Games like LEM-ZINE 1: PLATINUM

Welcome to the second issue of LEM-ZINE, a digital zine of indie game reviews, articles, & a short story, all written by me! This month's theme, LOVELY LAVENDER, involves a series of games with pink/purple palettes, as well as articles that focus on platonic love and self love. Included in the zine is also the 5k-word short story Nina Mendoza -- the tale of a melancholic bus driver and her sister.…

Faerie Solitaire Dire is a fantasy card game where players embark on a journey to save the Faerie Kingdom. With over 60 levels, players must strategically clear the game board of cards using a combination of skill and luck. The game also features unique power-ups, magical creatures, and hidden objects, providing an immersive and engaging experience.

"Thousand Empty Light" is a psychedelic survival horror adventure zine for the Mothership RPG . As a lamplighter for the HAZMOS corporation, you must restore power to an abandoned underwater tunnel on an uninhabited planet, facing marine wildlife, tight spaces, and eerie isolation. Using the game's rules and creative interpretation, players will uncover chilling secrets in this immersive, 36-page solo tabletop experience.

"Hare in the Hat" is a point-and-click adventure game featuring puzzles and mini-games of varying difficulty. The game combines hidden object and room escape mechanics, along with traditional puzzlers like chess and Hanoi tower. Players must help save a hare from captivity in the magician's chambers by finding and solving clues and riddles. The game has a light-hearted cartoon style and is suitable for players of all ages.

Go on a journey through the somber world of Rest as you experience the five stages of grief. Rest is an exploration game where you traverse a monochrome world while a single color leads you forward. 

"Whispers in the West" is a narrative-driven strategy game set in the wild west. You play as a detective, uncovering a mystery through interactive conversations, clue-gathering, and crime scene investigation. The game features a unique morality system that affects the story's outcome, providing multiple endings. Your choices and deductions shape the town's fate and the characters within it.

Qyllscape is a customizable writing application that lets you design your writing environment to fit your preferences, with options for page layout, font styles, colors, and page numbering. Its unique candlelight tool creates an aesthetic atmosphere and adjusts to your external lighting environment, making it ideal for long writing sessions or vlogging. With its focus on aesthetics and functionality, Qyllscape supports writing efforts and helps authors reach their writing goals.

"Koi Farm is a game where players can create and collect beautiful koi fish through selective breeding and exploration of procedurally generated patterns. The game allows players to store their favorite koi as trading cards and generate codes to share and spawn koi in other players' games. The koi book guides players towards discovering new undiscovered mutations." - Steam ID: 1518810.

Ever since a young woman died in an accident at the White Oak Inn, strange things have been happening there. Now, her spirit roams the inn, and an employee is receiving threatening letters. What dark secrets wait to be found? You, as Alex Hill, are on the case. Follow Alex in her story as she cracks the case! Solve puzzles and find clues in an haunted inn. Explore and interact with the environm…

In "Two Worlds II Castle Defense" , players take on the roles of Emperor Gandohar and his henchman Sordahon in a strategy game set in the "Two Worlds" universe. They must defend Oswaroth fortress and Gandohar's throne against Orc attacks, using tactics and weaponry to ward off each assault. The game offers a new perspective on the world of Antaloor and a chance to break the high score in Castle Defense.