Sword of the Stars: The Pit Review [Just Press Start]

Jeff of Just Press Start writes:

"Running for his life from a horde of Icebats and rogue medical droids, only a Sotswich and some scavenged weapons to his name, my Engineer turns a corner and prays there may be a temporary sanctuary to be found. Damn! The door is locked, and is obviously booby trapped (a nasty one, too- it’ll make him go blind for longer than will be healthy.) There’s no time to try to pick the lock, and he doesn’t want to waste precious ammo trying to blow it open. Wait! There’s another opening ahead, and what looks like a weapons locker… He dives through the opening, right into a nest of Zuul. He fires wildly, damaging a few of the creatures, maybe he’ll get out of this… CLICK. Out of ammo. Drawing a damaged combat knife, he prepares to make his last stand count…"

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IndieGogo's Best Released Games... So Far

Marcus Estrada writes: "Everyone knows about crowdfunding these days. However, most people know of it purely thanks to Kickstarter. Kickstarter is great and all but it’s not the only player in the marketplace! IndieGogo also exists and has seen a variety of successful campaigns over the years. Thanks to its smaller audience there haven’t been nearly as many video game projects, much less released titles just yet. Curious of what you might have missed on the IndieGogo platform? Here’s a list of a handful of fantastic games which have released thanks to them thus far."

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Good Deals: The Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale

iLLGaming writer Ajay Verma writes:
"What is a rogue-like? As steam user jamesbuc puts it.
Essentially its a dungeon crawler with random elements abound from random rooms, random enemies and even random item effects. They are tough as hell and often only for real fanatics.

So sharpen your knifes and stockpile those arrows for humble bundle presents The Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale featuring Six roguelike games . Which offer ridiculous entertainment if you’re into roguelike’s. While this may not cater to the masses, instead focuses on a niche and addicting experience for room based looters. So If you are someone who dislikes permadeath, random levels and cruel difficulty, and a lack of story you might want to skip the pack."

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Baby’s First Roguelike (A Sword of the Stars: The Pit N4G Review)

Coolbeans writes, "What began as a space-4X series of the same name, developer Kerberos Productions has now extrapolated the SOTS universe and plunked that into a roguelike dungeon-crawler template. The setting is Arbuda IV, a retirement settlement for hardened veterans uninterested in rest or active military service. A plague has spread wildly across this paradise and has turned humans into flesh-eating monsters. There’s currently no known cure. Hope lies within the Feldspar Mountains: an alien facility told in myths and ghost stories known as ‘The Pit’ may contain something to cure this ravaging disease. The only thing that’s certain is that anyone who’s gone into those mountains has never returned."

DanielGearSolid3764d ago

Original content from N4G? Coool, I really enjoyed that podcast a couple days ago.

What like about this review is theres no score... Just your take on the game, cool stuff

coolbeans3764d ago (Edited 3764d ago )

Yeah, it's a breath of fresh air for me whenever I get the chance to do these officials. Although I do like a scoring system more, there's always that possible... "oversight" in the comments section asking why this score didn't average out with the sub-categories' score, why's this scored higher, yada yada yada. You can check my blogs to see some other games I've covered that you may be interested in.

On topic of the review: Something about this review tells me the reviewer is a very handsome fellow. He may arrange a few letters incorrectly at times, but he's handsome nonetheless. XD