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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge

Intellivision's first ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS title takes arrow-equipped warriors through winding caves in a quest to reach Cloudy Mountain and retrieve the Crown of Kings.

Atom Zombie Smasher

Atom Zombie Smasher from Blendo Games tasks players with saving a country from a zombie apocalypse.

Binary Domain

A group of various national stereotypes take on an army of rogue androids in this sci-fi shooter set in 2080's Tokyo. The story asks: Are machines becoming more human, or are humans becoming more machine-like?

Borderlands

Borderlands is a first-person shooter RPG from Gearbox Software that puts players into the shoes of one of four playable characters as they traverse the hostile planet of Pandora in search of a mysterious "Vault," said to contain priceless unknown riches and alien technologies.

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 is a post-apocalyptic cooperative FPS/RPG developed by Gearbox Software. The game will take place 5 years after the first game, in the same desolate world of Pandora.

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

A Gold Box-style RPG set in Earth's near future. The dominance of the Russo-American Mercantile is put off balance by the emergence of a hero from the past. Now the player characters continue the struggle to free humanity (in its many forms) from RAM oppression.

Castle Wolfenstein

Find the Nazi war plans and escape Castle Wolfenstein alive.

Damzel

Damzel is an in-development indie title, in which the player must organize and strategically deploy security forces within procedurally-generated environments in order to protect a high-profile VIP from assailants.

Dark Cloud 2

Pick up your wrench and repair time in this charming, colorful tale where humanity is on the brink of collapse. Control Max, a young inventor, and Monica, a warrior princess from the future, as they fight their way through dungeons and train rides to save the world.

Darwinia

A digital dreamscape by Introversion software.

Diablo

Diablo is an isometric strategy RPG in which you use fantasy medieval weapons and spells to defeat hordes of monsters from hell through randomized dungeon levels, continuously gaining experience points, gold, and a variety of equipment to bolster your monster-killing potency along the way.

Diablo Hellfire

Hellfire is a singleplayer-only expansion pack for Diablo that was developed by Sierra instead of Blizzard. It added new dungeons, a character class, and magical items, but also added many bugs not present in the original game.

Diablo II

Diablo II, sequel to the game Diablo, is a dark fantasy-themed strategy role-playing game in a hack and slash and "dungeon roaming" style. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North.

Diablo III

Diablo III returns to the world of Sanctuary twenty years after the events of Diablo II with a new generation of heroes that must defeat the demonic threat from Hell.

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction features a new act and 2 new character classes, the Assassin and the Druid, as well as new items.

Don't Buy This

Don't Buy This is a collection of the five worst games submitted to Firebird.

Dragon Crystal

Dragon Crystal is a roguelike RPG for the Sega Master System and Game Gear.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

A popular free open source roguelike with tile based graphics.

Dungeons of Dredmor

A roguelike RPG with a detailed, hand-drawn visual style. Its unique charm relies on absurdist humour.

Dwarfs!?

An independent strategy title by Power of 2. The player controls a colony of dwarfs that must mine for treasure and fight for their lives.

Eufloria

Eufloria is an ambient real-time strategy game with unique and abstract visuals. The purpose of the game is to conquer a small asteroid field while competing with a computer opponent with the same task.

Fotonica

Fotonica is a first-person platformer aesthetically and mechanically similar to Rez and Mirror's Edge.

Frontier: Elite II

Frontier: Elite II was a ground-breaking game that featured fully open-ended gameplay without any scripted missions, nor an actual ending. Trade, fight, transport passengers, or engage in piracy as you explore a realistically modelled galaxy.

Frozen Synapse

A simultaneous-turn tactical strategy game by Mode 7 Games.

FTL

FTL: Faster Than Light is a Kickstarter funded, currently-in-development, roguelike space sim.

Hard Reset

Hard Reset is the debut game from a new Polish development studio, Flying Wild Hog. The player controls a cyborg, Major Fletcher, who must use a pair of transforming weapons to defeat an army of malfunctioning robots that endanger the "cyberpunk megacity" of Bezoar.

Hellgate: London

From Flagship Studios – whose founders were involved with the creation of the award-winning Diablo series – comes Hellgate: London, a failed futuristic action RPG set in a post apocalyptic London.

I Heart Shift

I Heart Shift is an Xbox Live Indie Game developed solely by Giant Bomb user Keir Miron (Fronominal).

Inside a Star-filled Sky

Tactical shooter from Jason Rohrer.

Jade Cocoon 2

Jade Cocoon 2 is the PS2 sequel to the original on the PS1. Collect and raise monsters to battle alongside you, the player, in the hopes of stopping the Kalma invasion.

Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu

Jade Cocoon is a fantasy turn-based RPG, seen by some as a cross of Final Fantasy and Pokemon.

Just Cause

Just Cause is an open-world action game that has you play as Rico Rodriguez, a black-ops agent helping guerrillas to overthrow the government of San Esperito.

.kkrieger: Chapter 1

A game that uses procedurally generated graphics.

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Lufia II: Rise of The Sinistrals is an RPG released late in the life cycle of the SNES. It acts as a prequel, filling in the plot leading up to the flashback at the beginning of Lufia & The Fortress of Doom.

Minecraft

Minecraft is a procedurally-generated game of world exploration, resource harvesting, and freeform construction. Minecraft supports multiplayer, and features are being added regularly.

NetHack

Inspired by Rogue, NetHack is an ASCII-based RPG in which the player must navigate the Mazes of Menace in search of the Amulet of Yendor for his deity.

Nethack: Falcon's Eye

Falcon's Eye is a graphic and interface update to Nethack that keeps the core game play elements the same.

Noctis

Explore a procedurally generated universe of stars and planets without worrying about personal destruction or higher goals. Name star systems, absorb fuel, and land on planets to see strange creatures and procedurally generated landforms.

Osmos

Osmos is an ambient, physics-based game featuring dreamlike visuals and a minimalist electronic soundtrack in which the player seeks to grow a mote from small to large.

Pharaoh's Tomb

Pharaoh's Tomb is a platform game created by George Broussard.

PowerUp Forever

An endless dual stick shooter in which you power-up forever!

Prism: Light the Way

The Glowbos are facing extinction, but with a little help of the Bulboids, perhaps they can puzzle together the way of light.

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Take to the depths of space in this Sci-Fi spiritual sequel to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords.

Reaping the Dungeon

Explore below the surface of Jupiter in this procedurally generated, turn-based RPG.

Red Dead Redemption

The spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver features a vibrant, rural open world. Players take on the role of outlaw-turned-bounty hunter John Marston as he hunts down his old gang. The game runs on Rockstar's RAGE engine, and utilizes the Euphoria procedural animation system.

Rescue on Fractalus!

Rescue on Fractalus was released in 1984 for the Atari 5200 and is one of the first games released by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts).

River Raid

Released initially for the Atari 2600 by Activision in 1982, River Raid is one of the first scrolling shooters ever made. As a rogue fighter jet, players must destroy bridges, sink civilian ships, and take out the defending military trying to stop their rampage.

RoboBlitz

RoboBlitz is a 3D puzzle/platformer for the PC and Xbox 360. It was the first Xbox Live Arcade game to use the Unreal Engine 3.

Rogue Survivor

A roguelike game with a zombie apocalypse theme.

rRootage

rRootage is a freely downloadable shoot-em-up from ABA games that features vector-graphic enemies and complex, procedurally-generated bullet patterns. rRootage was released by ABA Games in 2003 and features 4 gameplay modes which mimic other popular shooters such as Ikaruga and Giga Wing.

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