Punk-8 by betajaen
Punk is in betajaen’s Pico-8 RPG Far from dead. This little game consists entirely of cyberpunk battles. You’ll feel right at home when you get one of the early ones Final Fantasy Have played games, but not so much that you know the Wi-Fi code or which of the many shops in the kitchen to find the cutlery. The battles themselves are fast-paced, fairly addictive, and net you plenty of loot that you can use to level up your heroes between battles.
However, the controls are confusing; Instead of moving through the menus with the cursor, you do so with the arrow keys, Z and ticks and you hardly have time to take a look at the instructions on the screen. Nevertheless, it is Punk 8 a pretty well made little game, although it does get a bit tiring after a while because there’s nothing else to do between battles.
The Adventures of Nick & Willikins! from Pinhead Games
A thoroughly silly adventure game that justifies all the errands and fetch quests that are so often an integral part of the genre by making you play a butler who has to look after a spoiled rich kid. What’s unusual for a freeware adventure is that Nick & Willikins with voice actors for all characters and even animated cinematic scenes. It’s set in an imaginary version of Britain that relies on stereotypes and wild hypotheses, and this lack of research is one of the game’s best features. The other is the character Willikins, the butler, whose powerless, pathetic misery is very amusing.
Woodfarer by Eva Baginska, Karina Pankov, Mohammad Sadegh H. Boroomand, Yasaman Farazan
The control of Woodfarer is pure pleasure. It’s a top-down walking game in which you may or may not follow a hand-held compass (a physical object that your character can pull out and hold while walking around). You can follow him to various spirits that need to be found to rid the land of evil – and that’s a worthwhile cause, I suppose. I like the really fluid action of pulling out the compass, but I also like the ghosts because they’re cute creatures that follow you wherever you go. As in Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath These ghosts are also your ammunition: you can throw them at pots, enemies and so on to cause damage (don’t worry, they will come back to you unharmed like a boomerang). Overall, this is a nice exploration game that has had a lot of time and effort put into it.
Orbs by droqen
you will be drug probably as a developer of Starseed Pilgrim know. Here’s another puzzling platformer that you’ll have to fully understand on your own. Well, either that or you can read on, because I think I will at least something should say about the game. As the name suggests, this is all about minimalist platformer orbs all about… magic balls, collectible power-ups that improve your character, but… hmm… okay, you know, you should just play this game if you’re a fan of Starseed Pilgrim or drugs other games are.
The Attic’s a Dungeon?! by Martian’s Parlor Entertainment
In this excellent dungeon crawlerthe one from Trap door-like claymation monsters, the attic is actually a dungeon. I like the interface of this first-person RPG and the terribly adorable creatures and the treacherous environment that tilts and twists and shifts things around as it tries to fool you. This is a thoroughly delightful, treacherous and cheeky game that constantly presents new surprises as you move through its corridors.
Game app: PWN: Combat Hacking – This is what cyberpunk-style hack battles should look like
