Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Catch Color: Fun While Improving Your Reflexes

Catch Color is a simple and addictive game by AFLA Games (the maker of Math Panic), with several ways of playing. Send the blue cubes across the blue bar and the red cubes across the red bar Are your reflexes good ? Play with friends and see who scores the highest.



Catch Color is available at both the Google Play Store and the iPhone App Store.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Fallen Temple

Over the past few years, I've become a bit jaded about any games that look like they were made in RPG Maker. When I was a teenager, and even in my early 20s, I would've been all over anything that remotely looked like a 16-bit era Final Fantasy game boasting 20+ hours of wandering and talking with people.



I'm pleased to report that Fallen Temple, an Early Access game on Steam, is anything BUT that. While the game is sparse (and also the undertaking of one person, as opposed to a team) right now, the gameplay is very reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, with quest assignments and a hub town that remind me of the Diablo games.

While I am (with exception) usually skeptical of Early Access games (we all recently lost Bot Colony before the official release due to its unsustainability), Fallen Temple shows a lot of process, and the sole developer is making strides with updates, the implementation of a day/night cycle, and filling the game world with puzzles, monsters, secrets, and everything that makes for a great action RPG.

This is definitely a game to watch as it develops - though it probably couldn't hurt to encourage the developer by tossing a few dollars his way. Fallen Temple retails for $4.99 (USD) on Steam.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Drive To Hell

 
Drive To Hell, by Ghost Crab Games, is a really fun shmup that is reminiscent of bullet hell arcade games, as well as Spy Hunter. The premise is simple: Your favorite dive bar is destroyed by a demon, and the logical response is to take your outrage to Hell itself to give the demon what for. Loaded with power ups, vehicle upgrades, and a ton of monsters, Drive To Hell is one of the more enjoyable new shmups I've played in the past few years.
 
Drive To Hell is available on Steam.