2012 Games

    • The Banner Saga
    The Banner Saga is a role-playing meets turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about vikings. Travel through stunning landscapes straight out of an animated film as your party escapes what could be the end of everything. Battle painstakingly hand-animated foes in strategic, turn-based combat. Make decisions with real consequences in conversations with people you'll actually care about. The Banner Saga is a mature game aimed at gamers who appreciate art, story and strategy.
    • Barabariball
    Barabariball is a fast-paced multiplayer sports game.
  • FTL

    FTL

    Dev. Subset Games
    • FTL
    FTL is a spaceship simulation roguelike-like attempting is to recreate the atmosphere of running a spaceship exploring the galaxy.  What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down your shields?  Reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape, power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky, or teleport a boarding party onto the enemy ship?  FTL allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
    • God of Blades
    A love-song to pulp fantasy tales of yore, 70s synth-prog-landscape oddities, and forgotten places, God of Blades is a gorgeous, visceral sidescrolling physics-based sword-fighting adventure.
    • Gunpoint
    Gunpoint is a creative stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You're a freelance spy, infiltrating high security buildings with subterfuge, gratuitous face-punching, and an unusual type of electronic sabotage. You can cross-link things like light switches and doors so that the guards unwittingly take out their own security systems, their colleagues, and even themselves.
    • Hotline Miami
    Take a surreal trip back to the seedy back alleys of Miami's criminal underworld in the late 80s. You'll soon find yourself in a deadly maze of mystifying phone calls, ultraviolent encounters with the local crime syndacte and strange dreams of interrogative people wearing animal masks. What is going on and what are you willing to do to find out?
    • Lone Survivor
    A new kind of adventure where the choice of how to survive is up to you. Sneak through without firing a single shot, or kill everything in your path. Eat and sleep well, or resort to drugs to keep going. Search for survivors, or try to escape the city alone. Look after your mental health or descend into madness.
    • Luftrausers
    Luftrausers is a stylish, tight & beautiful WWII meets Thunderbirds dogfighting game in which you control the experimental LUFTRAUSER airplane.
    • McPixel
    McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through short challenges in an oldschool point'n'click fashion. The goal in each challenge is to prevent stuff from blowing up using available tools! You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!
    • Mirrormoon
    MirrorMoon is a first-person puzzle-adventure game set on a uninhabited planet that is experiencing a full solar eclipse. MirrorMoon is about mystery, solitude and feeling lost, it's a metaphor of space. It challenges players through real-time juxtaposition of two 3d coordinate system that partially coexist in the same game space, questioning the nature of interaction with the limits of the represented game world.
    • Octodad: Dadliest Catch
    Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the splash hit, Octodad! This time, our cephaloprotagonist has gotten himself in a bind between his wife's mounting mistrust, and a disastrous trip to the local aquarium! Are you dad enough to control the titular octopus father as he strives to hide his nautical nature from his family while keeping his tangled tentacles intact?
  • PID

    PID

    Dev. Might and Delight
    • PID
    PID is a platform game that will turn everything you know about 2D gameplay upside down. . You play as a young boy that gets stranded on an old remote planet. He must fight off a variety of malicious robots bent on stopping him and befriend unlikely allies to shed light on a huge conspiracy that keeps the planet mesmerized and prevents him from ever reaching home.
    • POP Methodology Experiment One
    In POP, the player plays through a series of erratic minigames stylistically tied with the music. The vignettes are interconnected by idiosyncratic videos creating a purposefully disjointed experience.
    • Proteus
    Proteus is a game of audiovisual discovery by David Kanaga and Ed Key. In order to create an immersive bubble in which to explore Proteus, Fantastic Arcade will be presenting the game in a special Karaoke chill-out room. All our guests are invited to take a moment to unwind and visit proteus. 
    • Realistic Summer Sports Simulator
    Realistic Summer Sports Simulator is a ridiculous multiplayer summer olympics game where the athletes are controlled by giant springs.
    • Russian Subway Dogs
    Experience the life of a stray Russian subway dog scavenging for food in this realistic simulator. Features doggies, Ruskies, and a proprietary vodka physics system!
    • Scale
    Scale is an experimental first person game that explores freely changing the scale of objects as a game mechanic, created by Steve Swink, with art by Ted Martens. 
    • Super Hexagon
    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game that focuses on twitch reflexes and the interaction between music and gameplay.

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