Cactus Games 

Ad Nauseam 2
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Brilliant, brash shooter filled with insane flying enemies and bright, neon colors. Cactus at his best.

Below: A speed run through Ad Nauseam 2

Minubeat
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Gorgeous hand-drawn shooter with pure black-and-white visuals. Short, difficult, and very clever.

MSOIDS
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Asteroids, but with everything crudely drawn by hand using MS Paint. Lo-fi awesomeness.

Mondo Medicals
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Nightmarish first-person puzzler. Not for the faint-hearted.

Mondo Agency
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Dark and disturbing FPS - a kind of indie-gaming Eraserhead where things don’t really make sense and the solutions are often insane.

Below: Mondo Agency’s visuals have a grainy quality that makes it look like you’re wandering through an old black and white movie

xWung
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A kind of pseudo-physics destruction game. Abstractly looks like an arena shooter, but your weapon is a swinging ball.

Burn the Trash
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Scribbling hand-drawn shooter where everything must be burned. Vaguely reminiscent of mad classic Yar’s Revenge.

Fractal Fighter
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One of those scrolling shooters where everything is a screaming bossfight with a billion bullets whistling past your ears.

Clean Asia!
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The Independent Game Festival–winning masterpiece. A scrolling shooter with the usual array of irreverent ideas.

Above: Clean Asia is probably one of the weirdest games you never played

Above: You’ll need to use your “strong thrust” attack to ram through enemies

The Design
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Weird shooter in which “enemies” can only be removed from the structure of the arena when they enter a specific state. Clever stuff.

Unholy Stage
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Another Sumo-shooter hybrid in which you blast enemies while they try to knock you off your platform. Abstract and very tricky.

F*ck Space!
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Beautifully pixilated scrolling shooter with a rather specific attitude.

Psychosomnium
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Absurd platform game that scrunches up the rules and throws them in the bin.

Saru ga Daisuki
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Very basic platformer, but entirely crazy. Use your yo-yo to slay the servants of the evil doctor and escape his techno-maze of neon.

Decontrologic
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Micro-adventure in the most basic tradition. Some unusual ideas mixed up with Cactus’ usual bizarre humor.

God Came to the Cave
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A pretty abstract adventure where you play a spirit traveling through a cave. Relatively normalized and feel-good compared to Cactus’ other work.

Protoganda: Strings
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Vertical shooter with a vaguely Constructivist Communist bent. Tough, but raw and rewarding.

The Birthday
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A side-on adventure game in which you must save your brother from a birthday worse than any other. Bizarre, but that’s Cactus.

Illegal Communication
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An action puzzle game controlled with the mouse. Part of the game: figuring out what you’re meant to be doing.

Ted’s Wet Adventure
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Not quite as filthy as it sounds, this satirical game mocks someone who tried to rip off the GameMaker software used to make it.

SeizureDome
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A top-down sumo game in which your enemies are waddling fat men and naked women flying at you feet-first.

I Love the ’80s (aka, Rogue-like, for those who know what that means)

Doom, the Roguelike
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RPG set in the Doom universe, so replace wands with double-barreled shotguns.

Dwarf Fortress
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Terrifyingly complex RPG where you manage a team of dwarves as they hollow out a mountain.

Zangband
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Punishing but complex and rewarding RPG for purists who like their graphics ASCII, just as God intended.

Legerdemain
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An experiment in what happens when an old-school dungeon-crawler meets interactive fiction.

Frozen Depths
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Imagine a dungeon-crawler set in icy wastelands where you need to keep warm. Blue text, everyone!

1Key Cave Ship
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Play hot potato with your spaceship in this letterbox game. Warning: the Hot
Cave level has cartoon naked ladies.

Doeo
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Frantic collection game where you hammer the mouse to grab any Doeos you see. Very Japanese.

One Switch Ballz
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It’s Marble Madness! You remember that, right? Oh, the young. It’s all about furious timing and intricate balance.

Star Wars
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This is a clone of one of the best arcade games ever. Shoot down TIE fighters and blast the turrets in the trench to the sweet sound of John Williams.

Strange Attractors
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Using only the spacebar, you must sling yourself from the bottom to the top.

Shades of Doom
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Designed for the visually impaired, Shades creates its world through multi-layered audio and the spoken word.

Metro Siberia
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More spaceship hot potato, navigating through lovely green and black cities with only the spacebar.

Anchorhead
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Lovecraftian Gothic horror, subtle and spooky. Be brave and enjoy one of the most atmospheric games ever.

An Act of Murder
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Award-winning murder mystery adventure set in an isolated country house. Forces you to make intuitive leaps to reach conclusions.

Lord Bellwater’s Secret
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A single-room murder mystery. You play Bert Smith, searching through your master’s study for clues to the death of your sweetheart.

Across the Stars
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It’s the year 5367 IR, on a ship serving the Xulthe’en Empire. Life is hard, work is long, but dun dun duuuun! Adventure awaits.

The Chinese Room
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It’s been compared to Norman Juster’s Phantom Tollbooth. A thought-experiment game covering the theoretical basis of calculus.

Lost Pig
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Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Maybe boss right. Very funny game. Make sure to remove your clothes in public.