The Deadly Path

Owlskip Enterprises has been making some fascinating games for the last few years, most based around solving mysteries by scouring documents and recordings from various eras and genres of music. With The Deadly Path, developer Tim Sheinman is making quite the deviation, with a card-based tower defense game. You build your dungeon, defend it, and attempt to bring a dark lord into existence to start the “age of reckoning.” Which I call “Thursday.”

SLIDE #9Death Unphased

Death Unphased is a neat-looking precision platformer, where it’s all about the dash. Dashing allows you to phase through walls, or obstacles, creating your own inventive routes to each level’s exit, with an ultimate goal of shaving picoseconds off your best times, and those of everyone else. It should be out in the fall.

SLIDE #10Leaf Blower Man

After the joy of PowerWash Simulator, I’m willing to give all domestic chore sims a chance. Leaf Blower Man sets you off annoying your neighbors at 6am on a Saturday, but then things seem to take a stranger turn.

I love what looks like a combination of voxels and 2D assets, in a leaf-blowing game that appears to veer from suburban neighborhoods to—er—outer space.

SLIDE #11Farewell North

We’re not exactly short of games about restoring color to a gray world, but yet I’m a sucker for it every time I see it. Then Farewell North takes it a step further by making it a story about a young woman and her border collie dog, where you play as…the dog. It looks very heartfelt, very pretty, and even features canoeing. Although presumably not by the dog.