Mr Meatball previews Starfarer (Played on PC Win)
Top down space strategy game, in real time. Amusing space battles. Think SPAZ, except without zombies. The alpha features lots of stand alone missions, and a limited sandbox mode (a whole galaxy to explore is planned). Still, it’s fun to play around with in the current state.
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Mr Meatball looks at Salvation Prophecy (Played on PC Win)
A very ambitious indie project, blending space and ground combat. The space combat is quite entertaining, with an upgradable ship. Ground combat have some issues, and requires a bit more polish (there’s a lack of evasive manouvers for example). Still, lots of content, being able to more or less freely roam the galaxy, and entertaining space battles. There’s a demo so download it and try it yourselves! By the way; the trailer for this game rocks!
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Mr Meatball looks at Unepic (Played on PC Win)
The great unepic quest, filled with elven underwear and horny goblin ladies. Unepic is a metroidvania, with platforming, RPG mechanics and so on. Despite the tongue in cheek humour the gameplay is indeed serious; challenging but not unfair. It got rejected on Steam for some reason. Now that’s stupid. It’s clear they don’t spend any time with the games during the “evalutation process”. Granted they sprites are a bit tiny, but they have a certain charm. And gamepad support would be kinda awesome (haven’t tried joy2key). Edit: I’m refering to the orc on the left, in the video, in case you got confused.
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http://unepicgame.com/en/index.html
Mr Meatball looks at Orcs Must Die 2 (Played on PC Win)
Orcs must be smashed, impaled, melted and cut in half. Poor little bastards. Now with co-op. You should play this co-op, becuase in my opinion the new levels aren’t as well designed for a solo player. I’m a harsh bastard ain’t I. Hopefully. With that said, there are lots of content here. For example; 10 levels from the original game, with co-op. That is a nice addition indeed, and somewhat lessens the impact of my criticism. However, I looked at the new story campaign, not the old one.
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http://www.robotentertainment.com/games/omd2
Mr Meatball looks at Dark Blood Online (Played on PC Win)
A fantasy beat em’ up with RPG elements. This ain’t to shabby, considering it’s free to play. Don’t like f2p? I’m generally a bit skeptical as well. Take a look at the real cash shop, they are only selling cosmetic items (yes I’m counting them as cosmetic). I’ll be playing this a bit more, that’s for sure. Also featuring arena PvP and four classes (knight, hunter, warrior and mage). You should try to find some group play, since at least the first couple of dungeons were a cakewalk for the warrior, in solo play.
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http://darkblood.outspark.com/
Mr Meatball previews Drox Operative (Played on PC Win)
Space opera at it’s finest. Featuring a fully fleshed out diplomatic model, RPG-mechanics and lazors. Play as a member of the secretive organization Drox, bent on galactic domination. This was the beta, but still very much enjoyable. Some balance issues remain of course, regarding quests and diplomacy. Actually this reminds me of a mix between Star Trek, Star control and Star Ruler. But of course you are only directly controlling one ship, you are basically some sort of envoy/spy/mercenary. Intriguing *sips wine*
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http://www.soldak.com/Drox-Operative/Overview.html
Mr Meatball looks at War in a Box: Paper Tanks (Played on PC Win)
Relive you childhood war experiences. Ugh, that was another lowpoint for me. War in a Box: Paper Tanks is a tower defence game, with brilliant aesthetics. Solid enough gameplay, but nothing revolutionary.
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Mr Meatball looks at P-3 Biotic (Played on PC Win)
Dual stick shooter. In speehs. No, petrie dish apparently. Particles and lightning. Also bloom. Awesome. You’ll need to defend the nucleus, harnessing it’s energy for special attacks. Interesting concept. I mentioned variety in the video; some co-op would be nice as well *hint hint*
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Mr Meatball looks at The Adventures of Shuggy (Played on PC Win)
Shuggy is a vampire, he can’t glitter, but jump really far. The Adventures of Shuggy is a puzzle platformer, with co-op. Over 100 levels of ghoul-avoiding and gem collecting.
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http://smudgedcat.com/shuggy.htm
Mr Meatball previews Lightningbug (Played on PC Win)
A curtain fire game. Haven’t heard of that genre before? This is pretty nifty though. You’ll need to avoid getting hit and at the same time absorb bullets to level up.
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