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Pulse-pounding 2D ninja action in 'Cyber Shadow' releases January 26, 2021

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Ready for some serious action-platforming with an awesome 8-bit inspired style? Cyber Shadow has been confirmed for release on January 26, 2021.

1C Entertainment to publish sci-fi fantasy arena FPS Viscerafest - coming in 2021

By Liam Dawe, 11 Dec 2020

1C Entertainment announced today that they've teamed up with Acid Man Games and Fire Plant Games as publisher for Viscerafest, their colourful retro themed sci-fi fantasy FPS.

Real-time grand strategy fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx arrives on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2020

Songs of Syx, a title currently in development and available as Early Access has now officially arrived on the DRM-free store GOG if that's where you prefer your games.

Luna's Fishing Garden is an upcoming chilled-out cozy fishing and building game

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2020

Coldwild Games have announced their latest game following on from the wonderful Merchant of the Skies, this time they're going with a very chilled-out game with Luna's Fishing Garden.

Bit - Animation Editor is now supported on Linux and it looks seriously slick

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2020

Bit - Animation Editor is a very interesting tool to help people compose and design animated pixel art. Created by the two-person Swedish indie game studio Morgondag.

The Darkside Detective: Season 2 becomes The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2020

Akupara Games and Spooky Doorway have announced that The Darkside Detective: Season 2 is going through a rebranding to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark and they released a new trailer too.

Godlike village building sim 'Rise to Ruins' is now available DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2020

A long time coming! The popular pixel-art village building sim that gives you god powers, Rise to Ruins, has now launched DRM-free on GOG.com. We also have some sales numbers for you.

Gravity Ace is an excellent take on classic twin-stick cave-flying and it feels awesome

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2020

Cave-flying is a genre that was big a very long time ago, now though not so much but Gravity Ace from John Watson entered Early Access recently and it's absolutely brilliant.

Ampersat is an upcoming hack and slash shooter where everyone is ASCII

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2020

Mixing together ASCII characters and enemies, along with a full colour world, the hack and slash shooter Ampersat seems like a rather unique blend.

Block-pushing puzzler 'Akurra' gains a Linux demo that needs testing

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2020

Made in the spirit of the classics like Chip's Challenge, Adventure's of Lolo, Sokoban, and Zelda and following a successful Kickstarter the upcoming Akurra has a demo now.

Petal Crash is an absolutely beautiful block-smashing match puzzler out now

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2020

Built like the arcade action-puzzlers of the mid-90s, Petal Crash is a very welcome addition to the block matching genre and is a joy to play.

High-speed precision platformer 'RITE' adds Linux support in a post-release update

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Ready for a fresh challenge? Conquered Celeste and want something more? Take a look at the high-speed precision platformer RITE which is now supported on Linux.

After a very dicey campaign end, A Fox Tale is funded on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

After looking like it wouldn't reach the goal, A Fox Tale from Danny Peet managed what looked to be almost impossible on the Kickstarter campaign which has now finished.

Graveyard Keeper 'Game Of Crone' DLC announced for late October

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild have announced a brand new expansion for Graveyard Keeper is on the way with Game Of Crone, after a long while of no updates.

Free pixel-art RTS 'The Fertile Crescent' adds walls, gates and siege units

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2020

Continuing to be one of the most interesting traditionally-styled real-time strategy games in development, The Fertile Crescent has a major new release available.

Funded and on the way to Linux, Dwerve mixes Tower Defence with dungeon crawling

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

After a slick limited-time demo and a Kickstarter campaign, the dungeon crawling / tower defence hybrid Dwerve has now managed to complete the campaign and get fully funded.

Be a ruthless 80s salesman and close those deals in Dirty Land

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2020

Dirty Land puts you in the shoes of Frank Marsh, a newly hired salesman for Pure Sky Properties, a real estate office where coffee is for closers and the status quo is hawking swamp land to unsuspecting buyers for a tidy profit.

Fantasy grand strategy city-builder Songs of Syx is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2020

As one of the most promising indie games this year, Songs of Syx has properly entered Early Access on Steam so you can try your hand at city-building with a grand strategy theme.