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Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped

“Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped” continues to be one of my favorite games of all time, and is certainly my favorite of the “Crash” franchise. It is beautifully designed, with a perfect flow of difficulty and variety of gameplay. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Eufloria

“Eufloria” is odd at its core: war with flowers. The environments feel equal parts microscopic and expansively extraterrestrial. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Robot Unicorn Attack

To enjoy “Robot Unicorn Attack” is to enjoy the decadence of nonsense.
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Crayon Physics Deluxe

“Crayon Physics Deluxe” brought me back to the good ‘ol days of kindergarten - not the days of uncontrollable snot bubbles and dares to eat paste; no, I’m talking about the moments of discovery with the simplest tools available: a box of crayons. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Every Day the Same Dream

“Every Day the Same Dream” is an art game about the repetition, conformity, and helplessness of urban living. The player is a businessman whose days are lost in habit -- wake up, turn off alarm, dress in business suit, ride elevator, drive through traffic, work at cubical, wake up, turn off alarm...
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Flower

Like its predecessors (“Cloud” and “Flow”), “Flower” is an exercise in feeling game play. The game play is felt through the intuitive tilting of the controller and the one instruction: to “hold any button.” Read full review at PopuGamer...

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble

“Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble” is a special mix of charming artwork, witty banter, double entendres, female empowerment, and 1920’s winks. I am oddly reminded of the (much darker) 2005 film “Brick.” Both use 1920’s slang and sharp intellect to paint a culture of suspicion and intrigue that can only be conquered through smarts. Read full review at PopuGamer...

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

On its surface, “The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom” is a quirky platformer in which a rotund gentleman collects pies in an “old timey” environment. However, at its core, “Misadventures” is a thesis on obsession... [It] is one of those special, fun experiences that harnesses the potential of games as interactive ideas, by exploring the paradoxical absurdity of the rational mind. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Tetris Battle

“Tetris Battle” is an epic Facebook game for the hardcore gamer, and it proves that Tetris (not just math and/or love), is the universal language of the world.
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Myst

“Myst” is a classic 1st person, point-and-click adventure, which plunges the player into a cerebral world of intellectual and moral debate. By the touch of a book, you are transported to other worlds, where you learn secrets to navigation, hints to the psychology / demise of former inhabitants, and make choices about who to trust. Read full review at PopuGamer...

CityVille

"CityVille" is more like an adult version of sticker book collecting than it is a social version of SimCity. The targeted audience for many Facebook games is adult women, usually mothers, and for them CityVille is an escape. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Silent Hill 3

“Silent Hill 3” is one of the rare successful games with a female lead, and it is a strong addition to the Silent Hill horror game franchise. The story is complex, the characters are fallible and psychologically realistic, the environments are expertly crafted, the monsters are distorted and horrifically sexual, the sound is compelling and unsettling, and the gameplay is fluid and intuitive. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Levers

“Levers” is a calming puzzle in the form of an art mobile, possibly inspired by the work of Alexander Calder. The player balances objects that fall from the sky and can be hooked onto a teetering scale.
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Wizard101

“Wizard101” is a MMORPG that’s fun for the whole family. You play as a student wizard, learning the craft by fighting, collecting, training, and talking with other characters.
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Psychonauts

"Psychonauts" is one of the best games I have ever played. It is hilarious, visually interesting, has an engagingly odd story, a unique subject matter, and it’s just plain fun. Read full review at PopuGamer...

NightSky

"NightSky" is an engaging ambient puzzle game that is a unique balance of brain and heart, challenge and relaxation. Read full review at PopuGamer...

Your Doodles are Bugged!

“Your Doodles are Bugged!” is a puzzle game in which bugs are led to a sweet pot of honey, while traversing an environment of a shared sketch. Read more...

Vanitas
(Tale of Tales: Part 2)

“Vanitas” is a contemporary variant on a classic art style, which contemplates the fleetingness of life. Read more...

Blue-Eyed / Brown-Eyed Exercise

Jane Elliott’s “Blue-Eyed / Brown-Eyed Exercise” is the greatest LARP (Live Action Role-Playing) game of all time. This “exercise,” this game, shows how participation in a simulated idea can deeply move players; even persuade them into thinking completely opposite to their prior real life stance. Read more...

The Graveyard
(Tale of Tales: Part 1)

Tale of Tales is a Belgium game developer that is continuing to set the standard for compelling game play. Like every game created by Tale of Tales, “The Graveyard” is very special – it bends the rules of game content and expectations in a richly compact 10 minutes of play. Read more...

Balloon Boy: The Game

After my recent return from the 2011 Game Developers Conference, I could have easily reviewed another excellent IGF finalist or some other new game before it becomes “old news,” but this notion reminded me of a game with a decidedly tiny window of relevancy that has long since passed. Read more...

Plants vs. Zombies

“Plants vs. Zombies” is a tower defense game, and it is perfect. There I said it; “Plants vs. Zombies” is a perfect game. Yes, a game about attacking all-too-trendy zombies with cartoon dancing foliage can be perfect. Read more...

Machinarium

“Machinarium” is a stunningly beautiful puzzle game with a tone of cold isolation in a cluttered world. Read more...

Dinner Date

“Dinner Date” is a compelling role playing game, structured like no other; it is a psychological, interactive experience. Read more...

Blueberry Garden

“Blueberry Garden” is a platformer of maze exploration and hand drawn stackable treasures. Every asset and act is a flight and dip into the endearing fantasy of its master creator, Erik Svedäng. Read more...

Fluxx

“Fluxx” is a card game of constant change. Player preference, cut throat strategy, speculative coupling, blind faith, chance; all play a role in the shaping of "Fluxx," and the results range from the casual to the epic.
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Zen Bound 2

“Zen Bound 2” is a game of process art – it is the act, not the product, which exploits the game play’s core tension. Read more...

Passage

“Passage” is a maze exploration game about the navigation of life and the passing of time. Simple player choices equate to very personal real life choices and the future of games. Read more...

Katamari Damacy

“Katamari Damacy” is an absurdist puzzle/action game that is equal parts charming, addictive, and nonsensical. Read more...

Blue Toad Murder Files -
The Mysteries of Little Riddle

“Blue Toad Murder Files – The Mysteries of Little Riddle” is a comical, story influenced “whodunit” puzzle/mystery game. With references to Sherlock Holmes, Greek mythology, and even Pavlovian conditioning, the smart humor educates a younger audience, while drawing in an older crowd. Read more...

Canabalt
(featuring Robot Unicorn Attack)

“Canabalt” is a simple platformer - one button: jump - yet complexity subtly arises with the story implications of the background and an infinitely random playing field. Read more...

Galcon Fusion

"Galcon Fusion" is a treasure of addictive game play that would appease any trophy seeker: simple to pick up, but difficult to master, with many variations to the simple design. Read more...

Majesty of Colors

"Majesty of Colors" is an 8-bit game of choice, consequence, and indifference. Read more...

Windosill

“Windosill” is a puzzle game of calming affectation: a clean-lined playground, for the mind to explore, escape, and breathe. Read more...

Heaven

"Heaven: The Game" is a religious game, speculating on gamers, and the review is a non-religious gamer, speculating on the game. Read more...

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