Since this blog’s launch, I have had the honor and privilege of presenting my forty favorite jam games of the year six times. This format was always two things at the same time for me: Firstly, I celebrated the …
“CorpseOcean” by Akuma Kira & Jarren Crist. “Pilot a tiny submersible on a job to retrieve organic material from a sunken navy [submarine]. Follow the coordinates, use [the sonar] and hope you [do not] run into anything on the way.”…
“ENCORE” by Savvy Community (Frédéric Urien, Tom Rivière, Lola Baudet, Milo Kalita, Juliette Pereira & Sacha Mathelet). “[This] is a game about ending things. You play a stage technician who takes care of things after this evening’s …
“do;mIN(0)” by Antti Haavikko. “Start with a deck of just few simple cards and proceed to use it to beat stages by placing the cards on the field so that the pips connect. After each beaten stage you can not only pick …
“We Follow The Fickle Path” by SweetHeart Squad (Sean S. LeBlanc, Michael Hetman & Ian Martin). “[This is a] story about ants.” There are stories that are worth listening to more than once. Stories in which even …
“Courage: The Videogame” by Nathan Gabriel & Francisco Lucas. “[This is a] port for the cancelled [“Courage the Cowardly Dog” PlayStation] game[.] […] Even though this is playable, the game is still incomplete, the hard drive where we …
“Plains In The Sky” by Liutauras Gaidamavičius. “Our precious sky plains have been invaded by the malicious snakes. You will have to use your trusty cannon to get rid of those pests!” As the defender of the realm of the…
“Necrow Co.” by King Worrell & Zahran Worrell. At the titular “Necrow Co.” crows work as psychopomps, beings that collect the souls of the deceased and escort them to the afterlife. The protagonist of this wonderful platformer is …
“THERE SWINGS A SKULL” by Quinn K., Conor Walsh & Leaf Let. Not only by the evocative title, but also by the content warnings appearing right at the beginning (“Climate-apocalypse, immolation, dehydration, smoking, hanging”) it quickly …
