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10 games you need to greenlight on Steam right now
Give these must play titles a helping hand and get them on the world’s largest PC download store.
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It’s not just crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter where indie game developers with brilliant ideas, but not the funds to realise them, need your help. After all, once you’ve made the game, you’ve still got to sell it somewhere, and that’s where Valve’s Steam Greenlight initiative comes in.
This little, tucked-away channel on the huge PC game download store lets you view indie game submissions and vote for those you’d love to buy on the service: if a project gets enough thumbs up, Valve may just give it a prominent space on its virtual shelves. And it just so happens that Greenlight is crammed full of brilliant ideas we’d pay good money for and then some: so go on, break out your thumbs up and help these indie games to hit the big time.
Relic Hunters Zero
The creators of the hilarious Power Rangers management sim Chroma Squad are back with another mesmerising slice of old school. Relic Hunter Zero is a fast and furious isometric shooter with the pixel art of Hyper Light Drifter and the sci-fi sensibilities of a 1980s Saturday morning kids’ cartoon, which requires that all enemies be space turtles. Best of all, the developers plan to release it for free. Not free to play, free. Get voting.
Tetropolis
Sure, we’ve had 3D Tetris before, but nothing so high concept as this take on falling tetrominoes. You play as an innocent block in a world obsessed with Tetris: you have to make your way through the levels (which are constructed of blocks) and solve the mystery in what promises to be an alluring mix of Tetris, Thomas Was Alone, and er, Castlevania.
GunWorld
Already completed Mercenary Kings and Shovel Knight? Still hankering for some 8-bit nostalgia? Check out GunWorld, which combines the gung-ho ‘Murican patriotism of Tribute Games’ recent Kickstarter hit with original NES-colour palette restrictions. This is one Rambo-esque shooter that really could have been made in the 1980s.
Shiny
Shiny is a typical 2D platformer on paper, but part of its charm is in the beautiful pixel art. Lost mech Kramer 227 looks every bit as endearing as Pixar’s Wall-E, and while the game is clearly only in a prototype stage, it already combines with the music to create a certain mise-en-scène that’s definitely worth investing a thumbs up in.
Kingdom Under Fire 2
KUF2 deserves your attention as a game occupying a category all by itself: it’s a real time strategy (RTS) massively multiplayer (MMO) online game with the sweeping battles of StarCraft, given a fantasy twist and many more participants. It’ll be free to play on release, so if you’re ready to move on up from Clash of Clans, this could be the game for you.
Monsters & Monocles
Ouya and PS4 smash Towerfall has resurrected four-player local multiplayer, and Monsters & Monocles looks to continue the revival with a similarly styled top down shooter that plays parts Contra, Dynasty Warriors and Metal Slug. Grab your USB gamepads, hook it up to the TV and prepare for a mammoth co-op session – assuming you can get it greenlighted first, of course.
Fat Chicken
A colourful tower defence game that somehow manages to be a satirical take on the meat industry? Whilst also featuring UFOs? Sign us up.
Engauge
Engauge may be another 2D platformer starring a robot, but this one is definitely meant for those with a more masochistic gaming taste. Just watch the trailer above and try and cope with the number of bullets on screen: we never knew we wanted a cross between Sonic and R-Type, but now we have one.
Mifune
Ever wanted to play a classic 16-bit Zelda title with the artwork of a Japanese watercolor? You will once you’ve watched this beautiful trailer. Get those thumbs up going for this glorious-looking game.
Radial-G: Racing Revolved
It’s been getting on 10 years since Nintendo proffered us an F-Zero game, and with the Sony studio behind Wipeout now defunct too, where’s a gamer supposed to get his high-speed futuristic racing thrills? Watch Star Wars Episode 1 again? No thanks. We’ll go for Radial-G instead, which promises blazing fast anti-grav tracks as well as Oculus Rift support, with a multiplayer demo on the way next month.
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