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There’s a disappointingly increasing trend for browser games and mobile games to try and go big time by releasing a PC port. Playing with combinations is fun by itself, but the game actively rewards you for doing so, and it gets addicting fast. Where the game really excels, however, is how well these traps work together in unison, whether it be pushing peasants into spike pits or pulling knights into an endless pit. Being some sort of sentient evil entity, you decide to fill your dungeons with an assortment of traps to put a stop to the encroaching horde of money-grubbing do-gooders from the inconvenience of killing you. Worth the admission price, I think, even if you end up only spending 10 or so of the potentially dozens of hours the game offers.ĭungeon Warfare is a relatively simple but strangely addicting reverse dungeon crawler/TD-style game.
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Even playing on the (later patched in) easier mode, I find myself taking careful steps in combat and each trip feels suitably risky, yet rewarding.
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Nevertheless, at 70% off this sale convinced me to take the plunge and I can confirm that I have been enjoying the self-flagellation so far. As a fan of old-school dungeon crawls like the Gold Box games or even Nethack, this can be a good thing, but I also don’t quite have the patience I did those days. The game brings some richly artistic flair to your dungeon crawling, mixed in with Dark Souls level punishing difficulty. This is a game I’d been on the fence about for a long time, persisting through numerous sales. Still, sometimes we don’t want to invest 100+ hours into a game, and for less than a tenner, it’s pretty cheap. I finished it, including every side quest and achievement, in 17 hours, and that was at a relaxed pace. A callback to 16-bit SNES rpgs brimming with modern potential, CSH had an interesting fast-paced battle system and creative cast, each with their own unique skillsets, but it tended to burn through everything so fast that it was hard to really dig in to. I took a look at Cosmic Star Heroine back in Jan, and while I did enjoy it, I also had somewhat mixed feelings about it. It sports some damn beautiful classic pixel artwork, and the five character + inventory swapping puzzles and bizarre town make it worth the discounted price for sure. The general impressions of the game were positive, and although while perhaps not hitting the highs of his earlier affairs, Thimbleweed seems to be offering some solid adventure so far. Perhaps not totally inaccurate, but… to me, it feels a bit more like Zakk McKracken meets Twin Peaks. I mean, sure, I spent a lot, but at these savings, it’d be losing money not to buy… uh, right? Double-mortgage aside, given the massive number of games on sale I thought this would be a good time to shortlist a few New Retro Games Staff picks.Īn old-school adventure game throwback by Monkey Island brigand Ron Gilbert himself, Thimbleweed Park kind of gets thrown as Maniac Mansion meets Twin Peaks.
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When 25 of my wishlisted items appeared on sale in my inbox, it was both a blessing and a curse for my wallet. The Steam Summer Sale is currently on, running until July 5th, so another 10 days or so from this post, which means plenty of time to grab some bargains.