Cutting Hedge is a bouncy, goofy simulation game built for Ludum Dare 35 where you are challenged to —as you may have surmised from the game’s title— cut hedges.

Cutting Hedge plays a bit like a rejected Mario Party minigame. In Cutting Hedge, you’ll progress through a variety of different hedge transformation challenges as you attempt satisfy your eager customers. Using your cursor, you’ll … Read More

Beware, beware the Ides of March as they bring yet another round of Flippfly’s Prototype Showdown to our computer screens! Of course, Flippfly’s fabulous prototypes are infinitely more enjoyable than being stabbed to death by angry senators in ancient Rome, but we’re getting off-track. We’ve previously covered Flippfly’s Prototype Showdown here on Alpha Beta Gamer; the last round saw wave-based survival game The Last … Read More

A Lifetime of Realistic Simulations is short and surprising little game. created by FryCandle for the GDC Game Jam that serves as a fun commentary on the brevity and futility of life.

In A Lifetime of Realistic Simulations you must decide how your character model first. Choosing things like sex, skin tone, and names is just the tip of this wild ride into what could … Read More

Relay is a simple, little Morse code game built for Ludum Dare 34 that retells the famous ceasefire of Christmas Day, 1914.

You play as a British telegraph technician relaying the status of your troops to your higher-ups. In order to operate the telegraph, you will be provided with a sheet of paper translating each letter into Morse and you will need to send dots … Read More

EA SPORTS UFC 2 is the latest instalment of EA’s mixed martial arts fighting game that has a huge focus on body simulation and challenging smart AI that responds to your actions in a realistic way.

Compared to the first game in the series, UFC 2 looks like an excellent upgrade with improved visuals, fine-tuned physics,and a more robust and engaging combat system that immerses … Read More

Computer, Open That Door! is a sci-fi, murder simulation game built for Ludum Dare 30 where you play as a rogue artificial intelligence hellbent on eliminating the remaining members of your spaceship’s crew.

In order to successfully rid your decks of the biological infestation known as Man, you’ll need to isolate and exterminate each crew member using the ship’s various systems. Each system has an … Read More

Love your day job? Probably not, but if it was made into a video game, ironically it might be very enjoyable. Woozy Waiter puts players in the shoes of what we’re presuming is a drunk or disoriented waiter.

This particular waiter follows the tray they are holding, wherever it may lead them. The object of the game is to stand in the green rings to … Read More

Recently crowdfunded RPG Survival Simulator Icy is now available as an Alpha build. The game puts players in an Oregon Trail-like winter wasteland situation where the main character is part of a nomadic group plagued by hunger and uncertainty.

With the amount of variables factoring into an equation resulting in death, the hypothermia-inducing temperatures seem to be the least of anyone’s worries. Players will … Read More

Vapor is a virtual interpretation of Samsara, in which players will find themselves wandering through the cycle of reincarnation, through means of exploration and visual inference.

Seeking out the insignias that lead to new “worlds”, the game moves through phases in a dreamlike rendering of one’s life choices and what options and paths in life that were offered all along. It could be a … Read More

Retro-Pixel Castles is an RTS with elements taken from genres such as town management sims, roguelikes and tower defense games.  Retro-Pixel Castles is not a game you can win, you just get better at prolonging the inevitable death of your civilization.  As you play, you will unlock more content, such as, additional buildings, more items and access to more units to control, you can use … Read More

Star Conflict is a spaceship flight simulator developed by Russian company Star Gem Inc which brings a unique style of play to the sci-fi arena. Within this game, it’s not just a case of pressing right and left arrows to move, it’s like actually piloting your own space craft – using a mouse and keyboard control scheme reminiscent of Freelancer. 

If you’ve ever wanted to … Read More