With its occult themes and killer sound design, FAITH feels like a cursed Atari game you’d find tucked away in a dark corner of a used game store. And yet, Faith manages to scare not in spite of its low-res, ZX Spectrum-inspired style, but because of it. Play if you like: Don Hertzfeldt cartoons, zinesįAITH began as an experiment: whether it was possible to make a game that looks like Number Munchers, but feels like PT.
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It’s a free download, but you can and should throw some money its way on itch.io. For a game about sadness, death, and pain, Everything Is Going to Be OK is defiantly alive. It has a sharp understanding of humor as a coping mechanism and refuses to shy away from even the most personal kinds of pain, packing each page with a bittersweet candor that uses silly and often violent vignettes to say something new and often painfully relatable. Across each hyperactive page, Everything Is Going to Be OK tears into every possible reason why things are not okay - whether it’s depression, anxiety, paranoia, or the struggle to survive in a world that doesn’t want you to - and it speaks the truth of all these things, and more, with surprising and often hilarious clarity. It’s loud, it’s abrasive, it’s unrestrained, crude, gruesome, funny, sad, and unpredictable all at once, but at the core of this vibrant, MS Paint-colored digital hell zine is something startlingly human. Engare illustrates math’s relationship with art within a distinctly mathematic artistic tradition with an ease and grace rarely seen in conventional puzzle games.Įverything Is Going to Be OK is a whole lot of things. For it’s the moments when the solution to one of its systems magically clicks that are among its most surprising.
Unlocking the language of its geometry and learning to read each line and curve is one part of what makes Engare such a joy to play, even if you aren’t great at math - in fact, especially if you aren’t great at it. Each puzzle posed asks a new question about movement and the dynamics of patterns and shapes, until the formulas powering each of its rhythmic machines become second nature. Part puzzle game, part drawing tool, Engare is a gorgeous exploration of the beauty of math conveyed through the mesmerizing geometry of Islamic art. Its handdrawn style brings an endearing quality to its subaquatic post-apocalyptic setting, even as its terrifying robotic sharks and squids threaten your tiny submarine at every turn. Play if you like: Silent Hill, Lone SurvivorĮarth Atlantis is a 2D shmup with the action and deep focus on exploration of old-school side-scrollers, with all the charm of a daydreaming kid’s notebook sketches. Read more about it in IGN’s Awesome Games Roundup (October 2017). Gorgeous art direction and a heavy atmosphere evokes memories of Silent Hill even as it takes the survival horror adventure genre down frightening new paths. Set in Taiwan during the 1960s, it deftly combines eerie mythological scares with the real-world terror of living under martial law. With its early January launch, Detention has remained one of the most underrated horror gems of the year. Pleasing sound effects and a cute, low poly style make its spacey setting a joy to inhabit right off the bat, but it’s the simple, yet challenging puzzles that will keep you around for even longer.Īvailable: itch.io, Steam, App Store, Google Play Store Read more about it in IGN’s Awesome Games Roundup (June 2017).Īvailable: Official Website, Steam, GOG.comĬosmic Express is a charming puzzler about building tiny intergalactic railroads. It originally launched last June, but this year it got a sleek new re-release in the form of Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, which brought a number of improvements to the base game and added new missions.
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