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Collect coins, gems and gun powder, uncover secrets, and conquer epic bosses across time-based levels. Test your skills by mastering the rolling mechanics in this action-packed 3D platformer! Face dynamic environments, harness powerful abilities, and race to save the magical world of Boomerland!

Innovative genre mashup (first-person immersive sim puzzler FPS RPG) with emphasis on problem-solving and creativity. Unique vibes and original mechanics that you won't have experienced before. One of the best games of 2022 according to various credible sources!

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Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

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You can try the demo free on Steam now.

A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.

Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

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• The Pedigree: A high-octane Metroidvania from Hamlet Games, a tiny but tenacious studio out of Beaverton, Oregon.
• The Journey: Four years in the making, fueled by a successful Kickstarter campaign that smashed its goals within the first week.
• The Setting: The ruined Kingdom of Elsinore, a land of ash, elemental gods, and forgotten machinery.
• The Launch: Officially released on Steam on February 24, 2026, to critical and community acclaim.

Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

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Itch.io
Nintendo

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

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A kindly grandma - a babushka - is taking the time to tidy up her home. She goes to clean up her cellar, and ruh-roh, it's a mess of glitchy otherworldly artifacts, strange magics and weirdos. Well, that's just how chore days be. Will you guide the dear babushka in her normal quest of cleaning…

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

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There aren't many new ideas on show in Fogpiercer, a roguelike deckbuilder similar to Into The Breach. But that doesn't stop if from being fun.

Cuyo is a Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game for up to two players. The player controls falling blocks of various types which change with each level.

For example, in the first level, the player has to connect differently colored cartoon faces to each other. When enough blocks of the same type are connected, they explode. Usually the level goal is to destroy a certain number of special blocks at the bottom of the screen; these special blocks explode when blocks adjacent to them explode (in some levels, only when this is accomplished through a chain reaction).

Some of the more complex levels have

changing blocks (e.g., darkening over time, changing into a different state, only revealing their type occasionally)  
changing environments (e.g., very quickly falling blocks)  
different block connection requirements (e.g. blocks can only connect diagonally, different shapes of different colors join according to color once, then according to shape)  

The player loses when the blocks reach the upper border of the level. This upper border is slowly lowered like a "curtain" (with a velocity depending on the level), forcing the player to reach the goal within a time limit.

The game's graphics and animations, while simple, are part of the player's motivation, since they change with each level. The constantly changing requirements make Cuyo different from Tetris, where the main variation over time is speed and scoring.

Learn to spell well in Rhell: Warped World & Troubled Times.

Defend your System from the corrupted Master and his minions!

‘NEVA’, developed by Nomada Studio, was my best ‘Indie Game of 2024’, so it was an absolute pleasure to have the chance to dive into the newest DLC, ‘Neva: Prologue’. Will the developers be able to deliver an experience as powerful as the base game?

You can read my original review of the game ‘Neva’ here.

As the name suggests, this DLC is a prologue, set before the events of the main story, which, unfortunately, you must complete before cracking into this content. Running through one longer chapter, over 3 locations, this is set before our heroine, Alba, meets Neva, her wolf pup companion, in a quaint, butterfly-filled swamp. Eventually, you unite with your little furry pal, and you embark on an escape away from the black ichor infesting what was once a serene world.

A building game with half-timber houses. You can also furnish the interiors.

If you place a spawn point and press E, you'll enter explore mode. Pressing E again will let you return to build mode.

Click "copy/paste world code" to access a code that'll let you share your build.

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.

My turn to rock!
People of Note has several exciting things going for it. The characters are interesting, even if our lead has the same name as another notable music game's female lead (Crypt of the NecroDancer). Each character is also rooted in a different musical genre. Cadence is pop, Fret is rock, and so on. You'd be forgiven for thinking the different genres don't play well together. These musical differences are what make the band interesting, though, as it both gives texture to the story and variety to the combat system, which is rooted in music.

Highguard is in a bit of a Schrödinger's cat situation. That's because at the time of writing, the official site only shows the shooter's logo, and text that reads "This site is currently unavailable. Please contact support@codethirtytwo.com for assistance," alongside links to its official Discord server and Dwitter page. This, of course, could just be a blip, but even as I'm writing this it's been the case for several hours, and there's not a single word from developer Wildlight about why it's down. So, it is both dead and not dead until someone opens the box.

I don't know what's happening and I like it.

Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

Under the Island captures the essence of classic Zelda gameplay and 90s cartoon charm in this engaging 2D action-adventure.