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Recent events have brought home to all of us just how deadly a viral pandemic can be, but thankfully reality still pales in comparison to sci-fi nightmare scenarios like those of Contagion or I Am Legend. In that vein, the upcoming first-person adventure A Cure for Jessica, by solo developer Bernardo Argencio Fernandes, is a story-driven exploration of a mother's struggles to save her daughter from a deadly disease in a near-future world where hope and health are in short supply.

We've seen far too many pop stars whose careers have been derailed by bad decisions and perhaps even end in tragedy. But could you make better choices if you were in their shoes? You'll soon have the chance to find out when indie Australian developer Convict Games releases its visual novel-styled adventure called BURN sometime next year. 

In the wake of the Axis powers’ defeat in World War II, many Nazis fled Germany through networks of contacts known as ratlines in order to avoid Allied prosecution. While the real-world search for these fugitives from justice continues into the present day, the newly announced tactical espionage thriller Ashland Dossier sends players back in time to when the hunt was in full swing.

Have you ever had a dream that felt so real that suddenly waking from it made it hard to distinguish dream from reality? Startling as these experiences may be, most of us remember who and where we are after a few seconds, but in Pollard Studio’s upcoming psychological thriller The Dark World: KARMA, the protagonist isn’t nearly so lucky.

The words "first-person shooter" used to be the exclusive domain of action-driven gunfights, but ever since Portal, guns in games have started to have more cerebral uses. The latest such title to use a "weapon" this way is the recently released Claire de Lune, a genre-bending sci-fi environmental puzzler from Tactic Studios. 

Let's say, hopefully hypothetically, that you're looking to join a cult (maybe because their promises of unlimited wealth and power appeal, or just to hang out with the cool kids). Sure, it means going through some kind of initiation ceremony, but that's just blindfolds and hazing and secret handshakes, right? Well, not in Raven Games' newly released The Illusion, where the stakes are just a little higher: fail to solve all the puzzles in your tormentor's creepy mansion and she won't just kick you out, she'll kill you. But that's what you get for tangling with the daughter of the sun!

For many people, college or university years are some of the most memorable of their lives. A stepping stone between school and full adulthood, it's a time to make fast friends and begin grow into oneself. And then, just as we're getting settled and comfortable, graduation looms and we're forced to let it all go, thrust into the wider world and asked to make decisions that will shape the rest of our lives. It can be a difficult and intense time, as we're reminded in No Longer Home, the newly released debut title from two-person indie studio Humble Grove. 

Harry who? Never mind that Potter kid, the next would-be wizarding prodigy is the star of Near-Mage, an upcoming Transylvanian spellcasting adventure from Stuck in Attic, the creators of Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure. 

When Chien d'Or Studio suffered a setback in their Kickstarter campaign for The Whispering Valley earlier this year, the French Canadian developer set their sights on a smaller project to deliver first. That game is The Whisperer, which is due out on PC later this year. 

It's amazing what you might see when you go for a walk in the forest: perhaps some lovely birds, gorgeous scenery, maybe even a submarine or two... Wait, what? If that last one sounds implausible, you're not familiar with M9 Games, the prolific indie developer of the newly released TARAKAN.

After jumping through all the brain-scratching hoops to inherit a rich uncle's estate, surely a life of leisure and luxury awaits, right? Well, not so fast, says Crimsonite Games, as they prepare to send players back out on a whole new puzzle-filled adventure in the upcoming Gordian Rooms 2: A curious island.

Circuses are meant to be fun places that bring joy to all those who visit, but for the traveling players that toil behind the scenes – especially those paraded in public as "freaks" in the early twentieth century – there can be far more tragedy than comedy involved. Never has that been truer than for the cast of Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness, an upcoming new pixel art adventure from Indiesruption, the Argentinian creators of Nine Witches: Family Disruption.

Goblins are usually the bad guys in any fantasy adventure – nasty, foul-tempered scavengers that would just as soon stab you in the back as lend a hand. The same is true in solo developer David Broček's upcoming Goblin's Quest, except here the titular monster just happens to be the "hero" rather than the villain. 

First Sherlock Holmes, now Hercule Poirot. Exploring the younger years of famous detectives seems to be all the rage these days. The former from Frogwares we've known about for quite some time, while the latter was just revealed by Microids in the form of Blazing Griffin's upcoming Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases.

Clowns can entertain, amuse or even terrify, but what are they really thinking behind the makeup? We now have the chance to find out in at least one particular case with today's release of Clown in a House, a retro-RPG-styled pixel art adventure from Krispy Animation.