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SanctuaryRPG is a great new roguelike ASCII text based RPG set in a world of wizards and warlocks, ghosts and goblins, and soups and salads. It has six playable character classes and nine unique races to choose from, crafting, side quests, diverse weaponry, magic abilities, XP, a great turn based battle system, and cow romancing!

It’s an impressive game that brings fresh ideas, modern day gameplay elements and a nice sense of humour to the classic ASCII text based game style.

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Soulbound is an action-adventure game in which you play as the Beastmaster, who roams the city of Caladan catching, taming and fighting monsters, using their skills and weaknesses to your advantage. It’s no Pokemon clone though! You roam the world from a top-down Diablo-style camera angle, with your selection of monsters tethered to you, battling against enemies in real time.

The game’s still early in development, but it’s a great idea, it’s real-time Pokemon with a pinch of Diablo

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Only If (Spotted by Indie Statik) is a great looking first person exploritive puzzle game that tasks you with escaping a large (and rather creepy) house that your character has woken up in after having a few to many drinks the night before.

It’s a short game (around 10 mins) created in an 8 day gamejam, that features some pretty inventive puzzles and a great atmosphere. A particular standout is the audio, specifically the voice acting of your captor/tormentor who talks over the radio and claims to know how you can escape. Needless to say he seems to want to have some fun with you first.

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Interference is a very cool cyberpunk/tech-noir stealthy puzzle Metroidvania platformer that draws favourable compariusons to Flashback, Mark of the Ninja and Gunpoint. Set in a place where citizens’ rights have been replaced by totalitarianism, oppression, and a robotic police force, your character joins up with a cyberterrorist group called the ‘interferers’ to find out whats really going on in the city.

Your character cannot kill, so stealth and skill are required to navigate the world. You also have the power to manipulate your enviroment, moving sections around to aid your passage and avoid discovery, it’s a great mechanic that really adds interesting puzzle elements to the gameplay.

Interference is a great slice of 2D neon noir, with similarities to Flashback, but with some great new ideas of it’s own.

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GodSpace Galactic 2 (the sequel to 2013s original) is a God simulation/sandbox game, where you use your god-like powers to create your own solar system.

You can mess with asteroids, comets, planets, stars, and even black holes, using your many God powers to push, pull, create orbits, fire nukes, shoot lasers, resize objects, and much more. You can ever create life on planets, watching the lifeforms evolve into space faring civilizations, or just wipe out them out by throwing the planet into a Black hole.

There’s even online multiplayer, allowing you to team up and create a solar system together, or just go to war with each other.

Ultimately GG2 is about choices, you’re given the keys to the solar system and allowed to do whatever you like with it, you are a God after all!

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Fictions (spotted by Indie Statik) is an interesting expolration and stealth game that has been made as a Pre-Alpha build for the upcoming game, Somewhere and inspired by the book “The Approach to Al-Mu’Tasim” by Luis Borges.

Fictions (and Somewhere) has a beautifully surreal visual style, set in a small barren dessert, with floating buildings, burried tellephones, lots of clocks and odd looking gangly characters. It’s great fun exploring the area, discovering new oddites and strange artworks.

Other than the wonderfully strange art style, the other main hook is the ’character flip‘ game mechanic. This allows you sneak up behind other characters and swap places with them, allowing you to experience the world from their perspective. It’s a great concept, that’s central to the gamplay, and makes for a greatly satisfying experience.

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By the power of Grayskull, He-Man is back with a bunch of friends and ready to kick Skeletors boney ass! This fan made game is an excellent 4 player co-op side-scrolling beat-em up featuring all your favorite characters (and Orko) from the classic He-Man cartoons. The game is still in development, but the dev has released a great 9 level demo, featuring 1 boss battle. Playable charcacters include He-Man, Orko, Sorceress, Man at Arms and She-Ra. It’s great nostalgic fun, perfectly recreating the feeling of playing a classic arcade brawler and bringing the classic he-man characters to life (then beating them to a pulp)

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Sky Rogue is a fun flight sim with a great cell shaded visual style and an infinite number of procedurally generated islands to explore. It’s easy to play, with your planes controlling wonderfully, making airial dogfights and alr to ground based combat a joy to take part in. There’s also a nice array of enemies to destroy, looking very pretty in all their cell shaded clory, but all quite deadly if you give them a chance.

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Hyphen is a great example of a simple, unique idea, expertly done, making for a fantastically fun and highly addictive experience.

The idea is simple, you control a constantly rotating neon line (or Hyphen) and you’re tasked with guiding it through a host of devilishly tricky levels. The levels are expertly crafted, with some obstacles seeming impossible at first, but rest assured, there’s a way to guide your Hyphen though every level and there’s great satisfaction to be had in beating its devious designs.

Hyphen is great fun and very addictive, It’s also the best use of a line as a playable character since Pong!

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