Flying Propeller is another game from Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich who gave us all those test your knowledge games back in April and more recently Round Mars, 3D Gravity Rockets and Defense to Death.

The game is a 2D top down bullet hell survival shooter with hand drawn pixel graphics. The colours are over saturated giving the impression of a kaleidoscope of colour during your bullet hell experience. This may put some players off, but personally I love it (in small doses). An ideal game for those 10 minute coffee breaks; any longer I'd it gets a little boring as there is little variation in game play..

The controls are simple (unfortunately you cannot remap them) i.e. WASD for moving forwards, back and sideways. To shoot your weapon use the LMB and to activate your temporary shield use the space bar. To progress to the next level you have to survive a few minutes of bullet hell, picking up various power ups (loads of them appear during each level) that give you multiple guns firing in different directions.

The giveaway teams description and screen captures above should give adequate information about today's giveaway. It's planned release date on Steam is the 28th July, so no community reviews are available yet; however, you can see a video of game play via the Steam store page HERE.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway

Don't forget to check out the giveaway forums. Delenn has usually posted the latest freebies. The latest games are now available from Epic Games and include Next Up Hero - (A dungeon crawler featuring hand-drawn heroes that hack, slash, bongo-drum, boomerang, and jet their way through Ventures) and Tacoma - (An Abandoned Space Station. A Mysterious AI. And You. The crew of Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma were going about their workaday lives when disaster threw them into chaos); both games would normally cost you almost £30/$40/€37, but are free all week. Next Thursday 30th July we get three more games; i.e. 20XX (A rogue-like action platformer), Barony (A first-person rogue-like with co-op) and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (A point & click story rich pixel fantasy with a female protagonist). The total cost to buy these would be over £27/$37/€33

Just pop over to the game discussion threads HERE and HERE for links to most of the free games.

The Indie Gala developers freebies are available HERE (latest additions) and HERE (81 games in the Showcase, most full versions). Recent additions include Snow White Solitaire Charmed Kingdom, Adam Wolfe (Complete Edition), Spirit of Xanadu and three games from !C's catalogue of RTS (real time strategy) games: Real Warfare 1242 - (the Mongol Horde attack the huge sate of Russia during the XIII century, the game is based on authentic historical events), Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade - (what if the Cuban missile crisis had resulted in a World War III) and Theatre of War - (a real-time tactical strategy title depicting the most significant battles of World War II during 1939-1945.), plus a couple I've previously missed in the showcase section called Temper Tantrum and Last Man Standing).

Please Stay Safe everyone