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Get your capes & daggers out, a new fantastic zelda like adventure game has been released! Anodyne a retro adventure game where you explore, fight various monsters and solve puzzles in single room levels of 160×160 pixels. The game is available for multiple platforms including Windows, OSX, Linux (Adobe Air) for only $8; buy from developers or on Desura and if you liked the music you can buy it on Bandcamp!
Crunching Koalas, the developers of MouseCraft are also developing a fantastic looking word spelling dungeon crawler WordTrap Dungeon with two game modes. Arena and a Story mode where you play a young wizard who is trapped in a magic tower filled with different kinds of creatures which you can defeat by using your book of letters to form word spells.
WordTrap Dungeon Screenshots:
The game is currently in a free beta (Sign Up) and if you are an active participant in the beta program you could get the full version or discount coupons when the game comes out! WordTrap Dungeon is now available for Windows, OSX, Linux and later on for Ouya and mobile devices.
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Did you like Legend of Grimrock? If so, then you should check out Space Shock a tile based dungeon crawler in sci-fi setting with explorable space ships, moon bases filled with aliens, mutants, robots and other creatures. The game will have 5 different unique classes, talent trees, various weapons including rocket launchers, flame throwers and shotguns.
Want to be an Apetronaut? Then you should check out Noomix, a 3rd person shooter with puzzle elements, fast paced action and alien creatures named “Noomies” which you can merge with to gain different abilities and upgrade/gain weapons.
Noomix Screenshots:
The game is currently developed by a new indie game studio Missing Kangaroo Productions in Austria and will be available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX platform.
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… It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon – [Lee]. Legends of Kung Fu is a brand new fighting game that brings back great childhood memories of extraordinary martial arts movies like Enter the Dragon, Dragon Inn or Chinese Boxer.
In Legends of Kung Fu fighting game you will be able to fight with more than 30 characters, in 20 different stages and with 100 moves per character, AND the game will have “badly” dubbed voice and sound effects. The Kickstarter campaign has started with a goal of 10$ K with 44 days to go and with stretch goals like mobile and XBox 360 port.
Enough running around in the woods in search for mysterious manuscripts, let’s play proper horror games. CDF Ghostship is a first person sci-fi horror game with survival and exploration elements on-board a massive space ship “The Goliath”. The ship and the space station are openly explorable; however they are filled with various creatures including Space Zombies.
CDF Ghostship Screenshots:
The game is currently in pre-alpha and a lengthy gameplay video has been released showing combat, various weapons, monsters and the environment of the game.
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Video of The Week
Development Video of a very early version of Chasm, a rogue-like roleplaying platformer with beutiful pixel art work by Tony Redmer.
Image of the Week
Screenshot of Habitat, a procedural generated survival indie game by Lunar Games.
Video Game Music (OST)
Closure: Original Soundtrack by Christopher Rhyne. The Game OST is currently included as a bonus in the Humble Bundle 7.
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