“Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does … Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.” – Neil Gaiman Hellbreach: Vegas – Overview Hellbreach: Vegas is an action-packed first-person shooter set in a colourful post-apocalyptic Vegas full of demons and zombies! Developer: Infinity Ape Studios Released: 11th March 2024 (Early Access) Price: £8.99 Platforms: Windows Available on: Steam Engine: Unreal Engine 4 Playing Hellbreach: Vegas Premise PvE FPS Hellbreach: Vegas, created by solo developer Ashley Ellis, a.k.a Infinity Ape, can be played single-player o ..read more

“Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual creatures; and kill them!” – Full Metal Jacket Developer: Isaac Denner Released: 25th April 2024 Price: €14.79 Platforms: Windows Available on: Steam Engine: Lime-OpenFL Pros Simple but pleasant art style that fits the game’s general mood, genre and feel quite well. Decent variety of weapons and equipment, with diverse attack patterns and feel to each category. Good amount of open-world activities that mandate mastering all the mechanics, even supposedly secondary ones like farming or animal raising. Combat is satisfying enough, b ..read more

“The colour and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive.” – Frederick Turner Overview Botany Manor is a charming, nature-themed puzzle game set in a stately home in 19th-century Somerset, England. Players can explore the house, research flora, and work out how to make different plants grow! Developer: Balloon Studios Released: 9th April 2024 Price: £20.99 – 22.49 Platforms: Windows, Xbox Series X|S/One, Switch Available on: Steam, Microsoft, eShop Engine: Unity Gameplay The main objective of Botany Manor is to help the protagonist, Arabella, complete her h ..read more

“Indecision and reveries are the anaesthetics of constructive action.” – Sylvia Plath Overview Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a very relaxing productivity tool and idle game in which players can customise their avatar and virtual space, as well as collect cute spirit critters. Developer: Mooncube Games Released: 8th April 2024 Price: £9.99 Platforms: Windows Available on: Steam Engine: Unreal Engine 5 Gameplay The game begins with a brief but informative tutorial introducing the player to the UI and available features. The primary purpose of Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is to be a focu ..read more

“All roads lead deeper into the forest” – Darkwood Developer: Endnight Games Released: 22nd February 2024 Price: € 28,99 Platforms: Windows PC Available on: Steam Engine: Unity Pros Excellent graphics, alongside realistic effects and unobtrusive UI, provide a deep immersion. Enormous open world that feels rewarding to explore, filled with many interesting locations to discover above and below ground. Solid overall gameplay variety, that equally distributes combat, survival, exploration and base management. Highly challenging combat on Hard and above difficulties; higher tier foes that c ..read more

Introduction Demonizer is a shoot em’ up with a twist by Iori Branford, inspired by 90s arcade shmup games like Raiden Fighters, Strikers 1945, and Battle Garegga. Set in the medieval age where human soldiers and monster girls are at odds with each other, you play as exiled human princess turned succubus Amelia (Amy for short), and your goal is to stop the invading human army led by her elder sister, Princess Angelina, from massacring her new people! Developer: Iori Branford Released: 30 October 2020 Price: $12.00 Platforms: LÖVE, Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, MacOS, Android Available on ..read more

“Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge your existence.” – Geoff Tibballs Overview Supermarket Times is a bizarre point-and-click game set in a hand-drawn supermarket full of strange products and even stranger people! Note: This game features some extremely bad language as well as NSFW subjects, and themes. Developer: Rabbit Hole Games Released: 14th February 2024 Price: £8.29 Platforms: Windows Available on: Steam Engine: GameMaker Gameplay Supermarket Times sees the player embark on a shopping trip, expl ..read more

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” – Salvador Dali Overview Cat Museum is a surreal, side-scrolling, point-and-click puzzle adventure about a young boy who unexpectedly finds himself managing a cat museum! Developer: 751 Games Released: 17th March 2022 Price: £3.99/Free with IAP/£2.99 with IAP Platforms: Windows, Android, iOS Available on: Steam, Google Play, App Store Engine: Unity Gameplay Cat Museum offer a diverse selection of puzzles, such as memory games, inventory or logic-based conundrums, some dexterity an ..read more

Introduction Alwa’s Legacy is a Metroidvania game set in the world of Alwa, and the 32-bit sequel to Alwa’s Awakening. Beginning right after the previous game’s ending, gamer girl turned adept magician Zoe finds herself in the boots of the hero again, even getting a rude reunion with Vicar! Developer: Elden Pixels Released: 17 June 2022 Price: $17.99 Platform: PC, PS4, Switch Available on: GOG, itch.io, Steam, PSN, eShop Engine: Unity With all the gemstones and items she previously had gone, and even her staff knocked right out of her hands, will Zoe be able to fight off a much stronger ..read more

“No matter how busy and important you think you are, you cannot reject nature’s call.” Michael Bassey Johnson Overview Toilet Chronicles: Part 1 is a casual comedy-horror puzzle adventure in which players find themselves trapped inside a public bathroom and must find a way to escape! Developer: Madi Abdykarimov Released: 14th July 2022 Price: £6.69 Platforms: Windows Available on: Steam, itch.io Engine: Unreal Engine 4 Narrative Toilet Chronicles: Part 1 has a simple narrative premise, the player is trapped inside a bathroom and must find their way back to the party they have left ..read more