by Ismael Rodriguez.
Guide the little parcel to its destination! But instead of controlling the parcel, you control the level itself, using a series of pinball-esque switches.
(reminds me a little of the wonderful I am Level – still playable in BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint!)
by Molleindustria and Jesse Stiles.
A short and accessible digital boardgame about guiding the USA to zero emissions by the year 2050. By Molleindustria, who’s been doing this sort of thing for a long time and is really great at it.
Videogames are amazing at helping you understand how a complicated system works. Nothing beats the act of just playing with the pieces yourself, and seeing how it all fits together! The path to a zero emissions future is gonna require a lot of juggling – and, uh, not getting sidetracked by the Nuclear Fusion pipedream, maybe.
[Play online (itch.io)]
(Also available for free on steam and mobile)
Tired of living at the end of eternity, OZUKEIM sets out to explore his world.
Playable on windows, or on other platforms with the excellent EasyRPG engine. The RPG Maker 2000 RTP library is required to play.
(via Weird Fucking Games, thanks!)
by Wendal.
An education puzzle game about paying for stuff with coins, so that you end up with as few coins as possible remaining in your pocket. “Many tourists in Japan gather a truly absurd amount of coins. Last year 17 tourists drowned in Tokyo bay, unable to swim, burdened with excess coinage”, or so the game claims!
It’s weird (and surprisingly fun) to have to take a step back and manually think through this process that we do all the time without really thinking about it.
by Freya Campbell and Jazz Mickle.
A dream emulator, cracked so you can run it from the convenience of your very own desktop computer system. “NO NEED FOR BOUGIE MEDICAL PCS!”, sez DA_K1LLA and THE DICKSOFT CREW.
(maybe mind the content warnings on this one)
by Joey Wamone.
Collect all the teeth to win! Created for DOMINO CLUB’s Dream Gallery Jam.
I love this – it’s a joke game in the vein of I Wanna Be The Guy or Kaizo Mario World, but in miniature, and focused on one particular mechanic.
[Play online (itch.io)]
(download version recommended)
by sunil.
Ahhh, it’s a new sunil broughlike!
Sunil mentions on his blog (where he’s written a very nice post about this game) that he takes a week off work each year to make a new game for 7DRL – last year he made Mosaic with Corey Hardt, which was one of my favourite games of the year. The year before, he made Escorial, which I also loved. So this is quite a hat trick! Highly recommended.
by SubstandardShrimp and MBRHIndustries.
Adjust the picture! Fix the socket! Fix the floor! A Haunted PS1 take on the house flipper genre.
by Veddge and Thomas.
This is a custom level for Doom 2! Just a normal map of someone’s house, it seems?
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… ok, ok, there’s more here than first appears. Part of what makes this cool is that it’s a “doom” thing, but don’t worry, you don’t need to be a true doom murderhead to appreciate it.
I recommend reading Eevee’s “gradually-unfolding list of tips” once you’ve played through the level!
How to play a doom level in 2023:
