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5 (4) 4 (20) 3 (16) 2 (9) 1 (5) 3.2 starsAverage score of 54 user reviews
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Engaging Metroidvania Platformer, Needs Better Map 2
Download Size: 6 MBTime Played: 4 hrs.Manual Dexterity Required: HighTime Spent Backtracking: ~45 min.Was Getting 100% Worth It? NoWhat I'd Pay: $5Steam Price (2/26/12): $5Imagine Metroid as a puzzle game: dozens of rooms connected by a central hub, some of which you have to solve to proceed, and others you just pass through and solve later once you get the necessary upgrades. That's 1000 Amps in a nutshell. For the most part, it delivers, but Flash slowdown and drains that force the player to b...
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A Story for Melancholy Moods 2
Download Size: 1.5 GBTime to Finish: 1 hour, 40 minutesMost Impressive Level: The CavesPrice I'd Pay: $5Steam Price (2/15/12): $10Like a good horror game, Dear Esther insists upon being played at a certain time: a half-hour before sunset, with the lights dim, when you won't be interrupted for 2 hours. It is for thoughtful times, those periods where you don't feel like doing anything but pondering the path you've taken so far. It's not so much a game as it is remnants of a story you silently wand...
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An Incredible Machines Clone That Just Seems Off 0
Download Size: 256 MBTime Played: 4 hrs.Puzzles Solved: 54/100Puzzles Solved Using Walkthroughs: 2What I'd Pay: $5Steam Price (2/11/12): $10Price of The Incredible Machine Mega Pack on GOG.com: Also $10I have fond memories of The Incredible Machine 3. When I saw this game, I hoped it would fill its footsteps well. It didn't, but I'm not quite sure why. There's a lot in this game they get right, but there's a couple minor missteps that add up to a frustrating experience.Each level consists of a R...
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Geometry Wars in Bullet Hell 0
Download Size: 70 MBTime Played: 3 hrs.Unsuccessful Attempts on Last Stage: 15-20What I'd Pay: $7Steam Price (2/11/12): $10Demo AvailableScoregasm introduces some interesting mechanics, then proceeds shoots itself in the foot with one of them. The dual-joystick controls ala Geometry Wars? Work well. The path branching based on your success building combos, ala Star Fox 64? Also works well. The burst attack to destroy everything around you that's recharged by shooting things? Creates a steep diff...
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Good, Responsive Brawler Once You Tweak Controls 0
Time to Finish Campaign: 3 hrs.Deaths during Normal Campaign: 51Modes Tested: Normal Campaign, First Levels of SurvivalModes Not Tested: Hard Campaign, Coop SurvivalWhat I'd Pay: $12Steam Price (2/8/12): $10The side-scrolling brawler is another genre that has seemingly gone extinct, reduced to re-releases and the occasional Smash Bros. Brawl level. It didn't survive the decline of the arcade well. That's why I took note when the original Shank got decent reviews. I never got around to playing it...
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A Good Shmup with an Annoyingly Hard Endgame 0
Download Size: 100MBTime Played: 2 hrs.Gave Up On: Lvl 100 bossThat One Enemy: That last DivebomberWhat I'd Pay: $5Steam Price (2/5/12): $5Titan Attacks! mashes up a lot of classic shmup elements very well, making for an enjoyable experience up until the final stage. Comparing it to Space Invaders is the easiest reference, but each of the 5 stages adds a different classic to the mix, from Asteroids to Galaga to Centipede to... well, I'm not sure where Saturn's mechanic comes from, but I'm sure t...
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A Bad Port of a Mediocre iOS Game 0
Time Played: 1 hr.Courses Unlocked: Easy through Hard (Expert courses unplayed)Major Bugs Encountered: 2What I'd Pay: $1Steam Price (2/5/12): $5Apple Store Price: FreeI tried not to hate this game from the start. "Alright, so what if it looks like a port of a Flash game for kids? What if you get this dreadful feeling it's going to be mindnumbingly boring? You knew you'd have games like this when you vowed to review every cheap Steam game released. So quit whining, buckle down, and put in the tim...
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Strafe the Explosion Screaming 0
Time to Finish: 2 hrs.Total Marine Deaths: 23What I'd Pay: $5Steam Price (2/5/12): $10Pineapple Smash Crew is a jaunty retro game about a squad of mercenary marines dying from overwhelming numbers as they clean out derelict spaceships. And explosions. So many explosions. If the Warhammer 40k Imperium wanted to encourage teenagers to sign up for the Guard with a computer game, they'd probably release something like this. (Although I doubt they would make it this upbeat & cheery; kudos to viir...
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Zen Platforming 0
Download Size: 300 MBTime Played: 4 hrs.Gardens Unlocked: 12/15Global Ranking (2/5/12): 18thWhat I'd Pay: $10Steam Price (2/5/12): $10PixelJunk Eden turns a lot of platforming mainstays on their head. Instead of rich colors, it uses 3-4, with the neon plants/ground contrasting with the psychedelic background. Instead of cheery game tunes, slow electronica issues forth from your speakers. Time, not the enemies, is your biggest foe. And you have to pull off combos and gather spores to create your ...
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Brutal First Half drags Game Down 3
Download Size: 300 MBTime to Finish: 22 hrs.Difficulty Level: NormalMaps Drawn: 8Total Party Kills: 9What I'd Pay: $15Steam Price: $20Has Demo? YesIf I wasn't reviewing this game, I would've quit it before it got good.About 10 hours in, I had had it with the floaty controls and fighting enemies that seemed to move faster than me. And now I had just gotten my healer taken away from me (again) and had to go solo into a monster den with only a limited amount of herbs to heal me. When I got in, I le...
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A Big, Brutal Universe 0
Time to Finish: 25-40 hrs?Time I've Played: 12 hrs.Number of Times Game has Chewed Me Up, Spat Me Out: 5What I'd Pay: $20Steam Price (1/29/12): $4 (normally $10)I've been playing for 12 hours & I'm not even halfway through the game.That thought kept going through my head as I wrote this review. (Well, that and how am I going to destroy a ship with a half-dozen turret cannons.) I wanted to finish the game first, but I also wanted to finish the review before the weekend sale was over. Satisfyi...
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A Narrow Focus Done Well 0
Time to Finish: 4 hrs.Length of Last Mission: 30 min.What I'd Pay: $10Steam Price (1/27/12): $10The most unique thing about Sol: Exodus is that it exists. Halfway through, I felt it was bare bones, but when I tried to think of a title to compare it to, I had to go all the way back to TIE Fighter. How long has that been? Whoa, 18 years... I need something more recent. Freelancer, perhaps? Wait, that was 9 years ago... There had to be a more recent popular space combat sim, like uh... um...That's ...
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Grounded by Brutal Difficulty 0
Time to Finish: 7 hrs.Most Retries to Complete Single Stage: ~12-20What I'd Pay: $7Steam Price (1/21/12): $9Unstoppable Gorg has an interesting twist on tower defense and style to spare, but it crashes late-game with an excrutiating difficulty curve that squeezes your resources and demands a strict strategy.Unstoppable Gorg takes a unique mechanic (your towers are satellites in rotatable orbits) and crafts a cheesy sci-fi story around it, complete with B&W full-motion videos that would fit i...
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A Light Puzzle Snack 0
Time to Finish: 2.5 hrs.Most Time Spent on Single Puzzle: 10 min.What I'd Pay: $10Steam Price (1/12/12): $15Q.U.B.E. feels like a game the Portal team would hammer out in a month. It's stylish first-person puzzler with a bare-bones story hinted at by the environment and quite a few rough edges, yet it managed to tax my brain without frustrating me into quitting it for the night.The game's puzzles revolves around blocks and the special gloves you use to manipulate them. Blocks' behavior is determ...
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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