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Dev guy is a funny, and interesting game that puts you in the role of an Indie dev called Warren, who’s trying to get his game on the app store before his game licence expires. Unfortunatley someone steals his car, which he’d left his game code in. To get the car back, you’ll have to solve puzzles, hack computers and play some very tongue-in-cheek minigames.

Dev guy is a great little game, with lots of fun in-jokes about the indie game scene and a main character with a lot of personality. Dev Guy won’t teach you how to make Indie gamea, but it WILL make you smile.

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Default Dan essentially is a Mario game, but with one big game-changing difference, everything that looks bad is good, and everything that looks good is actually bad. So, for instance, picking up coins will make you explode, while Spikes will act as a trampoline when jumped on.

It’s a fun, and well implemented mechanic, that always keeps you on your toes, and allows for plenty of ‘a-ha!’ moments. Check out this YouTube video to see how the gameplay works. Default Dan, will also be starting a Kickstarter campaign very soon.

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Gladiators of the Arena is an rpg hack ‘n’ slash game where you play as a slave gladiator fighting for survival in Arenas across the territory of Roman Empire to win your freedom.

The game focuses on Slave mode and Citzien mode: In slave mode you fight to survive and get your freedom. After that Citzien mode becomes open and you become professional gladiator. It allows you to buy a house in a city or go hunting to the forest. In custom fight you fight in chosen game mode such as : Team deathmatch, Survival or Free for all and others.

It’s a particularly brutal game, and there’s a fair bit of enjoyment to be had from lopping off limbs and decapitating opponents. There’s a variety of weapons and customisation options, the combat feels nice and weighty, and the Colosseums look great. It’s still early in development, so there’s still a lot of work to be done, but it’s already enjoyable, brutal fun.

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GearCity puts you in charge of your own auto-mobile company, allowing you to control every facet of your company, from design to dealerships.

You’ll be able to design chassis, engines, transmissions, and bodies. Then build factories and set production lines, set up branches to distribute vehicles to dealerships. You’ll also handle marketing and racing budgets and hire lobbyists to get juicy government contracts. While making sure your products are targeted at the correct demographics and are the right price.

It’s a deep and comprehensive sim, that really can make you feel like you’re the next Henry Ford.

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Interplanetary is a turn-based strategy artillery game set in space, where players wage wars by developing their home planets and firing their interplanetary barrages through the planetary system.

You’ll build your planets infrastructure, gather resources, research technologies, spy on enemies and build weapons as in other strategy games.

The big difference comes in the turn-based combat mechanics. All the weapons in game are artillery (railguns, missile & beam), which are aimed and fired from your home planets and can be affected by gravitational pulls of planets and suns. It’s a great mechanic, that is underused in modern video games, and can allow for some deeply strategic and satisfying gameplay.

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Trove is an open-ended adventure where you can explore, craft and create your way through fully buildable/destructible persistent Voxel based worlds.

Exciting new worlds are generated on a regular basis, supporting free-form exploration that makes going through a mountain as rewarding as going over it, and enables community contributions to significantly impact the game.

As well as world building, Trove also features RPG elements, with Loot, monsters, resources and unlimited dungeon variations. You can even build your own fully customisable trans-dimensional home that persists across worlds and servers.

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful looking Voxel based game that blends Minecraft style world building with deeper RPG mechanics.

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Below Kyrll is an online player-built platform game currently on Steam Greenlight.

The game plays well as a platformer, solid platforming and fighting mechanics, races, XP, upgrades and puzzles making the game a joy to play.

The biggest draw however, are the online aspects of the game, with players being able to create stories and areas of their own, then uploading them for others to play and rate. You’re then able to explore these worlds with other players that you can chat or scribble with. Creations are then be ranked by other players, granting the builders fame, trophies and epic items.

It’s a great gaming experience, that combines aspects of Little Big Planet and Terraria, to make a truly fun global crowdforged platform game.

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Oozengard is a survival adventure game with a wonderful retro art style and a great sense of humour that’s currently on Steam Greenlight.

The story revolves around the invsasion of your city by some mysterious ooze, that starts to consume any living creature in its path, turning it into a clone which only lives to haunt the living. To survive against the invading ooze, you’ll fight ooze infected enemies, explore the city, scavenge items & weapons, save citizens, create a safehouse, discover secrets and escape the city.

It’s a whole lot of fun to play, and plays a bit like a 2D DayZ in a retro 16Bit version of Springfield.

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Little Space Adventure is a fun 2D Arcade side-scrolling shooter from Bluerift. Visually it’s still a little basic, but the gameplay is fun, there’s a nice assortment of upgrades and a variety of enemies to blast.

If you’re into side-scrolling shooters, it’s worth checking out, as it can become rather addictive as you chase after that elusive high score!

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Molecats is a beautifully crafted puzzle adventure game with lots of character. You are tasked with leading your wonderfully animated Molecats through the game levels by rotating tiles, collecting mushrooms and discovering secrets on the way.
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UPDATE: Molecats is now in OPEN BETA, Download the Beta now for free

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