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Ooblets
RPG 01 September 2022
Ooblets is a charming farm game that offers a lot of rarely seen elements in this category. It includes the breeding of creatures and their use for turn-based battles, an open-structure world or the option of automating large-scale agricultural production.
Little Inferno
Puzzle 18 November 2012
Little Inferno is a puzzle game produced by an independent studio Tomorrow Corporation. The action takes place in a gloomy world where winter has been going on for years. The player takes on the role of a child, who becomes the lucky owner of the Little Inferno, an entertaining fireplace. The game consists in smoking toys ordered from the shipping catalogue.
Alto's Odyssey
Arcade 21 February 2018
A continuation of a well-received 2015 mobile endless runner Alto's Adventure, developed by Snowman. Like its predecessor, Alto's Odyssey does not feature a story as such - in the game, the player assumes the role of a snowboarder who has to overcome the obstacles, jump over chasms, run from the enemies, catch runaway animals, and perform various snowboard tricks, for which he is awarded points.
Uncanny Valley
Adventure 23 April 2015
A two-dimensional pixel art survival horror. It is a debut title of the independent Slovenian studio Cowardly Creations. In the game the player assumes the role of a night watchman who guards a mysterious factory in shifts with his friend. To kill some time, the protagonist decides to explore the building. He discovers things he would rather not know. As the story progresses, he learns new dark secrets about his working place.
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.
Unepic
Arcade 02 October 2011
Funny platformer with RPG elements. An ordinary boy unwittingly moves from an RPG session straight into a dungeon straight from fantasy games. The hero has to face powerful enemies lurking in the underworld. The production resembles such hits as Castlevania. However, its characteristic feature is a huge portion of good humour. Interestingly, Unepic is available in the Polish language version.
Die Young
Action 12 September 2019
An independent exploration game with survival elements from an in-house team of the Indie Gala company. We play as a heroine who found herself on a Mediterranean island, not knowing how, why, and by whom she was kidnapped. She must uncover the truth behind this event and escape. Die Young employs first-person perspective and focuses on exploration. Aside from that, the protagonist must fight for survival, gathering food, water and useful equipment.
Dead Metal Punks
Action canceled
A sidescrolling shooter with a post-apocalyptic setting – Dead Metal Punks is a debut project created by an independent developer: Paul Scott. In Dead Metal Punks, the players get to visit a Borderlands-like world, where the action is presented from the side and the gameplay has been divided into two different modes. In the first mode, the players control the main protagonist – Lily, while the second mode revolves around driving a fancy tank.
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
Arcade 03 March 2017
Specter of Torment is a free DLC for the fan-favorite platform game Shovel Knight, developed by Yacht Club Games. This time, we play as a new protagonist, the titular Specter. The expansion takes place before the events of the base game. In terms of gameplay, Specter of Torment is identical to the base game, combining the elements of a 2D platformer, an RPG, and an action-adventure game. Once again, we observe the game from a side perspective.
Fury Unleashed
Action 08 May 2020
A dynamic action platform game with roguelike features. The game was developed by the Polish studio Awesome Games. In Badass Hero the action is presented from a side perspective. The game focuses on exploration of a randomly generated comic book-like world, avoiding many traps and obstacles, and on combat with encountered enemies. The protagonist can use various shotguns, machine guns, rocket launchers, and grenade launchers.
Dark Fall: Storm Warning
Adventure canceled
A point-and-click adventure game in which the player's task is to unravel the mystery hidden by the pier, more than a hundred years old. On this object forgotten by people in unexplained circumstances people died, and their presence is still manifested here astral beings. The core of the game is exploration of shivering locations, solving puzzles, searching for relics of the past and interacting with spirits.
The Town of Light
Adventure 26 February 2016
First-person adventure game in the form of a psychological thriller and the debut of an independent Italian studio Lka.it. The game's plot is set in an mental institution located in the Italian town of Volterra. Creators of The Town of Light decided to depict in their game the history of an actually existing place, focusing on dramas of its residents, treated by facility staff like animals.
Rocketbirds 2: Evolution
Action 26 January 2016
A sequel to the two-dimensional platform game released by Ratloop Asia in 2011. The story of Rocketbirds 2: Evolution takes place once again in an alternative reality in which birds became the dominant species. During the game player assumes the role of agent Hardboiled Chicken, the protagonist of the previous entry in the series. Once again he is trying to stop the evil Putzki who is attempting to take over the world. Gameplay mechanics are similar as in the previous installment of the series.
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Adventure 15 August 2017
Paranormal Activity: Lost Souls is a first-person horror adventure game. It was developed by VRWerx and based on the Paranormal Activity horror movies. We play as a person who got stuck in a haunted house, just like the characters in the movies. To survive, we will have to discover the house's secret and find out what creatures want to kill us. Gameplay in Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul is based on the standard formula used in many other horror adventure games.
Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
Adventure 07 September 2017
Developed by Cherrymochi from Japan, a horror adventure title with strong visual novel elements. The main heroine of the game is Ayami Ito, who carries out an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of her partner. In order to find the truth, she needs to take matters in her own hands. Things become complicated as she also has to face the demons of her own past, nightmares, and hallucinations. The non-linear plot leads to one of eleven endings, depending on the player’s in-game choices.
Remorse: The List
Action 22 April 2022
First-person survival horror from the creators of Grey modification to Half-Life 2 shooter. In the production we play Adrian, who one day wakes up in an abandoned warehouse, where he finds a mysterious letter and a flashlight. This is how his terrifying adventure begins.
Tale of Ronin
RPG 2024
A turn-based RPG created by Dead Mage Studio. Tale of Ronin features a story set in Japan’s feudal period. As the title suggests, player assumes the role of a ronin, i.e. a masterless samurai, who gets a chance to improve his lot. To make that happen, however, he must embark on a dangerous journey and experience both good and bad sides of the turbulent period of history, such as friendship, betrayal, war and honor.
Cefore
Puzzle 09 November 2018
A unique logic puzzle game by Pixelz Games. Cefore takes place in the future, when space flight is common, and the protagonist is a mustached scientist, whose task is to gather information on various planets. However, his approach to the job is quite unorthodox, as he gathers the data (as well as useful materials and resources) by destroying elements of the environment.
Wild West Online
Action 10 May 2018
A Wild-West-themed MMO game by 612 Games, inspired by the multiplayer mode of the popular Red Dead Redemption by Rockstar Games. Wild West Online is set in a vast open world, where you try to survive and try your hand at various activities. You can play as bandits or law officers; the players can create gangs and rob banks and steal from or kill encountered people. But you can also choose a different career and become e.g. a farmer or a gold prospector.
The Occupation
Adventure 05 March 2019
A first-person adventure game created by White Paper Games - an independent British studio. The story involves politics to a large extent, and is set in England of the 1980s. The player takes on the role of a journalist who is investigating the circumstances of passing a controversial bill that reduces the citizens' freedoms. For the most part, the player explores the in-game locations and solves puzzles.
Outpost Zero
Action 25 July 2019
The work of Symmetric Games studio, in which players take on the role of robots preparing the ground for a self-sufficient extraterrestrial colony. Outpost Zero is an original hybrid of FPS and real-time strategy, enriched with elements taken from survival games - all designed for multiplayer fun.
Nantucket
Strategy 18 January 2018
Being a continuation of the Moby Dick novel, Nantucket for PC is a mixture of a strategy and a role-playing game. The player assumes the role of a whaling ship captain who plans hunting, completes quests, manages crew, and fights in turn-based battles.
Card Crawl
Puzzle 12 March 2015
Card Crawl is a mobile fantasy card game developed by Arnold Rauers from the German studio Tinytouchables. The game takes us to a fantasy land where we take part in a card game against a mighty Minotaur who is our croupier, shuffling and dealing our cards. Card Crawl is a single player-only game. While we play, we see two rows of four cards. We will find our character, two item slots (weapon, shield, healing potion, etc.
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
Arcade 19 January 2016
Metroidvania in which the task of the players is to solve the mystery of the extinction of the Earth's population, which thousands of years ago was forced to move under water. A characteristic feature of The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is the dualism of the game - the work of YCJY studio is based on both peaceful exploration and a dynamic fight against powerful adversaries.