Alpha Beta Spotlight

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

Baby Steps – Beta Demo

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Baby Steps is a wonderfully ridiculous physics-based QWOP-like where an unemployed loser learns to put one foot in front of the other.

Currently in development by the creators of APE OUT and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Baby Steps is a literal walking simulator with plenty of physics-based mayhem. The game follows the story of a young(ish) man called Nate, who has no … Read More

Holstin – Beta Demo

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Holstin is a very cool perspective-shifting psychological survival horror game set in a 90’s Poilsh town that’s infested with a mysterious light-phobic ooze.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer in 2023, Holstin sees you searching for a missing friend in a Polish town that’s been overrun with an infectious ooze that’s turning people into zombie-like monsters. It has old school survival horror gameplay (puzzles, … Read More

CLEARED HOT – Beta Demo

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CLEARED HOT is a Desert Strike inspired isometric helicopter combat game with an entertaining story and plenty of physics-based carnage.

In CLEARED HOT you are a dishonorably discharged military pilot who ends up back in the fight again in the cockpit of customizable helicopters across diverse environments including desert, jungle, and arctic terrains. The game plays a lot like the classic (Desert) Strike… Read More

Gloomy Eyes – Beta Demo

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Gloomy Eyes is a beautiful narrative driven dark poetic adventure where a zombie boy and a human girl set out to find the sun in a permanently dark world.

An adaptation of the 2020 VR experience, Gloomy Eyes is a cinematic third person puzzle adventure set in a world where the sun has stopped rising. The game is played out via large and beautifully crafted … Read More

Dispatch – Beta Demo

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Dispatch is a narrative-driven superhero workplace comedy from the creators of The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us.

In Dispatch, players step into the shoes of Robert Robertson (Mecha Man), whose destroyed mech-suit forces him into a desk job at a superhero dispatch center, managing reformed supervillains while secretly rebuilding his armor. As in the classic TellTale games, … Read More