9 award-winning Digital Eel games for only $1.98? How can this be? Well, most of these games are free anyway, but a couple of them are reduced from $4.99 to 99 cents. We just thought we should mention the rest because they're super cool!
This essentially constitutes the entire line of Digital Eel computer games save for our first one, Plasmaworm (2001, music example), which isn't easily portable to modern systems. Okay, so here's what you want.
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (2002) FREE
(Windows, macOS, Linux)
A perfect short game..."simple, hot, and deep".
- Ernest Adams
Explore the galaxy...in 20 minutes or less! Strange Adventures in Infinite Space was the first space roguelite with an additional twist: its short and brisk—rather than lengthy and frustrating—roguelike game duration.
Strange Adventures was an IGF 2003 award nominee.
Dr. Blob's Organism (2003) FREE
(Windows, Mac OSX)
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Rarely has a game had so much production put into creating a bizarre atmosphere and having it come off so well.
- Russell Carroll, Game Tunnel
Blast feisty one-celled organisms before they getcha! A weirdly cool twist on "Tempest", Dr. Blob's Organism harkens back to arcade games in the 80's. It was based on John Conway's Life.
Dr. Blob's Organism was an IGF 2004 double award winner.
Big Box of Blox (2003) FREE
(Windows, Mac OSX)
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Big Box of Blox is a column stacking game taken to outrageous extremes! Exploding blox, squishable blox, one-armed-bandit blox, transforming blox--you get the idea, and there's so much more. Big Box features five different games and a custom game setting all wrapped in Bill Sears's trippy game art.
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space (2005) Only 99 cents!
(Windows, Mac OSX, Linux)
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This game blew me away, and minutes turned into hours as I kept telling myself, alright, that one didn't count. Just one more round...
- Kit Pierce, MacGamer
The lunch break roguelite of interstellar adventure! Weird Worlds expands the Infinite Space universe with more of everything and features more rare and dramatic end games.
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space was an IGF 2006 award winner.
Soup du Jour (2007) FREE
(Windows)
Soup du Jour provides a fresh, frantic take on the match-three genre of gaming, and does so with great style.
- Gamezebo
Rubbery, bouncy, rule-breaking gameplay with physics to make you laugh and surprises in store. Making candy soup looks easy until the kettle starts to roll and boil--but the candies keep coming. Not to mention the kitchen gremlin with his bombs, licorice missiles and giant candies--don't spill it!
Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity (2008) FREE
(Windows, Mac OSX)
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Like having sex with Yog Sothoth
- the99th, Play This Thing!
A psychedelic Zen-inducing arcade trip! Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity is an easy-to-pick-up first person game of real-time spatial navigation and quick reflexes with hypnotic graphics, ear tickling sound effects and immersive dreamscape music.
Brainpipe was an IGF 2009 award winner.
Data Jammers: FastForward (2011) FREE
(Windows, Mac)
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Data Jammers: FastForward is reminiscent of all that is good in the world. Or at least some of the things that are good in the world, like Tempest and speeding through cyberspace.
- Adam Smith, Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Racing and destruction in a retro wireframe world! Data Jammers: FastForward is a continuously moving three dimensional driving and destruction game set within a retro wireframe world of impossible race tracks. Prowl twisting bitstreams amidst bizarre geometrical environments enhanced by otherworldly soundscapes!
Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars (2015) Only 99 cents!
(Windows, Mac)
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The space roguelite series that started it all continues! Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike; a fully randomized sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat featuring full 3D space exploration.
Sea of Stars was funded by the gaming community!
Protagon (2017) FREE
(Windows, VR)
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Pinball meets mini golf in zero G virtual reality. Protagon is a hybrid casual game designed from the ground up for the SteamVR experience. It blends concepts from mini-golf and pinball with an intuitive VR interface. Each "hole" introduces new twists, odd-stacles and game mechanics to keep up the challenge.
Meanwhile, be sure to check out Weird Worlds at the App Store (iOS) and on Google Play (Android).
Whew, well I guess that's our BIG gambit for the summer. Thanks again for supporting Digital Eel in the past and for giving us the opportunity to entertain you. We hope you had/have as much fun playing these games as we did making them. Try to stay cool, and happy gaming!
Ripcord and the New Riders of the Purple Void out.
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