Welcome to 54! — Manual Intervention is a base defense game created by Spannerworx, an indie developer in the UK. Players are following the new recruit Manny, having gotten through much of his initial training to become an automated missile operator. Unfortunately something has gone horribly wrong with their systems just as a strange…

Oh hi there. — Fairyland Familiars Coloring Book What a wild start, because Fairyland Familiars Coloring book is exactly that; a colouring book. Featuring the artistic work of Anniina Seppä (one of the two devs of the studio) you’ll get fourteen pieces of artwork that can be coloured however you like. …

SPACE AESTHETICS AHOY. — MULTIPUCK is a multiplayer sports arcade game created by Martin Nayeri, an indie dev and technologist based in the USA. Grabbing one other person, players will duke it out on the retro air hockey table with all of the scanlines of a supposed social connections assistant for astronauts. Theme and…

Small wild games — Best Garden is a small arcade game created by Luke Parker, an indie dev in the UK. Players are gardeners in a competition, hoping to be graded the best garden out of the bunch. But this isn’t just normal gardening; this is speed gardening. Within a minute, players need to…

So how is everything going? — Draw Nine is an interactive fiction piece create by Damon L. Wakes, a writer and game dev out in the United Kingdom. This particular story blends both elements as the magical world requires the protagonist to go on an adventure. …

Puzzle day — TV Guide is a strange little browser game created by Llewelyn ‘NylePudding’ Griffiths, an indie dev in Sweden that we saw previously back on page 25 with River Tiles (which some may remember was my favourite game from the page). This time we are not doing puzzles in a traditional…

You cannot call your neice a mole, at least not out loud. — Mole is an arcade adaptation of the classic ‘Whack-A-Mole’ by Badjano Entertainment, a solo indie dev in Brazil. As the name implies, we get an adaptation on the classic game with three terrifyingly addictive modes to sink time in to. In case anyone is unfamiliar, Whack-A-Mole is exactly as it…

Jam Day I guess? — Barrel Roll is a gamejam arcade game created by Matthew Lawrence, a solo indie developer. Players get to fly a cool figther plane to the end goal, collecting fuel to avoid running out. What’s this? The game jam theme was ‘restricted movement’? Oh no. Yes, if it were not obvious…

Gifs and content ahoy — They Came From Uranus! is an infinite space arcade shooty created by Projector Studios, an indie team in England. Players are the defenders of Earth, hoping to stop these invaders that are presumably from Uranus from destroying our four moons. Hang on, when did we get four moons? Regardless of…