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It has been over twenty years since N, the Flash-coded ninja platformer, first appeared in browsers, and now its back with more party modes as N Plus Infinity Times Two. Whether you played the original - still available - N, in 2004, or…

While at Brilliant Indie Treasures earlier in the year, Superpower Racing immediately caught my attention, and it wasn't just me, as there was a small group of people around already actively trying to improve on a best time set by the…

Chai: Tea for 2 is a game all about shipping, processing, and delivering tea as you duel against someone who is attempting to do exactly the same for their own customers. It's a more complex game than a cup of tea would be, but one that…

Five Elements Chess takes the purity of match-3 gameplay and applies elemental countering principles to make a fantastic, easy to learn and hard to master strategy game. By this point I think that most people understand the interplay…

When the team that are best known for taking over the helm of Minecraft announce that they're working on a new sandbox, exploration game, people would be right to sit up and listen. That's Reforj, and even this early in its own journey,…

As the Expeditions series moves into its teens, Expeditions: Samurai shows how it has gone from strength to strength. Now onto its fourth entry, the Expeditions series has always felt like it was following along with trends rather than…

Take on the role of interplanetary repair technicians in Crewcial, a co-op game for up to four players that's all about communication and careful throws. When it comes to co-operative games, one of the most important elements is…

Slot or Not is a roguelite luck based game that has you choose your items and throw them into a classic slot machine to see if you’ll be hitting big or striking out and having to restart your run.  In the current build of Slot or Not you…

What if every moment that you've lived suddenly became a blink in history? Project ReMind puts you in the shoes of an inventor who creates the world's first truly sentient AI and the centuries that they explore as a result. Red Hog Studio's…

Tempest Rising has you step into the boots of one of two factions locked in a never ending war that's revolving around one resource; Tempest. Deploy troops, fight your enemies, gather resources and build bases all to try and come out on…

Pigeon: A Love Story captures that feeling of looking for a specific book in a bookshop, or being surrounded by friends but feeling alone. In it you take on the role of a faceless pigeon, soaring above a skyline amid tens of thousands of…

Ah, the open road. As far as I can tell, there's no word for the feeling that overcomes you when you're travelling from place to place, at speed, just taking the world in. Garbage Country hits that exact note, all while also being a…

There's a lot of games that put you into the role of a thief or a bandit, but I've never played anything that's allowed me to steal anything near the obscene amount I've stolen in Bandit Knight. Pickpocketing and stealing in open-world RPGs…

There is something about anachronistic sci-fi games that I find incredibly compelling, but I didn't realise that, for all my love for games like Duskers, Fabular and The Long Journey Home, what I really needed was a dungeon crawler dressed…

Explore the world and fight back the forces of evil in a clever twist on retro RPGs as you try to recover the Crystals of Irm. Crystals of Irm is a fascinating twist on classic RPGs, combining three different screen layout styles into a…

I attended New Game Plus, where The Florist caught my eye. It immediately put me into the mind of the original Silent Hill and Resident Evil games, of which I’m absolutely a die hard fan of, so I eagerly asked if I could give it a go. 

Culdcept Begins is a long-awaited prequel to the Sega Saturn game Culdcept, featuring magic, monsters and a whole lot of dice rolls. In it, you duke it out against an opponent to gather magic and rack up enough points to clear the board, …

Personally, I’m a sucker for games with animal protagonists; I really don’t know why they grab me so much, but that’s exactly what led me to queuing up to try EMITime. While in the queue, I got chatting to the developer working on the game…

Rewilders: The Lost Spring comes to us from Herobeat Games, a company previously responsible for BAFTA winning title Endling. With an impressive reward under their belt, they’ve clearly continued their streak of carefully crafted worlds…

GodsTV is set in a future where gods have decided to make their very own game show - and fame is your currency and power to win. Styled as a roguelike RPG, each run is an episode of this sick and twisted show. On showcase today for me were…