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Pieced Together – scrapbooking about your childhood.

Jupiter Hadley Aug 17, 2024 0

Cozy games, particularly ones with crafting aspects, are popping up more and more. This is great for me, personally, because these types of games are some of my favorite. Pieced Together is a cozy, scrapbooking puzzle game. You play as…

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Trash – Morph Your Character

Jupiter Hadley May 22, 2024 0

Although the idea of Trash may not be something you find appealing, Trash, the game, is about being in a world full of garbage and using different morphs on your character to overcome obstacles around you. This game is procedurally…

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Power Sink – Underwater Puzzles

Jupiter Hadley May 16, 2024 0

Go into the depths of the ocean, find various power orbs and connect them onto dodgy, old buildings to ensure that the colony has power. In Power Sink, that’s your job. As a little creature, you need to jump and sink your way through a…

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Nectarmancer takes modern roguelite platforming beyond the battlefield

Dann Sullivan Jul 27, 2023 0

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…

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Don Salmon is a platformer stuffed with fish-bouncing, air-dashing action

Dann Sullivan Jun 28, 2023 0

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,…

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Toy Tactics is approachable, wobbly miniature-strategy

Dann Sullivan Jun 27, 2023 0

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…

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Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold pits four players against the forces of evil

Dann Sullivan Jun 24, 2023 0

Co-op roguelite meets one of the Brothers Grimm's best-known stories in Seven Dwarfs: Legends Untold. Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, or the verb-y ones, are out though. Instead Surprised Turtles' dwarves have names that…

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Demon Spore places you right at the heart of a deadly contamination breach

Dann Sullivan Jun 8, 2023 0

I don't know about you, but one thing that I definitely don't want to find myself having to do the next time I'm at the office is fighting my way out of a laboratory that's being overrun by an expanding, deadly lab-created viral horror born…

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Munch is an evolutionary adventure of careful dodges and decisions

Dann Sullivan May 25, 2023 1

One of the most underused but effective design choices in action games (and cleverly used in puzzle games) is a transforming and evolving main character. In Munch it's core to the action-adventure experience. Imagine yourself as a blob, or…

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Circle of Kerzoven is a city builder about balancing ecology and economy

Dann Sullivan May 20, 2023 0

Setting up frontier settlements is probably already hard enough as it is, but in Circle of Kerzoven you also need to factor in the fact that the weather, flora and fauna are all set on following their own patterns regardless of your plans.…