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Paradise End by kerneliron is an action-platformer game made for PICO-8.

This game is mostly inspired by ‘Flappy Bird’, but it’s more of an adventure game. You need to flap your wings to change direction in the air. By holding left or right you gain momentum in a direction, but you gain more height if you flap your wings without holding a direction. You can hold down the jump button to flap as quickly as possible. When the meter at the bottom of the screen reaches 0, the game breaks down bit by bit, disabling colors and music tracks until there is nothing left. Collecting feathers refills the meter so you can carry on as long as possible.​

Death and Taxes by Fammy is an action game made for PICO-8.

The story of the game follows a tax accountant who work on his job for more than a deacde or two. Late one evening, you doze off at your desk, only to awaken to the two things that are certain: death and taxes. You wander through a bounded field and auto shoot your oncoming enemies. You have nowhere else to hide, just run, avoid and shoot as much as possible.

Disksweeper by voxel is a puzzle and visual novel game and is an entry for DOS Game Jam August 2022.

It’s your first day at your new job repairing damaged disks. You need to clear the disks for three customers and, meanwhile, you can enjoy the visual-novel style interface. Use Left/Right to spin the disk. If there are any mines adjacent to the cell you click, a number will appear. That’s how many mines there are in the neighbouring sectors. Use this to figure out where the mines must be. Or guess and designate a suspected mine sector.​

Wicked by Sticc is a psychological survival game made for MS-DOS.

The story of the game follows a recent event at a local park. You hear a rumor that there are notes left by the killer explaining the whole truth. You decide to go there and collect the truth. Some of the stalkers will always follow you, but you can press space to scream and scare the stalkers away. ​

Cats on Broombas by Eigen Lenk is a puzzle-game developed for the DOS Game Jam.

Broomba is about a new robotic vacuum cleaner. Your objective is to route the Broomba to collect all the stars. It moves in a straight line until it hits an obstacle after which it does a counter-clockwise turn. There are special objects in addition to static clutter. Your objective is to collect all the stars. The status of the game is still in development and the author is maybe considering new updates. As he says, “The jam edition only contains 9 levels. More levels will be added in upcoming versions expanding the collection of objects to play with.” The game is also inspired from “The Incredible Machine” and some old games.​

NumGam by SuperIlu is a puzzle game made for MS-DOS.

This game is more of called ‘a connect number’ game. Connect at least two adjacent fields with the same value by clicking and dragging. After that, you can add adjacent fields with either the same value or twice the value. The fields that are selected will be erased and the value of the last field will be updated. Deselect unwanted fields by backtracking. You can use the ‘Escape’ button to exit the game, but your progress will be lost. ​

Veni Vidi Vici by Rej72380 is a text-based game made for MS-DOS.

You are a slave in the ancient Tirian Empire whose attempt to assassinate the tyrannical emperor has been sent to the Gladiator Arena as a punishment. Your objective is to win gladiator battles to the point where you have the chance to fight the Emperor himself. You play a total of nine stages that tell the story of your upbringing as a slave and your quest to assassinate the emperor.

ZOZ by WiL is an adventure card game made for MS-DOS. The game was created as a part of Open World Jam 2022.

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This game is an open world deckbuilder roguelite, user-friendly game. You’ll have different card battles and you will uncover secrets of the vast open world. And along the way, you will meet strange characters. You will find mysterious items to use later and then, in the end, the mystery of ZOZ will be revealed.​

A 4D Christmas by NotImplementedLife is an arcade Christmas game and is a submission for the GBA Winter Jam ’21.

The goal of the game is to drive Santa’s sleigh into the 4th dimension while shooting the dangerous plasma energy spheres. The more you climb up, the higher your score. While shooting, avoid touching the plasma or you’ll lose your health in no time and it’ll be game over.​

Vandalism News #73 is a disk magazine by Offence & Onslaught & Vandalism News Staff  for the Commodore 64.

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