Coin-Op Vice
Andrei Fomin · 2024 · Retro, Pixel Graphics, 1980s, Procedural Generation, Top-Down
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Positive87% · 23
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About Coin-Op Vice
Detective of the 80s investigates a case involving arcade centers damaged by a cosmic beam. Crowds of visitors have turned into monsters, and arcade machines launch unusual versions of legendary games.
★ Retro
Limited color palette, monochrome sprites, CRT monitor glow, and even text mode—the graphic style is inspired by ZX Spectrum, Commodore, Apple, MSX, Atari, and MS-DOS games in CGA and EGA modes.★ Procedural Generation
Rooms and map for each mission are procedurally generated. Each playthrough is unique as the buildings vary greatly. The structure of buildings is also random. For example, the first floor might be located on different sides of a river or highway, and the connection will be on the upper floors. Or some parts of the building might be a narrow high-rise tower.★ Mini-Games
The main objective of each mission is to play all the damaged arcade machines. More than 100 different short mini-games are launched on them. From platformers to legendary titles like Arkanoid, Xonix, Digger, and Snake.To start an arcade, you need a token. Tokens can be obtained from cashiers for coins. Coins are loot.
★ Deck Building
For each completed arcade, you receive a reward in the form of two random cartridges. Cartridges enhance skills, provide weapons, and endow abilities. By combining cartridges in a deck, you can take down the toughest monsters. Combining two cartridges creates a higher-level cartridge.The number of cartridges in the deck is determined by the detective's rank. You can complete each arcade without any hassle. Or you can collect all the stars and complete all the tasks—to earn much more experience. Experience allows you to increase the detective's rank and expand the deck size.
★ Neo-N Invulnerability Mode
Approach a computer terminal to switch to "Neo-N" mode for 15 seconds. In this mode, the player is invulnerable: you can quickly take out monsters around you. Hidden passages in walls also become visible.★ Features:
- 8 main missions
- Daily random missions available after completing the main ones
- Procedural generation of buildings and map
- 100+ different short mini-games
- Dozens of cartridges for deck building
- Horde of monsters with unique behavior
- Stylish retro graphics with smooth animation and plenty of effects
- Detective story with thriller elements
- Chiptune music synthesized on the fly. Made in-game editor
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Fun little weird game where your main enemy is the checkpoints system. Also you can't walk diagonally. Very entertaining regardless.5 found this helpful
Really enjoying this game! With games within a game within a game... I like how it's used pseudo-retro game mechanics to create a meta retro game. There is a bit of a learning curve, and to be frank I still don't get some of what is happening, but I'm still enjoying the game. The graphics and music really add to the fun atmosphere of the game, and wanting to get more power-ups and wanting to find out more about what is really happening here is really keeping me invested in the game.3 found this helpful
This game has worst controls ever. Action 52 bad. I can't believe how come the devs felt that it was ok to release a game in such an abysmal state. Walking in the top down section of the game is just painful. You can't switch direction on the whim or just simply walk diagonally. Every time you want to made corrections to your walking cycle you should stop. For example you can't just press up after going to the left. You'll feel like your controller buttons got stuck. You have to give a full second of break after pressing any button in the game.3 found this helpful
Very fun/ cool, beautiful. Its one dev, and 10USD is more then fair for the work he put in. The issue is, I (nearly) beat it, at a leisure pace, within this amount of time. the whole idea is quite novel and im excited for more! Dev CLEARLY has something special in his hands. Dev is also very responsive.2 found this helpful
An interesting game. Not exactly ground breaking, but for those of us of a certain age and/or proclivity, it certainly manages to tickle the retro vibes. I love the ZX Spectrum style graphics / blended with jaw dropping visual effects. The dev is master of ASCII aesthetics :) The game loop is simple enough. Wander around the stage, look for an arcade machine. Enter a mini game, which is usually a platformer, free runner or boss fight; with fiendish puzzles and precise timing traps. Collect cartridges (cards) - use these to empower the mullet sporting protagonist - stack carts to increase the power of each upgrade. Collect coins to buy credits, to play more arcade games - repeat. Exfil using the chopper once all games on a level are bested. Quirky garish fun. Very nice - 7.5 / 10 (music is retro-cool as well)1 found this helpful
Очень стильная игра, как впрочем и другие творения разработчика. Приклоняюсь, снимаю шляпу! Помимо крутого ретро визуала, геймплей так же в духе игр из детства бумеров. Купил, играю и рад что есть такие игры и такие разработчики!1 found this helpful
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