Seems Valve decided to somehow make up for last week. Been a while since so many of my picks made it through in a single week, and I don’t even know where to begin as far as recommendations go. Well, aside… EVERYTHING ON THE LIST!
Cubistry
Cubistry challenges players to rotate a larger cube made up of smaller cubes while eliminating the smaller cubes by selecting matching sets. You can do this in puzzle mode, cube attack mode, 1 & 5 minute timed modes, as well as stationary camera mode.
Jim Power – Lost Dimension 3D
Special Agent Jim Power-The supernatural alien, Vaprak, threatens to defeat our world which is the last planet that stands between him and a dimensional vortex. This vortex leads to a fifth and, up until now, lost dimension. If he succeeds in defeating us, he will destroy our world, opening a gateway for his kind as well as the strange mutating effect that this dimension has on all organic life forms.
Bloo Kid 2
Bloo Kid 2 is a classic 2D retro-style platformer experience with lovely designed pixel-graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. Run, jump and swim your way through four huge worlds with nine levels each. Master brutal bossfights and discover lots of secrets in the world of Bloo Kid 2.
LOOP: A Tranquil Puzzle Game
LOOP is a zen puzzle game with a unique, simple, meditative feel. The interface is minimal; there’s no timers or move limit or score, you can just relax and engage with the puzzles on their own.
Candlelight
Candlelight is a 2D platform/puzzle game that puts you in control of the last source of light in the land… a lone, scared, but brave candle. Guide the last surviving candle on a journey to restore light in a land that is filled with many natural and unnatural dangers.
Starship Rubicon
In Starship Rubicon, Earth has been casually destroyed by a mysterious race of space-faring invertebrates. You are a fighter pilot whose cryopod has been collected by a possibly-insane AI, who has placed you in the unenviable position of being humanity’s savior. Shanghaied and alone, you must gather the remaining human survivors and traverse the surprising biodiversity of deep space to find a new home.
Color Assembler
Color Assembler is an abstract color mixing puzzle game. Connect the starting colors to various shapes that manipulate colors in their unique way. The goal is to create the target color.
Star-Twine
Star-Twine is an abstract real-time strategy game in which you control a point of light created by a dying star. Battles unfold on sprawling three-dimensional maps as you collect energy and build structures to attack your opponent. Chill out to the atmospheric visuals and soundtrack as you plan your next move.
Arelite Core
Follow the adventures of Karden, a blacksmith on the path to mastering his craft, forced to take a stand against the armies assembled in Talameq’s name. Aided by his companions, Karden will seek to reunite the northern kingdom of man with the southern kingdom of the holarii.
No More Probes
‘No More Probes’ is my small personal project and can be best described as a survival game mixed with strategy elements, where you play as a homeless war veteran living in a junkyard, who happens to be humanity last chance for salvation.
Stargazer
When stargazer Zach watches the sky one night, he sees a star fall and land in the nearby woods. He rushes to check it out, only to find that out the star was actually a girl, and with her, magic returns to the world.
Pixel Galaxy
In this non-shooting shoot ’em up, you are a white pixel who can’t shoot. What you CAN do is collect all your enemies and turn them into your shield/weapon by touching them. Once that happens, their bullets become yours!
Discouraged Workers
A hospital coordinator, Ga-Yeon, fell in love with a doctor at the hospital she was working in and they had an affair even though the doctor was a married man. But when the director found out, she was fired. For over a year she tried to find another job, but her mental uneasiness eventually made her give up and she became a recluse. A year later, in the spring of 2013, her younger sister, Hye-Na, and her first love Yun-Woo come to her. A story about the dark side of today’s youth and pretty serious everyday life happening around Ga-Yeon.
Dreamcage 28
Some believe that this is all a dream of their own. Others say that this is reality. But everyone agrees that He, the Cage Master is long gone and nothing is the same since. Once the natives of the Cages are left on their own, decay and corruption arrive with all of their dark friends…
Wacky Wheels
Wacky Wheels 2015 recreates and enhances the original experience, with HD “mode 7” graphics and all new tracks inspired by the original. The entire gang is back: Uno, Sultan, Morris, Peggles, Razer, Ringo, Blombo, Tigi plus introducing Hari the grizzly bear!
Wyrmsun
In the Wyrmsun universe a myriad of inhabited planets exist. Humans dwell on Earth, while dwarves inhabit Nidavellir and elves nourish the world of Alfheim. These peoples struggle to carve a place for themselves with their tools of stone, bronze and iron. And perhaps one day they will meet one another, beyond the stars…
Season of 12 colors
“Season of 12 colors” is a Healing Visual Novel Series: four independent short stories around the same theme.
HUSH
Hush draws its inspiration from fears, particularly those we have all experienced in some way or another when we were children. This is the story of Ashlyn, as she finds herself in an orphanage that time forgot, surrounded by blood freezing phobias that will try to absorb her into oblivion. Your goal is to help Ashlyn face these fears, and then use them to your advantage in order to escape from this nightmarish place.
Stray Cat Crossing
You find yourself in a roadside clearing. A little girl named Cat is crying nearby. She needs you to take her home, where you’ll encounter bizarre monsters, ethereal places, and heart-wrenching secrets about Cat and her family.
Stormbringer
Stormbringer is side-view roguelike shooter game.
Advent
Havilah and Asharia are at war. It’s not the first time and it probably won’t be the last. But, what the people of these countries don’t know is that these wars have already been foretold. The 4 ancient tablets left behind by the “Creator” prophesy of other things as well but, no one knows what they say. Cyrus and his friends start on a journey to find that out.
Bulletsquall
Bulletsquall is a multiplayer, arcade twin-stick shooter, where you battle up to 3 of your friends in a fast-paced bullethell environment. Capture strategic points to spawn an army of minions that you can control to attack your enemies. Utilise the layout of the arena, your mines, missiles and skill to overcome the arena hazards, and your opponents to emerge victorious.
Miika
Let your imagination run free as you try to solve the perspective mysteries that appear in front of you. Think outside the box and enjoy the fun and charm of Miika. Enjoy the weird and colorful world of Miika where everything is possible, so don’t be afraid to take on Miika’s puzzle adventure!
Gnumz Masters of Defense
Gnumz: Masters of Defense is a strategy game inspired by classical fantasy. Its new system of interacting elements will reveal your tactical talents, and brute force has its place as well. Each level in the underground caverns requires an individual approach. New players and hardcore gamers alike will enjoy its carefully crafted balance.
Dr. Spacezoo
Dr. Spacezoo is an arcade style time-attack twin-stick shoot-em-up that is packed full of gibs, grease, and glow. Fight through bullet filled Space Zoos to save starving exotic space animals from a corrupt AI before time runs out. Procedurally generated levels provide a challenging and new experience each play through.
Mass Vector
You control a small ship with a big thruster. The idea is to collect the various shaped blocks and place them on the green platform. How hard can that be I hear you say. Well by hovering your ship over the block and attaching the tractor beam you will pick up the block. But the blocks are different colours and weights. The Green and Orange ones are easy to move without an extra boost but the Red and Blue ones are heavy and will start to drag you down.
Tactics Maiden
Tactics Maiden is a fast-paced, turn-based strategy RPG where the player has to conquer enemy outposts scattered throughout the battlefield.
Collider
Collider is a local multiplayer twin-stick shooter, played out in circular arena’s in multiple different game modes.
Dynetzzle Extended
Dynetzzle is an original number puzzle game. The core gameplay is based on the features of a standard six sided die such as it has eleven nets (?)[en.wikipedia.org] and the sum of the numbers on the opposite faces is always 7. The objective is to fill the empty columns in a partially completed puzzle map with appropriate numbers by imagining the dice from the given interconnected nets.
GOLFINITY
| gôlf’finitē |
noun
a golf course longer than any assignable quantity or countable number (symbol ∞).
Threshold
Threshold is a puzzle platformer game where you play as the cute little gnomish wizard, known only as Hood, return home by solving the mysteries of magical, but treacherously unstable, lands. All is not as it seems, however, as depending on which direction Hood faces, the world changes to present different challenges.
Cloudbase Prime
Your shift on a gas giant mining platform does not go as planned. You’re gonna have to shoot a lot of robots. Your main tools are an energy cannon and the architect: a tool that can move terrain to clear paths, defeat enemies, and launch you skyward.
Bezier
Bezier is a dual stick blaster set inside a vast computer built deep underground. The story traces the principal’s escape from this “Noah’s Ark” gone wrong. A simple shooter on the surface, the deeper narrative pulls in his relationship between evolution and god, family and love. These themes question his motives, force him to confront what is real and lead him to salvation.
Awe
Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.
Legends of Pixelia
Legends of Pixelia is an action role-playing game that combines retro pixelart with modern gameplay mechanics. Tired of left-clicking through hordes of brainless one-hit-KO enemies? Random dungeons, precise controls via gamepad (or keyboard) and a strong fighting game AI provide challenging encounters. Be prepared!
Concealed Intent
Players control their ships in a completely 3D world – hunting down their enemies, just as they are being hunted themselves! In Concealed Intent you know your enemies are out there, but not exactly where, or even what they are. The fun comes from out-thinking your opponent rather than any test of reaction speed.
Orc Assault
Once upon a time all was peaceful and serene in the far off land of Camalon, but the silence has been broken as the Orc hordes have returned to the kingdom to claim the land that they once held sacred. The only thing stopping them from conquering the innocent people of Camalon is your arsenal of weapons and advanced research towers.
Deathstate
You have discovered the secrets of deep astral projection by entering into a fully death-like meditative state. Now you are a traveller of the outer realms. While in your Deathstate, you can go beyond the beyond to realms previously only imagined by those enlightened or mad enough to dwell upon them. Tread lightly though, for these far planes of demi-existence that you choose to explore are extremely hostile to mortal souls.
A.Typical RPG – Extreme College Edition
The A.Typical RPG is a quirky game that puts you in the role of a college student having the weirdest week of his life as he shapes his destiny while trying to keep a social life and decent grades. Play football, cheat on exams, use raw emotions to sway people’s opinions, brawl with bullies, rebel against teachers and much more!
Questria: Rise of the Robot Skullfaces
Questria is a co-op dungeon crawler. Up to 4 players fight the evil Robot Skullfaces that have stolen The Power of Friendship and kidnapped a bunch of people! Travel across the flying islands to defeat the Furnace Kings and rescue the prisoners.
Flawed Ones: Puppeteer
Our main character is a simple puppeteer who wanders between towns and cities to make a living. One day he performs a show about some poor children, who steal a delicious looking cake. But they are beaten down to death by guards. Surprisingly, what happens in his show, while he performs, happens right in front of the audience as well. At that day our main character, the puppeteer, gains the power of controlling people from his shadow theatre stage.
Dimension Drive
Dimension Drive is a comic book-styled space adventure set in a multidimensional universe. It features a unique teleportation mechanic that allows you to fight on two battlefields at once, and gameplay combining frantic shooting, defense and fast puzzling action.
Hatashiai
Hatashiai is a realistic 3D FTG game of Samurai Sword Fighting (Kenjutsu), developed using Unreal Engine 4.
Power Drive 2000
Power Drive 2000 is an arcade racer set in the year 2000…the future! Get behind the wheel of a technologically advanced sports car and tear it up as you battle to become A-number-1! The game features many unique game modes set in a 1980’s cinematic scf-fi world and boasts a totally radical Synthwave soundtrack! Also…the car talks.
Monsters’ Den: Godfall
The popular dungeon-crawling RPG series comes to Steam! Monsters’ Den: Godfall is a new downloadable game for PC and Mac, larger in scope and richer in content than ever before.
Blues And Bullets
Eliot Ness, former leader of the legendary Untouchables, only wished to spend the rest of his life working in his diner and not thinking much of the cesspit of corruption his city, Santa Esperanza, had degenerated into.
