range of your electric turret via planting it in the midst of other metal traps, and if they are coming in large numbers and coming fast, wet them with showers of water and freeze them with ammonium-nitrate vials! Discover and unlock many more combos using traps and abilities together.
Larva Mortus
This is a small top down shooter that is a horror based dungeon crawler. It’s actually pretty good for a small independent project like this. It’s not super polished, but it’s not overwhelmingly amateur either.
The game does have some bugs here and there, and one that can really hurt your achievement hunting, so be careful of that.
The game has a mix of it’s normal campaign missions, as well as randomly generated missions that appear on the map as yo complete more. Most of the campaign missions are level locked, including the first one so you have to play a couple of the random missions to level up enough to access the main missions. This is fairly easy anyways. There is an good mix of enemies and weapons you fight and get. It does get harder as you go, though there seems to be a point where things don’t get any harder despite you leveling up. However there is the difficulty setting where you can set from easy, normal and hard, and change it at any time from the map on your save file. You will want to start on easy as even on normal the difficulty ramps up pretty high with more enemies and them hitting you much harder.
– Real player with 43.4 hrs in game
General
Larva Mortus is a typical example of a isometric budget shooter with semi-cartoonish graphics. The interesting in it is the extremly low price due the constant 90%-off price label, which puts it into the bellow 50 cents category. And for that it offers quite a few good things.
Gameplay
We are controlling a monster hunter looking guy from a birds perspective, which gives us a quite good overview trough combat. Our hero is easy to work with, which is definitely welcomed as combat always happens in cramped rooms. The mechanics is exactly this - you basically go from room to room and clean them out from monsters. Levels are generated randomly so you never know into what you go, but as long the level design regardless of the environment serves the same purprose, it doesn’t really requires you some change in tactics or would surprise you in any way. The enemies vary from basic undead, flying bats to spiders and poison spitting fat zombies. Except the boss level templars, they don’t really represent any serious force and usually are trying to make up for the lack of their power with rather high numbers. Very importantly - try not leave the room until is not cleared out entirely, cause the room will reset even if only one enemy remains and you need fight the horde once again. Exceptions might be missions where you need to rescue a certain number of civilians, blasting trough the rooms and just focusing on the rescue can save some time and nerves.
– Real player with 14.0 hrs in game
Red Algorithm
After playing over 200 Hours. I can official say this game is the shit.
It takes a while to get decent enough to not want to rip your head off, equally as long to learn all the great content Eugene has added.
This game does NOT have the attention it deserves
Stop looking through the store page, you’re here, reading this review. Play this game.
TLDR - Great content, very challenging,
– Real player with 326.3 hrs in game
A very enjoyable game for when you have a podcast or other type of content going on in the background, or just want a bit of fun. Surprisingly difficult with a good deal of replayability due to random chance being a fairly heavy factor. Apparently the dev’s first ever game on steam, so he definitely shows promise if this is just him dipping a toe in. Would definitely recommend at least a short attempt or two since the game is also light and quick to download.
– Real player with 56.3 hrs in game
Detective Gman
mega cool game.
lots to do, tons to explore, banging soundtrack.
perfect 10/10
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
A breath of fresh air in the current gaming climate! Story and character based game kind of like Disco Elysium, albeit shorter. Big game world, a lot of interaction and different ways to solve the crimes. Some tips I would give to new players:
spec your character right away, you have like 8 points and you have to manually enter each one. A bit unintuitive but you can get the hang of it. Be sure to add your 2 new points after every murder solved. humor and charm go a long way when talking to NPCs.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game