No love for Absolute Drift?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/320140/
Problem until now was that like some other indie games it had problems with the X1 pad on Win10 but there's now a beta that fixes this.
Only -35% and not everyone like drifting but if you do this is a must have, clean, cool visuals, good controls that reward practice and one of the best soundtracks of the year.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/
You know how "roguelike" gets tossed around for every game that has permadeath and procedural generation? Well, this is the real thing, a sprawling complex old-school turn-based roguelike set in a far-future science fantasy world. The sheer amount of depth and character customization is awesome, from photosynthetic skin to manually controlling your adrenal system
Not exactly an indie game, but Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris is a novel co-op experience. I'd mention The Guardian of Light as well, but unlike the former it only supports up to two players. Otherwise, have a look at Monaco: What's Yours is Mine. If you don't mind dungeon crawlers either, there's Hammerwatch and the latest Gauntlet, which was developed by the Magicka / Helldivers peeps.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/268650/
Build vehicles block by block (sub, ship, plane, airship, spaceship), use those designs to make a fleet and conquer the planet in a strategic campaign or just smaller missions. Probably the most in-depth block builder, everything is a large multi-part structure, be it an engine with individual cylinders, turbochargers, etc or a cannon that must be built with coolers, gauge increases, customized ammo and so on. While technically incomplete the game is still highly developed already and the community is building both efficient death machines and 1:1 replicas of vessels from all ages. Needless to say this game requires serious dedication to get a lot out of.
So I just decided it annoys me to no end that Cubesis has "mixed" reviews (20 reviews so far). Definitely doesnt deserve that. I'll gift out 8 or so copies of Cubesis for impressions here (and preferably steam reviews to push up that review average, if you like it).
By buying it for $1 in the Steam store?
I already gifted it out 10+ times in the past few days, but if you cant buy it yourself and want to provide some impressions /would write a steam review if you like it, feel free to write me your email address via PM.
I am interested, it's on my wishlist. Hoping for some gaf impressions.
Surprisingly good game. The dev contacted me and asked for some impressions, but I already had this on my radar before. Its pretty short with 2-3 hours for a first playthrough (so maybe keep an eye on it during the Steam sales if that is important to you), but the VERY challenging higher difficulties and challenges through achievements (beat X level by doing Y, etc) add a lot of replayability to it. Its also just... plain fun. Throughout those 2-3 hours, the game constantly introduces new enemy types and a wide range of weapons, so you always have something new to play around with/learn and the level design/enemy hordes keep you on your toes for most of the game.
Another thing worth mentioning is the polish, which I havent found often in such a game. In contrast du many other 2D platformers, it uses a VERY well done comic style, nunanced through snarky comments, a very moody soundtrack and extremely pretty animations. I had more than one moment, where I was marvelling at small graphical details, like the multiple subtle layers of background animations, very fluid character animations, extremely satisfying killing animations or small details like an in-style animated water shadow when you are walking in water or ... splashes from bullet cases hitting the water:
This game is drenched in love for making games, I am really surprised to see it seems to be one of the devs first efforts into game developing (at least according to the devs website). Apparently the dev is also working on a horde/MP mode to alleviate the playtime concerns. Really fun game, definitely going into my highly recommended or recommende list next month.
Now that I look at the list I didn't see the one game that made me rethink my position on this.
Hate to be the opposing voice here, but played this on mobile and was not impressed. I usually love pixel art but visuals here weren't that impressive and the gameplay just seemed pretty generic IMO
No need to apologize. I'm guessing it plays better on PC
http://store.steampowered.com/app/293440/
A homage to Zelda 2 and old-school NES platformer games. Elliot Quest doesn't mark your world map with a glowing sign showing to were you need to go or which item you need to collect to progress through the game, instead it rewards exploring the dungeons and keeping notes of places you still can't go because you're missing an item or ability. The lack of hints kind of make you feel good for discovering how to get to a new part, or realizing that you can use an ability in a way you didn't thought was possible.
EQ is a good game in its own right, but if someone is looking for a Metroidesque* with demanding exploration, challenging combat and fiendish puzzles, they should be looking at Environmental Station Alpha. It does everything EQ does but better. For one, it doesn't force you to play through entire levels 50 times just to get past that point on the overworld map, so right there it's clearly the better game. Jokes aside, it's really damn good and a must for anyone who liked EQ.
More like Metroid-esque. It's not exactly a new word. -esque is the suffix and can be used with anything. Castlevania-esque. Dark Souls-esque. Arkham Asylum-esque. Metroid-esque
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335120/?snr=1_7_15__13
Party-based, real time with pause combat focused on macro tactical decisions and creative party skill combinations. Classless role-playing system: create builds via any combination of magic, combat and aptitude skills available to create or find up to 5 unique characters. Non-linear storyline to uncover and explore through dialogue, clue and puzzles
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Buy 10 games recommended in the OP instead.
