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Imposed Theme: Contraption Development Timelapse: 42 hours First place winner of the McGame Jam 2024 organized by McGill University in Montreal.   Welcome to Dodo Catastrophe! Trying to flee from the frost, the dodos must embark their last ark to survival. At least they try to! In this coop game made for 2 players, you will need to work with your friend to help your zeppelin to go as far as poss…

80%Game Brain Score

story, music

monetization, stability

80% User Score Based on 66 reviews

Introducing Syke, a first-person exploratory puzzle game set in a mesmerizing and enigmatic reality. Awakening in a world of impossible physics, you play as an individual making their way through areas of surreal complexity. Through a multitude of engaging puzzles and clues, you will work to piece together a story that defines the nature of this very world. Features: Four distinct and visually s…

77%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

stability, grinding

87% User Score Based on 4,318 reviews

Critic Score 67%Based on 13 reviews

The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'. The bulk of the gameplay resolves around completing a series of object-matching p…

84%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, optimization

84% User Score Based on 880 reviews

You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

If you are having trouble with the third room, please scroll down to see the solutions! Also, the first screenshot shows how to start it. You are Test Subject #5123 in a laboratory, a cross between a fish and a human (though more fish than human), but when you leave your container, you slowly shrink when not placed in water! You'll need to solve puzzles that require you to use your size to your a…

55%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

stability

87% User Score Based on 15 reviews

Run, jump, rewind, and cooperate with your past self in this time-leaping action puzzle! Playable with a keyboard (※Controller recommended) Move: WASD keys or Arrow keys Jump: J key or Space key Rewind: Q key or K key Menu: Return key ▼ Aim for the goal by cooperating with your past self ▼ However, changing past actions causes time paradoxes ▼ Avoiding time paradoxes, breakthrough puzzle…

85%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

optimization, stability

85% User Score Based on 91 reviews

Hollowed tells the story of a woman who will do anything to bring her perished loved one back to the world of the living. Control Halia and her spirit Oco simultaneously on a single controller in this side-scrolling puzzle platformer.

66%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

stability, optimization

66% User Score Based on 152 reviews

Karmaflow is a unique spin on the traditional gaming experience. In Karmaflow, the game’s story is presented entirely in the form of a rock opera, sung by some of the world’s most talented rock voices. Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame is a puzzle platformer featuring music performed by various musicians. Simone Simons (Epica), Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Marc Hudson (Dragonforce), Tony Kakko…

38%Game Brain Score

humor

gameplay, story

46% User Score Based on 35 reviews

In No Pineapple Left Behind, an evil wizard shows up to a school and turns all of the children into pineapples. Pineapples are very simple. All they do is take tests and get grades. If they get good grades, the school makes more money. But, if left unattended, pineapples can turn back into children. (Oh no!) Children are far more complex and expensive than pineapples. You are the principal. Your j…

84%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, stability

83% User Score Based on 229 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

Time Loader is a story-driven, physics-based puzzle platformer with a twist. At the helm of a small robot, you'll travel back to the 90s to prevent a tragic accident. Explore the house of your creator, solve brain-teasing puzzles, acquire unique and powerful upgrades, and see common household items from an entirely new perspective! But remember: meddling with time has serious consequences. You may…