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Coast Guard
Simulation 21 October 2015
A game recreating the various situations encountered by coast guard officers, developed by Reality Twist - the team responsible for Ship Simulator: Maritime Search and Rescue. The main hero of Coast Guard, Finn Asdair, and his teammates – an engineer, Fatima Morgane, main investigator, Colman Bauers, and a forensic specialist, Larry La Bouche have to face a number of dangerous tasks, such as saving people from burning vessels, fishing out survivors, or investigating shipwrecks.
Clinically Dead
Puzzle 06 December 2018
An unusual production by Pawel Mogila from Mogila Games. The title features elements characteristic for logic, action, platform, and even stealth games. You assume the role of Samson who, as the title outright states, is clinically dead. This means that for him, the time has stopped – due to that, he can contemplate his whole life. This translates into traveling through surreal places, which symbolize the hero’s mind, and talking with his own subconsciousness.
Akiba's Beat
Action 15 December 2016
An action game developed by Japanese studio Aquire. Gameplay mechanics of Akiba’s Beat are similar to the previous production of the developer – Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed. It combines RPG, beat’em up and visual novel features. The second installment of the series once again takes place in one of the most famous districts of Tokyo – Akihabara. The citizens of the district are caught in a time loop due to which they are endlessly repeating one day.
How We Soar
Simulation 29 November 2016
Developed for VR devices, an exploration game by British Penny Black - a studio set up by former employees of Crytek and Free Radical Design. The action of How We Soar takes us to a fantasy universe projected in a writer’s mind. In the game we try to bring back order to this world and put the writer’s shattered memories back together while flying on a mythical bird – Phoenix. Gameplay predominantly concentrates on exploration in which interaction with the world plays an important role.
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X
Party 24 March 2016
The seventh installment in the arcade music game series by SEGA. To play the game you need a good sense of rhythm and quick fingers to push the buttons appearing on screen. As usual, the main characters are the virtual vocalists, Miku Hatsune being the most prominent. Their digital voices are generated by professional music software, which has been used by fans to create thousands of songs from many genres; several dozens of them make an appearance in the game.
The Gallery
Adventure 05 April 2016
An exploration game, designed with virtual reality devices in mind. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is the first episode in a series called The Gallery: Six Elements. The protagonist enters a fantastic world brimming with secrets in order to find his sister. The action is presented from a first-person perspective, and the player can look freely around the game world.
Space Rangers: Quest
Adventure 31 August 2016
A text-based science-fiction adventure game from SNK Productions, loosely related to the previous games from the 2002’s series of Space Rangers. It tells a story of mysterious threat that can eradicate all living creatures in galaxy. We play as a space pilot that tries to find out the source of this danger and stop it. We travel across many parts of galaxy, completing plot quests.
The Hive
Strategy 25 August 2016
A real-team strategy game with RPG and adventure features. The Hive takes place on a planet called New Eden, where refugees from Earth arrived after a global cataclysm destroyed their home. Instead of humans, though, we will be commanding an insectoid race inhabiting the planet, determined to obtain the heritage of other civilizations and become the dominant species on New Eden.
The Trail: A Frontier Journey
Puzzle 03 November 2016
A simplistic survival game developed by 22 Cans Studios. The game is a free-to-play title with optional microtransactions. In The Trail: A Frontier Journey, the player assumes the role of a wanderer who finally makes it to shores of the New World after a long sea journey and begins exploration. The player travels a linear trail, getting deeper and deeper into the mainland.
Freeborn
RPG TBA (early access since 2024)
An original combination of an old-school isometric RPG with an adventure and a card game. It is the first product created entirely by the independent studio Deckpoint. The team is led by a skin creator for the popular FPS Counter-Strike - Jesse Kooner. The player assumes the role of a young male protagonist, who chooses gambling over routine daily work.
Kromaia
Action 23 October 2014
Three-dimensional action game, combining elements of classic shooting, simulator and adventure game. We play the role of a lonely soul that awakens without remembrance in a mysterious temple, located inside an indefinite mechanical unit. The game boils down to eliminating waves of enemies and fighting bosses, but the game does not lack interaction with various objects and numerous logical puzzles.
A House of Many Doors
RPG 04 February 2017
An original role-playing game focusing on exploration. It was developed by Pixel Trickery Games and can be considered a spiritual heir to Sunless Sea created by Failbetter Games. The player assumes the role of a traveler, who is also a spy and a poet. He traverses a surrealistic train with many legs, which is a form of a parasitic dimension. The protagonist has to discover who would build it, and why.
Family Guy The Quest for Stuff
Strategy 09 April 2014
Mobile adaptation of the popular animated series Family Guy. TinyCo studio offered players a hybrid of turn-based strategy and simulation with adventure elements, full of typical humour and eye-catching graphics inspired by the cult cartoon.
Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
Action 09 July 2015
A mobile edition of the survival adventure game created by Klei Entertainment. The action of Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition takes place in a randomly generated wilderness, where the protagonist, a scientist named Wilson, was teleported by a deceitful demon. The hero has to use his knowledge and skills to survive in a hostile environment full of wild beasts, and find a way to go back home.
Taiko no Tatsujin: V Version
Arcade 09 July 2015
A rhythm-oriented music game for PS Vita developed by Bandai Namco. Similarly to the previous installments of the series, the gameplay is focused around an uncomplicated premise – we have to beat out a rhythm on taiko drums, using a few buttons that correspond with the symbols appearing on the screen. The difficulty level, chosen before starting the game, determines the frequency of their appearance and the type of additional challenges.
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Puzzle 27 February 2015
An FPP logic puzzle game with adventure elements, developed by two independent teams: Bevel Studios and Deco Digital. You play as the eponymous Pneuma, a deity, who observes the beginnings of the universe. Like in the other games in the genre, the gameplay focuses on exploration and solving puzzles, which require good orientation, analytic skills, and unorthodox thinking. In addition, Pneuma: Breath of Life features an internal monologue of the self-congratulatory protagonist.
D-TEAM: The kidnapping of Teacher Zig
Action 17 May 2012
D-TEAM: The kidnapping of Teacher Zig is an adventure game developed by Bigmoon Interactive based on the animated children's series Tic Tac Tales. In the production in question, a group of heroses (the title D-Team) undertake the terrible task of freeing Professor Zig from the hands of the evil sorcerer Xarabin.
Better Late Than Dead
Action 03 March 2016
A survival sandbox game created by Odin Game Studio, the creators of Enforcer: Police Crime Action published in 2014. The player arrives at a tropical island where he needs to fight for survival and find a way home. Apart from that, the hero also has to shed light to some unnerving secrets, from his memory loss, through the mysterious picture that came into his possession, to traces of supernatural animal activity.
The Lords of Midnight
Strategy 28 October 2012
The Lords of Midnight is a refreshed version of the classic strategy developed for PCs and enriched with RPG elements, which debuted on 8-bit computers in the 80s of the last century. Players take on the role of the ruler of the fantasy land, and his task is to defeat the evil Lord Doomdark, which he can do both by gathering armies and winning battles, as well as effectively ending the expedition to destroy the artifact that is the source of the tyrant's power.
God Eater Resurrection
Action 29 October 2014
An enhanced version of Gods Eater Burst that – unlike the original – also appeared on PC and the PlayStation 4 console. God Eater Resurrection is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which humanity’s habitat on Earth is threatened by appearance of powerful monsters known as Aragami. Players take control of a teenager, who joins an organization dedicated to extermination of those beasts.
Goblin Sword
Arcade 11 September 2014
Goblin Sword is a classic 2D platformer where players aim to defeat the evil sorcerer, responsible for the attack on the village of the main hero. Production is characterized by a simple and sensitive control system, as well as refined pixel artwork.
Interstellaria
Strategy 17 July 2015
And oldschool sandbox space strategy game with simulation and role-playing elements by Cold Rice Games. You play as a spaceship captain, and your task is to manage it while exploring remote planets. You have to e.g. recruit your crew and appoint them to their respective positions, all the while managing the ship's equipment and finances. During the game you go through many adventures, participate in trade and establish diplomatic relations, as well as fight various enemies.
King of Dragon Pass
Strategy 31 October 1999
A fantasy-based production combining turn-based strategy elements, adventure games and RPGs. At the head of a small clan, we must ensure its development and prosperity and bring about the unification of similar clans into a tribe under our rule. The main medium in the game is not graphics but text, and the structure of the game resembles popular role-playing book games, in which we shape the action by making a number of decisions and choices.
Little Big Adventure
Adventure 12 October 1994
A revolutionary adventure game from 1994, made by Adeline Software International and published by Electronic Arts. The player becomes a young Quetch called Twinsen, who takes on the tyranny of Funfrock.