The White Diner by HawkSandwich is yet another in a long list of games made for jams for which the developer has neither the time nor resources to make anything particularly elaborate. The best of these games tend to be the result of focused vision on one or two particularly […]
Rainy Day by Toulou is a very promising platformer demo available to play for free in your browser via itch.io. The game, in its current form, is very short. The few available stages, most of which consist of an early-game tutorial, are playable in minutes, but as the difficulty scales […]
Pieces: Flint is a very short puzzle game by developer kimsan, available for download on itch.io. It’s shorter than I expected, actually, and from what I could gather the solution is much more straightforward than I originally assumed. The Unity game is split into three chapters, denoted by three stanzas […]
David Lynch Teaches Typing is an absolute delight. It’s easy for me to say that, as a diehard fan of Lynch’s work and as a complete sucker for weird shit like this, but I am being completely sincere. I love everything about this. I won’t even attempt to feign neutrality […]
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK by alienmelon, a.k.a Nathalie Lawhead is an incredible game. Scratch that, it’s an incredible achievement, regardless of medium. This funny, sad and deeply personal work is so rich and vast I hardly know where to begin picking it apart, but I’ll try to match […]
Embrace is a short browser game by developer Trasevol_Dog, in their tool of choice, PICO-8. This tool is a virtual console that uses a programming language called Lua, and is ideal for making small, straightforward, “retro”-looking games that might make you reminisce about old Atari, NES or arcade games. Embrace […]
I won’t mince words; Flamingo Quest by TheWaether is extremely my shit. It’s a short, standalone game set in “Top-Secret Neon-Pink Planet Universe” a domain created by the developer made of chunky, low-poly graphics and contrasting pink and blue pastel colours. Flamingo Quest looks like an old PlayStation game, and […]
The Shape on the Ground by somewhat is a very theatrical Rorschach test. The language in the two guides for the game (one for patients, one for practitioners), describes it as a kind of psychological evaluation test, but there is no clinic, nurses, doctor, or for that matter, people. The […]
The Secret of Dank Mountain by adamgryu is a game best played stoned. A PC Gamer blurb about the game is quoted in bold at the very top of its itch.io page as reading, “I don’t get what’s so dank about this pleasant mountain range.” Ah, I’ve solved your problem. […]
New Ice York is a short adventure role-playing game by developer magicdweedoo. Set in a speculative near-future where New York City has mysteriously frozen over, the game follows the investigative efforts of a man we know only as “Detective”, and the city’s “Top Agent.” The game is reminiscent in structure […]