Simutronics, independent award-winning game development studio building on 30 years of multiplayer expertise, today introduced their latest project, GALAHAD 3093, for which they’ll partner with gaming and esports specialist marketing agency, Heaven Media.
A team-based mech shooter, GALAHAD 3093 takes inspiration from Arthurian legend to give players a powerful, action-packed PVP experience. They will have to earn each hard-fought victory as they compete in up to 32 player combat — and savour those wins in battles of strategy, endurance and firepower.
About Simutronics
Simutronics is one of the longest-running independent game development studios in North America, launching their debut title over 30 years ago. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Simutronics has created award-winning top-grossing mobile games, as well as persistent worlds that people return to time and time again. Notable games to date include Tiny Heroes, One Epic Knight, Lara Croft: Relic Run, SIEGE: Titan Wars, and SIEGE: World War II.
I get asked to review a lot of games, but rarely do I struggle to decide how to define what kind of game it is, TraptionBakery is the first, the best I have come up with, is that it is a point and click puzzle Rube Goldberg, steampunk thingy game.
So you start the game and the first thing you see is a picture on a wall.
This is the entire game, right in front of you. Virtually no instructions of how to play, so what do you do next? Well you click somewhere on the screen, by doing this the camera zooms in a bit, you click some more, and you keep zooming in, closer and closer.
Depending where you click, you will end up zoomed in on some random part of the picture, you try to right click on the screen next, but that zooms you out, before you know it you are zooming in and out, and dragging the screen from left to right, marveling at all the detail, and everything that is going on, but still you don't really know what to do, but then you notice that when you zoom in on something, a part changes blue, fantastic, I can now interact with it. So you pull a lever, and suddenly things come to life, you push a button, something else happens, you quickly start looking around for things to push, pull, interact with.
This is the game, at first when you start playing you will think to yourself, "what the hell is this, what the hell am I supposed to do" but then without realising 20 minutes have passed, and although you still don't really know what you are doing, you are doing something, and things are happening.
As far as I have figured out so far, you are supposed to bake a loaf of bread, but to do this you need to interact with an elephant and a headless man who slides down a fairground ride, and there are bananas involved and well I will leave the rest to you to figure out.
This is a crazy unique game, it is the kind of game that you will sit to play for, for 10 minutes, then stop, then after an hour you will think "I need to play that game again". You will keep coming back to it, and you will keep finding new things to do.
The Good
I have never played a game quite like this before, it is insane, interesting and incredible, I spoke directly to the creator of the game, who explained some things to me, and I am still thinking about this game when I am not playing it.
The Bad
Because I am stupid, I was using the arrow keys to pan around the screen when I was zoomed in, this moves incredibly slowly and I was going crazy, the maker of the game then told me if I held down the left mouse button I could just drag the screen around and move much quicker. He has told me now he will make an update to help people realise this, so basically my stupidity has now directly affected this game. Yay me! I think?
Summary
You have never played a game like this ever before. It takes up very little space on your hard drive, it will keep you busy for hours, and it is just fantastic. A wonderful unique Indie game, that has a place in my heart.
I received a code for She Sees Red on Xbox One from Rhinotales
She Sees Red is an interactive thriller, or FMV (A full motion video, video game). Think of this as a movie that you control, as you watch you will come to a scene whereby two choices are given in a quick time event, so you are given a few seconds to decide how the film will continue.
In She Sees Red multiple people have been killed at a nightclub, a detective has been assigned the case and you watch as she follows the clues to find out the truth and hopefully solve the case.
There are 4 different endings in this, and 62 scenes to see if you want to see it all.
A play through will take roughly 40 minutes, once you have played through once you get the chance to do a second play through and make different choices, which in turn will give you different scenes to see and different endings. It might be worth making a note as you watch as to which choices you make, that way you can use subsequent play throughs to get to see all the scenes and all 4 endings.
Once you have played through the game twice you have the option to skip scenes you have already seen which allows you to speed everything up.
The Good
This has clearly been filmed in a professional way, with proper actors, editing, lighting the works, you really are watching a film whereby you make meaningful decisions in what happens.
The Bad
This is a Russian made FMV so the English dubbing suffers from the usual lip synching issues, but I watched in Russian with Subtitles so it didn't bother me.
I did enjoy watching/playing, but I wish there was more. I think you could probably watch all scenes and see all endings within a couple of hours and once you have done that you probably won't watch again.
Summary
FMV games have always struggled, and I remember watching them back in the days of the 3DO, this is one of the better ones I have seen, and if you think of this purely as an interactive movie then I see no reason why you wont enjoy it.
Henry & Florence are a happily married couple, they enjoy music & have been dancing all their lives. But now, a noisy road has been built right in front of their home, and they can't even have a dance without traffic noises creeping through their most beloved songs. So, they decide to take matters on their own hands and set to clear the road forever!
No jewels or candy, but lots of cars to destroy! Defend your peaceful abode by blowing up as many cars in a row as possible (think Tetris), or whack and hack at them with your cane to finish them off.
Battle wave after wave of oncoming traffic as the challenge increases, and team up with a friend for additional mayhem.
Features:
Simple & intuitive controls
10 levels with 10 puzzles each, for a total of 100 challenges!
Local multiplayer action: play with a friend, or against a friend
2 different characters to choose from, with several customization options
Catchy jazz music
CrossKrush will be priced for 4.99$ / € for all platforms, and it will launch on:
From the creators of Midnight, Midnight Deluxe, and 36 Fragments of Midnight comes another round of golf-like action fun!
Everyone’s favorite fairy is back and ready to be once again launched into the sky. But as always, treacherous obstacles like spikes, circular saws, and plenty of other dangerous hazards are par for the course. To earn a perfect score you must accurately complete each level in the minimum number of strokes, providing an additional layer of challenge.
Do you have the skill to swing for a hole in one?
Features:
70+ engaging levels that get progressively harder
New dangers to overcome
Piano soundtrack to complement gameplay
Birthday Of Midnight will be priced for 4.99$ / € for all platforms, and it will launch on:
