NAL Is Alive
Chequered Ink Ltd. · 2016 · Indie, Early Access, Gore, Violent, Platformer
PC
Positive91% · 35 📉 Recent reviews down 71%
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About NAL Is Alive
Over 13 years, and over 130 games. All made by one hobbyist-turned-full-time developer. And now, for the first time, available in one cohesive package in the form of NAL Is Alive!
NAL Is Alive is a compendium containing everything by NAL, released under the NALGames pseudonym between 2003 and today, wrapped up in a launcher that also universally tracks your statistics and highscores for each game*, the latter being compared against the world in Steam-exclusive online leaderboards*.
Containing the good - Maddening Relapse 2! Hi Me Ro Me! Innoquous 4! Ne Touchez Pas! Prisnhax! Frankenfirearm! Lab Wagon!
And the bad - Aardvark Cwm! Gemocide! Clickfire!
...and almost everything inbetween! Ever wanted to work it on a pogo stick? SohoPogoHo hears you! Fancy going around peeing on people? Signal Failure! You can assume the role of a redhead killing your opposers of the world in Infidels, or become a little robot fixing the big robot it resides in with Titan Tighten.
Need a rhythm game fix while also improving your touch typing proficiency? Bullet Hills sees you typing to the music! Need a music game that has instead has no rhythm? Melodika gets you to suck a stream of icons into a recepticle to any track of your choosing! Need to inject yourself to help forget the nightmarous legion of female stalkers planning on kissing you to death? Yeah, that's in here too with Overly Attracted Stalkers. So's the one where you're a dog in a ball unloading clips of everything from water pistols to rocket shotguns at mutant bags of blood - Lyssandra and the Amplegores. And the one where you get to play an interactive advert for a fictional Japanese dish cleaner while a man touts its superior viscosity to you, Japanese Infomercial.
All of these and more, being taken through an ongoing process to bring them up to spec* - dropping the MIDI music from the really old stuff in favour of more listenable MP3s, knocking every game's resolution and FPS up to 1080p/60 (potentially again up to 4K in the future), improving their gameplay and their graphics, adding the aforementioned Steam leaderboards... you name it.
It's presented in a somewhat light-hearted way, and many of the games are pretty silly, but this pack truly does represent a huge chunk of my life - everything I made independently from being an 11 year old kid that had to download Game Maker 5.0 onto a school computer and bring it home on 3.5" floppy discs thanks to the speed of my home internet, to a currently 25 year old making games and other stuff full-time.
*Please note: not all games will support the update features during NAL Is Alive's Early Access development. As of writing, approx 80 games contain Steam Leaderboards, and approx 40 are completely upscaled to 1080p/60.
NAL Is Alive is a compendium containing everything by NAL, released under the NALGames pseudonym between 2003 and today, wrapped up in a launcher that also universally tracks your statistics and highscores for each game*, the latter being compared against the world in Steam-exclusive online leaderboards*.
Containing the good - Maddening Relapse 2! Hi Me Ro Me! Innoquous 4! Ne Touchez Pas! Prisnhax! Frankenfirearm! Lab Wagon!
And the bad - Aardvark Cwm! Gemocide! Clickfire!
...and almost everything inbetween! Ever wanted to work it on a pogo stick? SohoPogoHo hears you! Fancy going around peeing on people? Signal Failure! You can assume the role of a redhead killing your opposers of the world in Infidels, or become a little robot fixing the big robot it resides in with Titan Tighten.
Need a rhythm game fix while also improving your touch typing proficiency? Bullet Hills sees you typing to the music! Need a music game that has instead has no rhythm? Melodika gets you to suck a stream of icons into a recepticle to any track of your choosing! Need to inject yourself to help forget the nightmarous legion of female stalkers planning on kissing you to death? Yeah, that's in here too with Overly Attracted Stalkers. So's the one where you're a dog in a ball unloading clips of everything from water pistols to rocket shotguns at mutant bags of blood - Lyssandra and the Amplegores. And the one where you get to play an interactive advert for a fictional Japanese dish cleaner while a man touts its superior viscosity to you, Japanese Infomercial.
All of these and more, being taken through an ongoing process to bring them up to spec* - dropping the MIDI music from the really old stuff in favour of more listenable MP3s, knocking every game's resolution and FPS up to 1080p/60 (potentially again up to 4K in the future), improving their gameplay and their graphics, adding the aforementioned Steam leaderboards... you name it.
It's presented in a somewhat light-hearted way, and many of the games are pretty silly, but this pack truly does represent a huge chunk of my life - everything I made independently from being an 11 year old kid that had to download Game Maker 5.0 onto a school computer and bring it home on 3.5" floppy discs thanks to the speed of my home internet, to a currently 25 year old making games and other stuff full-time.
*Please note: not all games will support the update features during NAL Is Alive's Early Access development. As of writing, approx 80 games contain Steam Leaderboards, and approx 40 are completely upscaled to 1080p/60.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
NAL Is Alive is one of those games where you start thinking: “I’ll just check it out for a bit.” And then, somehow, an hour later you’re still there, fully locked in, actually caring about what’s happening on the screen 😅 It doesn’t feel like you’re just playing a game. It feels more like you’ve been pulled into its world a little. And every now and then it throws something at you that makes you go: “okay… I did NOT expect that.” The gameplay isn’t about being overly complicated for no reason. It’s more about keeping you slightly on edge, never letting you fully relax — and it does that really well. And the worst part (in a good way) is that you keep wanting to stop… but there’s always that thought: “okay, just five more minutes…” 👀 NAL Is Alive isn’t the kind of game you just finish and forget. It’s the kind that quietly stays in your head long after you’ve closed it 😄11 found this helpful
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Adopted a pixel pal, now he wants coffee and salary. Yesterday I saved him from antivirus, today he saved me from wife. Nine lives out of ten, grab and friend at boot!2 found this helpful
NAL Is Alive, developed and published by Chequered Ink Ltd., is an expansive and deeply personal anthology that functions more as an interactive archive than a single, cohesive game. It brings together over 130 titles spanning more than a decade of creative experimentation from the independent developer known as NAL. Rather than presenting one unified experience, it serves as a collection of wildly varied projects—some complete, others fragmentary—each offering a glimpse into the developer’s evolving craft, style, and ideas over the years. The result is something between a museum exhibition and a living retrospective, a chronicle of growth that reveals both the successes and the imperfections of an independent creator’s long career. From the moment the launcher opens, NAL Is Alive establishes itself as an unconventional journey. The player isn’t led through a linear campaign but given the freedom to explore an eclectic library of standalone games, each distinct in tone, genre, and ambition. Some are quick arcade-style experiences focused on reflex and precision, while others delve into puzzling, platforming, or minimalist experimentation. The launcher itself provides structure, un…1 found this helpful
Containing the good... And the bad
This "game" has 130 games and most are quote similar to each others. But it's super low price, is not bad. It has many "brainrotting" time killing games. For achievements hunters, who likes to get 100% I cant recommend this game, since achievements are buggy. They are not broken, but buggy and you need to try several time and have lotsa lucks to get them.
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