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Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition – Making a monks meal of it
For the most part, Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is the exact same game, but at a much higher resolution and with an uncapped framerate, which is a good thing considering how insanely fast the gameplay is. That does mean that the…
Born of Bread – Born today, yet causing chaos!
A one day old bread golem is an unlikely hero, but any hero will have to do when a massive plot lasting over the last few thousand years suddenly plays out.. You're right in the middle fo it, and it’s up to you to save the world! Born of…
Death of the Reprobate – Earn your fortune
From the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary comes a new, point and click adventure game full of humor, with the style of Renaissance paintings. If you enjoyed the developer's previous two games, you will surely enjoy…
Antstream Arcade – What is this? A streaming service for ants?!
There’s a lot on offer with Antstream Arcade. Currently there’s over 1400 games on the service, all of which are legitimately available through licensing deals. That’s a hell of a lot of games, and they stretch across a fairly significant…
Moving Out 2 feels like a huge upgrade
It is not a secret that I am a huge fan of local multiplayer games, especially ones that can be played with younger children like my daughter Robin, so that the whole family can join in on the action. After nearly 100 percenting Moving Out,…
Sea of Thieves: Voyage of Legends – Finding treasure
Given the large variation in events, voyages and fortune combinations; the replayability for those enjoying what Sea of Thieves has to offer is fairly high and subsequent games will keep players entertained
The Repair House – Fix a mixer
Anyway, you’ll receive a number of products, ranging from coffee grinders and pipe cutters to games consoles and arcade cabinets, and your job will be to replace broken parts and occasionally clean up or repaint them. Get them fixed and…
Little Friends: Puppy Island lets you create a pup paradise
As a child, I remember playing Nintendogs on Nintendo DS. Caring for my own virtual dogs when my parents wouldn’t let me have the commitment of raising one in the real world. Little Friends: Puppy Island has the same sort of vibes, but…
Animal Well is a stunning metroidvania
Animal Well sees you exploring a beautiful, glowing world of strange plants, interesting creatures, and different caverns. You play as a little blob, exploring this world on your own, seeing what abilities you can end up with and how to get…
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…