Western Sigil
Western Sigil is a tower defense game in which you take on the role of the sheriff’s son, tasked with maintaining peace in the town of Wadeville. Idyll will not last too long since a dangerous plague has broken into the city walls and your mission is to find its source and stop the rot from spreading.
NOTHING UNITES HUMANS LIKE A COMMON ENEMY
Recruit cowboys, Indians, National Guard soldiers, Mexicans or even bandits - everyone, regardless of their political views, wants the end of the ugly plague.
Or Do they?
BE SMART
Strategically deploy your forces on the map and set up turrets. Hire new members and gain experience to develop your units. Throw away their rusty guns and gear them up with new weapons to make your team even more powerful. Set ambushes to weaken your foes and find out who’s the cause of the overwhelming havoc.
APPROACH BEASTS OF ALL POSSIBLE LEGENDS AND TALES
Fight orcs, demons, skeletons, goblins, trolls, forest creatures and even animals like wolves or bears. The variety of monsters you will encounter in-game is a good material for a separate bestiary book, a weird one, that is.
FEELS LIKE A MAGIC
The task is made difficult by the fact that there was some kind of strange magic involved in all this. To remove the unfortunate spell, you must find all the mysterious sigils and close the portal leading to another dimension, the very home of awful creatures disrupting the peace in Wadeville.
FEATURES:
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Protect your lands in this unique tower defense & resource management game sprinkled with a spicy pinch of strategy.
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Get in the ranks with cowboys, Indians, soldiers, local Mexicans or bandits.
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Distribute the units on the map properly - their location determines their strength.
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Hire new members to boost your performance on the battlefield.
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Gain experience and develop your units by equipping them with new, shiny weapons.
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Set ambushes and place standard and premium turrets to protect every single acre of Wadeville.
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The Leeds Devil
Trapped in the Barrens, No Way Out
You’ve traveled to the Barrens after receiving a letter from a cyptozoologist uncle of yours - an uncle that died ten years ago. As you journey into the depths of the woods the road seems to shift, diverging from your maps; the trees come close, then closer still.
Before you can get your bearings something tears out of the darkness overhead, sending you careening off the road. When you awaken, you no longer recognize your surroundings.
Now, injured and alone, you must find your way through the Pine Barrens while the forest’s strangest denizens have begun to awaken. Will you make your way back to civilization? Or will you join the ranks of the spirits and creatures that linger eternally in the backwoods?
Amongst The Trees Creep Beasts and Ghouls
There are no shortage of strange and unusual creatures and entities in the Pine Barrens - whether it be the ghosts of sacrificed children or the hulking creatures summoned by long-dead witches. Beware. On the night of the Harvest Moon, the spirits are anything but charitable…
The Horrors You Shall Experience
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Hand-drawn, 1-bit art
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A deep, enthralling story
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Unique and varied adventure mechanics
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The claws of the Devil tearing into your throat
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Memories
Memories is a low resolution horror game where you, an investigator, are tasked with a case of Malina Edward who was murdered on a cold Friday night.
The morgue who studied Malina’s body discovered that she was killed with no injuries internally or externally. You get the case on Saturday, the night after she was murdered. Slowly parking up your car in front of her residence you walk up the brick pathway to her door. Hearing what appears to be crying coming from inside the house, you open the door and peak inside, you hear it coming from the kitchen. You step inside the house and the door shuts behind you, the crying stops.
You need to find out what happened to Malina before it happens to anyone else.
Be prepared.
What’s inside
Memories is a classic, low resolution horror game where you explore a murder victims house and try to investigate the case while navigating around a house, avoiding the evil spirits that lurk within. Surviving the investigation will be a true test of your fears, explore the house if you dare. Entering the house you’re tasked with finding out what happened to Malina Edward and why and how she was murdered. Once you find yourself in the house, you can explore the entire house and gather clues on what possibly happened to Malina, the more you piece together about her death you discover more and more that this house isn’t a normal house. You find that the house is haunted with different demons trying to murder you after Malina.
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XIBALBA
Worth playing, if you’re ok with some jank…
Xibalba is a Mayan themed retro FPS made by a the small indie dev team Reef Software. This theme is really cool and unique, and gives the game an aesthetic that is different from most indie or retro FPS games.
Shooting and movement feel really smooth, and it’s generally a lot of fun. Level design is old school in nature, with claustrophobic corridor-esque levels and the occasional more open arena combat areas. Think Wolfenstein 3D with a splash of Quake. I also really like the graphical aesthetic of the game - 2D sprite enemies superimposed over 3D levels just gives off an interesting look for the game.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
I like it, reminds me a lot to Serious Sam but that’s a good thing, have an interesting looking using 2D and 3D with the enemies and the levels , I enjoyed very much and for sure the game can improve with the time.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Ritual: Crown of Horns
Summary: While Ritual may be in need of some quality of life improvements in certain areas, its fast-paced action-packed and strategic gameplay mixed with a metal soundtrack and varied weapons and abilities, create a difficult yet fun and engaging take on the Wild West. 8/10
A full detailed video review can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ZnunLsu5U
Plot:
The writing is not a case of being a masterpiece but they certainly do the job, creating engagement and intrigue throughout. The characters bounce off each other reasonably well, with them often questioning each other or even outright annoying or teasing one another. It is unfortunate however that one doesn’t get nearly as much dialogue like that of the others, but regardless character design works. There is no mistaking the plot plays second to the gameplay in Ritual, never the less for those who are looking for a decent story in amongst all the carnage, there is an interesting one to be found here.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
When it comes to top-down shooters, nothing beats tangling it up with hordes of monsters and all you have a six-shooter and pure luck. These are the kind of games that are exciting, fast-paced, and 100% rage-inducing. Ritual: Crown of Horns, from small indie studio Draw Distance, checks all the boxes.
Stylistically, this is a nice looking game. The art style heightens the grim landscape that we find our protagonist, Daniel Goodchild in. The music, a bold mix of heavy raw guitar and western-inspired melodies, only adds to the chaos that we’re about to dive into. Unfortunately, those two important elements are sometimes not enough to ease the frustrating aiming system and the unnecessarily hard stages you must clear.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game