Desert Pirates
Lead a post apocalyptic war convoy made out of badass cars driven by unusual characters. Travel across a dangerous and endless desert filled with resource seeking opponents.
In this experience inspired by movies like Mad Max and spaceship roguelikes, you can expand and improve your convoy, find new cars and swap out their weapons and tools, upgrade, repair and refuel them, feed drivers and give out orders to help everyone survive.
How far can you ride?
Features
-
Unlock and collect badass cars: Find cars to restore in every run, and store them in your garage for later use. The desert is filled with hidden surprises!
-
Make runs with different convoys: Change your Convoy to fit your playstyle! Choose between Soldiers with Nitro, Heavy Soldiers with special weapons, start with additional food or gas, special systems like Shields, Radars, Decoys and more!
-
Survive the desert: You will need to destroy enemy settlements in order to get the resources you need to repair and refuel your cars, and to keep your followers fed and hydrated.
-
Give orders to your Convoy: Stay together, or split up! Changing orders on the fly can give you an advantage against your enemies. Light RTS mechanics are gaining traction during development (stay tuned!).
-
Classic Roguelike Features: Permadeath, Upgrades, procedurally generated areas. Every playthrough is different.
Shakedown: Hawaii
Shakedown: Hawaii is the follow-up to Retro City Rampage.
Retro City Rampage (aka RCR) in my mind, was a sleeper hit of an indie. So how did VBlank manage to follow it up?
The gameplay in Shakedown: Hawaii is nearly identical to that of RCR, and so nearly instantly I felt quite comfortable with the controls. Mechanically the game seems rock-solid, which isn’t always something games of this nature get right, so it’s worthy of praise.
Shakedown: Hawaii sort of tones down the parodic elements that Retro City Rampage was known for by a lot, and while that might sound like a good thing since a common critique of RCR was how it was far too “in-your-face” about parodying pop culture of the 80s and 90s, I’m not so sure the comedy Shakedown: Hawaii goes for really “hits” all that often. Most of the jokes seem to elicit rolling eyes, rather than laughs.
– Real player with 37.4 hrs in game
Read More: Best Twin Stick Shooter Open World Games.
A kiddie version of GTA2 with some business management.
Nice, easy, colorfull, pleasantly funny, sympathic.
Probably its very easy to identify with the maincharacter since he still lives in the 90s and is confronted with the modern business life. So its a great game for guys who played GTA 1 or 2 when it came out.
Further its not that hard like GTA was. You can’t die, you can restart every mission, you can get health on every corner, cops are kinda brainless, no long searching for special cars to sell, no blood (I am missing that!)… so Millenials will also have their fun from a different view without any big skills, effort or heart attacks.
– Real player with 33.5 hrs in game
Hyena: Dogs of War
It’s been ten years since the war with the Banana Republic ended. Dozens of prisoners of war remain in camps across the Republic, abandoned by their allies. Join Team H.Y.E.N.A., a private mercenary force, to rescue them and end the war once and for all.Can H.Y.E.N.A. and their allies get past the outcast heroes who are under arrest and rid themselves of a menace that could literally destroy everything… even the Republic itself?
Features
-
Drive an armored jeep though hostile territory
-
Collect and upgrade weapons
-
Fight against enemy forces from the land, sea, and sky
-
Engage in epic boss fights
-
Rescue POWs and top-secret documents
-
Explore the beaches, plains, jungles, and mountains of Banana-land
-
Uncover mysterious clues about the Banana Republic
Can you free Banana-land from the treacherous Dictator before he unleashed forces that threaten to destroy the earth?
Read More: Best Twin Stick Shooter War Games.
Titan Attacks!
Absolutely glorious remaster of the classic Space Invaders game. Innovative, advanced, and scores of fun to be had.
When aliens living on Titan, Saturn’s moon, decide to attack, they lay waste to Earth’s military forces. Well most of it. You are the last remaining Tank Commander on Earth, and you are one bad mofo. Battle your way across Earth to stop the invasion, and then you take it to the skies as you hit the Titans' outpost on the Moon, and obliterate it. Next stop, the Titans' Martian colony. They wiped out all the little green men also and need to pay. After Mars, you find yourself on Saturn, and the enemy forces are strong. But not as strong as when you reach Titan itself, taking on the nest of the alien scourge to nearly end our way of life… and the poor Martians.
– Real player with 33.9 hrs in game
Titan Attacks! is a retro, arcade, 2-D shooter where the nameless Commander fends off the Titan invasion with his trusty pixelated tank.
The game commences on Earth then progresses to new zones. Zone progression occurs when its boss is defeated. There are a total of five zones, each containing twenty levels, with their own unique design. Once all five have been defeated, it loops back to Earth, albeit with a slightly higher difficulty.
The game mechanics are fairly straightforward; aim & kill. Fortunately, that doesn’t do Titan Attacks! the justice it deserves. The mechanics conspire in such a way to exude a simple & fun experience. There are a number of boosts & improvements that can be purchased between levels to mitigate your success. For example, there are powerful area-of-effect bombs, weapon add-ons, additional shielding & more. Currency is derived from killing enemies & also capturing them. Capturing enemies adds a unique dimension to some situations, as doing so can be lethally dangerous, but extremely profitable. The Titans have a wide arsenal of ships & weapons that change in function & attitude from zone to zone, which can easily lead to your undoing if not cautious. There are bonus rounds that gauge your accuracy & reward you accordingly so keep nimble. These rounds occur between levels, after every seventh level.
– Real player with 19.3 hrs in game
Wasteland Angel
This game somehow reminds me of the mid-90s sci-fi flick Tank Girl, but maybe the similarity begins and ends with the post-apocalyptic setting, the cartoonish art style and the main characters, both girls whose favourite activity seems to be shooting mutants. You take on the role of Angel, who drives around in her car and saves the inhabitants of post-world war III settlements from mutant attacks. So much for the backstory.
Gameplay wise, Wasteland Angel is a no-nonsense top-down shooter. You’re looking at a desert landscape from an isomotric perspective, drive around with a car whilst shooting at other cars that likewise shoot at you. That’s pretty much all there is. Your main armament consists of two fixed guns, additional weapons can be aquired by driving over power-ups. Each level has three stages and, after you defeat the stages final boss in the third, a short bonus stage that leaves the top-down view and switches to a first-person perspective. The game never breaks from this pattern.
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
Honestly, this game is exactly what it presents itself as - a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic arcade-style game focused around vehicular combat. Within that mold, there’s some aspects I appreciate quite a lot.
- Civilian towns. The primary objective is not just to survive against all comers, but to protect towns full of civilians - this often, at least for me - created situations where I had no choice but to hold off on blowing up targets trying very hard to kill me in order to protect civilians. This particular feature just seems very well designed - you’ve got enough heallth to sacrifice some if you have to in order to protect civilians, the game smoothly increases complexity from one town on a flat map to multiple towns on a map covered in impassable terrain obstacles, etc. If a bunch of civies are walking back to town after the transport which took them is exploded and you or an enemy runs them over, they die, etc. It’s little things like that which make a good game a great one or a bad game okay.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Park The Car
Let’s start with the description: “Park the car is a racing game where you need to park your cars in a safe location!” This is not true. It is not a racing game; it is a puzzle game. You draw the path the car will take to the parking spot with your mouse. If that sounds like a mobile port, well, it probably is.
Graphics: The graphics are functional and coherent.
Sound: The music is repetitive, peppy muzak that you would expect on a cheap mobile game. I turned it off, but then I do that with almost every game.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Pressure Overdrive
Love the Game!
Pros:
-
Artwork/graphics
-
Replay of levels (I enjoy the replayabilty and improving my gold haul)
-
Various combinations to upgrade your buggy & 3-levels per upgrade.
-
Smooth game-play
-
Achivements are not impossible (nor luck based).
FAVORITE POWER-UP: Love Bug.
- Honorable mention: double Damage
Cons:
-
In Keyboard/mouse-mode the keyboard controls are very responsive. You need to get used to maneuvering the buggy.
-
Cursor: Can’t change the cursor color or shape
-
Power-up: The drops type (rapid fire, double damage, unstopable, Love Bug, etc) seem to be random (but maybe I don’t know how to get the drop to be what I want)
– Real player with 24.5 hrs in game
Note: This review is sort of a comparison to first Pressure game.
I expected this to be a continuation of the story, however this seems to be a remake (so far, all the cut-scenes are the same)
Game is significally more complex. Different upgrades to different things. Before you could simply upgrade the Buggy, max weapons and rampage through levels. This game makes sure you undertand what you need in which levels, as different slots do different things and the gameplay can vary a lot depending how you upgrade your buggy.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game