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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/209190
https://web.archive.org/web/20190907045712/https://www.stealthbastard.com/
A side-scroller puzzle game.
I played around with it a bit. It’s fair. It’s overwhelmingly unforgiving and gets complicated.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris/STST01G-MASTER.html
Build and expand a space-faring race who learns they are not alone in the universe.
Master of Orion – (1993 game) but with updated graphics and a confusing interface. I expect would have loved this in the past, but now it’s just awkward. I’ll still tag this as ‘liked’, as it’s pretty good. It’s very hard in the eyes. Take a lot of breaks.
Extremely stupidly hard.. and confusing. I’m shelving it. I only paid $12 USD for it, so it’s not a big loss.. still, I wish the UI was better and the tutorial was better and the gameplay was better..
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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/205910/
https://www.blackpants.de/project-tiny-big/ [ 1 ] was http://tinyandbig.com/
Laser things, move things, push things and find your way through semi-puzzle stuff.
With an art style (and opening sequences) reminiscent of Borderlands – (2009 game) and gameplay reminiscent of Okami – (2006 game), this game has a very strong initial impression on me.
Not open-world, and definitely “on rails”, but it does give a lot of power to the user as to how to fart around to progress.
While overall good, the controls are wonky and cliffs are obnoxious. There should be no falling off mechanic and the game should instead dangle the player for a moment and never let them fall.
Properly titled Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers
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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/280790/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210208222224/https://www.creativersegame.com/
A freemium Minecraft clone with a number of improved features.
It’s prettier but has a lot of pop-in. The two block-high jump and sliding movement are unsettling. It’s nice to have a list of all crafting patterns, and searching is nice. Crafting is very nice with its previews.
Overall I’d say this is a good game and an appropriate drop-in replacement for people who like Minecraft.
2021-05-28 — The website has been dead for a while.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/314230/
https://elliptic-games.com/
A space simulator fps thingy.
While it looked quite good at a glance, when actually trying it it fell flat. When a game cannot lean on cutting-edge technology, it has to have solid gameplay. It didn’t feel good at all to me. I guess No Man’s Sky – (2016 game) spoiled me.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes
A multiplayer, text, third-person shooter originally made for DOS, but I know it from Novell Netware.
I had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Perhaps it’s nostalgia which makes me stay so fond of it, but I think the fundamental gameplay still holds up today. I could easily imagine a great updated version of this but I have and still do see this same gameplay in all sorts of other top-down games.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://spaceengine.org/
A simulation of space which one can fly through.
Shit controls. Pass.
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was symphonygame.com
A top-down shooter game which uses music to generate levels.
Absolutely fantastic! HOWEVER progress is not auto-saved! Who the fuck makes a game where you can abandon everything you’ve played just by pressing a button too many times?!
Abandoned; the website is gone.
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I’m not sure how to describe this game. It’s an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.
I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/344840/
http://www.gratuitousspacebattles2.com/
A tower defence game with space ships.
I didn’t play a whole lot of this, because the novelty wore off with the first one. However, it looks like this is more of the same: Highly customizable and extremely fun, but with poor replayability. Worth a bit of coin if you’re a fan of tower defence games.
I was able to utterly blow away the first two practice missions. It does look like it gets a lot harder. I think maybe this isn’t really for me right now or perhaps isn’t my thing any more. I think I would like this game a moderate amount if I spent more time with it.
Playing a few hours in, the UI is really annoying. That alone makes this game extraordinarily hard. I hate having to fight the game itself to figure all my shit out. I’m giving this a pass.
Like its predecessor, bonus points for the author throwing away all sense of storyline. Fuck all that shit, I just want gameplay. I’m not joking.
Support was dropped for this game. See Indie game developers move on. Or they fail.
