I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet Rubato is "an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre", according to developer dconn, which doesn't really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and Mode 7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I'm too used to the watering down of "experimental" as a descriptor. The blurb doesn't even communicate that you play as a frog. Seemingly. Fortunately, there is a demo. Please watch the trailer while I go play it. Read more

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I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet Rubato is "an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre", according to developer dconn, which doesn't really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and Mode 7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I'm too used to the watering down of "experimental" as a descriptor. The blurb doesn't even communicate that you play as a frog. Seemingly. Fortunately, there is a demo. Please watch the trailer while I go play it. Read more

I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet Rubato is "an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre", according to developer dconn, which doesn't really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and Mode 7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I'm too used to the watering down of "experimental" as a descriptor. The blurb doesn't even communicate that you play as a frog. Seemingly. Fortunately, there is a demo. Please watch the trailer while I go play it. Read more

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Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush As seen in The Maw, fluffy defence shooter Mochi-O is out today, and – judging from the Steam demo I’ve played – is an at least passingly entertaining MIRV explosion of gleeful nonsense. Landing somewhere between tower defence, Vampire Survivors, and Tamagotchi, it has you holding up a genetically engineered hamster-like creature up to a window and blasting waves of attackers with the mounted weapons systems hidden in his fur. Then, setting him down and giving him a good long scritch. Read more

You can eat rats and unicorns in lip-smacking autobattler Dunderbeck, and I absolutely refuse to play the demo You cannot pet the dog in Dunderbeck, but you can assuredly eat the unicorn. Just drag its corpse over the puckering mouth on the righthand side. Alternatively, you can chuck the dead unicorn into the mincers on the left and combine the resulting horny horsemeat with other sources of... nutrition, such as rainbow-coloured turds and spoons. I do not know what foodstuffs might result. I refuse to play Dunderbeck’s demo. I watched 20 seconds of the trailer, then spent the next ten minutes brushing my teeth. Here you go. Read more

Meet Willem Dafoe and other animals in 100 tiny free worlds created by brilliant game developers The Soulslike is dead. The age of the Souplike has begun. Indie developer Kite Line has just published Soup Rooms - a sequel of sorts to dong yarhalla's videogame concept album from 2007, in which you visit small square rooms with feverdream aesthetics and a peculiar entity in the middle. What was I doing back in 2007? Alas, I was not playing Soup. There's a high probability that I _cooked_ soup in 2007, but it wouldn't have been very interesting soup. It would not have featured any spirit wolves, whiny fallen clouds, consumptive Casio men, "boinglers", or Willem Dafoes. Read more

Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator Of steel is my spirit, of thunder my bones. I am the hawk's justice, the quadrupedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged. BEHOLD, ye strategy simulation enthusiasts. Behold my unabashed phallic symbolism menacing the gates of heaven, while my hissing hydraulics uncipher the coordinates of my prey. Many are my supplicants, strangers from near and far who seek to beguile me and aim my blessed ordnance, but mine is the judgement, and mine the tactile gratifications of levers and gears and dials. You were getting bored of turrets in war games? Fools! You have never experienced one from the inside. Come, surrender yourself to the dieselpunk folds and surprisingly jaunty background music of my ironclad majesty. (Here's a trailer.) Read more

Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam If you've been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch.io, and just released on Steam, it casts you as a reporter researching a book on serial killers. Read more

I shouldn't feel this at home in the nightmare office world of Pager Is it bad that I find the office labyrinth of Pager rather cosy? Is it a sign that I have finally gone full 9-to-5 zombie? Or have I simply been mugged on Memory Lane by a composite of 90s aesthetics and technologies - pebbly Macintosh wallpaper patterns, mock-Bauhaus prints and yes, pagers, though I never owned one of those as a kid. I even like the background whine of the omnipresent CCTV cameras, which grows abruptly piercing as I walk beneath them. These are very much the wrong emotions for anything that bills itself as influenced by Kafka. If I have accidentally invented the cosy Kafka genre, I am sorry. Read more

Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World You've played through countless immersive sims as a cyborg, a thief, and a cyborg thief. Now, try doing it as a scuttling demon dominatrix. Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software. It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair. Fennel seems as agile here as in the previous, excellent Brush Burial, pouncing from head to head like a tic, but they've bolstered their moveset with an injection of overclocked kopp&omacrjutsu. You can snare foes to perform sinuous, bone-crunching takedowns, the catch being that you're vulnerable during the execution. It's deeply, moreishly unpleasant. Those little fatal jerks at the end of the animation are more visceral than anything in Doom Eternal. I'm not sure I can bear to watch the trailer again. Here it is. Read more

Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World You've played through countless immersive sims as a cyborg, a thief, and a cyborg thief. Now, try doing it as a scuttling demon dominatrix. Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software. It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair. Fennel seems as agile here as in the previous, excellent Brush Burial, pouncing from head to head like a tic, but they've bolstered their moveset with an injection of overclocked kopp&omacrjutsu. You can snare foes to perform sinuous, bone-crunching takedowns, the catch being that you're vulnerable during the execution. It's deeply, moreishly unpleasant. Those little fatal jerks at the end of the animation are more visceral than anything in Doom Eternal. I'm not sure I can bear to watch the trailer again. Here it is. Read more

Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World You've played through countless immersive sims as a cyborg, a thief, and a cyborg thief. Now, try doing it as a scuttling demon dominatrix. Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software. It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair. Fennel seems as agile here as in the previous, excellent Brush Burial, pouncing from head to head like a tic, but they've bolstered their moveset with an injection of overclocked kopp&omacrjutsu. You can snare foes to perform sinuous, bone-crunching takedowns, the catch being that you're vulnerable during the execution. It's deeply, moreishly unpleasant. Those little fatal jerks at the end of the animation are more visceral than anything in Doom Eternal. I'm not sure I can bear to watch the trailer again. Here it is. Read more

Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World You've played through countless immersive sims as a cyborg, a thief, and a cyborg thief. Now, try doing it as a scuttling demon dominatrix. Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software. It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair. Fennel seems as agile here as in the previous, excellent Brush Burial, pouncing from head to head like a tic, but they've bolstered their moveset with an injection of overclocked kopp&omacrjutsu. You can snare foes to perform sinuous, bone-crunching takedowns, the catch being that you're vulnerable during the execution. It's deeply, moreishly unpleasant. Those little fatal jerks at the end of the animation are more visceral than anything in Doom Eternal. I'm not sure I can bear to watch the trailer again. Here it is. Read more

House Of Necrosis is a Resident Evil Mystery Dungeon RPG in which you can accidentally level up the zombies I was rubbing along pretty well in House Of Necrosis before I hurled a vial of unidentified black serum at a squashy purple Devourer. I was hoping the serum would be some kind of poison - I mean, come on, an unidentified black serum? You wouldn't pour that on your chips. It turned out to be an XP potion, which transformed the Devourer into a Foul Devourer - still squashy, still purple, but with much sturdier defence. I managed to recover some of the accidentally donated XP by lobbing a cheeky hex, but not enough to boost the stopping power of my homely pawnshop knife and pistol. So down I went in a pool of that special red serum the billionaires like to drink when they're feeling mortal. Read more

Motorslice's demo is a promising and challenging taste of its chainsaw parkour I’d almost missed that that Motorslice now has a Steam demo out, despite enticing gifs of its Brutalist wallrunning and slicey, Metal Gear Rising-tinged chainsword combat repeatedly finding their way into my Bluesky feed for months. I’m liking it so far, though don’t let its swingbars and trundling excavator enemies trick you into thinking this is some light platformer jaunt. Read more

Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser Based on time of day and year, global fertility rates, and our own secret, illegal research into RPS supporter breeding patterns, I calculate that there's a 12% chance you are reading this while carrying or cradling a small child. If that's the case, then: what on Earth are you doing here? We post all kinds of awful grown-up things on RPS. Mark is threatening to do another salacious mod article and just this very morning, I posted a picture of a xenomorph covered in blood. This piece should be safe for kids, however, as long as you don't explain what a xenomorph is or what "salacious" means. It's about Messenger, a free browser-based game in which you run around a very small 3D watercolour planet, delivering post. I suspect you and your child will enjoy it, unless we've already corrupted them and you're now playing Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Read more

Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser Based on time of day and year, global fertility rates, and our own secret, illegal research into RPS supporter breeding patterns, I calculate that there's a 12% chance you are reading this while carrying or cradling a small child. If that's the case, then: what on Earth are you doing here? We post all kinds of awful grown-up things on RPS. Mark is threatening to do another salacious mod article and just this very morning, I posted a picture of a xenomorph covered in blood. This piece should be safe for kids, however, as long as you don't explain what a xenomorph is or what "salacious" means. It's about Messenger, a free browser-based game in which you run around a very small 3D watercolour planet, delivering post. I suspect you and your child will enjoy it, unless we've already corrupted them and you're now playing Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Read more

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Photograph bosses to death in this head-pulsing whirligig of a bullet hell I fear and covet no videogame genre on this Earth like the bullet hell shoot 'em up. I find these scions of the arcade...

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Original post on rockpapershotgun.com

Photograph bosses to death in this head-pulsing whirligig of a bullet hell I fear and covet no videogame genre on this Earth like the bullet hell shoot 'em up. I find these scions of the arcade...

#Shooter #Touhou #Kouzougi～Flickerframe #Shutter […]

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Original post on rockpapershotgun.com

Photograph bosses to death in this head-pulsing whirligig of a bullet hell I fear and covet no videogame genre on this Earth like the bullet hell shoot 'em up. I find these scions of the arcade...

#Arcade #PC #Indiescovery #Touhou #Kouzougi～Flickerframe […]

[Original post on rockpapershotgun.com]

Original post on rockpapershotgun.com

Photograph bosses to death in this head-pulsing whirligig of a bullet hell I fear and covet no videogame genre on this Earth like the bullet hell shoot 'em up. I find these scions of the arcade...

#Indiescovery #PC #Fantasy #Touhou […]

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