For some reason, we just can't get a break from pony games with guns, particularly DOOM-likes. We have here two very short but sweet games about a dragon going on a slaughter for his waifu and a schizo going on a slaughter for her husbando, respectively.

The former game features our favorite purple reptilian going on a vengeful genocide — no, we're not talking about Barney — against the diamond dogs and a mysterious other antagonist group to rescue his kidnapped waifu, Rarity. The story is basically non-existent, besides the beginning cutscene displaying Spike's grief, which in combination with the extremely muscular depiction of him on the title screen, leads me to the conclude that he binge-ate gems all day to become like that.

The latter is the real highlight, telling Lyra's heart-wrenching "rescue" mission of the newly-discovered human in Equestria. Bon Bon kindly gives her the location to the S.M.I.L.E. headquarters, to which Lyra gratefully responds by stealing and crashing her car on the way to the destination.

Lyra's Rampage is an incredible adventure, with masterfully rendered and voice-acted cutscenes, spanning several unexpected encounters with foes and allies alike, and journeys through worlds which will challenge your capability to withstand the vast absurdity of the game more than your gaming skills.

Several years after the official release of this game, people still can't get enough of it. Fans of this fangame of this fanfiction (insane chain of fandom going on here) have put this incredible game on Steam, including multiple mods adding new content altogether, fixing notorious crash issues, and many much-needed balance patches — though I won't forgive the mod creators for nerfing my favorite spell to oblivion.

Magic Project Friendship — that one with the ponies and the guns, if you forgot — has received an update with the new Arena mode, taking place 2 years before the main story line and putting you in the metaphorical shoes of Bon Bon as she trains to become the leader of the new S.M.I.L.E. under Twilight's rule with her direct supervision.

Please stop looking at me like that. It gives me the feeling that you are really into this.

The story follows Bon Bon working her way up from the bottom to regain her skills as the rightful S.M.I.L.E. leader after losing them during her retirement. The gameplay consists of fighting off waves of enemies in Twilight's Combat Training Program which she stole from Morpheus from the Matrix, a pocket dimension where all enemies and fights and deaths are purely simulations. During these waves your combat skills are tested against increasingly more stacked enemies, and some familiar faces too. Inbetween waves you will go to the armoury to spend your skill points, buy new weapons and recruit ponies into your own squad.

Also the ponies have big funny hats now.

Friendship Melody is a cross-platform, guitar-hero-like browser-based rhythm game with mobile and controller support. It's available exclusively on the MLP Forums, featuring 5 classic pony songs listed below:

Yes, those are my scores on all the tracks. I really don't like rhythm games and my performance reflects that

The game has returned for 3 weeks, lasting until the 11th of June (I sure hope that does not mean it will be gone forever after that). Alongside it is its corresponding event on the MLP Forums, which awards you an exclusive badge for completing the two new levels, those being "The Magic of Friendship Grows" and "Rules of Rarity," provided you have an account (as the game has the MLP Forums account system integrated into it) and submit your score in the comments of the event's thread.

Now, unless you're an active user of the site—meaning you probably already knew about the game—the badge is of lesser importance. But who knows? Maybe you’ll like it on the MLP Forums. An admin replied to me and had a casual chat with me via private messages immediately after I created my account. That’s some exceptional treatment for random users!

Spike's Mundane Adventures is a trilogy of fetch quest adventure games created by horror_and_oates — also known as sonicboy112 — presenting the rare moments when the bravest, most glorious dragon... gets a day off from Twilight.

The series consists of three games:

1. Spike's Day Off
2. Spike's Day Out
3. Spike's Time Off

During these rare breaks from helping Twilight, we see the mundane adventures Spike embarks upon during his free time, such as:

• Getting a hot dog for a friend
• Getting a gift for Twilight
• Saving Trixie from homelessness and starvation and securing her a roof under her head
• Going on a quest of discovering his place in the world and where he belongs
• Wait wha—WIND THAT BACK—

Just an average weekend, really.

The series follows Spike during his days off from helping Twilight and displays his inability to get any real time off as he constantly takes it upon himself to solve the problems of pony kind on his own (you see, he is not solving Twilight's problems, so it's totally different). These tasks seem simple initially but end up taking Spike on increasingly wackier adventures from a cast of familiar ponies who resemble Looney Tunes characters more and more as the story develops.

It is amidst this that the foundation for some remarkably touchy moments is laid upon, with each installment building up to strikingly touching moments like the bonding between Spike and Trixie over the efforts of making ends meet and Spike's journey to discover his place amongst pony kind or dragon kind.

The series is relatively linear with very light puzzles, which makes for a relaxing experience combined with the serene soundtrack plus the lovely chibi and chubby artstyle.

If you wanna take a look at the games without playing, we also have full playthroughs on our youtube channel for each of them.

Magic Project Friendship is a new mod of Madness Project Nexus. The mod released... today! This is an Equestria Gaming original!

Don't know what Madness Combat is? That maybe is for the better considering the theme of this site. Basically it's like little gray flour sack-looking ""people"" murdering eachother gruesomely... but now it is ponies.

Anyways.

The plot of the game follows Starlight Glimmer breaking Trixie out of jail after being imprisoned by Twilight for the Alicorn Amulet incident—as all good friends would do, obviously. We follow the two quirky mares safely outside Twilight's chambers where they encounter... changelings? The Mane 6 take note of this and split off to investigate, revealing that numerous of their least favorite villains are back again—despite having been reformed like 12 times before or something—and want REVENGE, WOW THAT IS SO SCARY shivers. They have learned from their previous encounters that the Elements of Harmony aren't very good at shutting up villains, so now guns will do the talking.

It is amidst this chaos that the princess herself, in-between the slaughter, feels inclined to lore-dump—EXPLAIN to us about her new project to make ponies more friendly to eachother, the titular "Magic Project Friendship", a spell which she plans to cast on every creature in and outside Equestria. Surely this won't be a major plot element which we will learn the unpleasant details of later, right. Totally and absolutely, but unfortuntaly Trixie disagrees, as she goes on to investigate on her lonesome the intricacies of this Project, because she just cares oh-oh so much about Equestria (she just wants revenge on Twilight Sparkle).

You can watch our playthrough to get an idea of the game on the channel:

Yeah, so, funny story: while replaying Scoot Hard DX, I randomly stumbled upon the ORIGINAL Wolfenstein mod, Scoot Hard. I myself thought it was lost to time, but it's here, rough edges and all.

There is very little information about the game out there, without even a trailer to speak off. The only real source for this game is a short (and innacurate) page on the Wolfenstein Fandom Wiki about it, which is how I stumbled onto it.

Originally released in 2012 as a beta. (hoo boy!) It received a handful of revisions until late 2017, accumulating to a 3 episode experience which is even more brutal than its successor. (Do NOT play this game on the hardest difficulty. It is NOT fun.)

Wolfenstein enjoyers will surely get a knack out of it, but casual players who have little to no experience with the classic Wolfenstein games should:

1. Move their ego aside and play on one of the easier difficulties.
2. Watch a playthrough of it
or...
3. Just play the successor...

The game is a product of its time, and while a lot of the charm is still there — high-resolution cartoony graphics, silly enemy one-liners and high quality music and sound design — the game is limited by being a Wolfenstein mod, requiring you to learn keyboard-only controls for a first-person shooter, which will throw you off for a good bit. For historical reasons it should be known and documented, because the pristine gem that is Scoot Hard DX might not have been born without it, but if you want to experience the definite interactive story of Scootaloo running and gunning her way through the Rainbow Factory, just play Scoot Hard DX.