Each week, Featured Freeware profiles a trio of freeware titles that we consider worth your while.

Join us why don’t you for this week’s Featured Freeware. Today’s trifecta includes a one-button side scroller, a unique platformer and a title that has players participating in boss battles, and boss battles only.

Vatn Squid (7.60 MB): Created during Game Jolt’s Weekend Jam, Ted Lauterbach’s Vatn Squid is a vertical shooter that is unique in that every battle is a boss battle. You take control of a vessel that can shield itself at the press of a button, if you collect enemy bullets during your short period of invincibility the ship’s super weapon is charged up and can be used to heavily damage your enemy.

There are a total of ten bosses to beat, see if you can make it through all of them on the first go through.

Fish Face (3.36 MB): Originally created for the Gamma IV competition, Beau Byth’s Fish Face is a one-button moving side-scroller that offers three levels to play. Here you play as a fish that uses its buoyancy to move in and out of the water, avoiding walls or enemies that will damage your fish’s face.

Red loops are there for points, while the blue ones are actually checkpoint locations that you’ll return to if/when you crash into a solid object. Playing through all three levels takes around 20-30 minutes, depending on how many times you must return to checkpoints.

Jump, Copy, Paste (2.20 MB): Hempuli’s Jump, Copy, Paste is a platformer where you deal with dead-ends and obstacles by copy and pasting parts of a level to build new platforms and create passages through walls. Certain areas are greyed out and cannot be affected by your ability, meaning you’ll have to work around as you attempt to collect all the yellow pieces to unlock the exit.

There are seventeen levels to play through, and as most good platformers do, JCP increases in difficulty as you progress through and begin to run into the likes of enemies, laser beams, sawblades, switches and portals. Very cool gamplay concept.