Developer: Black Forest Games Platform: PC/Xbox360/PS3/Wii-U Available From: Steam, GOG, XBLA, PSN, Wii-U eshop Release Date: October…

Waking Mars takes place in 2097, where astronauts Liang Qi, Amani Ronga, and their chatty computer ART have landed on Mars to recover a deactivated probe.

The Binding of Isaac is a roguelike RPG with top-down shooter gameplay. Entirely random, extremely creative and viciously unforgiving, chances are you’ve never played anything else like it.

A cosmic bin-man with a hair dryer for a face has decided to dump the contents of his cosmic dustbin all over planetary World Trees. It’s up to a handful of strange, bug-like creatures with extraordinary abilities to prevent them dying.

You’ll need a few things to master Year Walk, including: a sense of direction, a strong stomach, puzzle-solving skills, a love for or interest in old lore, an imagination, and patience.

If you ever wanted to get an English teacher or a book lover into video games, you could do worse than starting with Kentucky Route Zero.

On a basic, mechanical level, iOS game The Silent Age is pretty standard. It’s a point-and-click adventure game with side-scrolling and lots of fetching items to get other items to get more items. Just replace the clicks with taps and put it on an Apple device. Know what else? The Silent Age is really, really good.

Sometimes a game comes along that hits every note perfectly, and its absolutely amazing to experience. Cart Life won’t be a game for everyone, but for a lower-class kid raised on Nintendo games who dreamt of the city not far from his suburban home, Cart Life appeals to me more than most games ever will.

Bleed is a tough action platformer, but fun and well worth your time.