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"Bardbarian" is a historical arcade game with Tower Defense, RPG, RTS, and shmup elements. As Brad the barbarian, you'll swap swordplay for music, using your axe-lute to generate notes and defend your town. With exceptional visuals, good music, and hilarious gameplay, "Bardbarian" offers a unique and delightful experience, although it does involve lots of grinding.

Minutescape is a single-player arcade game focused on dodging bullets and upgrading your abilities through grinding. This retro-inspired incremental experience challenges you to survive for 5 consecutive minutes by continuously unlocking powerful upgrades using currency earned from evasive maneuvers. With engaging mechanics and strategic progression, it offers a satisfying loop of dodging, upgrading, and repeating.

"Timberman is a popular arcade-style game, featuring local and online multi-player modes for up to 8 players. As a lumberjack, quickly chop wood and dodge branches in 4 environments, with 37 characters to unlock. While it has good visuals and can be very funny, it also has bugs and requires grinding for high scores on leaderboards."

"Carrie's Order Up!" is an arcade-style game where you play as Carrie, a crab waitress serving sea creatures at a port town's restaurant. The game features 20 rounds of food serving, with adjustable difficulty and the ability to unlock new features and characters by earning money. With charming pixel art, various side challenges, and high score tables, the game offers both casual and challenging experiences for players.

In "Pirates of Black Cove," become pirate king and conquer the Caribbean by uniting the Pirates, Corsairs, and Buccaneers factions. Complete faction and storyline missions, and visit the Alchemist for wacky potion ingredients. Sail the open world, engage in battles on land and sea, and defeat the Pirates of Black Cove to earn the title of King of All Pirates.

"Into The Gloom" is a first-person puzzle solving horror game that uses only black, white, and red colors to create a suspenseful atmosphere. The game features 18 levels with dynamic puzzles and terrifying events as you try to escape from "The Shadow." With five possible endings, players must prepare for a cinematic horror experience with headphones recommended for a more immersive jump scare-filled adventure.

Joe Danger 2: The Movie is a thrilling stunt-driving game where you play as the eponymous stuntman. This sequel features more elaborate tracks, a movie-making gameplay mode, and a variety of vehicles to pilot, challenging you to create your own spectacular stunt show while navigating through numerous film-inspired levels. With its improved mechanics and engaging gameplay, Joe Danger 2: The Movie offers an exciting experience for fans of the stunt driving genre.

In "Fate Tectonics," players build a world by placing terrain tiles, appeasing god-like beings called Fates, and unlocking their powers for more advanced world-building. With easy-to-pick-up gameplay but deeper challenges for strategic players, this puzzle game features handcrafted pixel art, a 16-bit symphonic soundtrack, and two game modes. The Book of Fate tracks progress and chronicles your adventures.

In Piñata Go Boom, you play as a piñata popper smashing through rooms to collect toys and loot. Use your haul to upgrade stats and skills via a vast skill tree, enhancing your smashing style. Climb company ranks and prestige to unlock new mechanics and deepen gameplay with each loop.

DIGGER: GALACTIC TREASURES is a space exploration game where you search for ancient artifacts and rare resources across distant planets. Inheriting a ship and a mysterious notebook, you uncover secrets behind the "Heart of the Void" artifact while evading a powerful megacorporation. Upgrade your gear and navigate hazardous environments in this atmospheric cosmic adventure.