Cargo Commander is that rare game that is completely and utterly summed up by its rather excellent title theme, Down the Drain. It’s a tune that permeates every part of the game—it plays in your home container, you can hear it in the distance as you race through disintegrating offices, and the game over screen uses it as an utterly [...]

Inquisitor tells you a lot about the game from its name alone. The game asks one major question through its setting, a hellish medieval world where demons and devils are quite real. That question is simple: if the 12th century inquisition was right about how thousands of witches and devil worshippers were summoning agents of Satan into the world, would [...]

The Great Giana Sisters was a platformer very much in the vein of Super Mario Bros. that is mostly famous for being a lot like Super Mario Bros., so much that Nintendo politely asked them to take it off the market. But as everyone knows, pulling a game from the stores only makes it that much more desirable, so a cult appreciation [...]

Anyone who grew up with a SNES or a Playstation in the house will probably remember one of the dozens of classic JRPGs produced for both systems. It’s a shame that the genre is just so time-consuming, making it difficult for the modern busy gamer to put in forty or fifty hours of grinding in exchange for forty-five minutes of [...]

Looking for something spooky to play on Halloween, but too broke to pick something up from that big Steam sale or one of those thematic indie bundles? As Parsec Productions proved with the freeware phenomenon Slender, you don’t need to spend a cent to scare yourself silly. But while Slender is all well and horrifying, there’s plenty more where that came [...]

After finding great success on the XBLIG and PSN marketplaces with their minimalist Arkedo series, the latest project from Arkedo was picked up by none other than SEGA, providing the funding for the small studio to produce a rather unusual looking cross-platform action platformer. That project, now officially known as Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, was finally released to [...]

The game-smiths at Daedalic Entertainment are back again with another beautiful adventure to point, click, and combine your way through, this time set on the colorfully brown world described in the title, Deponia. Well known for their previously acclaimed adventure games The Whispered World and The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, Deponia represents another notch on their belts with a fun adventure that [...]

Picture a 4X game (that’s explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) in which you control an entire space-faring civilization. Forget cities and spear-men; the sorts of decisions you’ll need to make span the entire galaxy. As your sci-fi race of choice spreads to each solar system, you have to colonize new planets while researching fancier technology and designing gnarlier battlecruisers. As you [...]

To the Moon is a game that really stretches the definition of what we consider a game. It’s a short narrative with little player interaction and even less player impact on the singular story. It may borrow the aesthetic of a 16-bit RPG, but you won’t find random battles and experience points. It’s unusual to see a game in which [...]

Colour Bind is a deceptive game that’s full of surprises. At first glance, it looks like a fairly simple and easy to grasp puzzle platformer, using simplified lo-fi graphics to carry out what would be an admittedly dull and overdone concept. The first few levels quickly throw that preconception out the window by showing off the very bouncy physics engine, [...]