Yakouga is a freeware shooter developed by Artesneit, and much like the rest of their releases it features intricately drawn alien landscapes and creatures.

Hold the left shift key to shoot and press the Z key to activate your special weapon. It's worthwhile acquiring both versions as they present different level designs and challenges.

Presented by Artesneit, Yakouga 2 is another excellent freeware shooter that might be a tad too difficult for beginners. The level indicated on the top right of the screen reflects your weapon's current firepower, while the HP gauge shows how much damage you're able to take before going down in a pool of blood.

Green emeralds increase the amount of time you have before entering critical condition, with the unfortunate side effect of gradual HP loss. The download links can be a little difficult to access but it's well worth the trouble.

Yakouga 4 is a rather average vertical shooter by Artesneit featuring two levels worth of gameplay plus the obligatory sub and end level bosses included for good measure. Hold the Z or C key to shoot, and press the X key to launch a bomb.

The objective of Yellow Goo Love is to guide an elastic goo ball to the end position marked by a red flag, simply by using the mouse to launch it in a forward or upward trajectory motion. A new tile, rule or obstacle is introduced every few levels, although the game does end rather quickly since there are only a total of twenty stages to play in this build.

Yokegee bears similarities to Nintendo's Balloon Fight, though objects in the game are represented by pixels instead of 2D sprites. Hold space to gain altitude, release to dive.

To start a game, guide your pixel towards the word easy. Avoid other pixels, ceilings or floors while floating from right to left in order to maintain your health and advance to the next level.

Each difficulty setting presents twenty stages, and a small completion percentage is awarded for every attempt. New options are revealed when the player acquires fifteen, twenty-five and thirty percent completion.

In The Yore you play as either Colin or Amy who are trapped inside a house they don't recognize. Solve mysteries and find specific items to progress and uncover the secrets behind the house.

You Found the Grappling Hook is a simple rope physics game consisting of ten short levels, featuring music by Aaron Kurtz.

Use the arrow keys to swing your character left and right. You only release the rope when the space key isn't held. The up and down cursor keys can be used to climb or descend. Press the F4 function key to switch between full screen or windowed mode.

Warning: Contains flashing images which may cause photosensitive epileptic seizures.

You Got a Demonwall! is one of the more arresting submissions for the Ludum Dare 14 competition, partly due to its unabashed use of epileptic-inducing effects on nearly all objects to be found in-game. Playing as a wall of doom which can only move forward or sideways, the objective of this particular romp is to smash through as many buildings and vehicles as you can for scoring purposes. The wall grows in size as you progress from screen to screen, but shrinks when a chopper hits you with one of their shots.

There is no way to lose the game, unless you count scoring low as a losing condition.

Possibly inspired by Valve's Portal, You Have to Burn the Rope is an extremely short game that features good pixel art and sound production using DrPetter's sfxr tool. There is only one solution to the problem, though the credits will be remembered long after you've managed to beat the final boss.

A sequel to Kianis' You Have to Burn the Rope, You Have to Fertilize the Egg is a self-declared art game which utilizes only the cursor keys for controls. This effort is slightly reminiscent of cactus' Life is a Race, where players will have to guide the hat-wearing cell from one end of the passage to the other, all in the name of survival.