We here at Big Download do love a good puzzler, and this one's a doozy. Straight from the TOJam 2008 competition, Goats Amoré is a puzzler that forces you to use parts of your brain you don't normally use. Thankfully, the hilarious sound makes failure funny instead of frustrating. The goal of the game is to chase down the goat on a pogo stick that is dropping all the cheese. However, you can only get by a piece of cheese if you look like it. This seems simple enough, except for the fact that there's 4 different attributes you can change: size, roundedness, color, and texture. It'll tax your brain, but you'll have a blast. We sure did!

Noticing a trend yet? A lot of the TOJam 2008 games use cheese in their graphics, if not gameplay. That's because one of the themes of this year's TOJam competition was that cheese must be somewhere, in any form, in the game. Super Cheese Repulser is another game form this competition, and like a fair bit of the other games, has cheese and mice involved.

It's a same-screen co-op (or single-player, if you have good enough reflexed) browser game where you control two anti-gravity generators. You must push the cheese using the generators over to the mousetrap, where a random animation will play to get rid of a mouse that eats your cheese. It's a very simple maze/puzzler game, but it's a blast to play and a browser game to boot!

Chu Chu Rocket has always been a puzzler classic. Guiding your mice to the rocket and away from the cats in real-time was an extremely simple but very compelling way to challenge the mind. Mousetrap Mania, a TOJam 2008 competitor, plays much like that classic, with a slight twist. You must guard your cheese for a precious 3 minutes against the mouse horde. You can do this by luring the mice onto mousetraps scattered around the level. Once again, it's and extremely simple but incredibly fun and compelling experience. The added nuance of luring and eliminating mice only makes it that much better!

A casual puzzle game is always great for a little relaxation when stress is starting to get to you. There's quite a few of them out there, many being of rather dubious quality. TTC Crowd Control is not one of those. It is a casual puzzle game that you will relish every moment you play it. A TOJam 2008 competitor, its heavily stylized artwork and compelling puzzle gameplay make it an instant classic.

You must click and drag people to put them into their seats, get them out of the subway car, and rearrange them as needed. Some people don't like being next to others, so remember that when placing them. Also, a passenger with a ! above their head wants to get off at the next stop. There's no horrible penalty for messing up, and any points lost for an incorrect decision can be regained merely by correcting the mistake. It's an excellent way to relax and work out your mind at the same time!

Deep Silver unveiled a gameplay teaser trailer for their upcoming physics-oriented puzzle game, entitled Gravity. Gravity features over 100 levels that challenge players to complete physics-based tasks such as using ramps in different ways to properly guide a ball to a button and firing balls out of cannons and into buckets.

Looks like Capcom continues to release games for the PC in downloadable formats. The publisher has officially announced Flock, a new downloadable game for the PC and other platforms. The game is the first effort from the new Scotland based Proper Games which was formed by people who worked on games like Lemmings, Crackdown and others.

In fact the game sounds a lot like Lemmings. Its premise is that you are in charge of a space ship that has to herd various farm animal inside the ship. These animals must be guided through a series of puzzles in order to reach their destination. The game uses physics to let the player do things like use a tractor beam to move obstacles out of the animals' path. There will also be co-op play and a level editor for those who want to make their own puzzles. The game is due for release this holiday.

There's no retail computer game that quite captures the gameplay feel of Munchkin, the little card game by Steve Jackson and John Kovalic. There is, however, a freeware game (just released, in fact!) that does. Loot reminds us very much of our time spent backstabbing our friends at the table, playing a Plutonium Dragon or cursing them down a level right as they are about to win.

Loot is all about exploring a dungeon and returning to the entrance before you die. When you enter a room, you may find some loot, a ladder, a trap, or any combination of the three. Loot gives you a card, a trap reduces your hit points by 1, and a ladder enables you to move down a level. It has the same exploration of rooms vibe that Munchkin does, but without the backstabbing or monsters. It's great fun and a great casual dungeon crawl.

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Games with clever physics puzzles have always been some of our favorites. Games like Epsilon or Crayon Physics Deluxe make us delighted to see their excellent mix of physics and traditional puzzle elements. Totem Destroyer is lumped together with these games, but it is far simpler. Basically a slightly more complicated game of Jenga, your goal is to remove a certain amount of blocks while keeping the golden idol off the ground. There's only three kinds of blocks, and the gameplay itself is extremely simple. But the physics-based puzzles are strangely addicting to the point that you just have to finish one more level.

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Talk about interesting concepts. Much like the browser game Puzzle Farter, Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper indulges in toilet humor. Unlike Puzzle Farter, though, it's much more tasteful. Your goal is to help Jimmy retrieve all the toilet paper scattered around each level. As the game progresses, though, you have many more objects that you must interact with. All in all it's a fairly simple game with addicting gameplay as well as lasers, lifts, and love. Oh, and we forgot to mention: it's by the ever fruitilicious Kloonigames AKA Petri Purho, that purveyor of Crayon-based physics.

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We do love a good steampunk game. Timeshift, before its change into a generic sci-fi dystopia, looked amazing. Arcanum? One of the best role-playing games we've played. It is obviously with much delight, then, that we present Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam. A sidescrolling shooter/platformer, it combines excellent sprite artwork, an interesting mechanic, and a steampunk setting to make a rather addicting browser game. The puzzles inspired by your gun are especially clever. The only complaint we have is that we wish those gentlemen we saved would tell us more about the fortress. We are curious!

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Myst Online: Uru Live has had a troubled life. First released by Ubisoft, then canceled, revived as a community project, revived under GameTap, and then canceled again. Where does this lead? Well, straight back to the community project stage, it would seem. Cyan Worlds and, more specifically, Rand Miller told the Spokesman Review that they have entered into a deal with GameTap to allow the game to be worked on by the community once again. This is great news for those players who have missed the wondrous D'ni exploration or didn't get a chance to experience the adventure gaming splendor.

If you need a game that shows cute little cartoon characters killed in various bloody ways, you are in luck. As we reported last week, the game based on the cult cartoon hit Happy Tree Friends is now available for download and purchase. Currently the only place you can get the game is via Valve's Steam service.

The game, developed by Stainless Games and published by Sega, is titled Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm and lets you keep the cute characters in the series from being killed in a number of levels Lemmings-style. It also features new animation cut scenes as well. The game costs $19.99 to download via Steam.

Hitting store shelves this week is the return of Edward Carnby in Alone in the Dark from Atari (aka Infogrames) and the Alaskan fishing simulator we've all been dreaming about, Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm. Arguably the one-two shot gamers need this summer to stave off the hot days until E3 rolls around, this week also features the addictive puzzler Roogoo and Ikea branded furnishings for your Sim characters.

While we've all grown used to random Sim related releases that sear branding into our beloved social simulator, one can't help to pray Spore sees a release soon so The Sims 3 can move to the top of Maxis' development chart. That way we can visit neighboring Sims and kick-up our feet in their lovely Wal-Mart furnished two-bedroom starter home.

Full listing of releases for the week ending June 28 can be found after the jump.

Telltale Games has announced a weighty addition to Valve's Steam service in the form of the Telltale Everything Pack. For only $69.99, adventure gamers can overdose on the first two seasons of Sam & Max, as well as Bone Episode 1 and Episode 2. Rounding out the package is Telltale Texas Hold'em, an outlandish take on the popular card game that has you competing "against four characters of such lethal absurdity, you'll either die laughing or die trying."

If $69.99 seems a steep price, consider the $59.99 price tag of Sam & Max Complete, which contains the first two seasons of Telltale's adventure series. Ten bucks more net you three extra games, which is quite a deal indeed.

Telltale Everything Pack is a fitting addition to Steam, which is quickly becoming a hot spot for revered game compilations. The id Super Pack, containing all of id Software's Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, and Commander Keen titles, is also available for $69.99. Eidos Everything, a diverse omnibus of Hitman, Thief, Deus Ex, Commandos, and Tomb Raider titles, sits at $99.99. The Complete PopCap Collection, featuring the casual gaming juggernaut's most popular hits, is also priced at $99.99.

Offering such a rich catalog of games bundled at affordable prices made us ponder collections we'd love to see available via Valve's virtual vault. A Sierra adventure pack containing all King's Quest, Gabriel Knight, Space Quest, and Police Quest titles would be fantastic.

What compilations would you like to see available on Steam, or any other digital distribution service?