From the sublime to the ridiculously sublime
Gunpoint, mentioned below, is a side-on retro 16-bit styled tactical espionage game with puzzle elements, a neo-noir cyberpunk feel and excellent writing. Using stealth and hi-tech gadgets you proceed through sterile corporate facilities to uncover the truth behind murder, police corruption and illegal business deals. You wear a hat and a trenchcoat, because that's the kind of guy you are.
Hotline Miami is a top-down retro 8-bit styled tactical gangland massacre game with puzzle elements, an 80s-neon-acid-trip feel and a hypnotic synth soundtrack. Using knives, baseball bats, shotguns, golf-clubs, crowbars, swords, sledgehammers, SMGs and pool cues you proceed through seedy Russian Mafia hangouts to absolutely positively kill every motherfucker in the building, because a cryptic message on your answering machine told you to. You wear blue jeans, a letterman jacket and a variety of rubber animal masks, each of which gives you some special power, because that's the kind of guy you are. Unless you're not really a guy. Unless none of this is even happening.
This is a world where one hit from a weapon is lethal, where recklessness is the best plan, where the same faces appear over and over, where fat blokes are immune to anything short of a shotgun blast or half a mag of 5.56mm rounds.
And even then, sometimes they keep coming.
It's gory, ultra-violent, surreally brilliant, smart, uncompromising and accessible.
It is also in the current Humble Bundle, which makes it - and its ten (ten!) companions - ridiculously cheap. I mean it's less than six bucks, so under a fiver even if your card of choice slaps on a "processing fee" for a foreign currency. Because exchanging money is a hard thing for banks to do.
You have just shy of two days to pick it up, and frankly no excuse.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and unlock all the masks, find all the secrets, and - above all - kill all the dudes.
Hotline Miami is a top-down retro 8-bit styled tactical gangland massacre game with puzzle elements, an 80s-neon-acid-trip feel and a hypnotic synth soundtrack. Using knives, baseball bats, shotguns, golf-clubs, crowbars, swords, sledgehammers, SMGs and pool cues you proceed through seedy Russian Mafia hangouts to absolutely positively kill every motherfucker in the building, because a cryptic message on your answering machine told you to. You wear blue jeans, a letterman jacket and a variety of rubber animal masks, each of which gives you some special power, because that's the kind of guy you are. Unless you're not really a guy. Unless none of this is even happening.
This is a world where one hit from a weapon is lethal, where recklessness is the best plan, where the same faces appear over and over, where fat blokes are immune to anything short of a shotgun blast or half a mag of 5.56mm rounds.
And even then, sometimes they keep coming.
It's gory, ultra-violent, surreally brilliant, smart, uncompromising and accessible.
It is also in the current Humble Bundle, which makes it - and its ten (ten!) companions - ridiculously cheap. I mean it's less than six bucks, so under a fiver even if your card of choice slaps on a "processing fee" for a foreign currency. Because exchanging money is a hard thing for banks to do.
You have just shy of two days to pick it up, and frankly no excuse.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and unlock all the masks, find all the secrets, and - above all - kill all the dudes.