Alternative Games

Arcade style shooters are a dying breed, falling victim to the flash of three dimensions and a market’s neverending thirst for realism. Off the top of my head, I can name only two or three recent big-budget shooters, and none have received the praise they once would have. They seem to be going the way […]

Formosoft and Viva Media have paired to bring My Sim Aquarium to the US, and it’s not exactly a winfall for either gamers or aquarium fanatics. My Sim Aquarium promises realistic aquarium sim action plus integration of your fishies with your screensaver for some frame-breaking game integration on your PC. It’s an odd idea, […]

I’ve seen a lot of RPG Maker games. The RPG Maker software has been available since the late 1990s on PCs and PlayStation (1 and 2) platforms. The software allows a decent amount of flexibility to create simple, sprite-based 2D role-playing games in the style of SNES titles like Final Fantasy or Secret of […]

Soviet Unterzögersdorf is a unique art game built in Adventure Game Studio, the popular shareware authoring system for point-and-click games in the classic mode of 1990s PC adventure titles: Think of classic LucasArts games like Full Throttle or Grim Fandango, except without the cutesy aesthetics. Soviet Unterzögersdorf is rendered in stark photography not at […]