The Journey Down, Chapter 1: Over the Edge is a point-and-click adventure game that tells the story of Bwana and his friend Kito, two individuals who run a gas station but were forced to find other means of making money when the power company threatens to cut their electrical supply off. Fortunately at about the same time a young woman arrives at your doorstep looking for a book, and she willing to reward you handsomely should you be able to help her out with an errand.

Anyone familiar with classic LucasArts games should feel right at home with the controls here. Left clicking on any interactive object examines or operates it, inventory items are located at the bottom of the screen, and moving your cursor towards the top of the window displays the options menu.

You can press the period ('.') key to skip parts of a dialogue quickly, or use the escape key to end an in-game cutscene immediately. Note that there is only one save slot to use, and you might need to fiddle with the setup.exe file a bit to get the game looking as gorgeous as the screenshots posted at the official site.

Power of Two's Dwarfs is a real-time strategy game that's all about mining and resource management, where players are given command over a group of miners to guide and direct while they search for precious gold in a randomly-generated underground dungeon. When not issued with an order, a digger will explore on his own accord and automatically loot any treasure rooms that he finds, but you need to keep an eye on them because they can drown in water or burned by hot molten lava.

Everytime you discover a new cave (marked by black squares on the map), there is a chance of it containing enemies, treasure, water or lava. Rooms with water and lava need to be closed off using walls and dynamites, and if not done quickly enough the liquid will flow through any open corridors until they flood the entire tunnel system that you've been building up throughout the entire game.

Gold is the main currency in Dwarfs, and you'll be needing lots of it even if just to issue a move order to one of your dwarves. You can train warriors to fight off any goblins terrorizing the diggers, and a bell can be used to summon them back to the town hall to defend your base of operations.

In e7 players are assigned the mission of inflitrating an alien planet and disabling a bomb that has been targeted at Earth. This 2D platform game features roughly twenty levels to play and some clever implementation of puzzles and challenges, many of them centered around the idea of launching your ship high into the air after getting it to sink into the ground for a couple of seconds.

A health bar is shown at the top of the screen, but your ship will immediately explode into pieces if it comes in contact with any sharp object on the surface of the planet. Any damage inflicted upon your ship can be fixed by collecting fireflies, usually appearing after you've destroyed an enemy ship or two.

Although the game seems to imply otherwise, there is really only one ending to be discovered. Some may find the wall jump section to be unnecessarily difficult as well, which might cause more than a few people to quit even though they're halfway through the entire adventure already

Nagnazul's You Have No Legs is a Metroid-style game where you play as Jack, an archaeology student who got himself trapped inside a cave after an earthquake incident during a visit to a dig site in Mexico. To complicate matters even further, Jack has no legs so moving around the labyrinth is going to take some effort from the player.

Fortunately our hero is able to travel from one place to another by dragging himself using his arms, and after grabbing a couple of power-ups to build up muscle strength and courage he can even climb walls or ceilings inside the maze. Once a map has been found, pushing the M key brings it up on screen for players to review and refine their plan of escape.

There are small pools of water that you can swim in to save your game, although it should be noted that any progress made during your last session will be completely wiped out the second that new game option at the main menu screen is clicked. Also don't forget to grab a feather (which makes Jack lighter) from the secret room located just to the left side of the area where your first power-up is acquired. This makes the game slightly easier to play, and you have one less location to backtrack to on your long list of rooms to revisit.

AetherBeats is an arena shooter that plays like a primitive version of Everyday Shooter, where a looping musical track changes ever so slightly depending on what happens on screen. Shots fired from your ship will chase down any enemies in the vicinity, and every once in a while you'll acquire an additional life or a weapon upgrade that increases your firepower.

Madris is a puzzle game that plays like a variation of Tetris, where each block is either a room or a corridor for you to arrange somewhere on the screen. Some of the rooms will have occupants in them, and your task here is to join up rooms or corridors so that these people can get to the amenities that they desire.

Every time an occupant reaches a room indicated by his bubble thought, all interconnecting rooms linked to his destination are removed from the field as well. You can use the down arrow key to make a tile reach the bottom faster, and holding down the same button after a block is placed also speeds up the character's walking animation.

One Button Arthur is a single-button action game in which you have to help Arthur survive an obstacle course to reach the sword in the stone. The control scheme is switched around in every room, meaning that you could be swinging your sword at enemies, jumping over spikes and lava pits, or just entering and exiting doors at the press of a button.

It takes about ten or fifteen minutes to finish the entire adventure, and there isn't really any incentive to replay it after you've completed your quest.

Cactus Arcade 2.0 is a compilation of cactus' games, released to accompany the first Cactus Arcade pack. This collection includes Ad Nauseam 2, Blockon, Evac, Krebswelte, Kryzta, Ping Pong, Precision, Protoganda II, Retro 4, Silent Chain, Vicious Cycle, Stallions in America, Stench Mechanics, This is Infinity, Ultra Mission, Xoldiers, Gamma 4 and Norrland.

In Norrland you control a hunter living in a northern part of Sweden, out on a hunting trip in the wilderness with just some beer, a fishing pole and a hunting rifle. You'll get to hunt animals, row boats, climb some trees and even do a bit of fishing, but do watch out for bloodthirsty mosquitos and close encounters with the angry wildlife. At night you'll make a fire and dream the strangest dreams as you sleep under the starry skies.

Gamma 4 is a one-button game from the warped mind of cactus, developer of Clean Asia and Psychosomnium. This particular project was originally created for the Gamma IV showcase, but has since been released as part of the Cactus Arcade 2.0 collection and made available as a separate download as well.