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17 wonderful games from the Steam Summer Sale
It's that time of year again. Steam has put so many games on sale, and all so that you can fill up your library just as school lets out and summer begins. We have a few suggestions of what to grab in this massive sale to help you get…
Wind Up has you battling tiny wooden robots.
Tiny robots, each hoping to be the best toy of all, fighting it out between them. Wind Up is a local multiplayer game where two to four players each take the form of little wooden robots, fighting it out against each other on top of a…
Signs of the Sojourner — Symbolic Connections
Since the birth of languages, humans have been using symbols representative of the various meanings around them. From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, to Chinese logograms to more modern innovations like Klingon, language is, and always will…
Chocobo Party Up! — Goofy birds needing a guide
I’m going to start off this article by stating that I have never played Final Fantasy before. I don’t really know what a Chocobo is. But, when I saw Chocobo Party Up! at UKGE 2019, I loved the look of the little birds in their land and so…
Bon Appetit! — Delectable bidding
You've been invited to one of the most fancy restaurants in the world. Being such an exclusive restaurant, however, you’ll need to bid on your food with gems. In Bon Appetit! you are looking to get the most points by bidding on the best…
Verdungeon — A dice rolling roguelike
When it comes to dice rolling, I rarely play video games that allow me to roll dice within them. I tend to think of it as more of a tabletop affair. However, Verdungeon combines board game concepts and turn-based roguelikes together to make…
Mobsters — A prohibition take on an old classic
Mobsters is designed as one simple thing: Monopoly, but good. Monopoly is one of the most well-known board games ever created, but a great many gamers would describe it as being... less than brilliant. Well, the folks at Original Content…
Mutropolis — An archeologyst’s mystery
Point and click adventure game Mutropolis takes you into a dig site full of some old stuff to be discovered and some strange new items to check out. Mutropolis is a pixel art, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic adventure — and that’s a lot of words…
EdgeFlip is a sliding-puzzle game in a beautiful cuboid world
Explore a world of sliding tiles and peculiar puzzles in EdgeFlip, a game which challenges you to wonder about a world which functions like a Rubix Cube. Lume Studios' EdgeFlip was an unexpected delight, especially as I don't normally spend…
Dogfight through the skies in Wingy Shooter
Epic dogfighting in the sky always makes for an intense time. In Wingy Shooter, you’ll get to participate in a blocky, 3D war full of boss fights and bullets. Despite the silly name, Wingy Shooter is a pretty intense mobile game. You are…
Sensor Ghosts — A deadly journey across uncharted space
Sensor Ghosts is a one to three player cooperative game in which you must guide a ship safely through a dangerous sector of space and back to Earth without being destroyed.
Adventure Mart — Running a magical grocery store
Ever wondered where magical beings get all of their lovely equipment before going on an adventure? Well, Adventure Mart answers that question. Adventure Mart is a bidding and deck-building game with a colorful, yet adorable, look to it.…
Cyberpet Graveyard lets you probe the haunted history of a desktop-pet company
Companies rise and fall. In Cyberpet Graveyard you explore decommissioned cyber pets and find out all about the final days of their creators. Alienmelon's Cyberpet Graveyard is a fun little horror experience which plays out through your…
Crazy Platez — Delivering Rochester’s local delicacy
I grew up near Rochester, NY and know about their local delicacy, fittingly called the Garbage Plate. This dish contains your choice of meat over some combination of home fries, french fries, baked beans and/or macaroni salad — basically…
Save the planet and save the cats in action-platformer Catpocalypse Meow.
'Save the kitties! Save the world!' — that's the goal in Catpocalypse Meow, a Saturday morning cartoon style platformer. Catpocalypse Meow, from FraxelGames, truly captures the 90s Cartoon Network style, with colour-coded, kid superheroes…
Sailor Cats — Fishing up supplies, but not fish
Adorable mobile games are now being advertised to me as I thumb through the iOS store pages. I’m a real sucker for something cute, even if it’s just an idle game, and I normally I end up downloading said cute games and playing around with…
Bring life to the world around you by instilling it with the essence of real objects in Moments
A slice of space and five objects are all you have to work with to change the world in Moments. What with all of the tools that are out there to help people create games, it's easier to create games now than it ever has been. However,…
Omicron Protocol — CyMS City
There are no shortage of new games on Kickstarter these days and miniatures games are among the most frequent among them. A recent launch that caught my eye is Omicron Protocol, which is a team based skirmish game that takes place on a hex…
Tussie Mussie — The Secret Language of Flowers
With the success of Wingspan, the critically acclaimed board game on birds, Elizabeth Hargrave’s latest foray is into the late Victorian fad of Tussie Mussie; miniature bouquets of flowers given to friends, family, lovers and all in…
The Gristmill sees you making decisions for the good of your team
I don’t play tactical games often, nor do I play deck building games, but something about The Gristmill really stood out to me. Apart from the grimhand drawn graphics, it is a game which is extremely unforgiving when it comes to the health…