CSAF catalogue

Games · CSAF

Games for desktop and the browser. Where a game is paid, a free browser demo is usually on the same page. 29 products.

How these are made. Every CSAF product is made with AI. Each entry below repeats the AI disclosure exactly as its store page states it (for example "AI Assisted, Code, Graphics").

ANATOMIST

A real 32 KB Game Boy cartridge. The free browser demo is right here on this page — floors one to four, no download, no account.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, dungeon-crawler, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, permadeath, procedural, retro, roguelike, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

ANTIPOLE

You are a charged particle. You cannot steer, you cannot thrust, and you cannot stop. The only thing you control is whether you are positive or negative.

Free · Tags: arcade, electricity, html5, magnets, minimalist, one-button, physics, polarity, score-attack, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

AUGUR

What it is wearing is what it will do. AUGUR is a vertical cute’em up in which every enemy is assembled from parts, and each part is an honest promise about what that enemy is going to do.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, arcade, bullet-hell, html5, pixel-art, procedural, retro, score-attack, shoot-em-up, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

BANNERET

You never move a knight. You plant a banner. Every knight on the field charges it at once, in a straight line, and does not stop until something stops them.

Free · Tags: grid-based, html5, knights, logic, medieval, short, singleplayer, tactics, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

CAIRNWAKE

You never choose an action. You choose where your four characters stand, continuously, while the fight is already running. What each of them does is decided by their rank and by who is standing beside them.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, fantasy, jrpg, pixel-art, real-time, singleplayer, strategy-rpg, tactical-rpg, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

COMPOSITOR

A type-setting puzzle for the Game Boy. You are a compositor. The copy line is pinned above the case, four lead sorts are lying loose in the forme, and the only tool you have is a blank quad you can shove them with.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: game-boy, gbdk, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer, sokoban, typography · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

CRAQUELURE

A panel arrives with a docket claiming a date. One region of it is painted in a colour that did not exist yet. Find it.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, detective, game-boy, game-boy-color, gbc, gbdk, pixel-art, procedural, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

CSAF Pocket Anthology

Six Game Boy games, made from scratch, in one collection.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, collection, deduction, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, pixel-art, retro, rom, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

CUTBANK

You never see what happened. You see what it left behind.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, demake, game-boy, gbdk, geology, logic, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

Dowser

Minesweeper with no numbers. Nobody hands you a count here.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, archaeology, casual, deduction, logic, minesweeper, pixel-art, relaxing, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

GLASSWRIGHT

Twelve commissions. One season. A shop you can lose. A patron arrives with a hole in a wall and an opinion.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: art, atmospheric, generative, historical, management, medieval, procedural, relaxing, singleplayer, stained-glass · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

HEADGATE

You are a resurveyor, sent to Sufferance to re-establish section corners that were lost in 1873. Where a monument still stands in both years, your transit sights through time.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, exploration, narrative, pixel-art, short, singleplayer, story-rich, time-travel, western · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

LANTERNBOUND

The lamps along the moor road have gone out, one by one. Three of you walk out from Aldermoor to find out why, carrying one oil lantern between you. It burns down the whole time you are out there, and it is the only light in the world.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, html5, jrpg, pixel-art, procedural, roguelike, singleplayer, story-rich, turn-based-combat · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

Linguist of the Deep

Learn a language nobody will teach you. An alien reef is talking. Shoals, rays, anglers and eels speak to each other in short sentences of glowing glyphs, and then they do what they said.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, atmospheric, exploration, metroidvania, mystery, pixel-art, science-fiction, singleplayer, top-down, underwater · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

MOONWORT

You are the warden of a physic garden, and last night the moon changed its mind. Every night for eleven years someone has taken the reading at Lowmoor: what the moon is doing, and what the beds are doing about it.

Free · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, exploration, hand-drawn, html5, magic, narrative, singleplayer, story-rich, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

NOCTUARY

Sixty-six nonogram plates. Solve one and it develops.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, cozy, generator, html5, nonogram, picross, pixel-art, procedural, relaxing, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

ONE ROOM DREAD

Something is in the room with you. You cannot fight it. You cannot leave. You can only name it — and to name it you have to work out what it is, in the dark, with a lamp that is burning down.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark, deduction, horror, html5, pixel-art, psychological-horror, retro, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

PLUMBLINE

A metroidvania with no keys, no upgrades and no items. Every door in this game was already open to somebody who knew where it was. The only thing that changes between the start and the end is what you know.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, atmospheric, exploration, metroidvania, mystery, no-combat, pixel-art, procedural, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

PROOFMARK

A real 32 KB Game Boy cartridge. Free browser demo below — days one and two, no download. You are the assay master at a mint. Specimens are struck and brought to your bench, and each day a hidden rule decides what “genuine” means.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, deduction, demake, game-boy, logic, mystery, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

ROSE ENGINE

A rose engine is the lathe that cuts guilloche, the woven ornament on the face of a pocket watch. It works by moving a cutter against a rotating plate.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, arcade, game-boy, gbdk, generative, pixel-art, procedural, retro, score-attack, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

SCRUPLE

Nine sealed packets of metal. Each one is stamped with what it weighs. Exactly one of them is lying. SCRUPLE is a real Game Boy cartridge — a 32,768-byte ROM you can put on a flash cart — containing forty assay problems.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, game-boy, gameboy, gbdk, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

SOUNDER

You are the night operator at a small railway telegraph office. The dispatcher writes an order on a slip.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, keyboard, morse-code, pixel-art, railway, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

Stringline

Every clue is a line you draw. Crossbow bolts are stuck in the walls of Castle Harrowgate and nobody saw the bow. You are the magistrate's stringer.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, castle, deduction, detective, logic, medieval, mystery, pixel-art, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

THE BRASS ORRERY

Most games hand you a class and let you climb a tree. The Brass Orrery hands you a five-pointed star and asks what shape you want to close in it. Strength, Toughness, Agility, Resistance, Spirit sit at the five points.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, character-customization, fantasy, html5, monsters, procedural, singleplayer, steampunk, tactical-rpg, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

THE LONG DEFEAT

You start at level 99 and the game takes it away. You go down the cairn at full strength. Everyone does, because the stair only opens for someone who has something to set down.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, difficult, jrpg, pixel-art, replay-value, singleplayer, story-rich, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

The Turning Year

Ice is a bridge. Flood is a road. Drought is a door. One overworld, drawn four times over (spring, summer, autumn, winter) and one dial that turns the whole world between them.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, exploration, html5, metroidvania, no-combat, pixel-art, seasons, singleplayer, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

WARDLOCK

A locksmith's bench, a brass plate, and a lock that will not open until you understand it. WARDLOCK is a real Game Boy cartridge — a 32,768-byte ROM you can put on a flash cart or an Analogue Pocket — containing forty-eight warded locks.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, demake, game-boy, gbdk, handheld, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

Wicklight

There is one rule, and everything else comes from it. A shade is safe in shadow and dies in light. You are the light.

Free · Tags: arcade, atmospheric, dark, html5, mouse-only, score-attack, shadows, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text

WITNESS MARK

A real 32 KB Game Boy cartridge. Free browser demo right here — five cases, no download.

Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, deduction, detective, game-boy, gbdk, logic, mystery, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text