Tower defense can be a difficult genre in which to innovate. If you take away either the towers or the creeps then you’re not really playing tower defense, and if you add other things to the formula then you begin to make a different type of game with tower defense elements. The folks behind Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten have managed it, though, by marrying an RPG to the tower defense formula. Your party makes up your towers, and there’s an interesting story to uncover along the way. READ MORE

Hotline Miami is, quite simply, the bloodiest puzzle game I’ve ever played. But it’s also one of the most addictive. It takes a top-down action game and mixes it with puzzle elements that keep you coming back. READ MORE

Over the last five years, Daedalic has been steadily improving its hand at crafting point-and-click adventure games. From its first game, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, to its latest, Deponia, Daedalic has been refining the aspects that needed work while maintaining the humor and offbeat nature of its stories. So it should come as no surprise that Harvey’s New Eyes is the team’s best game yet. READ MORE

King’s Bounty is a riff on Heroes of Might and Magic which is, itself, a riff on the original King’s Bounty games, and 1C has created a series of games that are aware of what they are and have a great time being just that. Warriors of the North is the next chapter in the modern King’s Bounty series, and this time you’ll be raising armies and playing out hex battles in the frozen north with Vikings and Valkyries. READ MORE