Viewfinder 

Viewfinder comes from the masterminds at Sad Owl Studios, and it’s a puzzler with a very unique premise. The game allows you to take pictures and place the polaroids anywhere in the level, which magically meshes up with the level to open up new paths. Viewfinder does a great job of taking that core concept and exploring a vast number of possibilities with its set of puzzles, and while the story could have been better in a few aspects – Viewfinder is definitely worth your time. 

Steam is celebrating the Chinese New Year with its own special sale. Ending on February 11th at 10 AM PST, the Steam Lunar New Year Sale sees a number of high-profile titles discounted. This includes games like Hitman 2 (37 percent off), Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (50 percent off), and much more.

Titles from Chinese developers have been discounted and featured, which is a good way to provide exposure to lesser known games like ICEY (31 percent off). Games with local co-op are also part of the sale. If you’ve wanted to pick up A Hat in Time (45 percent off),  Helldivers (45 percent off), or For The King (50 percent off), now’s your chance.

If that weren’t enough, a limited time event called the Rewards Booth is also on-going. Open the Red Envelope provided by Steam, and you’ll receive Tokens that can be redeemed for a unique badge, backgrounds, and chat emoticons. A discount for purchases above a certain amount is also provided. The Rewards Booth will end at 10 AM PST on February 12th.

ICEY  is a 2D sidescrolling hack-and-slash game. It’s been out on the PC for a year now and was also released on the PlayStation 4 back in August of this year. Now it will also be releasing for the Nintendo Switch, however a release date has not been announced. Furthermore, the physical edition of the PS4 version will also be releasing, thanks to Limited Run Games.

The game’s action is fast paced and dependent on the player stringing together multiple combos effectively. However, the game received attention for its meta elements, such as being able to ignore the instructions given by the narrator and therefore letting the main character discover a more personal story. Because of these aspects of the game, the game encourages multiple playthroughs as there is a lot that could be missed as players make certain choices. These elements of the game elevate it above being merely a fun 2D hack-and-slash game with surprising depth and complexity.

To celebrate the game’s release on PC, there will be a seventy percent discount on the game via Steam from October 20^th till October 26^th.

As you might have heard, we are working on the Switch port of ICEY now. And @LimitedRunGames is helping us with a PS4 physical version! pic.twitter.com/10TNIsBNd9

— ICEY (@ICEYtheGame) October 14, 2017