Gambrinous Games

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.

Shift

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:26:34 +0000

Shift is a simple black and white combination of puzzle game and platformer. You need to get to the exit in each level – but will soon find that running and jumping aren't enough. Luckily you can shift from black to white to reach those hard to get places. A simple concept that makes for some intricate puzzles!

Our Rating: 3 / 5

Description

Guide your mystery man through a plethora of mazes which will take your sense of perception to the limit in this smash hit game.

Instructions

Run with the arrow keys.
Jump with the Spacebar
Shift with the Shift Key
Pause with the P Key

Arcuz

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:49:12 +0000

Arcuz is an action RPG game inspired by the likes of Diablo or Zelda. You wander around map screens fighting monsters, collecting loot, solving quests and so on. The difficulty scales up pretty quickly making the action pretty intense as you jump in and out of crowds of slimes or goblins, trying to bash them up without getting hit. In particular levelling up really helps you take on those harder enemies. All in all it's a strangely compelling game despite it's flaws – you may find yourself coming back to it!

Our Rating: 3.5 / 5

Description

Arcuz is an Action Role Play Game (Like Zelda or Diablo). You fight with the monsters, train your hero, learn skills, search better weapons and equipments, compose new items using your creativity…and more! Don't be addicted! You got 18 different maps to discover, 25 quests to accomplish, 21 battle skills to learn, more than 10 types of monsters to kill, more than 100 weapons and gears to choose, and unlimited possibility of composition…Those are not all. We translated this game into 7 languages so half of the whole world can enjoy it! Hope Arcuz will bring you a lot of fun!

Instructions

1. Overview: Here we are presenting a classical action role playing game (Like Diablo). It is called Arcuz. The game consists of very cute pixel artwork and creative system. You can see avatar changes when equip different weapons, fight with the monsters and get self level-up, learn battle skills, add crystal pieces on your weapon or armor by composition (increase its power), etc. 2. Game story: A long long time ago, land Sakara was rich and flourishing. There was a village at the west of the land called Arcuz Village. People lived there happily and peacefully. Their cosy life led them to forget the dark age when the Devil of Abyss, Ssyba, came out from the underground and brought horror and darkness to the land. Fortunately, he was sealed in the deepest place of the dungeon by the heroes. Recently, strange things have begun to happen again. Animals surrounding village Arcuz were blustering and began to attack the villagers. People left the land to escape the abnormity, but some are still suffering and waiting for the arrival of the calm after the storm. You, the hero, an adventurer, heard about this torrid affair and came to the village. Thus our story starts from here… 3. Control and brief instruction on how to play: WASD: Move J: Attack/Talk with NPC/Accept K: Jump/Cancel I&L: Activate Battle Skill. You can put 4 battle skills on the skill slots on the bottom of the game screen and press I/L to use the skills. You level up and add ability point to one of your skills. Then you click one of the skills on the SKILL panel and put it on the skill slot. You can only put active skills to the skill slots (not passive skills). 1/2/3: Use potions and town portal. Click the potions and scrolls in your inventory and put them on the potion slots on the bottom of the game screen. Then you can use the potions and scrolls by pressing key 1/2/3. C/V/B/N/M/,/ESC: hotkeys for Char, Skill, Quest, Inventory, Map and Menu. First you, the hero, arrived at Village Arcuz. The old man standing near you is the Village head Wayne. You go to the front of him and talk with him by pressing J. You accept his 5 tutorial quests for beginners one by one: You buy weapon from the blacksmith Gran and equip it; you go out of the village and kill slimes (fight training. Attack by keep pressing J. You can have attack combo, you can jump and chop down… This game has a very cute battle system); you learn how to add points to your characters and battle skills; you learn how to compose… After finishing all of the 5 quests, you enter Chapter 2. From Chapter 2 to Chapter 5, you are going to help the villagers and begin to see the whole picture of the game step by step.

Squares And Blades 2

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:29:15 +0000

Squares And Blades II brings you more excellent tactical battles on an abstracted chessboard battlefield. Each battle is now a scenario in the story, where you pick a couple of units from your team to add to the preset ones for the battle. Win and you get to proceed onto the next set – but if your core characters die you can't use them again. It's an improved system over the first game where it wasn't clear when you were losing vital units and sometimes had to restart the whole game if you got into bad shape. Overall, an improvement on an excellent tactical game.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

The struggle with the orcish hordes continues! Choose the right party, then face the enemy in the squared battleground.

There are various terrain types and even more various enemies to fight. Grasping the main battle principles and using your characters skills properly will help you knock down even much more numerous opponents. Stop the storm of the evil with your blades!

Instructions

Mouse. See the bottom line in the combat part.

Finding My Heart

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:11:23 +0000

Finding My Heart is a charmingly simple point and click adventure where you need to convince 'the missus' to take you back after a bust-up about over-gaming. There's almost no text used in the game, as everything you can do is represented by a simple icon. You start able to do only one thing: blab at people. You'll need to try talking to people you meet to unlock various new things you can do like listening, getting angry, or singing! A truly classy game with fantastic sound (good luck forgetting the catchy tune you'll hear about half way through) though a little short.

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

You were kicked on the street by your girlfriend for playing too much video games. You gotta set things right with her if you ever want to play your games again!

Learn to express different emotions to get back with your girlfriend in this interactive romantic adventure. You can learn one communication skill from every character you meet in the game, but you have to use skills you already know in the correct order. If you succeed, one more skill is added to your arsenal. Once you learn everything you can, try to get back to your girlfriend and use all this knowledge to convince her to get together again. Let love win again! Enjoy!

Instructions

- Interact with characters and scenery by using the mouse.
- Use one of your skills or emotions when they pop-up at the bottom of the screen.
- Press the "X" in the skill bar to get away from another character.

Elona Shooter

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:54:34 +0000

Elona Shooter is an addictive crosshair defense game with RPG and roguelike elements that give it a lot of replayability. Your task is to defend a castle against waves of enemies, starting with sheep and rats and progressing to knights, tanks and dragons. After every round you get to spend your money on weapon upgrades, hiring new recruits to fight alongside you, or doing random things like opening fire in the museum to rob women and children of their valuables. Failure (particularly on hardcore mode) is almost inevitable, but it's all about the randomness of weapon drops and skillups – what's coming next!? Excellent stuff!

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

A chaotic shooter with RPG elements. Choose from 8 playable classes, train new skills, customize your weapons, develop your troops and survive, survive!

Instructions

Move your mouse to aim. click to shoot. Hit the space bar to reload and 1-5 to switch weapons.

Pixelvader

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:47:21 +0000

Pixelvader is a simple, fun shootemup where you must battle through swarms of red ships with your little green ship. You move around with the mouse (or keyboard) shooting automatically, trying to dodge the swarms of bullets heading your way. Each level ends with a ludicrously oversized and overly triggerhappy boss, and then in between levels you can upgrade your ship. Simple, even basic, yet excellent fun!

Our Rating: 3.5 / 5

Description

Start as a weak and harmless ship and power it up to beat all the death spitting war machines.

Instructions

Select either the mouse or keyboard controls at the start of the game.

Clockwords: Prelude

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:15:25 +0000

Clockwords is a frantic word game set in Victorian London where you need to think up words against the clock. To beat the attacking spiders each level you need to type words using the letters available at the bottom – use all of them in one word and you get more letters for the rest of the level. As you beat (or lose) levels you get new letters to mix up in your boiler, including special types of letters that do bonus damage or area damage. Surprisingly addictive!

Our Rating: 4 / 5

Description

Clockwords is a hectic word game set in Victorian London. You are a genius inventor who discovers plans for a mysterious machine that runs on the power of language. Then your lab is infiltrated by mechanical bugs that have come to steal your secrets! You must think and type quickly to fend off the invaders.

Instructions

Type any words you want to kill invading bugs. There’s an in-game tutorial.