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Towers of Aghasba screenshot shows the player riding a small animal, while a larger beast roars in the background.

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Now Playing | Towers of Aghasba offers mindless pleasures and tiny hippos to pelt with fruit

Shore thing.

Nov. 19, 2024 Christian Donlan

Karate Survivor key art. It shows a six characters arranged in a V shape, facing the camera, with skyscrapers and two fists in the background, somewhat inexplicably. It's exactly the kind of image you'd see on a '90s Hong Kong action movie poster: young hero, muscular thugs, baseball bats, guns. There's gonna be some punching going down.

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Now Playing | This Vampire Survivors-like is a knock-out blend of Jackie Chan martial arts and the prop flinging of Yakuza

A black belter.

Nov. 17, 2024 Robert Purchese

Two Beastieball teams prepare to fight in Beastieball.

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Now Playing | Beastieball gives Pokémon an Into the Breach-style sports twist, and I can't get enough of it

Volley good.

Nov. 14, 2024 Katharine Castle

A boy holds up a snail close to his face in Miniatures.

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Now Playing | Miniatures is a dreamy, interactive picture book of strange, dark tales I would have loved to have as a kid

Amanita more of this.

Nov. 14, 2024 Katharine Castle

A close-up image of a Speedball illustration. Two heavily padded almost American Football-like players clash. One rams an elbow and fist into a punky looking opposing player's face.

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Now Playing | Speedball is back from the dead, but don't get too excited

I scream, I scream.

Nov. 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

A spooky bathroom scene showing a door falling off its hinge surrounded by spiderwebs in Fullbright Presents: Toilet Spiders.

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Halloween | In Toilet Spiders, there sure are a heck of a lot of toilets, and a heck of a lot of spiders

Lifting the lid on Fullbright's first anthology experiment.

Oct. 30, 2024 Katharine Castle

An illustration of a levitating knight-like armoured character, scrunched into a kind of mid-air crouch and clutching a huge two-handed sword. Their helm is also pointed as if like a sword. The rest of the images is red, and their appears to be be a colosseum like structure below them.

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Now Playing | Kill Knight's twin-stick carnage asks an awful lot of you - but it's very much worth it

Robotron: 1084.

Oct. 13, 2024 Christian Donlan

Concord official image showing a retro-future spaceship dashboard ahead of a rainbow coloured space view

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Now Playing | Spare a thought for poor Concord, a kind and earnest shooter sent out to die

Fight or flight.

Aug. 23, 2024 Chris Tapsell

Arco official screenshot showing two tiny riders on mounts in a bright sunny desert amongst a giant ribcage

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Now Playing | Pixel art adventure Arco's really good fun - but it's also very buggy at the moment

Some preliminary thoughts before we circle back.

Aug. 14, 2024 Christian Donlan

A ship sails toward an iron rig at sunrise in Dredge's The Iron Rig DLC.

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Now Playing | Dredge's The Iron Rig DLC holds up a mirror to Still Wakes the Deep, and comes off slightly worse for wear

Let's drill into it.

Aug. 14, 2024 Katharine Castle

A monster with angry eyes and long bendy arms reaches for more of a 2D dungeon to eat in Super Dungeon Muncher.

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Now Playing | The magnificent pitch of Super Dungeon Muncher is a sketch of future greatness

The nom of the game.

Aug. 7, 2024 Christian Donlan

Promotional art for Cat Quest 3 showing a cartoon illustration of its heroes and villains superimposed over an old treasure map.

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Now Playing | Cat Quest 3 - more winningly approachable action-RPGing, this time with pirates

Once more with feline.

Aug. 6, 2024 Matt Wales

A tentacled beast with a huge eye belches fire in this screen from World of Goo 2.

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Now Playing | The spirit of Buster Keaton flies again in World of Goo 2

Every frame a finger painting.

Aug. 6, 2024 Christian Donlan