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Games Featured:
- • Ghostly
- • Block Fortress
- • Gemini Rue
- • NES-Retku
Ghosts return in this edition of Mobile Monday! Real ghosts (well, virtual representations of real ghosts) plus ghost-like games we all thought were gone but have come back to haunt us. The good kind of haunting!
Games Featured:
- • Final Days
- • Spellirium
- • Something Fragile
- • Terraria
- • Sully: A Very Serious RPG
- • That Dragon, Cancer
Words are great, and in this week's Link Dump Friday they're also magical! But if words aren't your thing (YOU MONSTER!) we also have steampunk clashing with magic, Terraria's long-awaited return to PC content, a not-so-serious RPG, and more!
Games Featured:
- • OUT file#01
- • Sagrario's Room Escape
- • The Great Living Room Escape
- • Trapped Part 1: The White Rabbit
We all have moments when we feel the need to escape, that's why the room escape genre is one of the most popular on the internet. That's why, in this week's Vault, we're featuring four clever escape games that contain all we love about escapes, including all the features that make being locked up in a strange room desperate to escape such an enjoyable pastime.
Games Featured:
- • Fist of Awesome
- • Nimble Quest
- • The Room 2
- • Epic Pirates Story
Really, all you need to know about this edition of Mobile Monday is that is contains both bears and beards. There might be some other stuff to look at, but it's totally overshadowed by the sheer awesomeness of those two nearly identical nouns.
Games Featured:
- • Torchlight 2
- • Mew-Genics!
- • The Haunting of Magnolia Manor
- • Catequesis
- • Ib
- • Analogue: A Hate Story
- • Hate Plus: ~Mute's Golden Days~
- • Anodyne
- • DreadOut
- • Ghost of a Tale
- • Outlast
- •
There might be monsters and ghosts you won't be able to fight in this week's Link Dump Friday, but there are also heroic mice, mutated kittens, complex emotional AI, and a whole lot of action-packed adventuring to round it out.
Games Featured:
- • Pillage the Village
- • Varicella
- • Strategy Defense
This week, The Vault gets medieval, as we present excellent action, interactive fiction, and strategy titles from the JayIsGames archives. Awesome is coming!
Last weekend, our roving reporter, Steve, went to PAX East 2013 in Boston. He returned with over 50 interviews from the developers in The Indie Megabooth, as well as a chat with Extra Credits writer James Portnow.
Games Featured:
- • Deck War
- • Wayward
- • iCycle
- • Sorcery
No tricks in this Mobile Monday. Not a one. Just because it's that April 1st holiday thing doesn't mean we have to participate, right? We're still recovering from the massive influx of news from the two recent game-centric events. We've read all the news and carefully selected the most awesome bits to share with you. Because you're awesome. No tricks!
Games Featured:
- • Broken Age
- • Papo &
- • Yo
- • Knights of Pen and Paper +1
- • The King's League: Legend of Grimrock
- • Odyssey
- • BLEAK
- • Planet Explorers
- • Power Jam: Roller Derby
- • Ib
It's another super-sized edition of Link Dump Friday! Freeware horror hit Ib gets a massive new update with new content, a gripping console hit about family relationships comes to your PC, Double Fine's captivating new adventure that shattered Kickstarter records is revealed, and much more.
Games Featured:
- • Dog Fight 2
- • A House in California
- • Red
Come and check out the action, artistic, and arcade titles in BuildAHumbleIndieRoyaleGalaStarsInABox Bundle XVII. And, by that, we mean, the wonderful games from the JayIsGames archives in this week's Vault!
Games Featured:
- • NonoCraft
- • Tilt To Live 2
- • Pixel People
- • Unmechanical
So many new games! It's like, why can't the future be here now? Or, why can't the games I'm bored with be not here while the exciting games I don't have be here? And why can't a normal day at the office be more like a video game?!
Games Featured:
- • Witch/Knight
- • Bloom: Memories
- • Barista Blast
- • Soundodger
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Sweatshop
- • Transistor
- • Bastion
- • Ninmu Nanmu
- • Fez
- • The Castle Doctrine
It's a super-sized Link Dump Friday because the news is out of control! We lead off this week with a hugely popular former XBLA exclusive heading for a PC release and the next game from Bastion's developers, but there's plenty of other things to get excited about too! NaNoRenO brings new visual novels, Jonas Kyratzes' latest Lands of Dream has what it needs to succeed, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Poco Parco
- • The Day
- • Tower of Greed
This week, we join new weekly columnist, Tricky, as we feature some wonderful puzzles, adventure, and action from the JayIsGames archives, in this week's Vault!
Games Featured:
- • 10000000
- • Hiversaires
- • Number Lux
- • Little Things Forever
Geeky times call for geeky games, and this edition of Mobile Monday shows no shortage of said stylings. We've got a gorgeous point and click puzzle game, a math-driven roguelike, and a so-very-retro puzzle hybrid crossing from iOS to Android. We'd love to quote Maximus from that old gem of a film Gladiator about being entertained, but that'd be a bit expected, wouldn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Minecraft
- • Resonance
- • Chrono Trigger
- • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- • Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- • Wadjet Eye Games bundle
Horror, merit badges, and... rapping over one of the most beloved JRPGs of all time? Hmmm. Anywhere else, that wouldn't make any sense. But here, throw in a sale of a pack of celebrated indie point-and-click adventures, some crafting, and it's just another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Defend Your Honor
- • Llama Adventure
- • Stealing the Diamond
A snicker, a snigger, a giggle and a guffaw... some games are better than others at drawing them out of you, and for these three gems, that's the whole point! Performing a daring and reckless robbery, solve puzzles as a llama, and lead the quest to recover the Golden Walrus in this week's weird Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Third Eye Crime
- • Angry Birds HD
- • Virtual Families 2
Time to get some thieving in! And we're not just talking about games that feature thieving. It's also games being given away for free, which is sort of thievery. Not really, but it sounds a little more exciting when you think about it that way.
Games Featured:
- • Torment: Tides of Numenera
- • Avadon 2: The Corruption
- • A Bird Story
- • To The Moon
- • The Walking Dead
- • The Adventures of Dash
Normally if you snooze, you lose, but at least one of the games in this week's Link Dump Friday features a hero who sleeps his way to and through adventure! Tack on some zombies, a sequel to a celebrated indie RPG, the next chapter in a story about dreams and memories, and a little spiritual succession to one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and you have a recipe for success!
Games Featured:
- • Dale and Peakot (Full)
- • Reachin' Pichin
- • CycloManiacs
What's in an upgrade? Is it a clever way to make the player work for their power? Or an even cleverer way to make the player grind through your game? This week on the Vault, we take a look at three games that do upgrades right, from doing backflips on a bike in space, to chickens capable of rendering wolves unconscious with a headbutt.
Games Featured:
- • Gravity Duck
- • Puzzle Retreat
- • Pangolin HD
Mobile games, assemble! Form of... other kind of mobile game! From HD updates to cross-platform shifts, there's no end to the migration mobile games can make. But, really, whatever. As long as we get the goods!
Games Featured:
- • The Banner Saga: Factions
- • Don't Starve!
- • Leap Day
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Back to Bed
- • Mew-Genics!
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Back to Bed
A houseful of genetically enhanced kittens. A dimensional-warping, child-stealing monstrosity. A tribe of Vikings to be lead to victory. And Wilson, who's still stuck thanks to that darn demon, and now we know why. Packed with the weird and wonderful, it's another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • The Moving Game
- • Treasure Box
- • Rumble Ball
Welcome! Ladle you some games from our extensive archives? How about a lovely 2005 from the Boxeau province? Or a vintage 2004 with an eloquent bouquet from Boxine? Try the 2010 box from Boxage because, well, just look at those legs!
Games Featured:
- • Plants vs. Zombies
- • MANOS - The Hands of Fate
- • Dragon Portals
- • The Sandbox
Chewed -up gum and knobby knees are the dominant mental images one may experience while reading this edition of Mobile Monday. That, and the incessant repetition of Torgo's four second theme song running over and over again, never stopping, just looping. Forever.
Games Featured:
- • 99 Spirits
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • There Came an Echo
- • Blackwell Epiphany
- • Hotline Miami
- • Depression Quest
One heck of a messed up family, voice command in SPAAAAAAAAAACE, masks and mayhem on your TV, and much more on this week's Link Dump Friday... including the beginning of a brand new chapter in the celebrated adventure series from Jonas Kyratzes.
Games Featured:
- • Time Kufc
- • Electric Box
- • Shift 3
What's better than games? Creating and sharing levels of your favourites to delight your friends... or confound them! A level editor is often one of the most overlooked and underappreciated addition to any game, and here are three of our favourites that let you muck around in the developer's sand box.
Games Featured:
- • Year Walk
- • Sword and Poker
- • Forever Lost
Here's a trend we wouldn't mind seeing proliferate: games releasing alongside reference guides. Sure, you see the word "reference" and automatically think "boring" and sure, it's not a good idea for every game to do this, but in the case of Year Walk, a game based on Swedish folklore, a companion release that features more detailed mythological information is an amazing idea. Now we're almost more exciting about the companion than the game itself!
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Fighting is Magic
- • Slender
- • Dreamfall Chapters
- • Kingdom of Loathing
- • The Longest Journey
- • Delver's Drop
- • Death Inc.
There's good news, bad news, and one seriously impressive milestone in this week's Link Dump Friday. How can you go wrong with implacable horror, brawling ponies, sarcastic questing, and three sincerely awesome Kickstarter campaigns?
Games Featured:
- • Crush the Castle
- • The House 2
- • ...But That Was [Yesterday]
Randomly searching around on the internet isn't always a good idea since you can find some horrifying things, but randomly searching through our archives is ALWAYS a good idea since you can find some awesome things!... some of which are also horrifying! Here are three games from our archives chosen at random with little in common beyond simple greatness.
Games Featured:
- • Beastie Bay
- • VVVVVV
- • Inbetween Land
Tantalizing secrets are before you! What do you do? A: Take the secrets. B: Tantalize the secrets back. C: See if the secrets secrete anything. D: Some of the above. Make your choice by closing your eyes and imagining with all your might!
Games Featured:
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- • Golem
- • Kingdom Rush
- • Quadrilateral Cowboy
February is here, when a young gamer's fancy turns to thoughts of... still more games. What, you thought it was gonna be somethin' about smoochin'? Gross! Why swap spit when you can get ready to play more Kingdom Rush, turn on all the lights in preparation for Slenderman, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Sprocket Rocket
- • Specter Spelunker Shrinks
- • Blocks With Letters On
What's rad? Puzzles! Also British inventor enthusiasts and beleaguered dogs. And snarky, sadistic anagrams. And blobby heroes who can grow and shrink at a command. All those things are great, which is why this week's Vault focuses on puzzles with twists.
Games Featured:
- • Magicka: Wizards of the Square
- • Lumino City
- • Little Inferno
You know you're in for a good week when a Magicka is announced for a mobile system! Maybe the new game will shed some more light on that whole Vlad-vampire mystery? Like, seriously, who would ever think he's a vampire? Ever?
Games Featured:
- • Dwarf Fortress
- • Hatoful Boyfriend
- • Leap Day
- • The Fabulous Screech
- • Botanicula
- • Ritual Dementia
- • Asylum
There're horrifying things in this week's Link Dump Friday! But if that's not your thing, there's also more surreal pigeon romance for everybirdie, dwarven legacies, addictive co-op building, and much, much more... to say nothing of the results of the voting for our Best of 2012!
Each year our "Best of" the year awards keep getting bigger and better with more votes cast as our audience grows in size along with our appetite for better gameplay experiences, and 2012 was an excellent year for excellent games! Just take a look at all the creative wonders that have earned the title of "Best of 2012" and see for yourself!
Games Featured:
- • Fault Line
- • Dual Transform
- • I Have 1 Day
Jumping and sword-swinging are small-time mechanics. Warping the lay of the land or the very reality around you? Now we're talking! Here are three very different games that let you control the world around you in some seriously cool and unexpected ways.
Games Featured:
- • Kairo
- • Pixel Defenders
- • Stingout
- • Dungelot
Do you ever stare at your iPhone or Android phone and just ask it what the heck it thinks it's doing? Sitting there, sucking power out of the battery, awaiting your commands like some sort of obedient machine. And then, when you're playing a game and suddenly fail, why it made you do that? Because you totally had the skills to pull that jump off, it was your phone's fault you missed it. Your phone's fault...
Games Featured:
- • Ib
- • Homesick
- • Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
- • Among the Sleep
- • Treasure Adventure Game
I don't know about you, but I like to kick off my weekends with creepy cosplay, Metroidvania adventure, and science. Luckily, this week's Link Dump Friday has all three! From a commercial re-imagining and overhaul of the 2011 indie game of the year to a musical celebration of deadly technology, this week has something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • Zombotron
- • Realm of the Mad God
- • Starwish
What's in a shooter? A bullet by any other game is just the same... right? Wrong! This week on the Vault, we look at three games that turn the genre you think you know upside down, from multiplayer madness set in a blink-and-you're-dead fantasy world, to hilariously entertaining zombie destructive physics environments, and even a visual novel/horizontal shooter hybrid that will keep you involved for hours and hours...
The deadline looms for casting your votes for the best games of 2012! Vote once each day, every day, to choose your favourite games in every category, and then make sure to cast one single vote per day for the game you feel is the single best game of 2012, period. But act fast, since the voting closes January 23rd!
Games Featured:
- • Orbox B
- • Orbox C
- • Super Hexagon
- • Punch Quest
Who doesn't like a good animal hybrid? Especially that of the impossible type! One day in the distant past, mankind looked at centaurs with a sort of mystified awe. And today we gaze upon the Goaticorn and wonder "Can I get one of those IRL pls?"
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Spire
- • Dustforce
- • 10,000,000
- • Eternal Eden: Ecclesia: *un*Lucky7
This week on Link Dump Friday, we set sail for IndieGoGo where we discover two very intriguing projects... one a sequel to a 2008 indie RPG, and another a fur-filled horror puzzle adventure set in deep space. As a bonus, an absurdly addictive iOS hit comes to your PC, the Dustforce devs cook up something new, and Slender Man is right behind you.
Games Featured:
- • Coil
- • Looming
- • Friendship is Magic: Story of the Blanks
What freaks you out? Blood and guts? Mystery? Ambiguity? This week's Vault looks at three games that have sparked some of the best debate about what makes something unsettling, and highlights how very different that can be from person to person.
Games Featured:
- • Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
- • Dungelot
- • Dragon Flight
Quick! Think of your favorite mobile game! Now think about it ported to another system! Now pretend the impossible happened and something like Portal was ported to a graphing calculator. How funny would that— oh it totally happened, didn't it? Good for you, science!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... wait, wait no. It's totally just the best of times, because it's time for the Best of 2012! Tell you what, if Charles Dickens had had all the awesome games that came out this past year, his work would have been a darned sight cheerier. After all, how can you not be excited when you have games about uncoordinated unicorns, random fire hazards in space, stories as currency, ponies with a passion for dental hygeine, and kitties that force you to confront the harsh inevitability of death?
Games Featured:
- • Mamono Sweeper
- • Icycle
- • I Wish I Were the Moon
We always try to feature only games we think you'll love, but sometimes a game surprises even us by how much you want to love it and pet it and call it George. Here are three games that were unexpected hits, varying from naked tricycling to simply sweet interactive art.
Games Featured:
- • Astronaut Spacewalk
- • King Oddball
- • Dr. Stanley's House
It's backwards day on Mobile Monday! Instead of telling you about portable gaming's goings on, we're going to analyze historical examples of decidedly non-portable games. Did you know that Stonehenge is actually a massive in-progress game of tic-tac-toe? Or that the pyramids are the only remaining pieces of a game of chess? Your move, gargantuan space aliens.
Games Featured:
- • Hotline Miami
- • Dreadline
- • Fez
- • Dungelot
Coming up in 2013. A game with a hat the Doctor would approve of, and monstrous time-traveling mayhem... that the Doctor probably would NOT approve of, but he's not here right now, is he? Also: Hotline Miami gets evidence as to why it could never have been a text adventure, and an effortlessly addictive free casual roguelike gets an update.
Games Featured:
- • Manufactoria
- • Give Up, Robot 2
- • Robot Wants Puppy
Beep! The year is now 2013, so by now you have all been assimilated into robots. But don't be sad! Anticipating this, we've written this week's Vault as a series of robot-themed games to gently lower you into your new life as a cold, unfeeling mechanical monster. Hooray!
Games Featured:
- • Touch Detective
- • Sprinkle 2
- • Mew-Genics
Well, so much for 2012. Did you join the gym like you promised yourself you'd do? Finish that novel you were working on? Paint the house? Be nicer to strangers? Stop watching Jersey Shore reruns? If so, you're going to have to get creative for your new-new year's resolutions. Modest suggestion: play more good games?
2012 is wrapping up, but don't put it away in the attic just yet! Big Fish Games is celebrating with their Customer Favorites Awards sale, over 60 games chosen by customer votes to satisfy your taste for great games... on a budget! From now until January 3rd, enter code WINNER at checkout for any one (or more!) of these great games to get it for $4.99USD (excluding Collector's Editions.)
Games Featured:
- • Knytt Underground
- • Radio the Universe
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Memento: Aurora Chronicles
Giveaways? You bet! Aim for a chance at one of ten free copies of the latest indie adventure from beloved developer Nifflas... provided the latest trailer for Slender: The Arrival doesn't have you hiding under your desk.
Games Featured:
- • Yuki in Winterland
- • Grow Ornament
- • Christmas Escape 3
- • Sugar, Sugar: The Christmas Special
Happy Holidays from the Vault! As it swings open this Christmas day, we take a look at four different wintry and seasonal games that range from Christmas-heavy to Santa-lite for anyone to enjoy, regardless of what you are or aren't celebrating!
Games Featured:
- • Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- • About Love, Hate and the other ones
- • You Don't Know Jack
Hey! You did it! You survived the fabled Mayan-predicted apocalypse! How was it? Pretty ordinary, eh? Yeah, us too. Oh well. As long as we're still here, might as well keep playing games until the next apocalypse skates by.
Games Featured:
- • Knytt Underground
- • Penny-Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Three
- • Soul Gambler
- • Full Bore
Sell your soul, take a pig on an adventure, get lost with Knytt, or just make a pixel portrait in this week's Link Dump Friday! With some free DLC and some intriguing new Kickstarter projects, we've got you covered... unless the world has already ended and we don't exist anymore. In which case, you get NOTHING.
Games Featured:
- • Heart of Ice
- • Bad Ice-Cream
- • Colour My Fate
What's better than seeing something chilly while you're all warm and safe? This week's Vault features two games with frosty themes, from a platforming adventure to a classic maze arcade game, and one that will make you feel all warm and toasty inside as you bring colour and seasonal cheer back to a bleak world.
Games Featured:
- • Horn
- • Little Things Forever
- • Spell Sword
- • The Room
It's always fun when developers play nice with different mobile platforms, isn't it? This week, we've got several well-known games crossing over from one app store to another, spreading joy and cheer and other such happy words to all!
Games Featured:
- • Submachine 7
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • GameTron 1000
- • Meriwether: An American Epic
- •
Who needs the end of the world when you can stave off the apocalypse with more news and games on Link Dump Friday? This week; a crash course in basic game law, an HD version of one of the most popular point-and-click adventure games, Slenderman strikes a pose in a series of screenshots for the new upcoming commercial game, and more.
Games Featured:
- • All We Need is Brain
- • Vox Populi, Vox Dei (A Werewolf Thriller)
- • Double Edges
Sometimes you just want a li'l smash and a li'l crash! This week we've got you covered for whatever you need to get your blood pumping and ready to make you tackle Robocop or the Hulk and come out on top! Zombies, werewolves, gladiators... awwwww yeah!
Games Featured:
- • Final Fantasy 4
- • Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
- • Virtual Families 2
A pocket-sized family, one of the world's most ambitious RPGs stuffed into a smaller package, and a remade Final Fantasy game worming its way into the mobile market. It's all kind of amazing until you realize we're living in the super-futuristic year of 2012!
Games Featured:
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Welcome to Ponyville
- • The Last Door
- • The Cookening
This week's Link Dump Friday is so full of things they're busting out all over the place! From spooky orphanages to a marshmallow swamp, from creeping horror in England to making friends in Ponyville, and one sweet deal for any fan of indie games to boot. Awwwww yeah.
Games Featured:
- • Civilizations Wars
- • Cursed Treasure
- • Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Does the thought of a strategy game put you to sleep? It shouldn't! As this week's Vault proves, you can provide complexity and challenge without being put through a year-long training course! Here are three games that will have you thinking out your plan of attack, each with their own style and genre.
Games Featured:
- • Famaze
- • The Pyraplex
- • Bunny Cannon
So much cute! Bunnies and adorable adventurers! Pyramids that somehow look cute even though they're made of sun-baked sandstone! And news of a new Kairosoft release! Could life get any better? Oh, my chocolate pizza delivery has arrived!
Games Featured:
- • The Binding of Isaac
- • Sportsfriends
- • QWOP
- • Aquaria
- • Hotline Miami
The season is getting colder, stores are packed full of twinkling lights and mistletoe, and a young gamer's mind turns to thoughts of... mass murder and infanticide. Of course. But don't worry! Even if you're not into the icky-sticky, this week's Link Dump Friday delivers genre bending (and blending!), games with friends, and much more... including one gamer's heartfelt personal experiences with life and death that may make you cry.
Games Featured:
- • Elona Shooter
- • Castaway
- • Ge.ne.sis
What's in an RPG? As games continue to evolve and change concepts, that's changed significantly. Some of them might merely incorporate "RPG elements", while others rely on providing a story-lite, but in depth combat-oriented adventure, and still more offer up classic JRPG style with a twist. Here are three games who all serve up RPG gameplay, of sorts, in vastly different styles and ways.
Games Featured:
- • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- • Hotel Vegas
- • Chaos Rings Omega
This week's edition of Mobile Monday is like a soap opera! What we mean is Mobile Monday's long lost identical twin recently came to town and tried to seduce Mobile Monday's husband. What happened? You'll have to wait for the next episode! Gasp and shock and awe!
Games Featured:
- • Eschalon Book III
- • The Message
- • Legend of Dungeon
A message from somewhere out of this world, a dungeon you can blast and smash your way through with up to three more buddies, the epic conclusion to a massive open-world RPG indie trilogy... hope you're not too burnt out from Thanksgiving/Black Friday/saving children from burning orphanages for this week's Link Dump!
Games Featured:
- • REDDER
- • Viricide
- • The Trader of Stories: Bell's Heart
Thinking compelling, memorable stories can't be found in browser games is a mistake, and on this week's Vault we look at three games that take very different approaches to delivering their narrative. From a near-wordless space platforming adventure, to a shooter taking place inside an AI, and a point-and-click adventure about a girl who deals in unusual currency.
Games Featured:
- • Game of Thrones
- • Kung Fu FIGHT
Hey there. How would you like a mobile game based on Game of Thrones? Well, you might just get it! Or you might not, it all depends on how far off the rumor mill is turning. As long as there's a mini-game centered around dropping dung on Joffrey, we'll consider it a success.
Games Featured:
- • Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode Three
- • Maia
- • Retro Game Crunch
- • Primordia
- • Papa's Hot Doggeria
- • Barkley, Shut Up And Jam 2
Skulls in jars, world-shattering basketball, sullen robotic heroes... yep, it must be Friday! There are tasty things afoot this week, from hotdogs to hostile alien environments. What more could you possibly want? I mean, aside from robot hounds with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at intruders. Otherwise, we've got you covered.
Games Featured:
- • Guardian Rock
- • Red Remover
- • Upgrade Complete
Innovation? It doesn't have to be as elaborate as you think! The three games starring in this week's Vault prove all you need is a talented developer to get every drop of cleverness and entertainment out of simple, familiar gameplay concepts and make something as engrossing and entertaining as a fancier title.
Games Featured:
- • Waking Mars
- • Woodhead
- • illo
Beginning your weekly journey to continued financial/scholastic success, might we suggest you take a peek at what games are currently brewing for your future enjoyment? Or perhaps have already been brewed for your present enjoyment? They've got nothing to do with actual brewing, just space and wooden blocks and stuff, which is better.
Games Featured:
- • Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
- • Sir, You Are Being Hunted
- • Another World
- • Analogue: A Hate Story
- • Hate Plus
- • Skyscrapers
Love, Hate, puzzles and more make up this week's Link Dump Friday! It also features a very talented little girl, robots with weaponry and a taste for your blood, and a fan-made HD remake of a classic adventure game's intro sequence that's truly... out of this world!
Games Featured:
- • Cryptograma
- • Bill the Demon
- • Puzzle Boy
The outlook isn't good on the JayIsGames Arcade Megaplex Startkicker campaign. So far, we've only received $7.50 in pledges, and I think that may have been by accident. Oh well, at least there's all the wonderful games in the archives to console me. Today in the Vault, we have a bit of cryptically challenging wordplay, a demonically delicious piece of platforming, and some super sliding Sokoban ripe for the solving.
Games Featured:
- • Nightmare Runner
- • Clumsy Cat
- • Endless Escape
Hello, and welcome to Monday! How was your weekend? The usual? Yeah, we know that feel, bro/sis. How about a little mobile news to take your mind off the fact that it isn't the weekend anymore? Escape games? Running games? Yes? Yes!
Games Featured:
- • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- • Atticus and Boy Electronic
- • Spud's Quest
Kickstarter has done wonder for games, but what about consoles? Well, there's at least one that looks to be a budding success! Ouya developments, a new teaser trailer for the sequel to Amnesia: The Dark descent, and more on your one and only Link Dump Friday.
Games Featured:
- • Jinx: A Dark and Stormy Night
- • Ghostscape 2: The Cabin
- • Haunt the House
- • Phantom Mansion: Spectrum of Souls
- • Project Pravus
Like your games to be super scary? Or just a little spooky? Whatever your tastes, this week's supersized edition of the Vault has something for you as we feature some of our favourite Halloween-y games from years past, from puzzles to point-and-clicks!
Games Featured:
- • On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode Three
- • Grace's Diary
- • GYRO
Slippery slopes and gyroscopes! Diary pages and dinosaurs on rages! More of our collectively beloved games from various platforms are making their way to the mobile scene, and we're as pleased as unlimited data plans (remember those?) to have them aboard!
Games Featured:
- • SCP - Containment Breach
- • Rainbow Nightmare: Libra
- • Mew-Genics
- • SHAKER
There's a lot happening in this week's Link Dump Friday, from a new adorable (but disturbing) project from the mind of Team Meat, to robotic babes, to making interactive fiction easier and more accessible to make and play. And don't blink. Whatever you do, don't blink.
Games Featured:
- • Full Moon
- • Hoosegow
- • The Fabulous Explorationsland
Now that our most recent Casual Gameplay Design Competition has come to a close, maybe you're wondering which of the other games from past competitions you should delve into next. There are a lot of wonderful creations that began their life as CGDC entries, and here are three selections to bring out your imaginative, exploratory talents with three very different methods of gameplay.
Games Featured:
- • Don't Look Back
- • Granny Smith
- • Star Command
Here's something to mull over as your workweek begins: Don't Look Back, a free mobile release from Terry Cavanagh, does exactly what its name forbids by being a port of a 2009 browser game. Granny Smith is both a granny and a member of the Smith family, whereas Star Command actually lets you command stars—wait, it's a starship commanding game? Oh. Well. Then. Nevermind!
Games Featured:
- • Kat Attack!
- • Motherload
- • Super Motherload
- • Flightless
Space pirates and visual novels... multiplayer arcade revival of a much-loved mining classic... dungeon-delving ducks with magical ladders... there's a lot of weirdness to be found in this week's Link Dump Friday, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
Games Featured:
- • Dark Cut (1 & 2)
- • The tin Soldier
- • Intruder
Halloween is galloping towards us, so it's time to enjoy some deliciously creepy gaming treats, ranging from "eh" to "OH NOES" on the scale of fear. A macabre toy story, an up close and visceral medical simulation, and a horrifyingly tense game of cat-and-mouse will be just the ticket to get you ready for the season. Pleasant dreams.
Games Featured:
- • Angry Birds
- • Chaos Rings
Courtroom news? How dare we include something as boring as legal stuff! Don't worry, though, because it's happy law news, not sleep-inducing law jargon. And it'll make you happy, too!
Games Featured:
- • A Game of Dwarves
- • Kingdom Rush
- • Hotline Miami
- • Songmasters
Dwarves, warfare, and Miami... oh, my! This week; two new upcoming releases that are very, VERY different, a spotlight on the creativity of the indie community by none other than PBS, music as a weapon, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Twin Shot 2: Good and Evil
- • Tasha's Game
- • This is the Only Level
What type of games make you feel good? They might be puzzle games that make you feel like a genius, or platformers that allow you to unleash dazzling feats of dexterity... or they could simply be games that you find silly, colourful, or quietly brilliant. Check out these three games, and then let us know which games you play for a quick pick-me-up when you're feeling blue!
Games Featured:
- • Noby Noby Boy
- • Devil's Attorney
- • Sonic Jump
What? Sad news on a Mobile Monday? Sad indeed, fellow gamers. But not without a couple of shots of happy, too. In fact, we'll even argue that the happiness outweighs the sadness, with respective scores of 1.64 and 1.47 as measured on the Jack McBrayer Smile Scale!
Games Featured:
- • BasketBelle
- • Nythros
- • Charnel
- • Slenderman: The Orphanage
- • Slender
This week on Link Dump Friday! A sale for a surreal experimental game about family and sports, an upcoming alpha release for an action RPG, more face time with everyone's faceless terror, and more! Plus, a little girl using video games to cope with her condition, and what Kickstarter means (or doesn't mean) for gaming innovation.
Games Featured:
- • The Chzo Mythos
- • Iji
- • An Untitled Story
This week's Vault goes free... freeware, that is! We showcase some more of our favourite free download titles made by indie developers with a whole lot of talent. From an unsettling point-and-click adventure series about untold horror to classic, engaging Metroidvania action adventure, it's a veritable feast of free gaming.
Games Featured:
- • Jetpack Joyride
- • Oceanhorn
- • Scorcery!
Anybody up for some mobile teasing? A fresh batch of news for a fresh week (and month!), just enough details to get you excited for the future but not so much that you'll feel like you know it all. It's a delicate balance to taunt the internet reader, isn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Anodyne
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Olvand
- • Oozengard
What's on this week's Link Dump Friday? Well, everyone's favourite unspeakable horror gets a business partner and a new upcoming commercial release, a mysterious slime invades your smartphone and overtakes a city, you get the chance to dig through dreams both surreal and unsettling with classic 2D action, and developers talk about what they think made their games tick... and more!
Our 10th game design competition today is concluded with the awarding of prizes as well as honoring all of the games that were entered. The "escape" theme was represented well, and one particular entry even sent chills down our spine, with its moody and evocative atmosphere, while trying to escape from a dream state.
Games Featured:
- • Windosill
- • Flash Element Tower Defense 2
- • Every Day the Same Dream
- • Today I Die
Games can be addictive, clever, innovative, cerebral, surreal, and a whole lot more... but as long as they're fun and you enjoy them, that's all that really matters! The archives of your Friendly Neighbourhood Casual Gameplay are filled with all sorts of games, and it can be difficult to try to pick a favourite type... so why bother when there's so much cool stuff worth checking out? Here are four very enjoyable little games who all are awesome for different reasons.
Games Featured:
- • Pocket Planes
- • Dark Nebula
- • Super Hexagon
- • QuestLord
It's an Android love party! As the free Google-made mobile OS turns four years old, several novel casual games make their way to the Google Play store, including one of our all-time favorites, Pocket Planes! And since the green robot is doing so well, developers are working to release even more ports and original games, ensuring you'll never use your phone for phone calls (whatever those are).
If another attack happens to us I can promise you that we will act immediately to take the site down until we can address the situation, like we did this time, to protect you, our visitors. There just isn't anything more important to us, and we want to assure you that we work very hard to protect that relationship as well as maintain a safe browsing experience for everyone, but there's really no way to ensure something like this will never happen. All we can do is try our very best, and to resolve any situation that arises as quickly and efficiently as we can.
Games Featured:
- • Baldur's Gate
- • Project Eternity
- • Nevermind
- • Sealark
- • Loren The Amazon Princess
Comics, adventure, vampires, pulse rates, and even more make an appearance on this week's Link Dump Friday. Webcomic xkcd showcases just how amazing the world really is, your adventure continues with a boneheaded amazon, Baldur's Gate gets a delay, and the next big RPG might just be on the horizon.
Games Featured:
- • Factory Balls
- • Sprout
- • Liquid Colors
What's in a theme? Simple phrases can be interpreted so many ways, and when it comes to our Casual Gameplay Design Competitions, the developers who enter come out swinging to deliver bigtime with games that interpret the chosen themes in drastically different fashions. This week's Vault takes a look at three of our favourites as we gear up to judge the current 10th Casual Gameplay Design Competition.
Games Featured:
- • Field Runners 2 HD
- • DOOORS
- • The Tiny Bang Story
HD this and updated that! Back in my day, we had to play the game as it was released and like it. Game-crashing bug? Deal with it. And we did. Why, sometimes we had to reprogram our own games while we were playing them. And did I mention we didn't have hands then, either? It's true...
Games Featured:
- • Legend of Grimrock
- • Slender
- • Terraria
- • Baldur's Gate
Horror, adventure, space hamsters, and much more await in Link Dump Friday! An urban legend continues its evolution, a fan-favourite sandbox RPG jumps to consoles, and you guys prove you have some deep, deeeeeep pockets when it comes to video games.
Games Featured:
- • Excit
- • Tiny Game, Arachnophilia: The Spider Web Game
Bugs, gems, and exit doors might seem like an odd combination, but not when you're talking about the Vault! A classic sliding blocks style puzzler, an exercise in itty-bitty exploration, and a night in the life of a spider building its web are all the stars.
Games Featured:
- • Bad Piggies
- • King of Dragon Pass
- • Year Walk
- • Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
According to this week's Mobile Monday, horses wear tuxedos, pigs are sinister, and pirates are a thing of nightmares. Unless you live your life by the Everything I Know I Learned from Video Games motto, your world probably isn't affected by this too much. Now, go back to stacking blocks in neat patterns. Just, you know, don't put them in groups of three or more...
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