Gorogoa – IGF Award Winner – Alpha Demo

gorogoa game

We see a lot of interesting games at Alpha Beta Gamer, but Gorogoa is 15 minutes of the most unique, innovative and intelligent gameplay we’ve experienced this year.

Gameplay is spilt across four beautifully illustrated and animated panels that helped win it the IGF Excellence in Visual Arts Award.  These four panels can be moved around, zoomed in and out of and placed on top … Read More

Age Of Ascent – Open Alpha

Age of Ascent

Age of Ascent (AoA) is a great looking space-based sandbox MMO that we covered last month when they were planning on breaking EVE Online’s world record (4070 concurrent pilots fighting) by staging the largest PvP battle ever seen.  Unfortunately they didn’t manage to break the record, but it wasn’t down to any issues with the framework (which was designed for 50,000+ players), it was just … Read More

Cyber Heist – Prototype Download

Cyber Heist

Cyber Heist an innovative, award winning co-operative stealth/hacking game that allows a hacker and a thief to work together to erase all student debts from the corrupt United States Department of Education of 2114.

The asymetric gameplay of Cyber Heist superb, with both players having completely different experiences, but working together to achieve the same goals.  One player plays as a hacker, viewed from a … Read More

RATS – Prototype Download

RATS

RATS is a charming cartoon-styled stealth game where the goal is to use stealth and speed to break into bank vaults and escape the level before the timer runs out.

You play as a sneaky rat burgler, trying to avoid the prowling cat guards throughout the levels.  If one catches you it’s not game over, instead you’ll just lose some time on the level timer, … Read More

NeonXSZ – Preview & Alpha Key Giveaway

NeonXSZ

NeonXSZ is a great procedurally generated space combat game we covered back in February that has just received a major update.  It’s inspired by Descent and Quake, with RPG elements such as loot and levelling.  Gameplay is fast paced and fun, with ships remarkably agile and handling similarly to Descent, while combat feels more like Quake.  You start off with fairly weak fire-power, but as … Read More