Discover what players are saying about indie games
Similar formula to megaman but after hitting the enemy you gotta do damage by sendin lightning their way, sounds simple, makes gameplay incredibly fun and complex Copen and kirin bring interesting gameplay to the 2nd and 3rd release, with copens gameplay being so fun he also got a trilogy with the third game on the way
really great action with awesome bosses and interesting mechanics recommended to play it til the end but its still a great game to just play some hours
I will admit off the bat that my review is incomplete. I originally purchased Blasphemous on Nintendo Switch, where I had multiple controller failures that resulted in a host of incomplete games due to the annoyance of stick drift, but I will still offer some overview of the game. Just as the headline suggests, it's Metroidvania, complete with platforming as you traverse the world, light puzzles to unlock new areas. The combat and ambience of the game is where I feel it really shines; this is a difficult game compared to a lot of Metroidvanias, especially the mainline Castlevania games on GBA and DS. The combat isn't slow, per se, but it requires a bit more careful method and thought like a Dark souls or Elden Ring game or you will absolutely pay the price in health. The music and style of the game is heavily steeped in a gothic Spanish influence, ripe with highly religious overtones. The music in particular doing a very good job of conveying a sense of loneliness in an uncaring, beautifully macabre world that I felt burdens you with the wages of sin right from the atmosphere itself. For fans of the genre, I absolutely recommend it. I plan on repurchasing the game in the future to finally complete it, and don't feel any reservation towards spending again, particularly in light of knowing there will be a sequel ready for me afterwards.
Furi is a game hyper focused on delivering an intense combat experience. It's a game filled with nothing but bosses for you to overcome and a story married to its combat. Each fight is more than a way to challenge the player. They're also used to explore these characters. It's a fantastic narrative, but it can be hard to grasp beyond the the 30th restart of the next fight. This game is HARD, demanding really quick pattern recognition and reaction speeds. It's a twin-stick bullet hell that can flip into 3D combat in a moment's notice. Beyond the first boss, the game won't hold your hand for a second. At no point is it unfair. With enough practice each boss can be defeated and damn is it a satisfying feeling every time. Anyone who has played a good SHMUP will know the exact feeling Furi gives you while playing it. A fantastic experience for anyone who is okay with intense difficulty.
Atmospheric Waifustein 3D, combat is pretty brutal and the gore has disturbingly accurate detail. Akira and End of Evangelion vibes throughout this game. I loved the design on the guns, all using overpowered loads as ammo and semi realistic bullet drop mechanics. I liked the variety of enemies that you faced that broke the mold a bit from other shooters. Getting to pilot the mech suit was awesome and lets you wreak havoc like the mech suit sections of FEAR 2 did. The Music was foreboding and spooky with subtle bumps in the night. I thoroughly recommend this game to any boomshoot fans.
It even has a deck of cards! In this game you are task to complete the hellish gauntlet of a randomly generated golf course to cheat death itself. Its got great art ad characters and a gameplay loop that will get you thinking long and hard about each swing. These golf courses aren't simple. There are many obstacles to content with. New obstacles will get introduced to you the further you get in a run. Play your cards right and you'll be able to make it through under par! You're able to play a card before each swing and these cards allow you to redirect the trajectory of the ball, remove certain obstacles, give your swing more OOMPH, and much more. These cards will influence how you plot a course through each level and adjust for any mistakes you make along the way. The best part about this game is the cathartic feeling of overcoming a course with proper planning and execution. In that aspect, it resembles golf perfectly. But I have my gripes. Cursed to Golf is a roguelike. I don't have any issue with that genre, but I feel that some roguelikes sacrifice a lot of potentially fantastic level design when adhering to the genre. The randomly generated levels need to account for a player doing card-less swings and it severely restricts the level design. Even the environment has to bend to the will of level generation. It's tile-based, blocky, and isn't very compatible with smacking a ball around. You can still make that work, but what about the permadeath? You are sent back to the beginning of the game for each failure. Cursed to Golf's gameplay is like figuring out a puzzle and solving it with precision. On repeat, it feels lame to have to redo levels you have already solved and figured out. The beauty of a roguelike is supposed to be the each run is different, but in Cursed to Golf neither the cards or the level design will change gameplan here. It's a long game too. A full run may take 8 hours so you might need multiple sessions to beat the game. What if you were to mess up near the end? Would you be excited for the next run? Had this game been designed with each level being hand-crafted and didn't make you redo the whole game upon failing I genuinely think it would have turned out better. As it is, it's still very fun. Whether or not the level design/permadeath bothers you is up to your tolerance. I think it's still worth a shot though. Pulling off fun 2D golf is a remarkable feat on its own.
✓ Verified Owner
First things first, it is an Early Access title and has been for quite a while, but there is a already a lot to do in Open Sewer and the studio has already proven themselves to be competent with the earlier INFRA. After assembling a background for your character you'll get dumped on the streets of Open Sewer to join your fellow homeless, junkies and other undesirables. In your pockets some money and the keys to your *new* apartment building/biohazard junkyard. During your efforts to get it into a somewhat livable state, you'll meet plenty of interesting characters, potential tenants and hazards, all the while juggling a number of needs and addictions alongside the need to actually make money. Without going into spoilers, the story itself is very much in the background but written quite well, and the atmosphere is both fitting and awesome. The game mechanics are generally explained quite well without being handholding, with the game itself being very stable, almost bug-free and running well even on my aging rig. The pricetag of €20 is more then fair, even if you don't go crazy like I did and dump 116 hours into it.
You ever play a puzzle game and after completion bemoan the fact that there aren't enough puzzle games like what you just played? Chants of Sennaar was like this for me. It used it's made-up languages effectively to not only give you mental gymnastics to jump through in order to solve the world around you but did an effective job of incorporating its central mechanic into its overarching narrative. I believe the only complaint I can level at this game is that I would have wanted more from it. Take the guardrails off and let me really have to live in these areas to master the different languages. But for what it is (a 10-15 hour puzzle game) I believe it more than delivers on its premise and mechanics. Now if only more Devs could incorporate these types of experiences into more genres... but I digress! Complete Chants! Its well worth your time!
The language building, including needing to know different grammar, is just challenging enough to make you think. The story keeps you going and allows for multiple endings. The soundtrack is a calming background.
To begin with, I have not finished the game. BUT that is more of a victim of lack of time and not a indictment of the game. Sea of stars is a great game to remenise of older games. Involvong new mechanics to keep this fresh. The story is good (so far) and having elements of humor (not laugh out loud but some heart chuckles). I do plan to finish this game eventually.
Truly a fantastic and unique game, one with endless variation and customization, 10/10 teamwork mechanics, and an epic soundtrack and visuals to boot. You're gonna love this one.
Pseudoregalia is a 3D platformer/metroidvania that will challenge you to navigate a large map for collectibles. As it is a metroidvania, there will be many places you can't reach until you find movement upgrades. I was in complete awe with how much depth is packed into every little thing you can do. Each technique may not do a whole lot on their own. What makes them shine is how you can chain each technique together. A simple backflip can become the final move in a chain of techniques to make it to a platform. I have to applaud the level design of this game as well. There are many places you can't reach without the upgrades, but the game isn't too concerned with railroading you to take a specific route throughout the map. If you have enough skill, you can use a limited selection of techniques to explore areas that would be much easier with your full moveset. I love that the level design encourages this. It doesn't stop there, even with the full moveset the level design creates spaces to challenge your proficiency with the full moveset. It's immaculately put together. I had so much fun just navigating the map. Funnily enough, the biggest knock against this game is the lack of a map. It's up to you to figure out where you need to go and figure out what you haven't explored. Each location has enough design differences to tell them apart, but if you fail to notice something and/or fail to commit things to memory then you will inevitably get lost. It's annoying and it's bound to happen. Even so, I had fun while aimlessly looping around areas trying to figure out what I could have missed. It's a testament to just how good the movement feels to master. With a quick assessment of the environment around you, a platform in the distance becomes a beckoning call. You can totally make that jump. You gotta try it, and it feels SO GOOD every time you pull it off. All said, it's a short game. Depending on your skill with a platformer you can beat it over a weekend. I truly wish it was longer. The game doesn't explore much in the combat side of the game's mechanics. There is a good foundation there, but the game is focused much more on its platforming than combat interactions. One other thing to mention is the vagueness of its narrative. You're not told much about what is happening and barely anything at all about the character you play as. Exploring doesn't just reward you with progression, but also intrigue into the narrative and its contexts. You won't get solid answers on everything, only enough to get your mind to wander. It's one of the things motivating you to explore at all. I appreciate its execution, but whether or not you enjoy that type of thing is up to you. Either way, I couldn't recommend this enough. What a fun game.
✓ Verified Owner
The game is very, very difficult and sometimes straight up random. But that's fine. This isn't a game designed to be fair and for this reason I think it may not appeal to everyone, this is a game that simulates an ecosystem and you, the player, are just a small animal with small animal characteristics whose goal is to survive. -Gameplay: The gameplay can get a bit repetitive and, as I said, it can and will be unfair at times, so I think that this part heavily depends on your personal taste. 6/10. -Graphics: This game feels like it has AAA lighting in a pixel art enviroment (also the procedural animations are peak). 9/10. -Audio: The audio is very well crafted and helps to make the world feel alive, but the music (even though it is kinda good) plays very rarely during the playthough (<10% of the times). 7/10.
In the beginning I was very intrigued. I wanted to play a Cozy horror game but turns out it is less horror and more mystery/intrigue which isnt a bad thing if you go into it knowing that. But sadly the story dissappointed more than it was worth experiencing. But the artstyle is lovely! The character designs are charming, too.
What a fun idea for an arcade racing game. A parking garage is a very tight space to be racing around in. Perfect for a rally isn't it? Don't expect traditional racing game mechanics. From the trailers alone you can see the car drifting around with multi-colored sparks reminiscent of Mario Kart games. This is not just for show. Parking Garage Rally Circuit's vehicle physics are very similar to a kart racer. This isn't really a "Rally" game, but that doesn't mean it's game that isn't fun to master. Similar to kart racers, drifting rewards you with a speed boost upon exiting a drift. In this game the boost also increases the car's speed. The challenge here is to chain drifts together to achieve faster speeds and retain that increased speed throughout each lap in order to set the fastest time you can. This gameplay loop is executed perfectly thanks to the level design. Each level is a tight course with some unique event to differentiate each track from each other. Each zany parking garage will have unique obstacles to deal with like toll gates, falling boulders, driving on snow, and even driving across gaps between buildings. Dealing with this while trying to maintain your speed is exhilarating and it only gets crazier on the higher speed classes. You will not be disappointed by any level here. They're incredibly fun to master, but the experience is short lived. Ignoring workshop content, the game only has 8 tracks to master. As a person with a lot of experience in racing games, I was able to blast through the entire game in 4 hours with a gold on each level. It's paired with fantastic visuals calling back to classic Sega racing games and an amazing ska soundtrack. It's awesome, but so short. Recently, a paid DLC dropped that adds 8 more tracks to the game. Without a doubt, I'm sure it's worth the price as the game is already fairly cheap as it is. I have yet to try the DLC myself, but I trust the dev team based on the quality of the base game. With the DLC, there should be 16 tracks total by default. It's still a small game, but you'll have a blast of a time with it the whole way. Besides the core game, there is online multiplayer functionality. You have the option to host a lobby and run some tracks with friends to set the best time you can. Not only that, but you can try out levels on the workshop as well. Parking Garage Rally is unique as it doesn't have a level editor, but it does allow you to essentially import a Godot project of your own into the game. Level creators have free reign to do almost anything as they just need to know how to put together an environment in blender and figure out how to import it into the Godot Engine. I'm over-simplifying the process here, but what matters is that it allows people to do something like port every track from Crash Team Racing into the game. Any fan of arcade racing should nab this game. You will not be disappointed.