Browsing Category
Video Games
Wooden Nickel sees you living through newspapers in the wild west
Wooden Nickel, by the developers of Burly Men at Sea, takes you into a simplistic looking wild west, where you can explore loads of strange adventures. This narrative adventure puts you in the shoes of a traveller, looking to explore the…
Riddled Corpses EX — Surprisingly few riddles
Riddled Corpses EX expects you to fight and die over and over until you’ve collected enough gold to power up your character to the point that they are able to overcome the challenge.
Starstruck — Music and giant hands
Starstruck, a game completely set within a miniature diorama, sees you both following music and becoming a giant hand. In a game where everything looks like clay, you can play as Dawn or Edwin, two children whose lives are tied with the…
Stellaris: Console Edition — Galactic conquest
In 2456 they awoke. Whilst I had always known of their palpable hatred for humankind, I had never known the true wrath of the Bruggan Zealots, nor faced them in battle. For two hundred and fifty years they had watched, seething at us with…
Melon Journey 2 — But what’s hidden beneath the surface?
Melon Journey 2 takes you into a retro-themed RPG where you play a young animal character, whose world is seemingly wonderful. However, in Froach Club’s Melon Journey 2, not all is as cute and charming as it seems. Your character is looking…
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong is a physics puzzler about ski resorts
Apparently, ski lifts can go very wrong very easily...
Shump is an explosive vertical platformer with a few neat tricks
Blast your way to the top in Shump, a juicy, three-button, shoot-‘em-up platformer. Shump, from Alex Johansson, is an effort created to solve a problem the creator saw in the vertical platformer sub-genre: ‘They often feel clumsy and…
Audica — Musical Action Hero
Audica is one of those magical games that you play when you get home from work, find a smidge of free time after class or just play until its 3 AM in the morning.
11 purr-fect games full of cats
I am massively allergic to cats. I can’t really be near them for long without getting a stuffed up nose, streaming eyes, and a dry throat. With that said, I’ve always found their relaxed nature, lack of worries (like taxes), and demand for…
Balloonbound is a same-screen brawler fought between floating foes
Soar like an eagle (an unconscious eagle lashed to a helium balloon) as you try to send your friends spiralling to the ground in Balloonbound. Perhaps the best way to describe Balloonbound, from Awkward Silence Games, is how they did it on…
Destiny or Fate preview — Embracing the challenge
If you enjoy roguelike titles then one combined with the fun of deck-building might peak your interest. Developer Blaster’s Steam Early Access title, Destiny or Fate, is the combination of these two genres. Set within a fantasy world this…
Elli — Practicing Magic
Elli, by BandanaKid, is a puzzle platformer starring a girl named Elli who needs to recover the Crystals of Time before the end of her birthday.
Disobedient Sheep is a survival sheep-herding simulator filled with anvils and bombs
Counting sheep might be a perfect way to get to sleep, but keeping disobedient sheep in line when there are anvils and more falling from the sky is anything but relaxing. Disobedient Sheep, from SicklyDove Games, is a frantic game about…
Snowtopia — Management… on ice!
Okay maybe it's on snow, not ice. That but doesn't stop it being any less fun!
The Battle of Polytopia is 4X excellence condensed into 30 minutes
Cross oceans, irrigate lands and conquer the world, all in about thirty minutes. The Battle of Polytopia is a 4X game designed in a clean, accessible manner, working as a perfect introduction to genre beginners and a bitesize challenge for…
Farm Together — A slow paced farming game
Get away from it all with Farm Together, a farming game with real-time countdowns, allowing you to dip in-and-out of your farmstead efforts. Farm Together, by Milkstone Studios, looks like a cuter version of Farmville, as though somebody…
Recompile sees players as a semi-malicious code in a sprawling, 3D, computer landscape
Within The Mainframe one can have unlimited power and explore how they wish, if they can master the ability to recompile the code around them. In Recompile, from Phigames, players take on the role of an anomaly avatar in the machine. Its a…
Make The Burger — What are we doing?
Who put me in charge? Why must I Make the Burger?
Free Games of the Fortnight — Sad days, slot machines, & Sokoban
A big variety, all for free.
Frost — Surviving the storm
Everything is ice. You just want to get to the refuge, but the land is tough and the Frost is coming. In Frost, you are looking to make it through 40 days on foot — hoping to make it with your fellow survivors to the refuge ahead. To make…