A rhythm RPG. Combat is accomplished by playing through a song - your four party members each get a lane of scrolling button prompts similar to games like Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero. You can switch from character to character and getting a streak of correctly-timed hits for a given character will activate one of their abilities.
Originally made for the 2015 Now Play This exhibition on experimental game design, OASES is a meditative art piece that imagines what might have happened to the creator’s grandfather when his plane was lost in Algeria in 1960. There isn’t a lot to it - the plane goes through a rainbow portal into one of a few colorfully surreal landscapes, which the player can fly around for a while before going back to the menu.
An action RPG set in the One Piece universe. Play as the nine Straw Hat Pirates in an original story, visiting a number of areas based on their canonical adventures. Fight your way through enemies, catch bugs and go fishing, collect materials and explore hidden areas, and fight the boss at the end of the level.
An adventure game with retro graphics that frequently breaks the fourth wall. You play as a child named Niko, but you the player are treated as separate from Niko and occasionally addressed directly. Niko (who has no explicit gender but for convenience I shall refer to as male) wakes up in a dying world with no idea how he got there.
A game in which you play as a boy trying to find his handheld game console each day after his mother has hidden it. Each day is its own short level, which is a room-escape-like puzzle generally solvable in under a minute. They start fairly logical but quickly become totally unhinged, such as blocking your access to the cupboard containing your game with a constant stream of bicyclists.
A game in which you play as a boy trying to find his handheld game console each day after his mother has hidden it. Each day is its own short level, which is a room-escape-like puzzle generally solvable in under a minute. They start fairly logical but quickly become totally unhinged, such as blocking your access to the cupboard containing your game with a constant stream of bicyclists.
A short (one and a half hours or so) adventure game with a time travel gimmick. As a spiritual successor to Cat Poke, the structure and controls are quite similar. Walk left and right and occasionally into a door or up stairs, picking up anything you can because it’ll solve a puzzle later.
A simple and relaxing card game. Cards are placed into piles on the table with the layout varying between levels and generally becoming more complex as the game goes on. The player can deal cards from the remaining deck one at a time onto their foundation. The top card of a table pile may be moved onto the foundation if it’s one rank higher or lower than the foundation’s current top card, which reveals the next card in the table pile.
A 2D mining Metroidvania and a direct sequel to SteamWorld Dig. Like before, you dig up and sell ores, find and buy upgrades and new abilities, and periodically have platform challenges and a boss fight or two. But this time everything’s bigger and better. The world is larger and more varied and new powers have a much greater effect on how you traverse it.
A 3D platformer in the vein of the original Jak and Daxter or Ratchet & Clank that wouldn’t have been out of place releasing right next to them in the early 2000s. Play as silent cat person Skylar accompanied by chatty owl Plux and platform through diverse areas collecting pickups, fighting enemies, and solving the occasional puzzle.