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Forsaken Walls - Kotaku
Epic Dunks On Steam With Vibe-Coded Storefront And Gets Roasted: ‘This Launcher Is So F*cking Vibeslopped Its Funny’ The Internet Loves Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s Biddy Blas And The Alien’s Actor Is ‘Overwhelmed’ But Thankful GTA 5 Is Getting Yanked From PlayStation Plus Right Before GTA VI Launches Something About Tom Cruise Meeting Attack On Titan’s Eren Yeager Feels So Wrong, Yet So Right
Binary Proof - Kotaku
Test Specialist Aaron Blonde finds himself in the midst of uncanny and strange events during a routine workday. In this facility where the boundaries of logic are pushed, he must use every detail of his environment to his advantage and overcome the obstacles to escape as soon as possible.
Nine Lives Hospital
You are clumsy cat doctors in a chaotic co-op hospital – a vet clinic in reverse, where the patients are human. Grab and haul ragdoll patients, X-ray, transplant and stitch against the clock, drive the claw-machine bed. For 1-4 online. Your patients don’t have nine lives.
Heartfall: A Tale in Three Lives
From making new friends — or enemies — to exploring this island for secrets, how will your story end?
Doomsday Train - Kotaku
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Idle Agency - Kotaku
Run a struggling frontier agency in this single-player idle RPG. Recruit distinct heroes and build 4×4 formations. Automate commissions and forge gear as you push through an endless campaign where positioning morale and synergy decide every battle.
Antidote - Kotaku
30 minutes. That is all the time you have left before the infection consumes you. Bitten and lost in the heart of a procedurally generated bunker, your only chance of survival is to locate and inject the antidote hidden within its depths. The countdown has begun.
Vicious Cycle - Kotaku
Vicious Cycle is a first person Horror game where you venture into a dark forest by bike and on foot. Brave hazardous trails on your bike until the path is blocked. Then, explore abandoned sites on foot while solving puzzles and encountering supernatural creatures. Can you survive the cursed forest?
The Ramen Bar - Kotaku
Run a cozy ramen bar in a busy Japanese city. Prepare bowls, serve customers, and keep the place clean, all while expanding your menu every day.
Pop the Ghosts - Kotaku
The ghosts have taken over the building. Do you have what it takes to drive them all out? In Pop the Ghosts, you take on the role of a paranormal hunter armed with a special gun. Explore a haunted building, face different types of ghosts, and overcome challenges that become increasingly difficult. Take on a campaign with 30 platform-style levels, run, jump, break boxes, and explore the environments to find your way to the enemies.
Why Control Resonant Had to Take Our New Hero Outside
There seems to be some sentiment from players of Control Resonant that taking the action beyond the confines of the brutalist interior halls of the first game, Control (2019), is less than ideal. But understanding the relationship each game’s protagonist has with the building itself explains why this was the right choice. With each game having a different setting, we also have a clearer articulation of each protagonist.
Naughty Baby - Kotaku
News, Reviews, Release Date, Trailers, Gameplay and more for Naughty Baby
The Golden Seam - Kotaku
A quiet game about mending what’s broken and learning to wear the seams. Turn each fracture, slide the pieces home and seal the crack in gold. No timers, no score, no way to fail. Break and mend. The gold remembers. • HBO Is Getting Down In The Slop With Everyone Else • Every Super Mario Game, Ranked From Worst To Best Gaming’s favorite Nintendo mascot has had his ups and downs.
Rail Capital - Kotaku
Run a railway company in real time, laying track and finding profitable routes for passengers and freight. Buy shares in other companies, invest in factories and try to keep control of your own railway as AI rivals or other players buy into it.
Cereal Friend - Kotaku
It’s Hard Out There For Pokémon Fans If Your Favorite Isn’t Pikachu Pokémon’ s Original Stitch line is shutting down, so what happens to those Pokémon who don’t have merch anywhere else?
Gun X Race - Kotaku
This is a high-speed racing game combined with survival against assassination attempts on the racetrack. Not only do you race, but you also have to get out of your car and take up arms to defend yourself from enemies. Enjoy chaotic and intense races with a variety of challenges and unique modes. • The Nintendo Switch 2: One Month Later We’ve had a whole month with Nintendo’s new console. How are we feeling?
Myth & Magery - Kotaku
Explore, delve and conquer the boundless wilds of Faercana! A retro throwback to classic ARPGs, Myth & Magery invites you to switch off and sink into long sessions of slime-splattering, dungeon-diving and wand-waving as you seek to uncover the mysteries of the Chitin!
Finding Hooman - Kotaku
Disgaea Dev CEO Says Company Is Having ‘Discussions’ With Sony About The End Of Physical Discs: ‘I Think That They’re Hearing A Lot Of The Feedback From Customers’
Indoors: Trespasser
May 7th, 1951. Five days after the Alston family vanished inside their manor. Local policeman Lucas Smith, never returned from his investigation. Now, his son breaks in to continue the investigation in this short horror and detective escape room.
Benjy Adventure - Kotaku
Benjy adventure is a 2D platformer inspired by Mario, Donkey Kong Country and Sonic.
Secret Photo Memory
Can you rebuild the secret shot?
Roll or Die - Kotaku
The roguelike dicebuilder. Build your dice bag and go as far as you can in this underground casino! Earn chips, place your bets, combine unique dice, and create absurd synergies as you advance through increasingly exclusive rooms. Bet it all, challenge your luck, and reach the top — or die trying.
Adventure Trip: New York
News, Reviews, Release Date, Trailers, Gameplay and more for Adventure Trip: New York
Hug & Betray - Kotaku
Hug, or betray. A psychological party game where everyone picks HUG, Sword, or Gun as the host calls each round. Taunt, bluff, and rack up points! A new kind of viewer-participation game — watch the stream, play from your phone! Who’ll be the sore loser howling at the moon?
Just a Stupid Room
Someone Just Bought Two Super-Rare Golden Funko Pops For $100K Cash Only 10 of these Willy Wonka pops were released and only two are known to still have their golden tickets
Bound by Destiny
Control a dark dungeon as the Viber Lord, in an attempt to trap Princess Mistynail. Place and trigger traps, unleash creatures, and strike at key moments to block her path as she tries to find the exit.
Pulse Drive - Kotaku
Tap to the beat to build speed! Pulse Drive is an arcade racer with rhythm.Casually enjoy a ride through original dreamlike environments, challenge yourself to complete all the tracks, or challenge your friends on the leaderboards! • Sony Goes All-In on PlayStation, PULSE Explore Wireless Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price for the First Time This Year Hear every single sound in your favorite games and then some.
The Forlorn - Kotaku
Fight for your life through five nights (technically six) in this hand-drawn 2D game of resource-management and survival. Keep the fire lit, sharpen your sword, and fend off progressively angrier creatures in the Cursed Forest. Comes with a 4/20 mode, cryptic lore, how to draw, and many secrets!
Last Ditch Effort
Enter a grimdark world consumed by endless war and join Igor on a desperate mission in Last-Ditch Effort, a pixel-art character-action game featuring fast-paced combat, handcrafted animation and stylized comic-book storytelling.
Machina Blue - Kotaku
Become a mech pilot in Machina Blue, where RPG and shooter elements blend together to deliver the soul of retro anime in a unique way. • 11 AI Movie Villains That Will Make You Want to Unplug M3GAN comes from a long lineage of technology that wants to end humanity • The 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of The Last 50 Years Since 1974 we’ve gotten some seriously good sci-fi movies, including Alien , Predator , a couple of Blade Runners , and more.
Half Hour RPG - Kotaku
Up to 30 minutes of epic adventure. Half Hour RPG is a hand-asset-flipped RPG designed with uncompromising respect for your time. Every unnecessary system was deliberately left unimplemented.
Village Incremental
The Hunt For The GTA 6 Leaker Seems To Be Getting Closer To Its Target
The Unworthy - Kotaku
What if Hell made a mistake? Based on the testimony of a man who survived clinical death, this cinematic psychological horror challenges you to confront your fears and fight your way back to life, while something lurking in the darkness does everything it can to keep you among the damned forever.
The Eternal Woods
The Eternal Woods is a short, fast paced incremental about an adventurer trapped in a never ending Woods. Sharpen your axe, upgrade your skills and conquer the different Forests to escape the Woods!
No Signal: Chornobyl
No Signal is a strictly online co-op psychological horror game set in the abandoned Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore decaying towns, solve tasks together, and question everything—because you and your partner may not be seeing the same reality.
Goblin Dish - Kotaku
The discourse around the Harry Potter game has encompassed J.K. Rowling’s rancid politics and the role of criticism itself
Murder Is Game Over: Final Fright
A bite-sized mini-mystery adventure in the spirit of the Murder Is Game Over series! • Baldur’s Gate 3’s Final Patch Sends The RPG Off With A Bang The eighth big update brings crossplay, photo mode, new subclasses, and more • Everything We Saw At The 2024 Game Awards Here are all the World Premieres of upcoming games revealed at this year's award ceremony • Baldur’s Gate 3’s New Evil Endings Are Finally Coming To PS5, Xbox, And Mac The RPG’s seventh big patch launched on PC last month, and is...
Memorial Song - Kotaku
The protagonist, whose name is entered by the player, is a high-school student. This game is trying to show how a song can awaken the memories of the past and tie them together. The story opens as you listen to a song on a CD and start reminiscing events from the past… and of course, all the girls you met.
God of Stocks - Kotaku
An incremental management game about manipulating the market to get filthy rich. Buy low, sell high, chain absurd combos and earn divine blessings from stock market gods. Will you play it safe or risk everything?
Project Glitch - Kotaku
The result of a 6-month student project. A dangerous oil called Glitch is corrupting humans into mindless robots. Fight your way to the mountain’s peak and destroy the source of the corruption.
Sort Them Ducks - Kotaku
Sort Them Ducks is a cozy organizing simulator where you sort over 4,000 unique rubber ducks onto the correct shelves. Enjoy the satisfying process of turning a messy duck store into a perfectly organized collection at your own pace.
Dog of Wisdom - Kotaku
Dog of Wisdom is a 2D action platformer where you play as Pepper the dachshund. Fly around barking at nothing and sample the galaxy’s best foods, all while attaining the knowledge to be good. Get the foods and the wisdom and the hat and the galaxy.
Step Lightly - Kotaku
There’s no place like home – and yours is no home at all. Play as Rosa, a neglected child trying to escape her abusive family. Sneak out, but be ever so quiet.
Forgotten Station
Forgotten Station is a knowledge-based narrative game, where you travel aboard trains to find your way out of a time loop. Your curiosity and observation skills will be put to the test in this relaxing game, filled with atmospheric places to uncover, characters to meet, and real human stories.
Marvel’s Move To L.A. After 87 Years Means The End Of The New York City Comics Industry
Marvel Comics is ditching the city. Like so many other native New Yorkers in the entertainment industry, it’s headed west, chasing the movies to Burbank, California, just outside of Los Angelesânot to what Laugh-In would call the city’s beautiful downtown, but to join Marvel Studios at Disney’s corporate headquarters. The move has long been expected, especially since chief rival DC Comics decamped to California in 2015.
Stream Train - Kotaku
Stream Train is a co-op adventure where up to 6 players livestream their trip through the Uncanny Valley. Grow your audience by taunting cryptid creatures, doing dangerous stunts, and pranking your friends. Can you make it through the valley alive?
Catch the Turtle
A clicker game. The player must sit and watch the screen attentively, waiting for a chicken to run past, and then click on it with the mouse to catch it.
The Sound of Piano
A keyboard rhythm game featuring pure piano tracks, where every note hit generates a real key sound for an authentic piano response. Designed for intermediate to advanced players, the game includes a unique skill test algorithm to determine player ratings. All tracks are human-crafted without the use of AI-generated music. The game also features an automatic MIDI converter, allowing players to import and play their own MIDI files.
Casino of Time - Kotaku
Casino of Time is a roguelike game where you gamble with your time. Your time ticks down and you must try to earn enough time to survive as long as possible in the casino. A variety of permanent upgrades is provided every 2 minutes to tilt the odds in your favour!
Hidden Girls: Secret Puzzle
The Best Games Of 2022 (So Far) From critical darlings like Pentiment to mega-hits like God of War Ragnarök , 2022 has provided no shortage of terrific games for players of all tastes
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