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ENYO Arcade is a very cool 2D action adventure game with a great looking pixel art-style, smooth gameplay, lots of weaponry and some nice surprises. It draws favourable comparisons to Metroid, Mega Man and Contra, but with plenty of great ideas of it’s own.

You start off in the game running for your life from a place that’s about to self destruct, fighting corrupted creatures through well crafted, branching levels. It can be played with mouse and keyboard or a controller, using an Abuse-Style control scheme, with the mouse or right analogue stick aiming your gun reticule.

Even in these early stages of development, the game is surprisingly well polished, with your characters platforming and combat controls working superbly. The gritty 2D pixel art style of ENYO Arcade is excellent, giving the game a real sense if identity and attitude.

The Alpha Demo is a great slice of 2D action adventure that we’d highly recommend giving a go. It’s one that’s worth keeping an eye on in the future too, as future updates will feature Mechs and Jets and boss fights.

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Samudai is a 2D fighting game where you, as a trained killer with a sword, need to knock your opponent into obstacles and out of the arena to win the match. Did i mention you play as ninja and samurai cats?

At the moment Samudai features one level of local multiplayer in a one on one death match. While the controls can be a little sluggish at times, the game is good fun to play, full of high stakes one-on-one cat based combat, and a great art style.

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The Breakout is a stylish point-and-click adventure that pays homage to the captivating storytelling and characterization of the classic Point n Click games of the 1990s combined with the tense film-making style of classic movies like The Great Escape.

You play as Guy Kassel, an ex-thief whose life who joined the Air Force and rose to the ranks of Captain—only to be shot down and captured during a mission. The game begins as you arrive at a maximum security POW camp, met by a ruthless Colonel who promptly executes the last POW who tried to escape. It’s an adventure game for adults, with real life and death consequences where your stealth, preparation and adequate supplies are vital to your chances of success.

The Alpha Demo is a short flashback sequence from the full game, in which you’ve just crashed in enemy territory and have to find a way to escape. It does a good job of showing off the point and click gameplay and the modern animated filmic style of the game. It’s shaping up to be a great point and click adventure, with an adult storyline, A-team style team-work and a wonderful graphical style.

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Rise Of Incarnates is a great looking new fighting game from Bandai Namco (famed for the Tekken and SoulCalibur franchises) in which players take control if Incarnates with mythical powers and beat the crap out of each other in real-world cityscapes.

The back-story is a typically silly, but entertaining affair, and fittingly, some of it can be read in comic book for on the main website. The Incarnates are humans who have been gifted mythical powers by meteorites that fell from the sky, after that it goes a bit X-Men, with regular humans fearing them and Incarnates fighting among themselves. There’s also a mysterious voice that has spoken to the Incarnates, delivering a cryptic message “To avoid certain destruction, you must defeat the Sovereign of this era.”

With their own interpretations and reasons for fighting, the incarnates enter the fray. This means a multitude of super-powered characters beating each other up in 2 vs. 2 matches across some beautifully rendered and half-destroyed real world locations. The diverse character types are promised to have unique skills and powers and appeal to a variety of play-styles while accommodating expansive team dynamics and strategy in the 3D Battle Arenas.

Rise of Incarnates certainly looks very impressive, if the gameplay matches the visuals, this could be a super-human smackdown of epic proportions.

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UPDATE: Rise Of Incarnates Is now in Open Beta on Steam, Try it Now!

Tricone Lab is a fun puzzle game where each level is a microscopic multicellular organism. You must utilise the different resources within the cell to create a substance called Tricone. This starts off very easily, but soon gets tougher as more catalysts and molecules get introduced, creating complex logic puzzles that require some experimentation.

The graphical style is pleasingly simple, with each multicellular organism reacting to your actions, and a fun, organic way of combining resources. Tricone Lab has a pick up and play quality that makes it great for short bursts of puzzle gaming – a fun organic puzzler that rewards lateral thinking.

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DeadCore (Previously named Deadlock) is a first person shooter/platformer featuring some beautiful environmental puzzles. The main idea of the game is you must jump your way up a gigantic tower as fast as possible while avoiding to be kicked down by its security systems – turrets & robots – on your way to the top. Along the way you’ll fight the robots guarding the tower and handle tricky platforming sequences, sometimes both simultaneously.

To make things a little easier, you’re equipped with a ‘Switch Gun’, a special weapon that allows you to temporarily activate or deactivate most of the tower elements, like robots for example. The game gets harder and the puzzles get more complex while you progress through the game, but you also get upgrades that will give you new abilities like ‘Dash’ that allow you solve puzzles and complete previous levels in much faster times.

With DeadCore you’ll come for the stunning visuals, but stay for the inventive level design and fast paced, intelligent gameplay.

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Imagine Earth – Planetary Colonization is a planetary colony managing game with a similar visual style to the upcoming Universim, where you need to raise thriving colonies on undiscovered planets. You build huge civilizations on untouched worlds while supplyyour peoples needs and protect them from threats.

The game teaches you the basics of how to Build and protect your colony and take care of the colony you have created. Everything you do has a consequence, for instance, pollution impacts your food production and buildings can have a positive or negative affect when placed next to each other. There are also disasters in the game like wildfires, dying forests, growing deserts to make thing a bit trickier. Also, as you work for an interstellar corporation, you have to achieve profit goals, meaning there’s a balancing act between increasing profit and the health of your community.

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FreezeME is a glorious retro N64 style 3D platform game inspired by Mario 64, that allows you to freeze objects and enemies in place with your camera.

As soon as you enter the first world of FreezeME you’re instantly transported back to the glory days of the N64. The huge open world level of the Alpha is big, bold, bright, cheerful, full of surprises and features an authentic N64-sounding, super-happy soundtrack. This genuinely feels like a place Mario would go on holiday when he’s not busy saving princesses.

Being an early alpha, it’s not perfect, the XBox 360 controller is supported but not fully functional, it can be a little glitchy and the characters movement can feel a little awkward at times, but these are normal flaws in developing such a game and will no doubt be remedied in future releases.

The freezing-objects-with your-camera mechanic is a nice novelty too, but that’s not the reason to play this game. You’ll play this game this game because it’s a glorious slice of nostalgia, transporting you back to the heyday of the 3D platformer and of the last cartridge-based home console.

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Excubitor is a great new futuristic shoot-em-up/horde mode/tower defence hybrid that sees you in control of a space fighter fighting off wave after wave of enemies, intent on destroying your base.

It’s an interesting mix of genres and works really well. In the first level your ship can boost around the map, meeting enemies head-on, strafing circles around them and blowing them out the sky, proving the old adage – attack is the best form of defence. Once you complete the level or die, the resources you collected during the last level can be used to buy upgrades for your ship, the shop is quite bare at the moment, but we’d expect it to fill out as the game development progresses.

Once you progress past the first (rather tricky) level you’ll have the ability to build turrets and activate defences, adding a tower defence mechanic to the game. This allows Excubitor to support different playstyles, allowing you to either upgrade your ship and take on the enemy head-on, or build more turrets at your base and bunker down.

Still in its early stages of development, Excubitor is already great fun, the ship handles well and it’s a satisfying feeling darting around the map, protecting your base from enemies. You’ll be able to chart the game’s progress too as each week the devs will be posting a new build with new features and improvements based on your opinions.

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