We have survived another week. Hope you’re all doing well. If you find today’s post to be useful, consider picking up a vTuber model or cross stitch pattern from Rose. As usual, you’re more than welcome to let me know about your project, as long as it doesn’t use AI, through email or DM. Don’t even use AI art in early prototyping, come on. It’s such a bummer to see the little AI disclaimer on a Steam page saying it was used at some point early on but they have their own art now, pinky promise. You can also just comment with stuff you’ve been playing lately.

The Games

The excellent lesbian romance boss rush BOSSGAME: The Final Boss is My Heart is now on Switch and Playstation. I was a big fan of this game, which was already on mobile and PC, so it’s nice to see it come to more platforms.

Local Heroes (Itch.io) is a one-shot tabletop rpg for 4-5 players where the players (who are playing as themselves) take on a shape changing monster in their own neighborhood. I really like Amanda’s work and I’m happy to see another game by her.

I think the biggest release this week is probably Demonschool (Steam), a tactics rpg inspired by Persona where you navigate university life and fight demons. Reviews of it seem like they’ve been very positive!

Snake-A-Roid (Steam) is a vector graphics arcade game that combines the games Snake and Asteroids. It was recommended by Rob so it’s probably a pretty great arcade game with nice flashy retro-inspired graphics.

Grove of the Felled Olives (Steam) is a free virtual memorial dedicated to the over 60,000 humans killed in Gaza between October 2023 and July 2025.

Damnatio Ad Bestias (Itch.io) is a pay-what-you-want tabletop rpg that you play with your cat and actions are based on what toys they bring you.

RUIN Ch.0 (Itch.io) is a short, free narrative adventure that you can play in the browser and serves as a celebration of the anniversary of a fictional game.

Ambrosia Sky: Act One (Steam) is described as “an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination.” There was discourse about immersive sims this week and I’m not engaging with that. You all can have fun with that one. Even though it’s labeled as Act One, my understanding is that it still feels like a satisfying experience.

Early Access

Cleared Hot (Steam) is a spiritual sequel to games like Desert/Jungle Strike where you fly a helicoptor around in an isometric perspective and blow things up.

Moonlighter 2 (Steam). I never played the first one but this looks like an action rpg and probably of interest to people that liked the first one.

The Diner at the End of the Galaxy (Steam) is, as British people love to say, what it says on the tin. It’s a management game where you run a diner on another planet.

Wishlist

Some games just got Steam pages and might be of interest to folks here.

Gilt is an upcoming point-and-click adventure by Ben Chandler and published by Wadjet Eye Games. As expected by anything Ben is working on, the art looks incredible.

Return to Dark Castle is a new entry in the classic computer game series by the original series designer. I heard these games maybe don’t hold up but I used to play the first game on the Amiga a lot so I’ll probably check this one out too.

TR-49 is a new interactive fiction game by Inkle so into my wishlist it goes.

I really liked picoCAD so I’m happy to see it getting a new version.