Idearum takes you to a striking landscape that encourages you to think and feel as it explores Platonic myth – to solve its puzzles, but also to let its beautiful songs and…
Author: Joel Couture
Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Minutes to Mayhem’
Multiplayer party game Minutes to Mayhem pits four furniture-possessing ghosts against a grandma with a hatchet, tasking the phantoms with driving her temper through the ceiling before she can chop them up.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Cosette’s Cassettes’
Repairing broken cassettes, all while exploring the past memories related to the music, made for a charming time when we played Cosette’s Cassettes at the Sweden Game Conference this year.
Top Games of Sweden Game Conference 2018 – ‘Verlet Swing’
Verlet Swing, with its smooth grappling and surreal, challenging environments to swing around in, stole our hearts at the Sweden Game Conference this year.
Visual Novel ‘Design Hero’ Navigates the High-Stakes World of Art & Design
You’re an intern at Jagger&Jones, a prestigious creative agency, in Design Hero, and it’ll be up to you whether you listen to your clients and come up with the rights designs if…
‘The Witch’s House MV’ Brings New Events & Dialogue to the Trap-Based Horror Game
Prepare to die again and again and again, but with new bits of story, in this upgraded release of gruesome, puzzling, and shocking horror game The Witch’s House MV.
‘Help! I’m Haunted’ is a Ghost-Busting Sidescroller
Neo-Transylvania is in rough shape due to some dangerous, spooky presences, but you’ve got an arsenal of unlicensed ghost-busting weaponry to deal with it.
‘Phantom Halls’ Keeps the Gang Together to Fight Spooky Monsters
Showing rare intelligence for horror characters, you will control a group that refuses to split up as they explore an endless variety of haunted mansions with Phantom Halls.
‘Apsulov: End of Gods’ Takes Players to an Unsettling Viking Future
Apsulov: End of Gods explores a futuristic sanctuary to the Nordic Gods, tasking you with finding buried secrets perhaps best left forgotten.
‘Citrouille’ Aims to Have Witches Cover the World in Flowers
Want candy? You’d better start planting flowers wherever you walk, all while dodging things that don’t care for you beautifying the place in arcade game Citrouille.
Hats Grant Special Powers to a Heroic Octopus in ‘Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San’
Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San‘s fifty special hats not only make our octopus hero look sharp, but they also grant an array of combat and puzzle solving abilities.