Ratalaika Games

Unlife is an action platform adventure set shortly after a monster-infested apocalypse drove humans into hiding. It’s an old-school apocalypse, brought about by nuclear fallout, not bioengineering or AI. Ah, the adorably quaint fears of yesteryear.
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Evil Diary is a limited range side-scroller with a very simple premise—shoot everything that moves and hope you don’t die. Just another day at the office, right?
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Garlic is billed as “A platformer spoofing your favorite genre classics.” I’m not sure I have any genre favorite classics, as I’m not an NES-era platformer kind of guy. But I enjoyed Garlic nonetheless. Care to find out why?
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Do you like your platformers hot, tasty, and simmered in retro sauce? If so, you’ll happy to know Ratalaika Games and Sylph have announced that Garlic will be released for Nintendo Switch and other platforms on July 7th.
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Wonderland Nights: White Rabbit’s Diary is a beautifully illustrated visual novel that centers around the politics of Wonderland. But as we’ve once been warned, “If you go chasing rabbits…you know you’re going to fall.”
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The setting for Trenches is a battlefield in Europe in 1917. You are stuck behind enemy lines, and you need to get out. Your life and sanity depend on it.
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Chasing Static is a short horror story with an early 2000s low-budget movie feel. Taking place in the rural parts of Wales, you play as a man named Chris Selwood who, during his travels, discovers a small town with big secrets.
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Sometimes, you just want a donut, ya know? You don’t want a buffet, you don’t want a seven course meal, you just want a well-made, fresh-out-of-the-oven, glazed donut. The Dark Prophecy is just that, and I devoured it.
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If Avenging Spirit has taught me anything, it’s that I’ve been taking the wrong approach to my throwback arcade game collection. I’ve generally gone for nostalgia, and have now realized I should be seeking game I’ve never played before.
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In Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition, you are a small, shape changing hero in a 2D world. Long ago, a magician used some enchanted jewels to keep the chaos of 3D from unleashing despair. Now, however, 3D is starting to break into your world.
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With no alternative endings (again, there are no decisions to make, so no way to split off the narrative), it’s one-and-done with the visual novel Cross the Moon. But it’s priced accordingly, and is a very interesting read while it lasts.
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Cybarian: The Time Traveling Warrior has joined the Nintendo Switch library. This action\platformer draws inspiration from other 8-bit platformers. Fusing arcade, beat em up, action and adventure all into one …
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