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Overload Playable Teaser 3.0 A playable demo of the game Overload, a new six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent. Version 3.0 is from April 2018.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Mar 2016
Cue Club 2: Pool & Snooker Experience pool and snooker like never before, thanks to the stunning HD graphics, fantastic playability and ultra realistic ball physics. Challenge a variety of stylish new opponents of different ability from beginner right up to pro level!

Price 17.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Mar 2016
Chicken Invaders 2 Just when you thought it was safe to eat chicken again, the chickens have returned with an organized invasion to take over the entire solar system! Journey to each planet and fight your way through to save the world (again)!

Price -20% 4.02€
Rating 9.0
Release 04 Mar 2016
Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life. Her only hope lies in trusting those who she has come to regard as her friends.

Price -89% 0.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Mar 2016
Sunrider: Liberation Day - Captain's Edition Liberation Day will come... but you will be betrayed. Experience the stunning continuation of Sunrider Mask of Arcadius in this hardcore turn based tactics game with heavy story elements.

Price -63% 9.11€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Mar 2016
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. Action takes place in the summer of 1943 at Mius river and Saur-Mogila tumulus area of over 140 sq. km. Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht.

Price 31.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Mar 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
The Adventures of Tree The Adventures of Tree takes you on an open-ended adventure to save your species from the evil invaders; Florps! Explore the vast open world to discover its many secrets while completing quests, enjoying quirky dialogue, and upgrading your abilities and gear along the way.

Price -93% 0.47€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Mar 2016
Cat on a Diet Swipe and prod to claw away at wooden blocks, unscrew bolts, control powerful magnets and explode highly volatile uranium – anything to reach those cookies!

Price -90% 0.51€
Rating 8.0
Release 29 Feb 2016
Balrum Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.

Price -91% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Feb 2016
Bear Simulator It's a game where you play as a bear and explore stuff.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Feb 2016
Age of Gladiators "Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.

Price -52% 3.87€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Feb 2016
Master of Orion 1 Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Feb 2016
Risky Rescue Risky Rescue is a demanding arcade game with flat design graphics and innovative controls. Fly a helicopter and do dangerous missions rescuing people.

Price -56% 0.44€
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Feb 2016
The Quest The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!

Price -30% 7.05€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2016
Pixel Puzzles 2: Space Pixel Puzzles 2: Space is a traditional style jigsaw puzzle game in a universal style, each piece uniquely shaped like no physical puzzle could be.

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Feb 2016
Bonsai Grow your tree, prune it, and watch over it as it matures into adulthood. The tree will become what you train it to be - you are the mastermind behind it's path in life.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price -93% 1.04€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Feb 2016
Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Reloaded Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his fellow aide Petka realize that someone has stolen the Red banner from the HQ. Although it's not the end of the story yet! Somewhere on the moon, legions of alien invaders prepare to conquer Earth. But could such a little thing really give a scare to the Red Army heroes?

Price -72% 1.14€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Feb 2016
Codename: Panzers, Phase One Codename: Panzers is an incredible real-time strategy thrill ride. Nerves of steel are required when you're a tank driver. One direct hit and you're done for, but you must throw yourself into the battle, because without your support, many will die. You are the tank commander - make the hard decisions that win wars!

Price -91% 1.38€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Feb 2016
Dungelot: Shattered Lands Dungelot: Shattered Lands takes you on an epic roguelike dungeon-crawler adventure to defeat zombie cows, splat giant evil mushrooms, and generally get back home in one piece. Deceptively simple, ever so addictive.

Price -88% 1.22€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
ChromaGun Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!

Price -97% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Feb 2016
TRON RUN/r Return to the world of TRON with TRON RUN/r, a new lightning fast, action-adventure runner with a twist! Hone your DISC and CYCLE skills, then challenge the grueling STREAM program that throws endless combinations of modes and levels at you until you crash – how long can you survive?

Price -85% 2.94€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2016
Cube Destroyer Cube Destroyer is a top-down shooter with a dynamic gameplay.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
Control Craft 2 Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

Price -75% 0.25€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
We Know the Devil WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016
Marmoset Hexels 3 Marmoset Hexels™ is a grid-based painting tool for vector art, pixel art, design, and animation. A geometric canvas grid lets artists create complex pixel and vector designs with the stroke of a brush.

Price 19.00€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Feb 2016
Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons During your first year of university, immense magical powers are forced onto you, thus revealing the supernatural world hidden within ours. But you must learn to control your powers with the help of a partner or risk destroying everything around you. Will your new fate be one of tragedy or serendipity?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Feb 2016
Black Ink Explore Black Ink, a GPU-based painting app redefining creativity. Move beyond traditional tools, customize brushes, and let your imagination soar. Node-based system offers limitless control. Create in high-definition without performance loss.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2016
5089: The Action RPG 5089 is a deep & complex action RPG featuring strong sandbox roots. VR is supported, but not required. Watch the tutorial & VR videos next to the trailer! Everything is procedurally generated, like terrain, enemies, weapons, items & quests. Planet Xax's war rages on... how is that possible?

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Feb 2016
CALENDULA How to play a game that doesn't want to be played? Calendula is an experimental meta game about trying to play a game. Use your logic to thrive against conventions and get surrounded by a dark atmosphere.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Feb 2016
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2 An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

Price -44% 5.65€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Feb 2016
Cobalt Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Feb 2016
Defunct Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

Price -93% 0.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Jan 2016
Eventide: Slavic Fable Explore the exciting world of slavic legends!

Price -96% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Jan 2016
Aozora Meikyuu Aozora Meikyuu is a short Romance Visual Novel with focus on a cute girl.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Jan 2016

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