Audience Choice Awards
Otto and the Ancient Worlds is an 8-bit 2D adventure platformer about an archaeologist who discovers an ancient library filled with magical books. Each book contains a living story of a mythology or folklore, and a mysterious evil figure releases them into Otto’s world! Otto must return the mythology and folklore back to their books and destroy this unknown evil in the process.
Brought to you by creator David Ladyman, Star Traders is a redesign and upgrade of his original game published by Steve Jackson Games. In it you are a heroic starship captain navigating the galaxy's trade lanes in search of fortune and glory.
Zen Pathz is a unique fighter/platformer hybrid offering a variety of casual play and competitive tournament modes. Simultaneously control an avatar and brush to alter destructible terrain like never before. Detain, drop, and dispatch opponents while overcoming their same attempts at you. Master the duality to create your own zen path to victory.
A virtual reality video game from Synaptix Games. Communications systems in the solar system ahead are disrupted by interference from your armada. They know you are coming! Rise to the challenge and vanquish entire civilizations. Empower yourself with alien technology as you unlock new weapons and more powerful ships. Follow your destiny on the Day of Destruction!
Spark is a creative, combo-based shmup with bullet-hell and puzzle elements. The unique shooting system hooks the player as they discover more ways to create beautiful and deadly combos. The central element of the game is the combination of the various bullets.
King Hùng Era is a family friendly fast-paced strategy game for 2-4 people where you try to get as many units face-up as possible out of 8 units that each player has. The units can be played as single, a pair, set of 3, set of 4. Set of 5 will win the game instantly. Winning the last unit can earn you a big bonus while all losing tiles will go into the box! Each game lasts about 10-15 minutes
Smash Boats(TM) is a freemium single-player action game, with gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade games. The goal is to smash, bash and thrash your way through arenas full of bizarre pools with one of the many unique smash boats. Sounds easy; but, with relentless enemies, zany mini-bosses, unusual water hazards and obstacles trying to hinder your progress, the goal is anything but easy!
Players control a character who has achieved greatness and lived to tell the tale, but the story of his conquest comes out different with each re-telling / playthrough. Gameplay involves searching for portals hidden throughout each level, using a mysterious language to summon demons from the other side, then unleashing those creatures onto the hapless guards and townsfolk of the land.
De León Legends is a first-person Virtual Reality adventure/combat game designed from the ground up with room-scale movement and VR combat mechanics in mind. Using a large variety of weapons ranging from pistols and cannons to swords. Fight through plagued villages, gallop through treacherous forests, climb steep cliffs and use your skills to push back against the night featuring an instinctive combat system.
Oathen is a highly replayable arena combat board game for 2 to 6 players inspired by Nordic mythology and esports. Players take on the role of a hero through a randomly generated game board where treasures and traps await. Each hero contains cards used to perform attacks that must cool down with each use. Duke it out to become the arena champion.
Grab 3 or more players and win points by going to bars, answering challenges, performing party tricks, fulfilling new year's resolutions, and talking in character about a Judge's scenario.
GunDrill is a sci-fi adventure to find a new home on an alien planet. This vertical slice showcases your futuristic train, mining for the minerals that power it, and the enemies lurking below. Created by Brian Mowat and Cogh. Art by Zoya Schultz.
Your infiltration team must stop an army of lunar-bots from crashing the moon into our Earth! The field operative, wielding the VR headset, must sneak through each enemy outpost while their team of hackers will assist using their smartphones! Strap in for some Assymetric-VR-Stealth-Party gameplay!
Deadly action and slapstick chaos. CreatorCrate is a viciously fast roguelike platformer about an appliance that devours everything, makes anything, and fights to escape a massive, circular space station. More than run and shoot: improvise and create! The game releases August 2021 at creatorcrate.net/steam
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Tempus84, a unique story that's different from what's been offered by the current virtual reality industry. A first person shooter VR adventure game where you play as a time travel candidate testing time travel for the first time and eventually getting stuck in 1984. A game that tells an interactive and visual story through the experience of being lost in time and finding your way back home. From repairing your future equipment with items found in the past, to finding an ally to aid you that you've not met... yet. But they know you. A love letter to time travel fiction combining genres of sci-fi and thrillers, giving players a sense of nostalgia and even anemoia for others.
Big Boy Boxing is an energetic Boss Rush game inspired by Punch-Out!!, featuring fluid gameplay, wacky comedy, special abilities, stylized hand-animated pixel art, and a retro banger soundtrack!
Help twins Kaden and Quinn rescue their hamster pals in this wholesome puzzle adventure. Enjoy a cast of colorful characters, mess with your friends in competitive mode, and have hours of fun with delightful platform-hopping, bubble-popping action!
Don’t be fooled by its cuteness. Rightfully, Beary Arms is a bullet hell, roguelite that will punish and reward you. Augment weapons to create unique weapon builds, pick rewards as you explore levels, alter mechanics to your benefit and peril, fight, die, become stronger, and do it all over again.
Jump. React. Upgrade. Flow. Mr. K.I.S.S. is a single player, atmospheric, HD-2D, procedural rooftop runner. Experience precision platforming, a skill tree, real-time dynamic difficulty system, hand drawn characters, and a poignant story of a fractured soul facing the ultimate shadow...
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