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Review by Sam M. 

I'm often intrigued by games that try to offer more than just an enjoyable experience. When something comes along that has solid gameplay, but also brings with it a deep set of undertones, it makes the venture into the game much more worthwhile.

Vivid Games just delivered a punch to the Vita lineup with its Real Boxing title - coming to the US on September 17th - and in our review, the game’s fantastic visuals obviously caught our very own Editor-in-Chief, Matt Sainsbury, by surprise; so much so that he went on to state: “the game looks so good that it's hard to believe that this didn't come from a major studio.”

Might and Delight’s Shelter recently released and here at Digitally Downloaded we found its emotional journey that took us through the life of a mother badger and her cubs to be great enough to garner a 4.5/5 Star review score.

Building onto the wonderful narrative featured within the game, Might and Delight has crafted a beautiful digital children’s book that expands on this narrative. The book is free to download and you can find the link through this jump. While you’re at it, if you haven’t downloaded the game yet, you should probably go do that as well.

Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims was originally a PS Mini title for the PSP, and one that was held in high acclaim. It was a unique horizontal shooter in the same vein as The Game Atelier’s Flying Hamster, but wasn't quite as much fun as, in my view, the controls were less than ideal. Dakko Dakko has brought the title back once again as a native Vita title in HD, and the Vita’s second analogue stick rectifies those control issues in the process.

When developer Might and Delight decided it wanted to do something different coming off its successful release of the demanding platformer that is Pid, it wasn’t joking. With the gaming industry so overly saturated with shooters and retro, well, everything (including shooters), - where does an indie developer turn to offer fresh new gameplay concepts and experiences?

By thinking far outside the box, Might and Delight’s emotional new title Shelter offers gamers the chance to take on the role of a vulnerable mother badger whom is being forced out of her nest and into the wilds of nature. It's a game that channels classic literature like Watership Down, and through it we are encouraged to think on issues such as environmentalism and sustainability.

If the name alone of this short little freeware visual novel does not automatically cue you in that this is not a major production title, feel free to stop reading this review right now. Standing against violence in video games is something that hardly any major publisher would ever dream of doing, as it would be railing against their own business models, after all.

Terry Cavanagh is a name that I expect that most any of you reading this here at DDNet will be quite familiar with (Super Hexagon, anyone?). He’s been developing short freeware indie games and publishing them on numerous digital services for quite sometime now, and Don’t Look Back is one of his more renowned works. Cavanagh has been unloading his titles on the Ouya and playing it on the indie console just feels so, well, right.

Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark sneaks its way onto the PlayStation Network and brings its unique mix of puzzle/platforming and stealth-based action onto both the PS3 and the Vita, packing the much beloved cross-buy and cross-save features right along with it.

This is a game that stands proudly on its heritage and places itself right alongside the many other great indie titles that call Sony’s network “home”.

Despite the fact that I never really got into the RPG genre (which deserves an article of its own), I have always loved exploring mysterious new worlds. This doesn’t happen much outside of your Elder Scrolls and Dragon Quests, but games like Super Metroid and Shadow Complex managed to combine some excellent side-scrolling action with the ability (or rather necessity) to traverse uncharted and hostile worlds. In many ways, Capsized feels right at home with these titles.