All aboard the horse boat scissor paper thing, as this week's free games frenzy is heading somewhere weird. (Actually, isn't it always?) See also: knives made of whispers, people made of paint, forgotten strategy games, and the gooiest gooey puzzle game since World of Goo. Enjoy!
Bloodshot by rogueNoodle
I like games that do interesting things with ammo: Deus Ex 2's universal bullets, for example, or the original Dark Souls' strictly limited spell charges. Bloodshot does something neat with ammo too: it links it to your health, and to your enemies' blood spatter. Every bullet consumes your vital essence—illustrated beautifully by the volume of pink goo sloshing inside your character—and to top it up you have to hoover up baddie leavings. (Being hit also obviously eats away at your health bar.) There's a great economy in play here, which really comes into its own when Bloodshot ramps up the difficulty by introducing many more enemies.
A Knife Made of Whispers by Daniel Linssen
From one novel weapon system to another. A Knife made of Whispers is another gorgeous platformer from Daniel Linssen, where your melee attack only works within a certain radius. Specifically, within the aura of light cast from the immobile eyeball thing in each stage, which you can pick up, carry, and chuck around as you see fit. When enveloped in its light, you can use your knife to attack enemies and destroy blocks.
Just when you thought indies had discovered every possible permutation of puzzle-platformers, Linssen has (almost predictably) come up with another one. AKMOW is smart, it looks great, and (essential for a platformer), the physics are damn near perfect.
Royals by Asher Vollmer
"An old forgotten game from your youth. You can't find the manual." And, yep, this game from Threes developer Asher Vollmer feels a lot like some long-lost MS-DOS or Amiga title retrieved from a dusty box in your parents' attic. It's a sorta strategy game about becoming king/queen/a royal in a medieval land, where your character loses a year after every turn. Resources are difficult to come by, and the current king doesn't appear to like you very much, so yeah, it's pretty accurate to existence in medieval times. Royals plays a little like a battle-less Heroes of Might & Magic, which is to say that it's pretty great.
The Knobbly Crook: Chapter 1 – The Horse You Sailed In On by GnarledScar
The Knobbly Crook is one of those lovely, rare adventure games that throws you into a weird world, and asks you to figure out its customs and terminology on your own. (Helpfully, it looks and sounds fantastic, and the dialogue is pretty funny, so you're given a few reasons to press on.) From what I can gather—the itch.io page helps—The Knobbly Crook is set in a place themed after Rock, Paper, Scissors (also known in some parts of the world, wrongly, as Scissors, Paper, Stone). This first chapter introduces the behatted O'Sirus, "a simple paper farmer who aspires to be a Knobbcrookian royal guard–a Guffaloon".
Goo Goo by Greg Lobanov and Reckless
Ooh! A colourful, charming, almost impossibly lovely puzzle game where you fling a ball of goo from one portal to the next. It sticks to certain surfaces, and bounces off others, and will rest on handy pegs while you try to figure out how snaffle all the stars. Two things stick out in my mind here: the world, which is open and connected a bit like a Metroidvania, and the sound effects. Oh man the sound effects. Collaborator Reckless did all the noises with his mouth, and it's hilarious. My favourite is the sucking sound that plays when you cling to red surfaces, but there are many more enjoyably tactile noises with it.
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