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Joylancer is a fast paced and fun platform game that revels in it’s monochrome retro glory.

Your Legendary Motor Knight is gifted with incredible power and superhuman dexterity, making him a very agile, formidable fighter and making Joylancer a very enjoyable slice of retro platform gaming.

It’s visual style is obviously reminiscent of early Gameboy games and is a great homage to classic platformers, with some modern day gameplay mechanics and no slowdown!

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Major League Wizardry is a great new trading card game that pits wizard against wizard in turn based warfare.

MLW has a fantastic hand drawn art style, with monster designs that are especially inventive and fun, adding a lot of character to the game. The game’s easily accessible to newcomers, but also has plenty of depth courtesy of the wide variety of monsters, spells and traps that are at your disposal. The game features a single player campaign, online multiplayer and asynchronous play modes, allowing you to you defeat your wizardly foes, collect and trade cards to help bolster your deck.

Major League Wizardry is fun and inventive trading card game that can make for some very entertaining battles. The Open Beta is available for Win, Mac and Android, with iOS coming later in the year. There are also plans to add a variety of great new features, including ranked matches, skins, combos, monster levelling and even physical cards so you can play the game in real life.

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Grey Phobia is Sin & Punishment style Run and Gun, Hack & Slash game with RPG and multiplayer mechanics, set in a very cool comic book style post apocalyptic world.

The game is viewed from behind the character, as you run into the screen shooting enemies, dodging bullets and battling bosses. It can be played in single-player Story mode or multi-player co-op, features a variety of upgrades and crafting mechanics.

It’s a great bit of run and gun arcade fun, with depth and plenty of style.

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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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Paper Dream is a fun, fast paced, twitchy paper airplane game, created by the students of Lawrence Tech, where you require quick thinking and fast reflexes to traverse the levels while trying to rack up a high score.

Levels are cluttered with a variety of shcool themed obstructions to impede your progress and are generally pretty tricky, especially as your paper plane is remarkably fast. This fast gameplay and the ability to restart quickly makes for a very addictive game, with you constantly trying to pull of a perfect run, squeezing through extremely tight gaps and even fighting boss battles.

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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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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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