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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Decoherence
As a studio, we have worked on Decoherence for over five years! It’s a real pleasure for us to be able to share our game with you. We feel the game is ready for both the casual and the competitive player. We hope you enjoy playing alongside Tadashi, Sabrina, Sam and α.Dron.Ai.
Welcome to the family! Get better and earn your place.
– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game
I have 0.8 hours on record as of this review, though I did play the demo a little bit too.
This is a review for the multiplayer. The game just came out, so I don’t know how easy it will be to get matches down the road - but this game is really fun multiplayer.
There’s tons of customization in your bot and pilot loadout, and multiplayer matches are these epic mind games. You might have a shield bot guarding your other bots and have them all huddle behind it, or go with long range attacks, etc. It’s a real mind game and the meta will probably change a lot.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
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
SYSTEM32
0xFFBADD11: SYSTEM32 has been corrupted.
In this retro operating system simulation, eliminate invaders attempting to corrupt files. Gameplay involves switching between fast-paced bullet-hell action and use of a retro terminal in order to alter the battlefield, and your character.
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Use the terminal to completely alter the battlefield and create endless customized weapons.
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Computer memory is currency. Stack your upgrades by copying files, or free up memory by deleting them.
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Deck out your PC as you loot and extract corrupted files from enemies to gain new weapons, armour, and abilities.
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Themed for programmers and computer-science lovers, but accessible to all types of players.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1360880/SYSTEM32/
Generic Space Shooter
I seriously cannot believe how awesome this game is. I literally have trouble putting it down. Every time I die and see my end score I go “AAAHHH I have to try that one more time! The powerups are a lot of fun and the ability to unlock ships that aren’t just different skins slapped on the same ship is great! The simple controls allow you to consentrate on defeating the enemies and the fact that your gun is not perpetually stuck in the on position, as it is with most space shooters, makes the game more challenging. An online leaderboard would make this game better, but other than that this is a great game for a great price!
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
It took me 5 hours to unlock everything. I played this while listening to an audio book. It can be played with only the mouse. Mindless isn’t exactly the right word, but you do sort of get in a rhythm with it. It is a good game to play while thinking about something else. It was exactly what I was looking for and I enjoyed it. I appreciate that it puts all the mechanics up front and you don’t have to wait to unlock things (what you unlock is just how long/how often for power ups)
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game