Little known fact about me: when I recently lived in London, I made a point to specifically visit Basingstoke. That's because of a film, released in 1998, called Get Real (a coming of age and coming out film), that helped on my own coming out, way back then (in the 90s, was still a big deal, hence films like those).

Soooo... I'll probably be buying this game at some point, didn't even see what's about haha. Wishlisted.

That was my first impression too. It looks like a $15 to $20 game at full retail undiscounted price.

I'm really enjoying it so far. The game is a lot more about stealth than arcade action in the early game. Everything is dark, but you've got a torch and there are other light sources. You want to stay in the shadows and keep your lights off as much as possible so the enemies can't see you, but you can just flash the light on long enough to spot loot. Normal running movement is loud, and enemies will investigate noises, but you can sneak to avoid making noise. Enemies can kill you in one hit with an attack, but there's a bit of a 'wind-up' animation before they attack, and you can't die just from contacting the enemy. There are assorted items you can find in the environment, like egg timers, flash bangs, or food you can throw to create distractions, and you can craft stuff like bombs, poison gas, and amusing sandwiches that can cause monsters to burst into flames, starting a chain reaction. The game has you proceeding from different safe-houses where your progress and all the items you've collected are saved. You never have to travel too far between camps, and if you die, you only lose the items and the progress between the safe-houses. There's lots of nice touches, like when you're looting a car, and its alarm goes off, causing all the enemies to scramble to investigate, and you can hide in dumpsters while they pass by. There's plenty of other impressions out there if you want to check some gameplay out for yourselves if you're still unsure. :)

Vote for previous Puppygames titles:

Revenge Of The Titans - 130 votes
Titan Attacks! - 77 votes
Droid Assault - 52 votes
Ultratron - 51 votes

Same. Game looks vaguely interesting to me, and the UK setting is always a welcome change of flavour to the majority of US based games. But at that price point, for what it is, I'll probably wait until it's about 50% discounted.

Not sure how I feel about the graphics style. Seems like they really couldn't be arsed to model and animate proper characters. At least it looks somewhat original.

While I'm not purchasing this game anytime soon (due to limited hardware), I do wish Puppy Games the best of luck with this. In a situation similar to that suffered by Arcen Games and Introversion Software, Basintstoke is Puppy Games' do-or-die game, in that the company was almost out of money when they started its development, thanks to some business decisions that didn't quite pan out.

Thanks for writing that. The game's trailer gave me absolutely no understanding of what kind of game this was, so that was very helpful.

Now that Puppygames is here I hope for Revenge of the Titans. It's the best tower defence game I ever played.

Hello everyone, glad you like it.

Revenge of the Titans is coming to GOG soonish too.

Cas :)

Sweet! Please bring your other older titles linked below too! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Puppy%20Games

Also Titan Attacks, Ultratron, and Droid Assault. All of their previous games are old favorites of mine, so I'm hoping to see all of them here at some point.

Nice, will pick it up after release.

Also, do ask gog to give you a yellow developer colour for the forums.

Just had a look at Ultratron. I would probably buy it, although it could use more Llamas. Wishlist entry here.

And Droid Assault.

Voted for both.