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

'Break Like a Baby' Helps Co-Op Infants Trash the House

5 days ago | olyent.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Break Like a Baby sees you and a friend becoming a pair of destructive tots trying to wreck the house before the babysitter catches you. 8pm bedtime? Not likely. Can’t enforce bedtime if the house isn’t standing by 8pm, right? As a pair of energetic twins, neither of you is in the mood to go to sleep any time soon. No, you thirst for destruction (like most children). I really do love my kids but their sole purpose in life seems to be sowing chaos and trashing the place.
'Dogman95' Slams Players With Silly Dungeon Delve Delights

1 week ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Dogman95 is a ridiculous five to ten-minute dungeon crawler that packs almost every second with gags and jokes. The brave Dogmen have been sent into the labyrinth for as long as Dogmen have existed. Why? Largely to see what has happened to the other Dogmen who’ve been sent down there. Although apparently there IS a mission from your divine goddess, the Dogmaiden, to be found if you poke around long enough and don’t eat your rations too quickly.
'Grotesqueresque' Offers Varied Pixel Art Horror Tales

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

Grotesqueresque is an anthology of horror tales filled with sickening pixel art monstrosities and jarring moments of terror. Ten different stories of gut-churning horror await in this compelling collection of scary experiences. Told under the guise of a variety show (definitely getting a Tales From the Crypt vibe, here), our puppet-like narrator spins all of these varied horror stories after a short introduction about what to expect.
'Cattle Crisis' Scrambles Between Shots to Collect Powerful Cows

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

Cattle Crisis sees aliens making off with our precious cows, so you’ll need to gun those ships down to rescue our beloved bovine buddies. The game only features a single level, but you’d best believe I have not been able to complete it yet as it makes the most of its brief playtime. Enemies come at you hard and fast, each covering the screen in various bullet patterns that overlap with only a little room to spare.
'Balls, Dice & Stickers' Creates Carefully Planned Mayhem

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

Balls, Dice & Stickers asks you to launch a ball at some dice that trigger a ton of ridiculous effects each time you hit them. I am not sure what I did to upset paperclips, mice, and the manifestations of the past, but they’re all here to give me a hard time unless I beat them up with some damaging dice. I won’t be rolling those dice, though. That would be a little too straightforward in this delightfully chaotic game.
'The Midnight Walk' Escapes Clay Horrors With a Cute/Creepy Pal

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

The Midnight Walk finds you in a gloomy world where fire is your friend (mostly) but a living lantern is an even greater buddy (always). You are The Burnt One, and you find yourself wandering through a world overtaken by darkness. Given that it’s perpetually night here, fire is an extremely valuable light source (and thankfully there’s some matches lying around to help you with that). Then again, you might not really want to see the things that are skulking around this world more clearly.
'lineoff' Hops Around to Grab Dust From a Running Machine

3 weeks ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

lineoff sends you deep into a very dangerous machine filled with moving saw blades so you can clean all the dust out of it. I am not sure this job would pass any sort of health and safety inspection, but given how many dangerous tasks I’ve had to do over my years of employment at various places (can’t exactly blow the whistle if you need that job to stay fed and housed, right?), I would not be surprised if there’s a couple of places out there that would put you to work doing this.
'Gratis' Sees You Selling Magically Monstrous Wares

1 month ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Gratis sees you twisting what people want when they come to your shop, selling them unsettling horrors under the guise of helping them. You’ve set up shop in a new town. I’m not quite sure who or what you are, but you definitely excel at having just the right thing your customer thinks they need. Or at least something that seems like what they need. Each day, a series of unique, colorful people will walk through your doors.
'If Letters Had Pants' Enhances Word Finders With Powerful Jeans

1 month ago | kangalworld.indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? makes clever use of enhancing pants as you pick out words in the dirt. This game has a lot going on beneath its simple Word Search appearance. Although you will be searching for words as a start. The goal of the game is to locate groups of letters that form a word and to gather them up by highlighting them with your mouse. This can be done in lines or squares, so you’re free to get a little creative with where you see a word.
'Robo Catcher Zero' Collects Cute Mechanical Critters

1 month ago | indiegamesplus.com | Joel Couture

Robo Catcher Zero takes players to a district filled with broken machines and hidden robot buddies for you to locate and awaken. Finder’s been tasked with wrangling up friendly robots that have tucked themselves into all sorts of places throughout the Amp220Ω district. The reason for why these machines are all so shy isn’t made clear in the current demo of the game, but that’s fine. I don’t need a lot of good reasons to find cute metal buddies besides the fact that they’re adorable.