Alpha Beta Spotlight

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

Beacon Pines – Kickstarter Demo

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Beacon Pines is a beautiful, touching and surprisingly sinister narrative-driven adventure where words really matter as you use them to alter the story of a cute little deer and his friends as a darkness enters their idyllic storybook world.

Billed as “Winnie the Pooh meets Twin Peaks”, Beacon Pines is a narrative-driven adventure that takes place within the pages of a mysterious magical … Read More

Time Loader – Beta Demo

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Time Loader is a beautifully crafted narrative-driven physics-based puzzle platforming adventure where a little wheeled robot is sent back to the 90’s to prevent a terrible accident.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer in May last year, Time Loader is a physics-based puzzle adventure where a robot is sent back to the 90’s to prevent an accident that left its creator wheelchair-bound for life. … Read More

GigaSword – Alpha Demo

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GigaSword is a beautifully animated retro styled puzzle action platforming metroidvania where your sword is so huge that it weighs you down and you need to relinquish it a times to aid your progress.

In GigaSword your sword is a great asset, but also a hindrance – it packs one hell of a hit and it can be used to activate machinery, but it’s so … Read More

Grapple Hoops – Prototype Download

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Grapple Hoops is essentially the most extreme basketball game ever created, which blends speed-running, grappling hooks, parkour and explosions as you race through its levels and slam dunk in style.

In each level of Grapple Hoops your aim is to get the basketball in the net as fast as possible. Dunking the ball is fairly easy, but getting to the hoop is another thing altogether! … Read More

SUPER IS HOT – Game Jam Build Download

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SUPER IS HOT is a fantastic mashup of Baba is You and SUPERHOT, where time (among other things) only moves when you tell it to!

Created for the 7dfps 2020 game jam, SUPER IS HOT fuses Baba is You with SUPERHOT to create a FPS puzzler where you make and break the rules. The game looks very much like SUPERHOT and would play exactly … Read More