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White Album: Memories like Falling Snow
Adventure 04 August 2023
White Album: Memories like Falling Snow is the remake of a popular visual novel from the 1990s. It tells the story of a young man dating a popular singer, showing how her developing career affects their relationship.
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution
Arcade 2025
The sixth installment of the platforming series Shantae. Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is set between the first game and Shantae: Risky's Revenge.
Disney's Hercules
Arcade 01 January 1997
Two-dimensional platformer based on Walt Disney's animated film. We play the role of Hercules, who tries to prove that he is worthy of sitting at Olympus with the gods. In order to do so, we defeat numerous opponents known from mythology, jump on the rock shelves and prepare for the final battle with Hades.
So Blonde: Back to the Island
Adventure 14 March 2008
So Blonde is an adventure game released by Anaconda, for which the script was written by Steve Ince, the author of stories for such games as Broken Sword or Beneath a Steel Sky. This guarantees good fun, an interesting story and, above all, an extraordinary sense of humour.
Ship of Fools
Action 22 November 2022
An action game with roguelike elements that spreads its wings in co-op mode. In Ship of Fools we take on the role of the heroes, who traverse the archipelago aboard their ship and face sea monsters.
Disney Illusion Island
Arcade 28 July 2023
A platformer letting us play as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. In Disney Illusion Island the player traverses the island of Monoth in search of lost books, trying to restore peace and order.
Wildfrost
Strategy 12 April 2023
A combination of a roguelike and a card game. Wildfrost tasks us with saving a world frozen over by a cataclysmic disaster. To do so, we must traverse the realm and fight enemies in turn-based battles.
Kingdom Eighties
Strategy 26 June 2023
The fourth installment in a series of side-scrolling straegy games. Kingdom Eighties: Summer of Greed is set in an American town during the 1980s, which a group of kids must defend from monsters created by the mysterious Greed.
Tinkertown
RPG 22 June 2023
Tinkertown is a singleplayer/co-op fantasy sandbox game. Players explore an open worl, fight enemies and gather resources to build their own settlement and upgrade their equipment.
Pixel Noir
RPG 08 February 2024
An independent retro RPG, which combines elements of a detective game and a horror. The main protagonist of Pixel Noir is trying to solve a mystery of the tragic events from a decade ago when his partner died, leading to him quitting work as a police officer, as he unjustly was sentenced to jail. After being released, he begins to work as a private detective and tries to solve minor cases, until finally, he finds a lead that might help him get the answers that have been taunting him for years.
Reus
Strategy 16 May 2013
Reus to RTS by Abbey Games. Players take on the role of a deity, which must take care of their followers. The authors bet on unusual two-dimensional gameplay mechanisms. On the map you can still see the divine giant, which can only move to the left or right side of the screen.
Black Skylands
Action 15 August 2023
A top-down open world action adventure game with RPG elements. Black Skylands has us traversing a vast open world on foot or aboard a skyship, fighting hordes of monsters, trying to restore order to a world shattered into floating islands.
Dungeon Rushers
RPG 06 September 2016
An RPG from the dungeon crawler genre, developed by the independent studio Goblinz. Players are taken to fantasy world filled with dungeons to explore, treasures to find and monsters to defeat. At the same time, Dungeon Rusher offers a humorous approach to classic heroic fantasy tropes. We lead a party of adventurers, who must defeat a lord of darkness, dwelling in the deepest dungeon. Our team will consist of a shaman, an archeress, a warlike dwarf and a bard.
Wantless: Solace at World's End
RPG 16 May 2024
Wantless is a tactical RPG starring Eiris, a medic able to delve into her patients' tormented minds. The game combines base management in a postapocalyptic world with turn-based combat against horrors of the subconscious.
Silence of the Siren
Strategy 30 September 2024
A sci-fi turn based strategy, in many aspects reminding of the popular Heroes of Might & Magic series. Silence of the Siren takes us to a far away galaxy in the distant future. We can explore maps, build armies, command our heroes and expand our strongholds.
Empires Shall Fall
Strategy 19 February 2024
A tactical turn-based strategy clearly inspired by Advance Wars series. Empires Shall Fall is set in a war-torn dieselpunk world. We command one of 2 factions and try to lead it to the ultimate victory. The game offers three story campaigns and hot seat multiplayer modes.
Jetpack Joyride
Arcade 01 September 2011
A browser-based casual arcade game in which we play the role of a hero trying to escape with a jet backpack from a secret laboratory. The character will automatically move to the right side of the screen all the time, and our interaction is limited to controlling the jet backpack. The difficulty results from the fact that along the way there are a lot of obstacles waiting for us, with which encountering ends in death.
Child of Light
RPG 29 April 2014
Child of Light is a 2D RPG that combines the elements of modern platformers and Japanese role-playing games. It was developed by Ubisoft Montreal, a subsidiary of Ubisoft which also collaborated in the development of Far Cry and Assassin Creed games. Child of Light tells the story of Aurora, a young girl who has to save the kingdom of Lemuria. When playing, we influence Aurora's development and witness her rough journey to adulthood.
Pizza Connection 2
Strategy 10 February 2001
An economic strategy game by software 2000. You lead a management board of a huge corporation owning a chain of pizza restaurants. You have to build the restaurants in centers of big cities, employ new staff (up to 20 people per place) and manage their effectiveness, hire security, and interfere with your competitors' business. The last part can involve blackmail and threats, as well as police raids or using gangsters to get the desired results.
Alien Nations
Strategy 20 March 1999
Alien Nations is a strategy game set in a fantastic land inhabited by three different nations: brave Amazons, cunning Sajikis and brave Pimmons.
Command: Modern Operations
Strategy 14 November 2019
A complex war strategy that is a continuation of the established Command: Air/Naval Operations 2013. The production enables a realistic reconstruction of the numerous war conflicts that took place after the Second World War. Warfare Sims studio is responsible for creating the game. The publisher is again Slitherine.
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Action 21 January 2021
A roguelike, created in the convention of an action platformer. In Skul: The Hero Slayer we play the role of the skeleton, which fights with the hordes of heroes, trying to save the enslaved Demon King and his minions.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Adventure 31 March 2023
A visual novel and a spin-off of the Sonic series. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog tasks us with solving the titular murder of the titular main character, as well as to determine whether it actually took place or not.