Trepang 2 is a single player ego shooter developed by Trepang Studios and published by Team17. The game was released about a week ago after the start of development in 2017 and today I’m sharing my first impressions from the demo version with you. The game’s story is described as “A mysterious group breaks you out from a heavily guarded black site. Your memories are gone but your combat abilities have been enhanced far beyond human limits. It’s time to fight back.”

You’re playing as a former prisoner that got rescued by some unknown group and you have to keep yourself hidden inside the prison and eliminate the guards. Either go stealth mode, crouching in the shadows and using your cloaking ability to hide from enemies or go full attack mode, slaughter enemies with brutal melee animations and unload whole magazines of various guns that can be found scattered around the environment. There is also a super fun ability that lets you slow down time which helps getting towards enemies without getting shot and lining up the perfects headshot combo. You can also slide and jump under and over obstacles.

Another important thing to mention is that there are multiple difficulty settings so the game can be as beginner friendly as you want it to be.

Throughout my adventure in the prison I found firearms reaching from pistols over SMGs to shotguns. Each weapon requires a different playstyle. My favorite one is to slow down time and slowly eliminate all targets without getting seen.

And if that isn’t enough of a reason to try the demo, the graphics are also amazing. The lighting effects are really on point and the environment feels very realistic. Even to the point where you flinch when you see something unusual in the game. The environment is designed in a way so you know where to move and it still leaves space for a unusual approach to a fighting situation. Sometimes you have to crawl through vents which reminded me a lot of the classic Half life approach. There are also fire extinguishers around the map that can be exploded when shooting at them. But watch out: if you don’t hold your distance you’ll meet your makers and have to respawn at the nearest checkpoint.

The sound design is also top notch, especially during the intro cutscene. The gaming experience is also really reinforced by the music that helps to convey the tension. You can basically hear when something is about to happen. This really drags you into the game. Enjoy some impressions here:

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Project Aurora

Project Aurora is a space themed survival and adventure game in which you can explore the planet Aurora. Your means of travel to explore this huge map is a small rover that you control from a birdseye view through the rocky environment of Aurora. Aurora itself feels like a combination of Mars and Earth with a red and orange soil but some plants living there. From the dangerous looking fossils one might also come to the conclusion that there once have lived quite large animals there. Furthermore Aurora does not only has dangerous looking things but also possesses truly dangerous places such as green pulsating remnant of alien technology that can deplete the power of your rover. So be careful when exploring the unknown of Aurora. Moreover the game offers a great variety of construction elements such as mines which will then help you to build whole colonies and citys on the planet. All in all Aurora look like a really fun exploration game with a new approach to the player perspective.

Station to Station

Station to Station is a railway building simulator in which you need to connect separate buildings like wheat farms, mills and towns with a carefully thought out railway network. The game developers describe the game as a relaxing and minimalist experience which I can definitely agree on. With its combination of Voxel art like models and truly beautiful lighting with realistic shadows, the game offers not only a nice puzzle to solve but also a stunning view. With increasing difficulty from level to level the game introduces new buildings which need different resources and railway connection methods to work making it more challenging. The player also gets introduced into cards making you railways cheaper. Now even more than before a little bit of puzzle thinking is required before you use a card for a railway that it might not be worth it for. In conclusion Station to Station is a fun and diverting puzzle game for short breaks where you want to escape the stressful everyday life and challenge you brain a bit.

Uproar

Uproar is a rogue-like dungeon crawler where you need to fight through procedurally generated worlds, looking for artifacts. The cool thing is that nearly everything around you can be used as a weapon.

In the beginning of each run you jump through a portal which takes you to a new level. Inside the dungeon or on the flying islands you have to defeat enemies like slimes, skeletons and minibosses to reach red portal that takes you further. Every five levels you’ll find a save space, the “Nowhere”. At the end of the run before the final portal you need to defeat a final boss. I was able to play one successful run through 5 levels and met the “Golem”, a huge monster constructed out of stones that tries to throw stones at you and jump on you. Quite a challenging boss fight but also a really cool one and it really showed of the possibilites of the game.

Once you’ve killed a certain amount of monsters you’re able to unlock perks that for instance improve your movement speed or critical hit chance. You also need to open chest to gain new weapons and avoid traps. Throughout the run you’ll collect money and matter. Money can be used at the shop while matter is currently unused as stated by one of the Support Team members on the Uproar discord server. Artifacts can be found scattered around the levels and improve your player stats. There are currently eleven of them.

What I really enjoyed about the game is the beautifully crafted intro cinematic sequence. The idea of everything being a weapon or throwable was really fun and it really adds diversity to the game as you can’t always play with the same weapon as melee weapons have a limited durability and ranged weapons can run out of ammunition.

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