Not a huge run of games this month, but heavy emphasis on free, ready-to-run titles! Featured image: Skautfold.
Ready-to-Run PortMaster Games
Xargon
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.
- 8-BIT BUCCANEER: A pirate-themed roguelike game, in which you sail around, buy treasure maps, dig up treasure, and fight enemy ships and monsters.
- Biplanes: A mobile classic, preserved and ported!
- Dragon Dragon Fire Fire: Play as a dragon and spit fire in this classic arcade platformer, creatively titled “Dragon Dragon Fire Fire”! Relive the charm of late-80s arcade games as you blast through destructible stages, incinerate your enemies, and chase the high score.
- Harmonist: Harmonist is a stealth coffee-break roguelike game. The game has a heavy focus on tactical positioning, light and noise mechanisms, making use of various terrain types and cones of view for monsters. Aiming for a replayable streamlined experience, the game avoids complex inventory management and character building, relying on items and player adaptability for character progression.
- Marco’s Treasure Chest: Help our Hero called Marco to find a treasure…
- Xargon: An archaeologist named Malvineous Havershim was studying strange ruins in Madagascar, remnants of buildings constructed during the age of a long-forgotten civilization of the mysterious Blue Builders. One day Malvineous spotted glyphs on one of the structures. As he attempted to translate them, Malvineous was hit by a wave of gas and fainted. In his dream, a talking eagle named Silvertongue tried to warn him of upcoming dangers. The archaeologist awoke in a strange and hostile world, unable to understand anything. With Silvertongue’s guidance, Malvineous will have to overcome all dangers and eventually confront Xargon, the tyrannical ruler of that world.
- YKnytt: A remake of the atmospheric platformer Knytt Stories, originally developed by Nifflas. With over 1200 community levels!
Free (Additional Files Required)
Ghost Trap
This title is also free, but requires an extra step, in this case a free-to-play Steam title, linked below.
- Ghost Trap: You’ve died and landed in purgatory, your options? Unending suffering or finding a way back to your world. GHOST TRAP is a free-to-play indie platformer created by a solo student developer.
Paid Games
Triple Swap Tower
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.
- Skautfold: Shrouded In Sanity: Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.
- Triple Swap Tower: Triple Swap Tower is a frantic roguelite which puts you in control of three different heroes. Swap fast between them as you fell waves of enemies, then power them up! How will you build your party?
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