Alpha Beta Spotlight

Personal favorite Alpha and Beta tests of Alpha Beta Gamer and all round awesome games.

Hourglass – Kickstarter Demo

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Hourglass is a beautiful, chilled out first person puzzle platforming adventure where you work alongside previous recordings of yourself to solve puzzles in a mysterious ancient world.

Drawing inspiration from Portal, The Witness and Rime, in Hourglass you take on the role of a young adventurer whose archaeologist father has gone missing in Egypt. After tracking down his last location you discover a … Read More

Hodor Story – Game Jam Build

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Hodor Story is a fun little Game of Thrones based puzzle game where you help Hodor communicate with his friends by saying “Hodor” in different pitches of musical note.

There’s little doubt that Hodor was one of the best characters in Game of Thrones, but the fact that he could only say one word (his name), meant that communicating with his friends could be … Read More

UNDEFEATED – Student Game

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UNDEFEATED is essentially a perfect blueprint of how to make a great Superman game, allowing you to swoop around a large open city, fighting crime, saving civilians and battling dangerous supervillains.

Considering he’s one of DC’s most famous superheroes and that Batman has had a surprising amount of great games, it’s amazing how bad the official Superman games have been. Step forward UNDEFEATED, a … Read More

Sense 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story – Steam Alpha Demo

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Sense 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a beautifully drawn Anime styled horror puzzle adventure where choices matter as you piece together the stories of 14 lost souls and learn the truth of your own family’s curse.

Drawing inspiration from Clock Tower, Fatal Frame and traditional Cantonese folklore, Sense 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story follows the story of a young woman called Mei, as she … Read More

Static End – Game Jam Build

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Static End is a creepy and atmospheric PS1 styled first person horror game where you waste time in your apartment as it decays around you and a massive Lovecraftian monstrosity enslaves the world.

You spend the entirety of Static End inside your apartment, afraid to go out because of the cosmic horrors that are happening out there. That’s not to say that some of those … Read More