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.

This was our 50th article on this website. Thank you very much for reading! If you found this information helpful please consider supporting us. Check out our store or buy us a coffee here.

Soul Knight is a dungeon crawler game published by Chinese developer ChillyRoom in early 2017. The game offers either a single or multiplayer experience. Your goal is to complete levels filled with enemies, find better gear and try to get through 15 levels and 3 boss rooms.

Game appearence

The game is designed in a very beautiful pixel style. There also is retro style background music which matches the graphics very well. All characters and enemies are animated and very detailed. Characters also have many skin options to choose from.

Gameplay

As I mainly played the “normal mode” where you need to clear 3 floors with 5 levels each in both singleplayer and coop mode I’ll talk about this part of the game. It also offers other gamemodes with different experiences like a tower defense mode where you construct towers to keep monsters from attacking a central crystal.

Your goal is to get through 3 floors with 5 levels each. These levels include rooms where you need to defeat waves of enemies, chest rooms, where you can find new items or vendors that sell better weapons or consumables and event rooms, where you meet NPCs, different vendors or statues.

At the beginning of your run you can chooses between lots of character that all offer a different starting weapon and abilities. Most of them can be unlocked with ingame currency earned through daily logins or completed runs while some of them need to be purchased with real money. In the lobby you can also visit a garden where you can grow plants that can be used as weapons or are needed as crafting materials. There is also an area to craft weapons or armor and a kind of library where you can see all the gear you have collected throughout all of your runs.

All characters have 3 base stats: Life points, armor points and energy points. These can be upgraded during your run. Characters can be upgraded with jewels which are collected through runs and completing other objectives.

During the run you’ll be able to unlock new perks 3 times per floor. These range from getting a second weapon slot to having projectiles of your gun bounce of the walls. Another similar thing are statues that randomly appear in levels. If you pray to them with a little bit of money, you’ll receive a statue specific buff.

Weapons can be found in chests or bough from Vendors and have different stats. They can either be short range or long range weapons. Using a weapon can cost energy points and will do a certain amount of damage. Some weapons have a chance of hitting a critical hit or missing completely. There are over 400 weapons in the game at the moment and their appearance and effects change a lot. If you want to know more about them check out the Soul Knight Fandom.

At the end of each floor you’ll meet a boss. These can be quite hard to defeat if you aren’t fast enough to dodge the bullet rain some of them produce.

Critic?

The only thing I don’t like about the game is the fact that it’s more or less pay to win as you can speed through the character leveling progress and have access to otherwise unobtainable characters.

Another thing that needs improvement in my opinion is the lack of Google Play Achievements. This would add another reason to complete as many runs as possible.

The multiplayer mode is only accessible if you and your friends are at the same place as the devices connect by being in the same network or hotspot.

Conclusion

Get Soul Knight here