Knock knock, the Health Inspector Cats are here and you are in SOOO much trouble! A short and sweet platformer by Sink, you play as Crow, a crow with a jaunty red kerchief as she putters through her hotel attemping to fix things for the inspectors, battling cockroaches, ghosts, and her own plumbing skills. There's some really creative game mechanics in here as well as an emphasis on using inertia to your advantage. The save points are sign-in sheets which is just a cute detail that other devs might have left on the cutting room floor. Music is provided by captbeardd and kayfaraday giving the whole game a really funky character! There's also a prequel game called Croaktel that you unlock for beating the base game, where you play as Lilly the frog on their morning commute getting bullied by flowers and dealing with the challenges of office life. It's a tiny bit shorter than Crowtel but provides a healthy challenge to people already familiar with Crowtel. Absolutely give this one a shot!
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| Game Engine: Unity 
As AI becomes more and more of a permanent fixture of everyday life, it will become critical to have material from before its meteoric effect on the world around us as a means of grounding us in what our fears and hopes were for the future. From Sylvius Fischer, Fumiko is a love story, turned horror story, about an artifical intelligence developed for uncertain reasons and the denizens of the I.M. - human consciousness uploaded to a digital realm and the forces that are gradually driving it to tragedy. Mechanically, Fumiko offers the greatest freedom of movement I've ever seen in a game like this - running and jumping gives way to double jumping, gives way to quadruple jumping, giving way to endless running and jumping which is necessary to navigate the worlds you find yourself in. Visually, the game is remarkably gorgeous especially considering the audicious use of default cubes as architecture, because everything is designed to fit in seemlessly with the extreme digital environment. The story is a truly prescient one and it unravels beautifully. Check this one out!
| Game Engine: Adobe AIR 
| Steam Net Revenue: $96,925.66
When Fancy Pants Adventures: World 1 first launched on Newgrounds in March 14th, 2006, the series very quickly won a highly motivated fanbase with its blend of highly animated character movement coupled with physics that felt buttery smooth in a 2006 Flash game. Smash cut to over a decade later and the team at Borne Games have made the latest and greatest addition to the series roster. Fancy Pants has to go get his sister's kitty Kaboodle out of a cave system after some heavy rainfall. You come across a fountain pen with some strange properties, but you think the hairiest is behind you...and then the volcano erupts. Super Fancy Pants Adventure oozes style like most other entries, but with the addition of a much tighter focus and direction. It has hack n slash elements to deal with enemies, but is substancially easier than games like Hollow Knight. You collect odd seashell-looking things as a form of currency that you spend on ice cream to improve your stats and unlock new moves. Beyond that, you also have optional doors you can explore to get different color pants or hats.