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Protolife: Other Side

30% positive of 10 Steam reviews

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Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Aleksei Grishin. Published by Volcanic Giraffe.

About the game

Reverse Tower Defense game where you control waves of creatures against towers. Protolife game spin-off.

Tagged by players

Aliens
Stealth
Runner
Minimalist
Arcade
Sci-fi
Villain Protagonist
Puzzle
Top-Down
Space
Exploration
Nonlinear

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Protolife: Other Side

30% positive of 10 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Aleksei Grishin. Published by Volcanic Giraffe.

About the game

Reverse Tower Defense game where you control waves of creatures against towers. Protolife game spin-off.

Tagged by players

Aliens
Stealth
Runner
Minimalist
Arcade
Sci-fi
Villain Protagonist
Puzzle
Top-Down
Space
Exploration
Nonlinear

What players say

Not recommended
sadly, I kind of do not feel like this game has a lot to offer it build upon the old game in terms of setting, but otherwise is attempting to be an opposite: play the biomass rather than what you were before the idea of the game is that you try to rescue as much biomass as possible and that every time you rescue biomass, the invader builds new turrets through your old escape route, making you think how to proceed…
30 min played when written. 30 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Genuinely disappointed. Protolife, the original, was a real smash with a tense grimy feel, the organic pulsing threat of the foe truly throwing themselves at you, and it felt like it had fire. This Protolife feels... static. The GUI lacks polish, there are no controls for sound save on/off (forcing me to manage the volume of the repetitive 4-second loop of music via my system sound settings), and the gameplay seems…
30 min played when written. 15 found it helpful.
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