ParaDyme's Gaming Blog
[ 15 July 2022 ]
10 Indie Puzzle Games To Break Your Brain With
ROTA
ROTA is a gravity bending puzzle platforming adventure! Walk over the edge to rotate your gravity. Push, pull and rotate gravity-blocks to traverse the stage and solve puzzles. Collect all 50 gems and explore 8 vibrant worlds!
Demo available!
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Gardener's Path
Gardener’s Path is a top-down turn-based puzzle game, about fighting giant insects and protecting underground gardens, through the use of magical artifacts.
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Pushamo
Pushamo is an arcade push-em-up that challenges you to organize different shapes into squares to clear blocks and earn points! It's no easy task, though - as you push on, shapes will come faster and more frequently until you find yourself as overwhelmed as you are engrossed.
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ElecHead
ElecHead has you play as Elec, a small robot on a mission to bring light back to the world. When Elec touches walls, floors, platforms, switches, and more, he makes electricity run through them, activating them. He can also detach and throw his head to trigger things remotely, but be careful: if he doesn't get his head back within ten seconds, he will shut down. Elec will have to use his head, literally and figuratively, to find a way out of this trap-ridden facility.
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Sokobos
Sokobos is a minimalistic, brain-twisting puzzle game that expands on the classic block-pushing Sokoban formula. You'll be assembling anything from pillars to gardens and even an ancient Greek temple. Simple, yet challenging and satisfying.
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Mixolumia
Mixolumia introduces a fresh twist on falling block puzzlers. Scintillating visuals and entrancing music respond and evolve as you play. Diamond blocks slide together on a gem-shaped board and explode in glittering chain reactions.
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Super Crane
Super Crane is beautifully-styled matching game with some fantastic retro vibes. Match tiles of the same color to score points, the board will bring more tiles over time, you lose if the board is filled up!
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Prose & Codes
Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple substitution ciphers. 10% of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
Demo available!
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Raven's Hike
No jumping, no walking. Raven's Hike is an unique 2d platformer in which all movement is based on her Grappling Hook
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Bonfire Peaks
Bonfire Peaks is a puzzle game about closure, by Corey Martin and published as well as co-produced by Draknek, creator of A Monster’s Expedition and Cosmic Express. Navigate expertly designed puzzles in a breathtakingly lovely voxel-based world. Filler content has been burned away to create a perfectly fine-tuned experience, filled with richly rewarding challenges and surprising new mechanics that’ll keep sparking your interest right through to the end.
Demo available!
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[ 7 July 2022 ]
12 Upcoming Games That You Need To Wishlist
Hop For The Best
A clay styled frog platformer. Hop, climb, dash and sprint your way through 10 clay worlds in "classic platformer mode" or put your skills to the test in "challenge mode" with hard precision platformer gameplay. With no attacks and worlds filled with obstacles, all you can do is... Hop For The Best!
Demo available!
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Worm Slayer
Worm Slayer is a Fast-Paced Bullet Hell Roguelike where you must fight your way through the dungeon that is the Worm King's den to finally reach and then defeat the Worm King.
Demo available!
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Enter The Chronosphere
Enter the Chronosphere is a tactical bullet hell roguelike where each turn is a slice of realtime action. You are an interdimensional soldier tasked with fighting through and disabling uncharted chronospheres: Colossal labyrinthine structures whose floors are packed with hostile defenders. Each sphere is unique, containing new environments, enemies, artifacts, weapons and abilities.
Demo available!
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Banzo Quest
Jump, leap, and spit your way through trouble in this silly retro-style platformer. Full of fun and charm!
Demo available!
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Redshot
Quick reflexes and clever strategies are required in REDSHOT, a bullet-time metroidvania where everything is deadly, but you are deadlier. Can you save the royal city from total destruction?
...Can you do it with style?
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Shield Cat
Spin to win! Help Lance on his quest to find neat collectibles and save his friends in this top-down pixel art game! Explore the Cat Kingdom, find secrets, and uncover the mystery of the Cosmic Shades…
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Ollifrog Toad Skater
Olliefrog Toad Skater is the amphibian-based skateboarding game where its easy to be steezy! Create your own little custom cute frog or toad and hit up the local skatepark for a brief skating session, OR tackle the more extensive story/career modes and ollie, grind, and kickflip your way to the top.
Demo available!
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Necrobouncer
Rogue-like dungeon crawler where you have a chance to play as a necromancer, who works as a bouncer in a dungeon club. Choose your path, try out endless builds, and go on to defeat hardcore bosses to acquire and unleash their powers on hordes of enemies!
Demo available!
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Unichrome
Run-and-gun platforming single-player arcade action mixed with off-kilter comedy. Horn-dash, Triple-Barrel-Shotgun-Blast, Molotov-Cocktail, and Rainbow-Bazooka-Blast your enemies to their death. Homing bullets, automated turrets, and ice-beams spice up the rainbow-colored carnage.
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Maki's Adventure
Fight, dash, swim and bite your way through 4 different dungeons. Let the inner shark out! Face many different opponents and defeat powerful bosses. Makis Adventure is a pixel art platformer with a bite!
Demo available!
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Hauntii
A quirky twin-stick shooter with a unique hand-drawn style. This is a single-player adventure game that tells the story of a ghost. This game takes place in Eternity, a place that exists outside of space where all souls eventually end up.
Demo available!
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Highlighters
Highlighters is the next entry in the action-puzzle genre and is inspired by the charming and stylish titles of the 90s like Tetris Attack and Puzzle Fighter. Clear tiles by matching 4 or more like-colored pieces together, with at least one of them being a bomb (cross-shaped). Highlighters is easy on beginners, but also has a lot to offer for the skilled players of competitive, completionist, and speedrunning tastes!
Demo available!