Gambrinous Games

You Only Live Once

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:12:16 +0000

You Only Live Once is a tragic tale of kidnapping, castles, platforming, and death. Make sure to continue if anything tragic happens.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

The second game ever playable in Swahili. Dubbed in English AND Japanese. This is a turkey the size of the Titanic. Incidentally it's also playable in Turkish.

Instructions

Arrow keys to move. Up to jump.

Brotherhood of Battle

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:28:08 +0000

Brotherhood of Battle is a multiplayer turn-based strategy game. Challenge other players to short, balanced 1v1 battles using knights, rogues, priests, rangers and mages. Each unit has different special abilities, and you can recruit new ones with money earnt each turn, or spend your money on unlocking new powerful abilities – it's all very tactical and balanced.

Our Rating: 3.5 / 5

Description

Multiplayer Turn-Based Strategy; Defend your domain and spare no mercy for the opposing faction. Utilize the specialties of your forces well, the enemy shares no quarter. Each turn, you've got one minute to position your units, cast your spells, manage your keep, unleash destruction upon your opponent and hope to hell you've done some serious damage — it's his turn next! The Brotherhood calls you to action!

Instructions

Defeat your opponent by controlling your units in turn. Don't forget to perform an action or use 'defend' after moving to confirm the unit's movement. Click friendly or enemy units/objectives to bring up context menu actions such as attacking, casting spells or capturing objectives.

Controls:
W A S D (Or arrow keys): Move your currently selected unit or scroll the map if no units are selected.
R: Undo movement.

Tips:
- Capture gold mines to raise your income each turn.
- Use spare gold to upgrade your keep and gain valuable research.
- Use the mana of your units wisely, you might need it later.

Sprocket Rocket

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:50:11 +0000

Sprocket Rocket is an extremely polished physics puzzler where you must design extensions to your ship so you can solve each room. The Wallace & Gromit theme isn't very thoroughly explored, but the game itself is fantastic with multiple ways to solve each puzzle and a mostly free-form way to explore the different challenges. Enjoy!

Our Rating: 4.5 / 5

Description

Help Wallace & Gromit collect cogs to fix their ship and fly to the moon! You’ll need creative skills and some madcap ideas to constantly reinvent your rocket and overcome obstacles along the way!
Play the game on http://www.crackingideas.com/exhibition/games/ to earn exclusive badges, plus take part in the national “Cracking Ideas” invention competition!

Instructions

Use the arrow keys to fly your ship. Press M to view the map, E to edit your ship, Z and X to rotate a tool and space to drop a tool when flying. Full details in-game.

Class 3 Outbreak

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:27:22 +0000

Class 3 Outbreak is a real-time zombie apocalypse simulator using google maps satellite imagery. You take control of three police squads in either Leicester, England or Washington DC, USA just as the first zombie outbreaks start happening and need to manage your teams to try and take them out. Inevitably you will start to lose more and more of the map to red dots and nukes will be dispatched to cleanse the city – can you at least get your team 'to the choppa' before they hit?

Our Rating: 3 / 5

Description

Class 3 Outbreak is an RTS zombie game running on Google Maps®. Struggle to keep the zombie infection at bay with a hopelessly outnumbered police force, squash any outbreaks that appear and keep the zombie threat level at Class 1 for as long as possible. Protect thousands of civilians over a 1km square area in Washington DC, USA or Leicester, England. Keep an eye out for infected civilians, and make sure none find their way outside of your police unit’s reach.

Instructions

Screen Movement: WASD or Click/Drag.
Police Movement: Single click = move and stop to attack zombies. Double click = run and don’t stop for zombies no matter what.
Attacking: Move within range of zombies or click on them.

Hex Empire

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:46:52 +0000

Hex Empire is a simple, stylish turn based strategy game slightly reminiscent of Risk. You pick a nation on the randomised map and start moving your armies, capturing cities and attacking your opponents. At the end of each turn all cities you control produce troops so the key is to get as many as possible early on and then work on steamrolling the 3 AI players. Ports give you access to the seas but don't produce troops and there's a few extras. Worth a few playthroughs!

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

Hex Empire is a strategy game, a little similiar to Risk. It has simple rules (read in-game help) but absorbing gameplay on thousands of generated maps. I hope you will enjoy!

Instructions

In-game tutorial.

SteamBirds

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:37:21 +0000

SteamBirds is a turn-based tactical dogfighting game set in an alternate-history steampowered world. You take control of what look like WWII fighter planes, planning each turn's moves before watching them play out at the same time as the AI's. Long term plans are rewarded here, as successfully getting in behind an enemy plane will surely give you a few turn's concentrated strafing to take them out – but it's easy to find yourself outmaneuvered! Later missions featuring blimps and bombers spewing gas clouds behind them will keep you guessing.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

Top-down turn-based aerial dogfighting! What more could you ask for from a game?

Instructions

Completely mouse-driven; click on golden circles to control your planes! In-game tutorial for help.

Small Worlds

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:56:25 +0000

Small Worlds is a fabulously atmospheric game that lets you tell your own story as you explore the evocative setting of each pixelated world. As you move around you see more of each world and the game slowly zooms out to reveal the bigger picture, though by the end you may have more questions than answers. Beautifully put together – make sure to play with the sound on to enjoy some great music too.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

A short atmospheric game about exploring.

Instructions

Arrow keys or WASD to move around.

Bubble Tanks Tower Defense

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:52 +0000

You may find yourself obsessively completing every level on perfect in this pleasantly streamlined tower defense game. It gets so many things right in a very busy genre (tower defense: place defensive towers to form a maze, watch progressively tougher creatures battle through it) – from using only one type of basic tower that upgrades into every other type (so you can build your maze before worrying about strategy), to excellent, balanced upgrade choices, to a variety of maps & game modes. Definitely try this out, particularly if you've enjoyed other tower defense games!

Our Rating: 4.5 / 5

Description

Bubble Tanks Tower Defense takes Hero's popular series into new genres and beyond! With 7 enemy types, over 11 unique tower paths, tower merging allowing for mega towers and mega-mega towers (the size of 16 towers combined!), and 52 whopping game modes, we're pretty sure you'll have plenty to keep you busy until the release of Bubble Tanks Arenas. If that's not enough for you, just check the "FML" checkbox from level select and prepare to get your world rocked… er… blocked.
This has been a huge undertaking for Hero Interactive and we're proud to finally release the game. A special thanks goes out to our fans for all of your support!

Instructions

Full tutorial and instructions are in game. Can be played using only the mouse, but hotkeys are suggested for experienced players. Hotkeys can be changed via the Settings menu.

Battalion: Vengeance

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:47:44 +0000

The final chapter of the Battalion tactics series sees you in control of colourful tanks, ships, and planes once again! If you've played any of the earlier games (and you should) you'll know how it works: build units, take over buildings, and most of all take out the enemy! A thorougly enjoyable finale, particularly for fans of the series.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

The final chapter! Battalion: Vengeance! The Dragoons have come home to lead the final strikes on the Akadian Empire. In this turn-based strategy game, you’ll have the chance to take command of the noble Dragoons as they fight to regain their homeland. Control the Jammer Truck, Lancer Tank and Vulture Drone in your quest to defeat Durand and his Akadian cronies once and for all.

Instructions

We recommend you try the Bootcamp if this is your first time playing Battalion (click the button at the bottom of the campaign screen).

Canabalt

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:12:53 +0000

Canabalt is a stylish action game giving you just one button to control the protagonist as he runs across the rooftops. You may not know what he's running away from or where he hopes to get to but that won't stop you trying over and over! A cracker of a game, and if you have an iphone you'd do well to get the iphone version for fun on the go.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

See above.

Instructions

Jump by clicking.