In PaperKlay, you play as Chick, a plucky chicken, alongside your tiny sidekick Nugget. Their mission is to scamper across a handcrafted world to rescue a bunch of lost eggs. The game’s environments are a real visual treat, with sprawling vistas that unfold as you explore. One minute you’re dashing through a cardboard forest, the next you’re puzzling your way past a village made of pinecones or chatting with a wobbly sock puppet who’s got a few screws loose.

You’re not just running and jumping, you’re rotating and unfolding the world itself to open up brand new paths. The controls are fun, letting you double-jump, dash, and glide through the air with a satisfying sense of freedom. Additionally, hub areas invite you to poke around at your own pace, helping out oddball characters or sniffing out collectibles, while linear levels crank up the intensity with tight platforming moments.

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Silly Polly Beast follows Polly, an ordinary high school girl thrust into a nightmarish struggle by fate. To gain her freedom, she must confront a monstrous beast and unravel its nature. As she navigates a fog-shrouded city, Polly faces deadly mists signaled by her fog bracelet, which glows red when danger is near. The story explores her battle to embrace her inner demon, questioning the consequences of her actions and the pact that binds her to this dark world.

The game blends exploration with dynamic combat, switching between side and top-down perspectives for a unique gameplay feel. You will engage in aggressive shootouts and face horrifying creatures, using ancient forbidden knowledge to unlock powerful spells that enhance Polly’s abilities. Each new spell makes her a deadlier force, empowering you to seize freedom through skill and strategy rather than pleading for it.

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In Hordes of Hunger, you play as Mirah, a brave warrior defending her homeland from the Beast, a sinister force, and its monstrous hordes. Rising from the sea, this ravenous evil has ravaged the land. Mirah uses powerful weapons and abilities to fight, save survivors, and uncover the source of the evil. The game mixes fast-paced third-person hack-and-slash combat with a rich story and high-quality production, standing out in its genre.

A new Steam demo is available, showcasing expanded skill trees, weapon upgrades, and deeper character growth. It also features a smoother parry system with better animations and clear cues. In the full game, you will be able to create unique builds with varied weapons and attacks, from swift swordplay to heavy hammer blows. Environments like castle keeps and ruined villages include strategic spots like choke points, high ground, and destructible objects.

Each run in Hordes of Hunger increases the challenge with tougher enemy waves. You can level up to unlock powerful abilities, like flaming sword attacks, lightning-charged landings, or divine powers to defy death. Beyond fighting, you also take on quests to save survivors and complete missions, revealing stories of characters like a guilt-ridden father, a hesitant prisoner, and a battered mother.

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Grandma, No! is a physics-based, laugh-out-loud adventure where you step into the worn-out slippers of a grandma in way over her head. Forget ordinary chores, these “simple” tasks go off the rails fast. Taking out the trash may lead you somewhere unexpected, and cooking dinner could end up with more fire than flavour. Just when things start to calm down, BOOM — something weirder crashes the party.

Try to survive the day without burning the house down, or maybe you’ll prefer to let it all hang out and embrace the mayhem. Get ready to enter hyper interactive playground where your actions may have permanent consequences. From freaky twists to guest appearances, there’s always something bizarre waiting to derail your plans.

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In Demonschool, you step into the shoes of Faye, a bold freshman and the last demon hunter from a legendary family, navigating a haunted island university. Faye and her allies investigate supernatural threats, battle possessed humans, demons, and other eerie creatures in grid-based combat, and work to seal away monsters to save the human world.

Combat unfolds on a chess-like tactical board, inspired by Into the Breach, where you strategize to defeat Hell’s deadliest foes. During the Planning phase, you map out moves and use classmates’ unique strengths. Actions can be adjusted to perfect each turn before transitioning to the Action phase, where attacks, heals, and special abilities trigger simultaneously.

Outside of combat, you can befriend, romance, and recruit 15 distinct playable characters, each bringing unique skills to the team. Balancing class schedules, training, extracurriculars, and side quests boosts the party’s abilities, all while Faye strives to maintain a strong GPA amidst the chaos of demon hunting.

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The story follows your search for a missing relative, leading you into the twisted world of illegal VHS tapes. Each tape acts as a portal to a unique dimension, all while uncovering a government conspiracy to ban the footage. Across these diverse worlds, you’ll collect era-specific weapons and tools to survive against unique enemies and formidable bosses.

Your only safe haven is your apartment, which serves as a base for analyzing clues, saving progress, and preparing for the horrors ahead. Video Ghastlies also promises to challenge your wits with numerous puzzles, immersing players in a chilling atmosphere. Check out the trailer below to see what awaits.

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Landfall Games, the Swedish indie studio behind chaotic physics-based hits like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clustertruck, and Content Warning, is shifting gears, literally, with Haste: Broken Worlds. Trading its signature wobbly mayhem for speed, the game transforms a viral 2021 multiplayer prototype into a single-player roguelike. You will race through procedurally generated levels, desperately outrunning a collapsing universe. Haste is all about velocity and merging momentum-driven platforming with a surreal story. While it captures the euphoria of speed, some elements are not fully polished.

Momentum Is Your Master

You play as Zoe, a quick and agile runner who can open portals between worlds. Her mission is to deliver letters across a crumbling multiverse while outrunning its destruction. The gameplay is simple but addictive: blast through randomly generated courses, jump off ramps and obstacles, fly through the air, and stick your landings to keep your speed up. Each level is a “shard”, a set of short, obstacle-packed stages that end with a boss fight or a mad dash through a closing portal. And the whole time, the “darkness” is chasing you, a black void that eats the level if you’re too slow, forcing you to run.

Haste’s controls are tight and responsive, with a momentum system that makes every move count. Slopes become speed boosts, ramps turn into launchpads, and perfect landings refill your stamina for special moves like air dashes or hoverboard bursts. The key to winning is to master the terrain, chain your jumps, and stick those landings.

Danger keeps you on your toes: dodge spinning lasers, evade missile storms, and weave through spiked vines, all while racing against the void. Quick pit stops at shops and campfires let you heal or upgrade, but hesitate too long and the darkness catches up. You get three hearts per run; lose them all from falls or hits, and it’s back to the starting hub.

Stylish Dashes, Rough Difficulty Spikes

The roguelike structure works through Shards (ten unique level sets), each with its own biome like snowy peaks, desert dunes, or glowing caves and tougher challenges. Between runs, you return to a hub where you can practice, talk to NPCs, and spend Sparks (earned in-game) on upgrades, either passive boosts (more health, faster stamina) or active gear (a grappling hook). Later, you can unlock Endless Mode, which removes shops and gets harder every ten levels. And at launch, Steam Workshop support lets players create and share custom levels.

However, Haste has some rough edges. Upgrades and abilities get the job done but rarely feel game-changing (besides healing). Bosses look amazing but most fights just come down to charging at them full-speed. The randomly generated levels keep things unpredictable, but sometimes the difficulty spikes unfairly; you’ll breeze through one level, then hit a brutal stretch with no room to recover. Early mistakes aren’t too punishing, but later levels can feel cruel without checkpoints, especially in longer runs.

Haste marks Landfall’s best-looking game yet. Its bright, cartoonish style makes every biome pop against the creeping darkness. Speed effects like motion trails and portal flashes make runs feel even faster, though some objects look plain next to the detailed environments. The soundtrack absolutely slaps, a driving electronic score that actually speeds up when you’re flying and slows down when you’re struggling.

Ending Thoughts

The game nails its core thrill – the momentum system is near-perfect, easy to grasp but demanding to master, delivering pure adrenaline when you hit your stride. But the roguelike framework falters: upgrades feel underwhelming, later Shards get repetitive, and the grind becomes tedious. Most surprisingly for a Landfall game, there’s no multiplayer or competitive elements.

While Landfall traded their signature multiplayer chaos for a single-player experience, the result is their most polished game yet. Surprisingly, there’s actual substance beyond the sprinting, memorable NPCs and a proper story give purpose to your frantic dashes. It may not reinvent the genre, but for those craving an intense speed, this is one hell of a ride. Besides, hopefully, the Steam Workshop might deliver a lot of good content for this game.

Review copy provided by the publisher

4.2

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The game was first announced during a Nintendo Direct two years ago, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, with a brief teaser showing Layton walking through an industrial steampunk setting. However, The Nintendo Direct on April 2, which unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2, explicitly confirmed that Professor Layton and The New World of Steam would launch on both the Switch and Switch 2 in 2025.

Set one year after Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2010), the game follows Layton and Luke in Steam Bison, a fictional American city powered by advanced steam-engine technology that outstrips London’s industrial prowess. Luke, now known as “Detective Luke” for solving local mysteries, invites Layton to investigate a mysterious incident. This marks their reunion after Luke’s departure in the original trilogy’s epilogue.

New World of Steam retains the series’ signature blend of point-and-click adventure and puzzle-solving. You explore environments, interact with characters, and solve over 100 riddles, ranging from mathematical and logical challenges to observation-based brainteasers. The game transitions from the 2D animated cutscenes of the DS era to a 3D chibi-style presentation, with Layton and Luke positioned at the screen’s bottom during exploration.

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Buramato takes you to a magical world based on Borneo’s folk tales. You play as a quiet hero who wakes up with no memories, wearing a magic mask that stops them from speaking. However, they feel they must save someone, but don’t know who. Your adventure takes you through cursed lands changed by Uwok, the Demon King from Borneo’s stories. When he was defeated long ago, he left behind a terrible curse that ruined these places.

Fast-paced and combo-driven combat draws comparisons to Devil May Cry or Bayonetta for its fluidity. You will slay giant monsters and mythical creatures using stylish attacks, often enhanced by magic. A fairy companion, Purpura Pandurata, aids in battle, suggesting a dynamic power system tied to the curse. Also, you can glide, warp, and leap across diverse landscapes, from plains to floating islands.

The semi-open-world design encourages discovery, with puzzles and environmental challenges woven into progression. Buramato also brings light RPG mechanics, such as absorbing and manipulating the curse’s power to gain abilities. Storytelling is open-ended and multi-layered, relying on exploration and character interactions rather than heavy exposition.

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Long Gone is set decades after an unspecified outbreak that has left the world in ruins. You take on the role of a survivor stranded in an overgrown, decaying suburban neighborhood frozen in time. The environment itself is framed as the “main character,” with the belongings of its long-departed residents telling a story of lives interrupted.

Additionally, The game opposes a stark, post-apocalyptic backdrop with a lighthearted tone and dark comedy, punctuated by the presence of zombies shuffling through the streets. Unlike survival-focused titles, Long Gone emphasizes exploration and narrative over combat, with zombies posing more as environmental puzzles than direct threats.

Long Gone is a point-and-click adventure where you explore fully interactive 3D houses and 2.5D streets, rummaging through drawers, cupboards, and boxes to uncover items and secrets. Overgrown streets require platforming skills to navigate, with puzzles integrated into the environment.

A robust inventory management system lets you collect, combine, drop, or hoard items, encouraging experimentation to progress through the story and solve challenges. The focus is on piecing together the lives of the neighborhood’s former inhabitants through their forgotten possessions, creating an emotional, story-rich experience.

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