Retro Gaming Australia

The Organ Trail is an indie game which combines the classic educational game The Oregon Trail with – you guessed it – zombies. Rather than fighting off starvation and dysentery, the game has you fighting off the undead hordes as you and your group of survivors take their station wagon across the continental United States.

The game was originally released for free as a Flash game before being expanded onto iOS and Android devices. Now the game has returned to Windows and Mac OS with even more extra content. Said extra content will be available for the phone versions as DLC for around $2.

You can buy the game here for $US4.99. The game is also currently a candidate for Steam Greenlight, so you should support it there too.

Alternative rock band Incubus has posted an 8-bit inspired Flash game on their website entitled Incubattle: Stop the Album Leak, in conjunction with Kill Screen magazine. The game revolves around beating up (literal) pirates, who have stolen the band’s latest album. The game has been released to promote the band’s new album If Not Now, When?

The game features some nice pixel art and chiptune renditions of the band’s music (or so I believe, I haven’t followed them in 10 years), but the gameplay is pretty straightforward. Still, it’s a pretty cool promotional effort.

Source: Incubus, via GameSetWatch