The first days of November – and already distribution. Digital gaming stores during the coronavirus period offer quite interesting projects with good plot and enough dynamic gameplay.
We will tell you what video games are offered to be added to the library.
Steam
Many of the projects presented in the article are distributed by the digital store “named Gabe Newell“. Let’s take a closer look at them.
Remnants
A one-player shooter set in mysterious ruins… The hero who got there needs to get out of them. However, this is fraught with great difficulties.
So that a gamer who finds himself in a cramped underground space does not fall the death of the brave, he needs to perform many different actions: get rid of the swarm of hostile drones, and collect mysterious elemental shardsto create improvements that are applied to customize the behavior of your weapon.
The game offers a variety of ways to destroy enemies: explosive shells of lava, lightning, a raging firestorm and deadly clouds of steam…
Remnants lets experiment – weapons can be customized, items can be created, and abilities can be chosen. The main thing is to get to the exit.
Link to the game
Shades of heroes
It is a free-to-play project available for both PC and Android devices.
Offered cross-platform gameplay, which is quite rare in such a genre of games as CCI… That is, a PC gamer can interact, for example, with an Android mobile phone user.
Using brilliant tactics and decks, the gamer can quickly start and even defeat their enemy. The main thing in this strategic card game is the opportunity to play cooperative mode with friends.
Link to the game
Cubiscape 2
There are always a lot of puzzles among free games, but there are not enough really good and interesting ones. Cubiscape 2 is just that.
The controls are simple, and the plot is even simpler. The “main character” is “sphere“, And enemies – the same unusual”cubes“. And not simple, but capable of repeating the player’s movements, a kind of doppelgangers…
Gamers need to find a way to get out of confusing locations over a couple of hundred levels, each of which is characterized by increasing difficulty. The player’s advantage becomes use of the environment in your interests: you can lure into traps, open new paths and move with the help of a teleport.
Link to the game
Splash
Splash is a third-person action RPG based on dealing damage with potions that are created by the player.
The gamer is given a role alchemistexploring nearby lands in order to find materialsthat will go to create more of the most diverse potions… The journey will take you to exotic places where you have to fight hordes of monsters who, naturally, will interfere with the achievement of the goal.
The controls and graphics are simple enough, but that shouldn’t detract from the slightly deeper game mechanics, well-founded necessity creating alchemical potions.
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Battle star
Battle Star is a rather unusual version of RPG games with elements of tactics in the anime style.
Judging by the lore, in the world of the distant future, there was a war using nuclear weapons, and therefore the remnants of humanity decided to settle on a space station called Icarus-6… Special expeditions were prepared on it, which were assigned certain tasks. They had to be done on the planet.
According to the plot, you have to play for the girls who were sent from the space station to The earth, to appreciate her state after the last nuclear war. However, there they meet various mutants who are ill-disposed towards the visitors.
Each hero available for selection has your fighting style, however, all of them will not survive if you do not deal with the tactical component – weapons, the location of units and obtaining information about the weaknesses of enemies.
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Many people know what chess is and how to play it. However, not everyone uses chess pieces 100%. This game adds several key features at once:
- Increased field size – from 8×8 to 10×10.
- Adding two new figures – an assassin and a priest. Both have unique movement patterns and conditions for defeating enemies.
- The opportunity to play a separate mode called “Traps” and much more.
There are two modes: against AI and a live player. If desired, the gamer can easily create a lobby or join it. The goal is simple – to play and earn money that will go to unlocking new skins for the board and pieces for it.
Link to the game
Aegis Online
The only video game on this list from a rather unusual genre – virtual platform for creating board games…
Need a simple map to track a couple of characters on, or want to impress your friends with a complex fantasy town teeming with lots of NPCs? IN Aegis Online there are all the necessary tools for this.
You can invite your friends to the table, even if they cannot be in the lobby or not in the game.
In the future, you can work with the project in a variety of ways: expand, modify and even adjust for yourself and your requests.
Link to the game
Kingdom: Classic
Kingdom: Classic is a hybrid of strategy and management simulations… Has a minimalistic pixelated design with a beautiful modern aesthetic.
Play the role ruler local lands, who arrived in the kingdom on horseback. Entering it (by the way, it procedurally generated), he will support a favorable standard of living, and outside your castle – explore land for artifacts that can help the kingdom flourish.
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EGS
Score Tim Sweeney offers only one project this time – Dungeon 3.
Dungeon 3
One of the most interesting dungeon simulators… Offers big and deep gameplayfull of various details and also quite interesting plot combined with beautiful graphics…
In a world full of anger, the player must take on the role antihero – Dark Elf Thaliawhich must first build your own dungeon, and then – protect him from the heroes who decided to encroach on hidden treasures…
The game offers not only to create a cozy dark house underground, but also come to the surface – in this case, the Dungeon 3 simulator turns into strategy with pumping units and a set of cunning points to strengthen your own kingdom.
Although every mistake will be costly, there is no way without it if you want to play really high quality project genre Strategy.
Link to the game
Other Stores
Also this week, the game is being handed out for free by itch.io, a site that sells projects from independent developers.
The enigma machine
Itch.io has started giving away a very specific cyberpunk horror called The Enigma Machine. The styling is inspired by games released in the nineties. This can be seen in the use case VHS and more advanced effects together.
This project combines at once some genres:
- Adventure.
- Point-and-click.
- Shooter.
The main companions in the AI world, inside which the player will find himself, will be two things: savvy and speed… Solving puzzles as well interaction with the world will help you move on and find out the secrets that it keeps in itself Artificial Intelligence… This game is a great reference to those old times when cassettes were in use, and neon, glitches and dark colors were in fashion…
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The Wotpack editors hope you find a game that suits you and spend your free time.