Alpha Beta Spotlight

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

Fractal Sailor – Tech Demo

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Fractal Sailor is an atmospheric horror game where you pilot a ship through a shifting fractal sea that;s home to a giant eldritch monster.

In Fractal Sailor you are a ship captain whose job is to refuel and reactivate the various stations that mine rare resources from the fractal sea. You can sail around in any direction (including vertically), and you use a radar pulse … Read More

One S’More – Beta Demo

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One S’More is a wonderfully wholesome and creative puzzle game where you guide a marshmallow around watery levels to create s’mores.

The goal in each level is to manoeuvre the crackers and your little marshmallow in such a way that the marshmallow is next to two chocolate crackers – at which point you get a cute little animation of the three parts becoming a tasty … Read More

POOLS – Beta Demo

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POOLS is an eerie liminal space exploration game where you traverse labyrinthine pool systems, willed with interesting sights and uncanny mystery.

Drawing inspiration from Jared Pike’s Dream Pools artwork, POOLS is a beautiful exploration game that strips away music, monsters and dialogue, to leave you with an immersive liminal space experience. The demo features one of the planned six chapters to explore, each of which … Read More

Shadows of the Afterland – Alpha Demo

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Shadows of the Afterland is a Lucasarts inspired pixel art point and click adventure where a recently deceased woman attempts to figure out why she can remember the future.

In Shadows of the Afterland you follow the story of a woman who suffers from a mysterious death while at a zoo in 1960s Madrid. She has now arrived in the afterlife as a ghost, but … Read More

Turbo Kid – Beta Demo

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Turbo Kid is a brutal 2D metroidvania adventure where a BMX-riding hero with a “Turbo Glove™” sets out to cross a wasteland filled with mutants, robots and criminals.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer a couple of years ago Turbo Kid is a BMXing metroidvania that acts as a sequel to the original Turbo Kid movie. It follows on directly after the events of the … Read More