Dispatch20203 factsGame page →Dispatch was made 'in isolation' during the 2020 COVID lockdown over a couple of months and released deliberately for October's spooky season — free, as a name-your-own-price itch.io game playable in about fifteen minutes.itch.ioProgrammer Jacob Vincent built a custom visual-scripting interaction system so his non-programmer teammates could visually script the game's scenes — he cites it as the project's main technical focus.jacobvincent.comIts distinctive purple 'void' colour palette for Lovecraftian horror drew specific praise from players, and the game carries an explicit epilepsy warning for its bright flashing colours.necropolygon.itch.ioRead 1 more fact
Dungeonland20133 factsGame page →The fourth player IS the boss fight: 'Dungeon Maestro' mode hands one player a tabletop DM's toolkit — spawning monsters and springing traps against the three-player co-op party.en.wikipedia.orgIt was one of Paradox Interactive's rare forays into publishing Brazilian development — Critical Studio was based in Brazil, with designers Mark Venturelli and Gabriel Ribeiro Teixeira.en.wikipedia.orgAfter launching paid in January 2013, it went free-to-play that November — but never found its audience: Paradox shut the servers down for good on 18 April 2018.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
East India Company20093 factsGame page →East India Company (July 31, 2009 NA / August 14 EU) was Finnish studio Nitro Games' breakout — published by Paradox Interactive, blending trade-empire management with real-time broadside naval battles.en.wikipedia.orgThe game grew a small fleet of add-ons: Pirate Bay, Privateer and Battle of Trafalgar expansions plus a Designer's Cut, all later bundled as the East India Company Collection.en.wikipedia.orgIts subject made it a rarity: few strategy games have centered the mercantile-colonial company era itself — warfare press praised the premise even where reviews split on the execution.warfarehistorynetwork.comRead 1 more fact
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion20123 factsGame page →It was one of the first third-party retail 3DS games outside Japan to launch on the eShop day-and-date with the physical release.en.wikipedia.orgFans voted on the box art — the winning cover shows Mickey surrounded by Disney villains like Jafar and Ursula.en.wikipedia.orgIt launched the exact same day as Epic Mickey 2 (18 November 2012) — a hand-drawn 2D companion to the console game and a love letter to 1990's Castle of Illusion.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Evolve Stage 220163 factsGame page →Stage 2 was Evolve's second life: after the 2015 original's playerbase collapsed under DLC backlash, Turtle Rock relaunched it free-to-play on PC on July 7, 2016 — and concurrent players briefly exploded past the original's peak.en.wikipedia.orgJust three months into the relaunch, 2K ended Turtle Rock's involvement (October 2016); dedicated servers went dark in September 2018, and the last peer-to-peer legacy servers were finally switched off in July 2022.en.wikipedia.orgThe hunter cast features Matthew Mercer — Critical Role's DM — as Abe, alongside veteran VAs JB Blanc and William Salyers, with a score whose headline composer is Dead Space's Jason Graves.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Force of Nature20163 factsGame page →Force of Nature was built by the tiny indie outfit A.Y.std, which went on to release the sequel Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper in May 2021.steamcommunity.comThe original's resource grind was such a defining trait that "How is the grind? As bad as the first one?" became a top community question on the sequel's Steam forums.steamcommunity.comDespite launching at under $10, the game accumulated over 4,200 Steam reviews (roughly 75% positive) and got its own official soundtrack DLC.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Gloria Victis20163 factsGame page →Gloria Victis' storyline was co-written by bestselling Polish historical novelist Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz, a writer known for his work on The Witcher.g2a.comAfter roughly a decade online (Steam Early Access from June 2016) the game finally hit 1.0 in early 2023 — only to shut down on Halloween, October 31, 2023, with developer Black Eye Games closing alongside it, citing financial pressure and burnout.massivelyop.comWhile the MMO's servers are gone, its siege-oriented survival spinoff remains playable on Steam — the last surviving piece of the Gloria Victis world.mmos.comRead 1 more fact
Guild Wars 220123 factsGame page →Guild Wars 2 launched without the genre's holy trinity — no dedicated healer class — and replaced static quests entirely with dynamic world events.en.wikipedia.orgTime magazine named it the #1 video game of 2012 — ahead of Journey, Dishonored and The Walking Dead.en.wikipedia.orgIt sold 2 million copies in two weeks and 3.5M in year one on a no-subscription buy-to-play model — heresy in the 2012 MMO market that later became the industry norm.gamespot.comRead 1 more fact
Hardware Engineers20163 factsGame page →Hardware Engineers entered Steam Early Access on August 22, 2016 and spent almost three years there before its full 1.0 release on April 22, 2019.store.steampowered.comThe game holds a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, with about 84% of its user reviews recommending it.steamspy.comIts component roster — processors, graphics cards and RAM — uses realistic, balanced specs, letting players build custom rigs for different customer profiles from office workstations to gaming PCs.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Hero Tale20213 factsGame page →The Gńansk-based studio markets Hero Tale on an anti-mobile-game manifesto: single-player, no pay-to-win, no difficulty scaling and 'zero notifications' — unusual for an idle RPG.weirdjohnnystudio.comThe endgame turns an idle game into a de-facto speedrun ladder: beating the final boss faster yields better rerun rewards, with brackets spanning roughly 600 hours down to under 9.steamcommunity.comIt began as a free itch.io demo and mobile early-access build before the March 2024 Steam release — and its pricing differs by platform: paid on Steam, free-to-play with IAP on mobile.weirdjohnnystudio.itch.ioRead 1 more fact
House Builder: First Job20213 factsGame page →The prologue contains exactly two free levels — Arctic and Tropical Forest — teaching primitive construction, from surviving an Arctic night to raising a neolithic shack.store.steampowered.comThe series premise is a one-man construction crew building through the ages — the full game spans ~11 locations from igloos and African mud huts to modern houses, with loading screens delivering mini history lessons on tools.lifeisxbox.euIt shipped on July 15, 2021 — four months before the full House Builder even entered Early Access — pure wishlist-funnel strategy from the PlayWay simulator family.univers-simu.comRead 1 more fact
Infestation: The New Beginning20123 factsGame page →Valve pulled it from Steam just TWO DAYS after launch for false advertising — the store page promised features and a '100 sq km' map that didn't exist (the real map was under 10).en.wikipedia.orgIt was renamed from The War Z to Infestation: Survivor Stories in June 2013 after a trademark clash with Paramount's film World War Z — and later resurfaced under Fredaikis as 'The New Beginning'.en.wikipedia.orgWith a Metacritic score of 20, it is routinely cited among the worst games ever released — an April 2013 breach that exposed player emails and IPs didn't help.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Leviathan: Warships20133 factsGame page →Its marketing became more famous than the game: the deadpan smooth-jazz trailers narrated by 'Jazz Boatman' went viral, and PC Gamer declared the trailer the winner of E3 2013.pcgamer.comParadox leaned all the way in — a free 'Jazz Boatman' update added the lounge-jazz soundtrack and Jazz Boatman himself as an in-game announcer.destructoid.comDeveloper Pieces Interactive (Skövde, Sweden) later grew into the studio behind 2023's Alone in the Dark remake — this simultaneous-turn naval tactics game was one of its first published titles.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Lumberjack's Dynasty20203 factsGame page →It is a spiritual successor to UMEO Studios' Farmer's Dynasty, sharing its life-sim and dynasty-management template.mobygames.comIt launched in Steam Early Access on 30 April 2020 and left Early Access with its 1.0 release on 25 February 2021.glitchedrevie.wsYou inherit a run-down logging camp from your aunt and uncle and rebuild it into a forestry business.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Mass Effect Datapad20123 factsGame page →It was an early, well-executed case of a phone app materially changing a console game's outcome: deploying fleets in its Galaxy at War mini-game raised your Galactic Readiness Rating, which fed into Mass Effect 3's endings.masseffect.fandom.comIts most fondly remembered feature: squadmates texted you in character — retrospectives still celebrate 'Garrus texting you' between missions.thegamer.comIt lived only 15 months: launched alongside ME3 on 12 March 2012, it was pulled from the App Store on 6 June 2013 when BioWare's browser-based N7 HQ absorbed its features.masseffect.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Mass Effect: Infiltrator20123 factsGame page →The game fed directly into Mass Effect 3: intel rescued in Infiltrator raised your Galactic Readiness rating in ME3's Galaxy at War system — one of EA's earliest cross-platform companion-app experiments.masseffect.fandom.comDeveloper IronMonkey Studios merged with Firemint later in 2012 to become EA's Firemonkeys — the studio behind Real Racing 3 — making Infiltrator one of the last games shipped under the IronMonkey name.en.wikipedia.orgIt no longer exists to buy: EA delisted the iOS version around 2015 and the Android version followed, leaving one of the only playable Mass Effect side stories permanently unavailable.masseffect.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Metal Gear Solid: Lunacy of Legion20113 factsGame page →Lunacy of Legion is a fan-made Metal Gear Solid tribute built in RPG Maker — the player controls Snake infiltrating the fictional region of Mandora to confirm whether the organization 'Legion' has built a Metal Gear.rpgmaker.netSnake is joined by original companions Zack and Regina, the latter serving as the game's Otacon-style radio support.rpgmaker.netIt exists in no mainstream games database — its only home is the RPG Maker community site rpgmaker.net, where it was reviewed and given a full community walkthrough.rpgmaker.netRead 1 more fact
New Star Soccer 520113 factsGame page →The entire New Star Soccer series is the work of one man — British solo developer Simon Read, who built NSS5 as the series' return to 2D with an all-new match engine.en.wikipedia.orgNSS5 was the first entry to try free-to-play: an online account gave three free matches per day.en.wikipedia.orgValve initially DECLINED to put New Star Soccer 5 on Steam — a decision later reversed as the series' mobile success (over ten million downloads) made it impossible to ignore.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
OnlyFuck: RuRu's Adventures20213 factsGame page →The core mechanic is 'LEWDOKU' — a Sudoku-variant puzzle solved to unlock content while managing the heroine's profile on 'OnlyFuck', a fictional parody of OnlyFans.opiumpulses.comAll artwork is by Taiwanese-scene illustrator Ruria Raw, whose original character RuRu also headlines her separate visual novel Love RuRu — a loose character-based franchise across two studios.patreon.comDespite being an adult title, it ships with standard Steam infrastructure — ~23 achievements and 5 trading cards.opiumpulses.comRead 1 more fact
OutDrive20163 factsGame page →OutDrive's premise is pure synthwave melodrama: the passenger's heart is wired to the car's engine, so if you stop driving, she dies — "her blood will be on your hands".store.steampowered.comThe developer describes the game not as a racer but as "a gaming experiment in the genre of music runner", built to be driven to retrowave and synthwave tracks.store.steampowered.comBoth the official OST ("The Foreign") and a 5K wallpaper/poster art pack are sold as $0.99 DLCs — unusually art-directed extras for a $2.99 indie experiment.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Outlast: Journey of a Gladiator20203 factsGame page →It is a turn-based gladiator strategy-RPG following a 'slavery to freedom' story, with 37 campaign levels, a boss every fifth level and three final bosses.store.steampowered.comIt supports cross-platform online PvP and spawned a mobile sequel, Journey of a Gladiator 2 (2022, iOS and Android).pocketgamer.comDespite sharing the word in its title, it is entirely unrelated to Red Barrels' Outlast horror series.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Pinball Heroes20093 factsGame page →Pinball Heroes (November 12, 2009) sold its eight PlayStation-themed tables individually on PSN — an early experiment in micro-priced first-party digital content rather than one boxed pinball game.en.wikipedia.orgThe series kept getting reborn: bundled as "Pinball Heroes: Complete" on PS Vita in 2013, then re-released on PS4 and PS5 in 2022 as part of Sony's classics catalog — three console generations for a PSP mini.en.wikipedia.orgTrophy hunters adopted the PS4/PS5 re-release as a famously quick platinum — an unexpected second life for a 2009 pinball collection.culturedvultures.comRead 1 more fact
RaceRoom Racing Experience20133 factsGame page →Publisher RaceRoom Entertainment AG is tied to KW Automotive — the KW Suspensions company supplied real telemetry data for the game's physics and suspension modeling.en.wikipedia.orgIt quietly became one of the biggest licensed garages in sim racing: 252 fully licensed cars from 46 manufacturers and ~180 track layouts, including a laser-scanned Nürburgring-Nordschleife — Eurogamer called it 'the best racing game you've never heard of'.en.wikipedia.orgIt hosts official real-world series — DTM, WTCC/WTCR and ADAC GT Masters — and ran the official WTCR esports championship when COVID stopped real racing in 2020.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Really Big Sky20123 factsGame page →Boss Baddie is a two-person UK indie studio — founder James Whitehead originally formed it in 2007 to build a different game entirely (Tormishire).gamedeveloper.comIt packs 12 game modes into a $3 shooter — from a 2-minute Countdown mode to Pacifism and unlimited-lives Peaceful mode — all over procedurally generated runs.store.steampowered.comOnly three months after launch, it evolved again: Boss Baddie announced Big Sky Infinity, the PS3/Vita follow-up, in May 2012.engadget.comRead 1 more fact
Rocksmith 201420133 factsGame page →The box ships with a physical instrument cable: the Real Tone Cable converts a real guitar's ¼-inch jack to USB — the game is unplayable without an actual guitar or bass.en.wikipedia.orgUbisoft's central marketing pillar was audacious for a video game: 'learn to play guitar in just 60 days' — a campaign aimed as much at guitar students as gamers.venturebeat.comThe 2016 'Remastered' edition wasn't a re-sell: it replaced the original as a free update for every existing owner.steamdb.infoRead 1 more fact
Routine Racers20203 factsGame page →Despite 'Racers' in the title it's not a vehicle racer: the game is a comedic side-scrolling 3D runner where the 'race' is against everyday life — escaping work, supermarket shopping, drinking at a bar, stopping a fire or capturing narcos.store.steampowered.comIts endless bonus level is titled 'the Tyranny of Monday'.store.steampowered.comThe game markets itself as deliberately punishing — described as 'one of the most challenging, frustrating, and just plain punishing video games ever' — and is the solo project of a Barcelona-based developer under the alias Eutiquiano.devuego.esRead 1 more fact
Shakes and Fidget20093 factsGame page →The game adapts the German webcomic by Oskar Pannier and Marvin Clifford — itself a World of Warcraft parody — and turned the joke into one of Europe's biggest browser MMORPGs with over 40 million registered players.en.wikipedia.orgIt collected real hardware: the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis for Best Casual Game (2009) and GameStar's Best Browser Game award (2010).en.wikipedia.orgLaunched in browsers in 2009, it hopped every platform since — Android 2011, iOS 2012, then Steam — and Hamburg's Playa Games still operates it as a live game more than 15 years on.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Soul Gambler20133 factsGame page →It's a Brazilian take on Faust: São Paulo indie Ilex Games — a studio devoted to 'games with deep psychological and/or esoteric bias' — recast Goethe's devil-bargain as modern office-life discontent.ilexgames.com.brEvery soul-fragment you gamble changes the story — the ~2-hour graphic novel branches into multiple endings depending on how much of yourself you sell.indiegamereviewer.comThe game reached Steam in July 2014, roughly a year after its original 2013 release — with its art book and soundtrack sold as a companion DLC.gamepressure.comRead 1 more fact
Super Mega Neo Pug20163 factsGame page →Super Mega Neo Pug is the third game in the Turbo Pug series, following Turbo Pug and Super Space Pug — and the first to send the pug fully airborne, trading the endless-runner ground game for flying stages and giant bosses.store.steampowered.comThe series' three games are sold together on Steam as the "Pug Life Bundle".store.steampowered.comDespite its sub-$2 price tag, the game ships with an original soundtrack composed by Felix Arifin, plus unlockable costumes and playable creatures beyond the titular pug.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Teleglitch20123 factsGame page →Teleglitch was made by a three-man Estonian team with literally zero marketing budget — and within months became the most critically acclaimed Estonian game ever made.prankster101.comIts engine is fully handmade: C++ with SDL, OpenGL, Box2D physics and Lua scripting — no commercial middleware.prankster101.comParadox Interactive picked it up for the 2013 'Die More Edition' — and Rock Paper Shotgun named it one of the best games of 2013.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
The Binding of Isaac20113 factsGame page →The game grew out of a one-week game jam and was built in Adobe Flash ActionScript 2 — McMillen later said he would never have used Flash had he known anyone would care about it.en.wikipedia.orgNintendo rejected its 3DS port over 'questionable religious content' — a decision that paradoxically boosted its Steam sales, and Germany's USK made it the first game rated 16+ for potentially blasphemous content.en.wikipedia.orgThe title and story are drawn directly from the Biblical Binding of Isaac — Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son — recast as a mother hearing God's voice, reflecting McMillen's own religious upbringing.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
The Deed: Dynasty20163 factsGame page →The Deed: Dynasty is an anthology of three self-contained murder scenarios spanning five centuries of the Bruce family — a 15th-century English castle, a Wild West frontier saloon, and a Victorian estate.store.steampowered.comIts Victorian chapter is a direct prequel: it returns to Dunshiel House fifty years before the events of the original The Deed (2015).en.namu.wikiLaunched at just $1.99, the game sits at roughly 86% positive across 500+ Steam user reviews — though its most common criticism is that all three scenarios play exactly like the first game.steamcommunity.comRead 1 more fact
The Dream Machine20123 factsGame page →Every scene is a real, physical miniature — hand-built from clay, cardboard, cotton, pebbles and moss, then photographed. Nothing is CGI.en.wikipedia.orgIt began as a free browser game; the 2011 IGF Visual Art nomination is what propelled the two-man Swedish team onto Steam.gamedeveloper.comThere is deliberately no voice acting — the developers said they'd 'rather have no voice acting than bad voice acting'.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Total War: Rome II20133 factsGame page →Its September 2013 launch was a technical disaster — crashes, broken AI, dire performance — and the free Emperor Edition overhaul a year later became the textbook case of post-launch redemption.en.wikipedia.orgIan Livingstone alone contributed about 90 minutes of the score, recorded with a full orchestra and choir in Bratislava.ianlivingstone.netLead designer James Russell's team shipped the series' most ambitious battles yet — thousands of individually rendered soldiers with cinematic per-unit cameras on the Warscape engine.pcgamer.comRead 1 more fact
Train Simulator Classic20093 factsGame page →The product launched as RailWorks on June 12, 2009 by Rail Simulator Developments — the studio that later renamed itself Dovetail Games — and has been the same evolving simulator through a dozen rebrands, ending at "Classic".en.wikipedia.orgIt is infamous as one of the most expensive games on Steam when counting DLC: the route/locomotive catalog runs to well over a thousand items, with the complete collection priced in the thousands of dollars.en.wikipedia.orgThe "Classic" rename came when Dovetail split its focus: Train Sim World became the flagship on Unreal Engine, while the veteran 2009-era simulator lives on for its route library and hardcore community.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Ultrakill20203 factsGame page →It is solo-developed by Arsi 'Hakita' Patala (started February 2018), who also composed the music, wrote and directed it.en.wikipedia.orgIts signature 'blood is fuel' mechanic lets you heal by getting close to enemies and showering in their blood.store.steampowered.comA cult hit, it passed 100,000 Steam reviews at around 98% positive by May 2024.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Until Last Tomorrow20233 factsGame page →The game is set in a real Brazilian city, Goiânia — an unusual real-world Brazilian open-world setting for a zombie-survival game.store.steampowered.comIt's made by a Brazilian studio, BRDynamic Studios, and much of its community discussion is requests for English and other localization.steamcommunity.comThe in-game pandemic is caused by a fictional pathogen called the 'Nerphus' virus, which the protagonist Felipe searches for a cure to.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Until Sunset20213 factsGame page →The store tagline — 'There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man' — is a direct quote from Patrick Rothfuss's novel The Name of the Wind.store.steampowered.comIt's a stealth-puzzle game set in a school-shooting scenario: you avoid several active shooters and piece together what happened using clues, favouring stealth over confrontation.store.steampowered.comPublisher 14BitsStudio has published only this single game on Steam.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage20133 factsGame page →It actually came out BEFORE the game it spun off from — Santa's Rampage shipped 13 December 2013, four months ahead of Viscera Cleanup Detail's April 2014 Early Access launch, and was bundled free for VCD buyers.steamdb.infoRuneStorm is three South African brothers — Arn, Nolan and Logan Richert — ex-Unreal Tournament modders who later said they 'made more money from our game than if we had real jobs in South Africa'.mygaming.co.zaThe whole joke is janitorial forensics: reconstruct what happened to Santa's workshop from the blood, body parts and shattered candy canes — then mop it all up.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Wakfu20123 factsGame page →The Wakfu animated series came FIRST — it premiered in France in October 2008, four years before the MMO, with some episodes even produced in Japan.en.wikipedia.orgThe game is set exactly 1,000 years after Dofus in Ankama's Krosmoz universe — a transmedia world spanning comics, board games, a trading-card game and two MMOs.en.wikipedia.orgSquare Enix distributed the MMO in North America — but only until January 2013, when Ankama took publishing back in-house.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
War of the Roses20123 factsGame page →Fatshark researched real arms and armor at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to build the 15th-century combat.en.wikipedia.orgA paid DLC added Brian Blessed as the battle announcer — possibly the most Brian Blessed monetization ever devised.en.wikipedia.orgParadox retired the servers on 28 February 2017 and delisted the game everywhere — with no single-player or LAN mode, it is now classified 'extinct'.delistedgames.comRead 1 more fact
Warlock: Master of the Arcane20123 factsGame page →Warlock is set in Ardania — the same fantasy universe as Ino-Co's Majesty RTS series — quietly turning a decade of kingdom-sim lore into a 4X.en.wikipedia.orgIt offers four distinct victory conditions — Conquest, Holy, Unity and Avatar — across three playable races: humans, monsters and undead.en.wikipedia.org2012 reviews were dominated by one comparison: GameSpot and others branded it the 'fantasy Civ V' — a label that both sold it and haunted it.gamespot.comRead 1 more fact
World War Z20133 factsGame page →It was reportedly the LAST game Paramount Digital Entertainment ever published — the studio label was shut down shortly after the film's release.en.wikipedia.orgPhosphor Games squeezed Unreal Engine 3 onto 2013 phones — GameTrailers said its touch controls could 'change the first-person genre on mobile'.en.wikipedia.orgDon't confuse it with the 2019 co-op shooter: this paid mobile FPS launched 30 May 2013 alongside the Brad Pitt film and has since vanished from both app stores.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Zula20163 factsGame page →Zula is one of Turkey's most successful homegrown games: an Istanbul-developed free-to-play FPS whose maps recreate real Turkish and Middle Eastern locations — including Istanbul landmarks — rather than generic shooter arenas.playzula.comIn Turkey the game grew into a full national esports ecosystem with its own professional league, televised finals and dedicated arena events.playzula.comAfter conquering the Turkish market it expanded globally with separate publishing for Europe and Latin America — the game's official channels still run distinct communities for Turkey, Europe and Latin America.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game20202 factsGame page →It originally launched into Steam Early Access on 6 December 2018 and left Early Access with its 1.0 release on 20 August 2020.store.steampowered.comIt is the debut commercial title of the Italian studio Inner Void Interactive (near Rome), whose earlier project was the RPG ICY.moddb.com
Dino D-Day20112 factsGame page →Dino D-Day started life as a 2009 Half-Life 2 mod before becoming a standalone Source-engine game in 2011.developer.valvesoftware.comIn 2013 an animated series and comic adaptation of Dino D-Day was announced — an unusual transmedia leap for a $5 multiplayer parody shooter.variety.com
Drakensang Online20112 factsGame page →Drakensang Online originally ran entirely in the browser as a Java applet on Bigpoint's C++ Nebula Engine — a downloadable client only arrived in April 2014.en.wikipedia.orgIt attracted more than 850,000 registered accounts within a month of release in 2011.en.wikipedia.org
Epic Mickey: Path Painter20102 factsGame page →A free online Flash game built by Sarbakan to promote the 2010 Wii title Epic Mickey; it recreates the paint-and-thinner mechanic across five isometric levels featuring Mickey Mouse and Gremlin Gus.epicmickey.fandom.comIt was later pulled from Disney's websites and, after Adobe Flash's discontinuation, survives mainly through preservation archives such as Flashpoint.epicmickey.fandom.com
