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Verdict: Play it.

Every turret, tile and spell is a card in your deck. Our Tower Tactics II review: the mix works, but one hero leaks first waves and the other can barely lose.

Verdict: Maybe.

Any beast can carry any skill, but the shop decides what you get. Our Deck Beasts demo review: decks too big to plan around and wipes you can't read.

Verdict: Skip it. Quick take based on a YouTube Short.

Every reward, upgrade and bit of progress sits behind an ad. Our Lucky Guy review: a defense game with no strategy, where pure luck decides who survives.

Verdict: Play it.

Three hours of trying to break it, and every build met its counter. Our review of Batomon Showdown: deep async PvP held back by a cramped 10-slot roster.

Verdict: Play it.

No overwatch, no reaction fire, and a squad left in the open gets shredded. Our review of the Menace demo: deep squad loadouts and brutal cover-or-die combat.

Verdict: Skip it. Quick take based on a YouTube Short.

The ads show fast action. The game is a slow farming grind with pals that copy Pokémon and Palworld. Our review of Palmon: Survival, and why to skip it.

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Indie Pulse. Players: Overwhelmingly Positive · 97%. Order of the Sinking Star: a castle courtyard seen from above, with the bard, the wizard and other heroes on a pink tiled puzzle grid

Jonathan Blow's huge Sokoban-style puzzle game is a launch hit with puzzle fans. It's built from four other games, and its size is both the draw and the catch.

Indie Pulse. Players: Mostly Positive · 71%. Deskrawl: Idle ARPG: the hero in a snowy town at night, beside the potion stall and the glowing Brave Memorial statue

Deskrawl runs a Diablo-style idle ARPG along the bottom of your desktop. Why 35,000 people leave it running, where the grind stalls, and the Steam Market.

Indie Pulse. Players: Very Positive · 95%. Songs of Glimmerwick: the university garden with a pond, pumpkin patches and a sleeping dragon

Songs of Glimmerwick is out and its first players adore it. How the music magic and the no-clock calendar work, and what people still want fixed.