Welcome to the second installment of our Under The Radar column where we showcase a few good games that we may not have been able to publish as full articles on our website. Ultimately, with this, smaller developers get vital exposure for their games and you get to have more games to play on your plate. If you know of more quality games released recently that have not got the attention they deserve, let us know by leaving a comment below!
As you all already know by now, the Tegra 4 chip and the Nvidia Project Shield handheld console, which we will talk about after this, were announced at a special event yesterday night before CES 2013 began officially. Naturally, with the launch of nVidia’s latest mobile processor launch, they have unveiled a selection of games that will arrive on the platform in the coming months.
The rather popular pixel-art laden PC horror game called Home is currently under development to receive the porting treatment to other platform. Right now iOS is confirmed as to being one of the new platforms Home will be arriving on but Mac and Android are also in the running as well.
Fans of the cult classic game from the Nintendo DS handheld system called Touch Detective have some good news today as Beeworks Games have brought Touch Detective over to Android. For those of you not familiar with this game, Touch Detective stars a little girl named Mackenzie who goes around solving mysteries along with some of her friends who help her along the way.
Let me get this off my chest first – I am no fan of 8-bit, pixel art games. As such, I ignored Superbrothers: Swords & Sworcery EP when it got released on the iPad over a year and a half ago. I still ignored it when it came out on the Humble Bundle for Android 4 recently. However, once it got a proper release on Google Play, I decided to finally take up the game, see what all the hype is about and then do a review. So, here I am now. How did I find the game?
Psionic Games have released a new point and click adventure escape game called Killer Escape. As you may have guessed from the title, you awaken in a dark dank cell in which a serial killer has put you there, most likely in order to kill you at a later time. With that being your final fate if you don’t do anything, you are off to figure out how to escape from this cell and hopefully to freedom.
Want more deals this holiday season? Well you’re in luck then as DotEmu has put up their three self-published titles on Google Play on sale. This sale starts today, actually right now, and goes on until December 27th, 2012 so you do have about a week to pick up either R-Type, Another World or the Raiden Legacy game pack at a discounted price. Of course if you don’t have any of them then you can pick up all three.
One of the games that happened to be in the recent Humble Bundle 4 for Android has finally made it onto the Google Play store on its own now. Developed by Capybara Games, Superbrothers Swords & Sworcery is now available to give you a visual and audio adventure straight from your Android phone without having had to buy the Humble Bundle 4 for Android.
You know, I’m not normally a fan of rehashed clone games. The fact is that any gamer who has spent more than a dozen hours online knows that feeling when he or she sees yet another game that uses mechanics or designs that we’ve all seen a hundred times before. So, when I stumbled across Survivalcraft, an obvious clone of Minecraft: Pocket Edition, I was hesitant. I’ve also learned that a game can look like another yet be its very own creation, so I bought it and started the download. In the notes about the game, the developer literally gives credit to Minecraft and asks players to purchase it, so that gave me more confidence. After all, I’ve read a lot of player-written stories that are based in official lore or viewed wonderful fan art, all of it based on somebody else’s creation.
The rather popular point-and-click adventure game series Broken Sword has gotten another installment released onto Google Play today called Broken Sword II – The Smoking Mirror. Developed by the fine folks over at Revolution Software, this is the original Broken Sword II game but completely remastered for mobile gameplay. Releasing this game right now is no fluke either as the plot of the game revolves around the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calendar which, for those of you who don’t know when that is, will be on December 21st, 2012.
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