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The demo of Octopus City Blues is both Kafkaesque and charming
And filled with puns.
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Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta
Well, this is … unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I’ve not really seen before: a landscape which seems
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Gorge, a food-horror JRPG, gives videogames something to chew on
Food: apparently it’s more than just a health potion.
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Rain World explodes with more slugcat .gifs
Rain World is part of an explosion over the past few years of games that express, through their pixel art, a very personal sort of fantasy. Along with Hyper Light Drifter, Witchmarsh, The Deer God, and Titan Souls, it sees pixel art not as cute but as ready for subversion, and an excuse to lavishly
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This may be the best pixel art being made today
A life in dots.
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Monet’s cosy view of nature lives on inside lisa
Impressionism by way of pixels to compose the endearing relaxation of the Great Outdoors.
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Check out these four frazzling exploration games from Glitch Jam
Let us also note: free!
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Deer God, a game about being majestic as f**ck and one with nature
That deer-in-headlights look is just a facade to mask godliness.
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Still hard as crap, but Titan Souls is burgeoning into a big beautiful game
The Dark Souls de-make becomes its own thing.
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This looks like Hyper Light Drifter but darker; here’s hoping it comes out
In the year 20XX, in a TIGSource devlog… Irkalla. It’s a side-scrolling arcade shooter that has the pixel-y charm of Hyper Light Drifter (or your personal favorite upcoming GIF-machine), and all the bleak, gunmetal-grey mech-strewn wastelands you can ask for. Yeah, the pored-over, long-gestating pix
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Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history
Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to video
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Iconic pop art transformed through 8-bit watercolors
Sorry Campbell’s Soup cans, you didn’t make the cut this time around.