Challenging pixel art dungeon crawling abound in Aethyr, as you battle blobs, bats boney skeletons and big bosses across endless randomised dungeons.

The player begins in a small house with a random weapon and spell scroll, where they must equip their weapon and exit the house. The game is played in levels portrayed by dungeon rooms with a locked door to the next zone. … Read More

Originally developed for the 2015 Train Jam, Ride Jumper is a hysterical physics-based jumper game where the player is to ride every ride in the park before it closes.

Essentially, every stage is a new park, with a timer and a set amount of rides to enjoy before it’s all over. The player is launched into the first ride, and must use the space bar … Read More

The Miskatonic is a beautifully hand-drawn 2D side-scrolling horror comedy visual novel, where you play as a odd female protagonist with a huge shotgun in a demonic university. It’s inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, with old school survival horror puzzles and ‘harrowingly humorous’ dialogue.

The Miskatonic‘s appeal is its nice aesthetic design, wonderful character designs, a great atmosphere in a beautifully grim world to explore, … 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

We see a lot of interesting games at Alpha Beta Gamer, but Gorogoa is 15 minutes of the most unique, innovative and intelligent gameplay we’ve experienced this year.

Gameplay is spilt across four beautifully illustrated and animated panels that helped win it the IGF Excellence in Visual Arts Award.  These four panels can be moved around, zoomed in and out of and placed on top … Read More

Crashed Lander is a fun gravity based arcade game, inspired by Lunar Lander and Space Taxi, were you pilot your rather fragile craft through levels as fast as you can, avoiding obstacles and enemies on your way.

Visually the game is impressive, and it’s great fun exploring the levels, uncovering the rich fauna of the alien world you’re stranded on.  Your ship also handles well, … Read More

Rodina is a wonderfully ambitious space exploration RPG inspired by Freelancer, Star Fox, and the Elder Scrolls.

Like the upcoming ‘No Mans Sky’, it features large, procedurally generated planets that you can seamlessly land on and explore, going from the depths of space to walking the planet with no load times whatsoever.  You can also wander around your ship in first person, or or upgrade … Read More

Classroom Aquatic is a ridiculous game where you take on the roll of a foreign exchange student in a school of dolphins.

Unfortunately for you, your class is doing a test, which you’re you’ve got no chance of passing unaided as you don’t know any of the answers.  This means if you you’re going to pass the test you’re going to have to use stealth … Read More

Sky Battles is a fun arcade-style dogfighting game with nice looking visuals, fun gameplay and online multiplayer.  The single player campaign looks pretty spectacular, pitting you against massive lumbering enemies, while the multiplayer is great for a quick fix of aerial combat.  Sky Battles is in development for iOS and Android, but you can play the multi-player Alpha in a Unity supported Browser now.

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Standpoint is a first-person puzzle-platformer, where you can manipulate the orientation of your surroundings to allow you to traverse levels.  It’s an inventive mechanic, when combined with the striking visual style and accompanying narrator, it comes across as a great mixture of VVVVVV and Portal.

Standpoint is shaping up to be an enjoyable and intelligent first person puzzler, the Beta Demo includes the prologue for … Read More

Major League Wizardry is a great new trading card game that pits wizard against wizard in turn based warfare.

MLW has a fantastic hand drawn art style, with monster designs that are especially inventive and fun, adding a lot of character to the game.  The game’s easily accessible to newcomers, but also has plenty of depth courtesy of the wide variety of monsters, spells and … Read More

Aura Kingdom is an interesting new MMORPG that has a fantastic looking anime art style, fast fluid fighting and focuses on companion interaction.

Your companions (Eidolons) are no mere pets; they are powerful warriors in their own right and are not to be trifled with. If you earn their trust, however, they will reward you with their invaluable aid in the numerous battles to come.… Read More

Painters Guild is a retro styled management game where you take control of a small guild, commissioning paintings and teaching your student (a young Leonardo Da Vinci), so he can become the great artist we know him as.

It’s a fun, quirky game that’s reminiscent of some of the Kairosoft sim games (Game Dev Story, Hot Springs Story, etc).  The pixel art style fits really … Read More