It’s finally starting to warm up here in the metro Detroit area and even as someone who actually loves winter and snow, it’s been a nice break from the cold. Whenever we get the first one of these during the season, my attitude usually shifts into “ok, let’s get this winter thing done with and move into spring weather.” Unfortunately that’s not how that works and we’ll probably get a surprise snow storm or two over the next month. Ah well. This week I’m highlighting this page to help folks in Minnesota with housing, and any donations would be nice. Consider sharing these posts with friends and adding the site to your RSS feed reader because they take a while to write lol. If you like today’s post, feel free to leave a comment about something nice in your life lately or let me know about your game, as long as it doesn’t use AI in any way. You can always send me an email (see About page) if you prefer to say hi or tell me about your game that way.

First I would like to mention Aerial_Knight’s DropShot, which I’ve already picked up and played through. It’s amazing. Like if someone made Aaaaaaaaa – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity a FPS. You fall through the sky and shoot other people and dragons. Love it, love it, love it. Also on Playstation and Xbox.

I think I’ve mentioned Sylvie‘s games on here a few times, I’m a big fan, and now you can download all of them up through 2024 in a collection for free here. It’s a lot of games but the download is fairly small and the page itself gives recommendations for where to start.

I forgot to mention it last week but the creator of Bitsy made a tool for writing interactive fiction for calculators using Twine.

Enjoy this browser toy for generating random walks in Toronto.

MOONROT (Steam/Itch.io) is a short horror game about piloting a rover across a moon. I really like the developer’s game Frogsong, which is kinda the polar opposite of this, but I get excited when I see people do very different things.

Horripilant (Steam) is a horror dungeon crawler/idle game? I was literally griping on Discord about how Vermis I is a very good book but also makes me sad that it’s not a real game, and then this pops up in my feed and the dev says it’s an influence. Did I manifest the game and rewrite reality? Probably

I know nothing about Horsey Game but people seem very excited for it so I will link to it here and let you have at it.

The Killing Stone is a nice looking one that has entered Early Access. It’s a card battler with 17th century occult stuff. I just think it looks cool and it’s by the folks that made The Magic Circle.

LUGE 2026 is a browser game where you have 3 attempts at a daily run that gets ranked against other players.

Walfie’s Nonograms is a free Picross-like for the Game Boy. I am a Picross sicko and will happily take more. This one happens to have very charming art and music too. I guess this type of game is actually called a nonogram.

Speaking of which, we also got CiniCross this week, which combines nonograms with dungeon crawling and roguelites. There’s a demo if you want to try it out.

Palpus X Annihilation is an Alien Shooter-like that just came out. That’s probably only going to mean something to a handful of people but they will probably be excited. This one also has a demo.

An Abyss of Dreams is a first-person cosmic horror point-and-click adventure set in Quebec and the entire game is voiced in French. I don’t think I see games set there very often. I think I heard about this one through Adventure Game Hotspot. Has a demo.

Cold Calling is an alternate history Cold War comedy where you operate a switchboard and features some adventure game elements as well.

Rex is a pay-what-you-want platformer that is apparently a remake of a ZX Spectrum game. From looking at their Itch profile, it looks like they have done a lot of remakes of ZX Spectrum games. I really appreciate folks that do free remakes of older games and help keep the memory of them alive. I played stuff like this endlessly in my high school years on sites like Retro Remakes.

Finally, in the crowdfunding world this Kickstarter for a bundle of ttrpg zines looks nice and I’m very, very excited for All Will Rise, a game where you take a billionaire to court for destroying a river.

That’s it for this week. I hope you find something new to enjoy and have a lovely weekend.