Fun fact: Steam’s new adults only filter went into effect today and it tried to filter a single result from my list. It also broke the age verification page that pops up before certain game’s pages, making them impossible to access. Now I’ll never know what Sokoban: The RPG is really like.
Well this is clearly the most evil thing you can play as out of today’s new releases.
I’m just so thankful that a game finally admitted that double jumps make no sense.
Plutonians are dicks.
Haven’t come across a lot of Lemmings rip-offs in a while. Brings back memories of a simpler, pre-Steam time when you could pick up a disc with a thousand freeware/shareware things on it. Forced to dig through a list with countless random game names, stopping on the ones that were funky sounding, being disappointed when they are just cheap knock-offs made by a single guy trying to scam a few bucks from some unsuspecting dopes… I just don’t know that I’ll ever be able to experience anything like that ever again.
Death and Betrayal in Romania: A Dana Knightstone Novel Collector’s Edition
Landflix Odyssey
Omicroid
Slither Link
Simplex Mundi
DMT: Dynamic Music Tesseract
Love’s Sweet Garnish
What would Google say?
Blindevil gets my official thumbs up of approval.
…Wait, did that say Slither Link?
Wow it actually is Slitherlink! Slitherlink owns and is among the best of the “numbers in a grid” puzzle subgenre. I have no idea if this version is any good, but this is the rare Steam New Release Pleasant Surprise~
…I’ll probably stick with the free online version Simon Tatham provides though.
This looks very Souls-like, and the fact that it is all random seals the deal.
How hard is it to check the screenshots you put on your store page for typos?
…Okay I was just killing time with those, yes that in fact says Super Seducer 2 : Advanced Seduction Tactics up there. If ever there was a game designed for this topic… let’s dive on it.
I believe that is probably a grab from the previous game and hence an easter egg, but it would be better for the universe if this was all a lark.
Chiaro and the Elixir of Life
Neon Knight: Vengeance From The Grave
COLINA: Legacy
Breathedge
Where Humans Shouldn’t Go
SKULL FEAST
O! Nalchik is my favourite place
Robikon
Spoxel
Cube Full of Mines
Today we are gonna take a moment to focus on how one may choose to sell their game.
This is Neon Knight. It seems to lie about the whole neon thing to get people like me to click on it, then be disappointed.
SKULL FEAST is trying to get me to play an old version of their game that they won’t be bothering to update.
Breathedge took the time to warn me about a potential gamebreaking issue with their game.
Robikon (spelled Robicon in its store image, which also is a solid way to get me to click on something) put up a store description that I am unsure if I have seen before or not as I don’t like keep a record of these things. This caused me to think about it at least 300% longer than I otherwise would have.
Am I the first person to buy a game as a result of being featured in this thread?
I guess this game is actually from 2011 or something. I’m a sucker for anything Lemmings-derivative (a lot of my own games come out of contemplating how Lemmings works) and it was under $2, so I went for it.
Honestly, it’s a wee bit more than a straight Lemmings rip-off, and that was kind of exciting to me, since I saw that in the trailer. It looked different enough to check out. It uses some Lemmings sequel-like skills like jumping (but with a much taller jump arc, more like a traditional platformer) and turning around, pluls enemies and bomb throwing and items that need to be collected to open up exits.
Unfortunately, this is kind of thwarted by really tedious and exacting level design basically from the get-go. It deploys stages really early on that are only possible with skill execution at specific spots, before you learn to jump properly. You’re given a long stage where you have ten jumps and ten obstacles to jump over. This is, tbh, bullshit. Most early Lemmings stages are completeable with some waste and fucking around and losses. Here, in Bloobles, I don’t think there was a single stage in the first ten or so outside the tutorial stages (which give you unlimited skill usage) that didn’t require 100% rescue rates and provided precisely the number of skills to accomplish this. This has the effect of thwarting any sense of discovery and improvisation. Instead, you’re following a blueprint that is immediately discernable from the moment you start the stage, and is onlly thwarted by your inability to perfectly execute the game’s fidgety demands. Lemmings demands a little bit of twitch and pixel perfect reaction in its intermediate stages. Bloobles demands this from the first time it allows a fail to be possible.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the latter stages of this game have some interesting and fun level design and mechanical innovations. But I’ll never know, because you can’t skip stages and the early stages are really poorly paced and tedious.
Also, the game has this narrative framing of the Bloobles searching for chocolate but the goal of each stage is to… walk into some sort of miniature high-tech teleporter? Wtf?
I definitely have wanted to buy like a nonzero number of games after being featured in this thread, but never have because I don’t play videogames any more.
Execution was always a terrible aspect of Lemmings to begin with and I think a factor in why the Lemmings clone genre fizzled out. I liked Lemmings 3d the most because it loosened the timing requirements and the third dimension made the puzzles a lot richer (but you have to look past camera difficulties and general ugliness to appreciate those qualities…)
I mean, I bought a game I stumbled upon this way before there was an actual thread for it (even wrote it up in the puzzle thread) so… probably?
What I threaten myself with sometimes is leveling this thread up and making myself play one of these games a week right up until the refund time limit, but that would probably require a separate thread and moving to the actual gaming forum. I am tempted every so often though.
LOTUS-Simulator
Echo Tokyo: Reaper
Obliteracy
Escape from the Princess
DareSora: Tears for an Unknown Sky
Bombjour
SCARF
Smoker The Car Game
Angel and Devil,ninja,sushi,tempura,panda and the statue of liverty
Infommi
Tasty Shame in Silver Soul!
Smogpunk
(Smogpunk is an ace name, right?)
Okay, sure, I’m down.
Buildings have always been my greatest enemy.
I guess not
Fun fact: in game says Statue of Liberty, which means a typo snuck by in the name of the game itself. Amazing.
