Joel Couture

Canada

@IGPlusCom's Editor-in-Chief, @gamedevdotcom, @DreadXP_, @Siliconera Contributor, @gamediscoverco consultant. I ❤️ weird games. He/Him. joel.indiegames(at)gmail

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Articles

'PAPERENTS' Sees Unsettling Things While Stuck in Bed

1 week ago | bubblepopper.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

PAPERENTS has you live through several horrifying nights as a paralyzed child, constantly asking yourself who will help or hurt you. You’ve just moved into a new home and your family seems excited at the prospect of a new start. However, any positive feelings you may have had about this move are soon dashed by your father hiding his liquor bottles and smokes in your room. Pretty great secret to ask your ten-year-old child to have to keep for you, right?
'Stealth Crossword' Helps Sneaky Letters Solve Word Puzzles

1 week ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Stealth Crossword needs you to help guide covert letter operatives into the correct puzzle positions to prevent international incidents. While I’m not especially into crossword puzzles, something about adding a touch of espionage makes the prospect of figuring out words a lot more interesting. In this game, you have access to all of the letters you may need to solve a puzzle.
'Abyss Vaulter' Feels Great as You Leap, Climb, and Shoot

2 weeks ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Abyss Vaulter has players hopping their way up through a sinkhole filled with monsters. Thankfully there’s weapons and an economy down here. You have fallen down into a huge pit and somehow survived the long, long fall on the way down there. Also, a gun has fallen down with you. Both of these things are very unfortunate for the creatures living down here, as they all seem to be made of valuable gems and you’re determined to blast your way out of here while collecting bejewelled riches along the way.
Review: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Has Excellent Depth

2 weeks ago | siliconera.com | Joel Couture

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves drew me in with its comic book art style and its captivating cast of varied characters (complete with a grappling wrestler in a cool bird mask I could use to irritate my friends with). Even though I have no experience with the previous entry from 1999, the game still pulled me in with its look and the interesting systems at play in each match.
'REPOSE' Puts Horrifying Pressure on Your Every Step

2 weeks ago | kokovita.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

REPOSE makes every step through its gloomy, monster-filled halls count as you search for precious oxygen tanks. But does your death matter? You wake up to see someone getting torn apart by tentacles right in front of you. Lovely start to the day, as your next step is directly past whatever just ripped your fellow spacefaring buddy to pieces.
'Pack' Needs You to Store Items Within Items Within Items

3 weeks ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Pack needs you to load up a suitcase, but doing so involves carefully seeing what items can be put inside other things to make it all fit. You’re off on some sort of trip and you need to pack up everything you’ll need to go on a handful of excursions to a couple of different places. Each one sees you trying to stow a whole bunch of different things inside your suitcase.
'Midnight Mansion' Dodges Killer Boxes in a Creepy Place

3 weeks ago | fish0225.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Midnight Mansion sees you trying to solve murders in a former lab/escape room filled with boxes that are more dangerous than they seem. You’re Agent Milla Yang, and you’ve been sent to check on some strange deaths in this weird old house. Naturally, the perfect time to begin an investigation is in the middle of the night. Especially when you’re sent in by yourself.
'Red Finger' Mixes Horrors and Shoddy Electrical Work

4 weeks ago | meninvogue.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Red Finger sees you using an elevator and carrying out strange work in a facility filled with dodgy wiring and mechanical monsters. It’s your first day on the job at an old research complex, arguably the safest of places to find yourself working. You just know there definitely isn’t anything wrong when you have to take an elevator deep underground so you can input some weird codes into strange terminals. And there’s certainly nothing strange about the elevator having a working sink built into it.
'i have no clothes and i must clean' Fights Laundry Horrors

1 month ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

i have no clothes and i must clean needs you to make it down your unusually long stairs alive in order to get your laundry done. Your roommate was supposed to share laundry duties with you, but naturally, they’ve up and done it without you. This leaves you to handle your own clothes washing. You’re a capable adult so that’s not normally a big deal, but for some reason the stairs in your laundry room have been designed to give the Silent Hill Historical Society stairs a run for their money.
Review: Bleach Rebirth of Souls Offers Fun Fights Despite Minor Nuissances

1 month ago | siliconera.com | Joel Couture

Bleach Rebirth of Souls offers some solid, fun battles that are still entertaining even if they move at a slower pace. A fair amount of thought has gone into weaving multiple elements into its battle systems, giving you varied yet straightforward options that can bring depth to a fight.