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Jul 16, 2019
Spaceline Crew is developed by Coffeenauts, an indie studio based in Brazil. The game has already won them awards from Big Festival and Game Connection for Best Multiplayer and Best Casual Game. They are currently in their late alpha stage for PC and Mac with the intention of also releasing the game on Steam, Xbox One, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch. See below for everything we know about Spaceline Crew so far.
Cross the galaxy with your friends as flight attendants of commercial spaceships and try to handle asteroids, decompression, puking in zero G, and super demanding alien passengers! In space no one can hear you complain about overbooking…
Setting the Scene for Spaceline Crew…
Space, the final frontier, where brave heroes go on fantastic journeys and intrepid explorers discover new worlds, however, somebody needs to serve the drinks. In this retro sci-fi universe, commercial space travel is commonplace, aliens and humans coexist, but underpaid jobs are still a thing. In Spaceline Crew, you and your friends will play as team of flight attendants whose job is to take wacky alien passengers safely to their destinations. Will they be able to please these demanding customers while at the same time avoiding black holes and distracting the space health inspection?
Spaceline Crew is a Party Game About Airlines in Space!
Up to 4 players take the roles of flight attendants who must cooperate in order to take weird alien passengers safely to their planets. Create your spaceline, buy ships and upgrades, fly your ship through hazardous space, handle system malfunctions, clean alien vomit in zero-g and much more! Can you become a top-class spaceline without being shut down by the fearsome space health inspection?
Spaceline Crew is the first non-violent, rogue-like party game. It combines the procedural events and organic progression of games like FTL; the short sessions, easy-to-learn controls and fast-paced co-op mechanics of games like Overcooked; and the AI NPCs of games like Theme Hospital.
Key Features:
- 4-player co-op mayhem!
- Procedural levels and events!
- Manage hungry, nauseous, drunk, bored aliens!
- Avoid the space health inspector!
- Choose your ship and go!
- Unlock unique themed spaceships!
- Upgrade your ship at spaceports!
- Become your ship’s ace pilot…but don’t make it the vomit comet!
- Master your ship’s systems!
- Transport passengers and make money!
- Original retro soundtrack!
- Universal mouse/keyboard and controller support!
You can follow Spaceline Crew on Facebook here and find out what the team of Coffeenauts is up to! If you love sci-fi, aliens, and space like we do, check out our articles on ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove Review and Astro Bears Splashes Down On Nintendo Switch. Both of which also happen to be multiplayer games as well so go tell all of your friends!
- Jul 13, 2019
We’re announcing the three random winners of Steam codes for Super Chicken Catchers today! We apologize for the delay as our website yesterday was under maintenance. If you haven’t heard, myPotatoGames is getting bigger and better so if your name isn’t one of the winners below, then keep earning those Tater-Tots as we have more goodies coming!
We’d like to thank everyone that participated in this giveaway either here or through our social media. We hope you enjoy teaming up with players online to catch some chickens! Don’t forget you can follow the developers on Discord for tournament schedules and other friends to join you. You can also get a refresher on how to play from our review here.
And the winners are…
Check your private messages as we will be sending the winners their codes through whatever method they used to enter the giveaway. Congratulations to the winners and thank you very much for being a part of this and our Potato Family. Stay tuned with us for more on the wholesome games that we love!
- Jun 30, 2019
Heave Ho is a cooperative multiplayer adventure game created by indie developers Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital. You won’t have to wait long to play this silly game as it will release on Steam and the Nintendo Switch eShop this summer! Moreover, you’ll need to hold on for dear life and help each other to reach hard-to-get-to places. All you need to do is swing without falling or getting impaled by spikes and attempt to do it in record time if you so choose!
About Heave Ho
Heave Ho tasks up to four players with a simple goal – don’t fall to your death! Players will use their own two hands and the outstretched grip of their friends to grapple across each level on their way to victory. Grab one another’s hands, climb across dangling bodies, and swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs. Customize your character with all manner of stylish accessories and zany accouterment in a vain attempt to remember who you are and which of your hands is the only thing between you and the plummet of doom.
Heave Ho is a physics-based game where you’ll have to use the left joystick to move your arms and use the triggers to clench fists and grab the platforms! There’s nothing too complicated about the concept but the execution might be another story.
Customize your strange-looking characters! Reveal Trailer for Heave Ho
For another multiplayer game published by Devolver Digital, check out our article on Fall Guys for a hilariously fun competition! If you like the idea of working together with friends and needing great communication skills, see Fling to the Finish. Fling to the Finish has just successfully completed its Kickstarter campaign along with some stretch goals!
- Jun 7, 2019
Super Chicken Catchers is a colorful party-game created by White Smoke Games, an indie studio based in France. The game was released on Steam Early Access here in April 2019 and already plays amazingly well with regular updates. The team also puts together actual tournaments online for the community on specific dates. You can check out the schedule and sign-up here and become the Supreme Chicken Catcher.
About Super Chick Catchers
Welcome to the wackiest tournament! In this crazy action coop game, a team of two players compete against another one. In each team, one player is the mount, the other is the rider. Both have very different yet complementary abilities. To win they will need to catch the chicken and run away from the other team in order to score points and become the Super Chicken Catchers!
Play on a couch with your friends or online to show off your skills. Split, regroup and pass the chicken at the right time, use your environment to flee, chase or fight your opponents and try to master the duo complementary abilities!
Our Early Access Review
Firstly, we’d like to thank White Smoke Games for providing us with Steam codes to play this adorably quirky game. We wish them all great success and truly can’t wait to get our next fix and catch those darn chickens.
Learning the Ropes
The tutorial at the beginning of the game is quite detailed in teaching you how to be both the rider and the mount. However, it became obvious that I forgot the either-or concept of character selection and for some reason panicked and forgot how to use all the buttons during my first match. I just started mashing buttons which is definitely not the way to win and requires a little refined practice. Although, I was later told that the buttons you need to press are helpfully displayed on the screen at all times, if you dare take your eyes off the prize for one second.
Available Modes
Right now you have the option to either play local split-screen with four friends (no more, no less) or online with four friends. It would be really great if the two were mixable but perhaps this will eventually be added at a later date. When playing online, you can create a Custom Game or a Quick Game. Quick Games are great because you will earn points and therefore coins to be able to purchase items to customize your character in the Lockers menu.
Choosing Your Strategy
When choosing whether you want to be the rider or the mount, you must consider their pros and their cons. Specifically, the rider is very slow on ground when running but can jump, glide, throw bombs, and really can reach the most amazing heights. Alternatively, the mount can’t jump but can charge at the enemy and the chicken, run really fast, and pull-off some really awesome drifting moves. I personally was in love with the rider because I felt so free just flying around all over the place. Also, the rider looks like a Minion and that’s amazing.
Who’s Holding the Chicken?
When you’re playing together with the rider on the mount, which you are free to decide to do at any point, you can basically combine both of their unique abilities. For example, while my piggy partner was running away, I was throwing bombs at the opposition and occasionally flew us into the air when needed. Once the chicken is caught however, whoever is holding it won’t be able to perform one of their abilities. Meaning, if the mount is holding the chicken then it can no longer charge. If the rider is holding the chicken, then they can no longer fly. Feel free to pass the chicken around between the two of you whenever possible.
You really do have to think things through quickly and communicate with each other! Even though the game could be so fast-paced, I found it very easy to know where my partner was at all times. Not only are you both the same color, but there’s also a clear line that links both of you together in case you lose each other. Or if you want to corner the enemy for example. You also know which direction the chicken has gone and who is currently in possession of it with the glowing feather symbol.
How to Win
This depends on what type of game you decide to play. A new goal has been recently added to the latest patch which has a different objective. In the regular game, you need to flee from your opponents for as long as possible and hold on to that chicken. A meter bar at the top of the screen will start to fill the longer you have the chicken and you must reach 100% to win the match. The percentages will not drop even if your opponent takes the chicken away from you so it can make for a very intense game.
The new game is about catching the chickens and then bringing them to your flag location to score points! Earn enough points and you win that round. Furthermore, in this new update, there’s a new magenta chicken (as opposed to green), which will allow you to score five points at once! It only appears a few times per game so you must keep an eye out for it. What I found really interesting was that if there’s a certain team that is ahead, their flag location will start to change places so as to make it more difficult and give the other team a fighting chance.
The Arenas
There are a few arenas to choose from in the game and all of them offer very unique features. I absolutely love how colorful and detailed they are and try to not spend too much time gawking at the scenery while playing. The clever design of each arena offers tons of replayability and ways to change up your strategies. One area had moving window panes that you can choose to fly through, another had targets you can bomb for shortcuts, and another had the occasional burst of lava that could get in your way. I loved them all!
We highly recommend this game to anyone that wants to have a good time and a good laugh. Below we have 15 minutes of gameplay for your viewing pleasure of a couple of matches I participated in. I’m the blue rider most of the time and I win once! The last game I was orange which threw me for a loop. Just goes to show how this game can keep you on your toes. Also, please excuse my frequent and fervent clicking of the bombs (they need to refresh). Looking for other players to join you online? Check out the Super Chicken Catchers’ Discord right here. If the video hasn’t convinced you yet to try out this game, keep reading below for a nice surprise we have in store.
Giveaway – Win Steam Codes
If all this chicken madness seems like fun to you, and you’d like to give Super Chicken Catchers a try, you can win your very own Steam key right now! We have three keys to give away to give some of our followers a chance to try this hilariously hectic game. Simply comment on the post below that you would like throw your name in the hat, and you will have done exactly that. Two weeks from today, on Friday, July 12th, we will choose three separate winners, each to receive one code! Good luck to all, and we can’t wait to play Super Chicken Catchers with you!
Update: Due to a chaotic E3 2019, we have extended our giveaway to a new date! See the edit above.
- Jun 4, 2019
Astro Bears are heading to Nintendo Switch! The sequel to the previous game – Astro Bears Party – which was a huge hit on the Nintendo eShop hitting the #1 spot in the US as well as Europe on the sales charts, will be returning this summer. The sequel promises even more chaotic fun on the handheld console.
Astro Bears will be featuring an all new competitive mode in which you can compete against one friend, or frenemy of your choice. There is also a new best out of 5 mode where players can select three out of eight different Astro Bears, whoever reachers 10 points first will win the game. Each bear also features a unique play style, so choose wisely!
Astro Bears will be priced at $6.99 on the Nintendo Switch eShop and will be available beginning July 19th. If you already own Astro Bears Party you will receive the new game for free! We can’t wait to get rolling!
For more party games, check out Medium Rare – A Party Game with Cute Dragons.
Astro Bears Features
- 8 cute Astro Bears with different play styles,
- Local multiplayer for 2-4 players,
- Competitive mode for challenge-seeking players,
- Jetfish Hunting with single- and 2-player co-op mode,
- ‘80s-inspired soundtrack.
Four new Astro Bears join the fun, each with its own unique playstyle, giving players eight total Bears to play with. Experience even more chaotic gameplay with infinite or finite Magical Beary Ribbons and planets ranging from small to huge. Jetfish Hunting can now be played with two in co-op mode, and global leaderboards have been added. New themes, music and gameplay improvements enrich the lively Astro Bears experience.
Competitive Mode is a new 1v1 tournament play option to support the growing Astro Bears esports community. In this Best of 5 format, players choose 3 different Astro Bears and select the one that best fits a randomized environment. Play continues in rounds to 10 points, at which point the next random environment appears. The winner is the player who wins with all three Astro Bears in this grizzly quest for victory!
- May 25, 2019
Medium Rare is couch co-op created by FlareWolf Games, a Canadian indie developer. Although their recent Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful, they are very far along in development and will be able to release the game on Nintendo Switch by winter of 2019. Afterward, they intend to release the game on PC, with other major console platforms to follow. Since dragons are HOT right now, we at myPotatoGames recommend trying out their demo on PC here.
About Medium Rare
Two to four players chase each other around an arena aiming to set fire to each other. Then, once you’re cooked, you change into a tasty chicken (errr… dragon) leg! The winner is the dragon who scores the most points by eating as many chicken legs as possible! Furthermore, each round will take you only a couple of minutes, so the action is fast, easy to learn, and there are ample opportunities for both new players and experienced pros to have fun!
Game Modes
- Deathmatch mode (pick up and play with your casual and skilled gamer friends)
- Gauntlet mode (more challenging mode where you compete against your friends through an escalating gauntlet of map hazards!)
- Challenge mode… complete puzzle levels on your own or with a friend to unlock more characters!
- Speed mode… race together or on your own through deadly gauntlets relying on your wits, reflexes and fireballs to survive!
- Hoard mode… you alone or together with a friend blast fireballs at… well… skeletons and zombies, of course!
The Dragons
Vlad, Merlin, Rosa, and Mango are four dragon friends! Their playful behavior is typical for young dragons. They love to chase each other, shoot fireballs, and cook each other into chicken legs to eat! (They’re dragons, don’t judge.) At any rate, dragons are highly magical and therefore, after getting cooked, they quickly reappear in the world to rejoin the fun!
- Rosa: is a headstrong young dragon. You can literally describe her personality as “fiery!”
- Merlin: is Rosa’s big brother. He’s a friendly dragon and his very cool personality caused his skin to turn blue!
- Vlad: is the bad boy of this dragon bunch. For him, it’s fun chasing Rosa and Merlin around and showing the two younger dragons who’s in charge!
- Mango: is well… Mango. This kooky, carefree dragon joined up with Rosa, Merlin, and Vlad and very little is known about her or where she comes from… but we’re guessing she’s got a pretty interesting story that will be revealed in time.
If you can’t get enough of dragons right now like us, you can vote for your favorite one in this poll here. Want to play more party games? Mowin’ & Throwin’ will be available on Steam and also the Nintendo Switch next week!
- May 23, 2019
A hilarious party game mashup of old school Bomberman mixed with Splatoon and a dash of Overcooked.
@MowinNThrowinMowin’ & Throwin’ is a multiplayer game created by indie developer House Pixel Games. Do you love cutting the grass in Zelda games? Well now you can ride lawn mowers with cannons and ammo at super speed! Furthermore, use items and moves to sabotage your friends to be the best mower that no one ever was.
About Mowin’ & Throwin’
Play as lawn gnomes and wreck your neighbor’s yard by throwing rocks, fertilizer bags, and psychedelic mushrooms. Race around in a nitro boosted mower to pickup grass and blast unsuspecting opponents with its hidden tank cannon. Mowin’ & Throwin’ is great to play with friends, family, or people you only sort of like. The experience is best played locally, but is playable online through PARSEC. Each lawn level is unique and creates challenges that affect how you mow and throw. Some examples include shifting terrain, elevators, destructible environments, darkness, and more!
All lawn levels Mowin’ & Throwin’ is a competitive lawn mowing experience where the objective of the game is the have the LEAST amount of grass on your lawn before time runs out. Mow down the competition in our 2 V 2 or 1 V 1 game modes. Customize your experience by choosing between two zany gnome avatars as well as their hat. This game requires controllers, but will soon support keyboards and full keyboard / controller button remapping! You can do single matches which take a few minutes, but Mowin’ & Throwin’ can keep you and your friends occupied for seasons.
Gnome avatars You won’t have to wait too long to play this game as it’s releasing May 31st, 2019 on Steam (Early Access available now) and the Nintendo Switch (only on the eShop). If you enjoy party games you can also check out our review on Fun! Fun! Animal Park.
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