Did you know that about a billion new games come out every day and a lot of them are good? I feel like I cover a lot of games in these things and yet I know I’m leaving out tons of great stuff that is covered elsewhere. I just think that’s neat. The very good website No Escape said it’s not covering AAA games next year and focusing more on indie stuff, so if you would like to see more coverage of indie games, consider supporting their Patreon.
Anyway, here are some games. I have a big backlog of things to post about and more games keep coming out, so expect a few more of these roundups on a more regular basis.
Pomo Planet (Itch.io) is just a very cute pomodoro timer for your desktop, available as Pay-What-You-Want.
The Warrens (Steam) is a first-person horror immersive sim where you need to escape a murderous cult of rabbit-headed men. It has a demo too!
Fiction in the Space Between (Itch.io) is a collection of various ttrpg things inspired by Tracy Chapman songs.
Apparatus: Exanimus (Steam) is a first-person adventure horror game about navigating unsettling corridors and features a nice aesthetic inspired by late 90s 3D games.
Dragon Slayers (Itch.io) is a ttrpg by Gila RPGs and does the adventuring and fighting things in a fantasy setting thing, but is based on the Slayers rules so it’s much easier to pick up and play than the big fantasy ttrpg.
Q-UP (Steam) is a game about a coin flipping eSport that I’ve seen a lot of folks praising but don’t know a whole lot about. It’s the year of coin flipping games I guess. I’ve also seen a lot of comparisons to Balatro, a game that maybe isn’t quite for me but I know basically everyone loves. There’s a much better writeup of Q-UP here.
It continues to be an amazing year for adventure games. TRACE Definitive Edition (Steam) is a remaster of a first-person escape room adventure game from 2022 where you explore a strange planet. There’s also a demo if you want to give it a try.
There’s actually quite a few remasters and remakes of adventure games this last week. We had the (not indie but including it anyway) Syberia 1 remake (Steam) that just came out and also one for Intrigue At Oakhaven (Steam) from 2006. It’s not a game I ever heard of, but I have a weird fondness for adventure games from this era, when the genre was “dead” (it wasn’t but that’s a whole other topic) and you had a lot of weird low budget adventure games coming out during this time. Intrigue at Oakhaven still looks like a mid 00s adventure game even in the remake so I’m very curious about this. It’s fascinating to get two 00s adventure game remakes in the same week.
Generation Exile (Steam) is a turn-based city-builder set on a generation starship, where you must take care of your society in a sustainable way. This just entered Early Access but looks nice and the reviews so far look very positive.
Demos
TÖLT (Itch.io) is an upcoming game by the creator of horror games like The Enigma Machine and ECHOSTASIS with a look inspired by early 3D games. You are a horse. This is an unhinged observation from me but something about it reminds me of Lego Island.
SHRIMP GAME (Steam) is a solo or multiplayer third-person shooter RPG set in an abyssal realm. You pilot a shrimp and fight giant sea monsters.
That’s it for today’s post but I’m still working from my giant list of releases this week so expect more posts over the next few days. As usual, feel free to let me know if you’re working on something as long as it doesn’t use AI. Emails are nice too.