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These are the top 10 games from each issue of GameWave. Scoring is all category scores added together with audience score acting as a tie breaker. |
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Just a duck and a turtle doing their best impression of Donkey Kong Country.
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Our feather-shelled heroes were swept away by a storm, and they need your help! In this '90s-inspired platforming adventure, take on over forty handcrafted stages to discover the secrets of their world, the moon and beyond!
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Did Super Meat Boy get hacked?
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Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are playing a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the Glitch", an entity that [redacted]
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How tall will this mountain go?
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A hastily done minihack (with levels designed within 2 months) that features Celeste-styled gameplay.
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| Genre: Roguelike, Deckbuilder |
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I'm guessing the core's atomic weight is 58.933?
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Cobalt Core is a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a unique single-axis combat system that will throw you for a loop. Many loops! Give orders to your crew by playing cards: Will you raise shields to protect your ship, dodge incoming missiles and cannon fire to avoid damage outright, or strike preemptively to disable your enemy’s weapons? Outmaneuver your foes to stay just ahead of impending calamity, and reach the Cobalt Core!
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Balatro |
| Genre: Poker, Roguelike |
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This ain't your daddy's Poker, my friends.
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Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder all about creating powerful synergies and winning big. Combine valid poker hands with unique Joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.
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Minishoot' Adventures |
| Genre: Adventure |
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Ok but what's with the apostrophe?
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Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
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| Genre: Rhythm |
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Doctor! He's got the blues! We need 50cc's of sax!
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Save lives with your spacebar! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game in a world where defibrillating patients' hearts in sync with their heartbeats has healing properties. Slam your spacebar in perfect time on the 7th beat, and they might just come out okay. But beware - every patient has unique illnesses based on complex music theory: polyrhythms, hemiolas, irregular time signatures...if you don't know what they mean, don't worry. Rhythm Doctor is designed to make you learn music and rhythm theory without even realising it!
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| Genre: RPG |
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The SNES called... it wishes its RPGs were this pretty...
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Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
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| Genre: Adventure, Puzzler |
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Legend of Zelda, 60 seconds at a time.
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Minit is an adventure video game developed by Jan Willem Nijman, co-founder and one-half of Vlambeer; Kitty Calis, who contributed to Horizon Zero Dawn; Jukio Kallio, a freelance composer; and Dominik Johann, art director of Crows Crows Crows.
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| Genre: Action |
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Oh the turns this game takes. Mind blowing.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.
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| Genre: Rhythm Bullet Hell |
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What, a kaleidoscope? I'm not five.
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"Just Shapes & Beats" is a chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.
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| Genre: Survival |
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Beautiful sounds and sights!
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Chippy is essentially a 3D avoidance game, with borrowed elements from well-renowned games such as Just Beats & Shapes, and Sound dodger!
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| Genre: Roguelike |
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You'll be hard-pressed to a snappier roguelike platformer than this.
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ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
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| Genre: Action Adventure, RPG |
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No jokes this time, this art style is just incredible.
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FIGHT KNIGHT is a first-person dungeon-brawler! Grid-based dungeon crawling meets action-packed real time enemy encounters. Fight your way through puzzles and enemies to save those trapped in the Tower's eternal night!
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| Genre: Platformer |
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You've got some of your Mario 2 in my Mario 3!
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Super Mario Bros. 3Mix is a large-scale hack that changes and adds lots of features to Super Mario Bros. 3, and pays homage to many past and (relative) FUTURE Mario titles, while attempting to remain faithful in spirit to the look and feel of Super Mario Bros. 3.
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| Genre: Platformer |
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Time to learn how to speak robot. WTF does Bzzzt mean?
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Bzzzt is a fast-paced "jump-dash-run" retro game with a fresh and modern design made almost single-handedly by one solo developer, Karel Matejka, known as Ko.dll. Inspired by the 80's tech revolution, this beautiful pixel-art precision platformer transports you back in time with a brand new adventure, paying homage to the popular and much loved gaming designs of the past.
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| Genre: Roguelike, Deck Builder |
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Ralph Macchio got quite the glow up.
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Synthwave roguelike deckbuilder set in the neon 80's. Pick your agent. Build your deck. Hit card combos and fight through the floors of INFINITY tower. Featuring 30+ fresh Synthwave tracks by LudoWic, Tonebox and Jules Reves.
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Not the Super Mega I was thinking of but I'll take it.
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Super Mega Zero is a fast-paced precision platformer and shoot 'em up hybrid.
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| Genre: Rhythm RPG |
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Our one-armed hero takes on an ATM.
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An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.
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| Genre: Action Adventure |
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Someone should tell the sprites they look outdated. I ain't gonna be the one to break it to them.
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Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.
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