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Shattered Heaven – Shattered Heaven is a place on Earth
Shattered Heaven does the classic RPG thing of asking you to fight monsters, get stronger, and kill a god. I had a good old time with the Shattered Heaven preview build earlier in the year. Mechanically it was quite excellent and the art…
SurMount is two player, climbing fun
SurMount is a physics-based platformer that allows you and a friend to take on climbing a massive mountain together! You can also play single player mode, but when I spent some time with SurMount at GDC, I wanted to focus on the two player…
Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar gives you the chance to succeed where InGen failed
If you've ever watched any of the Jurassic Park series and thought to yourself, "I could do this much better," then Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar might just be one for you. The much-loved Jurrasic Park series is one that's…
Nectarmancer takes modern roguelite platforming beyond the battlefield
Subversion is to game design as plot twists are to narrative, not necessary ingredients, but when done well they can completely transform a game into something that'll live on through player memory and conversation for years. Nectarmancer…
Viewfinder – Snapshot solutions
In each puzzle, you use photographs to manipulate the environment in order to reach a teleporter. By holding up a polaroid photo in front of you and clicking, that photo becomes part of the world. It’s hard to describe just how amazing this…
Tracks of Thought is a narrative-driven, card battling game
Tracks of Thought is an adorable, charming game about being a little bug, looking to have a lovely train ride. Your day was off to a bit of a hard start, as you had nearly missed your train just to find that it was actually delayed. There…
Popmaster Card Game challenges your pop music knowledge
Now, I am not someone who knows much trivia generally, but I do find it fun to try out trivia games when hanging out with my friends! The Popmaster Card Game is a pocket-sized trivia game that focuses on pop music. I like listening to pop…
A Little to the Left: Cupboards and Drawers – Bang tidy!
Now we have the Cupboards and Drawers DLC, which implies that you’ll be tidying and organising cupboards and drawers. There are actually far more different things to organise in the thirty included levels, but there are a lot of closets and…
Layers of Fear – Scary Content Creators
Rather than being a direct remake of the two games, Layers of Fear tries to tie the events of these games together. This rerelease of sorts wraps the games into an overarching narrative of a writer who has been sent to an isolated…
Manic Mechanics challenges you to quickly repair cars in chaos.
Summer is in the air, so it feels like a good time to release couch co-op games for us to play with our families during the summer holiday! Manic Mechanics is one of these chaotic, fun, co-op games where you must fix up various vehicles as…
Sticky Business lets you open your own little shop
Simulators have allowed people to take on a variety of different roles, adapting when new jobs seem to appear or come into existence here and there. Sticky Business allows players to start up their own sticker shop, where they can create…
Pan Am The Game challenges you to build routes faster than Pan Am themselves, for profit
For a game called Pan Am The Game you'd not be silly to think that you might be controlling the titular company as they expand their network of flights across the world, however here you and up to three others have to outpace Pan Am for…
Fishbowl showcases a young women’s first time living alone.
Moving out of your family home, away from your comfort zone, to a new town when starting a new job is already a daunting task. In Fishbowl, it’s also the start of everyone needing to stay home and work from home (though it does not state it…
A Building Full of Cats – Hello Kitty
There are roughly fifty cats on each floor, many of which are easy to spot, but with a good number that will require a more thorough scouring of the environment. Each one is a fairly simple design, but this feels deliberate so that they…
Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition – Gotta go fast!
The afterburner is great fun when you’re flying through tight tunnels, as you reach Ludicrous Speed instantly, resulting in you hurtling along and probably pinballing off the walls as you go.
Troublemaker: Raise Your Gang has you balancing fight clubs and highschool.
If you are a fan of the fighting style in Sega's Yakuza series, then indie game Troublemaker which takes inspiration from Yakuza but allows you to play as a highschooler, might be one to check out. Troublemaker: Raise Your Gang is an…
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is the smartest game in the room
I know that we're a little late with this one, but it's hard to not want to tell somebody about Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate after you've played it... and, I'm guessing, you've maybe not played it. So now I'm going to tell you why you…
Don Salmon is a platformer stuffed with fish-bouncing, air-dashing action
With so many platformers coming out every year, it's hard for one to stand out. Don Salmon manages to do that by fusing elements of both horizontal and vertical platformers with a beautiful lilac and green-led colour palette. Godot Engine,…
Toy Tactics is approachable, wobbly miniature-strategy
Toy Tactics is a tabletop twist on real-time tactics, complete with goofy physics, and pieces that wobbly rather than march. The biggest problem with a game genre having had its heyday a few decades back is that there's always a massive…
Night of Frights! Game brings Five Nights at Freddies to your kitchen table
Five Nights at Freddies is a popular game that has done well over the years, so of course getting a board game adaptation is something that makes sense and can keep interest and can continue to bring the game to life! Night of Frights! Game…