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Signs of Life Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jan 2014
Paper Sorcerer Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Jan 2014
Gun Metal Gun Metal is a futuristic action-packed experience where you take control of the fully transformable prototype combat vehicle known as the Havoc Suit.The Havoc Suit, a prototype combat vehicle, remains the only hope to save civilization from a tireless enemy.

Price -74% 0.80€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jan 2014
Loren The Amazon Princess Loren The Amazon Princess is a fantasy epic combining intricate turn-based battles with a heroic tale of overcoming evil - with a twist! In this tale, you play as a loyal servant of the hero rather than the hero herself.

Price -75% 4.87€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Jan 2014
War of the Human Tanks War of the Human Tanks is a story driven strategy game with a gameplay reminiscent of Battleship and Chess, featuring a story of war, loyalty, sacrifice and human shaped tanks.

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Jan 2014
Freedom Fall Freedom Fall is a diabolical down-scrolling platformer set in a prison tower so tall it touches the clouds. Presented with hand painted art, its old school vibe mixes with fast-paced free falling action and a story with both dark wit and heart.

Price -82% 1.70€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jan 2014
Leadwerks Game Engine 5 Learn, Build, and Play with an all-new update that makes game development easier than ever. Dive into our video tutorials and learn everything you need to bring your ideas to life. Create with ease using our intuitive visual editor and Lua script. Publish your projects with a royalty-free license.

Price 48.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 06 Jan 2014
Gunman Clive In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnsons daughter and are spreading havok across the land. Only Gunman Clive can bring order to the west and save the girl!Jump and shoot your way across 16 diverse and challenging levels and fight massive bosses.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Jan 2014
Ballpoint Universe - Infinite Ballpoint Universe Infinite is a shoot-em-up adventure game featuring artwork entirely drawn in ballpoint pen. Explore immaculate worlds, discover the secrets of the doodles, and customize your Ink-Ship for battle! Press"Ballpoint Universe Infinite is too exuberant to ignore.

Price -80% 0.60€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2013
Stick it to The Man! Hard hat tester, Ray, has a bizarre accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain! With his awesome new powers he can read minds and change the world with stickers but he’s on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Can you help Ray out of this sticky situation?

Price -62% 3.08€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Dec 2013
Not The Robots You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Dec 2013
Tiny Brains "Tiny Brains" is a cooperative action puzzler that follows four super-powered lab animals in their attempt to escape a mad scientist's experiments. In this joyously chaotic multiplayer game, the four "Tiny Brains" must combine their unique physics-based powers to navigate through a trick-ridden maze.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Dec 2013
The Novelist The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Price -88% 0.61€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Dec 2013
Samurai GUNN Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for two to four players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.

Price -55% 2.29€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Dec 2013
Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov's Revenge Pick your faction, Monster, strategy, and find out who gets to become King of the Undead!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Dec 2013
MURI MURI is a DOS-style shooter from Remar Games and Ludosity. Features PC Speaker sound and 16-color EGA graphics.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2013
Nimble Quest Nimble Quest! Lead a conga line of heroes to glory against hordes of enemies across an endless number of stages. How many enemies can you defeat? Steer your unstoppable (seriously, you can’t stop) party as they cut a path of destruction through levels filled with different enemies and power-ups.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Dec 2013
Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe After jumping through a wormhole and landing onto this forsaken planet far from home, you are standing in front of a huge interstellar Casino where everyone plays air hockey for a living! Plug your Oculus Rift DK (or not!) and master the finest Shufflepucking techniques!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Dec 2013
Oozi: Earth Adventure Oozi: Earth Adventure is a classic 2D platformer with old school gameplay - no puzzles, no punishment, just 100% pure classic platforming fun! Its most prominent features are HD visuals and beautiful hand-drawn art, but despite its visual style, it’s a good fit for all kinds of gamers!

Price -93% 0.75€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Dec 2013
Finding Teddy We are currently working on Finding Teddy 2 !!Stay tuned, we are currently sending confidential preview versions to journalistsSpecial Offer : Buy Finding Teddy and get Free OST !In BriefThe revival of Point'n-Click.Graphics completely handmade, realized pixel by pixel.

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2013
Elder Sign: Omens Elder Sign: Omens is a digital version of the popular board game by Fantasy Flight Games. Build a team of unique investigators and fight to keep an all-powerful Ancient One from invading our world! Explore museums, oceans, deserts and more for the arcane Elder Signs that will help seal the Ancient One away.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Nov 2013
The Last Express Gold Edition Step aboard the 1914 Orient Express in this award-winning mystery adventure from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner. Described as one of the best adventure games of all time, The Last Express is an intrigue-filled adventure set aboard the luxurious Orient Express.

Price -85% 1.07€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2013
The Shivah Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.

Price -89% 0.56€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Nov 2013
Mutant Mudds Deluxe Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!

Price -56% 4.38€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Nov 2013

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