Cactus Arcade

4 Varied, Uneven, and Good
This is a group of quite a few games – a large portion of them are “shoot em up” type games. But don’t let that genre make you think they’re somehow trite – most of the games are very creative. Some of the games are really great, like clean asia, the design, & especially seizure dome.

In a lot of the games, it seems the author is making a trade-off between high-value aesthetics (e.g. God Came to the Cave) against precise controls (e.g. Shotgun Ninja). When a game seems to walk the line between these two, it ends up doing neither very well (e.g. Psychosomium).

The games are very unusual, and definitely worth checking out – even if they had a nominal cost. Since the download link here doesn’t work, you can get Cactus Arcade here: http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/Cactus-Arcade.shtml