Red Sky at Dawn is a Thrilling Murder Mystery set in Singapore’s 1940s

Red Sky at Dawn is a murder mystery set over a few days in 1940s Singapore. You are Detective Leong, freshly assigned to Hill Street P.D., who quite literally walks into a courtroom crime scene one night. Eager to get in on the action and play in the big leagues, the former beat cop is partnered with a surly English sergeant. The challenge is to unravel a mystery man’s death while dealing with your partner, who seems to be haunted by ghosts of his own.

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This Game Gives Us Hope, And That’s All We Need

Being alone for 15 minutes is not very long, as everyone knows who has spent the past one and a half years in isolation. A quarter of an hour, that’s how long it takes to complete the new game by The Flavare, an Indonesian indie studio. Yet, the game manages to live up to its name and gives hope that the time of loneliness will soon be over.

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Labyrinth Of Legendary Loot Is A Maze To Die For

The most exciting thing about Labyrinth of Legendary Loot, a roguelike dungeon crawler from Dominaxis Games, is how agile the gameplay feels despite being turn-based. You’ll be zipping around, fire and poison spewing from your hands as arrows and energy waves and on the tile you were just at, before finally sticking your Brutal Axe into the skull of the wizard who’s been hiding behind a wall of spiders and bears since you entered the room. It feels fast (despite being, you know, turn-based), it feels intuitive, and like all the best roguelikes, RNG granting you an absolutely busted combination of loot feels amazing.

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Hazel the Plant Witch: Fantastic Plants and How to Talk to Them

Have you ever talked to plants? Although it may seem strange to some, the linguistic exchange with plants is considered “to make them grow faster” for some, while others have even turned it into a whole science. No matter how you feel about it, it certainly cannot be ruled out that speaking with plants is fun, which in itself has a therapeutic effect. Hazel the Plant Witch picks up on this principle and uses the dialogue with the plant world to create a gameplay mechanic out of it and tells a wholesome story.

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The Last Transmission: Home: A Perilous Journey Through Space

The Last Transmission: Home (TLTH) is a prototype puzzle game where you pilot a rocket through space on your way home to Earth. Developed by Ultimapwn from the Philippines for Global Game Jam 2019, TLTH is a part of their itch.io games library, also comprising of other experimental titles such as Minimum Security Prison and […]

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