Deep Fringe emerged to the surface from early access airlocks with a solid and promising combat loop. The bones are there — turn-based combat with it’s own unique focus on using, and manipulating, the terrain around you. The feeling of being overwhelmed and your tactical choices keeping you going. A fun combat loop. ...
Craftlings released recently as a pixel art, side-view management experience clearly inspired by the classic design of Lemmings. The premise is simple in structure: guide small Craftlings through the multi-level maps while assigning roles, gathering resources, constructing infrastructure, and defending against threats. On stream, the systems proved solid and well done. It felt very much like a puzzle game at times trying to get the pixelated workers going to the right places without a ton of micro. ...