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Night Plane review – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip
Liquid Static Studio released Night Plane, a retro-style horror game for PC in which players work as a flight attendant on a jumbo jet. The game start…
Cyberpunk trading sim Probably Stolen is about running a kiosk in a space station full of gangs, megacorps, and secret rogue cyborgs
Probably Stolen, a cyberpunk trading sim from Questing Goose Studio, puts you in charge of a kiosk aboard a backwater space station. You buy and sell …
"Every piece is unified": Dark Messiah of Might and Magic returns with co-op, an Adventure mode, a level generator and New Game+ in the 64-bit Community Edition
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Arkane Studios' 2006 first-person RPG, receives a comprehensive overhaul through the Community Edition, a fan-made mo…
I’m Having A Blast Waiting In Line For An Hour To Play One Minute Of A Platformer With One Million Levels
# Playing Infinite Levels: One Gamer's Journey Through Queue Culture At Gaming Events The headline cuts to the heart of modern convention culture. A …
"IT FLIPS UP," Fallout New Vegas modders yell after releasing a funky Pip-Boy based on cancelled entry Van Buren's design docs
Fallout New Vegas modders working on Fallout: The New West have released a functional Pip-Boy mod inspired by Van Buren, the cancelled Fallout 3 that …
Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionists
Moon Sweepers drops players into an absurdist cleaning simulator where the job is to restore an entire lunar surface using nothing but a toothbrush. T…
Woim is the earth-guzzling, self-bisecting sokoban pick-me-up I needed after a week of games industry disasters
Woim arrives at a peculiar moment. The indie puzzle game launched this week while the games industry weathered significant turbulence, including BioWa…
Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"
Paolo Pedercini, developer of the open-world eco-satire Future? No Thanks!, has removed AI-generated voices from his game and extended refunds to play…
Abelina is a strange, platforming romp through a natural afterlife from a former League of Legends animator and the composer of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil
Abelina casts players into a surreal afterlife platformer built by a former League of Legends animator and scored by the composer behind Zach Cregger'…
"System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being one
Dave Oshry, head of New Blood Interactive, has publicly stated that marketing an immersive sim means avoiding the term "immersive sim" altogether. The…
HELENA : Cloud District is a megastructure photography game laser targeted at my interests, and it's out next week
HELENA: Cloud District launches next week as a photography-focused exploration game built around megastructure aesthetics. The title centers on captur…
Paralives' first major update slips to next year, but when it comes you can expect some pretty meaty improvements for all of its main features
Paralives' developer Alex Massie has announced that the life simulation game's first major update will arrive in 2025, pushing back the timeline from …
Reel out garbage from a flooded planet and make number go up as satisfyingly as you can in the incremental fishing game Selkie's Salvage&Co.
Selkie's Salvage&Co. takes the incremental game formula and applies it to an unlikely premise: fishing garbage from a flooded planet. The game transfo…
My favorite indie roguelike action RPG is tempting me to come back with a transformative new update inspired by Diablo seasons
Hell Clock released a transformative update called Journey of Miracles that reshapes the indie roguelike action RPG without an expiration date. The up…
"Too big a risk": Moonlighter devs delay new game's demo for fear of genAI cloning, calling on platforms to "keep strengthening protections for original work"
Digital Sun Games, developers of Moonlighter and Cataclismo, postponed a planned Steam playtest for their upcoming game ReVamp. The studio cited conce…
Moonlighter studio won't host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: 'We know we're not the only developers feeling this way'
Moonlighter studio Digital Sun Games announced it will not hold a public playtest for its upcoming game ReVamp. Instead, the studio plans to run a lim…
The Mortuary Assistant Film Director Jeremiah Kipp Passes Away
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Nonolith traps you in a living maze and challenges you to find hidden terrain magic using good old copy-paste
Nonolith places players inside a living maze where they must navigate using tools available from the start rather than unlockable abilities. The game …
Send in the Clown is a turn-based RPG comedy about fighting one annoying child at a birthday party where there's only one fight in the whole game
Send in the Clown is a turn-based RPG built around comedy, a rare mechanical focus for games. The title casts players as a clown tasked with saving a …
Haunted Chocolatier Is Still Missing, But This Freaky Tea Party Sim Could Scratch Your Itch
Haunted Chocolatier, the upcoming game from ConcernedApe, remains without a release date as the developer continues its development process. Players s…
Let’s All Be Happy This AAA Minesweeper Game Isn’t Real
Writer and programmer Mike Lacher created a parody Triple-A Minesweeper game that satirizes modern video game development trends. The fully playable b…
Gargantuan cop immersive sim Militsioner now has an acrophobia-inducing demo, and yes, I did somehow manage to fail the tutorial
Militsioner, an immersive sim currently in development, has released a playable demo. The game centers on an absurdist premise involving a towering po…
Developer Goes Into Debt Spending $1,000 A Day To Keep Steam Demo For AI-Fueled Driving Sim Going
A developer behind the AI-driven racing game "Teach My Little Sister How To Drive" faces mounting debt from running its Steam demo. The game consumes …
You can now sign up to playtest the genre-bending Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, and while you're at it the original is free for a few days too
Daniel Mullins' upcoming Pony Island 2: Panda Circus now accepts playtest signups. The game represents another genre-blending project from Mullins, wh…
Three Years Later, The Outlast Trials Just Smashed Its Concurrent-Player Record
Red Barrels' co-op horror game The Outlast Trials reached a new concurrent-player record of over 120,000 players. The previous peak came during the ga…
ROTETRA is Tetris where the blocks fall from four different sides at once and lord almighty I don't have the brainspace to be good at it, but it sure is fun
ROTETRA presents a Tetris variant where tetromino blocks fall simultaneously from all four directions of the playfield, creating a significantly more …
Someone Made A Fun Soccer Romhack For Ocarina Of Time And—God Damnit, It’s Vibe-Coded
A fan-made romhack of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time replaces traditional dungeon puzzles with soccer gameplay. The project, titled "Goal Skullt…
The Other One: Jordan Magnuson's Game Poem jam is a fascinating collection of chimeras
Luis "Ludipe" Díaz Peralta created "Sometimes I Wonder About The Other Me," a 2D platformer that explores parallel narratives through split-screen des…
"Getting sidetracked doesn’t feel too unnatural": Baldur's Gate 3 Act Two Expansion modder on how they seamlessly fit a "detour" to fight an army into the RPG's plot
Modder SquallyDaBeanz has created an ambitious Act Two expansion for Baldur's Gate 3, inserting a substantial new campaign chapter between the base ga…
Sometimes the thing you need is a wonderfully ethereal physics platformer jam game where you are a little round guy with very stretchy arms called Big Stretch
# The Ethereal Appeal of Big Stretch: Why Minimalist Physics Platformers Matter Big Stretch, a physics-based platformer from a game jam, strips away …
After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library
Strange Scaffold, the indie studio behind the delightfully deranged Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and its sequel, returns with Something is Wr…
Set up your own ramen bar and explore a voxel cyberpunk city in the slice-of-lifey Nivalis Nights, out now
Nivalis Nights launches today as a slice-of-life spin-off set in the voxel cyberpunk world of Cloudpunk. The game flips the script on the original del…
The Tower of Zeldaga is a free retro mash-up of Zelda and Druaga in which you rescue Ganondorf from some evil blonde queen
A new free browser game called The Tower of Zeldaga flips the script on Nintendo's legendary Zelda franchise by casting players as rescuers of Ganondo…
Keepsake County Is A Nihilistic Delinquency Simulator Where Anything That Isn’t Bolted Down Is Yours For The Taking
Keepsake County marks the return of Midnight Ultra's creators to a radically different project. The upcoming game positions itself as a nihilistic del…
Fright Train is the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative I've played in ages, despite starring a dog
Fright Train arrives as a refreshing alternative to Call of Duty Zombies, delivering wave-based survival shooting that stands out precisely because it…
Steam’s Punk Games Showcase Hates AI Slop, Loves Blowing Up Nazis
Steam launches its Punk Games Showcase on October 9, a week-long digital festival celebrating games that embody punk ethos and explicitly reject gener…
King Of Dragon Pass Creator Wants You To Get The Crew Together
A'Games (formerly Gloranthan Games), the studio behind the cult classic King of Dragon Pass, has announced Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, a ta…
In Saraab: Beyond The Veil, Your Inner Demons Are Coming For You This November
Solo developer Lubna Ahmed launches Saraab: Beyond the Veil on November 3, bringing Arabian folklore-inspired horror to PC via Steam and Itch.io. The …
TALON TOWERS is a Fumito Ueda-coded parkour platformer about hopping around massive structures while avoiding falling to your foggy doom
TALON TOWERS taps into the artistic sensibility that defined Fumito Ueda's most celebrated work. This parkour platformer channels the Japanese auteur'…
Suplex and shatter glass enemies after being in prison for committing a cardinal crime in the psychological horror beat 'em up Brokensides
Brokensides merges psychological horror with beat 'em up combat in a way that genuinely defies convention. The game casts players as a violent sea bun…
Video Game Menu: The Game is all about everyone's favourite gaming pastime: pressing random buttons in the menus and seeing what they change
A new indie game flips the script on what players expect from video games. Video Game Menu: The Game, developed as a tongue-in-cheek experience, trans…
Nobody Talk To Me Until I Finish Building My Perfect Mouse House With Picross Puzzles
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home lands as a fresh fusion that merges the cozy life-sim mechanics of Animal Crossing with the logic-puzzle foundation of Ma…
Wild Arms Spiritual Successor Armed Fantasia Seemingly Discontinued By Publisher
# Armed Fantasia's Troubled Journey Ends in Silence Armed Fantasia, the spiritual successor to the cult-classic Wild Arms series, appears dead. Publi…
A Vanillaware Veteran Is Making A 2D Multimedia Fantasy IP With An All-New Studio
A veteran artist from Vanillaware is launching an ambitious multimedia venture called the Ignisphere Project, anchored by a new 2D action RPG titled D…
Colourful JRPG Armed Fantasia has been cancelled, four years after a successful Kickstarter campaign descended into delays and lawsuits
Armed Fantasia, a colorful JRPG backed by former Wild Arms producer Akifumi Kaneko, has been cancelled after four years of development hell following …
LOVE alt delete is a Y2K horror visual novel where you use one AI chatbot to help you date another that, don't worry, doesn't use the nasty generative stuff
LOVE alt delete arrives as a psychological horror visual novel that weaponizes AI anxiety into compelling genre storytelling. The game tasks players w…
I definitely suck at Iron Bramble's metroidvania grappling hook platforming, but its cyber-gothic megastructure world has me hungry for more
Iron Bramble arrives as the spiritual successor to Rusted Moss, the grappling hook metroidvania that carved out a devoted following. Developer Thot Pi…
Packed Lair, out today, is a Tetris-adjacent base builder about cramming as much as you can into a tiny evil lair to aid your army in conquering the world
Packed Lair launches today as a genuinely fresh take on base building, blending Tetris-style spatial puzzles with roguelike progression and auto-battl…