Puzzle
As you gaze upon your collection of over 400 bestseller books, blockbuster movies, barnburner videogames and more, you come to a startling realisation... not one of them is named correctly! One word in every single entry is wrong. Fix that.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kairi Sawler
Fonts: Opine
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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
Ink Rebus: Games is a lateral-thinking test on over 175 titles of video games, from the joystick-jerking classics to the phone-fingering modern age and everything in between.
Journey across the centuries as you attempt to decipher the cryptic rebus puzzles of Ink Rebus: Games. Add it to your collection for free today!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Notalot60)
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Bookworm? Bibliophile? Scholar? Ink Rebus: Books is a lateral-thinking test on over 150 titles of books, from the classy and the classics to the contemporary and the contemptible.
Journey across the centuries as you attempt to decipher the cryptic rebus puzzles of Ink Rebus: Books. Add it to your library for free today!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Smorgasbord)
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It's 2038, and a late maniacal inventor has left behind a legacy of madness - coordinates to an island full of wealthy robots, a gun that asks questions, and a widow that's hired you to answer them.
As Izzy Buspec, the newest recruit to Randco, take charge of their patented revolver as you explore the densely packed biomes of Corvynnia, bringing down hordes of docile robots in a money-making adventure. Every time you fire, you'll have to answer one of over 2,000 trivia questions with answers based on numbers, percentages, geography, dates, and more - the further you are from the actual answer, the more of its own ammunition the revolver will discharge. If you run out, it's back to Randco HQ to reload!
Revolver and Co features 105 story levels across 7 unique worlds and 12 question themes which will test you on a wide range of subjects, tied together with humorous debriefings between Izzy and her maniacal boss before the start of each mission.
Or if you're looking for more of a challenge, have a go at one of the Endless challenges, which pits you against a barrage of questions until you finally succumb to an empty revolver chamber. You can even unlock more Endless challenges by completing the story levels, including a gruelling hour-long session where the only thing you have to lose is time.
System: Nintendo Switch, Windows
Price: £5.89
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Dan Johnston and Allison James
“the most addictive pub quiz simulator I’ve ever played“ - Nintendo Link
For the audiophiles, the popheads, the rockers and the earworms alike, Ink Rebus: Music will test you on your knowledge.
Over 60 years of music is represented in the form of cryptic, lateral-thinking rebus images - name over 200 songs by the leftfield clues alone!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Talking Baseball), Dan Johnston (Clicky Bricks)
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Created in around an hour for the 10^2 100 minute game jam.
You win… on one condition.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Gossamer Girls)
“very cool game, i loved the 8 bit look you had going there. “ - V.MMXX
Are you a film buff? A moviegoer? A cinemaphile?
Ink Rebus: Films is a collection of over 200 cryptic clues to film titles from several generations of cinema.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Riemann Theatre)
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It's high noon and your targets are all unarmed - but you're not! Only problem is, you've got a gun with an extremely weird quirk.
It asks you questions.
Rev%lver sees you move through quiet, serene deserts, destroying and stealing from docile robots while conserving as much of your ammunition as possible. Every time you pull the trigger, the gun needs a correct percentage level set - and the only way you can work it out is with each given question or statistic. The further away from the correct setting you are, the more ammo the gun discharges and wastes.
If you run out of ammo, scurry back and your captor will give you a refill... for a fee, of course.
Presented with small amounts of humour, Rev%lver has a 97% chance of being fun!
Created in 48 hours for GM48.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Dan Johnston and Allison James
“Super unique, and very entertaining.” - Baku
”Thanks for giving me a months worth of education” - Loates
”Good job, a bit of an out of the box idea that is nicely done, it was fun!” - havik
“Lmao“ - Kwisarts
Do you know your onions - inside out, forwards and backwards? Then Ink Rebus: Idioms is the game for you!
Solve over 350 puzzles that give you a cryptic picture leading you in the direction of a wide array of popular English idioms and phrases. Ranging from the mundane and easy to deceptive and clever in the most lateral of ways, Ink Rebus: Idioms will give your brain a workout - and maybe teach you an idiom or two in the process!
Ink Rebus: Idioms can be played with a mouse and keyboard, or using mouse or touch controls.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs)
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Decode the cipher in Ink Cipher!
Ink Cipher is a sleek take on the puzzle sometimes known as the "cipher crossword", "codeword" or "codebreaker".
You're presented with a grid filled with words... except all the letters have been replaced by numbers. Each number represents its own letter. Using your knowledge of the English lexicon, fill in the letters where you can recognise words and crack the cipher!
Free edition includes 11 puzzles. Paid edition includes over 100 puzzles and counting.
Game is touch friendly (requires no keyboard input, although it is optional in the free version), intuitive to play for anyone, and contains a help screen on how to play.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Gotham
“Really rather good crossword puzzler. 104 crosswords taking an average of 5 minutes to solve = 9+ hours of fun for a dollar. Totally worth it!“ -pb
Live a life in the day of Em - their job, their interactions with their colleagues, a work party in the evening and the pain they feel.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Allison James
“This game feels like it's in a different league compared to most games in the jam.” - The M
“Great art, great presentation, just overall great.” - johnwo
”This is so deep and takes the "hero" theme to another level.” - McWolke
“This one gave me goosebumps.” - Lemth
It's a beautiful day in this laserhood.
A beautiful day for a laser.
Won't you be my laser?
In Won't You Be My Laser, storm your way through 25 varied levels! Radical!
Race to the finish, avoiding sentient dystopian gun turrets that are, quite literally, loose cannons! Way past cool!
Push conveniently-sized crates filled with hovering skateboards, new formulas of your favourite colas and synthetic mullet wigs into the line of sight of those turrets to sneak past undetected! Killer!
Grab the pick-up sticks in each level, because entertainment doesn't get much better than that! Tubular!
And win as speedily as your fluorescent running shoes can take you to beat each star rating and win up to 5 stars in each level, because there's no such thing as 3 star ratings in the 80s - mobile phones, as you all well know, are only for telephoning your home landline and making your pants fall down when you forget your belt! So bad!
It's all there for you in Won't You Be My Laser, the fun, inexpensive little diversion set in the distant year 2000.
So pick up Won't You Be My Laser for just 99 of your American cents today!
Or buy it off of this weird internet thing that everyone's talking about. I'm not sure what it is, DOS doesn't think "cd internet" is a valid function.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: Pond5
Fonts: Broadway, Allison James (Digital Display)
“At $0.99 the game is a definite buy.” - Sam Radley
”Simplistic and very cheap, and gives a good hour or two of achievement-hunting gameplay.” - King Bee
”Level 18 was my vice for the longest time! Arg!” - Poyzo
”No.” - kijb
Decode the cipher in Ink Cipher!
Ink Cipher is a sleek take on the puzzle sometimes known as the "cipher crossword", "codeword" or "codebreaker".
You're presented with a grid filled with words... except all the letters have been replaced by numbers. Each number represents its own letter. Using your knowledge of the English lexicon, fill in the letters where you can recognise words and crack the cipher!
Free edition includes 11 puzzles. Paid edition includes over 100 puzzles and counting.
Game is touch friendly (requires no keyboard input, although it is optional in the free version), intuitive to play for anyone, and contains a help screen on how to play.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Gotham
I forgot to back the feedback this got from the GMC Jam it was entered into on the old GMC - which has now been eradicated. Whoops.
Innoquous 5, the fifth in the game series that began with 2008's Innoquous, is a huge puzzle platformer... with a twist! Hit a gravity arrow or jump into a flipper and you can rotate gravity, opening new paths through each of the huge collection of levels!
Make your way through 175 levels (100 brand-spanking new to the game, 75 from Innoquous 4) riddled with alternative paths and shortcuts, encountering tens of obstacles, unique puzzles and a need to invent some bizarre strategies to finish them!
All 175 levels are playable in six game modes, for hundreds of hours of content:
Standard: Get to the exit. That's it.
Bunny Hunt: Find the hidden bunny trapped in a crate somewhere off the beaten track.
Conditional: Obey a certain restriction in finishing the level that will force you to undertake new routes.
Time Limit: Get to the exit as fast as you can to obtain a gold, silver or bronze medal.
Fiery Floors: Complete the level with added flooring and obstacles to make your life difficult.
Chaser: Complete the level while a deadly clone of you is always one second behind you.
On top of that, there are multiple groupings of the levels in both Speedrun and the new Permadeath mode, in which you either see how quickly you can complete the entire grouping, or see how many you can complete before you die.
Find the secret note in each of the new 100 levels. They're never clear - some will even require you to perish to obtain them!
Each one will unlock a line of a poem explaining how you found yourself in this bizarre world, who sent you here, and what happens next!
If you run out of levels, the game also comes with a full-featured level creator! Give your level a name, a creator, a description, and begin drawing! Place every obstacle found in the main game, give it a gold, silve and bronze time limit, a conditional objective, place the bunny somewhere, and generally do pretty much everything found in the main game!
You can then enter the Created Levels menu, where the game will display you all of your custom levels along with tracking completion, just as it does regular levels. Feel free to share your levels with others and build up a collection! (You can find your levels in %localappdata%\Innoquous_5 on Windows.)
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: See in-game
Fonts: Gotham etc
“This game takes me back to good old YoyoGames Sandbox days.” - Mors
”You can tell that the creators knew what they were doing and actually cared about making a game that didn't feel cheap.” - possessedCow
”I bought this on a whim, and I'm glad I did!” - sheab17
”Innoquous has clean visuals and many options available you won't find in similar games.” - h.barkas
One hitman. One skateboard. Two pistols of a length that definitely isn't a result of overcompensation. Ten locations. Ten targets. Ten teddy-bears.
Slaughter them. Be rad. Radslaughter is a physics-based puzzle arcade game which gets difficult. Kill each of the targets without smashing your face open or being massively dismembered by razorblades. Find the secret teddy-bear in each level and complete them as fast as you can to get 5 stars (none of that 3 star crap here!)
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Daniel Johnston, James Spanos
Fonts: Nexa Rust
“Really amazing game. Well done.” - Jupiter Hadley
”Fits the theme perfectly. Another great job, NAL!” - Scott the Idea Guy
“Perfect!” - Rebusmind
“Definitely the best game where i have powered a skateboard via gun propulsion.” - Zachaeus
You're a black hat hacker who has discovered the fun in hacking open jail cells. Hack your way into 30 jail cells and unleash the criminal monsters within!
This was an entry into GMC Jam #11, where it placed 16th.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Pida, Raam, Billy Green
Fonts: Allison James (Vermin Vibes 2 Soft)
“A very polished game! The game was fun, even though I have no idea how the color combination works (solved level 10 through trial and error). Level names were hilarious!“ - TheSnidr
“The music is fitting and neutral and the colors are pretty.“ - Lolligirl
”This is a solid game, with well-designed puzzles, and sometimes I can’t believe this made in 72 hours.” - Hiznopellagio
”It's very slick and professional, with a cool intro, storyline about hackers, and neat sounds and music.” - chance
“This game had a great level of polish and a fitting soundtrack.” - TerraFriedSheep
”Everything is presented well, and the levels are clever and challenging.” - MC
”Really clever puzzle design, at least whenever the colors start to get involved.” - Lune
”Love the look and feel here.” - Mercerenies
”If you like puzzle games this is one you should try out. The quality of this game for being made in just 3 days is unreal.” - Lemon Flavor
”The presentation is great and the puzzles are very puzzly. Superb.” - GameRoom
”Good game, nice graphics, good music.” - Nallebeorn
”Really cool puzzle game with awesome graphics.” - Boysano
”I liked this a lot. It feels very professionally handled. Masterpiece ^_^” - Catox
”Very nice game, and the music is awesome!” - RekNepZ
A platformer with 20 levels, a silly story and some soothing contemporary music. You are always the inverse colour of the background. Manipulate the rules!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: ?
Fonts: Expos
“The idea of the black & white graphics, the slopes, all the items and stuff, this game is really cool!” - Flytrap Studios
”Very, very interesting. Great game, too.” - uconnjacob
The fourth in the series of gravity-flipping platformer games, Innoquous 4 is over four times the size of its predecessor! 75 levels with five distinct game modes adding challenging twists to already challenging levels, not including the added Speedrun mode – complete the entire game as quickly as you can!
Also includes stat tracking, options, and help.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Rolemusic
Fonts: 4th and Inches, Georgia
“This game is perfect” - taha_sbt
”This game is Cool! Not to mention, a bit Awesome!” - Ace-Pointer
Demake/parody of Zack Banack's TimeStill.
TimeStop (or Mr Poob's TimeStop) sees you guiding the magical, emotional character Mr Poob through six glorious high-definition levels, with twists and turns in the storyline never before seen in a game of this age. With a gimmick that will have you dumbfounded in disbelief and graphical effects so amazingly advanced you'll swear your colour television has been replaced with a portable window system, Mr Poob's TimeStop is an adventure you WON'T want to miss!*
*Either that or it's just a weak joke
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Modern
Original IP: Zack Banack
“TimeStop was alright. It had a neat retro-y feel (I liked the movement), but it was really short.” - Sean Buller
”I WILL KILL MR POOB” - Link3000
”Terrible graphics, physics and jokes. Too few levels and extremely bad learning curve.” - BK-TN
