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

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

Barony is a retro first-person dungeon crawler RPG, featuring cooperative multiplayer, rogue-like elements and real-time action all wrapped up in a glorious retro shell.  It’s a rogue-like romp inspired by Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Dagerfall, which you travel through the vast subterranean complex known as the Devil’s Bastion, on a mission to kill the evil Litch, Baron Helix.

You’ll make your … Read More

Avast ye landlubbers!  Pirates Online Rewritten is an ongoing project to recreate and improve upon the now defunct Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online, the fun piratey themed MMO that shut down on Sept 2013.

This is a fan made project that’s strictly non-profit orientated and 100% free to play.  This means that Pirates Online Rewritten is being created by devs who are genuinely passionate … Read More

Zpocalypse: Survival is an isometric sandbox rogue-lite strategic survival game based on the popular Zpocalypse board games where you manage a group of survivors in a post-nuclear zombie apocalypse.  Zpocalypse: Survival features 3D procedurally generated worlds, Rogue-lite elements, an XCOM-Style permadeath system, Day/Night cycles and base building, management and defence.

Character movement is controlled through a Diablo-Style point & click system, your job is to … Read More

SightLine is an adventure puzzle game which uses line of sight as a core gameplay mechanic, with items and scenery dramatically changing when you’re not looking.  An all-knowing narrator helps guide you through the disorientating, somewhat creepy game, full of visual trickery reminiscent of that seen in Antichamber.

There is a Prototype and a Playground available to download, the playground is a small test … Read More

Tom vs The Armies of Hell is humorous top-down isometric action adventure game with a that plays like a mix of Ratchet & Clank and Bastion.  It has some minor puzzles and light RPG elements but mainly you will be fighting things and advancing the genuinely funny story.

In AOH you play as Tom, a computer programmer whose office is plunged into the depth … Read More

Rise Of Incarnates is a great looking new fighting game from Bandai Namco, famed for the Tekken and SoulCalibur franchises, in which players take control if Incarnates with mythical powers and beat the crap out of each other in real-world cityscapes.

The back-story is a typically silly, but entertaining affair and fittingly, some of it can be read in comic book for on the … Read More

Light is a top-down minimalist stealth infiltration game with a focus (aside from stealth gameplay) on narrative to keep the action going.  You are part of a scientific study and a procedure left your with short term memory loss. Further investigation reveals that there is something called ‘Project Light’ and that all is not well.  You must search for the answers that will help you … Read More

Untold Universe is a Massively Multiplayer Sandbox where you’ll be able to travel through an infinite universe full of voxel based-planetoids for you to explore and exploit.

The small planets of Untold Universe look excellent, like Minecraft versions of Super Mario Galaxy’s or Universim’s planets. You’ll be able to gather resources from these planets and use them to build anything from factories to spaceships which … Read More

Age of Ascent (AoA) is a great looking space-based sandbox MMO that we covered last month when they were planning on breaking EVE Online’s world record (4070 concurrent pilots fighting) by staging the largest PvP battle ever seen.  Unfortunately they didn’t manage to break the record, but it wasn’t down to any issues with the framework (which was designed for 50,000+ players), it was just … Read More

RATS is a charming cartoon-styled stealth game where the goal is to use stealth and speed to break into bank vaults and escape the level before the timer runs out.

You play as a sneaky rat burgler, trying to avoid the prowling cat guards throughout the levels.  If one catches you it’s not game over, instead you’ll just lose some time on the level timer, … Read More

NeonXSZ is a great procedurally generated space combat game we covered back in February that has just received a major update.  It’s inspired by Descent and Quake, with RPG elements such as loot and levelling.  Gameplay is fast paced and fun, with ships remarkably agile and handling similarly to Descent, while combat feels more like Quake.  You start off with fairly weak fire-power, but as … 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

Infectonator: Survivors is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay.  Your goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.  You must scavenge resources, build defenses, and find a way to survive in a game where death is permanent and levels are randomly generated.

The … Read More

Time Rifters is a very clever single-player first person shooter co-op game where ‘time rifts’ allow you to be your own team mates.  Each time you play through a level, all of your actions are recorded and reproduced for the next playthrough, even the weapon upgrades.  You can do this 4 times, allowing you to play as 4 independent time clones, working together (with yourself) … Read More

The Crack is a great looking fusion of Tower defense and FPS, set in a dark dystopian future where aliens have invaded planet earth.  You’re job is to defend against waves of attacking aliens using classical tower defense tactics, but with the ability to switch to a first person view and control units such as mechs, soldiers, assault planes and more.

Still in early development, … Read More

Glitchspace is a first person programming game that’s centred around a visual programming mechanic to change the shape and purpose of objects.  Set in a cyberspace world with simple solid colors and shading, you have to solve problems by reprogramming objects, altering their physical properties to allow your passage through the levels.

Glitchspace teaches you how to use its node-based programming system called Null through … 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

Next Car Game is a great looking destruction heavy racing game with amazing environmental destruction, sophisticated physics-based driving dynamics and damage models.   It comes from Bugbear, developers of FlatOut and the recent Ridge Racer Unbounded, both games known for their high levels of destruction, but Next Car Game looks like it’s taking carnage to a whole new level.

Even though it’s only a tech … Read More

Chaos Reborn is a great looking tactical turn based strategy game from Julian Gollop – an original creator of XCOM and one of the godfathers of turn based strategy.

Part sequel, part re-imagining of the original ZX Spectrum game ‘Chaos‘, Chaos Reborn takes the original formula and builds on it, updating it for the modern day.  It’s a battle between wizards, with each … Read More

The Hero Trap is a fun, fast paced and colourful roguelike dungeon-crawler, where you can use the souls of great warriors past to aid your perilous journey.

It looks wonderful, with randomly generated maps, nice animation and colourful cartoony character and enemy design.  The gameplay is similar to Gauntlet, with characters roaming dungeons, vanquishing hordes of enemies and earning gold.  This gold can be used … Read More

Guild of Dungeoneering is a papercraft dungeon exploration game where you don’t get to control your adventurer directly. Instead you lay out the dungeon one room at a time, placing treasure and monsters to trying to carefully guide your dungeoneer to victory.

Each turn you’re given a choice of 5 cards to lay or discard, allowing you to lay map tiles, enemies or loot.  The … Read More

Apexicon is a fun word based puzzle RPG, with upgrades, special moves and a surprisingly enjoyable story.

At it’s core, the aim is to make words that are as long as possible form the selection of letters available, then ‘attack’ your opponent, dealing damage equal to the length of the word.  It’s a good system, with added depth thanks to the green healing letters and … Read More

Alpha Sign-ups are now open for Fortnight, Epic’s new Unreal Engine 4 powered multiplayer game where you scavenge and fortify during the day and fight off zombie hordes during the night.

Fortnite has a big focus on building, combat, character customization, and social interaction.  The day and night cycles mean that gameplay will have an interesting mixture of exploring, scavenging, building during daylight, then … Read More

DreadOut is a very creepy 3rd person indonesian adventure horror with a sinister vibe similar to Asian horror classics like The Ring or Ju-On: The Grudge.  You play as Linda, a school girl who gets separated from the rest of the students on a high school trip, which had taken an unexpected detour into an old deserted town.  This results in you roaming this … Read More

Grave is a surreal, open-world, procedural survival horror game, with day & night cycles playing a big roll.  During the day, you search for anything to help you survive, and explore to find new areas, during the night, you try to survive using light sources you’ve scavenged, and explore if you’re brave enough.

In Grave, you don’t have guns or knifes to survive but … Read More

DeadCore (Previously called Deadlock) is a first person shooter/platformer featuring some beautiful environmental puzzles. The main idea of the game is you must jump your way up a gigantic tower as fast as possible while avoiding to be kicked down by its security systems – turrets & robots – on your way to the top.  Along the way you’ll fight the robots guarding the … Read More

Spark Rising is a highly customisable build and battle sandbox game where you create fortresses and engage in massive battles.  You’ll the ability to create almost anything imaginable in-game, including units such as mechs, aliens, zombies, dinosaurs, monsters and robots, as well as a host of vehicles, artillery and defences.

To demonstrate the variety of creations available to players and to showcase the gameplay options, … Read More