Best Software for Manifesto Games

Vigil is a fully 3D graphic adventure, playable almost entirely with the mouse. It has amazing graphics, almost everything is black and white, with splashes of color used to emphasize some features (and something in color is almost always important to the...

Gun Metal is a level-based third-person shooter in which you control a mech--a giant battle bot--that can also transform into a jet aircraft. In a series of levels, you battle enemy tanks, hovertanks, aircraft, and artillery. Spurred on by countless...

Kamyran's Eye 2 is a Rogue-like game--you control a single character in a fantasy world, and the world is at least partially randomly generated, so that no two games are like. Unlike most Rogue-likes, Kamyran's Eye 2 has a graphical interface--attractive...

The DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) games are dungeon crawls for thinkers an oddly compelling combination of puzzle solving and the dungeon experience. King Dugan's Dungeon has been around in different forms for years. It is the original game that started...

Gunstorm is a single screen space shooter with bags of playability. Level after level of alien craft attack your ship, and every so often you face various end of level motherships and other special levels. Use the mouse to control your ship at the speed...

What happens if you are computer science student at Stony Brook, you're a serious fan of old NES and Genesis sidescrollers, you have a somewhat twisted sense of humor, and you have way too much time on your hands? Well, what happens is something like...

Terrorist Takedown is what's called a rail shooter. That means it's a shooting game in which you are basically on rails, with very little freedom of motion, your job to shoot just about everything in sight. There are people who love this sort of game....

Dragons and Unicorns Meet. The Space Shooter? Archmage is--except that instead of controlling a spaceship, you control a dragon or unicorn, and instead of shooting at enemy ships, you're shooting at a variety of fantasy beasties--using spells instead of...

Some games, like Myst, feel like art because of the nature of their audio and visuals. Kalime is of this type. The visuals are simple, but nicely textured 3D, and inspired by the surrealist painting of Salvador Dali; the music is excellent and peaceful...

MS Paint Meets Lemmings: In this ingenious puzzle platformer, you guide a crew of little characters to the level's exit by painting--connecting ramps with orange paint, walls with red paint, jumping platforms with blue paint, and so on. You have a limited...