Despite its spartan theme, Dead Pixels feels graphically lush and every aspect of the game shows careful attention to detail. Controls are just loose enough to create challenge, scene transitions are soothingly smooth, and there's not a glitch or bug to be found.
Shovelware Tycoon is a true web game, written in PHP and running on its own domain with an SQL back-end. Players interact through the sales charts, and can sabotage each others' titles.
Suddenly, Thousands comes from an experienced designer. This really shows in the way the game explains its goals and mechanics without needing a tutorial or other instructions, and the way each level's challenges build off what you learned from the previous.