ARSONATE: A card-based strategy title that plays with fire ARSONATE challenges players to figure out the strategy of its cruel card-flipping wager, and isn't afraid to use smoke and mirrors to do so.
Heroes for Hire: Why pillage dungeons when you can get someone else to do it for you? Heroes for Hire shows promising depth in its interface-based and idle approach to the economics of organised dungeon-crawling.
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Behind the Hydra's Eyes: A green game about red flags Behind the Hydra's eyes is a narrative and unashamedly political game that explores the hidden costs of green capitalism.
FLASHBACK: 'Creeper World' by Knuckle Cracker (2009) Creeper World is an in-depth strategy title that brought something new and addictive to the Flash tower defence formula.
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop: A wacky and well-oiled game about interstellar auto repair Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is a mutated take on the mechanic sim, with intricate detail and charmingly odd characters lurking under the hood.
A Bonnie Odyssey: Using circular logic in a sci-fi puzzle adventure A Bonnie Odyssey uses elegantly designed but challenging puzzles to guide the player through a story about revisiting an abandoned utopia in Scotland.
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Pillow Fight: counting sheep to overcome the trials of sleep Pillow Fight is a generously complex free deck-building game that reimagines late-night restlessness as a series of somnolent duels.
Dumbino: Domino effects in a bite-sized physics playground Dumbino satisfyingly collides physics-based puzzles with an open-ended sandbox design.
Pie in the Sky: Becoming a pro swooper, down under Pie in the Sky is an unmistakably Australian take on the Pro Skater formula, where players wreak havoc with wings instead of wheels.
Red Entropy: Journeying to the fringes of spacetime and sanity Red Entropy combines the emerging signs of a solid adventure-horror game with a darkly offbeat premise about the decay of the universe.
FLASHBACK: 'Air Pressure' by Bentosmile (2010) Air Pressure is a Flash game that explores the darker aspects of codependence through the medium of a visual novel.
FACEMINER: A reimagining of AI's critical mass in the dot-com era FACEMINER works both as a horror and a resource management game, tasking players to addictively juggle an ever-growing dataset that just happens to be cooking the planet.