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Halcyon Winter v2022.12.30 (Nintendo Game Boy) (Game)

Halcyon Winter by VideoGameStoryTime is a short visual novel, interactive fictional game made for Nintendo Game Boy.

This game takes fifteen minutes to complete and features two possible endings. You need to take a photo of a kingfisher. You’ve taken an internship at a nature magazine, and your boss is an angry man with an unusual fixation on orange and blue birds. The local kingfisher is a bit of a handful. You need to help the bird overcome his existential crisis and take the perfect photo to please your editor.

Coarse Blade v1.0 (Atari 2600) (Game)

Coarse Blade by Magovinna is an action game made for the Atari 2600/VCS.

The story of the game follows an old kingdom, where terror reigns. An evil sorcerer is ruling the land. Then one day, he is challenged by a barbarian Knight who is traveling from a foreign land to seek fame and fortune. You take control of the brave knight as you decide the fate of the Kingdom. You will fight your way through six levels going through the forest and into the old castle to overthrow the evil sorcerer and bring back peace to the land.โ€‹

A torn winter Wanderer v2022.12.29 (Nintendo Game Boy) (Game)

A torn Winter Wanderer by Red Skald is a short dark christmas themed visual novel game made for Nintendo Game Boy.

The story of the game follows Liv, who is coming home for the holidays to handle her strained relationship. She’s drawn into a twilight world of spirits where she undertakes a mysterious yearly walk, where she might get perspective on things or not. It’s up to you. You can select through a lot of choices and interact with strange norse spirits throughout the game. You can also explore old nordic customs in your own year walk.โ€‹

Wordlos v0.3 (MS-DOS) (Game)

Wordlos by CrociDB is a puzzle game for MS-DOS. It is a clone of the neo-classic word game.

In this game, you will build words by choosing from the given alphabet right below. You have five horizontal rows of words. The sequence of the words varies and depends on how many rhyming words you can make. The closer the rhyming words, the better score you will gain.โ€‹

Sokobird v2022.12.28 (Lexaloffle Pico-8) (Game)

Sokobird by shyfu is a casual puzzle minigame for PICO-8. This game is a Sokoban game based on Yoshio Murase’s levels.

In this game, you will play through 32 crafty levels. These levels are small and contain only 3 boxes to push, but can be delightfully tricky and surprisingly difficult to solve. The game will auto save your progress.โ€‹

Mr Angry Dude v2021.05.17 (Commodore 64 – C64) (Game)

Mr Angry Dude by Misfit is a puzzle game made for Commodore 64.

In this game, you play as Mr Angry Dude. A dude of pure perpetual anger, using his ability to move the very ground he is near. You have to slow down and puzzle-shift your way to the exit. You need to collect all the keys in the series of rooms that doesn’t make Mr Angry Dude’s mood any better.โ€‹

The Loops v2022.12.27 (Lexaloffle Pico-8) (Game)

The Loops by D3V is a short casual puzzle game made for PICO-8.

In this game, your goal is to help the cat with his looping abilities. You can help him by capturing the big, holy yarn and setting the puzzle pieces in their places. Unlock the puzzles by finding the keys and you can swap color palettes as well.โ€‹

Connect v1.1 (Commodore Amiga OCS) (Game)

Connect by LogicalByte is a logic game for Commodore Amiga OCS. The game idea is inspired by Hashiwokakero logic puzzles. In order to download this game, you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of 5.99โ‚ฌ EUR.

In this game, chips are placed on a circuit board and you have to place connections between them. The rules of the game are simple. They are:

  • The number of outgoing/incoming connections must match exactly the number on their chips.
  • Connections must not cross each other.
  • A coherent network of connections must be built.
Batman Rises (Posadas Autumn 2022) (Commodore Amiga OCS) (Demo)

Lovers of digital art and the demoscene are already aware of Batman Rises by Batman Group.

This demo will run on an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM and is provided on two floppy disks (these are two times 880 kilobyte!). 8 Minutes of pure demo pleasure at a machine with only ~7 MHz. The whole composition is just breath taking and obviously we don’t need to talk about the limited amount of space used. Possibly only a few dozens of people do have the skills to realize something like that, considering so many limitations.