ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultraviolent retro FPS combining the skill-based style scoring from character action games with unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weapons and shower in their blood to regain your health.
The demo is free and the game is great, especially if you liked Quake III Arena and would like a solo challenge.
The developper is a Finnish game design student: https://twitter.com/HakitaDev
He has been interviewed here: https://intothebluesky.com/2020/12/19/interview-with-arsi-hakita-patala/
Features an extensive list of level design tutorials covering principles of gameplay, design, layout and workflows using various games, level editors and game engines.
- software, level editors and game engines for level design
- becoming a better level designer
- ideas, planning and preproduction
- gameplay
- level design creation
- level design workflows
- survival/horror level design
- game industry insights
- interviews
Descend into the unknown in Shroom and Gloom a first person, dungeon-crawling, deck-building tale of mushrooms and madness.
I ❤️ that game!
First time I played it, I did not expect much. I played a few runs, for a bit more than an hour, than removed it from my computer. But then, a few days later, I wished to play it again... And now I think I finally beat it!
The game has a great atmosphere, its artistic direction is very nice, and above all, the game mechanics are very well balanced! It reminded me of Slay the Spire on how it achieves the perfect balance to make you want to try it again one more time 😊
EDIT: Decks & Daggers is also pretty good, with also a deck-building/fighting gameplay
Against the Wall is a videogame in its prototype stage. It is set against the side of a wall that stretches infinitely in every direction. The player must travel up the wall by manipulating its bricks, pulling them partially out of the wall to create ledges and staircases using a magic wand.
Against the Wall was developed during the Ludum Dare #20
Il s'agit d'un jeu d'exploration-énigme à la 1ère personne pour Windows. Le développement du jeu semble abandonné, après avoir duré de 2011 à 2016, mais j'ai adoré tester ce prototype. L'univers est assez vide mais réserve une petite surprise. Arriver au bout de cette démo mettra votre patience à rude épreuve, mais j'ai personnellement adoré l'expérience
Ce jeu m'a un peu rappelé DUE de Rubeki
Crazy japanese FPS: 1 level + 1 bullet-hell boss, the game can be finished in less than 5min
This will be perfect for my secret "Minijeux" ttrpg project, as a deep-net hacker challenge.
Found here: https://warpdoor.com/2017/06/20/yodoyabashi-oya-club-deathmofumofu/
IVOR is a fast-paced shooter set in a Norse-inspired world. Find brutal weapons and rip through your foes. Keep moving, as death comes swiftly to those who hesitate.
In this puzzle-platformer, each level is made up of 9 joined together rooms. Shift the columns and rows of the level to separate and rejoin the various rooms, to create new (and perilous) paths for your Mini-taur to reach the exit. Good luck!
Great short game! Only annoyance is the limited window resolution
a first-person adventure game about a communist witch living in a cyberpunk city. Use magic to help the city's residents build collective forms of power and resistance!
an optimistic story about people transforming their gloomy capitalist present into a bright revolutionary future. It is designed to be played in a single sitting, roughly one hour long.
a fast-phased nonstop FPS with Rogue-Lite elements. You need to get past all of the rooms as fast as you can.
High-pace FPS where your health constantly depletes and you have to hit ennemies to get back some life.
This demo is short, but good fun! The full game is planned to be released on Steam soon.
A sidescrolling adventure set in the apocalyptic rebirth of your home planet, where your only hope of survival is to explore the unfamiliar landscape.
A atmospheric exploration game, with brief battles and great pixel art.
This is a demo version, the full game is planned to be released on Steam soon.
Experience hype-filled dueling! Shoot, block, and jump your way to victory with your shotgun-rocket-launcher-that-shoots-heat-seeking-bouncy-missiles or one of the other over 11.2 million different powerup combinations.
We spent almost an entire afternoon on this game with a friend!
It's great. The visual remind me a bit of Ape Out.
The gameplay mixes skillful twin- stick platformer-shooter with crucial powerup choices.
Those choices balance the game and let players craft their own tactic for the match, by combining them.
Note: we initially played it with one player using a XBox controller, and the other keyboard + mouse, but that made the game very unbalanced. Better use 2 controllers.
Parody demake prototype of Gears of War, sort of like a gallery shooter.
It's very short (<10min) but I liked playing it with a friend!
A local two-player fighting game about swords, soul-theft, and everything in between.
A bit like Nidhogg, but with very basic visuals & game mechanics (slightly different than Nidhogg though, it's interesting) by the author of Ape Out, and free!
Healing Spree is a tongue-in-cheek hospital simulator featuring co-op for up to 4 players. Play as doctors on call to diagnose, help, and treat as many patients as humanly possible while maintaining your sanity AND friendships!
It's really like OverCooked, only a bit messier, but the demo is currently free!
Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30
tl;dr :
- Be a stranger to the familiar
- Learn to atomize and abstract
- Build a diverse pattern library
- Move patterns between contexts
- Give yourself constraints
- Change dimensions, topologies, and inputs
- Pursue unconventional metaphors
- Address deaper meaning
- Always be working
- Always be failing
A short platformer by the amazing Frank Force.
It has an original gameplay / level transition based on a scan line, and some tricky level design!
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
I really loved this game. It combines a great, original artistic direction, with a solid gameplay. The storytelling is subtle (everything is told through level design, no words), the music is captivating (its tempo matches the action), and the ~30 levels are challenging.
The game is short (a few hours), but really worthwhile!
Due to the game excellent core gameplay loop, I have spent way too many hours trying to beat the last extra level named Break In! 😅
Catty & Batty: The Spirit Guide is a casual couch co-op puzzle game, inspired by Lemmings and Tower Defense!
A lovely 2-players puzzle game, with pretty hand-drawn graphics!
Un jeu d'action-plates-formes en deux dimensions où l'on incarne un samouraï, un assassin à la mémoire vacillante dans les bas quartiers d'une mégalopole néo-noire, La Nouvelle Mecque. Il est question de violence à outrance, d'une mise en scène hypnotique, demandant au joueur de la réaction et de la rapidité d'improvisation.
Un excellent jeu, très inspiré d'Hotline Miami pour l'ambiance et une partie du gameplay. J'ai aussi trouvé que l'histoire et la narration rappelait la série Metal Gear Solid.
Un très bon court jeu coopératif pour 2 joueurs, nécessitant 2 ordinateurs, basé sur la résolution d'énigmes