5 more Flash games with full Steam sequels | Back in a Flash #2

[@2leftthumbs]

Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds is a complete remake! Please be sure to Wishlist it, and keep an eye out for the upcoming release. I LOVE this series, and am thrilled to be involved! ► store.steampowered.com/app/1826770/Alice_is_Dead_Hearts_and_Diamonds/ ◄

[@alguemcomenta7686]

You need to talk about submachine, my favorite point and click game

[@OppoAfw-dx3in]

What About The Last Stand Aftermath In Steam 2022?

[@wildstarfish3786]

you should cover poptropica if you haven't already

[@ninjacatcz]

There should be Zombotron!!!

[@Shyguymask]

Matt is one of the only developers I know that goes back to older titles to update & improve them. It's great.

[@OppoAfw-dx3in]

Can You Make A "Can You Beat The Last Stand Union City But Handgun Only?

[@quinnholloway5400]

Matt is one of the best devs honestly The entire series is great fun and has great music~ Both the collection of older games, and the games that are...well sold as normal games

[@NOOB4306i]

my dumbass read the "4 months ago" as "4 years ago" and was really confused

[@forger343]

I've heard the music in the EBF1 rerelease is pretty good ;)

[@anusaukko6792]

@@forger343 The music in the entire series is amazing. I don't remember much about the first and second games, but I know the music was still solid. Every time a new game came out, the music was somehow even better than the last time. The newest game blew all of the other ones straight out of the water in every single way, including a beautiful soundtrack that could make angels weep.

[@pronemanatee6861]

When I saw Epic battle fantasy in the thumbnail I clicked at the speed of light

[@Scorchlette]

Oh, potential for an entire video on EBF? I'd kill for that.

[@Hyperray51]

Would you kill?

[@neonthehivewingandfreinds9234]

I will 100% kill. The games are amazing, with amazing soundtracks

[@thedemonfoxofficial]

I vouch for this💯

[@kitty_fis]

yeah The soundtracks ARE straight gas. My favorite being Lance's Theme - M3chanical C0n-D4mnnation from EBF5

[@justsomesimplenuclearbirbs4313]

Epic Battle Fantasy definitely hits the nostalgia bone with the dialogue, armor/weapons (including their descriptions), items (and their descriptions too), attacks and enemy designs. Even Matt's older flash animations still have the charm his games have with dialogue (for as little as there is in them) that makes zero sense and characters basically doing whatever they please. I tried playing the first two games when I could, but everytime I would get scolded like I was in a religious school. No seriously, I wanted to beat the first game but I only got the chance to it during lunch and everytime I went to play that game I would get scolded by the librarian for reasons I never actually got other than "that's inappropriate, turn it off". Not sure if she was talking about the game itself or the ads that were always on the side of the site I was playing the games on. Seriously, does anyone know why some of the teachers and school staff had a collection of sticks up their asses? Because the logic they give is beyond confusing half the bloody time.

[@iancatolico1795]

You know the game is really good when you become emotionally attached to the characters It brings me tears to remember ebf1 to 5

[@MouthlessChocomint]

​@@iancatolico1795i get you my friend!!! I am so attached that cant stop drawing anna xDD even making a comic of anna v lance lol

[@anapeglar4602]

​@@iancatolico1795DUUUUUDE MATT FTW! He and nat being shipped in EBF5 subtly is so cute!

[@Oakesyrules]

EBF is so good, the creator is also amazing. Love that you highlighted it.

[@somerandomdude7815]

Yea, I love the game to death

[@michaelarmstrong9722]

I've never played it, but the creator is one humble guy

[@hermesl9884]

yeah that game got me through so many boring classes back in high school

[@daitoray9876]

@@hermesl9884 For me, it helped me rediscover my love for flash.

[@KingFluffs]

I love EBF. The writing is so good.

[@gagothesour]

Also don't forget the banger music in entire EBF franchise made by Phyrnna. It's genuinely mind boggling how the game stays under the radar while indie games like undertale are on the rise these past few years.

[@MouthlessChocomint]

I know right? Ebf clearly outmatches undertale in every aspect except having multiple endings

[@Hydro123s]

@@MouthlessChocomint EBF5 does have several different endings, depending on many factors.

[@daitoray9876]

@@Hydro123s It's complicated to say the least but most players get the good ending on their first playthrough. Otherwise, they'll get it in New Game +

[@Hydro123s]

i mained natz lance and matt for my first playthrough and got the bad ending lol@@daitoray9876

[@MouthlessChocomint]

well yeah i mean it does but...well you already know how it is after playing it hehe still cool that it does have those factors and the chemistry stuffs on the on the party members

[@GodChaos333]

Epic Battle Fantasy is such a great RPG series. The newest one EBF5 is genuinely fun. So much personality, silly dialogue, great strategy, and epic bosses! The other games shown are pretty cool too. I also liked Alice is dead.

[@someguy6656]

EBF has been a year-long passion project and I love the effort Matt has put into the series

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

Glad to hear Don't Escape and Deep Sleep are being brought back. They are, and will most certainly be, honestly amazing series.

[@xSkysilver]

EBF is probably my best franchise alongside strike force heroes,raze and all the othes

[@daitoray9876]

Same here! Like if you remember the Raze Soldier, Nathan, or any other related flash game character.

[@Phoenixfire653]

EBF is amazing with the way buying deluxe editions work; the entire game can be played just fine free, with the deluxe adding more content that doesn't outright trivialize the base game.

[@deividymario2408]

Not only EBF has an amazing Dev, the composer is also a Goddess, no pun intended.

[@Granox]

Epic battle is sooooo good

[@Seraphim_the_Fiend]

It was my childhood

[@Granox]

@@Seraphim_the_Fiend yeah

[@pronemanatee6861]

Absolute classic

[@Hohtis]

Good to hear that SFH is getting remake. I loved all the games (yes,even the 3rd) and played them so much in school and home.

[@jojo_vegetables]

I think an honorable mention would be The Kings Leauge- it got a revamp and a sequel on mobile recently. Great games. Same with kingdom rush.

[@OppoAfw-dx3in]

Also Don't Forget To "The Last Stand Series

[@primarchjackfrost8117]

EBF is just a classic truly a hidden gem that should be really popular

[@RichRaptorVr]

The Epic Battle Fantasy Games were a big part of what got me into flash games and things, I also play the EBF games to this day.

[@speedoreo1462]

EPIC BATTLE FANTASY 5 LETS GOOOOOO!!!!

[@JudahDeNose]

I'd never heard of any of these, but they're all on my Steam Wishlist now!

[@vampireknight5821]

What??? How????? Even I who has been born in 2007 know of every one of them (except Alice is dead)

[@NOOB4306i]

@@vampireknight5821 honestly i only knew about strike force heroes and ebf

[@Skippyxlxlxl]

Matt is really excellent, and I hope more people play his games because he is the Flash version of Zun. Matt is really nice from what I have seen and heard, and he really loves to preserve his games so that people can play them hence why I called him the flash version of Zun. I have almost all of his games and will support any future projects because I remember him putting exclusive characters on certain websites like Kongregate, and I find his gimmicks really cool.

[@Darvoth]

I’m really glad you made your original Don’t Escape 4 theory video because otherwise I might not have played that masterpiece of a game.

[@TheShadow7771]

My major recommendation is a gigantic part of my childhood and one I don't see many people talk about even among the flash game community: Telepath RPG. Very well made and well written turn based strategy RPG series.

[@2leftthumbs]

Funny, I never knew Telepath RPG. But I do know Sinister Design's newer works like Telepath Tactics!

[@TheShadow7771]

@@2leftthumbs Yep, RPG's where it all started, both in worldbuilding and gameplay!

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

honestly glad to see Don't Escape featured here I've played the first 3 games and watched a 100% playthough of 4 (thanks manlybadasshero lol), it was a incredible journey! I really hope more people experience it

[@thedemonfoxofficial]

Full video on strike force heroes? I’d love to see that! I played this game to death as a kid coming back from school and it really impressed me for its solid story

[@rockowlgamer631]

EBF series is my favorite series, the music is what keeps bringing me back.

[@jukesdtj656]

Me clicking on this video knowing full well I have every single Epic Battle Fantasy game on Steam Edit: Side note, Matt also updated Epic Battle Fantasy 4 after the release of EBF5 generally giving a lot of the same quality of life features that EBF5 has and making some small adjustments to just make the game better overall. Things like being able to reset your rare foods because you could give each one to any party member in EBF4, letting you switch between player turns without having to go to the Tactics tab, and my personal favorite adjustment, making Anna's whistle not blow your god damn ears out every time she casted a magic attack.

[@MarioCraft20--]

Great hearing about SFH's revival, and seeing the EBF series on here. If you want to look more into flash games on mobile though, there’s Duck Life and Car eats car; I imagine most knows the former, but the latter is a racing-survival based game, upgrading your car to survive the passing levels, with it slowly leaning into being action based as the games went on; if you like something a little more brief, there’s the spiritual successor to Super Mario 63: Super Mario 127! It's still in beta, with only test levels and an editor, but certainly still has a lot to showcase in what it has. Great video regardless!

[@Ronin11111111]

Man. I really should finish EBF 5.

[@Jpx0999]

Okay We need a Epic Battle Fantasy video then

[@LazarheaD]

Thank you for this series and reminding me of all the classics that I grew up with. So proud of the fellow NGers making the climb to Steam.

[@homelobster3933]

Finally you included Strike Force Heroes one of the best childhood games that I played for hours :)

[@KylarPlayz]

Thank you for letting me know about the strike force heroes kickstarter! One of my biggest regrets is missing the last stand aftermath kickstarter...

[@SC-yl3fv]

So glad you included the EBF series!!! Feels like nobody else ever talks about it lol. The sheer nostalgia too… Ngl I would watch you play it once you get around to playing it (from what the video included, it sounds like you will?)

[@DementedDuskull]

6:54 He also made That Gravity Game, which is one of my favorites.

[@magnuscritikaleak5045]

I know Matt Roszack from my time in Scotland, had some short camping trips. Man is a legend mates!

[@MattRoszak]

Cool EBF timeline, but I must clarify that Steam shows EBF3's original web release date, EBF was actually released on Steam after EBF4 was.

[@2leftthumbs]

That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

[@adnanalmusaher]

Can you talk about Crazy Flasher series? Andy Law(Crazy Flasher dev) has just returned​@@2leftthumbs

[@adnanalmusaher]

​@@2leftthumbsCan you talk about Crazy Flasher series? Andy Law(Crazy Flasher dev) has just returned

[@youtubeadministration8037]

I've always had dreams of a raze multiplayer like the game was fucking made for some shooting with friends or even competitive shit. Strike force heroes being done so is also gonna be lovely to see!

[@phantomkitten73]

Gods Will Be Watching, Luftrauser, Hexagon, Canabalt, Intrusion, Meat Boy, Insaniquarium, Dino Run, There Is No Game, and Westerado are some games I'd recommend for this series.

[@KillaCheeto56]

Epic battle fantasy is so damn good. The number of times I have played through EBF 4 and 5 is staggering. I've even 100%ed 5 and am currently working on doing the same in 4. I also can't forget to mention Bullet Heaven 1 and 2 when talking about EBF. I would lose my mind if an EBF 6 were to happen, but the gravestone in Red Pine seemed to have dashed that dream. Hopefully, it digs its way out in the future.

[@mattsopiratoso790]

All of these games are pretty amazing on their own. But seeing specifically Strike Force Heroes and EBF in it, just warms my almost non-existant heart.

[@OverSteam]

Matt the most underrated developer.

[@RadikAlice]

This was lovely, and the fact that Super Motherload was so old caught me by surprise For either this series or Flashlight, I'm very much hoping you cover the Intrusion series some day

[@obsidiaan0794]

Zombotron was an old flash game I used to play at school, found out it had a version available on steam now. I love it

[@vampireknight5821]

Epic Battle Fantasy and strike Force Heroes are best game series that were flash

[@TheShadow7771]

Nice to see the devs of some of these classics from my childhood are still trucking.

[@somedudewatchingyoutube9163]

Matt is a fucking gigachad and you can’t deny it

[@uros.u.novakovic]

So glad to see that Deep Sleep 4 was officially announced and now has a steam page. The game is called Labyrinth of the Forsaken. A few games I'd like to mention that have continued after the death of flash: Cursed Treasure 1 and 2 I originally played on Kongregate, but they recently released Cursed Treasure 2 Ultimate Edition on Steam. The Final Earth 1 and the demo of 2 were originally in Flash with The Final Earth 2 now being fully released on Steam. Aground was also originally on Flash and then got ported to Steam with a "sequel" of sorts being in development now called Aground Zero. GemCraft series also started on Flash and now they have two entries on Steam called Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath. Rusty Lake series also started on Flash, but they continued the series on Steam with the latest one "The Past Within" being just released. Lucky Tower 1 and 2 are also games I enjoyed back in the day. Recently I discovered that there's a Steam page for a new game called Lucky Tower Ultimate scheduled to be released in 2024 apparently.

[@kainostalgia7558]

BRO you summoned all the ebf fans in the world

[@ENZEED]

Thank you for covering flashes again. Plus alice is dead is my favourite. Wow. Cant believe something good is happening for it

[@SolstaceWinters]

I'm a year late, but Epic Battle Fantasy is such a fun series. Perhaps the comedy is a little low bar for some, but I love it. But the gameplay has only ever improved, and Matt Roszak is a stellar developer. He's such a lad, always coming to us fans for opinions or testing things or giving out his games for on sale. The one thing he's made abundantly clear is how he loathes needless "nickel & diming" of the customer. That's why all the DLC stuff for his games on mobile cost $6.66, but you get EVERYTHING, instead of, say $x.xx for each individual thing he could charge for, and some of those things he provides in his games, he could absolutely separate for individual charges. In fact, if I remember correctly, he was strongly recommended to do so by the mobile hosting folks and he refused, though they outright wouldn't let him put the game out there without SOME kind of paid incentive DLC... hence the $6.66. I remember him being kinda annoyed in the Discord about it at the time.

[@RedSpade37]

Thanks for making these videos! I think I played all of these games during their hayday, back on Kongregate. Very good times!

[@dumphat]

24:07 He definetly call out Undertale and Omori

[@Explosivepotat0]

I would always play Strike Force Heros 2 on Armor Games when ever I had spare time

[@JPIXEL-qy4ho]

just use y8

[@Darvoth]

I already made a comment but I would like to see Rusty Lake talked about in a future episode. That series started off with the flash series Cube Escape but has multiple steam games and is still going.

[@KestrelForever]

I really hope that some day I'll see Obliterate Everything 4 in one of these videos. OE3 was tremendous fun. Real-time strategy with some amazingly exciting random loot mechanics.

[@kabardino1337]

Damn! I'm super looking forward to this new Strike Force Heroes game. You have my support dev!

[@DementedDuskull]

Hope to see Robot Wants It All on here in the future.

[@flyingfist4203]

Yo I remember Alice is Dead! The song used in Alice is Dead 3 was fire!!!

[@mintz9782]

What about Rebuild 3? Based on the first two Rebuild games, it's a zombie apoc series and extremely well done played it a ton when I was younger and came back to it many times. What's crazy though is that Mastermind: World Conqueror another extremely well done strategy game is complex for being a flash game and could easily be it's own game, with tons of detail and different things to do and ways to do it. Surprised it rarely gets mentioned, not to mention it's voice acting which it has a lot of lines for being a flash game, isn't terrible either for the most part.

[@ColeGamesYT]

EBF LETS GOOO

[@ADudeWhoDo]

I hope you include the Epic war series in one of your videos

[@maxximumrockatansky7186]

I'm so excited for Hearts & Diamonds ! Alice is Dead was a game I absolutely loved as a kid, having watched TraskNari play it waaaaay back when, and I believe SirEldricIV did as well? Either way, my hype is real.

[@belyayevsfox4753]

I would love to see Pheonotopia featured either as part of this sub-series or its own Flashlight episode

[@NinetyEightAnims]

Never played strike force heroes but i played the game made by the same devs, raze 2 is one of the best flash games i ever played.

[@daitoray9876]

Hell Yeah! SFH is back while EBF has transitioned to Steam.

[@Pro-Diletante]

This was incredible BUT I definitely think you should talk about stick war because those games were my absolute favorites 😂 stick war was insane the voice acting and the world building the universe was so cool.

[@chrisnemec5644]

I really loved the EBF series. I was quite saddened when I saw on the gravestone in EBF V that read "Here lies EBF VI."

[@daitoray9876]

Matt probably wanted to take a break from EBF. It takes a while to make all these games.

[@chrisnemec5644]

@@daitoray9876 Possible.

[@zachoshark]

@@daitoray9876 back when he was just testing ebf 5, he wasnt even planning on making it a full game. Just a battle field for fun.

[@daitoray9876]

​@@zachosharkTrue.

[@Ignatuha]

Very nice video! But there is a little mistake in this video. Strike force heroes have more than 4 classes.:3

[@ninjacatcz]

1 - 4 classes 2 - 5 classes 3 - #? classes

[@avalancherelapse]

I'm glad to see so many EBF comments here. Looking forward to a full video on EBF!

[@yellowslotcar]

Just got back into ebf5 days before this vid lol

[@brightfire9631]

Hello 2 left thumbs I was curious have you ever heard of the old flash game series called thing-thing ? With your style of videos I would love to hear if you have something to say about that old series I just remember playing it during breaks while I was in school it’s such a fun shooter in my eyes and I have a lot of fond memories of it

[@2leftthumbs]

Thing-Thing was dope!! I haven't played all of them myself. They'll definitely be getting a shoutout in my Madness Flashlight pt 2 video, talking about the fandom and Madness community. And hopefully someday I can give them their very own episode :)

[@BearOldcastle]

You should check out boss 101, it had so much heart in it. It's a shoot em up, from newgrounds but didn't sell well enough on steam to get a sequel.

[@gotohime9685]

even i love matt n how his game somehow connect me with my best bud and scrip who i am to day , i kinna feel left down after i say that we cant have that sweeet sweet Natz Ultimate anymore

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

I would LOVE to see a return from Tequila Zombies

[@DragonQueen-ox8dk]

I remember that I first saw Alice is dead years ago bc I saw a video of Mark playing it and at first I thought it was madness returns Edit: also, I would love if you would do something with the learn to fly games! I adore them immensely and used to play them all the time!

[@AntiGrieferGames]

dude Motherload and Epic Battle Fantasy (Flash Version with copyright content) are my nostalgic Games back to 2010s. I dont know the other 3 Games on this video.

[@LukeDev_]

SFH remaster released and it's A M A Z I N G

[@icecoldmagic]

wait strike force hero's, ok must donate this is very much my favourite flash trilogy (i like 2D floaty mechanics)

[@Sr.Noob.]

I know this does not fit into this kind, but could you please talk about chaos faction 1 and 2? No new game has been made since 2015, and flash has died so both games cant be played. I have loved the game since 2017, and i dont want it to be forgotten. The video wouldnt be that long, only 7-9 mins, since the games dont have much. Hope you see this 2LeftThumps, and have a good day!

[@TheUKNutter]

Gemcraft would be my favourite flash game that made it to steam.

[@ShyrFormento]

I play the Ebf5 series all the time

[@dumiahbro]

If you ever do make a third video, one series I would recommend doing is the Papa Louie franchise

[@dzusik3760]

It works THANK YOU, THANK YOU i can finally play flash games again. ❤

[@jardex2275]

Just going to point out that just because a project has been fully funded doesn't mean you're guaranteed to get it. There have been just plenty of Kickstarter failures that don't deliver a product due to mismanagement or other factors. Pledging after they hit the goal just means that they will take your money at the end of the campaign. When judging a campaign, look at what they're promising, what budget they say they can do it with, what they plan to do for stretch goals, and the previous history of the creator. Make sure that they're well organized, and have a realistic vision for the money they raise.

[@markhegedus1981]

EBF 3-5 are honestly top 10 gamws for me. It may very well be nostalgia, but I just hoenstly think they're good games.

[@Fancy2209Real]

Sky9 Games could've migrated to a different IDE, Flex Builder isn't required

[@robertskitch]

19:34 One cool thing about the comparison between Motherload and Minecraft is how the former is actually an indirect inspiration for the latter: Zach Barth was inspired by Motherload when creating Infiniminer, and Infiniminer went on to be a central inspiration for Minecraft.

[@amandahood896]

I played bullet heaven on army games, and I got destroyed.

[@literallyjudas2157]

GOD finally some memtion of Raze!!! Im sure SFH is cool and good but Raze was my shit and I hope that get some of the same treatment.

[@МаликаХолбекова]

Who remember the Sword&Sandals?

[@Fancy2209Real]

Calling it FlashForward has one issue, the Game Jam

[@Nyazhi]

EBF LET'S GOOOOOOOOO idk if you can get it on ios but i played the shit out of it on my old phone

[@vasil417]

What about the sift heads series

[@drakekingblackheart5481]

sweet strike force is alive now to balance a challenge in strike force 2 i only beat becuse i clitch it

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Do you know of Adventure Quest?

[@ShadowWolfRising]

Can you cover Sonny?

[@colemccall6834]

Idk why the entire comment section became an ebf fanclub meeting but it's really funny and I like the game too so it's cool with me.

[@adnanalmusaher]

Anyone remember Randy's series (inspired from Ray) and kill gore (bull rampage kill humans) and tactical assassin(stick sniper)

[@2leftthumbs]

Hmm. I'm not sure I know Randy? I can't seem to find anything from googling it either

[@adnanalmusaher]

@@2leftthumbs It has two parts part 1 name is Randy's jailbreak and part 2 name is Randy's empire

[@2leftthumbs]

@@adnanalmusaher Thanks for the info!

[@adnanalmusaher]

@@2leftthumbs welcome