05 – Grim Dawn,
- An early access game that is actually worth it before it comes out, crazy huh? This game has solid combat that feels like it has impact, with enemies rag-dolling all over the place and animations that aren’t ridiculously quick.
- It’s another Diablo-like, so you’re there to kill enemies to collect loot so you can kill more enemies to gain more loot
- There’s a few ways the developers spiced up things to make the game different from its obvious inspirations, for one they have a similar health system to Minecraft, where your health regenerates very quickly out of combat by depleting your ‘constitution’ bar, which you refill with food and potions.
04 – NeonXSZ,
- This game was made by a whopping one person, albeit it is someone who used to work for Rockstar North, but that doesn’t mean that this game isn’t an impressive feat for any one person to make.
- The game is similar to Descent in that you’re flying around in a space ship in tight corridors, however, where it differs is that there’s a cool progression system where enemies drop upgrades based on their own stats, instead of just having an XP system like most games.
- There’s seven and a half square kilometres procedurally-generated areas of open world to explore each time you start a new game, so the game stays fresh with the sacrifice of deliberate level design, which admittedly is usually preferable.
03 – Grow Home,
- A 3D platformer where you help a giant alien grow up and off of the planet until you can reach your spaceship and go home.
- This is a game that you’ll definitely want a controller for, because the analogue movement adds some much needed precision to move from platform to platform.
- At first it’s mostly a platformer with a gimmick, but as you progress the plant growing aspect becomes more and more important and powerful until you really feel like you’re creating a significant portion of the levels.
02 – Hand of Fate,
- Yet another genre mash-up is a bad way to describe Hand of Fate, because yes it combines several genres but it does it well.
- Take the joy you get from building a unique and powerful deck in a TCG or a CCG like Hearthstone, add it to the fun of making decisions based on risk and reward and fill the rest with a hack and slash style combat.
- Notice I said fill, because despite how good the rest of the game is the hack and slash elements feel mediocre, not bad in anyway but it definitely isn’t the best or most satisfying combat there is.
1 – Zerahypt,
- An open world exploration game that is less of a game and more of an playable alternate reality in which you take on the role of Pirizuka, an alien exploring sunny mountains, gloomy dark lands, vast deserts and interstellar space using countless vehicles like trucks, tanks, aircraft and military cruisers
- The developer of this game, SYRSA, has been developing the lore of this world since he was a little kid and it’s a project he’s planning to spend his whole life working on
- You can download this game for free, but don’t expect any linear objectives and missions to complete – just explore the world and discover things for yourself
- He’s constantly updating the game, and he’s always open to feedback – there is a link below that’ll show you the latest update and the current progress of the game