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The Hunter is an excellent minimalistic 2D top down stealthy horror/action game which takes place in total darkness, with you only being able to identify your surroundings through the use of echolocation.

There’s a deeply foreboding atmosphere to The Hunter, as you’re instructed to hunt down and kill ‘him’, with no idea who or why. You do get some limited weaponry, but your main weapon is stealth, there are some strange creatures roaming the world, and if they hear you, they WILL chase you down and kill you.

The core concept of The Hunter works really well, with the crude echolocation provided by your footsteps highlighting your surroundings, but also alerting enemies to your presence, you have to choose your moments to make a move. Unfortunately the nature of the game means that it doesn’t take the most exciting screenshots or GIFs, but it is an excellent game, we’d highly recommend either watching the ‘Lets Play’, or even better, just playing the prototype (it’s Free!). It’s Hotline Miami with the lights turned off, which is just as hard as it sounds and an extremely tense experience.

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Cadence is a great new audio/visual puzzle game where your goal is to join up musical nodes in such a way that they create an infinite loop, capable of perpetually continuing the melody into infinity. This may sound overly complicated, but in reality it’s remarkably easy to pick up and play, with multiple solutions to puzzles and lots of fun to be had from experimentation.

The audio/visual style of the game is also excellent, combined with the lack of a timer, it makes for a very relaxed, Zen-like atmosphere. You’re never to worried if you get things wrong as it’s great fun trying different solutions, it’s a highly enjoyable, chilled-out experimental puzzler.

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Heart & Slash is a fantastic looking fast paced 3d brawler/roguelike inspired by Bayonetta, Mega Man and ADOM. You control Heart, a malfunctioning robot who’s fighting for its identity against the minions of standardization, you want to be unique, you want to be LOVED.

Heart & Slash is a wonderful game, the levels are short, fast paced, procedurally generated, brutal affairs that really will test your skill. With over 75 different weapons and 60 different body parts allowing for thousands of unique combinations. The weapons are fun and varied, while body parts allow you to teleport, stop time, fly, wall-jump, discover enemy weaknesses and so on. Heart & Slash thrives on variety.

Heart & Slash manages to feel retro while also feeling fresh and unique at the same time, it’s a wonderful piece of robotic roguelike brutality. Johnny 5 is alive & kicking ass.

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The Universim is a great looking new planet management game, where you’ll nurture your civilisation from stone-age, to modern age and beyond. As your civilisation progresses they’ll face challenges from animal attacks to virus outbreaks, to earthquakes and meteors. Surviving these challenges is reliant on research and new technologies, from fire to space ships.

While you will not interact directly with the population that inhabits your planet, you will be able to guide them through their development and influence their decisions for better or worse. Choices in the game extend from ending wars between cities on your planet or watching as one city destroys the other, to influencing the research path of your civilization.

The games visual style is superb, looking like Sim City set on Super Mario Galaxys worlds. With the landscape of your planet continually changing as you evolve your civilisation. You’ll even be able to explore and colonise other planets once you’ve mastered space travel.

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Powargrid is a fun turn based strategy game that focuses on power supply and disruption. You build out from your power station, building a powergrid, then add attack towers to attack and destroy the enemies structures.

In all cases power is key, you need to protect your power stations, while trying to reach across the map and destroy the enemies. As well as transporting energy, power lines come in handy for blocking build paths, while cannons and towers are great for attacking enemy structures. It’s great fun to play and makes for some very strategic battles.

Powargrid also features a campaign mode with a nice sense of humour, online or hotseat multiplayer and skirmish battles against computer opponents.

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Dimensia is a fun 2D platformer in which you can instantly flip through multiple dimensions in a select environment. The game has a nice retro aesthetic, the platforming is sound and the dimension flipping is a great mechanic, allowing for some pretty inventive level design.

Dimensia also features a great soundtrack, unlocks, multiplayer, a level editor, hidden easter eggs and in-jokes. It’s a fun retro platformer, with some great new ideas and a nice sense of humour.

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The Mims: Beginning is a great new god game that really makes you are about your followers. The Mims are an inventive and peace-loving race who have ben shipwrecked and scattered across various floating islands. Your role is to help them rebuild their ship, so they can go home. You’ll do this by helping the Mims build and defend against dangerous wildlife using RTS elements protecting and using your God-like superpowers.

The Mims is a joy to play and really oozes character. The gameplay is shaping up really well, drawing favourable comparisons to Populous, but it’s the vibrant world, sense of humour, great characters and all-round playfulness of he game hat really draws you in. It fees like something that Nintendo could of made, in-fact It’s hard not to expect some Pikmin to pop up while you’re exploring your island!

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AR-K is a nice episodic point and click adventure where the community can participate in its development from the beginning, with feedback from players after each episode, shaping how the game evolves.

The game revolves around Alicia Van Volish, a former cop turned into a journalism student who is investigating a myterious golden sphere. The game features some inventive puzzles, great artwork, and a nice sense of humour. It’s also available in English or Spanish, and has already been Greenlit on Steam.

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Cashtronauts is a fast-paced, retro arcade-style game for 1 to 4 players. It’s not just your average shooter, players can choose their own play style, focusing on mining, pirate hunting or just pillaging and looting.

You can play through a campaign in single player or co-op, trying to make it as far across the galaxy as you can before you die. Warping from system to system, scrounging together enough cash to pay your way through the next warp gate before your pursuers catch up to you.

There’s also a fun skimirsh mode, a competitive game mode where the goal is to make as much cash as possible within three rounds. That cash can also be used to buy powerups and upgrades in the Black Hole Market. Prices fluctuate based on player action, dynamically balancing the game.

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The Lady is weird, pure and simple, you play as the hideously deformed lady, pictured above and have to shuffle across the screen, avoiding such things as falling glass and barbed wire and confronting versions of yourself.

The game is a short and surrealist journey that takes The Lady through a series of fever dream like hallucinations, while being at odds with her own inner struggles with anxiety and depression. She encounters multiple versions of herself throughout the game, unsure of who to trust.

The whole thing feels like a surreal nightmare, with it’s hand drawn stop motion art style and creepy soundtrack combining to make a very strange and very freaky game.

The Lady feels more like an experience than a game, it’s an interesting and slightly disturbing experience, and one you’re unlikely to forget.

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