All releases are played for the eight minutes allowed in trials and impressions are made from that. If any developers would like for us to review your game in full, post an update on the progress of your game etc. please get in contact.
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A Killers Dream is a mystery solving game in which you must dream in order to find the killers name by remembering the letters which briefly flash up during the dream sequence. My impressions were it was just a bunch of photos with some fog and eerie music playing in the background. I would have ended with the pun it was more of a Killers Nightmare as the game is supposed to be scary but it done nothing for me, one to avoid. A Killers Dream costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Catch22 is a puzzle game where you must collect the falling blocks before they hit the ground. The screen and blocks can be rotated 90 degrees at a time to enable you to catch the blocks at all angles. Graphics are OK, the screen text is drawn outside the TV safe zone which was a little annoying as it is a simple mistake. The trial only lets you play one level so it was hard to judge if the game was good or not, give it a try and see for yourself. Catch22 costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer can be found at the end of this post.
Life is a strange program to review because it is not exactly a game. If you are not familiar with the concept, it is a game about evolution in which you must start with a few cells and watch them evolve. Apart from placing a few cells at the start there is no other player involvement except holding the Right Trigger to move to the next step. It is hard to review because there is nothing much to it, save your points for something else. Life costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be here.
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Platypus is a horizontal scrolling shooter game in which you must fight through 20 stages either in single player or two player co-op. Graphics are done in a claymation style (think Chicken Run, Celebrity Deathmatch etc) and it looks looks great, even the explosions are done in clay. The game plays well but I did find it a little easy and got to stage 4 within the trial limit with little effort on normal, there are three difficulty levels so you can always make it harder. It is a fun game and well worth checking out! Platypus costs 400 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer can be found at the end of this post.
The Impossible Game is a platform game where all you must do is jump over spikes and use blocks to jump higher. The game automatically scrolls the screen with said spikes and blocks which you must overcome or you die and its back to the start of the level. ‘It’s quite possibly the world’s hardest game’ is the authors description and he wasn’t joking, this game is hard! It requires very good accuracy in timing the jumps and had me effing and blinding at the monitor several times 🙂 You have to try this game simply because of the challenge, its #$%&ing hard! The Impossible Game costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer can be found at the end of this post.
Titles that have received a software update or price change are Agent MOO: Maximum Overdeath, Arbor Vitae, Weapon of Choice, sbdm-1, In the Pit and Fittest.
Trailers for the new releases are below
Catch22
Platypus
The Impossible Game
