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Games Featured:
- • Attack on Titan
- • Pan Man
- • Aries Escape 11
- • Stealth Assassin
Take Attack on Titan, stick it in a locked room, and add in a guy whose only special skill is pancake flippin' and what do you have? This week's Link Dump Friday, of course! Escape, action, stealth and breakfast foods all in once place, just like momma used to make.
Games Featured:
- • Soap Bubble
- • Double Jeu
- • Gil
Let's face it: there's a certain masochistic edge to the summer season: So what better way to relax than this week's Vault's collection of ultra-tough-but-fair works from the JayIsGames archives, sure to frustrate you into a happy afternoon? We've got action, arcade, and platforming works that may be punishing, but boy, they hurt so good!
Games Featured:
- • Extreme Forklifting
- • Pixel Defenders
- • Astronaut Spacewalk HD
Ever wanted to play QWOP, just with heavy machinery instead of a super-fit runner guy? We've got that! How about taking a walk in outer space with nothing but a slab of glass between you and an endless abyss? Got that, too!
Games Featured:
- • Invader Invader
- • Time Squid
- • project ARK
Since it's the weekend, why not download some stuff? Come on, it's not like you were actually going to clean the kitchen or cut the lawn or finish that book on quantum physics you've been leafing through in the bathroom.
Games Featured:
- • Monkey GO Happy Guess
- • Find the Escape Men 57: Eel2
- • Rooms of Picture Completion Puzzles 26
- • THE HORNETS WOULD LIKE TO TALK
This week's Link Dump Friday is all about snack sized games! And when you think about snacking, you obviously think about monkeys, hornets, and little green men, right?... right?!... don't leave me hanging!
Games Featured:
- • Pizza City
- • Hedgehog Launch
- • Chaos Faction 2
We at JayIsGames are thrilled for the upcoming TRICKYA game console launch, but until we line up third-party support, we'll content ourselves with games from our archives. This week, driving, launch, and fighting titles will slake your thirst for quality gaming.
Games Featured:
- • Firefly Online
- • Colossatron: Massive World Threat
- • Dale Hardshovel HD
A Firefly game. Read that again: a Firefly game. It's an exciting prospect, even if it's a full 12 months away, but it's also a bit scary. Because, you know, despite being based on the best thing ever, what if it's not the best game ever?!
Games Featured:
- • Megaman Unlimited
- • Tessalation
- • Sword of the Stars: The Pit
- • Mr. Kitty Saves the World
Weekend Download is back! Because there's always one more game we'd like to share, our weekly indie freeware round-up (well, mostly freeware) has returned, supplying you with more options than the usual "cut the lawn" or "spend time with your family"!
Games Featured:
- • Bayou
- • Where is the Button For Love?
- • Age of Umpires
- • Raspy Hill
This is my jam! Specifically, game jams are my jam! This Link Dump Friday features four games created for various themed online competitions, and trust me, that's about all they have in common. Embrace the strange.
Games Featured:
- • Silent Conversation
- • Gray
- • Clack
You can either spend a ton of cash at Crazy Tricky's VaporStore Summer Sale... or just stop by The Vault for some of the best games from our archives. This week, platforming, interactive art, and puzzles take center stage.
Games Featured:
- • Guardians of Magic HD
- • Joe Danger Touch
- • Angry Birds Star Wars
These are some big games. Like, bigger than mobile games have a reputation for being. And they're free or on sale or just plain awesome!
Games Featured:
- • The Gentleman
- • Nouserdake
- • The Maze
- • Skirt Quest
Skirts and spectres, tophats and books, and much more! This week's Link Dump Friday only has one theme... variety! From a game about trying to conform to your peers in high school, to a nightmarish run through a neverending tower full of monsters (also could be mistaken for high school!) there's something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • Plants vs. Zombies 2
Raise your hand if you live in Australia or New Zealand! Now take that hand and go download Plants vs. Zombies 2, PopCap's sequel to the 2009 defense game Plants vs. Zombies! The studio has just launched the iOS version in the above countries to test out all the new systems and features. Think of it as a trial run to make sure everything works behind the scenes, as well as a chance to get some feedback on the changes to the gameplay structure.
Games Featured:
- • 9:05
- • Finding My Heart
- • Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman
Happy 9th of July! And, as you know, the traditional way to celebrate is by playing a few excellent titles from the JayIsGames archives! This week, the Vault features classic interactive fiction, adventure, and platforming titles for your perusal.
Games Featured:
- • Fieldrunners 2
- • LIMBO
- • The Silent Age
- • Bastion
Another week of mobile game releases is at hand. More importantly, another week of mobile game discounts is at hand! The deals listed below don't have a listed expiration date, so grab while the grabbin's good.
Games Featured:
- • Candy Ant Princess
- • Horse Master
- • The Choice
- • Lucky Peach Travel Game
Four games, four different spins on text-based adventures. Link Dump Friday takes you on a journey with bugs, horsies, hateful AI, and oceans made of delicious, delicious fruit that shows off the unexpectedly creative and delightful side of Twine and other formats of interactive fiction.
Games Featured:
- • Air Pressure
- • Doeo
- • Immortall
Caught inside during a summer storm like this fair reviewer is? Well, let the JayIsGames Vault can bring you a little sunshine, with an excellent visual novel, arcade hit, and interactive piece of art... no umbrella neccesar!
Games Featured:
- • Factory Balls
- • Anodyne Mobile
- • Tribloos 2
- • Space is Key
Everything that once was non-mobile is now mobile. So spake the prophets thousands of days ago when the mobile world became a "thing". A couple of really great games have made the crucial crossover recently, and we're here to swoop down and play them.
Games Featured:
- • Room of 1000 Snakes
- • Hyper Pixel Man
- • Yepi Forever
- • Robot Unicorn Attack Evolution
Snakes and aliens and spikes, oh my! This week's Link Dump Friday features some challenging platforming that's very old school, an alien with lead feet on a mission, a whole room full of snakes, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Clockwords
- • Fig. 8
- • Cyrkam Airt�s
We've heard the wishes of you, the consumer, and have decided to keep featuring the best of casual gaming past in the JayIsGames Vault. This week we've got some unique defense, action, and arcade titles to play around with, full backwards compatibility included.
Games Featured:
- • Sparkle 2
- • Infinity Blade II
- • Badland
It's like spring cleaning for game devs this week! Even though it's summer. And digital goods don't really take up any space. But mobile game sales are mobile game sales, so we're not going to ask too many questions.
Games Featured:
- • Man Eats Fish
- • Rose & Camellia 2
- • The Ladder of Kali
- • Coffee Mafia
Fishing. Slap fights. Ancient temples full of unspeakable evils and curses that sap the very life from your bones with every step. Do we know how to party here at Link Dump Friday or what?
Games Featured:
- • Back to the Cubeture Era 1
- • Gridz
- • Grid Game
It's time to get a little dark and griddy! And by that, I mean, this week in the JayIsGames Vault, we're featuring some great grid-based games. It's so hip to be square!
Games Featured:
- • Fish Puncher
- • Puzzle Retreat
- • Apple Bin
We're back with more games! More specifically a free game, a game that's on sale with a price that happens to be free, and a game about punching fish that isn't free but is close to it!
Games Featured:
- • Juggernaut: Awakening
- • Questopia
- • Kitt's Kingdom
- • Dream Fishing
I wanted to write something witty here about this week's Link Dump Friday, but now I'm all depressed because I wanted to do it as a creepypasta THEN WHO WAS PHONE style joke and I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Sigh. First world reviewer problems.
Games Featured:
- • The Visitor
- • Colour My Heart
- • I Wish I Were The Moon
It's safe to say that a lot of people are happy to see the old Link Dump Friday return. In LDF's honor, this week in the Vault, we're featuring classic titles from our archives that made their debut by gettin' down on Friday, Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Minecraft: Pocket Edition
- • Pixoban
- • Final Fantasy IV
- • Quadropus Rampage
Tiny little change for this week's Mobile Monday. We're going to start featuring a few free games each week along with some mobile games that didn't quite make the cut when we worked out the weekly schedule. Any objections? Didn't think so! Onward!
Games Featured:
- • Derp till Dawn
- • Pork Must Arrive
- • Rokilot
- • Collapse It 2
"Wait, what... what is this?" you say, quivering nervously. "A classic Link Dump Friday format with games to play? Is it 2011?" Haha, no, gentle, silly reader, the year is still 2013, but the Link Dump Friday you've been demanding is finally back and here to stay.
Games Featured:
- • Seasons
- • Save Kaleidoscope Reef
- • Effing Hail
This week in The Vault, lets take a look at some quality games from our archives with a suitably outdoorsy theme. Whether webtoys, arcade, or action is to your liking, they'll be the perfect way to beat the heat!
Games Featured:
- • Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
- • Color Zen
- • Snoopy Coaster
Nobody wants to wait for games. We want them playable, we want them entertaining, we want them perfect, and we want them now. That's why we decided to collect games on this edition of Mobile Monday that are either currently available to play or juuuust about to be. Because waiting is for chumps!
Games Featured:
- • Undertale
- • Massive Chalice
- • Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel
- • Kingdom Rush Frontiers
There's a lot of old-school in this week's Link Dump, from a very retro and very delicious demo for an upcoming RPG you're going to want to play, like, NOW, to an adventure game that takes us all the way back to the black and white era of 'toons, but that's not the only thing we're RUSHing to in our KINGDOM...
Games Featured:
- • The Dreamerz
- • K.O.L.M.
- • William and Sly
You know, it's tough being a casual-gaming pathfinder, heading deep into the archives to bring back quality games of all genres from whatever godforsaken rock they're hiding beneath. Fortunately, there are quite a few that have taught me the ways and means of exploration, and this week we're featuring them in the JayIsGames Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Phoenix Wright Trilogy HD
- • The Executive
- • Angry Birds Space
Hard to say no to the games featured on this edition of Mobile Monday. Free Angry Birds? Yes, please. A game about a CEO kicking through walls to engage in fisticuffs with werewolves? Ok! Phoenix Wright on iOS in HD? !!!!!!!
Games Featured:
- • The Yawhg
- • Dungeon of Elements
- • Don't Starve
- • DreadOut
- • Submachine 6
- • Crypt of the Necrodancer
- • The Kingsport Cases
- •
Mario and Tetris team up to take on dungeons, you've got a trip to Indonesia coming up, there's something horrifying and wondrous right beneath your feet... and the Yawhg is coming...
Games Featured:
- • Omega Crisis
- • Star Relic
- • Gravitee 2
Captain's Log: Stardate: 52120.13: The Vault Commander wishes to share some of the greatest space games from the JiG archives. As this is well within the parameters of our five year mission, this week in The Vault, we now present a few classic action, strategy, and physics titles. End transmission.
Games Featured:
- • Last Train to Timbuktu
- • NonoCube
- • Sparkle 2
- • Pudding Monsters
Such a friendly edition of Mobile Monday, this is. Everybody's our friend, especially those who deliver good games to us. We also seem to have a penchant for puzzle games, which are basically brain BFFs.
Games Featured:
- • Dormant Sky
- • Among the Sleep
- • Pandora: Purge of Pride
- • Town of Salem
- • Alone in the Park
- • Damned
- • Road Not Taken
- • Rom Check Fail
- • Contraption Maker
Play with a human head! Experience terror as a toddler! Accuse your friends of being murderers before they do the same to you! This week's Link Dump has a little something for everyone... especially if you're just a little bit weird.
Games Featured:
- • Tower of Heaven
- • Never End
- • My First Quantum Translocator
This week's edition of The Vault is sponsored by... I forget the name. I think it was Opening Science or something like that. Anyways, today we're featuring a selection of Portalesque games. A Portalesque is a puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic and a sadistic host. There'll be cake after the showcase, I promise!
Games Featured:
- • Hiversaires
- • OmniDig
- • Asphalt 7: Heat
Did somebody leave the front door open? Because there's a draft in here. Seriously, stand by the wall there. You feel it, don't you? Maybe just lean down a bit. More. Moooore. HA! Tricked you into reading mobile game news!
Games Featured:
- • Gun Monkeys
- • Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- • Rawbots
- • Darkwood
- • Plants vs Zombies 2
- • Candy Box!
- • Welcome to Boon Hill
- • Monaco
- • Ray's the Dead
- • City Quest
A fun and frantic indie restaurant sim gets a tasty free update. The bizarre and delightful webtoy that took the internet by storm gets a walkthrough. A zombie who's been struck by lightning wants your money for world domination. All this and more on Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Doodle God
- • Epsilon
- • Enough Plumbers
What's a pirates favorite kind of onion? Arr, chives! And the pirates in our audience should be quite very happy, since this week's Vault has first-person omniscience, snarky lab guys, and multiplying plumbers pulled straight from the best of the JayIsGames archives!
Games Featured:
- • Tennis in the Face
- • Denzel
- • Triple Town
- • Liege
The Noid hates high quality pizza mobile games. He loves to make your hot pizza ice cold. Read Mobile Monday if you want to avoid the Noid. And you really do want to avoid him.
Games Featured:
- • Game Dev Tycoon
- • Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- • Candy Box
- • Delirium
- • Dog Sled Saga
- • Black Closet
- • Son of Nor
- • SiSSYFiGHT 2000
- •
Beware! An addictive tasty treat lies within this week's Link Dump Friday the likes of which you may never escape from! And with an upcoming update to one of the most beloved platformers on the site, as well as some literary gaming, there's more than enough to take up whatever free time sneaks away!
Games Featured:
- • Magnetism
- • Industrial Place Thingy
- • Reelz
Get ready to be metagrobolized, lovers of ludo, by this week's collection of confounding complexities in the JayIsGames Vault. Whether you like your puzzles with sides of strategy, adventure, or luck, this selection from the archives is sure to satisfy!
Games Featured:
- • Dungeon Plunder
- • Factory Balls
- • Luftrausers
- • Bee Leader
More clones! And not the good kind, either. The kind that science gives us to be members of our band
Games Featured:
- • Mush
- • Dementium 2
- • TowerFall
- • Realm
- • Risk of Rain
- • A.N.N.E
- • Don't Starve
- • Thomas Was Alone
- • Virtual Families 2: Our Dream House
This week's Link Dump Friday is super friendly! Make friends with a golem, fill your buddies full of arrows, and secretly conspire to pick your pals off one by one as a slavering space beast.
Games Featured:
- • Klax 3D
- • Qix
- • Prince of Persia
With the recent celebration of JayIsGames' 10th JIG-iversary, it seemed like just the time to go retro with a collection of classic remakes from the mid-aughties. Join us this week in The Vault for an arcade blast from the past!
Games Featured:
- • King Cashing 2
- • Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
- • Joe Danger Touch
- • EDGE
Feeling a bit edgy today? Does reading Mobile Monday put you on the edge of your seat? Fancy a slice of pie made with the edge of a knife? Noticing a theme yet? Is it pushing you to the edge of your sanity? Or is this constant stream of edgy questions responsible for that?
Everyone here at JIG is thankful and grateful to our wonderful, supportive community for hanging with us and watching us grow over the past 10 years. Your comments, your feedback, and your visits have been our sustenance, our reason to keep doing what we love to do most: bringing you the very best games we can find on this planet we all call home.
Games Featured:
- • Starbound
- • A Small Favor
- • SCP - Containment Breach
- • Among the Sleep
- • The Last Inua
Cute and not-so-cuddly woodland creatures possibly in great peril? Check. A toddler's overactive imagination late at night while his parents are asleep? Check. Endless replayability and exploration in the stars? Check, and then some!
Games Featured:
- • Lucky Tower
- • One Chance
- • Pyoro
Come on in to Crazy Tricky's Vault O' Items, for all the best deals on things to clutter your inventory! And, for just coming in today, you get, absolutely free, three excellent action, adventure, and arcade games from the JayIsGames archives! Why? Because we're cuh-raaazy!
Games Featured:
- • Ghostly
- • Block Fortress
- • Gemini Rue
- • NES-Retku
Ghosts return in this edition of Mobile Monday! Real ghosts (well, virtual representations of real ghosts) plus ghost-like games we all thought were gone but have come back to haunt us. The good kind of haunting!
Games Featured:
- • Final Days
- • Spellirium
- • Something Fragile
- • Terraria
- • Sully: A Very Serious RPG
- • That Dragon, Cancer
Words are great, and in this week's Link Dump Friday they're also magical! But if words aren't your thing (YOU MONSTER!) we also have steampunk clashing with magic, Terraria's long-awaited return to PC content, a not-so-serious RPG, and more!
Games Featured:
- • OUT file#01
- • Sagrario's Room Escape
- • The Great Living Room Escape
- • Trapped Part 1: The White Rabbit
We all have moments when we feel the need to escape, that's why the room escape genre is one of the most popular on the internet. That's why, in this week's Vault, we're featuring four clever escape games that contain all we love about escapes, including all the features that make being locked up in a strange room desperate to escape such an enjoyable pastime.
Games Featured:
- • Fist of Awesome
- • Nimble Quest
- • The Room 2
- • Epic Pirates Story
Really, all you need to know about this edition of Mobile Monday is that is contains both bears and beards. There might be some other stuff to look at, but it's totally overshadowed by the sheer awesomeness of those two nearly identical nouns.
Games Featured:
- • Torchlight 2
- • Mew-Genics!
- • The Haunting of Magnolia Manor
- • Catequesis
- • Ib
- • Analogue: A Hate Story
- • Hate Plus: ~Mute's Golden Days~
- • Anodyne
- • DreadOut
- • Ghost of a Tale
- • Outlast
- •
There might be monsters and ghosts you won't be able to fight in this week's Link Dump Friday, but there are also heroic mice, mutated kittens, complex emotional AI, and a whole lot of action-packed adventuring to round it out.
Games Featured:
- • Pillage the Village
- • Varicella
- • Strategy Defense
This week, The Vault gets medieval, as we present excellent action, interactive fiction, and strategy titles from the JayIsGames archives. Awesome is coming!
Last weekend, our roving reporter, Steve, went to PAX East 2013 in Boston. He returned with over 50 interviews from the developers in The Indie Megabooth, as well as a chat with Extra Credits writer James Portnow.
Games Featured:
- • Deck War
- • Wayward
- • iCycle
- • Sorcery
No tricks in this Mobile Monday. Not a one. Just because it's that April 1st holiday thing doesn't mean we have to participate, right? We're still recovering from the massive influx of news from the two recent game-centric events. We've read all the news and carefully selected the most awesome bits to share with you. Because you're awesome. No tricks!
Games Featured:
- • Broken Age
- • Papo &
- • Yo
- • Knights of Pen and Paper +1
- • The King's League: Legend of Grimrock
- • Odyssey
- • BLEAK
- • Planet Explorers
- • Power Jam: Roller Derby
- • Ib
It's another super-sized edition of Link Dump Friday! Freeware horror hit Ib gets a massive new update with new content, a gripping console hit about family relationships comes to your PC, Double Fine's captivating new adventure that shattered Kickstarter records is revealed, and much more.
Games Featured:
- • Dog Fight 2
- • A House in California
- • Red
Come and check out the action, artistic, and arcade titles in BuildAHumbleIndieRoyaleGalaStarsInABox Bundle XVII. And, by that, we mean, the wonderful games from the JayIsGames archives in this week's Vault!
Games Featured:
- • NonoCraft
- • Tilt To Live 2
- • Pixel People
- • Unmechanical
So many new games! It's like, why can't the future be here now? Or, why can't the games I'm bored with be not here while the exciting games I don't have be here? And why can't a normal day at the office be more like a video game?!
Games Featured:
- • Witch/Knight
- • Bloom: Memories
- • Barista Blast
- • Soundodger
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Sweatshop
- • Transistor
- • Bastion
- • Ninmu Nanmu
- • Fez
- • The Castle Doctrine
It's a super-sized Link Dump Friday because the news is out of control! We lead off this week with a hugely popular former XBLA exclusive heading for a PC release and the next game from Bastion's developers, but there's plenty of other things to get excited about too! NaNoRenO brings new visual novels, Jonas Kyratzes' latest Lands of Dream has what it needs to succeed, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Poco Parco
- • The Day
- • Tower of Greed
This week, we join new weekly columnist, Tricky, as we feature some wonderful puzzles, adventure, and action from the JayIsGames archives, in this week's Vault!
Games Featured:
- • 10000000
- • Hiversaires
- • Number Lux
- • Little Things Forever
Geeky times call for geeky games, and this edition of Mobile Monday shows no shortage of said stylings. We've got a gorgeous point and click puzzle game, a math-driven roguelike, and a so-very-retro puzzle hybrid crossing from iOS to Android. We'd love to quote Maximus from that old gem of a film Gladiator about being entertained, but that'd be a bit expected, wouldn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Minecraft
- • Resonance
- • Chrono Trigger
- • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- • Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- • Wadjet Eye Games bundle
Horror, merit badges, and... rapping over one of the most beloved JRPGs of all time? Hmmm. Anywhere else, that wouldn't make any sense. But here, throw in a sale of a pack of celebrated indie point-and-click adventures, some crafting, and it's just another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Defend Your Honor
- • Llama Adventure
- • Stealing the Diamond
A snicker, a snigger, a giggle and a guffaw... some games are better than others at drawing them out of you, and for these three gems, that's the whole point! Performing a daring and reckless robbery, solve puzzles as a llama, and lead the quest to recover the Golden Walrus in this week's weird Vault!
Games Featured:
- • Third Eye Crime
- • Angry Birds HD
- • Virtual Families 2
Time to get some thieving in! And we're not just talking about games that feature thieving. It's also games being given away for free, which is sort of thievery. Not really, but it sounds a little more exciting when you think about it that way.
Games Featured:
- • Torment: Tides of Numenera
- • Avadon 2: The Corruption
- • A Bird Story
- • To The Moon
- • The Walking Dead
- • The Adventures of Dash
Normally if you snooze, you lose, but at least one of the games in this week's Link Dump Friday features a hero who sleeps his way to and through adventure! Tack on some zombies, a sequel to a celebrated indie RPG, the next chapter in a story about dreams and memories, and a little spiritual succession to one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and you have a recipe for success!
Games Featured:
- • Dale and Peakot (Full)
- • Reachin' Pichin
- • CycloManiacs
What's in an upgrade? Is it a clever way to make the player work for their power? Or an even cleverer way to make the player grind through your game? This week on the Vault, we take a look at three games that do upgrades right, from doing backflips on a bike in space, to chickens capable of rendering wolves unconscious with a headbutt.
Games Featured:
- • Gravity Duck
- • Puzzle Retreat
- • Pangolin HD
Mobile games, assemble! Form of... other kind of mobile game! From HD updates to cross-platform shifts, there's no end to the migration mobile games can make. But, really, whatever. As long as we get the goods!
Games Featured:
- • The Banner Saga: Factions
- • Don't Starve!
- • Leap Day
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Back to Bed
- • Mew-Genics!
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Back to Bed
A houseful of genetically enhanced kittens. A dimensional-warping, child-stealing monstrosity. A tribe of Vikings to be lead to victory. And Wilson, who's still stuck thanks to that darn demon, and now we know why. Packed with the weird and wonderful, it's another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • The Moving Game
- • Treasure Box
- • Rumble Ball
Welcome! Ladle you some games from our extensive archives? How about a lovely 2005 from the Boxeau province? Or a vintage 2004 with an eloquent bouquet from Boxine? Try the 2010 box from Boxage because, well, just look at those legs!
Games Featured:
- • Plants vs. Zombies
- • MANOS - The Hands of Fate
- • Dragon Portals
- • The Sandbox
Chewed -up gum and knobby knees are the dominant mental images one may experience while reading this edition of Mobile Monday. That, and the incessant repetition of Torgo's four second theme song running over and over again, never stopping, just looping. Forever.
Games Featured:
- • 99 Spirits
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • There Came an Echo
- • Blackwell Epiphany
- • Hotline Miami
- • Depression Quest
One heck of a messed up family, voice command in SPAAAAAAAAAACE, masks and mayhem on your TV, and much more on this week's Link Dump Friday... including the beginning of a brand new chapter in the celebrated adventure series from Jonas Kyratzes.
Games Featured:
- • Time Kufc
- • Electric Box
- • Shift 3
What's better than games? Creating and sharing levels of your favourites to delight your friends... or confound them! A level editor is often one of the most overlooked and underappreciated addition to any game, and here are three of our favourites that let you muck around in the developer's sand box.
Games Featured:
- • Year Walk
- • Sword and Poker
- • Forever Lost
Here's a trend we wouldn't mind seeing proliferate: games releasing alongside reference guides. Sure, you see the word "reference" and automatically think "boring" and sure, it's not a good idea for every game to do this, but in the case of Year Walk, a game based on Swedish folklore, a companion release that features more detailed mythological information is an amazing idea. Now we're almost more exciting about the companion than the game itself!
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Fighting is Magic
- • Slender
- • Dreamfall Chapters
- • Kingdom of Loathing
- • The Longest Journey
- • Delver's Drop
- • Death Inc.
There's good news, bad news, and one seriously impressive milestone in this week's Link Dump Friday. How can you go wrong with implacable horror, brawling ponies, sarcastic questing, and three sincerely awesome Kickstarter campaigns?
Games Featured:
- • Crush the Castle
- • The House 2
- • ...But That Was [Yesterday]
Randomly searching around on the internet isn't always a good idea since you can find some horrifying things, but randomly searching through our archives is ALWAYS a good idea since you can find some awesome things!... some of which are also horrifying! Here are three games from our archives chosen at random with little in common beyond simple greatness.
Games Featured:
- • Beastie Bay
- • VVVVVV
- • Inbetween Land
Tantalizing secrets are before you! What do you do? A: Take the secrets. B: Tantalize the secrets back. C: See if the secrets secrete anything. D: Some of the above. Make your choice by closing your eyes and imagining with all your might!
Games Featured:
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- • Golem
- • Kingdom Rush
- • Quadrilateral Cowboy
February is here, when a young gamer's fancy turns to thoughts of... still more games. What, you thought it was gonna be somethin' about smoochin'? Gross! Why swap spit when you can get ready to play more Kingdom Rush, turn on all the lights in preparation for Slenderman, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Sprocket Rocket
- • Specter Spelunker Shrinks
- • Blocks With Letters On
What's rad? Puzzles! Also British inventor enthusiasts and beleaguered dogs. And snarky, sadistic anagrams. And blobby heroes who can grow and shrink at a command. All those things are great, which is why this week's Vault focuses on puzzles with twists.
Games Featured:
- • Magicka: Wizards of the Square
- • Lumino City
- • Little Inferno
You know you're in for a good week when a Magicka is announced for a mobile system! Maybe the new game will shed some more light on that whole Vlad-vampire mystery? Like, seriously, who would ever think he's a vampire? Ever?
Games Featured:
- • Dwarf Fortress
- • Hatoful Boyfriend
- • Leap Day
- • The Fabulous Screech
- • Botanicula
- • Ritual Dementia
- • Asylum
There're horrifying things in this week's Link Dump Friday! But if that's not your thing, there's also more surreal pigeon romance for everybirdie, dwarven legacies, addictive co-op building, and much, much more... to say nothing of the results of the voting for our Best of 2012!
Each year our "Best of" the year awards keep getting bigger and better with more votes cast as our audience grows in size along with our appetite for better gameplay experiences, and 2012 was an excellent year for excellent games! Just take a look at all the creative wonders that have earned the title of "Best of 2012" and see for yourself!
Games Featured:
- • Fault Line
- • Dual Transform
- • I Have 1 Day
Jumping and sword-swinging are small-time mechanics. Warping the lay of the land or the very reality around you? Now we're talking! Here are three very different games that let you control the world around you in some seriously cool and unexpected ways.
Games Featured:
- • Kairo
- • Pixel Defenders
- • Stingout
- • Dungelot
Do you ever stare at your iPhone or Android phone and just ask it what the heck it thinks it's doing? Sitting there, sucking power out of the battery, awaiting your commands like some sort of obedient machine. And then, when you're playing a game and suddenly fail, why it made you do that? Because you totally had the skills to pull that jump off, it was your phone's fault you missed it. Your phone's fault...
Games Featured:
- • Ib
- • Homesick
- • Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
- • Among the Sleep
- • Treasure Adventure Game
I don't know about you, but I like to kick off my weekends with creepy cosplay, Metroidvania adventure, and science. Luckily, this week's Link Dump Friday has all three! From a commercial re-imagining and overhaul of the 2011 indie game of the year to a musical celebration of deadly technology, this week has something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • Zombotron
- • Realm of the Mad God
- • Starwish
What's in a shooter? A bullet by any other game is just the same... right? Wrong! This week on the Vault, we look at three games that turn the genre you think you know upside down, from multiplayer madness set in a blink-and-you're-dead fantasy world, to hilariously entertaining zombie destructive physics environments, and even a visual novel/horizontal shooter hybrid that will keep you involved for hours and hours...
The deadline looms for casting your votes for the best games of 2012! Vote once each day, every day, to choose your favourite games in every category, and then make sure to cast one single vote per day for the game you feel is the single best game of 2012, period. But act fast, since the voting closes January 23rd!
Games Featured:
- • Orbox B
- • Orbox C
- • Super Hexagon
- • Punch Quest
Who doesn't like a good animal hybrid? Especially that of the impossible type! One day in the distant past, mankind looked at centaurs with a sort of mystified awe. And today we gaze upon the Goaticorn and wonder "Can I get one of those IRL pls?"
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Spire
- • Dustforce
- • 10,000,000
- • Eternal Eden: Ecclesia: *un*Lucky7
This week on Link Dump Friday, we set sail for IndieGoGo where we discover two very intriguing projects... one a sequel to a 2008 indie RPG, and another a fur-filled horror puzzle adventure set in deep space. As a bonus, an absurdly addictive iOS hit comes to your PC, the Dustforce devs cook up something new, and Slender Man is right behind you.
Games Featured:
- • Coil
- • Looming
- • Friendship is Magic: Story of the Blanks
What freaks you out? Blood and guts? Mystery? Ambiguity? This week's Vault looks at three games that have sparked some of the best debate about what makes something unsettling, and highlights how very different that can be from person to person.
Games Featured:
- • Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
- • Dungelot
- • Dragon Flight
Quick! Think of your favorite mobile game! Now think about it ported to another system! Now pretend the impossible happened and something like Portal was ported to a graphing calculator. How funny would that— oh it totally happened, didn't it? Good for you, science!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... wait, wait no. It's totally just the best of times, because it's time for the Best of 2012! Tell you what, if Charles Dickens had had all the awesome games that came out this past year, his work would have been a darned sight cheerier. After all, how can you not be excited when you have games about uncoordinated unicorns, random fire hazards in space, stories as currency, ponies with a passion for dental hygeine, and kitties that force you to confront the harsh inevitability of death?
Games Featured:
- • Mamono Sweeper
- • Icycle
- • I Wish I Were the Moon
We always try to feature only games we think you'll love, but sometimes a game surprises even us by how much you want to love it and pet it and call it George. Here are three games that were unexpected hits, varying from naked tricycling to simply sweet interactive art.
Games Featured:
- • Astronaut Spacewalk
- • King Oddball
- • Dr. Stanley's House
It's backwards day on Mobile Monday! Instead of telling you about portable gaming's goings on, we're going to analyze historical examples of decidedly non-portable games. Did you know that Stonehenge is actually a massive in-progress game of tic-tac-toe? Or that the pyramids are the only remaining pieces of a game of chess? Your move, gargantuan space aliens.
Games Featured:
- • Hotline Miami
- • Dreadline
- • Fez
- • Dungelot
Coming up in 2013. A game with a hat the Doctor would approve of, and monstrous time-traveling mayhem... that the Doctor probably would NOT approve of, but he's not here right now, is he? Also: Hotline Miami gets evidence as to why it could never have been a text adventure, and an effortlessly addictive free casual roguelike gets an update.
Games Featured:
- • Manufactoria
- • Give Up, Robot 2
- • Robot Wants Puppy
Beep! The year is now 2013, so by now you have all been assimilated into robots. But don't be sad! Anticipating this, we've written this week's Vault as a series of robot-themed games to gently lower you into your new life as a cold, unfeeling mechanical monster. Hooray!
Games Featured:
- • Touch Detective
- • Sprinkle 2
- • Mew-Genics
Well, so much for 2012. Did you join the gym like you promised yourself you'd do? Finish that novel you were working on? Paint the house? Be nicer to strangers? Stop watching Jersey Shore reruns? If so, you're going to have to get creative for your new-new year's resolutions. Modest suggestion: play more good games?
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