Europe is in turmoil. The lands are fragmented into petty fiefs and the Emperor struggles with the Pope. At this very moment the Pope has declared that those who go to liberate the Holy Land will be freed of all sins.
Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe. Will you co-opt other monarchs, and the Pope, under your leadership to liberate the Holy Land? Do you have what it takes to become a Crusader King?
Take up arms against an undead army in a third-person action RPG in the Might and Magic universe.
A fairly simple tower defence game set in a heroic fantasy world. The player assemble a deck of cards (tower types, spells, bonuses) to use on a mission, then builds towers by drag'n'dropping tower cards to predefined tiles on the map. The player's hero gains new cards but also experience points, levels and perks as he progresses through the 23-mission campaign.
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft.
Arma 3 is an open world tactical shooter video game being developed by Bohemia Interactive. It is expected to be released in Q3 2013. Arma 3's storyline takes place in the mid-2030s during the fictional Operation Magnitude, a military operation launched by NATO forces fighting in Europe against "Eastern armies" led by a resurgent Iran.
Hotline Miami is a 2D top-down action video game by Dennaton Games, a team composed of Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin, who had previously collaborated on Keyboard Drumset *** Werewolf. The game is being published by Devolver Digital and was released on 23 October 2012 for Windows. The game has been described by Eurogamer as a "top down ***'em up", blending top down perspective with stealth, extreme violence and surreal storytelling, along with a soundtrack and visuals influenced by 1980s culture.
Hitman: Absolution is an action-adventure stealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. It is the fifth entry in the Hitman game series, and will run on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier 2 game engine. The developers have confirmed that Absolution will be easier to play and more accessible, but will retain hardcore aspects
The game was released on November 20, 2012, which is the 47th week of the year (in reference to the protagonist, Agent 47).
Blades of Time is a hack-and-slash action-adventure game developed by Gaijin Entertainment and published by Konami. The game is a spiritual successor to Gaijin Entertainment's past work, X-Blades. Blades of Time was released on April 21, 2012 followed by the Mac OS X version a few days after.
Trauma (styled as TRAUMA) is a graphical adventure interactive fiction game developed by Polish programmer Krystian Majewski as part of a thesis project, and released in August 2011. The game is based on a woman that has suffered a physiological trauma, and has been languishing in several dreamscapes while unconscious and hospitalized. The player resolves these by using both point-and-click and gesture-based actions to move about the dreamscapes, composed of photographs with digitally-altered features, to complete a certain task.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana is a Japanese Action RPG by Nihon Falcom. It is a remake of the third game in the Ys series, Ys III: Wanderers from Ys.
This game, like all Ys games, has a strong focus on story-telling, much like the Final Fantasy series (for those who are not familiar with the Ys series).
