Kalamaf Drackonsbane

This is easily one of the coolest new games I’ve played in quite some time. It’s small and cheap ($9.95 to buy online through Steam) and offers near limitless play options. The game shares some vague similarities with the likes of Guitar Hero and DDR in that it’s a musical rhythm game, but with some Tetris flavor thrown in. The concept is simple, you drive your car down a highway and ram into colored blocks to cause them to fall. Match the colors to earn points, lose points if you overfill a column.

The ‘highway’ is created by loading a song into the game. Any song. From mp3, CD, iTunes or a number of other options. The game scans the song and adds blocks, turns and hills according to the beat. If it’s a fast song then your highway will be mostly downhill at high speed with lots of blocks to hit. If it’s a slow song, then your road will go slowly uphill. It’s very immersive and since you can load any song into it, you could play for days and never play the same ‘game’ twice. Scores can be uploaded to the leaderboards and if you happen to have first place, you will be notified if someone beats your score so you can come back to reclaim your throne.

If you haven’t tried this out yet you can download a free demo from the official website that lets you play 5 songs. For under $10 though, definitely worth the price of admission to get the full game!