Nurose
Nurose is online dueling game where you fight others with custom spells. It has a custom spell building system that allows players create unique attacks. The game has a high focus on gameplay customizability and has a high skill ceiling.
Custom Spells
Central to Nurose is the unique spell building system. Spells are built by visually programming glyphs in a staff. There are 30+ glyphs ranging from simple movement glyphs to complex conditional glyphs. You don’t need to level up to earn new glyphs or staffs. Each glyph is available from the start so everyone is on a even playing field.
The possibilities of this are endless. Some spells that you could make include:
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Mines that explodes when the enemy is near.
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A shield made up of projectiles in a semi circle.
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Anti-missile attack that will look for enemy projectiles and destroy them.
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Spell that makes decoy clones and moves them in specific directions.
What sets the great players apart are their skill in spell building and mastering their builds. When you have made a build, enter online matchmaking and fight others with your spells.
Online matchmaking
In online matchmaking you will fight others in a 1v1 best of 5 game. Each player has several staffs available. The game is made in a custom engine with rollback netcode for optimal online experience.
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GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
This is a superb, unique game that deserves to be even more popular than it already is.
The concept of the game is that the player designs their own AI via customizable ‘nodes’ (colour-coded tiles that the player can arrange into a logic tree to determine their robots' behaviour) which then dictate how their team of 4-8 robots (from four different classes) perform in battle against ‘enemy’ AIs.
The logical array which the player creates (featured in several of the screenshots in the store page) can be anywhere from just a handful of tiles at first, to literally hundreds (arranged into named sub-AIs if the player wants) that function like a sort of flow diagram for each robot, governing their priorities and thus responses based on a seemingly endless combination of determining factors e.g. what friendly or enemy bots are doing at that particular moment, how far away they are, or hundreds of other parameters native to the ‘check-box’ like options that allow the player to refine what each tile actually ‘says’.
– Real player with 478.5 hrs in game
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In Gladiabots you programm a platoon of robots that will then compete autonomously in a game arena against other platoons. You have to plan and consider carefully when creating your robots' AIs before actually hitting the arena as you can no longer interfere once the match has started: The robots are then on their own, equipped with nothing but your programmed instructions.
There are four different bot classes resembling a rock scissors paper scheme with an added tank and several different game modes (three for online ranked matches vs humans).
– Real player with 364.7 hrs in game
Abettor
It’s like Skyrim with guns!
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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add a kill count
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Infinite Brick Breaker
Unplayable. Save your money. Seems like a great concept, but once you open the game, it is totally unresponsive to mouse and keyboard commands.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
While intuitive to some (maybe) for most they can’t figure out that clicking and dragging your mouse creates a trajectory for the ball. Once you figure that out it’s clear that the game itself isn’t broken, but I wouldnt' call it fun either. Launch all the projectiles as close to zero degrees as you can and watch the blocks be destroyed.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead was featured on my youtube channel
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2175220772
and now onto the short review
//Description//
Pixels Guide to Staying Dead is a local top down shooter game with an interesting twist- you must bring your opponents to 0 HP. Use your math skills to determine how to do that.
//Graphics, Sound & Artstyle//
there isn’t much to say about the graphics as it seems like any other pixel type of game. Sound is nice and found myself humming the main theme.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Chess on Ice
WHAT IS CURLING SIMULATOR?
Play the beautiful sport of Curling in the most accessible and complete curling game to date! Play with your friends in competitive matches whether it’s 1v1, 1v2, or 2v2, or play through the over 40 levels of curling physics based puzzles to see if you have what it takes to be the next Curling superstar!
BUT I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CURLING!
Don’t worry! This game can show you everything you need to know to go from a curling newbie to throwing Olympic quality shots!
FEATURES
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40+ Single Player Physics Based Puzzles - From simple shots to a specific target, to weaving in between five different rocks to get the scoring hit, challenge mode is the best way to push your ability to curl!
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Shared Screen Multiplayer for up to four players - Scream and shout just like the pros from the comfort of your own living room
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Online Multiplayer using Steam’s Remote Play - Don’t have friends in person? Don’t have a living room? No Worries! With support for up to four controllers, Curling Simulator will get you the fun you want with your friends!
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Customization of Rules to Match the Pace You Want - Only have 10 minutes? Want a full simulated game? Want only one rock per team? The choice is yours!
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Customization of Physics to Break the Game However You Want - Want to be throwing ultra-light rocks? Want to make sweeping pointless? Want to make sweeping the only way you will ever get a rock to where you want? Want the rocks to go sideways from the amount of curl they get? The physics engine is 100% customizable!
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Tutorial to Show all the ins and outs of Curling - No previous experience required!
DUSK ‘82: ULTIMATE EDITION
Dusk ‘82 has reminded me of how awesome dungeon crawlers are, as well as the fun and sometimes tricky puzzles within them. If it’s okay to compare it to other games, I’d say there are elements/influences of Ultima, Rogue, Chip’s Challenge and even ZZT in here, intentional or otherwise. It combines a lot of what made those games fun to play and turns it up to 11.
It’s short, sweet and the world is your oyster in terms of customisation and level creation so hopefully this will be one of the most community-serviced titles on this platforms as it has the potential to be.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
Another master piece of David Szymanski, DUSK 82 has to offer a great 8-bit action-puzzler that was used as the prequel of the original classic cult shooter DUSK.
Created in such a simple style, this game reached the expectations that the fans were hopping for the next title of the DUSK series.
I enjoyed the puzzles that the game delivered including the music that was adapted from the first game successfully, meaning that I didnt even felt boring while doing the run of the entire game.
In my final review I would give:
– Real player with 18.3 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
Orbital Defence Command
Obviously a lot of love put into it, with lots of fun and addictive gameplay and music.
Kind of a mix of oldschool arcade space shooter and a bit of tetris puzzle.
Cool bosses, enemy ships and easy to pick up, takes skills to beat!
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
pretty good game, took me a minute to figure out what to do but when I did I enjoyed it. I think that you should be able to use your mouse to aim but other than that it’s a neat game
8/10
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Bullet Time
this game is so good i just wish the hitboxes were updated but other than that it dominates the rythm genre
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game