Herder
I had access to Beta release, it’s a fun unique take on farming, score attack, and tower-defence style games. Easy to pick up and play or sink a few hours into. Great fun!
It’s not a massive sprawling game, but you’ll easily get some hours of playtime in, well worth the $5.
– Real player with 46.1 hrs in game
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Full play through w/ all achievements here when it uploads: https://youtu.be/HZTvax6dNbc
First Off Pro tip I didn’t find out until 5 hours into the game if you hit the R key the dog will run the sheep into the starting area and consolidate them The Concept of this game is actually really well executed, but first let me talk about the main thing that ruins the game a good amount for me. My little herder dude likes to target rocks walls trees EVERYTHING so I could be facing forward hit the w and go backwards cause he’s targeting some random object it makes your character herk and jerk around and it’s tragic. The sheep are dumb they literally run TOWARDS the danger instead of away. Whoever made this game has a really good understanding of animals the disease from having too many and the problems that can come from not thinning the herd can cause a huge problem and this mechanic is really well done and makes getting some of the achievements very difficult even on casual mode. The shooting works really well when my dudes not focused on a rock or a wall. The upgrades are super cool I was actually very amused when my sheep went face first into one of the land mines I planted. Definitely recommend this game for the price.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Tyfortress: Tactical Typing
This is an excellent typing game. The difficulty scale ranges from sheer beginner skill level, to very difficult… I am fairly good at typing with an average wpm of about 90 (highest of about 120 or so), and the harder levels gave me quite a challenge. I have not yet earned every achievement, although I do intend to. Can’t beat the price too. Worth the money!
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
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Very good for the price. The vocabulary and sentence structure is a little weird, but I really like the design and game play of it. Engaging and fun.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Gemstone Defense
This is a decent remake of the one damage mode. The gameplay is enjoyable. However, with only one mode at varying difficulties, re-playability may be affected.
Air rounds are super easy in early rounds and on lesser difficulties, but when Endless mode begins, the Air creeps are much stronger.
I don’t think hitting round 100 is possible. The HP curve of the baddies is too steep.
There’s a bug where after a gem was included as a piece of a combination, that gem stays with the combination highlight even after another gem of the same type took its place in the combination.
– Real player with 31.0 hrs in game
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fun when u got time to pass
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Type Defense
“Type Defense brings a brand new approach to all typing games. You have to stop desert bandits by firing with your ballista. Everyone knows the best way of using a ballista is typing! And it supports multiple languages!”
Well, no, but still it’s a great game!
This is definitely no brand new approach - I’ve played at least a dozen games in which you had to type words that randomly come on-screen in order to defeat enemies, but who cares? It’s awesome!
And yea - the multiple language support is great, unfortunately I can’t type in my native tongue.. but you can choose between entire vocabularies of English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. And Russian too.
– Real player with 55.2 hrs in game
As someone that is learning to type (Dvorak) this game gets too hard too fast, would not recommend this game until you can type at 20+ wpm, I’m on about 12 wpm at the time of writing and the game lasts for about 2 mins before I die and have to start again, it gets so fast that my typing just gets frantic and I no longer am practicing typing as much as I am key mashing and not learning anything. Some adaptive difficulty based on our typing speed/accuracy/performance, or manually set difficulty, would sort this out.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Keep Defending
Keep Defending is a wonderful blend of archery and tower defense!
Keep Defending (KD for the remainder of this review) is a great archery game that mixes in some tower defense elements. You will most likely kill most of the enemies yourself in the earlier levels and on low difficulty modes, but you will find that this game throws a lot of challenges your way which will require management of funds and allies. These allies range from archers to warriors to mages. You will make use of a teleport beacon as well to get around each level. Some levels don’t require any of these allies or tools to be completed, but harder difficulties and more complicated levels throw a lot more enemies at you and even change up where some of them spawn.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Keep Defending puts a fun spin on the common VR archery genre by adding in the tower defence element. Unlike most of the tower defence games, it actually does it well.
Full video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEeKP9Qvrg
If you’d like to watch some gameplay from a high-ranking player, take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TDAFTLWA8
You get gold for killing each enemy which can be spent on new defences. Defences being things such as teleport markers or NPCs who will attack the enemy with you. So far I’ve gotten teleport markers, crossbows and knights. You can place them in predetermined slots and if needed change the defence currently in place if you change your mind or the situation changes.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Royale Archer VR
This game is good fun,
You get a limited amount of arrows that refill over time and Mana to spawn Troops, Traps or Use a Spell.
As you progress you unlock more to help you win the battles and accomplish the 3 objectives per Level.
There are also Upgrades to yourself and to your troops.
After two hours of gameplay I managed to get 3 stars on Levels 1-10 going back to a few after upgrading.
There seems to be 40 levels so far so I’m guessing its a 6-8 hr play through at release.
I recon they’ll be updates to smooth out the niggles like the UI being a bit clunky and not being able to Un-knock your arrow.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
This this really cool!
This game has many flaws: awkward one-hand bow shooting (you’re guiding shoot with just one hand instead of two like in typical archer game), very poor visuals and poor performance (especially for those visuals) Controls are clunky and don’t always work.
But despite all these flaws the game is addicting and fun!
For it’s price it’s a steal!
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
The Last Friend: First Bite
CONTROLS
Not as seamless on a keyboard, but the game does claim at the very beginning that it is better played on a game controller. If the game is playable on PC, maybe they should have catered to keyboards as well. It’s not terrible, it just feels like it could be a little more seamless.
CHARACTERS
Characters are not very relatable or interesting. The puppy is bossy and he is small so may be the most relatable part of the game.
VISUAL STYLE
Very vibrant and colorful and very vector-like. The style seems consistent
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Works in Proton.
This is pretty fun, will probably pick up the full version in the future
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Defend the Cake
Really strong and fun early access tower defense game.
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Has good progression of different types of enemies with different abilities (fast, armored, flying, burrowing, building jumping, etc)
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Interesting mechanic where the bugs get to the cake and then go back along a ground path (which would only be different if they are flying/jumping.)
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Fun different building types that balance different tradition TD buildings with some fun modifications (fast, slow, aoe, high damage single target).
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Interesting boss enemies with different mechanics.
– Real player with 47.4 hrs in game
My favorite aspect is the unique mechanic of limited actions. In between rounds, you only have four (later six) eggbirds to build, upgrade, or gain extra resources. While you can undo immediate actions, you cannot sell or move towers later.
During a round, your only action is to temporarily power up towers, then wait a few seconds for the recharge. This might sound limited, but especially in later levels, it keeps you busy with quickly deciding when and on which tower to use your power best.
The maps are very open, giving you many different options to figure out the best set up by replaying a level.
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
Island Invasion
Very enjoyable Tower Defense title once you have had a couple of run throughs to confirm tower abilities and tactics.
Had initial problems placing sea blocks and taking down stealth drones (you need flak towers not missiles!), but am now looking forward to new maps and harder levels.
Requires good “combined arms” tactics and the sea blocks give rise to very interesting path options. Would not mind the option of “barrage balloons” to be able to influence air paths(even if their use is limited) as in some maps you can die fairly quickly from minimal options for air defense.
– Real player with 35.3 hrs in game
This game is highly addictive and you can find yourself playing for hours trying to beat your high score. I like the map generation feature that allows almost endless possibilities to play different maps. I would definitely recommend this game for the fact that it’s well priced, entertaining for a long time and you will find yourself constantly trying to beat your high score!
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
FTD2
Nothing particularly gamebreaking about this title, but has that essential “one more try” aspect, particularly when the leaderboards let you know that you could be doing it better.
Wouldn’t mind a speedup button. (which I have now got)!
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
A pretty decent little Tower Defence game with decent content amount and more to come.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game