Games Featured:
- • RoadZ
- • Lumber John
- • Deep Sea Hunter 2
- • Catlateral Damage
AGE TEST! Skinnamarink-a-dinky-dink, skinnamarnik-y-doo, this Link Dump's for yooooooou... skinnamarink-a-dinky-dink, skinnamarink-y-doo, and these games tooooo... play as a kitty cat or go underneath the sea, chop through a retro forest but don't die from a zombie! Skinnamarink-a-dinky-dink, skinnamarink-y-do, this Link Dump's for yooooooou (I really mean it) this Link Dump's for yooooooou (because I wrote it) thiiiiiiiiiis Link Duuuuuump's foooooor yooooooou!
Games Featured:
- • Bustabrain
- • Mitoza
- • Evacuation
This Vault is only available to JayIsGames Premium Plus Members! Okay, that's a lie, because everyone should be able to enjoy these puzzle, interactive art, and strategy games from our archives.
Games Featured:
- • Walkers
- • Doctor Who: A Brilliant Game
- • Painter's Guild (Alpha)
- • Chicken Chaser
So I said to myself, "Self, what makes a Link Dump Friday?" And I said, "Why, energy and creativity and warmth and humour, of course." But I don't have any of that because it's been a looooong week, so have some man-on-squid violence, instant death, sonic screwdrivers, and artist enslavement instead.
Games Featured:
- • Splitter
- • The End of Us
- • Warp Forest
Surveyed the snowy situation, and decided to stay inside where there's things like fireplaces and browser games? Good call! Here in the cozy corners of the Vault we've got physics, interactive art, and puzzle games that'll keep you occupied until it's warmer. Like, in June.
Games Featured:
- • Fire Catcher
- • Shine
- • Guard of the Kingdom
- • Impressive Dog
New Year, same old Link Dump Friday! Defend a castle as a golem with a monstrous army, hack and slash your way through a fiery landscape from the creator of Zombotron, climb a tower with a fragile magical light as your only guide, and do your dog-gone best to impress a little girl and her mother as an agile and adorable puppy.
Games Featured:
- • Phage Wars 2
- • Heir
- • Portal Defenders
Too busy to read Tricky's Top 2013 Games of 2013? Then ring in the new year instead with these excellent strategy, platform, and fighting titles from the JayIsGames archives.
Games Featured:
- • Atomic Puzzle Xmas
- • Ziggy's Carol
- • Gift Rush
- • SNATA
Christmas has come and gone, but you can still savor the season in that grandest of traditions (leftovers!) with this pack if holiday games, from the lovely and serene, to the funky and bizarre.
Games Featured:
- • Snowing
- • e7
- • Wooden Path
Let's get straight to some early unwrapping with a trio of stocking stuffers from the JiG Archives. We've got escape, platform, and puzzle presents this week in the Vault, and they'll give to all a good night.
Games Featured:
- • Push It
- • L.I.F.E.
- • Not in My Dungeon!
- • Road of Fury
What do a rapidly growing baby falling from the sky, shape-shifting eternally warring blocks, a minotaur with perplexing housing design, and a whole lot of vehicular manslaughter have in common? Why, Link Dump Friday, of course! Also, I think all those words together online probably put you on some sort of FBI watch list. Yay!
Games Featured:
- • SeppuKuties
- • Indestruct 2 Tank
- • The Snowrider
Getting a little bummed out by all the Saturnalia hubbub? Unwind with a few platform, arcade, and action games in the JiG Vault that'll be sure to keep you occupied until the Steam Hiems Sale starts.
Games Featured:
- • Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
- • Outpost Swarm
- • Boss 101
- • Save Merlin the Pig!
Oh indie devs oh indie devs, how lovely are your game-ys. You give them to us free of charge, and you never even complain-ys. With aliens, and big boss fights, old retro dungeons, and desperate piggy flights. Oh indie devs oh indie devs, you truly are so awesome.
Games Featured:
- • Filler
- • Solipskier
- • Somnium Orbis
Here at JayIsGames, we're all excited about the rapidly approaching Launch Day for the TRICKYA game console! So all you people lining up at midnight had better be bringing trebuchets. But if you're more of an "indoor gamer" then this week in The Vault we've got some excellent puzzle, action, and interactive art games from our archives that'll warm your heart in their own special way.
Games Featured:
- • Holy Crap, Bears!!
- • TwinBots
- • Royal Offense
- • Find the Escape-Men 70: in the Snack Bar
On the first week of Christmas, my readers I give to thee... one nightmare of a camping trip, two doomed-from-the-start robots, a whole bunch of kingdoms that need sieging, and a bunch of green dudes in a snack bar!... well? When do you think Mariah Carey is going to get back to me about that duet, eh?
Games Featured:
- • Picma
- • Alter Ego
- • Anbot
All the various sales this week leaving you confused as to what day it is? Unwind with some great puzzle, simulation, and adventure games in this week's Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Flight
- • Cat Astro Phi
- • CoBaCoLi
We're thankful for a lot of things this week: we're thankful for action games, we're thankful for adventure games, we're thankful for strategy games, and we're thankful we get to share them with you in the JayIsGames Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Chicks Hide and Seek 13
- • Bell Park, Youth Detective
- • Dino Run: Enter Planet D
- • Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Doodle
Doctor Who. Girl detectives. Fleeing dinosaurs. Shy baby chicks. It's just another week, and another Link Dump Friday, with everyone from point-and-click puzzles to interactive fiction and arcade action!
Games Featured:
- • Fragger
- • Mirror's Edge 2D
- • Reincarnation: A Demon's Day Out
Whether your screen is at a 720p, 1080p, or 1085p resolution, the physics, platforming, and point-and-click games from this week's Vault will make for pleasurable playing... and hopefully you won't need to squint too much to see them.
Games Featured:
- • Moby Dick: The Video Game
- • Loops of Zen
- • Moonster Safe
Make a wish! Was it for action, puzzles and adventure in the JayIsGames Vault? Then great! Was it for a pony? Well... we can only do so much.
Games Featured:
- • Halloween 2013
- • Prehistoric Shark
- • Soul Job
- • The Hunting Lodge
A creepy game of cat and mouse, prehistoric shark destruction, snap-judgement judgement, and some last minute trick-or-treating... welcome to your Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • ReMake
- • Host Master and the Conquest of Humor
- • Oiligarchy
Need a break from remembering the fifth of November...ing? We've got puzzle, adventure and simulation games in this week's edition of the JiG Vault, and I see no reason why they should ever be forgot.
Games Featured:
- • Easy Joe 2
- • Shapes 'N' Mates
- • Magic Halloween Escape
- • 10 More Bullets
With chain-reaction shooting action, one final Halloween escape hurrah, a point-and-click puzzle about funky bunnies, and a lesson in fitting in delivered through puzzle form, this week's Link Dump Friday is a little eclectic, but that's how we like it!
Games Featured:
- • Dead Frontier: Outbreak
- • Monster Basement
- • Exmortis 2
Had enough apple-bobbing and Almond Joys? Well, this week, The Vault is featuring some spooktacular horror adventurers for the discerning trick-or-treater. Happy Halloween!
Games Featured:
- • Monster Manor
- • Plush
- • Zombie Goes Up
- • Vortex Point 3
Halloween is just around the corner, and this week's Link Dump Friday serves up three seasonal games that are juuuuuuuust a little bit creepy without actually being scary, and a whole bunch of stuffed animals to cuddle up with in case they freak you out anyway.
Games Featured:
- • Apples in the Tree
- • Do You Have A Grudge?
- • Postal Panic
Thanks to our careful, overly-elaborate planning, we've finally broken into the JiG Vault! And its contents this week are a trio of top-notch platform, adventure, and shooter games, for your gaming enjoyment, and playing them won't set off any alarms! I think.
Games Featured:
- • Harvest Escape
- • Derelict
- • My Little Gyony
- • Filmillion
You want random? Oh, I'll give you random! This week on Link Dump Friday, a group of bloodthirsty harvesters comes to life on a farm, a little worm thing goes on a bizarre adventure to bulk up in the strangest way, a ship overtaken by devouring pink goo, and a machine that knows every movie ever... maybe!
Games Featured:
- • Deep Chalk: First Phase
- • Zombies Took My Daughter
- • Four Second Firestorm
This week in the Vault, we feature some of the very best adventure, platform, and action games from the JiG archives, like no other games ever was.
Games Featured:
- • Zombocalypse 2
- • Gentle Gravity
- • The Exam
- • Player 2
Zombies, ransom notes, procrastination, and, just maybe, peace. This week's Link Dump Friday features everything from fast-paced shooting action to a concentrated attempt at failure.
Games Featured:
- • The House 2
- • Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
- • Agent 079
Need to lie low from the Los Santos Police Department? Pass some times with some excellent adventure games in this week's edition of the JayIsGames Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Social Dysphoria The Game
- • Bird of Prey
- • Mond Cards
- • Medieval Rampage 3
Social awareness as a shooter, the majesty of nature as devouring helpless woodland critters, a battle for your soul against a guy with no eyes and an alien in a thong, and bow-based arena shooting with a jaunty feathered cap. No, it's not the weirdest round of Whose Line is it Anyway?, it's Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Child of a Witch
- • Quest For The Rest
- • Nuclear Eagle
Not yet selected for the JiGtroller Gamepad beta-test? Relax instead with some excellent puzzle, adventure, and action games this week in The Vault.
Games Featured:
- • Love in the Dumpster
- • LittleBigMansion
- • My Father's Long, Long Legs
- • Puzzle Rescue Prime
Two people can't see the problems in their own lives. A man who can change objects with a snap of his fingers. A kid riding a magic, bullet-barfing turtle. This week's Link Dump Friday has something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • LightForce Games
- • Legend of the Gold Mask
- • Goldburger to Go
The challenge of a good puzzle can make everything else seem a bit less, well, challenging. This week in The Vault we have a nice selection of puzzle games from our archives, sure to provide variety, quality, and just plain fun.
Games Featured:
- • The Last Tango
- • Nested
- • Magi Story
- • Find the Escape-Men 62: In the Bakery
Dancing, bakeries, rude people, and life, the universe, and (literally) everything star in this week's Link Dump Friday featuring webtoys, action, interactive fiction, and illusive little green men who like to hide all around you.
Games Featured:
- • Slouching Towards Bedlam
- • You Are Lucky
- • MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction
Can't wait for the results of the Trickum Dare 72,000 Hour Game Jam? Bide your time with some classic interactive fiction, puzzle, and arcade games from the JayIsGames Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Hello Worlds!
- • Bow Street Runner
- • Pandemic 2
What's the weekly feature with old games of quality? T-H-E J-i-G V-A-U-L-T! And welcome Vaultkateers, to Anything-Can-Happen day at the clubhouse, where we're featuring some wonderful platform, adventure, and strategy games this week.
Games Featured:
- • Pony Creator v3
- • Escape from the Similar Rooms 5
- • Hoshi Saga 9
- • Typocalypse 3D
Zombies! Typing! Fairies! Ponies! Identical rooms! This week's Link Dump Friday has it all, serving up action, creativity, some escaping, and even a little point-and-click puzzle action. Awwwwww yeah.
Games Featured:
- • Z-Rox
- • Zap Dramatics: Ambition Series
- • Insidia
Next week, the Vault will be converting to 1DS format. So, if you see a line shoot across your computer monitor that makes you want to play favorites from the JayIsGames archives, that's what that is. This week, though, we've got puzzle, adventure, and platform games that are fun in quite a few dimensions.
Games Featured:
- • The Only One
- • Taquito Tower
- • Stay Alive
- • Whodunit
Ten seconds isn't a lot of time, but that was the theme of the most recent Ludum Dare competition! This week's Link Dump Friday features several of my favourite entries that played with the theme in some unique ways.
Games Featured:
- • El Complo
- • Miami Shark
- • Dismantlement: Radio
Welcome to The Vault's Back-To-School Special, where you get 50% off our already low, low, nonexistent, prices on quality works from the JayIsGames archives! This week, we'll be schooling you on a trio of excellent puzzle, action, and point-and-click games.
Games Featured:
- • Gold and Gems
- • Cookie Clicker
- • Canterlot Defender
- • Rise
- • Space Email
Two of the games in this week's Link Dump Friday are inspired somewhat by Candy Box!, which is sweet enough without one of them also being entirely about delicious cookies overtaking the world. Throw in some ponies throwing down and some zombies, because the law of the internet states that there must be zombies in everything now, and you have a recipe for awesome.
Games Featured:
- • Gimme Friction Baby
- • Take a Walk
- • Vision
Bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, and quality works from the JayIsGames archives... These are a few of my favorite things! This week the Vault has arcade, platforming, and escape titles to remind you of, and when you play them, well, then you won't feel so bad.
Games Featured:
- • Shambles
- • The Rogue Less Traveled
- • Poliphony
- • Golem
We gotcher zombies. We gotcher alien life forms. We gotcher mysteriously shifting forest paths full of obscure references and bizarre deaths. In short... we gotcher Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Exit Path
- • Record Tripping
- • Me and the Key
It can be tough being the mayor of a sovereign town, but fortunately The Vault is here to take off the pressure of office. Action, interactive art, and puzzle games should definitely help you kill some time... at least until the fireworks festival starts.
Games Featured:
- • Find the Escape-Men 59: Sultry Night
- • 1000 Years Ago
- • Flatland: Fallen Angle
- • CATDAMMIT!
What do you get when you cross a noir story with a pair of immortal magic-wielding horses, ten little green men, and a cat with a hygiene problem wielding a chainsaw? Link Dump Friday, obviously!
Games Featured:
- • Johnny, Why Are You Late?
- • When the Bomb Goes Off
- • Rings and Sticks
The Vault is cancelled! Goodbye!... Or not! This week we're featuring adventure, action, and puzzle perfection from the JayIsGames archives. Have at it, you media leeches!
Games Featured:
- • Attack on Titan
- • Pan Man
- • Aries Escape 11
- • Stealth Assassin
Take Attack on Titan, stick it in a locked room, and add in a guy whose only special skill is pancake flippin' and what do you have? This week's Link Dump Friday, of course! Escape, action, stealth and breakfast foods all in once place, just like momma used to make.
Games Featured:
- • Soap Bubble
- • Double Jeu
- • Gil
Let's face it: there's a certain masochistic edge to the summer season: So what better way to relax than this week's Vault's collection of ultra-tough-but-fair works from the JayIsGames archives, sure to frustrate you into a happy afternoon? We've got action, arcade, and platforming works that may be punishing, but boy, they hurt so good!
Games Featured:
- • Monkey GO Happy Guess
- • Find the Escape Men 57: Eel2
- • Rooms of Picture Completion Puzzles 26
- • THE HORNETS WOULD LIKE TO TALK
This week's Link Dump Friday is all about snack sized games! And when you think about snacking, you obviously think about monkeys, hornets, and little green men, right?... right?!... don't leave me hanging!
Games Featured:
- • Pizza City
- • Hedgehog Launch
- • Chaos Faction 2
We at JayIsGames are thrilled for the upcoming TRICKYA game console launch, but until we line up third-party support, we'll content ourselves with games from our archives. This week, driving, launch, and fighting titles will slake your thirst for quality gaming.
Games Featured:
- • Bayou
- • Where is the Button For Love?
- • Age of Umpires
- • Raspy Hill
This is my jam! Specifically, game jams are my jam! This Link Dump Friday features four games created for various themed online competitions, and trust me, that's about all they have in common. Embrace the strange.
Games Featured:
- • Silent Conversation
- • Gray
- • Clack
You can either spend a ton of cash at Crazy Tricky's VaporStore Summer Sale... or just stop by The Vault for some of the best games from our archives. This week, platforming, interactive art, and puzzles take center stage.
Games Featured:
- • The Gentleman
- • Nouserdake
- • The Maze
- • Skirt Quest
Skirts and spectres, tophats and books, and much more! This week's Link Dump Friday only has one theme... variety! From a game about trying to conform to your peers in high school, to a nightmarish run through a neverending tower full of monsters (also could be mistaken for high school!) there's something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • 9:05
- • Finding My Heart
- • Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman
Happy 9th of July! And, as you know, the traditional way to celebrate is by playing a few excellent titles from the JayIsGames archives! This week, the Vault features classic interactive fiction, adventure, and platforming titles for your perusal.
Games Featured:
- • Candy Ant Princess
- • Horse Master
- • The Choice
- • Lucky Peach Travel Game
Four games, four different spins on text-based adventures. Link Dump Friday takes you on a journey with bugs, horsies, hateful AI, and oceans made of delicious, delicious fruit that shows off the unexpectedly creative and delightful side of Twine and other formats of interactive fiction.
Games Featured:
- • Air Pressure
- • Doeo
- • Immortall
Caught inside during a summer storm like this fair reviewer is? Well, let the JayIsGames Vault can bring you a little sunshine, with an excellent visual novel, arcade hit, and interactive piece of art... no umbrella neccesar!
Games Featured:
- • Room of 1000 Snakes
- • Hyper Pixel Man
- • Yepi Forever
- • Robot Unicorn Attack Evolution
Snakes and aliens and spikes, oh my! This week's Link Dump Friday features some challenging platforming that's very old school, an alien with lead feet on a mission, a whole room full of snakes, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Clockwords
- • Fig. 8
- • Cyrkam Airt�s
We've heard the wishes of you, the consumer, and have decided to keep featuring the best of casual gaming past in the JayIsGames Vault. This week we've got some unique defense, action, and arcade titles to play around with, full backwards compatibility included.
Games Featured:
- • Man Eats Fish
- • Rose & Camellia 2
- • The Ladder of Kali
- • Coffee Mafia
Fishing. Slap fights. Ancient temples full of unspeakable evils and curses that sap the very life from your bones with every step. Do we know how to party here at Link Dump Friday or what?
Games Featured:
- • Back to the Cubeture Era 1
- • Gridz
- • Grid Game
It's time to get a little dark and griddy! And by that, I mean, this week in the JayIsGames Vault, we're featuring some great grid-based games. It's so hip to be square!
Games Featured:
- • Juggernaut: Awakening
- • Questopia
- • Kitt's Kingdom
- • Dream Fishing
I wanted to write something witty here about this week's Link Dump Friday, but now I'm all depressed because I wanted to do it as a creepypasta THEN WHO WAS PHONE style joke and I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Sigh. First world reviewer problems.
Games Featured:
- • The Visitor
- • Colour My Heart
- • I Wish I Were The Moon
It's safe to say that a lot of people are happy to see the old Link Dump Friday return. In LDF's honor, this week in the Vault, we're featuring classic titles from our archives that made their debut by gettin' down on Friday, Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Seasons
- • Save Kaleidoscope Reef
- • Effing Hail
This week in The Vault, lets take a look at some quality games from our archives with a suitably outdoorsy theme. Whether webtoys, arcade, or action is to your liking, they'll be the perfect way to beat the heat!
Games Featured:
- • The Dreamerz
- • K.O.L.M.
- • William and Sly
You know, it's tough being a casual-gaming pathfinder, heading deep into the archives to bring back quality games of all genres from whatever godforsaken rock they're hiding beneath. Fortunately, there are quite a few that have taught me the ways and means of exploration, and this week we're featuring them in the JayIsGames Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Omega Crisis
- • Star Relic
- • Gravitee 2
Captain's Log: Stardate: 52120.13: The Vault Commander wishes to share some of the greatest space games from the JiG archives. As this is well within the parameters of our five year mission, this week in The Vault, we now present a few classic action, strategy, and physics titles. End transmission.
Games Featured:
- • Tower of Heaven
- • Never End
- • My First Quantum Translocator
This week's edition of The Vault is sponsored by... I forget the name. I think it was Opening Science or something like that. Anyways, today we're featuring a selection of Portalesque games. A Portalesque is a puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic and a sadistic host. There'll be cake after the showcase, I promise!
Games Featured:
- • Doodle God
- • Epsilon
- • Enough Plumbers
What's a pirates favorite kind of onion? Arr, chives! And the pirates in our audience should be quite very happy, since this week's Vault has first-person omniscience, snarky lab guys, and multiplying plumbers pulled straight from the best of the JayIsGames archives!
Games Featured:
- • Magnetism
- • Industrial Place Thingy
- • Reelz
Get ready to be metagrobolized, lovers of ludo, by this week's collection of confounding complexities in the JayIsGames Vault. Whether you like your puzzles with sides of strategy, adventure, or luck, this selection from the archives is sure to satisfy!
Games Featured:
- • Klax 3D
- • Qix
- • Prince of Persia
With the recent celebration of JayIsGames' 10th JIG-iversary, it seemed like just the time to go retro with a collection of classic remakes from the mid-aughties. Join us this week in The Vault for an arcade blast from the past!
Games Featured:
- • Lucky Tower
- • One Chance
- • Pyoro
Come on in to Crazy Tricky's Vault O' Items, for all the best deals on things to clutter your inventory! And, for just coming in today, you get, absolutely free, three excellent action, adventure, and arcade games from the JayIsGames archives! Why? Because we're cuh-raaazy!
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:
- • 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!
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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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...
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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • Quest for the Crown
- • Gemcraft Zero: Gem of Eternity
- • Great Dungeon in the Sky
Sometimes, all you really need is the overwhelming pressure and crushing expectation that the obligation to save the world gives you. That's why this week's Vault is here to provide you with three titles with massive quests that will keep you busy for quite some time or else the world is doomed. So, you know. Get on that.
Games Featured:
- • Learn to Fly
- • A Small Favor
- • Submachine: Future Loop Foundation
- • Alchemia
Disney World? Paris? Tokyo? That's small time stuff, kiddo! This week you and I are gonna take a real vacation, and the Vault is full of just the right locations to visit. Help a penguin take revenge, escape from a surreal prison, and do someone else's dirty work as you hit some unusual locations up for a little R&R.
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