I was looking around Steam yesterday and noticed they’ve added some indy games. One of which was a little game called Caster. For 5 USD I thought I’d try it.

Caster consists of 15 missions where you blast bugs, heal trees and generally blow things up. There’s six different abilities and a couple movement skills. All of them are upgrade-able using points obtained from killing bugs and healing trees in missions.

The biggest feature of Caster is the terrain deformation that your abilities and the bugs abilities can do. If you’ve ever used a world/level editor for a game you’ll be familiar with a chunk of it. Using Blast you can destroy (lower) large chunks of the game world — leaving massive craters. Another allow you to raise the terrain, making a landbridge across dangerous pools of acid/fire.

Combat is third-person action oriented. Lots of run and gun type moves.

Apart from the abilities the two movement related skills are also quite fun. You have a Dash that gives you a burst of super speed and Super Jump that lets you jump incredible heights and distances.

The graphics and sound may not be amazing, but the game play is solid and for the price you really would be hard-pressed to find a more entertaining game. It’s episodic so there will be more chapters coming in the future, and I for one can’t wait for them.