by Unikotoast.
The game is clearly inspired by the excellent Vampire Survivors, but made in PICO8, and with a different vibe; a bit slower, a bit more methodical, and harder. You have to manually shoot carrots, and your carrots are a resource that need time to regenerate. Had a lot of fun trying to crack this one!
by BADGRAPHIX.
Explore a giant castle in the sky, and find the treasures hidden within.
My friends and I played this at our last games morning, and we had such a good time! We started out exploring the castle separately, and then came together at the end to combine our knowledge and piece it all together. “How did you get the orange key?” “It’s over here, follow me!”
While it’s not really that complicated, figuring out how it’s all connected was incredibly satisfying – it’s a really nice space to build a mental map of.
This time, we were exploring the handcrafted “Castle Antiquita” starting level, which we completed – but the game also has a mysterious “castle of the day” mode (as well as two more handcrafted castles), which we were all excited to try out soon.
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(via Roblox Underrated Games, thanks!)
by NMcCoy.
Gather gold and bring it back to your lair to grow in power! It’s a charming adventure game with fun combat, secrets to find and new abilities to learn.
I discovered this little game on the recently featured section of the Lexaloffle BBS, though it seems like it’s been around for a couple of years. It’s the third game in a series that goes back to the distant days of Java web applets, so the previous iterations are no longer playable.
This week, I was reminded of this little roblox (experiment? parody? experience!) that I really like. It’s inspired by difficulty chart obbys, an obby subgenre that strictly orders its levels by difficulty to provide you a measure of… uh, how good you are at obbys.
In this one, whether you pass or fail a level is down to sheer luck – starting at 50/50 odds on the first level, and getting worse and worse from there.
Are you ready to Morb? It’s just like minesweeper, except, you know. With morbs!
by Andrew Kepple.
Ok, no spoilers: in this game, you play as a little Knight who runs around and jumps, and… look, I don’t know. All I can say is that I’m a sucker for a good mechanical joke.
(The game’s made with a little puzzlescript/bitsy like platformer tool called Pocket Platformer, which is new to me, and seems really cool!)
by Sean Noonan, Dave Zhang, Coff and Bertrand Guegan.
An earnest “Wolfenstein 3D”-like with some modern influences! The gameplay is fluid and immediately fun, the art colourful and full of personality, the music and sound design is great as well. It has a story too, which is slight, but kind of charming – you play as a time traveller chasing another time traveller through time. I like how it uses the time travel thing to justify its old school game mechanics.
A neat little puzzle climbing game from the maker of last year’s “A Firm Handshake“.
(Did you know? Climbing routes in bouldering are called “Problems”!)
by garmentdistrict.
BB is back (this time, with her sister ZZ) to explore a new mystery in the latest “… of the killer” game!
I don’t know if the plan is to eventually put these in some kind of collection or what, but if you’ve been holding off for that: I wouldn’t! Think of each game like an episode of a weird cartoon-murder-mystery series – you really don’t have to start from episode one. It’s time to jump in!
by Bradley Lovell.
A fantastic parody of The Witness, made by someone who clearly loves The Witness. You explore a mysterious island and solve pen-and-paper-style maze puzzles. But it’s less about the mazes and more about what’s going through your head as you solve the mazes, you know?