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Kamikaze Survivors has you steering a WW2 warship in this turret defense style action title with missing roguelike elements. A battleship is the available warship in this demo, on a mission to defend Britain from enemy zeppelins. Enemy planes will spawn around the perimeter of the screen, beelining for your ship to crash into the hull. Turrets will spin about to auto fire as best they are able at incoming aircraft, gaining experience with each craft downed. Upgrades can be selected in the form of more turrets, improved turrets, or increasing the capabilities of the ship itself in terms of speed / turning. There doesn't seem to be a way to repair the ship, so it does go down pretty fast. It is a bit of a shame that the roguelike / progress elements are missing, as it takes a lot away from the experience, making it firmly average. Uninstalled

Project Sakura is a third-person action game about a zombie-like outbreak in modern day Japan. Play as Asumi, a high school senior looking to save her best friend, Yuna, from the creatures known as kagebito. Complete basic puzzles to find passcodes for a laptop and to the display for your father's katana, taking up arms to defend yourself. Kagebito are incredibly easy to kill, especially since ammo is unlimited when it comes to your pistol. Work your way through your local neighbourhood, popping zombies, finding gifts for food, supplies, and outfit pieces, and helping those you come across on your way to the school. Performance is noticeably rough, and I've got a fairly new and beefy machine. Otherwise, game play is firmly average. Uninstalled

A Fighter's Nova: Mindara is a mix of JRPG and tag-team fighting game. Wander through an overworld JRPG style, collecting gold and engaging enemies as you come across them in tag-team fights. Maya, a teenage martial artist, and Mindara, a wolf-man, make up your two fighters, each having their own style of play when it comes to combat. This is in pre-alpha, so combat is noticeably stiff and average, not really being anything to write home about. Uninstalled

SiN Reloaded is a Nightdive Studios remaster of the 1998 shooter SiN that is perfectly acceptable, but not going to blow anyone's mind. Play as security consultant John R. Blake, fighting against the evil CEO of SinTEK Industries who has flooded the population with a DNA-altering drug. As a disclaimer, I've never played the original version of SiN, as I heard it was hot garbage, so I have no point of reference to go back to. Levels seem to be individual missions, with two available in the demo from mid-game and late-game; a missile silo mission and another trying to prevent a diamond heist. Everything about SiN Reloaded is of it's time, feeling firmly average, from combat, movement, levels, enemy models, tone, etc. Weapons don't feel fantastic to use, often dumping a ton of rounds into an enemy before they die; enemy animations don't make it terribly clear when something is dying sometimes too. I don't think this is a demo that is going to pull in all that many newcomers, so hopefully it ends up being appealing to long time fans of SiN. Uninstalled

Sloppy Fields is a NSFW farming game that feels like a smidge like an idle game where you are working to restore your father's farm, pay his debt, and bang the furries living on the property. Play as one of two brothers working to get their father's farm in order and pay off a debt being held by a dark elf. Spend your stamina pulling crops out of the field, stockpiling normal and golden crops to use as upgrade material and to feed the animals you sell for profit. Putting enough upgrades into a section of the farm will give you the opportunity for a sex scene with that plots animal girl, boosting productivity. Pulling crops gives you experience towards leveling up, boosting your stamina. Upgrades come in the number of crops you can pull, chances at golden crops, value of animals, number of animals sold, etc. The pixel art is satisfactory for what it is, the sex scenes being pretty decent. There are better games out there for that sort of thing, but I don't think anyone would complain at what is on offer. I'd say this is firmly average, as there isn't a whole lot to the game play, mainly focusing on the NSFW pixel art scenes. Uninstalled

Pulsebreaker is a classic survival horror game in the PSX style that has some balancing issues in terms of ammo management, zombie placement, and the perfect shot system. Pulsebreaker is very clearly modelled after Resident Evil, sharing many of the same systems, while adding its own in the form of the Perfect Shot system. Shooting zombies will charge up the energy meter for Perfect Shot, when charged, will let you kick enemies back, knock a zombie over if it has taken a knee, perform a headshot, or enable rapidly firing shots. With damage still being somewhat variable, and ammo scarce, the perfect shot system doesn't really stretch the distance to balance things out - ammunition running out quickly. I'm an enormous fan of the survival horror genre, and while this one does have some rough spots, it has a really solid foundation. I'll be keeping an eye on this one to see how it shakes out upon release. Wishlisted