Hope you’ve been saving your lunch money because the bulk of this month’s games come with a price tag, but with highlights like Dead Cells and Counterstrike, who’s complaining?
Ready-to-Run PortMaster Games
These ones are the easiest to get going: just download from PortMaster and play. This list of freeware, demos, and open-source projects is ready to play on dozens of devices.
- Ascent DX: Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
- Dark Places: DarkPlaces is a Quake engine source port by LadyHavoc that has greatly improved graphics and image quality. The realism of shell casings falling to the floor, much improved bullet impacts, 32bit color alpha blended explosions, blood flying everywhere and sticking to the walls…
- Defendguin: Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game ‘Defender,’ but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.
- Mega Serval: Serval’s friends are in danger and it’s up to her to save the day! Progress through 12 action-packed platforming stages in this “Kemono Friends Project” derivative work!
- Super Ultra Mustard Man: Super Ultra Mustard Man is a retro-inspired platformer made by a single developer with a chunky pixel art style.
Free (Additional Files Required)
This title is also free, but requires an extra step, in this case a free-to-play Steam title, linked below.
- Corsairs: J2ME pirate trading and naval combat game originally developed by Akella for Nokia 6230i. Trade, sail, and fight naval battles in a pixel-art Caribbean setting. Includes English translation (original game is Russian only).
- Crash Bandicoot – Psyched Out!: Crash Bandicoot is back in another fan-game adventure! This time the evil N.Trance has brainwashed the entire planet and brought his army of interdimensional aliens to wreak havoc across the globe. Only Crash and his nemesis Dr. Neo Cortex are spared from being N.Trance’s slaves, and must once again team up to put an end to his twisted reign!
Paid Games
These ports bring fantastic commercial games to your handheld, but require you to provide the data files from a copy you own on a platform like Steam or GOG.
- Arcade Spirits: Arcade Spirits is a Visual novel that takes place in an alternative future where the Video Game Crash of 1983 did not happen. You will be working at an Arcade, and who knows, maybe romance would bloom?
- Blaze Of Storm: Blaze of Storm is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shmup featuring cyber-inspired pixel art, exhilarating fast-scrolling and a variety of sub-weapons.
- Counter-Strike: An iconic tactical shooter that shaped online multiplayer gaming, Counter-Strike delivers fast-paced, objective-based combat built around teamwork and skill.
- Dead Cells: Dead Cells is a roguelike-metroidvania action platformer where you explore an ever-changing castle, fighting through procedurally generated levels with tight, fluid combat and a vast array of weapons and abilities. Death is permanent but progression carries over, unlocking new gear and paths that make each run feel fresh and rewarding.
- Gunpowder On The Teeth: Mega hardcore! In this game you will receive damage first, and only then you will locate the enemy. The implementation of military operations in the classic mechanics of platformer.
- Nox: Nox is an excellent action/RPG hybrid with very unique gameplay. Your name is Jack Mower, a 20th century dude who just happened to be sucked into the world of Nox via his TV set. The world is in danger and you have to save it! But before you embark on your epic journey you must choose your path: warrior, wizard, or conjurer.
- Retro Highway: Return to the days of pure arcade fun! Retro Highway is a throwback racing game aiming to combine the accessibility of modern titles with the high-skill challenge and charming aesthetics of old.
- Slime Crown: Slime Crown is a colorful Pixel Art Game with a unique but challenging Gameplay. The Colors Green, Blue, Red and Yellow are the Key to Success.
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