Vampires, werewolves, snakes and, um, worms – all the best monsters appear in this week’s roundup (sorry, Mummies). However, there’s a twist to each: stick around for an even more bloodthirsty version of the Wall Street, a guilty lycanthrope, and Indiana Jones’ least favourite game. Enjoy!
And now for a completely different kind of Cloud to the one that’s hovering all around us, keeping us from playing certain games or consoles when our internet drops out. Indie adventure/puzzle/horror Master Reboot revolves around the Soul Cloud, which lets you “upload your soul to our dedicated servers and relax knowing that a part of you will live on for eternity”. Sounds like a perfectly fine scenario where nothing at all will go wrong – oh, I mentioned this had horror elements, right? The gorgeous first-person adventure has just been added to Steam Greenlight, and it’s worth a look if you’re a fan of Kairo or Dear Esther.
In this clever student game project from Ahmed Majdoubi and co, you’re trapped between the twin worlds of magic and technology – and as everyone knows, those two don’t exactly get along. While A Tale of Two Worlds‘ premise reminds of The Longest Journey, the platforming is pure Trine, all jaunty fairytale music and cube-manhandling. The neat twist is that its two worlds are represented on the screen at the same time; you can even drag the border around with the mouse. AToTW’s currently in development, but there’s a browser-based alpha version you can play right now. And you should.
This week’s roundup is dedicated to the hybrid, the mash-up, the unholy amalgamation: games that fuse two or more genres together to startling and often brilliant effect. Fishing meets Rhythm Game in the appropriately named FISHJN’, while SimCity collides (no really) with Scrabble in VerboCity. There’s also a surreal apartment block, a game about punching, and yet another browser game featuring werewolves. Enjoy!
If you’ve ever tried to count cards (I can count to…32), you’ll know that Las Vegas is a place you’re unlikely to ever escape from – so I’ve no idea why the four heroes of ASDF: Escape to Las Vegas are attempting to, well, find their way in. In addition to multi-character platforming, this week also brings you the experiences of exploring a forbidden forest, rolling around as a big ball of slime, and clicking coloured spheres together like some kind of kaleidoscopic circular god. Enjoy!
The latest free-to-play title to hit Steam’s virtual shelves isn’t a cutesy MMORPG with a cash shop full of glittery hats and staves, nor is it a brutal MOBA with an arsenal of buyable heroes. Nope—surprisingly, it’s the late-90s classic Shadow Warrior! And unless somebody’s gone to the pains of tweaking some 16-year-old code, it’s pretty much guaranteed this isn’t a pay-to-win kind of deal.
We can’t get enough bank holidays here in the UK, and if you feel like spending your weekend hunched over your computer playing browser games, then boy have you come to the right place. This week is all about giant snakes – as all good weeks should be – but we also found the time to fit in a samurai duelling title, a retro platformer, one good joke, and a peaceful game that takes a leaf out of Wind Waker’s book. Enjoy!
Let your attention drift from this video for even a moment and you’ll miss the feature list for the updated N version 2.0, which is appended to a slightly maddening gallery of split second level shots. Think of it as a test. If you can’t stay focused for the one minute and two seconds required to learn about the new levels, 2-player co-op, integrated level sharing and “Fun-lockables”, you’re going to have a really tough time progressing through the game itself.
The theme for the 26th Ludum Dare gamejam was Minimalism, which is a principle that doesn’t apply to the competition’s number of entrants: all 2,346 of them. While we’ve been seeding their sparse delights into the weekly Webgame RoundUp, my basic calculations suggest that, at the current rate, it’d take between 9 and 11 years to feature them all. Fortunately, Sebastian Standke of Superlevel.de spent two weeks playing every single entry, and has distilled them down into a still-mammoth list of 269 recommendations, delivered in a 20-minute chiptune backed video.
Just as death is an inevitable part of life, having your house smashed up is an inevitable part of home ownership – or it is in the therapeutic Destroy Your Home, at least. This week’s round-up is also dedicated to an aristocratic jerk who murdered your entire family, a small square haunted by his past, and a Pop Tart. Indie games, everybody.
