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The Last Christmas Tree by Brian Vaughn is a strategy game made for PICO-8. This game was created for the 2022 Toy Box Jam.

Grinches have destroyed all but one Christmas tree. You must help the elves save the last Christmas tree. This is a tower defense game where you can move blue tosser elves into any position, while you also have to use the red scout elf to dig up snow and keep the tossers stocked with snowballs. Tosser elves will attack automatically when the grinches are in range. The squares you dig up will slow the grinches down but those grass spots will get covered with snow after some time. Green grinches are faster but weak. Red grinches are slower but stronger. If a grinch reaches the Christmas tree it will attack until he dies. The Christmas tree has 100 health points. If it reaches zero, Christmas is lost forever.​

The Empire of Dreams by rembrandx is a point-and-click exploration game made for the Nintendo Game Boy. In order to download this game, you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2 USD.

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In this game, you get lost in a world based on the paintings of surrealist René Magritte. You will choose a character to go and explore. Collect the tool items which you can use to recover 5 treasure items, so you can retrieve your favorite pipe and find your way home. Every new game you start will have some objects distributed randomly to keep things interesting and every character has their own specific tool already in their inventory. ​

Zoopico by gearfo is a 2D puzzle game made for PICO-8.

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In this game, you need to clear the shapes from the board to score points. If any shape reaches the centre square, the game ends. You can hit shapes of the same colour to clear them and hit a shape of a different colour to swap colours. Use power-ups to clear groups of shapes. The wheel clears a whole file. The lightning clears a 3×3 square. The paint blob clears all shapes of the target colour on that side of the screen. Collect 5 springs to clear all shapes from the board.​

Castaway by gallegux is an indie exploration game made for Amstrad CPC/Schneider CPC. In order to download this game, you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.49 USD.

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In this game, you need to help Tom. His plane crashed two weeks before his wedding and he survived but got stranded on an island. You handle Tom and he has to get four mandatory objects to go away from the island:

• An axe, to cut tree trunks to build a raft.
• A cord roll, to join the cut trunks.
• A piece of fabric, to use as a sail.
• A map with the route to escape from the island.

There are a lot of antidotes, envelopes, saws, sickles, boards, water bottles and supply bags on the island. You have to search and explore to find them all. He can carry seven items at a time. If you pick up an object and later don’t want it, you can make Tom exchange it for another object, but don’t leave one of them on the ground. Watch out for cannibals as well. If they catch you, they’ll eat you alive. Do not leave the torch or the ball inside the cave or any hut. Tom won’t be able to retrieve it again.​

Wycheweald by Red Zebra is a first-person role-playing adventure game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum featuring exploration, minor puzzles and turn-based combat. It’s designed to run on 48K and 128K machines. The 48K version does not have the music or NPC portraits and the dialogue is heavily cut down.

onEscape by Fandal, PP and Poison is an adventure game made for Atari XL/XE.

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The story of the game follows a virus that has been transferred to earth on a meteorite. An underground laboratory was built to develop an antidote. After a lot of research a promising vaccine has been made, but just shortly afterwards, the lab exploded and all the materials disappeared. You will be transported to an underground laboratory, where your work will start. You will search, find clues, solve problems and eventually get everything in shape again.

The Fat Bird Game by MushroomDev is a 2D endless platformer game made for the Nintendo Game Boy.

In this game, you play as a bird but you can’t fly. You have to walk and position yourself to drop down in the abyss, while avoiding the spikes and the big lurking rats. You can collect apples and earn points. Some apples are magical that walk, so you have to be careful while collecting them. They move fast and you might tangle your legs in the spikes, which basically turns into a game over. There are teleporters as well, which you can use.

X-Massacre by Misfit is a Commodore Plus/4 game – it’s also available for other systems.

Basically you have to eleminate almost everything that moves, but gifts, you can collect!

Burt Buddy by KDOG is a short little Tamagotchi based game made for Nintendo Game Boy.

In this game, you play with Burt to keep him happy. If you start to leave, he will tell you that he will be left all alone and as to keep you occupied, he will give you options. First, you’ll feed him food then you will play a mini game and continue on. While you do that, he will sstart growing.

Santa’s Snowman by Toad64 is an 8-bit puzzle game made for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

In this game, you play as a Snowman and you have to collect all the presents and put them by the tree. The snowballs can be pushed into the holes. ​There is a total of eight levels.