Will Quick
It really does feel like you’re watching a person grow up and helping them find themselves.
A powerful narrative story that targets your emotions holding back on the gameplay.
Dap is a tense horror game with vulnerable heroes and a lack of variety.
The Last Friend has you setting up dog-operated turrets and beating up bad guys in this fast but unchallenging game.
2D platforming meets top-down puzzling in an amusingly challenging and sometimes frustrating game.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a fast-paced Alien-based game with solid gameplay but limiting options
A wacky adventure romp with lots of variety and control troubles.
A short comedic adventure with little challenge that's enjoyable with friends or on a lazy afternoon.
Pupperazzi is a first-person adventure where you play as a camera with legs whose main purpose is to take as many photos of dogs as possible. It’s a very fun and wholesome experience that’s supported by a lot of free movement and simple colorful aesthetics. Sadly, it has problems mechanically that make the whole experience too easy, meaning it ends too quickly.
Tunche is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up that takes you on a rogue-type path through the Amazon rain forest. It has beautiful art to complement its diverse characters and enemy animations with a good amount of RNG to keep playthroughs fresh.
A humorous dating experience that pulls not punches, but is missing out on more activities.
A top-down fantasy adventure where you throw things at a limited range of monsters in a stiff world.
A 2D platformer with a good narrative and fun universe-switching mechanic that could use some difficulty and more variety.
Reverie Knights Tactics is a strategy game with lots of thought and beauty, yet is somewhat punishing.
TOEM is a serene and silly photographic journey with a few technical bumps
Encased is a strategy RPG with lots of depth and options that suffers from stiffness and imbalanced gameplay
Unbound: Worlds Apart is a challenging puzzle-platformer with a cool mechanic and demanding precision.
Gloria Victis: Siege Survival is a tactical management game revolving around holding out against a Viking army. It’s visceral, challenging, engaging, and fun to play. It suffers from some technical and contextual issues while also lacking clarity but it’s still manageable. Any game can give you the power to destroy, but this one gives you the strength to survive.
It really feels like a cat’s journey, with some rich story-elements, and a nice balance between relaxed exploration and intense action sequences.
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is the new spin-off adventure by Yacht Club Games involving puzzling your way through a rogue-lite world. It looks and sounds great while offering a variety of fast and challenging gameplay.