Dizzy
Monoquous, a spin on my previous series Innoquous, is a puzzle platformer game in which you can phase through walls, floors and ceilings, turning the world to make them your new opposite-coloured floor.
Phase between worlds and manipulate gravity to get to the end of 30 devious levels.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Inova
Fonts: ITC Avant Garde
Ever feel like you're running around in circles?
Maddening Euphoria is a unique, challenging arcade game with randomly generated level design, in which you control brother and sister duet Mason and Millicent Zane as they flee from their own imagined realisation of their troubles in life - an inescapable wall of death - while avoiding bottomless pits, deadly spikes and speed-reducing pools of thick goo. Keep within spitting distance of the wall to receive a short, colourful Second Wind speed boost and gain the opportunity to be one eighth euphoric.
Not enough for you? Don your favourite fedora, go for eight pieces, and enter the multicoloured rainbow world of Euphoria where time goes even faster, spikes disappear and your survival speeds up dramatically. Or tackle some of the game's 150+ challenges ranging anywhere from trivially easy to borderline unfathomable.
Meanwhile, choose from 36 game themes (or throw it on Shuffle), each with themed poetry telling tales of your demise with anywhere from innocent whimsy to incomparable filth, and ranging from surprisingly clever to embarrassingly hideous. If you're English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German, Spanish, Japanese, American, or from Bristol or Norwich like we are, I apologise profusely. Also have the game mock your failures in one of 51 ways of varying levels of Britishness. And all of this while other people's highscores pop up and you wonder what some people do with their time.
This is the flashiest, fleshiest Maddening to date. It even has some diamondy bits. And you can turn those off if you're only in it for the circles.
Just don't buy it if you suffer from epilepsy. (Please.)
System: Windows, Nintendo Switch
Price: £0.99
Music: Various
Fonts: Allison James (Front Page Neue), Sickamore, Last Paradise
“The concept of navigating through a never-ending ball-in-a-maze puzzle is such a unique concept that for just $1USD, it’s a no brainer to download onto your Switch just to experience what innovating level design can offer.“ - Switchaboo
“No brainer under a $1.” - Sysgen
”A solid leaderboard chaser. […] Everything is a little over the top, but I dig it.” - Scrumpy
”A unique test of focus and visual-spatial awareness.” - MrSterious
Made to experiment with surfaces and particles together heavily. It’s all just a bit spinny really…
Avoid the dark areas, keep in colourful areas, and splooge a bit of green around the place for safety but also score loss!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Jassummisko
Fonts: Allison James (Dubbingstar)
“Review” - Reviewer
Short ten-level gravity switching platformer – hit an arrow and your gravity will align to match it. Get to the exit but don’t fall off the level!
Features a funky latino track so you can do subtle pelvic thrusts while playing the game.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Fonts: ITC Avant Garde
Arcade shooter, drunk simulator and dizziness inducer.
That is all.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Jankenpopp
Fonts: Bank Gothic
“NAL, you deliver. 5/5. DAMN.” - Link3000
“This is the first time I thought I actually might have a seizure while playing a game.” - RoboGuy
”@_@ dafuqdidijustplay?” - mpulse
HEAVY PHOTOSENSITIVE/EPILEPSY WARNING
LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF FLASHING
(AND NOTHING ELSE)
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Jankenpopp
Fonts: ?
