Necesse is a blend of quite a lot of genres that can end up a bit like a top-down Terraria, it's awesome and it's finally out properly. No more Early Access for this one, but like a lot of games nowadays it's not actually the end. It's the 1.0 but there's a lot more to come for it.

Those looking for a spooky but not scary game this Halloween season should look no further than Strange Antiquities, developer Bad Viking’s sequel to 2022’s Strange Horticulture. This rich, vibe-heavy indie game is perfect for lovers of reading and thought-provoking challenges.

Make no mistake: This is not your average visual novel. Strange Antiquities features a variety of puzzles, riddles, and opportunities for exploration. What’s more, your actions selling magical goods in the town of Undermere have consequences — you could curse someone’s ex-friend, help a cult leader assert power, empower a customer through their fears (or not), and even kill your boss, though that last one might be by accident.

8-Bit Adventures 1: The Forgotten Journey Remastered Edition is a retro-styled JRPG with polish and personality, that focuses less on references (although there are plenty!) and more on telling a story...

8-Bit Adventures 2 is everything you love about NES, SNES and PS1-era JRPGs - with all of the charm, heart and soul, but none of the inconvenience. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!

Relive the days of past social gaming networks in VIDEOVERSE – A decision-based narrative adventure focusing on character development, friendship and love, from the developer behind One Night Stand.

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When a mysterious mechanical base begins to emerge in the Silent Forest, it falls to the focused and pacifist Agent Pax to infiltrate it. On a mission to deactivate the "Magic Gear," the factory's heart, and rescue her captured comrades, Pax will face any challenge to get the job done. After all, the future of peace... and her General's lasagna, depend on it.

Shamogu is a coffee-break roguelike game with a focus on tactical movement and careful timing of totemic spirit invocation and comestible consumption. Visibility and noise stealth mechanics also play an important role.

Ball x Pit is like Breakout in that the goal is to shoot balls at blocks. That said, many of those balls have special attributes, like shooting a laser horizontally or healing the player every time they hit an enemy. You also don't always need to catch them before they reach the bottom of the screen; they'll just bounce or return to you so you can shoot them again. This emphasis on action is where the Vampire Survivors influence comes in. The blocks are enemies that can attack and kill the player, so the player has to fight back by leveling up to obtain new balls and passive abilities.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

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Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

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A spiritual return to Spencer Mansion from Resident evil

A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.

Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.

Turns out, once you drop the price of your game to free on Steam, you're not allowed to charge for it ever again. I didn't realize that, and neither did Pico Park developer Tecopark. That's why Pico Park: Classic Edition is free right now, and will be forever, after its price was dropped to zero with the intention of introducing new paid plans for the game at a later date.

D*Fuzed is a modern-made retro game where you are a small robot, looking to save your friends.

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

From the creators of Battle Chef Brigade comes Battle Suit Aces, a charming card-battling RPG. You'll recruit, befriend, and upgrade mech pilots on a heartfelt hunt for alien superweapons: the Relic Suits. Command them across monster-infested galactic wilds through sci-fi shenanigans and disasters.

Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Making games is hard. But that doesn’t stop the thousands upon thousands of talented developers who put in good time to bring their dream game ideas to life. One of those developers is Klub Kofta Studio, a one-man “club” who recently put out their non-traditional tower defence title ‘Operation Octo’, which derives some heavy inspiration from everyone’s favourite lawn defence title ‘Plants vs. Zombies’. Operation Octo has received plenty of positive traction and fans have expressed how much they love the game to the developer, which in turn helped shape the game into the way it is today.

Recently, I had the chance to ask Klub Kofta Studio about themselves, making games (particularly this game about octopuses, of course), and what their thoughts are on the industry as a whole. You’ll find that transcript below and hopefully, you get an idea about how the squid legs are made.

Shrine's Legacy takes pretty clear influence from classic SNES-era 16-bit RPGs, with a fun blend of Zelda-style puzzles and action-based combat. Fortunately, it does an admirable job of using that inspiration to create its own identity, and doesn't rely too much on the nostalgia of your youth. The combat does feel a little stiff, while the magic and jewel system is unnecessarily complicated. But even so, if you're looking for an action RPG that scratches that retro itch, Shrine's Legacy is definitely one worth diving into.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

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Sling discs through stylized cityscapes in this casual, physics-based disc golf game. Aim for the basket or rack up trick shots by bouncing discs off rooftops, signs, and benches in colorful urban environments.