Alpha Beta Spotlight

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

Beyond the Thaw – Alpha Demo

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Beyond the Thaw is a tense and atmospheric cinematic horror adventure where a snowmobile crash leaves you stranded in a snowy wilderness filled with dark nightmarish creatures.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer when it was a game jam prototype, Beyond the Thaw is now benign expanded into a full game with more nightmarish monsters to hunt you through the snow. In the game … Read More

Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View – Beta Demo

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Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is a voyeuristic thriller that draws inspiration from Rear Window, as a wheelchair-bound private investigator searches for a missing young girl who may have been taken by any of his neighbors.

Currently in development by Sold Out (creators of The Occupation and Ether One), Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is an observational thriller where you investigate the disappearance … Read More

CONSCRIPT – Beta Demo

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CONSCRIPT is a very intense retro survival horror adventure set in the trenches of Verdun during the First World War.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer a little over a year ago, CONSCRIPT is a dark and gritty survival horror adventure that puts you in the shoes of a lone French soldier during the First World War. It draws inspiration from classic survival horror … Read More

How I Learned to Skate – Beta Demo

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How I Learned to Skate is a delightful and incredibly challenging top-down ice-skating game where you attempt to navigate a beautiful frozen lake without bumping into anything.

In How I Learned to Skate you control a little boy who is learning how to skate on a large frozen lake. The game features a semi-QWOP-like control scheme that allows you to control the movement of each … Read More

ILLWILL – Alpha Demo

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ILLWILL is a wonderfully squelchy old school first person shooter with big guns and monsters that explode into chunks of meat and blood when you blast them.

Drawing inspiration from DOOM, Quake, Blood and Serious Sam, ILLWILL is a very stylish and comedically brutal old school boomer shooter. It’s still early in development so there’s no story in place at the moment, but it … Read More