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Games Featured:
- • Villainous
- • Mini-Putt
- • Galves Adventure
Da Big Game let you down? You can make some good moves of your own too, with this selection of strategy, sports, and point-and-click titles from the JiG Vault!
Games Featured:
- • The Scene of the Crime: Golden Doll
- • Poom!
- • Hans Hans the Biking Viking: Leaving Loki's Lockup
Right now, the JiG crew is consulting with our lawyers about an exclusive trademark the words "Vault" and "The" for exclusive use in online gaming articles. So until we can comment on this pending litigation, enjoy some wonderful adventure, arcade, and puzzle games from the archives!
Games Featured:
- • Synopsis Quest Deluxe
- • Cactus McCoy
- • Orbital Decay
Well, our dedicated team of upgradeable stickmen has finally delivered all the boxes to our new server, so that means you all can get back to what you all do best: talking about games and pointing out improper comma usage. So let's rechristen our new locale with a JiG Vault filled with fine shooter, action, and role-playing games.
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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • 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:
- • Make it Good
- • Floatpoint
- • Treasure Adventure Game
- • Game With a Kitty 1 and 2
- • RunMan: Race Around the World
- • The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
MAKE READY YOUR HARD DRIVES, YOUNG SQUIRE. This week's Vault mixes it up and highlights three popular free download games and then recommends three more you might not have heard of. Solve a mystery, travel to another world, prove you're the fastest in the land, or uncover a wealth of secrets... all without paying a dime!
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.
Games Featured:
- • Bureau of Steam Engineering
- • Give Up, Robot
- • Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar
Beep boop whrrrrrrrrrrr KLIK! That's "robot" for "You're looking nice today!" Though if you change the inflection a little it means "This week's Vault looks at three really different but really awesome robot themed games!" Which is kind of convenient as far as translations go. Shhhh, don't think about it. Just enjoy.
Games Featured:
- • Jungle Magic
- • Flashxed
- • Katamari Damacy Mini-Game
Want to be entertained? You don't need a lot of bells and whistles for it! This week on the Vault, we look at three games with simple concepts who prove that you can be just as engaging and maybe even more addictive than the big boys by piling just a big of flash and some charm on top of their simple premises.
Games Featured:
- • The Pretender: Part 1
- • Ice Breaker
- • FireBoy and WaterGirl: The Forest Temple
Walk on air, save a viking, and join forces with a dynamic duo who should be incompatible! On this week's Vault, we're looking at three different game series that incorporate the elements into their gameplay in vastly different ways. Whether you've always wanted to be the Avatar or are old like me and don't exactly know what the Avatar is but still like good games, these titles are unique, fun, and definitely puzzling.
Games Featured:
- • Mansion Impossible
- • 6 Differences
- • Escape From Rhetundo Island
I don't know much, but I do know this: That the JayIsGames archives is packed with a number of wonderful hits from the past. This week in The Vault we'll dive into the action-packed advergame housing market, pick peculiarities from a pack of nearly-identical photography, and guide a stickman through an obstacle course designed by a mad genius of point-and-click.
Games Featured:
- • The Company of Myself
- • Achievement Unlocked
- • Little Wheel
Italian plumbers and busty adventuring archaeologists get all the attention. This week, we look at some of our favourite flash gaming protagonists who are definitely more than a little unusual. Elephants, robots, and hermits? Oh, my! It's proof that anyone can be a star, no matter how little, lonely, or blue you are.
Games Featured:
- • Bars of Black and White
- • The Great Kitchen Escape
- • Gretel and Hansel: Part One
All you need is a mouse to play the point-and-click games in this week's Vault!... well... okay, and a computer. ... and some electricity... and I guess a house to put it in... and some soft pajama bottoms for comfiness... and some internet... but other than that a mouse is all you need!
Games Featured:
- • Chibi Knight
- • Fat Cat
- • The Last Canopy
We've got your boom-boom-boom this week on the Vault, with high-flying cats, bullet-slinging fairies, and one knight who might seriously reign indefinitely as "most adorable defender of the land". It's action time, so saddle up, strap on your lasers and sword, and get cracking!
Games Featured:
- • Lock 'n' Roll
- • Super Energy Apocalypse
- • Bubble Tanks Tower Defense
Whether you're a die-hard tactic enthusiast or a timid strategy newcomer, this week's batch of games offers up some varied and challenging gameplay for all players. From a suspiciously simple looking dice game to the end of the world as we know it (but we feel fine), they're great ways to engage your brain and have fun doing it.
Games Featured:
- • Small Worlds
- • Exploit
- • Chronotron
Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and girls of all ages! Come on down to JayIsGamesLand! The Casual Gameiest Place on Earth! We have some wonderful games in The Vault this week: a gorgeous piece of interactive art exploration, a high-stakes espionage puzzler, and a platformer that gives you all the time in the world. All of the fun, and none of the lines or sunburn!
Games Featured:
- • Charger Escape
- • Park
- • Grow RPG
What brought you here perusing through the pages of Jay Is Games? JIG has a long history of providing the perfect escape from (select from your list of snore-inducing or stress-loaded whatevers) with heaps of surrealism, fantasy and a little bit of oddness. This week's Vault selections aren't making any exceptions—make your heart smile with a sweet little escape-the-stables game, delight in discovery by playing with surreal artwork, and grow your sense of adventure through experimentation. So welcome to the JIG community. Kick back and stay a while!
Games Featured:
- • Synapsis
- • Bamba Snack Quests 1 & 2
- • Matt Sandorf: Journey to Endless Entertainment
Babies? Snacks? Magic cubes? Secret government projects? What could these games possibly have in common? Well, aside from the fact that they're all point-and-click adventures, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Haha! That's right! I'm sticking it to the man and making a Vault article where the games have nothing in common whatsoever apart from the gameplay and interface and execution and okay maybe two of them are advergames BUT THAT'S ALL.
Games Featured:
- • Alice is Dead: Episode One
- • Cyberpunk
- • The Scene of the Crime
Hire a jazz band to back you up, practice your "lurking around under lonely streetlight" skills, and order some fedoras because you're going sleuthing! The mystery game might not be as widely experimented with as other genres, but these three favourites prove that it can't be beat in terms of style, swank, and plot twists aplenty.
Games Featured:
- • How to Raise a Dragon
- • php Zork
- • Barbarian Onslaught: The Secret of Steel
- • Knightfall
Dungeons, dragons, drills, decapitations... what do they all have in common? Fantasy, of course! This week, we're putting on our +20% Boots of Coolness to dive deep into the Vault for some titles that have brought a little fantasy into our lives in vastly different ways. Don't forget to bring a candle. It's dark in here, and you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Games Featured:
- • Phit
- • Robot Unicorn Attack
- • BowMaster Prelude
- • Craziest
- • Kavalmaja
Everyone knows games can be hard to put down, but some titles are trickier than most to pull yourself away from. From magical robotic equine action to fiendishly simple block puzzles and even medieval archer madness, here's a collection of some of the most addictive little games around that can keep you up into the wee hours.
Games Featured:
- • Coma
- • You Find Yourself in a Room
- • Loved
Emotions can be powerful stuff, and few people ever expect to encounter them to any great degree when they set out to indulge in a little casual gaming. Of course, by now you should know indie developers are a clever, dastardly lot who will never pass up a chance to mess with your heartstrings (or your head) no matter what genre you're enjoying. Here are three games you should try if you'll looking for a very different gaming experience that makes you feel.
Games Featured:
- • Cube Colossus
- • Morningstar
- • Bermuda Triangle Escape
Feel like a little otherworldly gaming? This week's Vault features sci-fi titles that explore the genre with different gameplay. From a fast and furious shooter, to an eerie underwater escape, and even a professional-looking adventure set on an alien world, these games provide the perfect bit of escapism from your Earthly day.
Games Featured:
- • Proximity
- • Climate Challenge
- • StarShine
Things have been pretty tough this spring on Tricky Farm in JayIsGamesVille. First, I wasn't able to get enough invite responses to save ol' Bessie. Then, after forgetting to check in every seventeen minutes, the whole sorghum crop dried out. At least, I know I can always look to the JIG Archives for a bumper harvest of fun. This week, we have some gateway strategy games that are sure to take your mind off any agricultural trouble.
Games Featured:
- • Robot Wants Kitty
- • Sushi Cat
- • Space Kitteh
- • Copy Cat
- • Flash Cat
We're pulling out the whole kittenkaboodle for this week's supersized Vault, celebrating all things fantastically feline in our favourite games. They're cute, they're cuddly, they're destructive, but we love them anyway, whether we're chasing after them, stuffing them with fish, or piloting them through space.
Games Featured:
- • Questionaut
- • The Blue Beanie
- • Pieces
Kids just wanna have fun, and there are a lot of games our there that are tyke-accessible without being too silly or insipid for us big kids to boot. This week's Vault looks at three kid friendly games we love, and love to enjoy even if we've long grown out of mandatory bed times and superhero undies ourselves.
Games Featured:
- • Aunts and Butlers
- • Violet
- • Suveh Nux
When you play games, do you carefully read and pay attention to every bit of dialogue on the screen, or do you just start mashing buttons to get to the good stuff? In the case of this week's Vault, the words are the good stuff as we shine a spotlight on three of our favourite games in the underutilized genre of interactive fiction.
Games Featured:
- • Amorphous+
- • Cursor*10
- • Bubble Islands
Journal Entry 77 - It will soon be over. The monsters are at the door. So before I recklessly solve that final puzzle, and inevitably turn into a zombie, I leave to you another collection of classic games from the JayIsGames Vault. This week we have astonishing arena action, a peculiarly player-propelled pointer puzzler, and adorably addictive arcade awesomeness.
Games Featured:
- • MoneySeize
- • Don't Look Back
- • Dino Run
Retro doesn't have to mean old and boring! This week's Vault proves that it's more than just a series of blocky pixels that make retro-styled games fun and involving, with three picks from our archives with three very different gameplay styles.
Games Featured:
- • Casual Gameplay Escape
- • Crazy Doors of Rainbow Colors
- • Magneto Syndrome
ESCAPE!... through games, that is. The "escape" genre is an odd one, one that doesn't even sound like it should even be any fun, but for years now designers have thought up new ways to trap you with fiendish puzzles, and the audience is loving every megabyte of it. This week's Vault peeks at three of our favourite escape games that approach the genre from slightly different angles.
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