- Our App Army readers put their underwater survival skills to the test this week in Ocean Keeper
- The blend of different genre elements impressed them
- Some mentioned the initial difficulty is a little tough but levels out once you’re used to the game
As a seasoned gamer with over 30 years of experience under my belt, I must say that Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival has truly caught my attention. With its unique blend of roguelike shooter, survival, and tower defense elements, it’s like a symphony of gaming genres that resonates deeply within me.
As an enthusiastic gamer, I’ve had the pleasure of diving into Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival – a captivating title that seamlessly blends resource gathering, intense battles, and cave exploration into a single immersive experience. My primary objective? Simply to stay alive! However, with so many enticing activities, it’s easy to overdo things. That’s why I invited fellow gaming aficionados, our App Army, to explore this game themselves and share their insights.
Here’s what they said:
Brian Wigington
Lately, I’ve found myself engrossed in Ocean Keeper on Steam, a game that offers an engaging blend of exploration, upgrading, and defense genres infused with action elements. Upon starting, you find yourself submerged in an underwater world accompanied by catchy tunes to establish the atmosphere. Interestingly, your base serves as your transportation, taking the form of a unique aquatic mech reminiscent of insects. The objective is to delve into various underwater caves and retrieve deposits of ore and artifacts for upgrading both your mech and character.
Upon discovering one of numerous cave entrances, your mission involves venturing into the cave, where the perspective shifts from a bird’s-eye view to a side-scrolling 2D layout, accompanied by your tiny aquatic companion. By colliding with rock strata, you can carve a path through the underwater terrain until you unearth one of the hidden ores. Upon discovery, these ores can be attached to your character using some sort of grappling mechanism for retrieval back up to the cave entrance. As you near the entrance, the discovered loot is transported to your mech. You must then decide whether you have enough time left to venture deeper into the caves in search of more ores or ascend back to the surface.
As a player immersed in this underwater adventure, I find myself constantly on edge as a timer ticks down to the impending assault by a menagerie of both small and formidable sea creatures, intent on demolishing my mechanical fortress. Once I’ve dived into my mech, the perspective shifts to an overhead view, transforming the experience into a thrilling twin-stick shoot ’em up gameplay session. After vanquishing the enemies, I can descend once more to collect upgrades for my equipment, only to prepare again for the next, even more challenging onslaught. In those brief moments between attacks, it’s crucial that I invest in enhancing my mech’s health, repairs, weaponry, and special abilities to ensure its survival.
Additionally, you should consider striking a balance between enhancing your character’s speed, load capacity, and drilling enhancements to extract ores and loot at a faster rate. You’ll encounter useful artifacts for your mech as well. The blend of activities creates an engaging, “just one more try” experience. While the controls are solid, some visual aspects could be improved for clarity on a phone; they might work better on an iPad. Overall, it’s a commendable effort that won’t leave you disappointed.
Robert Maines
Dome Survival is a unique blend of resource collection and twin-stick shooting, set in an underwater environment. As you pilot a mechanical suit on the ocean floor, your objective is to locate hidden caves and venture inside them. Once within, the perspective shifts to a side view, where your diver drills through rocks to acquire resources. However, you have a strict time limit to retrieve these resources before hostile forces appear. Upon returning to your mech, you’ll engage in waves of enemy combat, eliminating each wave until the level is complete.
Visually and audibly, the game is well-executed. However, the cave segments can be tricky to navigate with touchscreen controls, though they’re serviceable for firing at enemies. The main issue lies in the game’s initial difficulty – it’s quite simple to be overwhelmed by the enemies and perish. As you collect resources and enhance your mech, things become more manageable, but reaching that point can feel like a grind. Unfortunately, this hinders the overall enjoyment of an otherwise engaging game.
Jason Rosner
Game Ocean Keeper – Dome Survival debuts on the App Store, a blend of roguelike shooting and tower defense games set in an underwater world. In essence, it’s about battling for survival in a hostile ocean environment. Initially, you’re tasked with mining resources from submerged mines, but things escalate rapidly as nothing is ever straightforward. You soon discover that you’re not the only inhabitant of this aquatic realm when you’re ambushed by creatures hiding in the shadows.
Dome Survival incredibly entertaining, and for its low price, I wholeheartedly recommend it!
Oksana Ryan
This game was simple to understand and packed with various features. It started with a clear guide to help you get started. As you progressed, there were mines to explore, where you could obtain enhancements for your tools, weapons, and more. Your success would reward you in this manner. Furthermore, you’d encounter waves of enemies, each wave having a timer displayed at the top of the screen indicating when they would attack. Disregard these timers at your own risk.
The visuals and controls are user-friendly and simple to grasp, yet the sound quality leaves much to be desired, so I muted it. Overall, there’s nothing revolutionary about the design and play mechanics of this game, but it offers engaging content in brief sessions, which worked well for me.
Mark Abukoff
I’m a fan of Tower Defense games, so I went into this enthusiastically and really wasn’t disappointed. I like the concept of having to explore procedurally generated mines to gather resources, watching the countdown timer until the next wave. That adds a nice bit of a twist that keeps me interested. Plus the usual assortment of upgrades and weapons. The controls worked fine once I got settled in and made for nicely fluid gameplay. The visuals are nice though barren, but that suits the game. I’ll go back to this one and happily recommend it.
Jojó Reis
After spending several hours on this captivating game, I discovered it to be exceptionally engaging with an appealing concept. Essentially, you navigate as a robot, seeking caves and gathering resources for upgrades. These resources allow you for enhancing various aspects of your robot, such as its weapon power, movement speed, and rotational agility, among other features.
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2024-09-19 13:18