My bare-chested Stran warrior deleted foes with his violet flame axe and faithful Tugar, but finding such builds (and reading poetry) are at the mystic heart of this fun-size traditional roguelike.

Enemy attacks are fully transparent in this stunning and elegant fantasy dice game, so each turn is a tactical puzzle that's worth mulling over until you're fully satisfied with the outcome.

Boomer shooter fans will feel like they're being embraced by a warm blanket in this humorous FPS whose generous design is never wasteful, with plenty of variety in its satisfying stages and weaponry.

Dream Quest's simple and brutal formula for deckbuilding RLs laid the foundation for games like Slay the Spire and it still holds up well today, its charm and design uplifting its rough presentation.

Satisfying tactility and bouncier physics are paired with a new score-based planet-blasting ability, making this space-themed Suika-like an extra comfy and essential addition to the fledgling genre.

A stylish, energetic shmup where grazing bullets and doing dodge rolls grant you palpable bursts of destructive firepower. Very approachable for a casual clear, with generous health and tight stages.

Ostensibly a bite-sized sim, the game's purposefully limited options (one monster moves per turn) makes it play more like a simple digging RL with dungeon keeping flavor. But as such, it's quite fun!

The ability to pull tetrominoes freely from the stack is powerful, but elegantly balanced against the new challenges around its design, in this innovative blend of line-clearing and digging games.

Using the mouse to help a one-armed scientist drag himself through a monster-infested laboratory works surprisingly well in this "Foddy-esque" top-down survival horror game.