Steampunk, pirates, and smuggling good, what else do you really need to know about Guns of Icarus? This new indie offering on Steam from Muse Games will set you back $9.99.
About the Game
In an apocalyptic steampunk future, you are a privateer ferrying goods across treacherous airspace. Protect your airship and yourself from an onslaught of pirates, and safely reach your destination to reap the rewards.
Guns of Icarus combines aspects of first person shooters with time management in a richly detailed steampunk setting. The effect is a thrilling, frenetic aerial showdown that quickly takes hold and doesn’t let go.: Key features:
18 Epic levels & 8 Powerful Guns
Single Player Campaign and 4 person Co-Op Multiplayer modes
We’ve seen this one before! We even gave it a very favorable review when it released on the XBLIG. Of course it was on the PC before it hit Xbox even; so it seems we’ve managed to go in full circle here. This simultaneous turn based space combat sim from Blendo Games is now available on the Steam platform and as an added little somethin’ something’ you’ll get a little 10% bonus if you pick it up in the first week.
Here’s what they say about it on Steam:
About the Game
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Discover upgrades and artifacts to install on your fleet ships, and engage in battle with bounty hunters and pirate space-chickens. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. And when the dust settles, generate another uniquely randomized universe for a brand-spanking new adventure!
Key features:
No adventure is the same: Whenever you begin an adventure, the universe is randomly populated with characters, upgrades, and encounters.
There is no “up” in space: Explore the tactical richness of full 3D movement. Watch your angles and flank the enemy from all directions.
Configure your fleet: Find loot throughout your adventures, and install upgrades and artifacts to your flotilla of ships.
Play with a friend: Grab a buddy and play through the adventure cooperatively in splitscreen.
Blow up your friend: In the Skirmish Mode, set up custom fleets and battle human or computer-controlled enemies.
DnS Development has just released their chimerical concoction Booster Trooper on the Steam PC platform. We have details, screenshots, and a trailer for you to check out and if you like what you see you can pick the game up right now for 10% off its standard $9.99 price tag.
ABOUT THE GAME
Booster Trooper is the future of multiplayer platform shooters. It provides tons of fun with its fast paced action and larger-than-life weapons. You can run or fly around the map, blasting your enemies to bits with bullets, rockets, grenades, magma and other weapons from your arsenal.
Whether you play it against the BOTs or a live player, Booster Trooper will constantly keep you on the edge! Rankings, co-operation, tactics and split second decisions will deliver hours and hours of online multiplayer entertainment!
KEY FEATURES:
Fast paced, adrenaline packed game play.
12 Player Multiplayer.
Various weapons, ranging from assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle to minigun, magma thrower and more.
Each weapon is unique, requiring different approach & tactics.
Online ranking boards.
More than 250 Achievements
Single player vs. bots supported.
Deathmatch, Team DM, Capture the Flag, Destroy the base and more…
Anyone else remember that game, you know the one where you popped your CD’s (those are what mommies and daddies listened to music on) into the drive and a monster was created by it? Cold Beam Games‘ Beat Hazard takes a a similar approach, allowing the player to bring his or her own music library to the table and use it to effect the flow of the game. The game is on sale for $7.99 with a sticker price of $9.99 on Valve’s Steam platform, it’s worth noting that its XBLIG version sells for $5.
ABOUT THE GAME
Welcome to a new experience in gameplay mechanics: Beat Hazard
Gameplay Powered by YOUR Music!
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on the enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups!
Beat Hazard seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts.
Unique music driven gameplay
Gameplay possibilities as vast as your music collection
Can you last a whole album in Survival Mode?
25 Steam achievements
Compete against friends on Steam leader boards
Get real time updates via the in game News System
Take on huge boss ships
Power up and unleash the deadly Beat Hazard weapon
This little high fantasy remake of the old Qix arcade game is now available on the Steam platform. The game was previously released as a PSP mini and looks to be making its way to XBox LIVE in some form eventually. The basic objective of the game is to take control of a knight, claim territories, and assault the central fort. The game was developed by the independent Hungarian developer Nemesys Team Studio and is available now for $3.99.
ABOUT THE GAME
Can you reclaim your ancestors’ land? Evil forces have taken over the once fertile land of Fortiana. You are the only one who can storm the castles and claw it back from the hordes of dragons. Experience a new type of strategy and arcade game. Fence off parts of the battlefield to corner your enemies. Collect catapults and power-ups to besiege the fortresses and take on dragons. But beware! As you progress through the levels it gets harder and harder. The fortresses become much larger and the monsters more vicious. Can you emerge victorious and reclaim the land of your ancestors? You are knight Fortix, the sole hope for the desolate and tortured land of Fortiana to become the fertile land that it was before.
We don’t do nearly enough of these Steam updates, mostly because Steam doesn’t release nearly enough Indie games. That’s right folks I’m passing the buck. I suppose what they lack in quantity they make up for in bad assery, with freaking robot ninjas. We’ve mentioned Plain Sight before, and marveled at its mechanoid assassin’s self-destructive deadliness, but now it’s available! You can pick it up on Steam for $9.99, which is pretty much the norm on Steam for new indie releases.
Plain Sight is a multiplayer arcade game about suicidal ninja robots.
Fly through space, leap over planetoids and destroy opponents with your trusty katana.
Killing fellow robots lets you steal their tasty, tasty energy. Packed with spinach-like goodness; energy makes you bigger, stronger, faster and generally more awesome.
Being all big and badass is great, but in this game it doesn’t win you the match. It makes you a target.
To win, you have to convert your energy into points…
How do you do this? Simple. Kill yourself.
Press the button and turn your happy little robot into a vicious ball of enemy-absorbing plasma. The more opponents you take out, the better.
Upgrade your robot, respawn and get stuck in again…
13 Multiplayer maps
Battle up to 20 players
5 self-destructive gameplay modes
Deathmatch
Ninja! Ninja! Ninja! Robozilla! – mini ninjas unite to bring the gargantuan Robozilla down to size!
Lighten Up – Detonate on a target area with as much energy as possible, the best detonation wins the points for that round.
Team Deathmatch / Weakest Clink – Play a standard Team Deathmatch or up the stakes by having a communal score bank.
Capture the Flag – Well, it looks more like a beacon… but the gameplay is the same.
Level the playing field with in-game power-ups
Spend your experience points on 30 different robot upgrades
Nicklas Nygren’s puzzle platformer, Saira, is now available through Steam. The game features six star systems, sixty puzzles , six unique ending, and over two hours of original music. Here is a little more detail regarding the games lead character and its features:
The eponymous Saira is a photographer who specializes in digitally capturing dangerous places and animals across the universe. For reasons unknown, she finds herself as the only remaining person in the entire galaxy. Saira has no weapons, she will use only her mind and agility to progress through seven star systems and over 60 well-crafted puzzles. Over two hours of originally-scored music will help her maintain focus and unlock one of six vastly unique endings.
Over 60 well-crafted puzzels.
A universe full of surprising creatures and locations for you to explore.
11 layers of high definition parallax scrolling and a two hour soundtrack gives the universe of Saira it’s unique atmosphere.
Non-linear gameplay
Multiple endings
The environments look amazing and it sounds pretty good to boot, so I’m probably going to need to check this one out. I’m also really digging the whole camera mechanic, like pokemon snap in space!
The game rings up at $8.99 so don’t convert this weeks paycheck to Microsoft Tiddlywinks just yet.
Steampunk, pirates, and smuggling good, what else do you really need to know about Guns of Icarus? This new indie offering on Steam from Muse Games will set you back $9.99.
