Best Of Steam Greenlight: November 2016
Every month, Pop Geeks looks through the extensive entries to Steam Greenlight – some of which we may have already reported on – and brings you some of the best indie games that are worthy of your attention, all in a listicle form counting down to our favorite. From horror games, to RPGs, and puzzle solvers to adventure games, these are some of the best indie entries to Steam Greenlight. If you see one that tickles your fancy, why not head over to the games Steam Greenlight page and give it helpful hand?
Not see some of you favorite entries? Let us know in the comments below!
Narborion Saga
Enter the world of Narborion Saga, an epic high fantasy role playing game. A mixture of gamebook, tactical combat, rogue-like dungeoneering, minigames and much more – Narborion Saga will not disappoint the fans of narrative, story-driven RPGs. Begin your career as a humble page and complete the first three missions to achieve knighthood. First, you have to find and rebuild the chapel of a long-forgotten Goddess and defeat the Master Vampire, Lord Malbor, agent of the God of Death and Magic. Your path is not an easy one. Dark forests, dangerous swamps lie in your path, full of undead and other nameless horrors. You will find allies and enemies alike, so choose your destiny wisely.
Wizards And Warlords
Wizards and Warlords is a turn-based strategy game, where you play as a wizard or a warlord in a fully-realized randomly generated fantasy world. Create a customized sovereign or choose from one of many predefined templates. Blending grand strategy with aspects of the 4X genre, the game offers a plethora of customizable settings and victory conditions. It is up to you if you want to fight great wars, crushing powerful rivals in the pursuit of world conquest – the challenge of survival in a grim and dangerous world, perhaps even beset by planar invaders and ancient evils – or perhaps, a balanced game, where you control but one of many realms in the world, immersing yourself in an emergent story driven by random events and the interactions of AI personalities.
Manage your cities and fortresses, increase your power through research and industry, design your own regiments or arcane constructs, recruit armies and heroes, explore and exploit dungeons, ruins, and even alternate planes, experience random events and event chains – this game aims to deliver a depth of gameplay and mechanics beyond what is found in mainstream games.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is a sequel to FPS Putrfaction, released in 2015, offering much more improved and fast-paced gameplay and more lighter action-adventure tone. After destroying ancient evil in the first game, you were transported to another galaxy and became Void Walker – a warrior, who travels to a different worlds and times in search of the ultimate enemy. Now you must work for mysterious being, searching for clues and blasting through enemy hordes to find the answers. The game has a number of features, including:
- Improved, more fast-paced gameplay
- Brighter and more colorful game world
- New weapon and player upgrade systems
- Four different worlds and time periods to explore
- New and improved survival mode
- Different player abilities and perks
- More expansive and open-ended level design than the first game.
Rogue Empire
Rogue Empire is a innovative Roguelike game with a rich twisted story and infinite replayability. It will spawn a huge world, a growing number of races and classes to play, lots of secretes and interesting new mechanics this type of games can potentially have. Some of the distinct features you can expect from Rogue Empire:
- A beautifully illustrated epic story involving an unbalanced world engaged by a mysterious shadowy force
- An innovative talent system that borrows concepts of TCG’s (Trading Card Games)
- An ever continues growing number of races and classes to play with. Each with strong differences in gameplay. The initial release is planned to go out with 7 races and +10 classes
- Permadeath with a twist: Dying will provide you with valuable soul points, used to unlock perks and new gameplay options
- Exciting boss fights with fun and cool mechanics never seen in any classic Roguelikes before
Highrisers
Highrisers is a pixel styled urban survival rpg. A single player experience full of exploring, scavenging, crafting, developing, researching, fighting and hoping for the next dawn. After the mysterious events of the last month, mankind has practically disappeared from the world. Instead, the mysterious dreamers now populate the desolated cities, where they dwell in the dimness of the urban canyons. A group of four survivors have met up by chance in the aftermath of the calamity, and they have taken refuge on the light-flooded spires of the cities skyscrapers. Here, they desperately work on a way out of the city, ever dreading nightfall and what it might bring up from the lower levels of their building.