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Soccertron is a fun fast-paced football (soccer) action game with cool neon visuals and addictive multiplayer gameplay that feels like a mix between Air Hockey, Pong and football.

The game supports local multiplayer for 2 people, but solo soccer stars can play against a (rather hard to beat) bot. The Beta Demo features the ‘Soccertron’ mode only, but the full game features 4 different game modes – Soccertron, Shrinktron (shrink the other players goal to win), Basketron (basketball) and Tournament.

It’s a neon filled, fun, fast and addictive 1 on 1 multiplayer game, ideally suited for couch battles with friends. Football with a Clu.

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Tribal & Error is a unique game about learning and using language to solve puzzles and help a tribe of cavemen survive the incoming ice age.

You play a robot sent back from the future, and must observe the tribe of cavemen in order to master their primitive language. You observe what the cavemen are doing, recording and copying symbols. You can then repeat the symbols and audio to the cavemen in order to figure out their meaning, then type a your perceived meaning of the symbols to help you remember which is which.

Once you have a basic grasp of their language, you can instruct the cavemen to carry out tasks by putting commands in the correct order, helping them learn new skills and solve puzzles. It’s a fantastic concept for a game that gives you a great sense of achievement when you learn new words and skills.

The Alpha Demo of Tribal & Error offers up a short (10 min) taster of things to come, during which time you’ll help the cavemen master one of mankind’s most important discoveries. With it’s charming visual style, adorable cavemen and unique language based puzzle design, Tribal & Error makes learning a new (old) language tons of fun.

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Environmental Station Alpha is an excellent metroidvania action adventure platformer with a cool pixel art visual style, challenging gameplay, intelligent level design and a fantastic soundtrack.

You land on Environmental Station Alpha with only a jump and a nifty blaster gun at your disposal, but in true Metroidvania fashion, you’ll soon unlock some useful upgrades - including a rather handy grapple gun. The level design is particularly impressive as you wander around the station, with a nice selection of different visually themed areas, challenging platforming and whole areas that will drastically transform.

As you blast and jump your war through Environmental Station Alpha the gameplay is tough, but never unfair. There’s a nice selection of enemies to take on, all with distinct attack patterns, including over 15 large bosses. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable metroidvania romp, an old school action platformer that challenges and delights.

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Powershine is strange sandbox toybox that allows you build large, intricate constructions, then breath life into them.

Although it looks very nice, the Powershine Alpha Demo is pretty limited at the moment, but it certainly shows promise. You can collect building materials and build large structures relatively easily then breath life into them with the aid of special orbs.

There are no real objectives or endgame at the moment, but it’s fun to just create large moving structures or works of art. We’d love to see more varied building blocks in future releases, and some set objectives would add some direction for your creative output.

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Treasure Raid is an interesting 2D Action Platformer that allows you to navigate between the multiple layers of foreground and background.

Set in Medieval Europe, you play as Lief, a master thief that sets out on a journey to rescue his town from poverty by seeking out treasure. With the ability to switch between multiple background/foreground layers (like LBP but with far more depth), you navigate levels in unique ways, solving puzzles and avoiding guards. You also have a nifty bow to aid you, with various different types of arrow which can be used to attack enemies and solve puzzles – ice arrows for example can be used to freeze water and make platforms.

With it’s unique layer jumping gameplay and charming comic book visual style, Treasure Raid is shaping to be a fun puzzle platformer with more layers than an onion in a 3 piece suit.

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Sky Rogue is a fun roguelike flight sim with a wonderful low poly visual style, arcade handling and an infinite number of procedurally generated islands to soar and shoot your way through.

We first covered Sky Rogue last year, and found it to be a blast. It’s come a long way since then, with all manner upgrades and tweaks, including a great selection of unlockable weaponry and aircraft. It’s easy to play, with your planes are manoeuvring well, making aerial dogfights and air to ground based combat a joy to take part in. You’ll have to be careful in the skies though, in typical roguelike fashion, there are no lives or checkpoints, when you die it’s game over (although you do keep currency and unlocks).

It’s great fun blasting your way through the skies of Sky Rogue, with it’s vibrant visuals and awesome soundtrack - a feel good flight sim with a cool retro vibe.

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DarkfieldVR is a great looking first person space dog fighting game with a focus on co-op, virtual reality, and epic space battles.

You’ll start off in a station getting ready to hop on your fighter ship, and fly to fight in a thrilling war in a dog fighting experience against challenging opponents. DarkfieldVR has a big focus on co-op play, and in the finished game you’ll be able to work together with a wingman to complete a variety of space based missions.

It’s still early in development, and the controls could do with a little work, but already the graphics, ship models, visual and sound effects are all excellent.

DarkfieldVR looks set to be an impressive and fully immersive co-op space opera – Multiplayer X-Wing with Rift support.

Download the Prototype, Free (Win, Mac & Linux - Works on Rift & Standard Screens)

SUPER III is a (very) fast-paced, pixel art puzzle platformer which uses teleportation and screen-wrap gameplay mechanics to great effect.

As you’d expect from the developer of Frog Sord, your character (III) is remarkably nimble, with an ability to run, jump and wall-jump with a pleasing amount of precision. Where the game really comes into it’s own is the use of your characters teleportation ability, with you able to horizontally teleport instantly to the first wall/block in your line of sight. When this is combined with the screen-wrapping of the levels it can make for some truly mind-bending level design, requiring quick reflexes and quick thinking as you solve puzzles on-the-fly (while trying not to die).

SUPER III is still very early in development (the current build even lacks sound), but We’d love to see more of this inventive, intelligent and challenging puzzle platformer. For the full release, the dev plans to have an over-world and mission structure inspired by Super Mario 64, over 100 missions spanning 5 chapters, Boss fights and chaotic 4 player deathmatches. SUPER challenging, SUPER smart, SUPER fun, SUPER III.

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Phantasmal is a particular favorite at Alpha Beta Gamer, its terrifying procedurally generated mansion still freaks us out every time we play it, so we’re always happy when a new build comes along. As well as a host of improvements, the new build also comes with the announcements of a Greenlight and Kickstarter campaigns, so if you love getting your ass kicked by this roguelike FPS nightmare, check them out now.

For those unaware, we first covered Phantasmal back in May, and loved the claustrophobic level design, pant-wettingly horrific monsters, varied weaponry, brutal difficulty and the well implemented procedurally generated level design. All of which works together to make each playthough as terrifying as the last, with you never knowing what macabre horrors lurk behind the next corner.

There’s plenty of weaponry in Phantasmal, but you’ll have to be smart if you’re going to last for longer than 5 minutes. Stay very quiet and use your weapons and flash-light only when necessary and you MIGHT survive this procedurally generated nightmare. You’ll still need a steady nerve and a LOT of luck on your side though. Make no bones about it, this is a very hard game!

Download the Latest Build of Phantasmal For Free & Check out the Kickstarter & Greenlight Campaigns

Tea Party Simulator is a QWOP-Style game in a similar vein as Surgeon Simulator, but instead of butchering patients with your incompetent surgical skills, you’re slicing cakes and serving tea to your teddy bear.

There’s been a glut of simulator games recently, but Tea Party Simulator certainly shows more promise and polish than most of the competition. Firstly, although the controls are deliberately awkward, they work just as well as anything we’ve seen in Surgeon Simulator. Also, and just as crucial, it’s got a great sense of humor, with lots of nice little touches and hidden easter eggs (such as pressing ‘A’ to make your little finger stick out when you hold a tea-cup). If you choose to play as a male, the ridiculousness of the situation is even more apparent as your big hairy hand flails around the table.

It’s certainly easy to dismiss Tea Party Simulator as ‘just another silly simulator’, but even in these early stages of development it’s a blast, full of QWOP-style destruction and silliness. Also, it’s ripe for expansion into more and more Surgeon Simulator-style ridiculous scenarios – we’d certainly love to throw a tea party in space!

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