Released for the Amiga in the early 90s, it’s understandable if many of you have never even heard of Apidya, a name pulled from the Greek “Hexapoda,” meaning six‑legged insects.

Despite its playful yet self-deprecating title, Yet Another Zombie Survivors isn't just that, and even though I'm not well versed in the genre, I was astounded by how much I enjoyed this game.

gunplay across branching paths and more than 10 unique levels packed with enemies, bosses, secrets, and even arena-style combat sections reminiscent of the All-Range Mode from the Star Fox series.

First - the obvious. Duskfade is gorgeous. The artists who made it clearly worked overtime, as every environment looks resolutely stunning and full of color. The animation work is also tremendous and makes this look and feel like the work of a major developer and not a small studio releasing their first title.

It's apparently fallen to an indie developer, Refugium Games, to pick up the mantle. And while Agefield High: Rock the School sounds like a name ChatGPT would come up with if you told it to impersonate Jack Black from the early 2000s, does the game underneath manage to fill the nostalgic shoes of its spiritual predecessor?

Replicant D6 is set to launch Agent 64: Spies Never Die this week, promising action-packed shootouts and gun-blazing espionage that takes us straight back to the '90s.

Borealys Games is dropping ARPG Echoes of Mystralia into early access with promises of delivering a full 1.0 version within a year, and I have to say, from my time with it, I can’t say that seems unrealistic. But in the current early access build, you’ll get access to the first 3 regions, a bunch of bosses, and starting spells and items, so unless you’re about to blast through this whole game in a weekend, I don’t think you’d necessarily notice its current early access state.

Pax Autocratica, can I call you Pax? It is a marriage of two halves, one being a space expedition where you trawl the galaxy, getting involved in different skirmishes to take down the enemy and gather resources, and a management sim where you build your base up from scratch, putting your crew to work in the fields and ensuring they are well looked after, while improving your equipment and forces.

Akatori centers on Mako, a young girl wielding a magical staff and tasked with ending the toxic Amber Storms plaguing her world. This is no ordinary staff, either. Sealed within it is a magical bird, fittingly named Akatori. Hey, that’s the title of the game!

: Big Walk is exclusively a cooperative online multiplayer game. Absolutely no part of it aside from the tiny opening hub area is remotely playable with only one player, and couch co-op is intentionally not included for reasons that will become clear shortly.

What the hell is Truxton Extreme? No, it's not the name of Elon Musk's latest kid - good guess, though. Instead, it's a surprising new entry in a series many have likely never heard of: a shoot-'em-up arcade title known simply as Truxton (or Tatsujin in Japan, meaning “expert”).

For all the similarities Kusan shares with the game that inspired it, the story isn’t one of them. Developer CIRCLEfromDOT delivers an in‑your‑face narrative wrapped in gorgeous comic‑panel artwork, yet the substance underneath doesn’t quite keep pace.

Lunarium is an action RPG by Chinese developers Lunarium Studios, which kind of makes you think they're going full MCU cinematic universe with this IP if they've named the studio after it.

There’s an Elder Scrolls VI-sized hole in the gaming sphere right now, and any epic open-world RPG that comes out between now and the heat death of the sun (aka, Bethesda’s planned release date) has a shot at fully running the table until then. Forgotten Realms: Vahrin’s Call ambitiously steps up to the plate. Does it knock it out of the park? Or is this a swing and a miss?

Alright, here’s another go at it: I didn’t care for the game, but I’m ready to believe it has a dedicated audience that would die for it– and will SWAT me for bashing it. But I have to be honest about my experience.

Much like the original, Tormentum II doesn’t aim to reinvent the fleshy, alienesque wheel, so to speak.

Tears of Metal is a game that allows you to do just that while fighting alongside your Scottish forces to reclaim your home from foreign invaders. So you get to wear a kilt and have a short commute!

Lifted is a game whose intentions are pure—to take the normally quite morose cinematic platformer genre popularized by Inside, Limbo, Planet of Lana, and others, and give it a colorful, family-friendly setting with a Pixar-esque vibe.

IVE or DIE - Children of Rain, capitalizes its verbs for good reason: death is constantly tugging at your sleeve and the only way to swat it away for one more day is to brave the perilous depths of what-used-to-be human civilization.

Folks, I'm afraid to be the bearer of bad news today. Gaming has peaked. This is it - there's nowhere to go but down. And you can thank Heave Ho 2 for this, because with its release we finally have a game that allows you to fart on your friends as a dedicated feature.