Although best experienced in VR, you can now experience the audiovisual experience of Thrasher on a flat screen.

The Arthurian legend-inspired co-op roguelike Sworn is going in the other direction. It’s been in early access since early ...

Action Games This Metroidvania-tinged old-school 2D action game is more than another Sega retro revival: it's the highlight of my Summer Game Fest Action RPGs Phantom Blade Zero is "neither a ...

Square Enix’s H2-2D line of games can sometimes feel like something of a conveyor belt. Since 2018, we’ve had seven games, both remakes and new titles, in the official series. We are now at the point ...

JRPGs "A lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements," says Dragon Quest remake producer, making old-school turn-based JRPGs "actually rare nowadays" and "considered fresh again" Dragon ...

Square Enix will be showcasing a number of its biggest upcoming titles for the Tokyo Game Show 2025, the publisher has announced. Among the list of games included to appear at the event, which runs ...

Run and gun games were huge in the '80s and '90s. Most players have probably checked out a game or two within this genre, including the Contra and Metal Slug series. They are the gold standards or ...

The game is a simple toy project with two purposes: practice 2D game development and kick-start the development of complete games as side projects. I chose a simple game genre intentionally, to ease ...

See https://phaser.io/box2d for details about Phaser Box2D. Need support? Join our Box2D channel in the Phaser Discord. There are plenty of ports of Box2D to JavaScript, so why did we create another ...

This has been a huge year for ninja games, thanks to two major titles that dropped in 2025: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. Both fall under the 2D action platformer genre, ...