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Looking for games like Nightmare Runner? Here are top platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Bright Thoughts, Trench Run 2: Aquatic Nightmare, The Video Game or ROOM: WENDIGO.

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  • HOW TO PLAY: Use your mouse to click on various objects at the library and grocery store, and use the arrows to progress through the story. Have fun exploring (and clicking!) all the objects in each location. Once you go to sleep, you can use WASD and space bar to continue your adventure! Bright Thoughts consists of two distinct yet interacting games. The first represents the conscious part of th…

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  • Pixel Game Jam 2024 entry Note from the developers: We went into the Pixel Game Jam 2024 wanting to take a stab at creating a side-scrolling bullet-hell-style shooter. Fully assuming that our game setting would occur in space or the sky. We were thrown a curveball once the jam theme of "Aqua" was announced. After some thought, we decided, screw it, let's still make this game but have it set under…

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  • -- Game submitted for Indie Spain Jam 2023 (Full screen mode recommended) -- ROOM: WENDIGO is a 2D arcade game in which you play as Wendigo, a monster that likes SCARYING children while they sleep. DRAG words inside children's minds to give them nightmares! DECIDE which words you will pick up based on what you DON'T find on their rooms! If you miss, the kids will have good dreams and you won't get…

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  • Sky Farm Available on the Google Play Store - http://bit.do/skyfarm About the game: Sky Farm is a mobile turn-based puzzle game where you must use time travel to progress through levels. This project was originally developed under UCI's Computer Game Science Capstone Project Course during Fall 2017 and Winter 2018 Quarter.  Instructor - Joshua G. Tanenbaum  ***Update 5/5/2018 - IEEE GameSig 2018 …

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  • Originally Published by Starfell Studios (2023), a student team based at Carnegie Mellon University. The two producers of the project, Alexis Giauque and Isaac Fisher now offer game development services via Incubator Productions. Consider this game to be a demo of the fun we can make for you! If you enjoy the game mechanics and theme, please let us know. We certainly have the capacity and interest…

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  • 51%Game Brain Score
    51% User Score Based on 4 reviews

    One Thousand Sleepless Tales CONTENT WARNING: Heavy Themes, including depression, suicide, and violence against children A young mage named Reyen ventures out into the world for the first time. Cursed to never sleep again—and upon learning that something sinister is eating other people's dreams—she vows to help them by entering their dream-lands. Waking them up means helping them break their fant…

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  • Make your game through The ArcHex Maze! Find and destroy all the targets in the maze to complete each level. Each Maze is randomly generated everytime! (unless, of course, you use the same seed).  This is a project for the Game Development and Design Course By Michigan State University in Coursera. The project was built using as base the 2DShooter project from the course.  Modification include: Ne…

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  • 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    We got together for 36 hours and made a bunch of microgames based around the theme: Arts and Crafts. Now we've compiled them all together into one big super-game!Assembled from GDA's Microgame Jam 2022: https://itch.io/jam/microgame-jam-2022. This version of the build also includes some games from a dry run of the jam we did a few months ago. The Game Design & Art Collaboration (GDA) is a student-…

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  • A very quick puzzle platformer game with presentation-themed levels: "Slides Girl: Illusions". If played directly on this web page, press the bottom-right full-screen button to avoid seeing background assets the player isn't meant to see. Best works on a 16:9 display. Will not work on mobile. Made during my university course's 3-day hackathon in a 5-student team, where the only rule was to follow…

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  • Save dreams from the all-devouring shadows in a world that can no longer sleep.One sheep… two sheep… people used to drift off counting sheep. But the sheep who delivered dreams have been stolen by a shadow that devours the world. As people stop falling asleep, the world loses its balance. Nightmares awaken, and the Dream Factory falls silent. Now you must purify the shadow-stained sheep and restar…

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