Survivor Squad: Gauntlets - Out of Early access to full release

Endless Loop Studios have been beavering away at the follow up to their top-down squad game, Survivor Squad with the feedback from the Steam Early Access community to bring us Survivor Squad: Gauntlets. Now complete with a map editor which will let you create just about anything...

Dungeons of Aledorn: Hardcore RPG starts its kickstarter campaign

Prague based Team 21 have just launched their shiny new Kickstarter campaign for the gorgeous old-school style RPG Dungeons of Alegorn. Inspired by the rock hard dungeon crawlers of old but with graphics and gameplay bang up to date, DoA promises to be a must-not-miss adventure for fans of the genre.

Curious Expedition: Help get this 19th century adventure expedition simulation Greenlit on Steam!

The adventure filled 19th century roguelike expedition simulation (The Curious Expedition), is now seeking many numerous mighty, brave and heroic adventurers such as yourselves, to aid in an effort to get this expedition Greenlit on Steam. This is a valiant, noble and quite curious expedition that deserves its place upon a shiny pedestal within the centre of the land of Steam with glaring lights of emerald green, shining and streaming ever so brightly upon this magnificent adventure.

Build&Battle - Turn based tower defense in final days of crowdfund

German solo developer Jens Bolanz AKA funtraum is putting together a turn-based, tower defense game but with RTS elements thrown in for good measure. The indiegogo campaign is in its last few days though, so he'll need some 11th hour help to get to his goal of just $6000

Just Get Through - Tricky platformer gets a Greenlight campaign

 

I just love simple mechanic platform-esque games and there's a lot to like about Just Get Through that keeps you coming back for more. It's a procedurally generated mash-up of Rick Dangerous, Spelunky, Super Meatboy and Limbo all in one but with it's own quirky charm thrown in. just get to the end of the level, and blow stuff up on the way. Oh and don't get killed by the traps. ;)

World's Fastest Pizza - Topdown pizza flinger from Australia

I really need to get my windows machine working... Linux is fine most of the time but the lack of a functioning wintel box in my house right now means I have no way to check out this really intriguing looking game from Aussie game maker Oscar Britain called Worlds Fastest Pizza, a topdown non-shooter. It looks like a culture mashup of antipodean proportions, combining the topdown style of the original GTA games with, essentially, paperboy and a pastiche of Australian intolerance, and the black comedy in this looks right up my street... (yeah, I also liked Postal...)