Making a friend out of spare bones and organs!

I was in LA forSummer Geoff Festand I played a whole bunch of games.

So, in that same chaotic vein, I thought I’d round-up my faves from the show floor.

Schim is a puzzle game about a creature who lives in shadows and hops between them to get home.

c’mon don’t get too comfortable, we don’t have much time.

Vice NDRCVR

It’s early 1980’s Miami and the drug trade is thriving.

The magic lies inhowyou carry it out.

Cover image for YouTube video

Amigo OS can’t support lots of tabs being open, so you better manage what you’re running.

The game makes admin a proper thrill, let me tell you.

you could find it onSteam.

A screenshot from Vice NDRCVR which shows the Amigo OS' cluttered database and tabs.

Unfortunately, you get lost and need to reunite with your shadow person.

So you must hop between shadows of people and benches and umbrellas to get back home.

The game is super fun!

A blue and orange screenshot from Schim, which shows the player hopping between shadows.

The music is bouncy and the colourblock aesthetics are gorgeous.

Hopping between shadows is a neat environmental puzzle that makes mundane things a godsend.

Never before have I been so grateful to runners or dudes pacing around as they talk on their phones.

A screenshot from Birth which shows some ribs in a glass, a portrait of a bloke with antlers, and some animals in jars.

You get into this hitch-hopping rhythm sometimes too, which is glorious.

It’s due onSteamat some point in the future.

It’s got this slightly unnerving bones and crispy, brown leaves thing going on.

Time Flies is a short game where you play as a fly with very little lifespan while trying to mark things off on a bucket list.

Again, I got hands-on with this one and found its physics-based puzzling a huge amount of fun.

By “flow state”, I mean to say that my progress didn’t get snagged on anything.

Do ensure to keep an eye on this one when it launches onSteamin August.

Creepy statues of a cat, lizard, ostrich (?), and seahorse from Animal Well.

From what I played, the game was okay!

It’s sense of humour was top-tier, with plodding music backing my buzzing about.

Exploring the house was exciting the first few times, but after a while it got a bit tiresome.

Desta and her friends cage a boss and chuck balls at him in Desta: The Memories Between.

There’s no release date yet, but it’s onSteamfor you to keep tabs on.

The demo I played featured some platforming, exploration, and evasion.

My main takeaway: you’re gonna wanna look very carefully at each stage.

A shelf of books from the rearranging game A Little To The Left. They are all out of height order and this needs to be addressed.

No release date on this one, but ensure to follow it over onSteam.

The game is coming toSteamlater this year.

Glitchbusters: Stuck On You!

Four Glitch Busters stand ready to bust some glitches.

I bang on aboutGlitchbusters: Stuck On You!in our vid embedded at the top of this article.

It’s colourful, playful, and oozes class.

2D sections see you extend or duck to avoid obstacles.

Cor, what a time I had.