6. Pixel Piracy

Pixel Piracy Trailer

You’re beginning your quest to become the most fearsome pirate on the seven seas. But four legendary ship captains stand in your way: Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Aaron Swartz, and Tim Berners-Lee. So your job is to build an impressive crew and ship and take them on to claim your fame.

This is a sim type RPG. You’ll need to craft your ship and hire your crew. You click through maps to discover towns and take on other pirates. You get to answer a series of questions before you begin that determines the style of the game as well. Some of the options are things like: are nights going to be longer? Will there be a plague? What did you get from your father? But of course these are asked in much more entertaining and interesting ways.

Everything about this high seas adventure is customizable. And it would be easy to spend a lot of time reaching your goal.

Pixel Piracy Gameplay

How the townsfolk welcome you is determined by your actions

Board enemy ships and loot those suckers

5. Terraria

Terraria Trailer

Made by the same people as Pixel Piracy, your goal this time is to decide what you want to accomplish in a fantasy universe. Do you want to vanquish evil? Horde resources? Build a city? It’s all up you.

Everything in this game is fully customizable. Your character and their class are up to you. Their appearance is up to you as well. And with 1.3 you get even more items to craft and play with including a portal gun.

This game is very much in the vein of Minecraft. But with more RPG elements. There IS a strong story mode, should you choose to develop it with challenges and objectives. But you can also just build up a city in this fantasy land and just ignore the story and not worry about the evil that threatens your kingdom.

Terraria Gameplay

Some feats deserve fireworks

Explore caves to find resources

4. Never Alone

Never Alone Trailer

Nuna lives with her people in a faraway land. One day a blizzard starts up and just keeps raging. Soon her entire village is faced with the very real possibility of starvation since they cannot hunt during the storm. Nuna decides to set out to find the cause of all the storms. During her journey she is saved by an arctic fox and together they explore to try and save the village.

This is a unique game in the sense that it is also a lesson in Inupiat culture. Lessons on individual topics are unlocked throughout the game and you can pause at any time to view beautiful videos containing them.

When you co-op, the other player plays as the fox who has an entirely separate system of commands. If you play alone the fox is a computer player until you switch to him to solve complex puzzles. So if you go it alone, you’ll need to play as both Nuna and the fox to complete the game, which makes it more challenging and ultimately more fun.

Never Alone Gameplay

Brave the harsh winter

Meet spirits who will help you save your village

3. Deadlight

Deadlight Trailer

Deadlight is a zombie game. But it is not set in some unknown future. It is set shortly after a catastrophic event in the 1980’s that has destroyed life on earth. It isn’t pretty and it isn’t about creating some new future. It’s just about finding loved ones. And you are Randall Wayne and you are trying to do just that: find your wife and daughter in Seattle.

This is truly a horror game. It is dark and disturbing. And this is a game of problem solving. The zombies aren’t slow and meandering, in fact, sometimes the zombies are faster than you. So you need to quickly analyze your surroundings and use them to fight off the hordes or avoid them entirely.

No guns ablazin’ in this game. It’s about surviving not fighting.

Deadlight Gameplay

Seattle just doesn’t look the same anymore… but at least gas is cheap.

It may not kill him, but a boot to the chest will definitely make him back off for a bit

2. Shoot Many Robots

Shoot Many Robots Trailer

The robot factories have started kicking into overdrive. And the robots their turning out have a murderous streak. You are a redneck gun nut who likes his beer like he likes his ammo: unlimited. And you’re gonna save the world.

This is a classic run ‘n gun style game. You can co-op with up to three friends. Take down as many robots as you can. And if your health gets low take a swig of beer and your health will be replenished. Basic weapons can have unlimited ammo, but the bigger guns that you can gain by completing missions will have limited quantities of ammo that will need to be replenished at set points in the game.

There are as many types of robots as you can imagine: from chainsaws with legs to giant cat-shaped bots. They’re out there waiting for you to take them down with guns and beer in tow.

Shoot Many Robots Gameplay

The shot gun should do for this little guy.

Earn bonuses based on just how many robots you can kill