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Making History II: The War of the World What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Price -70% 4.57€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2010
4 Elements The ancient kingdom is in trouble! The magic of the four elements that kept it running for centuries has been corrupted by evil powers and the altars no longer yield the energy of life. It is up to you to unlock the 4 ancient books of magic and collect 16 mysterious cards that will help you restore the kingdom to life.

Price -8% 17.57€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2010
Puzzle Dimension Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Jun 2010
Jolly Rover A comedic 2D point and click adventure, featuring a crazy cast of poxy pirate pooches.

Price -36% 6.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Jun 2010
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Jun 2010
Puzzler World Puzzler World brings over 1200 puzzles of 8 popular puzzle types to your PC. Conceptis picture logic puzzle fans will be happy to know that in addition to Crossword, Wordsearch, Fitword, Sudoku, Codeword, Spot the Difference and Silhouette puzzles, Puzzler World also offers 83 Conceptis Link-a-Pix available in sizes of 10x10, 20x20 and...

Price -85% 0.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 May 2010
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Price -7% 3.72€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Apr 2010
Fortix Can you reclaim your ancestors’ land? Evil forces have taken over the once fertile land of Fortiana. You are the only one who can storm the castles and claw it back from the hordes of dragons. Experience a new type of strategy and arcade game. Fence off parts of the battlefield to corner your enemies.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Apr 2010
Star Wolves Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Price -90% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Mar 2010
Star Wolves 3: Civil War Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Price -85% 0.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Mar 2010
Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game Taking place from 1936-64, Arsenal of Democracy lets you play as any nation during the era of WW2, complete with detailed models for economics, diplomacy, research, and intelligence. Warfare is also fully represented with all three branches of operations: land, sea, and air.

Price -87% 1.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Feb 2010
NecroVisioN: Lost Company NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to original horror FPS shooter, taking place before the NecroVisioN story begins. It contains a bunch of unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements as well as new main hero that presents the original game story from opposite perspective.

Price -88% 0.85€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Feb 2010
SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders Your husband Richard lies dead beneath the cherry blossoms of Old Japan, and the police are of no help. Step into history and uncover the truth when no one else will. Find devilishly hidden clues, explore exotic locales, and bring the killer to justice!

Price -50% 2.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Feb 2010
Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy Enroll in a School Plagued by Suspicions and Lies!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Jan 2010
Zero Gear Zero Gear is physically-fueled, online multiplayer kart combat madness. Deck out your kart and character before jumping into one of many different game modes. Outrageous kinematic gameplay and weapons make every round a blast. The potential for tiny vehicular mayhem has never been so humongous!

Price -72% 1.44€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Jan 2010
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Dec 2009
Roogoo Roogoo is an innovative and unusual 3D puzzle game that has players guide and stack different shaped blocks through various platforms to not only save planet Roo, but the entire Roogoo race. Roogoo tasks players with guiding meteors in the form of shaped blocks through a series of rotating disks as a means of saving planet Roo and the...

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2009
The Void Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Dec 2009
Crash Time 3 Like its predecessors, Crash Time 3, the new installment of the well-known action racing game series, offers varied gameplay in top quality. The German game forge Synetic has once more taken the graphics engine a significant step further.

Price -86% 0.87€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Nov 2009
Zombie Shooter 2 Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Price -78% 2.21€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2009
Men of War: Red Tide Red Tide blends deep RTS tactics with the raw intensity of third-person combat. Created in collaboration with author Alexander Zorich, this standalone expansion tells the story of the Black Coats – Soviet Naval Infantry famed for their ruthless precision in the Black Sea campaigns.

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Nov 2009
Secret Files: Tunguska Unravel one of the greatest mysteries of our time! On the 30th June 1908 an explosion with the combined energy of 2000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the region of Tunguska in Central Siberia and felled over 6,000 square km of trees. The explosion could be heard from as far as 1,000km away.

Price -93% 0.71€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Oct 2009
Everyday Genius: SquareLogic The next generation of puzzle games is here! Combining simple arithmetic with colorful cages and logical problem solving, this new puzzle game makes sure you never have to guess—and you don’t have to be a math wiz!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Oct 2009
Zombie Bowl-o-Rama Bowl or Beware! From the depths of the graveyard…a gruesome gang in search of brains! When Zombies show up at the town’s lanes, it’s up to you to put ‘em back in the ground! The Zombies have taken over your favorite lanes, and it’s up to you to send ‘em back to the graveyard where they belong!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Oct 2009

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