Alternative Games

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, for sure, and, unfortunately, it’s the best thing My Sim Aquarium has going.

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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 all like the high-gloss 3D renderings typically found in video games, and that is just the beginning of where this title differs from the typical “political adventure game.”

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