Yearly Archives: 2019

Juice Jam

Juice Jam is a free to play casual Match-3 strategy game developed by Social Gaming Network for iOS, Android, Amazon Fire, and Facebook. An aspiring juice creator named Kiwi needs your help making smoothies, popsicles, and more for her guests! Join her on her travels in her juice truck and match different kinds of fruits to create juicy treats for different kinds of adorable customers. Can you help Kiwi achieve her dreams of organic, juicy success?

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes/No, Types of Microtransactions (Cosmetic, Experience, DLC, etc)

Key Features:

Fruit Matching: Match 3 of the same fruit to make them disappear from the game board. If you can match even more than three fruits you might earn yourself a power-up to take out many fruits at one time.

Traveling Juice Truck: Travel through different vibrant areas and satisfy as many customers as you possibly can!

Penguins: Penguins don’t just want smoothies, they’ll want a cold juicy treat in the form of a popsicle to make them happy.

Cat Bosses: Challenge large cat bosses and feed them all of the fruit they need to satisfy their cravings.

Dirty Bomb

Dirty Bomb is an online multiplayer first-person shooter featuring non-stop action and a diverse collection of playable mercenaries. Join the proxy war taking place in a near-future London and play your part in saving or destroying the millenia old city.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available.

Key Features:

Best of the Best: Experiment with over 20 highly capable soldiers each equipped with their own unique abilities, attributes, and kick-ass explictives.

Hardcore Parkour!: Sprint, wall-jump, and hurtle through hand-crafted environments layed with numerous sight lines and travel paths.

3, 2, 1, GO!: Hop into a more casual-focused match of completing objectives throughout the city, or ramp up the competitiveness in a no-holds-barred race against the enemy’s fastest times.

Ride or Die: Work together with your fellow mercs or fall alone.

Skyforge

Skyforge is a 3D MMORPG developed for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 developed by a veteran development team that includes both the Allods Team and Obsidian Entertainment. Surrounded by other planets, Aelion is under constant threat of invasion. These otherworldly conquerors have attempted to seize and enslave Aelion’s population, and eons of failed invasion attempts have left traces of strange alien technology and magic, transforming Aelion forever. Led by their great guardian god Aeli, the citizens have learned to use these technologies and magic against their invaders. Begin your journey as a mere mortal on your own quest to fight off Aelion’s invaders and become a god yourself.

Business Model: Freemium

Microtransactions: Yes – Premium access grants double credits earned as well as double ‘knowledge of enemies’ gained, as well as other ‘useful bonuses’, including increased myCoins when purchased. Players may purchase a variety of items in game, including cosmetics, loot boxes, and items which raise or remove weekly caps.

Key Features:

Races: All players are members of the race native to Aelion, Aelions.

Classes: Cryomancer (DPS), Paladin (Tank), Lightbinder (Support), Archer (DPS), Berserker (DPS), Kinetic (DPS), Necromancer (DPS), Slayer (DPS), Warlock/Witch (DPS), Monk (DPS), Alchemist (Support), Knight (Tank), Outlaw (DPS), Revenant (DPS), Grovewalker (Tank)

Become a God: Start your journey as a newborn immortal, and gain power as you become a champion until you become a God in your own right, capable of standing against other great deities.

Faith System: Your power grows by the faith of your followers. The more that believe in you, the stronger you become.

Defend The World: Protect the world from constant threat of attack, with game options that include solo and group PvE, PvP, and free exploration.

Interchangeable Classes: Unlock and choose between 14 different classes. Find out what classes best suit your playstyle and swap between them instantly, eliminating the need to create multiple characters to try out different classes.

Deep Customization: Select from a wide variety of weapons, customize your appearance and abilities, and specialize your Divine form.

Gaia Online

Gaia Online is a free, fun browser-based virtual world where you can customize your own avatar, decorate your home, play games, and more.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Minimal cosmetic purchases. Players may also earn currency by participating in forums.

Key Features:

Dress Up: Gaia Online has thousands of avatar items, from head to toe, from casual to fancy. Your look is totally up to you!

Forums: Millions of players hang out in Gaia Online’s extensive forums, which offer topics for every person to chime in on.

Games: Dozens of games await you inside Gaia Online, minigames that include RPGs, fishing, jigsaws, puzzles, and more.

Active Community: New events are always happening in Gaia, so stay alert.

Project Cars

Project Cars is a comprehensive online racing game with a robust single-player mode. It offers players a huge array of features and options for customization, with every aspect of the car’s performance available for tuning. Even pit strategies can be modified and prepared in advance, to create a personalized approach to racing strategy. Available for PC, Oculus Rift, PS4 and XB1.

Business Model: Retail Purchase

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Weekend Races: Players can create anything from a short race on a sunny go-karting track, to a full endurance event complete with qualifying and practice sessions that runs through the night and throws everything Mother Nature has against them.Players can even perform warmup and formation laps, accelerate the time of day up to 240x speed, and choose exactly where they want to start on the grid.

Comprehensive Control: Players can tweak everything from tire pressure, ride height, spring rate – bump info can be set for each individual wheel and front and rear downforce, toe angle, and even sway bar settings can be edited. Globally, players can set brake pressure and balance along with wastegate pressure, gear and steering ratios, engine brake mapping, and more. It’s a game for true car enthusiasts.

Pit Engineer: In addition to a pit crew, players will also be assisted during their race by the Pit Engineer who will speak via Pit2Car radio informing of weather changes, incidents around the track, changes in race position and timings, corner information and more.

Hyper-Realistic Graphics: Project Cars pushes graphics to the absolute limits of current technology. The goal of the game is to achieve near photo-realism, for the most immersive and stunning racing experience possible.

Paradise Bay

Paradise Bay is a free to play casual mobile game developed by King and is available for iOS and Android devices. In Paradise Bay you will be able to create your own tropical paradise, meeting exciting islanders and adorable animals! By gathering resources, crafting them into useful goods, and selling them at the marketplace you will be able to fund your getaway and nurture it into a gorgeous paradise!

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Purchase gems for various boosts in game.

Key Features:

Meaningful Relationships: As you build your island you will get to know both the islanders and the animals.

Expansion: As you discover new areas you will be able to expand your island paradise.

Map Collection: Map pieces can be collected to discover new, exciting areas of the world!

League of Angels

League of Angels is a fantasy MMORPG taking place in a massive colorful world packed with epic quests, grand adventures, great battles, and a significant amount of player personalization. Stand against the evil Suurde forces and restore the power of the divine!

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there is a variety of purchasable side content.

Key Features:

Classes: Assume your champion’s role from the frontlining Warrior, spellweaving mage, or cunning Archer.

Friend in Me: Learn to rely on your guardian whom will provide vital support in combat.

Grab the Popcorn: Sit back and relax, let the automated combat system take care of minor engagements.

Power Grind: Become unstoppable by leveling up your stats and acquiring powerful items.

Diving Deep: Tackle all manner of dungeon challenges including solo, co-op, cross-server, and rogue-like.

Mini Games Galore: Aside from its core gameplay, there are copious amounts of fun side activities to reward players with items.

Love and Care: Travel through beautiful environments marveling at the hand-crafted set pieces.

Mighty Steed: Tame incredible mounts for faster travel across the land.

 

Reign Of Kings

Reign Of Kings is a 3D Medieval survival RPG developed by Code}{atch, and is available on Steam.

Business Model: Retail Purchase – $9.99

Microtransactions: No

Key Features:

Punishing Deaths: Reign of Kings features a roguelike death system. If a player dies, then their bodies become lifeless and any nearby players can loot their corpse and take their items. After death a player will respawn in a random part of the map, but this can be changed by constructing a bed.

Capturing Players: If outright fighting players isn’t your style, then you’re in for a treat. In Reign of Kings players can sneak up on and capture each other, perhaps dragging them to a nearby cell they have constructed or executing them in a manner that they see fit.

Automatic Resource Gathering: The gathering of some resources like water and grain can be automated by creating collection stations, but be careful on your station’s placement because the resources within these stations can be stolen by other players.

Crafting Upgrades: In addition to collection stations both production and refining stations can be created. At production stations players can craft new items for use. At refining stations players are able to upgrade the items that they have created to make them even stronger.

Rule From The Ancient Throne: Every player seeks the Ancient Throne and with it come the benefits of being king. Players who claim the Anicent Throne will be able to tax all players under their dominion, and also receive and Ancient Crown and Ancient Sword to flaunt.

Marvel Contest of Champions

Marvel: Contest of Champions is a free to play mobile fighting game available on iOS and Android. In Marvel Contest of Champions players choose from iconic Marvel characters and battle in one v one combat. This means you can suit up with your favorite heroes and villains like Captain America, Spider-Man, Thanos and more! See if you’ve got what it takes to pave the way to victory in the Contest of Champions!

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Gachapon style unlocks and upgrade materials.

Key Features:

Your Favorite Marvel Characters: Collect your favorite Marvel heroes and villains and send them into battle.

Iconic Battle Locations: Fight in arenas that include the Asgard Throne Room, Astroid M, and the Kyln.

Written by Marvel: The game’s story and dialogue are written by Marvel writer Sam Humphries, who also helps ensure the game’s authenticity.

Expansions:

Marvel Contest of Champions receives regular updates with new champions to unlock. See a full version history here.

Unturned

Unturned is a first-person shooter zombie survival sandbox featuring a series of expansive open-worlds perfect for player-made shenanigans. Do whatever it takes to survive in a unforgiving wilderness among the ruins of society.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there is a one-time account upgrade featuring cosmetic items.

Key Features:

 

Rooty Tooty Mc’Shooty: Solve every problem by going guns hot or try to maximize your life span by taking a more stealthy plan of action.

Fortification: Construct massive forts out of structural building blocks and add onto smaller ones with barricades.

Tools of the Job: Stab, shoot, or blast away your competition with weaponry like landmines, katanas, missiles, machine guns, snipers, and more.

Real in My Heart: Check in with the NPCs for questing opportunities.

Survival: Stay alive as long as possible by growing crops, hunting animals, and enduring the brutal blizzards.

Explore: Travel to five different islands each featuring a unique environment to engage with.

Villains: Jump into the online multiplayer and fight other players for their gear.

Chill Pill: Make new friends in the casually-focused PVE/RP game servers.

Windows Down: Arrive to new locations in record time by finding one of the several speedy vehicles.

New Horizon: Help shape the future of the game through the use of mod-support.