It’s time for a new post! Shocking! That said, let’s go through another queue of Greenlight games that want votes to get on Valve’s digital distribution service Steam.
A few thorny things to go through and then to the stuff you actually wanted to read.
This post is for games listed between October 25 to 27, 2015. It also is made entirely from my opinion and as such some games worth mentioning might not get mentioned. I try not to let this happen. Also, this is post is only meant to be a quick look at the games, and is no way an indepth look at the games.
This post will probably be out of date by the time its been posted as games can be quickly removed or pass through Greenlight.
A few rules:
- Games must have an English translation.
- Games should look ready for Greenlight and not look like a joke submission.
- Games should have a trailer.
- Reposted games to Greenlight that I’ve previosly talked about will not be included.
Now the good/important/stuff:
Title: Subsistence
Genre: Survival, Shooter, MMO
Art Style: 3D First Person Open World
Synopsis: A survival sand box game that pits you against the world. You build you base of operations, and carry out raids on others all in the name of surviving for another day.
Opinion: There are a lot of survival games out there, hopefully this game seperates itself enough to win over the crowds.
Trailer:
Title: Wick
Genre: Horror
Art Style: 3D First Person World
Synopsis: In the woods a house burned down, the parents were found inside, but the kids were never found. Now you’re going into the woods to explore what it has to offer and you only have some candlelight to get by with.
Opinion: It does look a touch cliche which is hard to avoid with horror, but I like the feel of it overall.
Trailer:
Title: Capture the Flag
Genre: Adventure
Art Style: 3D World in the Third Person Perspective
Synopsis: Based on the Spanish film Atrapa La Bandera, it tells the story of Mike Goldwing, 12 years old, who comes from a long line of astronauts. He wants to go on a grand adventure himself, so he sets up a great game of capture the flag that’s set across the world.
Opinion: It looks cute, though hopefully the whole game isn’t made up of quick time events as it seems there are a lot in the trailer.
Trailer:
Title: Take the Dream IX
Genre: RPG, Horror
Art Style: 2D Pixel Top Down RPG Maker Engine
Synopsis: You play as Gwen a woman who is out to save her girlfriend Flora from the strange depressed phantom ArKun. This game will be free to play.
Opinion: It isn’t for me.
Trailer:
Title: Skeletal Dance Simulator
Genre: Simulation
Art Style: 3D Voxel World
Synopsis: You play as a necromancer who rises skeletons from their graves in order to protect the lair from attackers. And yes, they are sort of kind of maybe dancing along the way.
Opinion: It seems like a very quirky off beat game. The music is pretty, but a touch loud in the trailer.
Trailer:
Title: The Whisperer in Darkness
Genre: Visual Novel, Horror
Art Style: 2D Hand Drawn World
Synopsis: Based on cosmic stories from author H.P. Lovecraft. You play as professor Albert Wilmarth a skeptic who has come to the Vermont hills to find a mysterious farm. What he finds may place him in mortal peril.
Opinion: Interesting art and idea for a game.
Trailer:
Title: Lolly Paw Joe
Genre: Platformer
Art Style: 3D World in the Third Person Perspective
Synopsis: You play as Joe the dog in this precision platformer that draws its inspirations from Saturday morning cartoons.
Opinion: It has a very surreal look and feel to it.
Trailer:
Title: Stay Close
Genre: Horror, Puzzle
Art Style: 3D World
Synopsis: You’re connected to two worlds, one when you’re awake and one in which you day dream. In order to figure out what’s going on in your mind you must solve the puzzles in both worlds.
Opinion: Interesting concept, I like the duality of two conflicting worlds.
Trailer:
Title: Grey Night
Genre: Platformer, Horror
Art Style: 2D Grey Scaled Side Scroller
Synopsis: You’ve been in a brutal car crash and have been knocked out from it. When you come to you find your daughter has been taken away, now you must do everything in your power to save the one you love. This game is crowd funding on Kickstarter.
Opinion: It has a very cinematic feel to it.
Trailer:
Title: Jumper Jape
Genre: Platformer
Art Style: 2D Side Scroller
Synopsis: A skill based platforming game that challenges you with tough obstacles and fine lines. This game will be free to play.
Opinion: Fine lines and tough jumps can make for a miserable game, unless you like putting yourself through such agony.
Trailer:
Title: Kingdoms of Gridworld
Genre: Strategy, Arcade
Art Style: 2D Top Down World
Synopsis: You must gather resources to build up your base and defend yourself, while also preparing to attack the enemies that want you dead. This game is crowd funding on Kickstarter and will be free to play.
Opinion: It looks very frantic and fast paced.
Trailer:
Title: Solitaire Halloween Story
Genre: Card Game, Puzzle
Art Style: 2D Screens
Synopsis: This is a game of solitaire with a Halloween twist to that game.
Opinion: For those that can’t get enough of solitaire and all the varieties that come with it.
Trailer:
Title: WDFA
Genre: Fighting, Simulation, Sports
Art Style: 3D Arena
Synopsis: A duel between sword fighters where its either single player or local co-op fight.
Opinion: The fight looks a little blocky and slow.
Trailer:
Title: Disco Ball
Genre: Music, Arcade
Art Style: 2D Vertical Scroller
Synopsis: Playing to the beat of music, you must work your way through a maze of platforms before you get thrown off the top of the level.
Opinion: Seems cool, but the developers are only going to have three songs or so when it launches.
Trailer:
Title: Cally’s Caves 3
Genre: RPG, Platformer, Shooter
Art Style: 2D Pixel Side Scroller
Synopsis: Cally’s parents have been kidnapped by her arch-nemesis Herbert. It’s up to Cally and her friends to save them from the evil Herbert.
Opinion: Seems like a solid game to me.
Trailer:
Title: Artificial Defense
Genre: Shooter, Strategy
Art Style: 2D First Person Top Down
Synopsis: A shooter where you must both attack and defend while you’re in orbit shooting down.
Opinion: I like the look and visuals of the game.
Trailer:
Title: Dangerous Dungeons
Genre: RPG
Art Style: 2.5D Top Down World
Synopsis: A dynamic dungeon generated games with lots of enemies and traps to fall into.
Opinion: The trailer does look pretty empty which isn’t a great selling point for the game.
Trailer:
Title: Our Love Will Grow
Genre: RPG
Art Style: 2D Top Down
Synopsis: A farming game, where you grow crops and similar to Harvest Moon, you also try to woo women and have a family.
Opinion: As long as the game can separate itself from Harvest Moon then it should be decent.
Trailer:
Title: I Still Miss Her
Genre: Visual Novel
Art Style: 2D Hand Drawn
Synopsis: This is a visual novel game where your objective is simply to get four ladies to fall in love with you. The story goes that Jin-Tae took your lover by giving her illegal drugs. Now you must get revenge and get your lady back.
Opinion: Sort of an odd way for a game character to get revenge, but interesting.
Trailer:
Title: Blockpocalypse
Genre: Platformer, Arcade
Art Style: 2D Pixel World
Synopsis: You and your friends must survive the apocalypse in this quirky platformer where you must collect debris to get to the next platform. Work with friends to survive or perhaps at the last second mess up their timing to be the lone survivor.
Opinion: It looks like a fun time.
Trailer:
Title: Adam and Eve: The Game – Chapter One
Genre: Platformer
Art Style: 2D Hand Drawn Side Scroller
Synopsis: At first things were good with Adam and Eve and then they went historically wrong. This game will retell their biblical story after Adam wakes up to find that Eve has gone missing.
Opinion: It looks cute and different from what one might expect from a biblical story.
Trailer:
Title: Rivalry
Genre: Fighting
Art Style: 2D Screen
Synopsis: A game in which two sword fighters face off, but do so with limited time and ability to move. You move the character about in strange ways to see if you can get the better of your opponent. It’s a local co-op game.
Opinion: It isn’t for me.
Trailer:
Title: Rondo Adventure
Genre: Puzzle
Art Style: 2D Screens
Synopsis: Guide Rondo through levels by clearing a path in the dirt so he can get to the exit.
Opinion: It looks nice and simple.
Trailer:
Title: Major\Minor
Genre: Visual Novel
Art Style: 2D Hand Drawn
Synopsis: A visual novel that doesn’t follow a set path but lets you set where you’re going to go and what happens.
Opinion: A nice idea, but I have no idea what sets off the story on the Greenlight page.
Trailer:
Title: Ratline
Genre: Text Adventure
Art Style: Text with Minimalist visuals in the background.
Synopsis: You awaken to darkness and don’t know where you are. Using “verb noun” you try and get out of wherever you are.
Opinion: Simple yet chilling trailer.
Trailer:
Title: Angels with Scaly Wings
Genre: Visual Novel
Art Style: 2D Hand Drawn
Synopsis: A portal has opened and you a human being have been picked to go inside it and see what’s on the other side. You have entered the world of dragons and become an ambassador to the dragon creatures for the humans. Things however begin to get a bit odd when you discover another human knows more about the dragons then they want you to believe. This game is crowd funding on Indiegogo.
Opinion: It isn’t for me.
Trailer:
That will end this queue of games, thanks for coming by. Comments, questions, corrections, criticisms, suggestions are welcome in the reply section. Or on Twitter @snipehockey.
