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Lasercrash is a 2D top-down, vertically-scrolling shooter with with touch-screen controls. You control a space ship and fly through an asteroid belt, trying to avoid getting smashed. The game keeps track of the high score.

Area 51 Defense is a survival shooter seen from a bird's-eye perspective. You try to survive as long as you can, fighting against waves of zombie mutants, hulking aliens and crab-like monsters. There is a large collection of weapons and other power-ups you can pick up. In the game's editor you can place turrets, soldiers, enemy spawns and create entirely new playable scenarios. Although the game began its life as an early access title, it has received updates since its launch.

Crypts of Death is a role-playing game fully designed for the mobile devices. The story involves an ancient war, and a haunted graveyard, but the main focus of the game is its RPG gameplay and dungeon crawling. The dungeons in the game are completely random-generated each time you visit them, and they range from forests to underground crypts. This gives the game some roguelike features, in addition to the fact that monsters get meaner and bigger the higher your player level is.

The game has some basic features, expected from mobile games, such as a daily spin wheel, which gives you a certain bonus item per day. There are four different playable characters, and they differ with their starting weapon and skills. The RPG mechanics in the game are designed to be intuitive and easy-to-grasp.

This is the first episode of what was originally planned to be a trilogy of arcade shooters. It was released as freeware. The game has a comic book art style, with cutesy animal characters. The goal of the game is to eradicate all the ice demons which have flooded the Metro City ski resort. The only playable characters in this first episode are Metrocat and Maxie. The release plans of the full game were dropped after the company's own quality assurance deemed it unmarketable.

The Suomi RPG is a graphical role-playing adventure in the northern land of Fintannia. Your task in this realm is to collect the 5 pages of Sketch and save the world from boredom. It is made in the style of classic Ultima games. It is meant as a comical take on the cRPG genre, and is set in Finland. The game mixes both fantasy and contemporary elements. Although the game looks like it is made in the late 80's, it actually runs with an 1280x720 resolution. The game was made as an entry to the 2015 Assembly gamedev competition.

Neurotron is a retro RPG, set in a grungy, 90's style cyberpunk future. It is based on an original board game concept of the same name. In the game you control freedom fighters of Phoenix Rebellion. You are plunged into a struggle against The Family corporation. The game's scenery features the huge pollution ridden city-dome of Amerac. Can you survive the technological horrors of the future? The player collects credits and experience, which you can use to enhance the character's weaponry, upgrades and equipment.

The game was created at the Assembly 2014 game development competition.

Neurotron is an action RPG where you control a group of heroes in a dark cyberpunk world. In the style of Lost Vikings you can only control one hero at a time. The characters have varying skills and abilities, and each one of them can be upgraded in-between missions. The game takes heavy inspiration from adventure board games such as HeroQuest, Space Crusade and Descent: Journeys in the Dark by Fantasy Flight Games.

Kalaban is a horror-themed game with an emphasis on storytelling. The game is set in the year 1995, in an alternate history version of Finland. The main character of the game is Bob, a hermit and an American who has moved to Finland. Bob's cabin is attacked by a mutant monster, which triggers the story. He must find out what is going on around him and discover the reason behind the weird outbreak.

There are different weapons with a limited amount of ammo, the character has to find food to regenerate his vitality, and there is a large inventory system. The game is not linear and lets the player explore freely.