If you are looking for a little holiday fun, then Too Many Santas makes quite an impression, like an ugly but somehow still amazing Christmas sweater. The game has the player dating one of six Santas in this really fun, low budget full motion video game.
If you fell in love with city builders back in the 1990s when games like SimCity were first hitting their stride, then Silicon City is a first-class trip back to that nostalgia. It might struggle to capture a huge number of modern players, but the developers are highly active and supportive of their community.
Love Colors is a painting game where you use your mouse, keyboard or game controller to color and paint beautiful, pixelated portraits and other works of art. It’s amazingly relaxing, and a perfect way for gamers to escape the stresses of real life.
This week our intrepid Modern Gamer starts her own company in Bus Simulator 21. She will have to do nearly everything to make it work, from planning the routes to driving the buses. So come onboard as we travel around the virtual city in style.
Fling to the Finish is the ultimate buddy game, where two players have to work together to get their comically-unbalanced team to bounce across the finish line. There is nothing quite like it, so dive in if you want to play something challenging and original.
Vesper from Cordens Interactive is one of the most visually stunning platformers to come out in a long time. And the game seems content to let players wander its colorful world without too much direction or help, for better or worse depending on your preferred playstyle.
Drox Operative 2 combines typical 4X space exploration with plenty of old-school arcade action. This makes for a unique experience that is both strategically rewarding and also really exciting. Drox Operative 2 is definitely worth exploring.
The Good Life is a quirky murder mystery that photojournalist Naomi Hayward is sent to solve. Set in a backwards and backwoods town, you will soon be relying on your animal instincts, quite literally, to sniff out clues and get to the bottom of this impossibly charming story.
Gamedec is an RPG where you play a virtual gumshoe, a detective who investigates sometimes heinous crimes happening within virtual worlds. You will have to use all of your skills and wits to solve crimes happening in all kinds of virtual worlds.
Samudra offers a chill underwater gameplay experience, but one that also strives to teach players about environmental awareness and the pollution that is adversely affecting the world’s oceans. It’s all about fun and learning this week with the Modern Gamer.
