Help! is a stylish and super tough pixel art top down shooter in which you play a lone gunman who sets out to save his girlfriend from a gang of deadly outlaws with only your sixgun and a steady aim to protect you.

Help! is a very tough game that rewards patience and precision instead of just running in guns blazing. You aim is to … Read More

Unreal Engine 4 Zelda is an incredible fan project by cryZENx, that recreates various scenes across the Zelda series using the power of Unreal Engine 4.

The scenes that you can play are very much tech demos, so there’s not much in the way of gameplay, but visually it’s incredible. The scenes available in the current build include a battle with dark link, a pot … Read More

Slime Rancher is a unique blend of farming and first person shooting in which your gun acts as a vacuum cleaner, sucking in slime ball creatures and other resources and blowing them out in your fully customizable ranch.

You play as Beatrix LeBeau, an optimistic young rancher who is determined to scratch a living on a remote planet, a thousand light years from earth.  The … Read More

ASTRAY is a first-person survival horror game that follows in the footsteps of the minimalistic horror hit Slender: The Eight Pages.

The game begins just after your trusty dog, Trigger, runs away during your evening hike through the forest. With only a faint light and a camera flash to illuminate your path, you must try to find your dog… and whatever creature caught his attention.… Read More

Rocket Fist is fun new multiplayer arena combat game that plays a little like a top down version of Nidhogg and dodgeball, with you firing rocket propelled fists at each other in wonderfully chaotic battles.

Played with one to four players, each player starts the game armed with a single rocket fist and must choose their shots wisely.  Once you fire it you have … Read More

Slipstream is a fun OutRun-inspired retro pseudo3D checkpoint racer in which you race at high speeds across on a course with branching pathways across a variety of exotic locations.

We’ve covered a few fabulous retro racers on Alpha Beta Gamer recently (Drift Stage & Power Drive 2000), but Slipstream feels like the most authentic retro racer yet.  Power Drive 2000 may be … Read More

Crimea is a great looking strategic RPG set in a post apocalyptic future full of radiation and mutants which combines real time free roaming with X-COM style turn based combat.

You and two very handy AI companions roam the wasteland in real-time, collecting loot and tooling up your character.  When you encounter an enemy, Crimea switches to turn based gameplay, with moves and actions costing … Read More

Super Rocket Shootout is a local multiplayer 2d brawler similar to Super Smash Bros or Megabyte Punch.  It supports up to 4 players, has highly destructible environments for you to pummel your friends in, an in-depth combat system inspired by the fighting game genre filled with combos, counters and even super attacks!

There is a cornucopia of game modes to choose from, such as, … Read More

Vertex is an action platformer that focuses on exploration in expansive levels along with an interesting storyline and numerous compelling boss battles.

The game features fun retro platforming, large levels to explore, lots of secrets and two characters with unique abilities that you are allowed to switch between at any time. Vertex already scratches that retro itch, but according to “iMoose”, the developer, he is … Read More

Arena: Cyber Evolution is a futuristic physics based multiplayer online sports arena (MOSA) game where you choose from a selection of heroes with different play styles and abilities, then battle it out in a 3v3 football-like competitive match where teamwork and twitch reflexes are needed to win.

Arena: Cyber Evolution is the fruition of months of work on Project Cyber which we covered back in … Read More

Rip is a charming 2D action adventure game, full of nice little touches and self referential humor, where you team up with a bunch of friends to find your missing little brother and fight off an invasion of strange ‘parasites’.

As you traverse the beautifully crafted pixel art world of Rip, you’ll soon become aware that a lot of work has gone into making … Read More

Fort Meow is a charming physics based fort building game in which your aim is to protect yourself from barrages of cats so that you can read your book in peace.

The book in question is a journal was written by your late grandfather and offers up an insight into his life as you progress through the game (and the journal).  In order to read … Read More

Planet Explorers is an impressive open world voxel based sandbox adventure RPG set on a distant planet, that allows players to alter the terrain, customize their character, combine and create weapons, vehicles, and buildings and fight massive enemy creatures.

It’s the year 2287, and you and a bunch of other survivors have crash-landed on the planet Maria, an unforgiving land filled with deadly creatures.  Now … Read More

Souvenirs is a wonderful pixel art puzzle platformer that sees you exploring an intricate cave system in the dark, where you use sounds to visualise your environment.

You are lost.  Alone.  Searching for yourself.  You don’t see far.  In fact, you see nothing at all.  But you hear things… drops; water flowing; rocks falling, rolling… and a bell.  These environmental sounds, as well as the … Read More

Ninja Pizza Girl is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by Mirror’s Edge and the 16-bit classic Sonic the Hedgehog, with a story based on bullying, emotional resilience, and pizza delivering ninjas!

In Ninja Pizza girl you play as a delivery girl in a cyberpunk dystopia where you have to deliver pizza in the shortest amount of time possible, all the while defending yourself from other evil … Read More

Factorio is a great sim game in which you build and maintain huge factories, starting off small but eventually spanning entire maps.

You mine resources, research technologies, build infrastructure, automate production and fight enemies.  You use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into complex structures, use management skills to keep it working and protect it from the creatures who don’t really like … Read More

Cobalt is a high paced, high energy, action packed shooter game developed by Oxeye Game Studio in collaboration with Mojang, the producers of Minecraft.

In the game you play as a unique looking android which you can upgrade both in appearance and functionality, whether it be bulking up, buying a riot shield and becoming a gigantic tank of steel, or jumping from ledges … Read More

Due Process is an innovative online tactical shooter inspired by games like the original SWAT and Rainbow Six, where there is far more importance in planning the job than actual gunplay.

Gameplay is team based, with one team one team attacking and the other defending.  Before each round starts, players map out a plan, sketching on a top down blueprint (John Madden-style), coordinating the … Read More

Catlateral Damage is a first person mischievous cat simulator, where your objective is to knock as many of your loving owners belongings onto the floor within a 2 minute time limit.

It’s a fun game, and there’s a lot of satisfaction to be had from knocking things over and making a mess (That’s probably why cats do it in the first place).  The Alpha features … Read More

Phantasmal is a terrifying procedurally generated first persone roguelike first person horror game inspired by Dead Space, Silent Hill, Metro and Resident Evil that we first featured last May.

Phantasmal has now received an update which makes the game even harder!  There’s still plenty of weaponry, from planks of wood to machine guns, but you should only use them as a last … Read More

Abomination Tower is a hardcore Super Meat Boy-style platformer with procedurally generated levels that are full of nasty ways die.

You play as a mad scientists creation trapped in a tower where you must ascend the tower to escape (lots of wall jumping). You can unlock heads along the way by collecting eyeballs (having 5 eyeballs when you finish the level will unlock the … Read More

In Sandmason you are a mine worker, stuck deep in an underground cave system where strange things are afoot, with only your hi-tech mining tools to aid your escape.  These mining tools allow you to dig through soft rock and build on anything in this fully dynamic environment, allowing you to solve puzzles and create deadly traps for enemies.

The digging and building in Sandmason… Read More

Combat Core is a 3D arena fighting game inspired by Power Stone, Custom Robo, and Super Smash Bros, featuring multiplayer combat, custom fighters customisation, weapon pickups, power-ups, and environmental hazards.

Using the character editor, players can create their own combatants with varying stats, attack, skills, unique appearance, and add a custom core for new abilities and a power boost.  It currently features local … Read More

Magicmaker is an excellent spellcrafting-focused platformer/dungeon-crawler with over 2,000,000 unique spell combinations to discover and a charming papercraft visual style.

As the Security Guard of Dörwall Community College (The preeminent wizarding school of the Dörwall area) you must jump, shoot, and explore through beautifully crafted levels to assure the safety of your colleagues while investigating the sudden appearance of a mysterious individual.

The sheer variety … Read More

The Breakout is a stylish point-and-click adventure that pays homage to the captivating storytelling and characterization of the classic Point n Click games of the 1990s combined with the tense film-making style of classic movies like The Great Escape.

You play as Guy Kassel, an ex-thief whose life who joined the Air Force and rose to the ranks of Captain—only to be shot down and … Read More

Level 2: The Virus Master is a fever dream retro shoot-em-up that assaults your senses from start to finish with a spectacular display of Giger-esqe pixel art, huge bosses and a rawkus metal soundtrack.

This is a promotional game for a band called ‘Last Chance to Reason‘ based on the tracks ‘Coded to fail‘ and ‘Taking Control‘ from their … Read More

Freedom Planet is a fast paced retro platformer inspired by Megaman, Gunstar Heroes and (most notably) Sonic.  Run, smash and fight your way through huge levels battling a variety of enemies, mini bosses and Bosses, as well as taking part in some action-packed set pieces.

Gameplay is very similar to the classic Sonic games, in-fact if one of the 3 female characters was swapped … Read More

Corridors Of Uncertainty is procedurally generated rogue-like with fully destructible maps, a wide array of weaponry and plenty of violence.  The Pre-Alpha gives you one life to shoot, kill and demolish your way to the end of the levels, attempting to get as high a score as possible.

The weaponry is great fun to play around with, from lightsabers to rocket launchers, they all pack … Read More

The Red Solstice is a great looking top-down real-time tactical 8 player co-op survival game set on Mars in the distant future.  The core game will be an 8 player multiplayer experience but there will also be a single player campaign too for the lone wolves among you.

At the moment it feels a lot like a team based version of the recent (and underrated) … Read More

Tricone Lab is a fun puzzle game where each level is a microscopic multicellular organism.  You must utilise the different resources within the cell to create a substance called Tricone.  This starts off very easily, but soon gets tougher as more catalysts and molecules get introduced, creating complex logic puzzles that require some experimentation.

The graphical style is pleasingly simple, with each multicellular organism reacting … Read More