Fear The Timeloop is an ambitious budget survival horror game with a clever time-loop hook, great atmosphere, satisfying combat, and some rough presentation.
Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior looks and sounds like a heavy metal fever dream. Story Mode undersells its combat, but Action Mode reveals a far more exciting game.
Vapor World: Over The Mind pairs stunning hand-drawn environments with punishing boss fights, though its deliberately heavy movement could use more polish.
1666: Amsterdam has a fascinating supernatural story, a wonderfully strange city and clever investigation ideas, but its Early Access build is far too rough.
Lou's Lagoon is a vibrant, satisfying cozy adventure built on gathering, crafting, exploration and tool upgrades, but its tiny inventory is a constant hassle.
Below the Stone combines mining, crafting, and extraction roguelike tension into an addictive handheld adventure, though its Early Access roughness still shows.
Greedy Greedy Gnomes is a charming, dangerously addictive incremental game that makes smashing pots, exploiting gnomes and rising numbers hard to put down.
Future Knight turns the ROG Xbox Ally X into a wonderfully strange retro-futuristic handheld with gorgeous LCD visuals and satisfying run-and-gun action.
Choppa: Rescue Rivals is a charming, responsive rescue game with creative tools, vibrant cel-shaded visuals, and excellent performance on ROG Xbox Ally X.
Duskfade is a gorgeous love letter to classic 3D action platformers, with excellent movement, smart exploration, and a clockwork world that is a joy to uncover.
Akatori looks beautiful and has clever boss fights, but shallow exploration, repetitive combat, and uneven handheld performance keep its promising ideas apart.
Doloc Town makes farming work brilliantly as a 2D side-scroller, mixing vertical farm building, platforming and drone combat in a strange post-apocalypse.
MineGeon: Renegades combines fast twin-stick shooting with a satisfying mining and extraction loop, but weak gadgets stop most runs from getting exciting.
Sephiria combines wonderfully smooth combat, distinct weapons and a clever artifact inventory system into one of the best roguelites I have played lately.
Turnip Mountain turns an awkward dual-stick climbing idea into a wonderfully rewarding physics platformer packed with clever obstacles and plenty of charm.
SENARA: The Sacrament builds excellent survival horror aboard a claustrophobic cult ship, but its action-heavy second half swaps tension for repetition.
Lunarium is a gorgeous action RPG with satisfying combat and clever character progression, but severe difficulty spikes and inconsistent damage undermine it.
Farlands turns Stardew Valley-style farming into a charming space adventure, but slow progression and poor tutorials bury its best ideas under hours of grind.
Denshattack! mixes Tony Hawk and Subway Surfers, pairing demanding train tricks with gorgeous Japanese levels, great music and flawless Ally X performance.
The Caribou Trail is a short, moving World War I narrative adventure with wonderful characters, excellent voice acting and gameplay that sometimes drags.
Wall World 2 has a strong mining loop and gorgeous pixel art, but its slow, stilted progression makes the climb feel more like a grind than an adventure.
