🕹️ Wizards & Space

🆕 On the Shelves

📐 Arco

Enter the breathtaking world of Arco, a dynamic tactical RPG where your decisions shape the story. Three tales forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge."

• A narrative-driven turn-based RPG where time stops on your turn (so that you can plan the next move). Think "bullet time" (from the Matrix) or the mechanic in Super Hot.

💪 1000xResist

• Actually released in May, but just hearing about it now.
• Overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam and won a few awards too.
• Considered "a deeply personal exploration of diaspora politics and psychology" – Eurogamer

🕴️ Leap Year

• An interesting take on the platformer genre.
• "Clumsy" platformer, where you die if you are not careful about how you jump
• Lots of hidden secrets

🏎️ Aero GPX

Aero GPX is an anti-gravity racer focused on high velocity, flight, machine-to-machine combat, and responsive controls that are easy to pick up but difficult to master. Fight for the best position possible with high speeds, risky maneuvers, and visceral attacks!

• Think Wipeout, Mario Kart, F Zero X, or Kirby's Air Ride

📡 On the Radar

🧙 Tactical Breach Wizards

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

• Looks like a mixture of X-Com and... Monty Python? Some great writing, great gameplay, and great fantasy. I'm down!

🎮 In Rotation

🍓 Berry Brother

• This month's PICO-8 entry is this rather innovative platformer.
• You get an item early on that allows you to hold a button and switch perspectives, so the traditional side-on platformer becomes a top-down game, allowing you to reach places you wouldn't have been able to from the side-on perspective.
• From the top-down perspective, the game then has a kind of sokoban-style puzzle element to it where you have to move blocks to aid you in the side-on perspective.

❤️‍🔥 Pine Hearts

Pine Hearts is a cosy little narrative-adventure game set in the sleepy scenery of Pine Hearts Caravan Park. Explore the great outdoors as you uncover items, unlock new paths, and discover all the little secrets stuffed throughout the Park.

• A cosy adventure game set in a cute caravan park: Pine Hearts.

🌌 Rymdkapsel

• Revisited this classic on my way back from Toronto
• Self-proclaimed "Meditative Space Strategy" game and yeah, I agree, there is something chill about it even though you're getting attacked by enemy aliens every few minutes.
• It's not a super long game, but is fulfilling nevertheless.