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Even the Ocean

A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!

★ CALVINO NOIR ★ ANODYNE 2: RETURN TO DUST ★ TIMESPINNER ★ ODDPLANET ★ WHISPERING WILLOWS ★ WANDERSONG ★ SANABI ★ DEGREES OF SEPARATION ★ LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD ★ A HIGHLAND SONG ★ THE SPIKE CROSS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Calvino Noir

65% 👍 OF 391
About This Game

The film noir stealth game. Calvino Noir is the exploratory, sneaking adventure through the 1930s European criminal underworld. Architecture meets Noir as you become unwillingly entangled in a revolutionist plot.

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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust

94% 👍 OF 823
About This Game

A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shrink Into Minds
  • …Vacuum Nano Dust
  • …Solve Inner Dungeons
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Timespinner

86% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Switch Between Eras
  • …Freeze Enemies as Platforms
  • …Mix Magic Orbs
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Wandersong

95% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Sing to Solve Puzzles
  • …Change Things with Song
  • …Meet a Colorful Cast
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SANABI

97% 👍 OF 45K
About This Game

SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …hook directly onto enemies to destroy them, then push off their bodies to keep your momentum and use them like extra platforms.
  • …get a second pass through stages where the same mechanics suddenly let you blast through three times as fast.
  • …get a story that unfolds out of order, then replay and notice clues and foreshadowing that reframe the whole conspiracy.
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Degrees of Separation

80% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Freeze Waterways
  • …Warm Lanterns
  • …Melt Snow Platforms
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Laika: Aged Through Blood

91% 👍 OF 6.7K
About This Game

Laika: Aged Through Blood is an action-adventure Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic western world. Play as Laika, a coyote mother and fierce warrior, and carve your motorbike through a land ravaged by betrayal and loss as you uncover dark secrets in the pursuit of vengeance against oppression.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …shoot a dead enemy's airborne body before it hits the ground to squeeze out bonus guts for upgrades.
  • …reload by doing backflips on your motorcycle.
  • …swap cassette tapes to change the song while you ride, using an in-world cassette player.
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The Spike Cross

91% 👍 OF 829
About This Game

"The thrill of spiking in volleyball. Why don't you try it out?" Developed by an indie developer who loves volleyball! The sports game made after numerous trial and error to contain the appeal of volleyball!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …play a colosseum mode where you lose hit points every time the other team scores, turning each rally into survival.
  • …use character skills that mess with gravity enough to launch a player into the roof during a spike.
  • …fight special AI opponents with unique abilities you have to learn and counter.
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