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Jam Favorites: Toy Box Jam
There are a ton of game jams happening online at any point during the year. Many of these jams follow a theme and a timeframe, giving developers the challenge of creating a game within a specific jam’s restrictions. I record loads of these…
In Death and Taxes your day job is ensuring the right people die
You're Spawn 99, AKA The Grim Reaper, working for Fate themselves. Your job in Death and Taxes is simple, decide which people in awful situations don't quite make it through. Placehodler Gamerworks' presskit says that Death and Taxes has…
Blubber Busters asks you to ‘Save the Space Whales’
Blubber Busters is an odd take on the story of Pinocchio and Monstro, but a welcome tail, regardless.
30 Birds requires your eyes and ears to solve a fresh, age-old mystery
In a giant floating city made of giant lanterns, Zig makes their way through folding cities and twisted alleyways — exploring the city of mortals and djinn — to try and find the 30 birds. I don't know about you, but sometimes I look at art…
Tick Tock: A Tale for Two is a co-operative mystery game like no other
Co-operative gaming has been getting a renaissance of late, but Tick Tock: A Tale for Two takes local co-operative and applies it to the puzzle genre in a fantastic way. Same screen gaming has been making a massive comeback over the last…
Inspector Waffles challenges you to solve the murder of the cat who didn’t land on his feet.
It all starts when a falling cat doesn't land on their feet. There are not many people out there who would have wanted Fluffy dead, but it's up to Inspector Waffles to figure out who is responsible for the murder. Inspector Waffles is a…
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is a tough graphic adventure game in the spirit of the classics
Following the death of her grandfather, Crowns and Pawns' Milda is expected to embrace her newly discovered family secret and embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the story of 'the king who was never crowned'. There are dozens of types of…
Operation Armstrong — Co-op sneaky sneaky
One of my favourite games on show last year at Pax, Operation Armstrong is an amazing asymmetric stealth/haxor game where one person in a VR headset is an elite secret agent sneaking through a robot infested moon base to complete your…
Go from rocks to detective in The Crimson Diamond
The Crimson Diamond is an EGA text parser adventure game where you play as a trainee geologist turn detective called Nancy Maple. Nancy Maple is simply sent up north to a ghost town called Crimson in Ontario. There has been a massive…
Spacing yourself in Heavenly Bodies!
Have you ever clonked your partner in the head with a spanner which you were also using to propel yourself? No? Well firstly, your weekends sound very boring and two, now you can! In Heavenly Bodies you and a friend are old school…
Kogarashi has you fighting ice with fire.
Exploring a beautiful environment with your flaming sword in hand, Kogarashi, a student project made by a team while they attended DigiPen Institute of Technology, Bilbao, has you fighting your way through frozen enemies. Kogarashi is a…
Play as Chaos Causing Hillbillies in Clodhoppers
I love the look of claymation, so when I saw Clodhoppers at GAMAYO, it peaked my interest. Upon further inspection, I found that the game has you play as a variety of hillbillies who are all fighting each other in various multiplayer…
Speaking Simulator allows you to pretend to be human
Wailing and flagellating with your tongue
Alder’s Blood — XCOM with more stealth
The art and animation is wonderfully dark, evoking an almost Lovecraftian meets steampunk Wild West feeling. If you took the creature design from Bloodborne and put it into the world of Hard West then you might be heading in the right…
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi leaves you lost in the jungle
When working for a boss who has no care for you, your safety or even paying you, it’s hard to actually want to go to your job. But when money is very much needed, you’ll have to go. In Sumatra: Fate of Yandi — a narrative adventure game…
Nintendo Indie World Showcase — Hot Picks
We take a quick look at the Nintendo Indie World showcase and choose some of the hottest picks!
Yes, Your Grace — Royal Pixel Management
Yes, Your Grace mixes RPG and management elements with a colorful pixelated look. You are the king in his castle, lord of Davern, husband, and father to three daughters.
Because We’re Here has you dating during the war.
There is a huge flux of dating games out there lately; and thanks to that you can now date swords, fridges and all manner of spooky creatures. But, rather than romanable kitchen appliances, Because We’re Here takes you back to the early…
Megaquarium — Making money hand over fish
How hard can it be to put a few goldfish in a bowl and charge people to look at it?
Ghost Grab 3000 is about leashing and busting ghosts
In Ghost Grab 3000 ghosts are flooding the screen, and the only way to beat them is to grapple, chain and zap them.