Calum Fraser

Founder of Alpha Beta Gamer and all round video game enthusiast, especially quirky indies. Been playing games since the zx spectrum days, and aware that we're now in the golden days of video gaming. Part human, part wookie, far hairier than any human should be. Favorite game of all time has to be Super Mario World, closely followed by Super Mario Bros (still got a soft spot for Nintendo). Catch me at @hairycodemonkey

Antarctica NWYD – Alpha Demo

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Antarctica NWYD is a beautifully animated pixel art Sci-Fi horror adventure that draws inspiration from John Carpenter’s The Thing, as you investigate a mysteriously deserted research facility in the Antarctic.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer back in 2021, in Antarctica NWYD you are a lone operative who has been sent to check up on the crew of an Antarctic research facility. The last … Read More

Railbound – Beta Demo

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Railbound is a wholesome railway themed grid-based puzzle game where you attempt to lay tracks so that the numbered carriages will connect to the train in the right order.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the Beta sign up, Railbound is an easily accessible, addictive and tricky little train-based puzzle game. In each level your aim is to lay your limited amount of … Read More

Impasto – Beta Download

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Impasto is a beautiful painterly stealth horror adventure set within a twisted world painted by the tormented Spanish artist Francisco Goya.

Currently in development by a group of students from the University of Southern California, Otis College of Art and Design and California State University, Impasto puts you in the shoes of Francisco Goya’s grandson as he ventures into his grandfather’s dark and twisted painted … Read More

How to Say Goodbye – Beta Demo

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How to Say Goodbye is a stylish and poignant narrative-driven puzzle adventure where you move characters and objects around the afterlife by sliding the rows of tiles below them.

In How to Say Goodbye your character has recently died and turned into a ghost. You’re now trapped in a strange liminal space between life and death that’s home to ghoulish spirits called Spleens, and also … Read More

Loopmancer – Beta Demo

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Loopmancer is a beautiful and brutal cyberpunk roguelike action adventure with a Groundhog Day-esque time-loop where you start the day over each time you die.

In Loopmancer you are a detective who has been sent on an assignment to find a journalist who has gone missing. However, it won’t be easy as the streets are crawling with thugs, gangsters and mutants, none of which … Read More