developed by Happymagenta | Platform: iOS
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“A mysterious RPG adventure of a boy and his dog. Explore tricky dungeons while thinking steps ahead in order to avoid traps. Solve puzzles, outwit and defeat enemies; uncover the town mystery!”
[Download on iTunes] | [Watch the Trailer]
via TIGForums
developed by mografi | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PS4
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“A handmade, 2D, exploration based, adventure game with a focus on story, character, and mystery.”
“Jenny LeClue is a coming of age tale. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, always mysterious; it’s a story about finding our strengths, accepting our weaknesses, and the blurred lines between what is right and wrong.”
“This is a game about your choices and how they permanently affect the story. We want to deliver a rich narrative experience about relationships with delightful surprises and interactions. The story also deals with mature themes, complex characters, and an epic tangled mystery. We want you to help guide the direction of Jenny’s journey, within the game itself.”
[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website] | [Play teaser demo]
via itch.io
Some gifs made from TheSparrowsJourney let’s play.
developed by Illuminated Games | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
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“A strategic visual novel…telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet.”
“Keep as many colonists alive as possible by making the tough decisions which will determine how your adventure unfolds. Build colony structures, salvage wreckage, resolve problems with multiple branching outcomes, and manage your colony’s dwindling supplies; all while playing through an intense story of political intrigue, sabotage, desperation and survival..”
[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website]
via /r/gamedev
developed by Corbie Games | Platforms: Windows, Mac
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“Mount and design your very own train with plenty of detailed equipment, hire a loyal, bold and selfless crew and travel through the dangerous Wild West. Find your way by cleverly using your resources and by shipping goods and passengers. Solve problems your own way, either through diplomacy, violence or bribery.”
developed by Greg Lobanov | Platforms: Windows, Mac
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A musical adventure where your character must sing in time with various visual cues. It’s currently on Kickstarter in order to ensure it has an awesome soundtrack (like in the trailer).
“Use your singing to solve people’s problems, solve puzzles, and hopefully, ultimately, save the world!”
“Wandersong is *not* about learning a few note patterns and re-using them throughout the game: it’s about observing the environment, and using music to interface with each unique situation.”
[Back on Kickstarter] | [Follow on Tumblr]
Art by meowza
developed by YCJY | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
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“A pixelated, side-scrolling, underwater action-adventure game about exploring the decaying ruins of our species — and fighting deadly sea-creatures — in search of answers about our downfall.”
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human came through Kickstarter last year (I made a post about it here), and just released a couple of days ago ($9.99 in the U.S., but on sale at the moment). So if you want to take part in underwater submarine shenanigans check out one of the links below!
[Buy on Steam] | [Buy on itch.io] | [Buy on Humble Bundle] | [Buy on GoG]
developed by students of the Pompeu Fabra University
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A physics based puzzle adventure for Windows. You can download the full (pretty short) game from Game Jolt below.
“Katherine was once the star of a puppet theather, but she has been replaced by a new doll, and vanished to the basement. Now, using her own threads she will recover the glory, kill the impostor and return the show to its one and only start… Katherine.”
via Free Game Planet
developed by Jo-Mei Games
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A beautiful exploration and adventure game, and yet still in very early development.
“This adventure is about Kay, who has turned into a black monster, and her journey to find out what happened to her.
“On her search to change, she soon finds out that her biggest enemies are not the huge monsters that she meets on her way through the Sea of Solitude, but something way more dangerous.”
I made the gifs from a video interview with the developer, by Anthony Carboni
developed by Alec Holowka, Scott Benson, and Bethany Hockenberry
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“An adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.”
“College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind. But things aren’t the same. Home seems different now and her friends have grown and changed. Leaves are falling and the wind is growing colder. Strange things are happening as the light fades.
“And there’s something in the woods.”
Scheduled to release in 2016, but you can play the two companion games on itch.io which you can check out below.
[Visit the Website] | [Follow on Tumblr]
Longest Night
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“Gather round the campfire and trace the constellations in Longest Night”
Lost Constellation
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“Lost Constellation is a Longest Night ghost story. Travel into the frozen woods in a folktale from the world of Night In The Woods.”
via itch.io
developed by Daniel Linssen
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A pixel art adventure through the desert in order to complete a pilgrimage to Mount Distant. I’m still struggling to get halfway there. >.<
“journey into the desert,
discover its secrets,
master your technique,
complete your pilgrimage,
and try not to lose your way,
as so many others have.”
[Download Sandstorm on itch.io]
The developer also recently made REAP, which is a procedurally generated exploration game. I’ll probably do a separate post on that when I’m not so busy.
via itch.io
