Australian indie duo Melting Parrot had our attention with their three-word pitch for their new horror adventure game DAP: “Mononoke meets Pikmin.” And looking over the promotional materials, that is indeed what you get. In DAP, you’re trapped in a haunted and hostile forest, but you seem to have made
Good news! Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit and Crazy Harry from The Muppet Show just had a baby, and its name is CHESSPLOSION! Clear each stage of enemy pieces by placing bombs and avoiding fire from their moves. If you’re worried anything with “chess” in it might be too
Stained glass art is pretty, but making it is painstaking, backbreaking work. Good thing, then, that you can get the experience virtually in a new puzzle game from Error300 Games: Mosaic Chronicles. On each screen, you’re given a canvas and many pieces of stained glass. Each piece will only fit
Publisher Hatinh Interactive and developer Nerd Monkeys are bringing their new puzzle platformer Out Of Line to PCs later this month. You name is San. You’re an expressionless young man in a parka who’s never known any world beyond the factory you grew up in and were possibly created inside.
Remember Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets? They’re back. Famed studio BeautiFun Games, creators of 2012’s award-winning game Nihilumbra, are returning to their puzzle adventure with a new story and a new protagonist in Professor Lupo: Ocean. The gameplay is similar to the original: enter room after room, solve a
When you think about, the success of escape rooms owes a lot to video games. If an entire generation hadn’t grown up with puzzle-solving mechanics in virtual rooms, they wouldn’t have a desire to re-enact those mechanics in real life. Now things have come full-circle with Mad Experiments: Escape Room,
Publisher META Publishing and indie developer NEXT Studios have released Biped on Steam! What’s a Biped? It’s a creature that walks on two legs, and it describes the two characters at the center of this game. You and a friend control two bipedal robots one leg at a time….meaning your
Polish game developer SONKA is putting Mars Power Industries on the Nintendo Switch next week. You won’t be colonizing Mars in this one…because it was already colonized a long time ago, and it doesn’t seem to have gone very well. THIS trip to the Red Planet is for the purpose
There are fast-paced, twitchy, edge-of-your-seat games….and then there’s Spring Falls, designed to be as soft and calming a gaming experience as possible. This upcoming puzzler was designed by developer SPARSE//GameDev, which is actually a one-man studio….so let’s call him Mr. SPARSE. Mr. SPARSE has created a game where your goal
Flying Beast Labs, a game developer out of Madrid, is hard at work on their puzzler Magic Twins. It’s an arcade co-op for one to two players where the titular characters, Abra and Cadabra, must use their color powers to defeat waves of hued enemies. The strategy is basic (one
These days it takes a lot for a game to stand out visually, but William Chyr Studio’s Manifold Garden manages to pull it off. It’s a spacious puzzle game where you’re wandering an Escher-like world of staircases and platforms in first-person. This world was once filled with plant life, but
Indie puzzle game Felix The Reaper is out now for Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, XBox One, PC and Mac. In the case of XBox, it’s part of XBox Game Pass and it’ll be part of Game Pass Ultimate at launch. Felix The Reaper has a job….to kill people. But his