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Tomba!
Arcade October 2024
Produced by Ukrainian studio Creoteam, a soccer game that combines elements of a virtual team manager with turn-based strategy. In the beginning of the game, you create your own club, and help it win the championship through a series of victories. Matches are played out in turn-based system, in which you give commands to your players, a formula quite unusual for this genre. In each turn you can execute up to 3 actions, and every action takes a number of movement points.
Basement
Strategy 11 November 2019
An economic strategy game by Belarusian studio Halfbus. The title is a full-fledged version of the free-to-play prototype created for the Ludum Dare contest. You play as a scientist, who cannot gather funds for his research the legitimate way and decides to produce drugs. After finding a suitable location, you get to work and cook small amounts of narcotics for local addicts.
A City Sleeps
Action 16 October 2014
Unique two-dimensional skillfulness of the creators of Rock Band series, referring to the classics of "bullet hell" automatic shooters. Playing the role of a member of an ancient clan, we penetrate the dreams of people and eliminate the demons that inhabit them. The fun comes down to avoiding waves of missiles and eliminating enemies, and the whole gameplay is closely synchronized with the original, pulsating soundtrack.
Color Guardians
Arcade 21 April 2015
A side-scrolling action game developed by Costa Rican studio Fair Play Labs. The title combines the features of classic platform games with endless runners that are popular on mobile platforms. In Color Guardians the player takes control of three titular guardians who represent the three basic colors. Their task it to return the colors to the worlds they travel through. They can do it by collecting special, colorful balls.
Never Alone
Arcade 18 November 2014
A platformer with puzzle game features, developed by Upper One Game studio. The story of Never Alone is based on Inuit beliefs, with players taking control of a young girl from the Inupiaq tribe who sets on a dangerous journey with her white fox to save her people and stop the arrival of the eternal blizzard. During her adventure, she will meet many creatures from Inuit legends, such as Sky People, Rolling Heads or Blizzard Man.
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Arcade 29 August 2014
A side-scrolling 2D action game developed by Japanese studio Inti Creates. The story of Azure Striker Gunvolt takes place in the future in which the humanity is controlled by the powerful Sumeragi corporation. During the game the player assumes the role of a teenager who decides to stand against the tyranny and joins a rebellion. The gameplay mechanics are similar as in the genre classics, as the player travels through various levels filled with enemies and powerful bosses.
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
Arcade 25 August 2016
A sequel to the two-dimensional action game released in 2014. The new game was created by the authors of the previous game, the Inti Creates studio, mostly known for developing the Mega Man Zero miniseries. In Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 the player can experience the further adventures of Gunvolt and the characters known from the prequel, facing the corporation ruling the future world.
Shutshimi
Action 25 August 2015
A light-hearted arcade game developed by Neon Deity Games which draws from classic side-scrolling shooters. In Shutshimi, player assumes the role of an unusual goldfish that ventures into the deepest parts of the ocean in order to face the dangers which threaten the safety of the marine kingdom. Regrettably, the main hero – as every fish – has a problem with long-term memory, and remembers only last ten seconds.
Adventures of Pip
Arcade 04 June 2015
An old-school 2D platform game which comes with an unusual plot and an unconventional character development system. Adventures of Pip was funded on Kickstarter, which made it possible for the game to reach owners of different gaming systems. The player is taken to the Pixel Kingdom, where life as such is driven by the never ending flow of bits. The world is endangered by the evil Queen however, who has kidnapped the beautiful princess and conquered the lands with the help of her warriors.
Kingdom: Classic
Strategy 21 October 2015
A minimalistic strategy game with RPG elements, which is a commercial version of a popular flash title of the same name, developed by Dutch studio noio. The player assumes the role of a king, traversing the world, who acquires new subjects by giving gold to settlers. As a result, newly recruited subjects build and develop villages, creating tools, weapons, and fortifications essential for defense against raiding trolls.
Oddmar
Arcade 19 April 2018
A colorful, two-dimensional platformer game for mobile devices, created by Mobge Games - a Turkish developer. With its relaxed atmosphere, the game describes daily life and habits of Vikings. As a platformer game, Viking Mushroom offers twenty-five different levels filled with opportunities to jump and climb. The player encounters large numbers of traps, enemies and collectibles as well.
Vector 2
Arcade 18 May 2016
Continuation of the original auto-run platformer that was the first major success of Russian independent studio Nekki. Plot of Vector 2 continues the storyline of the original and takes us back to the dreary world of the future, in which the eye of Big Brother keeps track of all actions of the people.
Indivisible
RPG 08 October 2019
Hybrid RPG action and platformer whose main character - teenage boy Ajna - sets off on a dangerous journey to save everything she loves from extinction and get answers to questions that bother her. Characteristic feature of Indivisible is nice, hand drawn graphics and music composed by Hiroki Kikuta - author of soundtracks for such games as Secret of Mana or Soulcalibur V.
Gal Gunvolt
Arcade 06 August 2015
A port of a 3DS arcade game Azure Strike Gunvolt by Inti Creates studio. We are given a two-dimensional, side-scrolling action game, in which we go through stages and deal with incoming enemies until we reach a boss. Compared to its predecessor, Gal Gunvolt offers 4 more levels: Factory, Bio Lab, Highway and Gym, which in previous game were available in the form of paid add-ons. We can choose one of three different characters in form of Mighty Gunvolt, Ekoro with Gal Gun and Mighty No. 9.
Redden
Arcade 09 July 2015
An unusual arcade game from the South Korean studio Bulosodeuk. The story focuses on items that have spent too much time on the shelves of One Hundred Denarii shop. They come to life after the owner leaves and share with each other the stories about their previous incarnations. This lets us follow a pot which used to be a shuriken or a cleaver that was made out of a ball’s remains.
HeadLander
Adventure 26 July 2016
A science-fiction side-scrolling platform game developed by studio Double Fine Productions led by Tim Schafer. HeadLander combines the features of the classic video game series Metroid with a few completely new features. During the game, the player assumes the role of a character who wakes up in a trashy world of the future, inhabited only by robots. The protagonist discovers that he consists only of… a head placed in a special helmet equipped with a rocket propulsion system.
Red Game Without a Great Name
Arcade 28 July 2015
A steampunk-influenced 2D arcade game by iFun4All, a subsidiary of the Polish Bloober Team. The action of Red Game Without a Great Name takes place in a future in which outdated communication methods, such as traditional mail, are still in use. Considering the trouble ordinary messengers would have to go through to reach certain places, some parcels are delivered by dedicted mechanical birds.
Anew: The Distant Light
Action 09 August 2021
Side-scrolling platform game with shooting elements, which is a debut project of Resonator studio, founded by industry veterans who have cooperated with many important publishers. In the game we play the role of a child who wakes up alone on the moon, orbiting an unknown planet, many light years away from Earth, and our task is of course to find a way to return home.
Die With Glory
Arcade 27 April 2017
A 2D action adventure game that combines Scandinavian mythology with modern pop culture elements. It was developed by Castle, a Russian-American studio. The protagonist is a red-bearded Viking called Sigurd, whose biggest dream is to enter Valhalla. The story of Die With Glory is non-linear to a large extent, which means the way the hero achieves his goal is largely dependent on the player’s decisions. Gameplay-wise, the title combines platforming elements with adventure and strategy.
Jenny LeClue: Detectivu
Adventure 19 September 2019
A point-and-click detective adventure game developed by Mografi, a one-man American studio led Joe Russ. In Jenny LeClue we play as a young miss detective, whose mother has been accused of murdering a school principal adored by the local community. Refusing to believe in her mother’s guilt, the heroine decides to solve the case by herself and discovers that the truth is much more complicated than it seemed. The gameplay focuses on visiting locations, gathering evidence, and dialogues.
Sundered
Action 28 July 2017
A two-dimensional metroidvania action game developed by independent studio Thunder Lotus Games – the producer of the warmly-received Jotun. In Sundered, the player assumes the role of a wanderer who travels through a ruined, post-apocalyptic world. The story of the game is strongly connected to its mechanics, as the price of the progress of the protagonist is paid with his humanity – what powers the player decides to wield, will have impact on the ending of the game.
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
RPG 31 January 2019
A continuation of the popular Sunless Sea developed by Failbetter Games. This time around, the action of the game is set not in the depths of an underground ocean but in the mysterious cosmic space known as “The High Wilderness”, which Queen Victoria wanted to use as a foundation for the New British Empire. The main protagonist of this story is an outcast, who objects the rule of the iron fist imposed by the Queen. During the game, a player observes the action from the top-down perspective.
Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers
Action 08 November 2016
A side-scroll action game by independent French studio Magic Pockets, in which you play as the characters from popular cartoons by the Cartoon Network Channel. In the game, characters from such series as Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball and Adventure Time team up to defeat the nefarious shard creatures and bring back peace to the world. You can play as six characters, each of them using distinct attack techniques and abilities.
Blubber Busters
Action canceled
Action game, including platformer and shoot'em upa features. The task ahead is to cure cosmic whales of dangerous diseases and mutations, and thus to restore the old order in which people and animals providing interstellar transport will live in harmony with each other. The game is presented in a side perspective, and is based on the exploration of different stages and elimination of hostile enemies.