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BEST
GAMES
of the
MONTH
October 2021

Pinstripe
Get Together: A Coop Adventure
Rec Room: Play with Friends
Rubicon :
Townscaper
Unicorns on Unicycles
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Pikmin Bloom

Another month has come to a close, so it's time to look back at all of the best new games that arrived in October. Our top choice is an emotionally charged adventure through a frozen afterlife, Pinstripe. See what else made our list.

Pinstripe

Pinstripe

Atmos Games

An Emotionally Charged Trip Through the Afterlife

The game is influenced by classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, and Alice in Wonderland. An estranged ex-minister will venture through Hell in search of his 3-year-old daughter Bo and her kidnapper.

Get Together: A Coop Adventure

Get Together

Studio Sterneck UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) & Co. KG

Solve Puzzles, Together

Designed for two players, you and a friend will tackle a puzzle adventure. In the game, you are a luckless explorer who was split into two different beings. All of the puzzles are made where only one player has parts to the solution. So communication is definitely a key when playing.

Rec Room: Play with Friends

Rec Room

Rec Room Inc

Build and Play Games Together

You’ll be doing more than just playing games in Rec Room. You can build your own game and play with friends from all around the world. It’s a cross player game on many different platforms.

Rubicon :

Rubicon

La Belle Games

Dive Into the World of Whistleblowers

Rubicon is inspired by whistleblowers. You’ll play as a food safety officer for a multinational corporation who gradually becomes a whistleblower. Depending on your choices, the game will present different situations inspired by real facts.

Townscaper

Townscaper

Raw Fury

Build a Town Block by Block

Townscaper is all about building and nothing else. Your imagination is the only limit as you can pick colors from a pallet, place colored blocks of a house and then watch the game’s algorithm complete the project.

Unicorns on Unicycles

Unicorns on Unicycles

Rogue Games

Don’t Mess With the Horns

Unicorns on Unicycles is an out-of-the-ordinary fighting game. You’ll take on other unicorns while balancing a unicycle at the same time. Expect a lot of unicorn rainbow blood.

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

Kathy Rain

Raw Fury

An Improved Experience

The new version offers a number of improvements to the 2016 point-and-click adventure.

Pikmin Bloom

Pikmin Bloom

Niantic, Inc.

Making Walks More Enjoyable

Pikmin Bloom is looking to make your daily walks more enjoyable with a squad of unique creatures. If you’ve never seen the popular Nintendo series, Pikmin are small plant-like creatures that can’t be seen with the naked eye. With the game, you can see and interact with them. Pikmin grow from seedlings and once they grow big enough, they can follow you around. The more you walk, the more Pikmin will join you.

Kitty Q

Kitty Q

Philipp Stollenmayer

A Quantum Adventure

All of the puzzles in the game refers to observations, experiments, or phenomenons from quantum physics. You’ll be helped out by the great-granddaughter of a world-famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

VITRIOL

VITRIOL

Broken Rules

Journey Into a Bureaucratic Nightmare

VITRIOL is a a unique interactive literature. You’ll be tossed into a bureaucratic nightmare. But can you escape? There are 66 word puzzles to beat. It’s made for short bursts of gameplay.