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Syrian Warfare
Strategy 21 February 2017
A tactical real-time strategy, taking place during the civil war in modern Syria. The game skips some of the typical RTS elements, such as resource gathering and base development. Instead, the main emphasis was placed on tactical maneuvers of land and air forces – including building assaults, using smoke grenades, air drops, air strikes, etc. Before each mission, we need to choose adequate units, with only occasional support from allied units during the mission.
Hue
Arcade 30 August 2016
The debut production of the independent studio Fiddlesick, combining elements of platformer and logic game. While playing, we assume the role of the eponymous hero whose task is to find his lost mother. The path to his goal is a bumpy one because his mother, a lady scientist who deals with color research, got lost somewhere in a monochromatic world. In the game, we traverse vast, single-colored maps, avoiding various obstacles and solving puzzles based mostly on color manipulation.
Snooker Nation Championship
Sports 17 April 2019
A snooker simulator from Cherry Pop Games, an independent studio, known for Pool Nation, and it’s reedition, Pool Nation FX. When it comes to mechanics, Snooker Nation Championship doesn’t differ much from its predecessor. For the players unaccustomed to the game itself, an accessible tutorial has been prepared, introducing the gamers to basic controls, for example, placing the balls, or applying necessary rotation.
Don't Starve Together
Action 21 April 2016
A standalone expansion for the 2013’s well-received survival sandbox game, Don’t Starve. The main goal of the add-on is to transfer the core premise of the original title into cooperative multiplayer gameplay. In the game, we still explore the world, gather food, build a shelter, fight various enemies, and take care of the protagonist’s physical and mental health.
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game
Strategy 12 March 2015
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game is the debut of Camshaft Software. The game combines elements of strategy and simulation and casts the player in the role of a car-production company's owner. The game begins in 1946 and ends in 2020; the player's main goal here is to transform their company into a car industry giant. The gameplay as such is based on two pillars.
Ylands
Adventure 05 December 2019
A survival-oriented sandbox created by an in-house studio of Bohemia Interactive. Ylands allows the player to create their own interactive world. Building your own worlds is one of the mainstays of the game. They can be placed in a number of settings and conventions: from Wild West, through forests and farms, and up to medieval castles and arenas inspired by Feudal Japan. The player can modify the topography, as well as build objects and items.
SHENZHEN I/O
Puzzle 17 November 2016
A complicated logic game in which we design and test electronic circuits. SHENZHEN I/O was developed by the independent studio Zachtronics that specializes in creating complex logic educational titles focusing on engineering, electronics, programming, and chemistry. In SHENZHEN I/O, we assume the role of a beginner engineer who gets hired by an electronics company in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Tavern Keeper
Strategy September 2024
An economy strategy, in which the players are tasked with managing taverns located across a fantasy realm. You have to build inns, acquire supplies, prepare drinks and meals based on the best recipes, hire employees, tend to customers' needs and balance costs and income.
Genital Jousting
Arcade 18 January 2018
Genital Jousting is an unusual party game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. We take part in various minigames, with up to eight players in local or online mulitplayer mode. What is unusual about the game is that we are controlling flaccid penises with wiggly anuses. Our "protagonist" can be dressed up in various clothes which will make him somewhat unique and easy to distinguish among the other "characters" controlled by the rest of the players.
Bard's Gold
Arcade 14 August 2015
Developed by Pixel Lantern, an independent studio from Germany, a 2D platformer with roguelike elements. The player takes control of the titular bard whose gold is stolen by a sly goblin. In order to get the gold back, the bard sets off on a dangerous journey. Bard’s Gold features a side-view – there are over 100 levels filled to capacity with various dangerous traps and enemies.
Veterans Online
Action TBA
Multiplayer shooter in MOBA convention. It is the first title of the independent developer Nuke Cockroach studio and is distributed in free-to-play model with microtransactions. Veterans uses isometric view and focuses on online PvP battles of teams or individual players. We take control of the titular veterans and fight on 30 different battlefields using a vast array of weaponry, various combat vehicles and useful gadgets.
Coffin Dodgers
Racing 08 July 2015
A racing game developed by the independent developer Milky Tea Studios. The action takes us to Sunny Pines, a place of health retirement for seven senior citizens. When the town is visited by The Grim Reaper who wants to pick-up some souls, the heroes present him with an unusual deal – if they manage to convince the reaper that there is still a lot of life in them, by participating in a series of crazy races, the being will leave them alone.
Rise: Race The Future
Racing 01 November 2018
A racing game taking place in a futuristic world. The players control lightning-fast, cutting-edge vehicles. The title is the first multi-platform project from VD-dev, a seasoned French studio, known for games for Nintendo portable consoles. RISE: Race The Future employs a driving model inspired by the classic Sega Rally series, highly arcade in nature, and focuses on mastering drift techniques.
Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered
Puzzle 06 August 2015
A remastered edition of the 2014 game Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey for PC and mobile devices, developed by Bacon Bandit Games. Gameplay-wise the new version doesn't differ from the original. You play as two friendly grim reapers, who, instead of escorting souls into the afterlife, fight monsters and ghosts. The production features a specific turn-based combat system, in which you put together words, like in the popular Scrabble game.
Axiom Verge
Action 31 March 2015
An indie game by an experienced developer, who has worked on such productions as End of Nations, Tiger Woods, and NFL Street. In Axiom Verge you play as a man called Trace, who dies and is reborn in a fantasy world, where futuristic and archaic technologies blend. Trace quickly asserts that the new environment and the beings inhabiting it are trying to kill him. The protagonist explores locations filled with traps and enemies as he runs, jumps, and shoots with a gun.
Mages of Mystralia
RPG 18 May 2017
Mages of Mystralia is an action RPG developed by Borealys Games. The game takes place in a fantasy world where people with magical powers are feared and despised by those without them. Zia, the protagonist, learned it the hard way. After being banished from her home village, she embarks on a journey with a plan to train her magical powers and meet other people like her.
Will to Live Online
Action 2024 (early access since 05 April 2018)
An MMOFPS title, which sends the players to a post-apocalyptic vision of Eastern Europe infested with hordes of blood-thirsty mutants. Will to Live Online lets us traverse an open world while we perform tasks given by its inhabitants, develop our character (and ensure their survival) and learn the truth behind humanity’s near-extinction.
Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness
RPG 17 March 2022
The studio GrapeOcean Technologies is responsible for creating Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. This is a fantasy, old-school, isometric RPG inspired by titles such as Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape: Torment or Pillars of Eternity.
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Action 24 May 2018
An action game with platform game features. The players assume the role of Zangestu – a demon hunter who travels to a castle occupied by a powerful fallen angel. During the game, the players are exploring grim locations and fighting enemies. The game distinguishes itself from other games with the presence of four playable characters.
BAFL: Brakes Are for Losers
Racing 18 October 2017
A racing game in which we observe the struggles from a camera suspended above the track. BAFL: Brakes Are For Losers puts eight vehicles at our disposal - at the helm we are fighting for victory in places such as the sunny Las Vegas or the hellish underground. The title not only allows you to play alone, but also to compete in the company of up to seven other players.
Star Renegades
RPG 08 September 2020
Turn-based RPG game with elements of strategy and roguelike. Players command members of a rebellion fighting a bad empire. Production offers a struggle in randomly generated missions and growing opponents.
The Long Reach
Adventure 13 March 2018
The Long Reach is an unusual adventure with the action set soon after a outbreak of an epidemic that turns people into bloodthirsty psychos. During gameplay, you need to figure out the way of neutralizing or avoiding enemies. Each of them is a separate riddle with a unique way of defeating.
The Blackout Club
Action 30 July 2019
A horror designed for co-op gameplay. Up to four players play the role of teenagers trying to find a friend and acquire evidence of the activity of mysterious individuals from an underground labyrinth.
Witchbrook
RPG 2024
A game that combines elements typical of the RPG genre and life simulators, such as Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon series. In Spellbound we play the role of a young man who attends a local school of magic.