The Bucket List

Transport Tycoon Deluxe rebuilt as open source and still patched: bigger maps, better trains, no bankruptcy screen.

The open-source Elasto Mania: a motorbike, gravity, and levels the community has been drawing since 2005.

Monkeys throwing darts at balloons; the tower defence game that turned into a twenty-year series.

Dig down in a mining pod, sell ore, upgrade the drill, and go deeper than your fuel allows exactly once.

A ninja with too much momentum, ninety seconds a level, and physics that make every death your own fault.

Draw a line, watch a sledge ride it, and lose an evening building a track that lands the jump.

An Atari puzzle game about a robot pushing crates and dodging lasers, still being remade forty years on.

A beat-em-up set in Gdynia with a broken bottle as a weapon; the most Polish game ever released.

The first Polish adventure game: a journalist, a stolen statuette and 1993 EGA graphics drawn by hand.

A point-and-click made in Krakow: a teenager recruited as a secret agent, and one of the few adventure games with a Polish sense of humour that translated.

A Polish turn-based tactical horror game in a Silesian town that NATO would rather nobody looked at.

Bomberman on the Amiga and DOS, and the four-player mode that ruined friendships in one afternoon.