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Making History: The Calm and the Storm Demo 2.0.3 (Windows)

Making History: The Calm & the Storm is a turn-based strategy game where players apply their strategic skills to set policy and determine the fate of their nation in a time of looming crisis. Each of the over 80 playable nations presents unique challenges based on political character, economic power,...

Tags: Nation, Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-23

Singularis Demo 1.2 (Windows)

Singularis is a sort of shmup for amoebas. You play Proto, a protozoan with the unlikely ambition of becoming the most powerful being in the universe. Initially, you can do nothing more than move (which, in the default control scheme, you do by choosing direction with the mouse and pressing...

Tags: Arrow, Manifesto Games, Singularis, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Security

Software downloads 2008-06-23

Daemonica 1.1 (Windows)

In Daemonica, you take the role of Nicholas Fayrepoint, a sort of demon hunter-cum-private eye in a small town in a fantasy world that's subject to a curse. Your job, naturally, is to figure out what's going wrong, and set things right. The game is in essence built as...

Tags: 3D, Character, Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-30

Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso 1 (Windows)

Developed by Steve Ince and based on his own Web comic, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is a cheerfully arcade-y 2D game with strong adventure game aspects that is, success is dependent more on solving puzzles than on mastery of the interface. It boasts attractive comic-style graphics, well-written and often amusing...

Tags: Games, Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-04-10

Vigil Blood Bitterness 1 (Windows)

Vigil is a fully 3D graphic adventure, playable almost entirely with the mouse. It has amazing graphics, almost everything is black and white, with splashes of color used to emphasize some features and something in color is almost always important to the game in some fashion. It is visually striking,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, Vigil, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-11-02

SpaceStationSim 2.1 (Windows)

There have been a number of space station sim games over the years, but in the past most have been firmly of the tycoon game style--that is, primarily about building modules and expanding your station, with some notional flow of dollars increasing if you do it well. SpaceStationSim takes a...

Tags: Tycoon, Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, SpaceStationSim, Games, Modems, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2007-10-15

Kamyran's Eye 2 1.04 (Windows)

Kamyran's Eye 2 is a Rogue-like game--you control a single character in a fantasy world, and the world is at least partially randomly generated, so that no two games are like. Unlike most Rogue-likes, Kamyran's Eye 2 has a graphical interface--attractive if retro 16x16 tiled pixels--and some nice features, including...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, Kamyran, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-10-08

Archmage 1 (Windows)

Archmage is a classic vertical strolling space shooter--except that instead of controlling a spaceship, you control a dragon or unicorn, and instead of shooting at enemy ships, you're shooting at a variety of fantasy beasties--using spells instead of science fictional weapons.Innovative? No--but the controls are smooth, the bosses are interesting,...

Tags: Manifesto Games, Archmage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-08

Archmage Demo 1 (Mac)

Dragons and Unicorns Meet. The Space Shooter? Archmage is--except that instead of controlling a spaceship, you control a dragon or unicorn, and instead of shooting at enemy ships, you're shooting at a variety of fantasy beasties--using spells instead of science fictional weapons. Innovative? No--but the controls are smooth, the bosses...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Manifesto Games, Archmage, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-10-01

Sonoro TV 1 (Windows)

MS Paint Meets Lemmings: In this ingenious puzzle platformer, you guide a crew of little characters to the level's exit by painting--connecting ramps with orange paint, walls with red paint, jumping platforms with blue paint, and so on. You have a limited quantity of each type of paint for each...

Tags: Paint, Manifesto Games, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Global Conflicts: Palestine Demo 1 (Mac)

In Global Conflicts: Palestine, you are a journalist, exploring a 3D environment representing a section of Jerusalem. In each of six missions, you must investigate a story in one, a checkpoint where Palestinians are being screened for entry and interview the people you meet. In each, some newsworthy event occurs...

Tags: Technique, Apple Macintosh, Mission, Manifesto Games, Global Conflicts Palestine, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-07-23

Global Conflicts: Palestine Demo 1 (Windows)

In Global Conflicts: Palestine, you are a journalist, exploring a 3D environment representing a section of Jerusalem. In each of six missions, you must investigate a story--in one, a checkpoint where Palestinians are being screened for entry--and interview the people you meet. In each, some newsworthy event occurs e.g., a...

Tags: Technique, Mission, Manifesto Games, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-20

Glow Demo 1 (Windows)

In Glow, you play a badass guy with a sword invading the depths of Hell, apparently because your equally badass wife is so badass that Satan has taken a fancy to, and abducted, her. As you might expect in a plat former, there are secret areas, carefully timed leaps, and...

Tags: Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-16

Spacetanks 1.02 (Windows)

Spacetanks is a cannon game, something like the Worms series. There's a twist though; you control a tank on one planet, and try to destroy an opposing tank on another planet. Your planet, and his, and others scattered about the screen, have gravity, which affects the path of your shots.You...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tank, Manifesto Games, Spacetanks, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-06-27

H-Craft Championship 1.2 (Windows)

H-Craft Championship is science fiction race game, in that the racing vehicles are hovercraft that tool along great superhighways in the sky. Also apparently, in the future, road safety is not a major concern of the authorities--so that failure in steering doesn't mean, as in other games, that you go...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, H-Craft Championship, Game Mode, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-06-13

Determinance 1.5 (Windows)

While many games indeed contain sword-wielding characters, very few make even a cursory attempt actually to simulate the dynamics of sword-fighting, nor yet to impart a sense of how it actually feels to engage in swordplay. That's what Determinance does. True, what it simulates is less the reality of fencing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manifesto Games, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-05-02

Super Jazz Man Demo 1 (Windows)

From the Schlaepfer brothers comes another entry into the burgeoning phenomenon of new school "old school" adventures, this one featuring a jazz-playing superhero living in a world dominated by gangsta rap gangsters. Like The Shivah, its graphics are a nostalgic homage to 1980s LucasArts adventures (Super Jazz Man doesn't have...

Tags: Adventure, Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Games, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-04-20

Sketch Warriors 2 1 (Windows)

Like everyone else, no doubt you've doodled little things on lined papers during boring classes. Maybe you doodled hearts and ponies, but more likely spaceships or airplanes. Matt Lucas apparently doodled soldiers and guns, at least by the evidence of this game: the graphics are pencil sketches, the background lined...

Tags: Graphics, Manifesto Games, Gameplay, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-28

Birth of America Demo 1.08 (Windows)

Birth of America is a historically realistic game that is set in the 18th century during two of the most important conflicts of that time: the French & Indian Wars and the War of American Independence. The action takes place in North America and the battles take place between Florida...

Tags: America, Manifesto Games, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Games, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-23

Strategic Command: European Theatre 1.07 (Windows)

Not a demo, but the full game, with 5 free hours of play. Strategic Command: European Theatre is a hex-based computer wargame in the classic mold. Covering the entirety of the war with scenarios that allow you to start in each year from 1939 on, at a scale of 50...

Tags: Germany, Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Games, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-08