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HassleHeart "I <3 Hearts" is an amazing arcade game where you are a heartless robot, living on a cheap battery that's running out fast.
You need humans hearts to extend your live and you're going to have to kill for it. Humans move much faster, so in order to catch them, you've got to set out some bait, hoping someone will like it and stop to enjoy while you zoom in, rip out their heart, and take it for yourself.
Once you have a human heart, you can drop your battery and enjoy longer life.
Before your human heart's life runs out, you'd better keep killing because time keeps ticking. If you get into trouble, you can always go back and pick up your old battery, but when it dies, so do you, and the game is over!
Little by little, heart by heart, you can work your way up catching healthier humans.
Hatch-It!" is a first of its kind in the "Robotic-Prehistoric-Puzzle Game" genre. You command a daring robot on his journey to save the dinosaurs from a catastrophic meteor strike.
The robot's creator, Dr. Tyrannosaurus, PhD, is working hard on his intergalactic time machine to assure that he and his dino brethren can return to modern times. Drama, intrigue and time traveling dinosaurs: these are all things that you will encounter on your fateful journey back in time, to save the dinos and "Hatch-It!"
"Hatch-It!" is a charming and whimsical puzzle game where you must work fast, smart, and creatively as a giant asteroid threatens to forever change the world of the dinosaurs. With prehistoric island backdrops and diverse environments. It all depends on you to navigate the danger and overcome numerous challenges as dinosaurs with unique personalities and abilities stand in your way. "Hatch-It!" offers an immersive experience in vibrantly colored landscapes with puzzles based on critical thinking skills while new, thematically-linked elements will be introduced through the different worlds, keeping game play fresh and engaging.
Can you save all of the dinosaurs from impending doom? Can you send yourself back to your time before you yourself are doomed? The dinos are waiting, can you Hatch It?
...What was that sound? Is somebody there?
Leave the dusty halls of an abandoned clock tower to haunt your way through a town in the dead of night! Possess objects with your ghostly soul, to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over?
A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!
Heart&Slash is a 3D brawler that is set in a world where machines are all that remains from the Human civilization.
You play as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of the evil and all seeing machine QuAsSy (Quality Assurance Systems).
But make no mistake Heart&Slash is a hard game. Every death is permanent and means a new randomly generated level for you to start over with a different set of weapons and items you can use, new enemies to fight and secrets to explore.
Hecticube is a hectic, minimalistic 1 - 2 player digital sports experience.
Taking inspiration from various games such as pool and pong, Hecticube creates a hectic, fast paced multiplayer experience which will put anyone's skills to the test. The main objective of the game is to shoot the ball in order to simultaneously defend your goal & score on your opponents' own. It is being developed primarily for touch devices, including android devices, iphones & ipads, and windows devices.
Encircle your enemies.
Game by Michael Brough, sound by Andrew Toups.
Hellraid: The Escape is a visually stunning action-adventure mobile game set in the universe of the upcoming dark fantasy game Hellraid for PC and consoles.
Challenging puzzles, free exploration of the game's world, and demons fought with brains instead of weapons make Hellraid: The Escape an exciting experience unlike any other in the world of mobile gaming!
In Hellraid: The Escape, a sorcerer obsessed with dark arts has trapped your soul in a magic prison guarded by demonic creatures. Why are you there? Who are you and why can't you remember your name? To find the answers, you must first escape from this dimension of agony hung somewhere beyond time.
During your escape, you will face a multitude of puzzles that demand dexterity, cunning, and logical thinking. The challenges in the game have been specifically designed to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of modern mobile devices.
1/2 twisting, 1/2 caper, 3/2 madness.
Twist your body. Twist the controller. Stay in the box. Find the sweet spot. Stop everyone else.
In Henka Twist Caper, players must twist and turn their controller until they find the correct orientation. When they find the sweet spot, their win meter will increase until full. Once full, they win! However, other players are allowed to interfere with their opponents. Twist and turn your controller to find the sweet spot while stopping your foes from doing the same!
Hero Generations is "The 5-minute Civilization." It has been described as the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Jason Rohrer's Passage, and The Legend of Zelda. Each step you take is 1 year of your hero's life. Your hero has a limited lifespan, and before you die you must quest across the procedurally generated world to become famous while also finding a mate, settling down, and having a child. After your life ends, you continue on adventuring as your child. Depending upon how you lived and nurtured the world, your child will either be more fit or hobbled by your poor decisions.
Hero Generations is a deeply personal design inspired by the real life experiences of creator Scott Brodie. It was selected as an IndieCade Finalist and was successfully funded on Kickstarter earlier this year. It is currently in open Beta and planned for final release in the first half of 2015.
Hex Heroes is a multiplayer real time strategy game for Wii U and PC where up to 4 players share the TV harvesting resources, building structures, fending off enemies, and exploring dangerous territories choosing from 8 different classes. Another player uses the gamepad/second screen to manage resources and teammates, make executive decisions, and survey the land from a bird's eye view. Hex Heroes can be played solo, but we're sure you'll want to wrangle up some friends to join in!
Hexcells Infinite is the third game in the series of ambient logic puzzle games.
Compare information across the board to clear tiles and reveal the underlying pattern.
Includes a random puzzle generator and 36 hand crafted puzzles.
High Strangeness is a hybrid of 8 and 16 bit games – a 12 bit adventure. The inspiration of the game comes from many Action-Adventure and RPG games of yesteryear. The game's core ability is to switch between 8 and 16 bit worlds and the player uses their generational differences to solve puzzles and explore the universe. Throughout the game your pixel art perspective of the world will be interrupted by visions of watercolor illustrations that shed some light on your mysterious surroundings. The chiptune soundtrack by Dino Lionetti and Rich Vreeland backs up the aesthetic of the world and sets the mood for strange happenings.
Discover the fashion secrets of HipstaFox on this stylish musical adventure! Time your taps to the beat and collect flowers to trade for hipster clothing. Share replays of your journey with your friends and family, looking good while you compete to collect the most flowers.
A minimalist color-based puzzle-game : you need to mix colors in order to fill the different squares and complete different levels.
Homesick brings a beautiful 3D world and a first person perspective to the great point-and-click adventure game genre.
Exploring an abandoned building, you are at peace, encountering puzzles and clues, and opening new areas of the building. You feel at home, but when you sleep, you are plagued by nightmares, frantically running down hallways chased by darkness, an axe in hand, trying to escape.
You'll discover the world, yourself, and the meaning of the nightmares, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world.
Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you're on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, a two bit gal in an 8-bit world. You're the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Work with Franky, your feline partner, to unearth back-alley secrets. Find a wide range of cartridges for your revolver - grapple shot, blood splatters, trackers, knockbacks and more - that, used wisely, open even more avenues to explore. You'll eat pie with locals, and rub shoulders with the scum of the earth. It's a dog eat dog world out there, but luckily? A cat has your back. Franky. The cat that wore a fedora.
House of Caravan is a first-person exploration video game heavily influenced by the gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and classic horror films. House of Caravan takes place inside a mansion in the 1910s in Candlewood, Northeast US.
The player is challenged to solve different kind of puzzles, figure out how to discover all the secrets that the mansion hides and unveil the ghoulish story of the Caravans, which is told through a fragmented narrative as the player explores the mansion.
"how do you Do It?" is a game by Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, David Coss, and Jonathan Kittaka. The game puts players in the role of an 11-year-old girl whose mother has just stepped out for an errand. The girl immediately grabs her dolls and furtively attempts to figure out how sex works using these plastic surrogates. The game is a portrait of how Nina, one of the developers, actually explored her sexuality as a child who had never been given "The Talk."
How to Be a Tree is a game about a fractal tree that comes to life. In this physics-based, QWOP-like platformer, the players may explore the many different ways of being a tree.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike.
Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.
Hyper Square is a minimal smart phone game that has only one simple objective, put all the squares on the screen into their respective holes as fast as possible to reset the timer. As you progress further, the timer will be only a fraction of a second, so will you be able to survive as long as possible and top other people's high score?
Hyphen is a neon themed action/puzzle game in which the player has to carefully guide a rotating stick through challenging mazes whilst trying to avoid the walls and various obstacles/enemies/traps. Hyphen is intentionally difficult and as such has been labelled by some as a "Rage Game" - something we're proud of!
Hyphen features gorgeous glowing visuals and an awesome Soundtrack created by Andrew Lloyd (http://www.andrewlloydgd.com)
The Digital World of Hypt has been compromised. Infections wreak havok all throughout cyberspace, using technology the likes of which have never before been seen. Take control of a revolutionary new Antivirus software in this top-down Arcade style game and turn the virus' deadly data packets against them in a stylized, lethal game of racquetball to reboot Hypt's systems and purge the digital world of these deadly infections.
Buy low. Sell high. Get out before the market crashes.
Inspired by the Dutch tulip market bubble and crash of 1637, or tulipomania, Hysteria is a game where you play a futures market speculator whose goal is to make as much money as possible before the tulip bubble bursts. Use your money to make more money. Buy nice things. Upgrade your house, car, and other status symbols, and earn your way into increasingly rare, expensive and volatile tulip markets.
A short story based on our perspective of life. This game follows the life of a man and his progress through it.
"Ice-Bound" combines cutting-edge combinatorial narrative with a nested, recursive story inspired by writers like Nabokov and Borges, and books like "House of Leaves." Through augmented reality, the player uses a printed book filled with story fragments and distorted images to shape a novel of polar explorers, collaborating with a long-dead writer's digital ghost.
Iggy's Egg Adventure is a prehistoric platformer 75 million years in the making. You play as Iggy, a baby Velociraptor who must rescue his mother from her evil caveman captors, while collecting as many of her eggs as you can along the way. Iggy's Egg Adventure has a classic platform feel with stylized 3D graphics and on a modern gaming engine (Built with UDK).
Ikarus is a third person/first person hybrid adventure game that focuses on atmosphere and storytelling through light puzzle solving designed to ease players into VR. You are Bess, a 1930s young co-pilot flying with her father when they crash into a mysterious floating fortress that emerges out of the clouds. Her father kidnapped and her plane in ruins, she works together with the Caretakers of Ikarus to restore the flying fortress. Along the way, Bess discovers the Caretakers need her help with Windjammer, a powerful overprotective mechanized guardian that rules Ikarus. She must explore Ikarus, rescue her father, confront Windjammer, and regain her confidence to fly again.
Impulse is a top-down shooter with a unique twist. You play as a lone circle armed with not bullets, but a powerful shockwave that throws your enemies back. Defeat enemies by pushing them into the Void, where they instantly dissolve. But beware the Harpoon, which can reach through the Void to drag you to your death. And the Orbiter, which dances constantly out of range, waiting for the right moment to lunge. Fight your way down an abstract geometric lair, where something massive waits in the depths.
In Between is an atmospheric, award-winning platformer where you solve mind-bending puzzles by manipulating your surroundings and gravity itself.
Be invited to reflect on life while getting to know the story of the dying protagonist and his inevitable struggle for existence. Dive into the atmosphere of a dense, hand painted game while exploring the reason why you are here. Welcome to a world In Between.
In Space We Brawl is a frantic couch twin-stick shooter for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in which you challenge friends in fast-paced space battles for up to 4 players.
Choose a spaceship and a weapon: there are more than 100 available combinations! Will you humiliate your friends with a fast ship? Or will you choose shields and armor instead? Prove your skill with laser cannons and plasma swords, flame launchers, guided missiles...
Don't be afraid to experiment! With its single player missions, the Academy will turn you into a true ace.
8 different areas of the galaxy await, each with its own dangers: black holes, exploding asteroids, even alien nests!
The local multiplayer of In Space We Brawl is both exciting and unforgiving. Play in a free for all or in teams, you can even put a bounty on your rivals' heads! Are you ready to brawl?
In The West is a turn-based tactics adventure game where you lead a gang of outlaws on a perilous journey through the treacherous frontier of the American West with the law in hot pursuit.
Lie, steal, cheat, kill, and outwit your way to infamy and freedom.
Indie Assault is an ESports geared platform fighting game.
Smash your friends to oblivion in Indie Assault the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita fighting game. Ferocious and ready for battle, our combatants assemble to fight to the death. Players will easily grasp our intuitive controls and a diverse character roster, including characters from popular indie game titles. Our accessible, fast paced, and action-packed fighting game will provide entertainment for competitive and casual players alike.
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world. You must scavenge resources, build defenses, and find a way to survive in a game where death is permanent and levels are randomly generated.
Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars re-defines the space-roguelike genre started by its ancestor, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, by expanding the randomly-generated region of space into the third dimension and introducing a living world where alien empires follow their own agendas that sometimes coincide with the player's, and sometimes oppose it. But at its core it is still the short-form, infinitely replayable "instant space opera" that the previous Infinite Space games made popular. Your mission is to explore the sector of space and collect artifacts, lifeforms and other valuables while putting together a flotilla of ships to fight increasingly dangerous alien adversaries.
Sea of Stars is currently available on Steam Early Access. While the basic game is fully functional, more content and some bells and whistles, such as mod support, are still in development.
Influent is a language learning game focusing primarily on vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation. Greatly inspired by Dreamcast titles Shenmue and Toy Commander, Influent immerses players in a sandbox environment where every object in the game is both selectable and learnable, thus giving players the freedom to choose what they want to learn at their leisure. With a wide array of languages to choose from, featuring multiple alphabets, gender specifications, and ~500 native audio pronunciations of nouns, adjectives, and verbs, Influent offers a unique approach to learning a new language. Target Languages: Japanese, German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Swedish, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Latin. Interface: English, German, French, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese.
For Gabriel "Gabe" Crow it all started as a very happy day and ended up as a complete mess. Walk through dark and empty dungeon with your's memory fragments scattered all over the place.
Will you be able to navigate through his life and understand what happened and why?
Will you be able to get out of there alive?
Inside My Radio is a rhythm-driven platformer adventure where your actions must follow the beat.
You journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox: bring electro, dub and disco musics back alive!
Are you up to the rhythmic challenge of Inside My Radio?
Interloper is a real-time strategy game with matches that only take 5 minutes. The result is an intense, fast-paced, micro-focused experience with surprising strategic depth. The world of Interloper is divided in 3 war-hungry tribes that battle for control of a newly discovered world. You fight by claiming domain for your tribe of allegiance in maze-like battlegrounds designed with spatial tactics in mind. The units and structures at your disposal were created to deliver ample opportunity for spatial reasoning and strategic advantage, allowing players to grow indefinitely.
The game pits you against competitive online players or a clever AI of varying difficulty. Furthermore the game houses an extensive campaign and a collection of challenge levels to boost your skills and explore the full depth of Interloper.
Sixteen-color ASCII meditation on freelance journalism, the military-industrial complex, and the spirit of music. A return to ZZT, the DOS-based game-creation platform through which this game's authors met in the early nineties.
inURface is the hottest new multiplayer game to hit the AppStore!
Create your own digital self by taking photos of your face and putting them into the game! Customize your look with dozens of accessories like hats, beards, glasses, and hair styles that lead to endless combinations. Then, challenge your Game Center friends in a fun, hillarious multiplayer game!
Post your victories to your social networks and claim all the glory! This is THE app to play with your friends and family!
Invent and craft your own game in the real world with your preferred physical stuff (pencils, markers, coloured wooden blocks, etc.). Focus on the creative part. Then take a picture of your creation, configure a few options in the App, and enjoy playing your new game!
In English, Inventame stands for Invent(G)ame. In Spanish, Inventame means "invent me". Inventame invites you to invent it. Do you dare?
Invisible, Inc. is a hardcore tactical stealth game. Control elite spies as they infiltrate powerful corporations. Find profit in chaos as you guide your team around the world in search of lucrative contracts.
You are the Operator, and you direct Invisible's agents in the field. Infiltrate procedurally generated corporate facilities in tense, turn-based missions where every move could be your last. Find profit in chaos as you guide your team around the world in search of lucrative contracts. Infiltrate the corps directly when they are least expecting it, and use the proceeds to upgrade and outfit your agents.
Apple Featured iPollute is a piece of art wholly built in claymation. The story of game is set around the various ways of pollution. The message is "pollute if you have to", but find the way to clean after you. All is set in a challenging, not always logical, riddle that can be solved by using the Journal and its hints. Solving the game will get you to a flourishing valley. iPollute is free of in-app purchases – all content is included.
The game has been Apple Featured in Educational and Kids categories for several weeks. iPollute early version also received Best in Play Honorable Mention in GDC 2014.
Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!
• No microtransactions! Unlock cards by playing the game, not by purchasing them separately.
• Experience unique gameplay, with rapid, simultaneous turns that blend the precision of tactics and card games with the spontaneity of fast-paced strategy games.
• Follow the campaign story through a fully-illustrated, character-driven interactive graphic novel.
• Collect cards as you play through the campaign and build your own decks to crush your foes.
• Play with your friends in the co-op story campaign or against them in skirmish and nemesis modes.
• Face off against online challengers in quick-skirmish mode, and unlock special cards when you win.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is a videogame based on a popular fantasy series of gamebooks from the '80s and '90s, written by the British author Joe Dever.
The core of the game is made by two different experiences tied together: the interactive book and the 3D combat system.
The book offers a non-linear story that can be influenced though the multiple choice system, with a strong RPG infrastructure that adds an explorable map, inventory, character sheet and many other elements taken from the best role playing games for PC and consoles.
The game also features a full-fledged 3D combat system. Players can face the enemies with a wide range of choices, using swords, maces, shields, ranged weapons and magic powers. Strategy is important but gameplay is very smooth, with a single tap control system to perform offensive and defensive techniques.
Dash and bound through vibrant battlefields in your 20 ft tall custom built tanks. Battle it out in 5 vs 5 battles that are equal parts skill, tank customization and team work. Build the perfect battalion of 3 tanks based on your play style by choosing each tanks pilot, chassis, gun, legs, shield and up to four additional attachments such as radar jammers, hover drives, x-ray scanners, floating gun pods and many more.
Jump Tanks re-imagines the feeling of heart pounding action found in classic Japanese shooters. Dodge and weave through incoming laser blasts and mortar shots while returning your own volleys of attacks. Use the shields on the front of the tanks to block attacks and wait for just the right moment to raise it and blast your opponent into shrapnel. Leap from 90 story buildings and perform a jump crush attack on unsuspecting foes below. Out maneuver barrages of heat-seeking missiles while you charge up your cannon and get ready to release your own personal bullet hell.
Welcome to the world of Jump Tanks!
Want to play the game and help provide feedback? Go to www.PlayJumpTanks.com
"Just Shapes & Beats" is a game about shapes, and beats.
While we know this may seem wildly complex to even the brightest gamer minds, it really isn't.
The game is a trippy multiplayer-coop bullet-hell based on two simple things, there's going to be shapes, and some kick-ass beats, and you are going to die a lot. Wait, that's three things, just go back and edit the first part to "three simple things" in your head.
Keebles is an addictive vehicle building physics puzzler.
Build weird and amazing vehicles, using beams, wheels and gadgets found on Keeble Island to navigate challenging terrain and save the Keebles. Master rockets, balloons, parachutes and more.
Save as many Keebles as you can, and be quick - the Whale at the End of the World won't wait forever.
Keebles challenges you to build vehicles to transport the fragile Bobble across 30 challenging levels, saving Keebles along the way. Use the Workshop to design your vehicle. Different levels provide different items to make your vehicle from. Make use of various wheels, beams and gadgets to roll, slide, float and fly. The best design isn't always the most complicated, nor the most simple. Experiment and see what works best! There are five stars to be earned for each level, plus a bonus Time Challenge award. Getting all of them isn't going to be easy, but it will be fun!
