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It has been about three months, and another issue is ready. This issue focuses a bit on fantasy consoles with a small article explaining what they are and 10 fantasy console game recommendations. Of course, there's a lot of news about new indie games, open-source projects, and homebrew. A top 10 and a new top game per type: paid indie, open-source, homebrew, and demake.

I hope you enjoy reading.

News

Open Source game news

Naev 0.13.4 (2026-03-31)

A 2D space top-down shooting and trading game.

With a nice accumulation of bug fixes since the last release, it’s about time to release Naev 0.13.4. Most of the fix relate to small mission bugs, however, some of the larger changes include fixing escort mission buggering out, faction hits being larger than necessary, and a very rare crash that could happen with NPCs are jumping out.

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Shamogu 1.5.0 (2026-03-30)

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.

New Content:

• The Orb may now interfere with teleportation about half of the time.
• New early guardian: chaos megabat.
• New portal guardian: dragging alligator. Alligators often appear as a pair of mid game portal guardians in place of the blazing golems.
• New Stealth help topic that explains monster mindstate behavior and how it changes.

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Empty Clip 2.0.4 (2026-03-27)

Top-down shooter action RPG

Changes:

• Added fog to Caves and Hell level
• Added -mod argument for setting the game's working directory
• Fixed compiler warning
• Fixed cursor on Steam Deck

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Unvanquished 0.56.0 (2026-03-25)

Gameplay

Ugly Monster

Unvanquished is a real-time strategy game played as a first-person shooter where evolving aliens and heavily armed humans fight for their survival.

Changes

[Link](https://unvanquished.net/

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.34.1 (2026-03-15)

Gameplay

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

• Fix the Lua error handler causing slowdowns seen in vaults like Pan’s Disco Hall.
• Properly mark unidentified talismans evil/chaotic as appropriate.
• Allow deconstructing forgecraft allies while wielding a ranged weapon.
• Fix Freezing Cloud not having a self-damage warning prompt.
• Fix the force_more prompts for dancing weapons of distortion.
• Fix banished Orb Guardians not activating the Boundless Tesseracts.
• Fix Duel/Banishment on top of a portal entrance expiring that entrance.
• Prompt for wearing any talisman that would lower max HP by more than 10%.

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Jump 'n Bump 1.70 (2026-03-09)

Gameplay

Jump 'n Bump, play cute bunnies jumping on each other's heads – Modernization fork.

• build: Avoid globals.pre and provide FHS game data dir via macro (requires SYSINTALL=1)
• build: Move appdata file to metainfo directory
• build: Packaging fixes and cleanups
• menu: Port to Python 3 and GTK+3
• menu: Not installed by default, use make install -C menu

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Tux! Version 20260228 (2026-02-28)

Battle Mode

a 3D platform game featuring Tux made by LucKey Productions using Dry and other open source software.

While not quite complete yet, the game now has a Battle Mode in which you can compete locally with up to four players. There are three modes to choose from: Free-for-All, Capture the Flag and Distro War.

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Widelands 1.3.1 (2026-02-22)

Gameplay

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte). This point release fixes a severe multiplayer desync found in Widelands 1.3. Note that it is not possible to combine the versions 1.3 and 1.3.1 in a network game.

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0 A.D. Release 28 "Boiorix" (2026-02-18)

Gameplay

Gameplay

0 A.D. is a historical 3D real-time strategy game developed by Wildfire Games. It takes place between 500 B.C to 500 A.D. and focuses on economy and war management. 0 A.D. offers a variety of playable civilisations whose characteristics are based on real world history.

Top new features of Release 28

- Gendered Civilians
- Direct Font Rendering
- Support for JavaScript Modules
- New Game-Setup Options
- Lobby improvements
- Engine upgrades and updated platform support
- New quotes and tips
- Various balancing improvements
- … and much more!

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Indie game news

This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music.

It just shows off the game's "game over" screen, which sounds like the sort of thing that wouldn't be all that noteworthy, but the song slaps. Funky synth bass and warped, echoing samples glide over hip hop drums; it's the sort of dance-worthy defeat screen that salves the sting of losing in a frenzied arcade game.

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Scarlet Record Preview

Gameplay Gameplay

Scarlet Record opens with the introduction of Ruby, a scribe tasked with securing relics from a mysterious hall of dungeons. For a demo, the opening does a solid job of grounding the player in the world. That said, one character mentions a marketplace that you can’t access until after the first boss, which immediately stood out.

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This indie game revives ’90s FMV weirdness

Gameplay

Gameplay

There was a weird, brief design trend in late '90s gaming for digitised sprites, as every developer raced to get a piece of Mortal Kombat's success. There was a chaotic charm to FMV games like Pit-Fighter and Primal Rage, and it's a style Obey the Insect God is aiming to bring back;

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Sprint City Drops New Trailer With Release Window

• Developed by SpeedRunners creators, Sprint City brings intense parkour-style racing action.
• Race, wall-run, and grapple through a solarpunk city with seamless multiplayer and free browser invites.

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Check Out This Hilarious Indie Game Where You Are Stuck in Well with Frog

That is a fat frog

Deep

:P

One day, game developer Madi Abdykarimov decided to create a game where the player would be stuck in a well with a frog. Apparently, he thought it was a fine idea for a name as well, so if you're intrigued, check out Stuck in a Well with a Frog on Steam.

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Double Fine announces delightful-looking multiplayer pottery game Kiln

Gameplay

Pottery Dance

That is an angry pot

As its Double Fine founder Tim Schaefer attempted to say five times fast during today's Xbox Developer Direct, Kiln is an "online multiplayer pottery party brawler" that boasts exactly the sort of colorful, clever fun that fans have come to expect from the studio.

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Worming from Home makes you a worm with an office job

Worming from Home

“Would you still employ me if I was a worm?” That’s not quite how the internet meme goes, but Worming from Home is set to pose just that question, turning you into an annelid with a job in finance.

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Ratcheteer DX Confirmed For March 2026 Release

• Explore 250+ rooms, master eight tools, battle six bosses, and uncover secret challenges.
• Enjoy a revamped 8-bit soundtrack, multiple visual modes, and support for 10 languages.

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New Action Roguelike Chickenauts Announced

• Battle alien chickens, rescue mutated companions, and build unique loadouts each run.
• Short, intense randomized runs offer fast-paced gameplay with countless stacking mutations.
• Unlock new weapons, upgrades, and companions that carry over between playthroughs.

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Indie dungeon crawler RPG Erehwon is coming to PC via Steam in 2026

Cool Dungeon
Interesting gameplay
Stats

Japanese indie studio Knight of Karate has published a Steam page for their upcoming dungeon crawler RPG Erehwon. The group has also shared a press release stating that this game will be available in 2026.

This game will let the player create adventurers with applicable custom portraits. This dungeon crawler game will have a specific emphasis on the equipment gear that the party can pick up inside dungeons.

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Hozy Confirmed For PC Release in Late March

• Restore your hometown by cleaning, painting, and decorating a variety of forgotten rooms and apartments.
• No timers, scores, or stress—just pure relaxation, creativity, and satisfying decorating in Hozy’s flow.
• Select from a curated collection of furniture and décor to create beautiful, harmonious living spaces.

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The Posthumous Investigation Launches In Late March

The Posthumous Investigation

• Investigate Brás Cubas’ mysterious death in 1930s Rio, navigating a single day trapped in a time loop.
• Unravel a web of secrets by tracking 14 unique characters, unlocking new clues and dialogue each loop.
• Inspired by Machado de Assis, the game challenges players with satirical storytelling and true deduction.

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ChainStaff Confirmed For Early April Launch Date

ChainStaff

• Master the ChainStaff—transform it into a spear, shield, grappling hook, and much more with one button.
• Choose unique upgrades by rescuing friends or embracing mutations, leading to different tech trees.
• Experience ten wild levels, epic boss battles, multiple endings, and a killer metal soundtrack.

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Take a Look at This Upcoming Game Where You Play With & Against Yourself

UvsU: You vs You battles with your past self in time-loop puzzles.

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Incremental Idle RPG Eldor'Idle Releases Free Demo

• Break pots to collect coins, unlock upgrades, and chase the ultimate goal: one billion gold coins.
• Recruit and train gnomes to automate your fortune-building and optimize your coin collecting.
• Upgrade buildings, play the economy, and grow your Eldor’Idle village into a billionaire’s paradise.

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A Glimpse into Dosa Divas

Dosa Divas

Gameplay

Gameplay

Dosa Divas is a spicy and vibrant narrative turn-based RPG that is about love, family, boundaries and mending bonds over a good meal.

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Classic Zelda Fans Shouldn't Miss This New RPG Echo Isle You Can Try Free Now

Not Zelda
Still not Zelda

This is a mini-adventure game that is heavily inspired by classic games of the 1990s, boasting a vibrant pixel-art style. The game has yet to be released, as seen on its Steam page, though there isn’t a specific date just yet. Even so, you can test it out for free right now.

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Become is a Ballsy Indie Game That Has You Play as Sperm

Become is a unique game that takes players and throws them into the role of a spermatazoon, hellbent on beating hundreds of millions of competitors to achieve the ultimate goal, kick-starting a new life. It has a few customization elements, a two-to-three-hour story, and impressive visuals, considering the whole game takes place inside… Well, you know.

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Steam Demo Released For Bouncy Frog Platformer “Croak”

WoodRunner Games has made the demo for their upcoming platformer Croak available on Steam. You get to play as a Frog Prince as he adventures through the Feast Fair.

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Future Knight – Beta Demo

Future Knight
Real Retro
Gameplay

Future Knight is a 2D shoot ’em up fusing LCD screen nostalgia with brutal modern combat and a bizarre story about stopping a pyramid scheme cult.

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Mouse: P.I. for Hire – The Final Preview

Mouse: P.I. for Hire

Like Cuphead before it, I am pleased to report that, as it turns out, Mouse: P.I. for Hire isn’t just all sizzle. There is plenty of steak there too. Just as Cuphead built an incredibly good bullet-hell, boss-rush shooter underneath its hand-drawn, hand-animated exterior, so too – at least, based on what I’ve played so far – is Mouse underpinning its 1930’s-era, black-and-white, rubberhose-animated facade with a mechanically sound first-person shooter.

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**Mixtape, If You Miss MTV and Dunkaroos, This Indie Game Is for You **

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Gameplay

Gameplay

From what I saw, there's a bit of overlap with other nostalgia-laden narrative games about teens growing up, such as studio Don't Nod's Life is Strange series or last year's Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. But Mixtape avoids the plotty drama of those games in favor of lionizing the humble wonder of teens killing time.

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Titanium Court preview: bizarre and confusing, but I’m still enraptured by this indie game

Bizzare

OK...

Hmmm

Creator AP Thomson describes Titanium Court as a ‘surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals’. Titanium Court is a game that refuses all attempts at definition. When you think you know what’s going on, new layers are revealed, each stranger than the last. I think I have the crux: it’s a game about becoming the monarch of a kingdom, which is beset by enemy forces on all sides.

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Bel's Fanfare Zelda's Spiritual Successor Is Officially Coming

Bel's Fanfare

Gameplay

Gameplay

Bel's Fanfare, a Kickstarter-funded RPG from Spanish indie studio Chibig. The project has already shattered its funding target, attracting tens of thousands of backers and raising over a million dollars. Inspired by classic Zelda titles, the game is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about indie projects currently in development.

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Solo developer indie RPG Monetaria announced for PC via Steam, demo available now

Gameplay

Gameplay

Dungeon

Monetaria will exhibit a strategic command-based battle system that runs in real-time high speed. In the Japanese press release, koppepan also mentioned several games that serve as inspirations: Shin Megami Tensei for first-person-view 3D dungeon explorations, Slay the Spire for selecting random progression nodes, and Yuji Horii's command-based adventure game The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance.

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This Upcoming Indie UE5 Game Features Living Ancient Egyptian Frescoes

Gameplay

Reminds me of A Link Between Worlds

Developer Forceight showcased this fascinating demo with Egyptian frescoes brought to life, which is a glimpse of the upcoming action-adventure game Fresco by Kelonia Games.

The mesmerizing effect of living characters was created using decal projections in Unreal Engine 5. If you enjoyed this effect, take a look at Fresco, as it features this mechanic as a core part of its gameplay. You play as an archaeologist exploring a temple in 3D and as a character portrayed on ancient walls within 2D frescoes, switching between the two throughout the game.

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Compress(space): A love letter to indie games from Bangladesh

Compress(space)

Gameplay

Today, Compress(space) stands as a notable example of how Bangladeshi developers are quietly making their mark on the global gaming landscape. Fahim remains focused on completing the game while working on other ideas in the background.

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Lucky Tower Ultimate's Full Version Will Finally Climb Out This April

Lucky Tower Ultimate

• Experience hilarious slapstick dungeon crawling with randomly generated towers and quirky companions.
• Experiment with 200+ items and interact with friends and foes who react to your choices in the tower.
• Escape the dangerous Tower, customize your village home, and unlock the new True Ending at launch.

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Attempt Body Modification in the Steel Soul Shaper Public Playtest

Steel Soul Shaper

• Play as a cyberware surgeon fixing and customizing body modifications in a neon-lit cyberpunk world.
• Engage in a story-driven experience, uncover client secrets, and decide the fate of your dystopian city.
• Repair, upgrade, and stylize cybernetic limbs, facing moral choices and powerful factions in every job.

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Get loud to lead! Microphone-Driven Co-op ‘Over Duck’d’ will soon bring chaos to Steam!

Gameplay

Gameplay

2P Games and FuncoreClub announce that Over Duck'd, a chaotic, physics-based co-op game where your microphone is the only controller, will be released soon on Steam. Herd ducks with your friends in a game where your voice is your only weapon, will you use it wisely?

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Project Songbird review

Waking in a messy apartment contemplating good music, this could be a cosy Life Is Strange kind of adventure. It's not.

widescreen for cinematic effec

A compact, story-driven survival horror, Project Songbird leans heavily on its aesthetics, sound, and a surprisingly personal narrative about creativity and the struggle to make art.

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Have a Look at This Upcoming Indie Game Where You Explore & Clean an Island Muri: Wildwoods

Gameplay

Platforming

Pelle, a charming protagonist skilled in acrobatics, explores the island and runs, jumps, and climbs through picturesque nature and peculiar structures with a mysterious atmosphere. While exploring, the character uses a watergun to clean corrupted nature, restores the place, and brings back vibrant colors of the Wildwoods world.

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This painterly indie game turns a children’s book into a playable illustration Hyper Luminal

Hyper Luminal

Beast Cyclop

Gameplay

If the hand-painted visuals of The Day I Became A Bird resemble something from an illustrated children's book, then you'd be right. This short narrative-adventure is an adaptation of a 2016 French children's picture book written by Ingrid Chabbert and illustrated by Guridi, about a young boy named Frank who falls in love for the first time with Sylvia, a girl in his class, and devises an unusual way to win her affection.

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The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon Releases a Free Demo

An Bleeding cool article with images?

That is new...

Enjoy!

• Step into the shoes of Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley to solve supernatural mysteries
• The demo offers a taste of the first case and welcomes both newcomers and returning fans
• Get ready to point, click, and unravel six new standalone cases in this pixel-art adventure

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Boomerang Jack Is Scheduled to Release in Late April 2026

In Boomerang Jack, players step into the shoes of Jack, a globe-trotting adventurer wielding a powerful boomerang. His journey revolves around taking down the ruthless Pirate King and saving the world from looming danger. Along the way, players will explore diverse environments, upgrade Jack’s abilities and equipment, and face increasingly difficult enemies, all while uncovering a deeper story beneath the surface.

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Explore Vibrant Cube Levels with Fantasy Landscapes in This WIP Indie Game

Zoy

Check out Zoy, an upcoming indie sandbox from SpringDing, featuring satisfying gameplay set in peaceful fantasy nature locations.

The game invites you to explore intricate cube-based levels across fascinating forests, lawns, and surreal waterfalls. In these mesmerizing places, seasons shift from blooming spring to vibrant autumn, brought to life with picturesque wind effects that craft an immersive atmosphere.

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Work at a Filipino town’s lost and found office in this upcoming indie game

Gameplay

Lost & Found follows Rico, a laid-off artist who returns to his fictional hometown of Luisiana after struggling to find work in the city. Back home, there aren’t that many opportunities floating around either, and he soon finds himself working at the local lost and found office.

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This sci-fi racing game's Cars on Mars portal effects are blowing people's minds

Gameplay

Gameplay

Cars on Mars has a title that sounds as utilitarian as Snakes on a Plane. In case you had any doubt, the game involves driving cars, and it's set on Mars.

In fact, there's a bit more too it than that. Unlike the real Mars, the game's world is 'almost infinite'. It's also dotted by portals that unleash some surprising effects.

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Cozy thrift shop management sim Thrifty Business launches this May

There’s a new ’90s-inspired thrift shop in town, and you’re in charge! Sort through boxes to find great items, arrange displays, befriend customers, complete their requests, and expand the store in this laid-back management sim. You can also customize the store’s furniture, wallpaper, flooring, and decor.

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Cozy medieval manuscript game Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts

They got the art right

Gameplay

Yaza Games and Mythwright have announced that the unique (and often bizarre!) manuscript workshop sim Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts will be released later this month for PC. In the game, you manage a workshop, create weird and wonderful designs, and meme your way through the Middle Ages. The Scriptorium is a cozy and relaxing creative space; there are no timers or pressure.

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https://gamingtrend.com/previews/grim-seasons-hands-on-preview/

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Gameplay

Gameplay

Grave Seasons presents a brilliant concept—A supernatural murder mystery farming sim. It seems like every game in the farming sim genre is cozy or wholesome, with any darker plotlines being relegated to bits of side lore.

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Chaotic Co-op Cave Adventure 'Pratfall' Launches April 20th on Steam

Gameplay

In Pratfall, players descend into a dangerous cave system to rescue their missing dog, navigating traps, hazards, and the most dangerous force of all: gravity. With physics-driven chaos, destructible environments, and cooperative gameplay, one mistake can send the entire team tumbling.

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How Crushed In Time reimagines Sherlock Holmes as a LucasArts-inspired adventure

Gameplay

"On the artistic side, Crushed In Time is a very meta game about video game creation, which doesn't shy away from taking a few detours along the way," Garriguenc concludes. "This gives players the opportunity to discover different artistic directions, some of which are already featured in our official screenshots!"

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Eastshade The ethically-sourced wizard school life sim

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Gameplay

In Glimmerwick, I'm a brand new student at the magical Etchery university. I'm quickly assigned to be caretaker of the school gardens, where I can grow ingredients for potions and learn to play a flute to cast magical spells that help me traverse the world or just do heavy lifting with my hoe.

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Indie Cozy Survival Co-op Game Solarpunk Launches in June

Gameplay

Solarpunk’s world is full of floating islands to explore and no combat. This one is about surviving, building, exploration, crafting and discovery. In a technologically advanced open world, you get to explore by first building an airship and then gliding around through the clouds.

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Homebrew News

Friday the 13th Revisited for GBC

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Gameplay

Gameplay

Return to Camp Crystal Lake... on your Game Boy Color!

Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake is a tribute to the 1988 NES classic, recreated from scratch for the Game Boy Color with new gameplay mechanics and a portable experience.

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SKELOS for GBC

Gameplay

Gameplay

Gameplay

In search of your lost family, you descend into a forgotten well. Below lies a haunting retro world inspired by Japanese folklore, where restless yokai roam and long-buried secrets await.

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All Hell Unleashed for NES

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Gameplay

Amidst a realm where darkness reigns and evil lurks in every shadow, a sinister cult has unleashed chaos upon our world. Introducing 'All Hell Unleashed,' the NES game that pits YOU against the most infamous horror icons of all time.. Jason, Michael, Freddy, Candyman, Ghostface, Leatherface, Chucky, Pennywise, Pinhead and the Killer Klowns.

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Escape 2049 for Genesis/Megadrive and PC

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Escape 2049 is an action shooting / puzzle / platformer game, originally developed for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, it was ported to PC.

The game is the sequel to Escape 2042. Play Elena in this action shooting game set in 4 different worlds, featuring 12 levels and 12 bosses, challenging puzzles, a stunning intro and full motion videos!

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Featured article: Fantasy Consoles

Two issues ago I wrote about emulation, how it is  hardware or software that allows one computer system, called the host, to behave similarly to another computer system called the guest. But does the guest computer system have to be real? An emulator emulates the behavior of another computer based on specs and architecture that the other computer has. So if we came up with some specs and architecture for a theoretical computer, we should be able to emulate that as well. And that is what a fantasy console is. An emulator of a gaming console that has only theoretical specs and architecture. 

Fantasy consoles are meant to make game development beginner-friendly, focusing on simpler game design enforced by the artificial restrictions of the system and the built-in development tools. The restrictions of these systems and getting around them can make developers creative and come up with unique gameplay ideas.  Portability is a big plus, as the games do not need to be ported themselves, just the emulator running them. Each game developed for such a fantasy system can run on any other system that has an emulator for the fantasy system.

Screenshot of Pong implemented in CHIP-8

The first fantasy console was probably the CHIP-8. It was officially called and interpreted programming language. But the purpose was the same: emulate fictional computer hardware and create games for it that could run on any computing system that could emulate the CHIP-8 system. These days countless CHIP-8 emulators exist for almost every system imaginable. 

Tetris game on MegaZeux

Another early fantasy system is the MegaZeux, labeled as a game creation system, and it was first released in 1994 and is still being developed today.  It can run on a few systems but not as many as the CHIP-8. MegaZeux comes with its own built-in development environment. A programming language called robotics and tools for editing graphics and sound.

The aforementioned PICO-8 is the first modern fantasy console. It recreates simple graphics and audio capabilities similar to 8-bit computers and gaming systems. It uses Lua for programming, but it also comes with tools for editing music, sound, sprites, and maps. The original version of the indie game Celeste was most famously developed for the PICO-8. The emulator is not free, it costs about $15 to pursue. Though there are free and open-source recreations of the emulator. Like tac08 and Retro8.

After the release of the PICO-8, fantasy consoles became more popular, and since then several systems have been released. Some noteworthy systems are: 

TIC-80

A fantasy computer for making, playing, and sharing tiny games. It supports multiple programming languages:  Lua, Moonscript, Javascript, Ruby, Wren, Fennel, Squirrel, Janet, and Python. And has built-in editors for code, sprites, world maps, sound effects, and music.

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LowRes NX

Lets you program in the classic BASIC language and create sprites, tile maps, sound and music with the included tools.

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Vircon32

Vircon32 is a 32-bit virtual console: it is meant as a standard that could be implemented either in software or hardware.

Atto

Ss an open-source fantasy computer created by DeviceFuture. It recreates elements of 1980s and modern computers. It use BASIC as an interface to program and load software.

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For more fantasy consoles check this link.

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Fantasy Console Game recommendations

1. Celeste Classic 2 for PICO-8

A PICO-8 platformer about hiking around a mountain, made in three days for Celeste's third anniversary.

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2. PakPok for PICO-8

Puzzle platformer for PICO-8

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3. NanoMan for PICO-8

Basically, a fan game heavily inspired by the early Mega Man series

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4. Fetch Quest for PICO-8

You were playing fetch with your best friend when he suddenly vanished. You're on the trail, you're going to get him back. Hurry!

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5. Everdawn for PICO-8

Welcome to Everdawn, a tiny island where the sun and moon have ceased to move through the sky. Explore it, learn its history, and unlock the secrets behind its strange curse.

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6. 8 Bit Panda for TIC-80

8 Bit Panda is a classic-style platformer for the TIC-80. You can move, run, jump and get powerups (and occasionally fly planes!). It has 17 levels distributed across 6 major areas (isles). Each area has different enemies and difficulty. The game is saved every time you complete a full area (after level 3 of each isle).

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7. Star Wars Vector Tie Wave for LowRes NX

Welcome to my absurdly ill-advised new project. This is my interpretation of the 1980’s Star Wars vector arcade game. Well- this version is still very much a work in progress. Most notably, it’s just the tie fighter battle on an endless loop. Of course my goal is to have all three phases and increasing difficulty, but we’re not there yet.

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8. SMZX Tetris for MegaZeux

It's Tetis

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9. Blips for Vircon32

Blips is a remake of the dos bips original, gold and platinum game made by Bryant Brownell, its a sokoban style puzzle game but with exploding dynamite, special boxes and collecting coins

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10. Blockdude for Vircon32

Blockdude is a remake of the well known TI Caluculator game from Brandon Sterner as well as the blockman game from Soleau Software. This version of the game for the vircon32 fantasy console is based on the Playdate port which was in itself a port of the GP2X port of blockdude i made over a decade ago.

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Free Game Python Mythix Part 3

The game can be found here

Mythix 3

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TOP 10

Top 10 indie games of all time based on votes Bside gaming community.

Note: Downvotes are ignored and only games that are directly linked to the community, links to game reviews or news on another site are not counted.

1. Noita

Noita is a magical action rogue-lite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated.

2. ANIMAL WELL

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

3 Tiny Glade

Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

4. Shattered Pixel Dungeon

5. Tunic

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

6 CSS Clicker

A game made entirely in HTML and CSS about building a website you can actually customize in-game

7. Planet of Lana

A young girl and her loyal friend embark on a rescue mission through a colorful world full of cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Planet of Lana is a cinematic puzzle adventure framed by an epic sci-fi saga that stretches across centuries and galaxies.

8. Tuxemon

Tuxemon is a monster-collecting RPG created in Python using Pygame. Gameplay involves catching various monsters and training them to battle each other in a style similar to the Pokemon games.

9. Sea of Stars

Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.

10. CARRION

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

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TOP Game per type

The most upvoted game per type: Paid indie, Open source, Homebrew and Demake the last 3 months.

Paid Indie

Tunic

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Open Source

Super Tux 0.7

Cave

SuperTux is an open-source classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games.

Homebrew

Lykia - The Lost Island (C64 + Plus/4)

It’s Nora’s 16th birthday - but this was to be a birthday like none other!

Sent to pick apothia fruits by her mother something very strange and magical happened when Nora touched the fruit - an ancient spell was disturbed that affected all the people and animals throughout the land!

Demake

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Game Boy Demake

Gameplay

This demake is the entire first case of the original game “The First Turnabout”. It was created as a technical demonstration of the capabilities of GB Studio and how next to zero knowledge of coding can take you.

Corner of Fun

Jokes

• What did Mario say when he broke up with Princess Peach? “It’s not you, it’s-a me, Mario!

• I tried to start a band with a bunch of gamers, but it didn’t work out. Apparently, we couldn’t find a good “keyboard” player.

• What’s a gamer’s favorite song? “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen… in multiplayer mode!

Memes

Welcome

Hello, everyone. I decided to create another one of these magazine posts. I will most likely continue doing these, though not monthly. Instead I will work on them whenever I have time and I am in the mood to work on them. So the next issue might come out sometime between 2 and 4 months.
In this issue, like always, there is gaming news. I have been gathering news since mid-November, so some news is a bit old. Then there is an article about ROM hacking and some ROM hack recommendations. A look at some older games. A free Python game, a walkthrough for an older Python game that I had posted in a previous issue. Finally, the usual humor at the end.
Also, last issue I accidentally linked the wrong comic page that was already posted in an older issue, but it seems nobody noticed… hmm…

Enjoy reading.

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News

Open Source game news

DDNet 19.5 AND 19.6 (2025-10-13, 2025-12-14)

A platform puzzle game similar to Teeworlds. DDNet tries to keep compatibility with Teeworlds.

There is an active community where participants arrange tournaments or create and publish maps that can be downloaded by other players.

Chaneges:

• [Client] Interactive scoreboard [KebsCS & AssassinTee]
• [Client] Improved controls settings [Robyt3]
• [Client] WebLate for translations [heinrich5991]
  More Changes

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Mineclonia 0.118 (2025-11-30)

Survival sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.

Changes:

• Improve rightclick interactions with flower pots [JoseDouglas]
• Eliminate legacy mob spawning system [halon]
• Fix mobs spawning on glass [halon]
• Fix shulker box inventory image rendering bug in 5.15-dev

More Changes

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Shamogu 1.2.0 (2025-12-03)

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. See the Features section below for a more comprehensive description, or jump into Play section to install the game.

Chaneges:

• Short runs (around half an hour).
• 9 levels deep dungeon, 3 distinct map generators, 27 monsters including various wandering uniques and guardians, 5 primary spirits and 7 secondary ones, 4 magic menhirs, 5 runic traps, and 7 comestibles.
• Optional advanced content through expansion and challenge mods, including 2 new primary spirits and 7 secondary ones.
• Both graphical tiles (web or SDL) and terminal ASCII versions. Animations. Simple controls. Mouse-friendly compact 80x24 layout.
• Automatic recording for later replay!

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Hades Revisited 0.19.1 (2025-10-30)

Hades Revisited is a game in development. The goal of this project is to create a deep and complex survival and terraforming game set on a far-away volcanic planet.

Changes:

It’s a nature update!

I've reworked all the trees.
Olive, banana, cocoa tree and coconut palm got new looks.
Every tree has its own trunk and leaves now. Previously, many trees had to share their trunk, which caused problems.
There is a new pear tree. Currently, it is very similar to the apple tree but it will gain some differences in future updates (I hope). The jungle tree will become the kaki tree bearing the kaki fruit.
All trees bear fruit or catkin, but not everything is edible.
The coconut now comes with an outer green shell, you must remove it first to get the large seed.
You can make chocolate from cocoa and coconut milk from coconuts.
Every tree species now has a "small" version that grows when a sapling does not have enough space to grow.

Flower and plant pots got an upgrade. Put seed in flower pot, and they grow, but not much further. Great to farm saplings. The flower pot now supports many extra plants.

Full Changes

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Glitch 1.3.4 (2025-11-03)

Glitch is a singleplayer platformer game for Luanti, created for the 2022 Minetest Game Jam by Wuzzy, featuring music by Visager.

You’re One, a bit who’s lost in cyberspace after a mysterious distortion interrupts a typical data transmission. Can you figure out what caused this and get back on track?

Explore the System, collect electrons to unlock new sectors, learn new abilities to become more powerful and maybe you’ll find the path to your true destination.

Changes:

• Fix game not working if the Luanti setting mapgen_limit is a low value

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LibreQuake 0.09-beta (2025-11-04)

The LibreQuake project aims to create a complete, free content first-person shooter game, but LibreQuake by itself is just the raw material for a game. It must be paired with a compatible engine to be played.

Changes:

• AUDIO: Update build_components.json for Wizard sound fix by @Ospaggi in #238
• MAPS: Randombrushes/e0m7 updates by @RandomBrushes in #237
• BUILD: Fixed qwprogs.dat not being put into GitHub built releases. by @Zungrysoft in #240
• CONFIG: Disabled hacky zfighting fix in FTEQW by @Zungrysoft in #244
  [BUILD]
• Add launcher for additional engines in Flatpak by @fpiesche in #247
• MAPS: Even more misc. map changes. by @Zungrysoft in #250
• MAPS, WADS: E2M3 deathmatch support and other changes by @Nolcoz in #248
• MAPS, WADS: E1M7 fix and deathmatch support by @Nolcoz in #241

All changes

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Hurry Curry! 3.0.1 (2025-11-06)

Hurry Curry! is a cooperative multiplayer game about cooking. You work at a restaurant accepting orders, cooking various dishes and serving meals to customers. But don’t take too long, as customers might get impatient.

Changes:

 - Added Tag minigame (/start tag)  
 - New map "Scattered"  



- Added swedish translations  
- Fixed bugs when helping another player with an active recipe  

• AFK players will now be removed automatically
• Connections to the game server now require sending keepalive packets
• Added tile model for conveyors passing through walls
• Nigiri can now be assembled on plates
• Localization support for HTML book
• Fixed double-inserting scoreboard entries

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AAAAXY 1.6.321 (2025-11-27)

A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.

Changes:

• Engine: module updates, including fixes for the Steam overlay.
• Languages: updated texts for Ukrainian.

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Tensy 1.0 (2025-11-22)

A simple but addictive puzzle game. Your mission is to match numbers such that they add up to 10. Simply click and drag with your mouse or tap and drag on mobile to make a selection and make sure the numbers add up to 10!

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Indie game news

Music Adventure Game Unbeatable Set For Early November Launch

• Set in a world where music is outlawed, players join Beat, a rebellious musician dodging authorities.
• Unique two-button rhythm mechanics combine with exploration, story choices, and massive concert setpieces.
• Arcade mode offers tons of songs, modifiers, online features, and an evolving challenge board to conquer.

Link

Announcing Indie Party-Based Tactics RPG Of Grit & Graves

Grit & Graves

Gameplay

Gameplay

A party-based tactics RPG from indie Melted Monster Game Studio that wears its tabletop DNA on its sleeve. It builds every action around dice pools, then asks you to manage position, sightlines, traps, and scarce resources as you push a four-hero squad through procedural dungeons.

Read more here

Check Out This Eastern Mythology-Inspired Indie Game with a Living World

Of Peaks and Tides is an upcoming open-world crafting game with an intuitive physics system and amazing visuals.

Link

‘Amimi’ Solves Puzzles by Interacting With Curious Creatures

Amimi

Gameplay

Magic Cave?

Amimi sees you and a glowing creature using sound to interact with animals and environments in adream-like world.

This is a curious puzzle platformer, created with very captivating visual art, which I very much enjoyed seeing! Early on in this game you find a little orb creature who wants to sit on your head, helping you get rid of plants that are too spiky and solve various puzzles around the world.

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Streetdog BMX Finally Receives a January 2026 Release Date

• Extreme sports fans can enjoy six huge maps packed with hidden spots, tricks, and unique challenges.
• Players can customize their bike and rider with dozens of options, from outfits to bike parts.
• Complete 180 BMX challenges, master combos, and chase high scores or just flow at your own pace.

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Tailside Confirmed For PC Launch In January 2026

• Play as a charming fox owner, run your own customizable cafe, and unlock animal visitors and heartwarming stories.
• Relax in stress-free gameplay without timers, offering both progression levels and an open-ended Sandbox mode.
• Design your dream cafe with hundreds of decor options, create latte art, and brew a variety of unique coffees.

More here

New Creature Collector RPG KinForge Announced

• KinForge is a newly announced creature collector RPG coming to PC from indie studio Seeker Games.
• Players bond with Elementals, living spirits that grant powerful abilities and combat options.
• Combine Ancient Elementals and Sprites for billions of unique ability fusions in battle.

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Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now

Wild Horse Racing

If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.

Don't let the name put you off at all, this is not some cutesy horse game. Here it's quite a challenge where timing is everything. You have to master control patterns from easy to godlike difficulty, leap over big jumps, and race through vibrant tracks while managing your horse. Some fun game mechanics included with each track having its own control pattern, and nailing the timing gives you a speed boost.

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Cozyrama Confirmed For Mid-December Steam Launch

Cozyrama

• Create and customize magical worlds filled with flowers, lanterns, and adorable roaming animals.
• Enjoy stress-free, timer-free gameplay perfect for relaxing and creative expression.
• Build dioramas in numerous seasonal backdrops, with endless decorating options and high replay value.

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M.O.L.E. (2026): The Claustrophobic Cold War Horror Game Right Under Your Feet

Monster

Just when you thought indie horror was tapped out, along comes a game that wants you to drill to the center of the Earth in a Soviet-era rust bucket. Meet M.O.L.E., a PSX-style simulator-horror game that looks like it was ripped straight from a dusty VHS tape found in your grandpa’s paranoid Cold War-era trunk.

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Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious

ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms. Looks like it could be another funny multiplayer game to add to your list.

It's a fast-paced game with each round only being about 30 seconds. Every map has its own unique weird gimmick you need to master, and it's all about being first to launch immediately into the next map. You each have wobbly arms you can use however you like - whatever gets you there first. That includes sabotaging friends, as you're able to grab them too.

News Link

Cooking Simulator 2: Better Together Arrives This January

• Optional multiplayer lets you team up with friends to cook, create recipes, and tackle challenges.
• Design unique dishes, experiment with ingredients, and grow from burger joint starter to top chef.
• Manage ingredients, keep your kitchen tidy, and complete hundreds of recipes inspired by world cuisine.

News Link

DuneCrawl Confirmed For Steam Launch in Early January

• Team up with friends online or locally to explore the Dust Seas and hunt for hidden treasures.
• Pilot a gigantic Dune Crawler, fend off enemies, and complete quests for desert privateer glory.
• Enjoy lush, hand-drawn environments, NPC interactions, and customizable cooperative gameplay.

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Escape From Ever After Confirmed For Late January Launch

• This genre-bending RPG is inspired by Paper Mario and twists classic fairytales with a modern touch.
• Players join Flynt Buckler on a quest to infiltrate Ever After Inc. and liberate magical storybooks.
• Experience witty writing, turn-based combat, unique worlds, and ever-changing gameplay mechanics.

News Link

Surreal Cycling Horror Game ‘Quite A Ride’ Looks Utterly Terrifying

Gameplay

I’ve never played a game from Kazakhstan, but after finally finding one from the country — Quite a Ride, from Almaty-based studio Goodwin Games — I don’t think this’ll change any time soon. That’s not because it looks bad — it just seems absolutely terrifying.

Quite a Ride is a surreal “biking survival horror game” and has been signed by Northern English publisher Silver Lining Interactive, whose members have worked on titles as diverse as Dave the Diver, The Alters, and Caravan SandWitch.

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‘Petal Runner’ Is A Cozy Indie Game Boy-Like Coming In 2026

Gameplay

Set in the sun-washed, neon-tinged city of Sapphire Valley, Petal Runner puts players in the seat of Cali, a young courier training to become a “Petal Runner,” a motorcycle delivery rider tasked with transporting “Leap Cells” that power artificial pets (called HanaPets). With them is first-generation HanaPet Kira, a friendly companion housed in a handheld “Leash.” Together, they traverse streets and districts, make deliveries, and uncover a deeper story about friendship, growth, and the cost of progress.

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Brutal 'reverse farming' game turns cosy art into unhinged carnage

Bonk on the head!

It has clear objectives and progression, and a cute 3D art style perfect that looks perfect for a spot of relaxing escapism. But Chiklet's Human Products has a brutal twist. The animals farm the humans.

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Creative indie dev finally finds a way to lure kids from Fortnite to maths practice

Gameplay

The player must defeat robots displaying maths problems by shooting the correct answer on their body parts. It's reminding some parents of the retro game Math Blaster, but with gameplay that has much more chance of appealing to today's players.

News Link

Night Shift: 1999 Launches New Free Demo On Steam

• Play as Isra Bayassee, a centuries-old vampire balancing everyday life and supernatural urges.
• Shape the story through choices with five narrative routes and eleven unique endings to discover.
• Explore Kings Cross in a 1-bit visual novel full of secrets, heartbreak, and branching rewards.

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Garden slug-girl action, masochistic platforming and summer vacation nostalgia: 5 outdoorsy Japanese indie games

Welcome to our weekend segment, where we showcase recent or upcoming Japanese indie games that share a specific theme. This week, we take a look at some promising “outdoorsy” titles. Be it climbing a mountain of random knick-knacks or chilling atop your very own Japanese-style rooftop, there’s something about an open-air setting that just makes you want to wake up, get up, and get out there.

News Link

Jonathan Blow’s Ambitious New Puzzle Game Is 500 Hours Long, And it Looks Fantastic (Order of the sinking star Preview)

Gameplay

Nice View!

Dark Castle

Jonathan Blow is one of the most notable names in the indie game scene, with some even labeling him as one of gaming’s auteurs. If you’re relatively new to gaming, you may not be familiar with the name because Blow hasn’t released a brand new game since 2016. In fact, he’s only made two games as the lead creative, Braid and The Witness, but has worked on numerous other titles in various other capacities. Blow is a pretty intelligent guy, even going as far as trying to make his own programming language, known as Jai. It has been in the works for over a decade, and Blow intends for it to be used for game development.

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Coven of the Chicken Foot is the debut game from Naughty Dog alum Bruce Straley's indie studio

Gameplay

Coven of the Chicken Foot has a lot of things going for it already, in my book. It stars a hero rarely seen in video games, an elderly woman, and it has gorgeous storybook-style art in a lush fantasy setting. It’s a single-player puzzle platformer, it relies on wordless storytelling and the woman, a witch named Gertie, travels with a creepy-cute companion. Plus, Gertie has chicken feet. I love her little chicken feet.

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‘Just in Crime’ Travels Time to Solve Adorable Crimes (Preview)

Gameplay

Gameplay

So this really caught my interest when I played a demo at BCN Game Fest. The cute animals protagonists are more than just adoarble, though. The detective dog is able to take thoughts and string them together to make conclusions that can be presented to various characters in the game, progressing the story. The wizard cat, on the other hand, can go back in time by a few seconds to investigate what’s happened in the past, which can come in handy when solving any mystery.

Preview Link

Cult Indie Hit ‘SpeedRunners’ Gets Spiritual Successor, ‘Sprint City’, In 2026

Gameplay

After ten long years, SpeedRunners, one of the finest cult indie multiplayer games of its generation, is finally getting a spiritual successor. And no, it’s not SpeedRunners 2, which is also on the way — rather, Sprint City hopes to remind players what made the 2016 racing sidescroller so brilliant.

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Homebrew News

Alentejo: The Tinto & The Ugly [Gameboy Color]

Go horse or go

A wild gunman

Welcome back to the nostalgic Old Alentejo. In this historical 19th-century European western, help Gildo, Dolores, and Pepe in their quest to fight Baron Tinto and his oppressive laws. To do so, you’ll need to cross the historic border, explore new locations, discover more items, allies, and… new enemies! The Tinto has never meant so much to so many people in so many ways!

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Alentejo: Tinto's Law [Gameboy Color]

Here comes the train

A saloon

A Gundown Satiric Western, set in the 19th Century Iberian Penisula!

Trains, outlaws, kegs, contraband. Welcome to 19th-century Alentejo, a land where the scorching sun and mysteries are ever-present. Meet Gildo and help him assemble his gang to stand against Baron Tinto's tyrannical rule. Travel across various locations, explore caves and mines, cross the border into Spain, and challenge Tinto and his oppressive lawmaking.

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Skate Cat [Nes]

Gameplay

The city of Nekocity is no longer peaceful... Monsters from another dimension have been released and threaten to destroy the world. Only one cat can save it: YOU!
Grab your skateboard and embark on this colorful journey of a thousand dangers.

Game Link

Gumball in Trick-or-Treat Land Receives a February Launch Date [Gameboy and Steam]

• Embark on a quirky adventure to restore the joy of trick-or-treating in a candy-filled overworld.
• Master a turn-based Trick-or-Treating battle system and recruit unique allies for your party.
• Take on a massive quest with dozens of side missions, spells, items, and challenging combat.

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SHERWOOD [Commodore 64]

Robin Hood just won the archery tournament at Nottingham Castle. But as the last of Robin’s three enchanted arrows struck the bullseye, the magic concealing his identity was lost. Robin now stands revealed before the triumphant gaze of Prince John and his Norman guards: A wolfshead with a price on his head, caught in a deadly trap!

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Featured article: ROM Hacks

ROM hacking is a method of editing and modifying games. The early console games were stored on cartridges in ROM memory chips. These games can be extracted (dumped) from these chips and saved into files called ROM images or simply ROMs. Emulators (see previous issue) can play these games saved in ROMs. 

A ROM dumping device for the Game Boy Advance

Besides just playing these ROM images, they can also be edited with software tools like hex editors, tile editors (tool to create and edit tile map graphics.), or more advanced tools such as assemblers and debuggers. Some popular games, like the Pokémon series, have tools specifically designed for these games, like item, story, and level editors.  There are many kinds of ROM hacks—some hacks fix small bugs or typing errors in games, while other hacks translate the game into other languages, usually into languages that the game was not initially released in. For example, many early Japanese games never saw an English release for various reasons (like publishers believing certain types of games would not sell well in the West). But there are also occasions where a game gets retranslated into a language that already exists. This happens when the original translation was done poorly or when the official translation has taken many liberties, changing the original plot of the game, and there is a desire  for a better translation.  These kinds of ROM hacks are called Fun Translations.

RPGe's translation of Final Fantasy V was one of the early major fan-translated works.

One of the earliest examples of a fan translation is the translation of Final Fantasy V into English. Originally, Final Fantasy V was only released in Japan. When the ROM image of the game was made available on the internet unofficially, it was translated into English so western Final Fantasy fans could play the game. Years later the game was officially released in English on the Playstation. Other notable fan translations include the translation of Mother (Earthbound) 3 into English and Bahamut Lagoon into English as well.  

Another type of ROM hack is randomizers. These types of hacks randomly shuffle around items that can be found in a game, making a game already finished multiple times interesting and challenging again. 

Then we have difficulty rebalancing hacks. A lot of early video games were unfairly difficult, or they had an imbalance. So people created hacks to make these games easier and better balanced. Examples of these hacks are for Double Dragon 3 on the NES, which is extremely difficult, especially the English release of the game, there is an easy mode hack for the game. Another example is Dragon Ball: Legacy of Goku, which is ridiculously unbalanced. There is a ROM hack that rebalances this game. (Though I could not use this hack correctly and would glitch the game)

But there are also ROM hacks that do the opposite, making an easy game harder or making a hard game even harder for players who desire extreme challenges in their games. (Definitely not me.)

ROM hacking can also be used for cheating purposes, for example, modifying the game so the game has infinite lives and/or energy. Making it for player impossible to loose. 

Finally, the last category of ROM hacks we are going to look at is multiplayer hacks. These hacks increase the number of players who can play the game. For example, the official release of TETRIS for the NES has only one single-player mode, while the unofficial release of TETRIS for NES by Tengen comes with a two-player mode. There are several hacks that make the official version of Tetris able to be played in a two-player mode. Another example is a ROM hack that changes the NES version of Battletoads into a 4-player game. 

Tetris 2 players hack

While several websites exist that provide ROM hacks, two popular sites with tons of ROM hacks are Romhacking.net and Romhackplaza. These sites do not distribute ROMs pre-hacked but rather patches that can be applied to ROM files to modify them. Romhacking.net provides downloadable tools that can be used to patch ROMs. But online patching tools also exists.

Online Rom patcher 1
Online Rom patcher 2
Online Rom patcher 3

They work simply enough: first you upload the ROM file you want to patch and then the patch you want to use. After that, you click on the button Apply Patch. Then the patch ROM will download. 

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ROM hacks recommendations

1. Double Dragon | 2 players (NES)

Added 2nd player functionality.

Hack

2. Doom 64: Complete Edition (N64)

This hack adds extra levels and many quality of life features to Doom 64.

Hack

3. Mario Kart Amped Up (N64)

This hack adds 16 brand new courses, as well as additional game modes, music, modern visuals, gameplay techniques, and much more!

Hack

4. International SuperStar Soccer Deluxe (SNES)

12 new teams that are added to the original roster.

Hack

5. Streets of Rage 3 (Roo, Ash, Shiva Unlocked)(Genesis/Mega drive)

The hack made the available characters reach 7 and did not change any content of the game.

Hack

6. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial fixed (atari 2600)

Fixes a lot of problems with the game.

Hack

7. Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition (NES)

This hack was created in celebration to 30 years of Super Pitfall. It vastly improves the original game while keeping the base game and level layout intact. The idea was to modernize, fix and beautify the original game because the author felt like the game’s problems kept it from getting justice.

Hack

8. Super Ghouls N Ghosts - Super Arthur (SNES)

This is a hack that changes various gameplay mechanics for Arthur including:

• Power decrementation on hit (return to previous armor)
• Weapon collecting and switching between them with the L/R buttons
• Shields that will not break by blocking with them
• A slightly slower timer

Hack

9. Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest Redaction (NES)

Better translation, fixes bugs

Hack

10. Pokemon Yellow - 151 (gb)

Pokémon Yellow - 151 is intended for emulator players who simply want to play through the original Pokémon Yellow, complete their Pokédex 100%, and have access to the surfing beach-house. The problems with playing on emulators these days is that there are no promotional Pokémon events to go to, there is no connectivity to Pokémon Stadium, and trading across games, while possible, is not only tricky to do, but also feels totally un-natural. Many players have solved the problem by using cheat-codes to temporarily activate the ability to capture the “missing Pokémon”, but to many players it still feels unnatural and, well, like cheating.

Hack

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Free Python Game

Get it here

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Walkthrough

Escape the attic (From Issue #6)

• Enter the number 1 into the prompt to start the game.
• Enter the number 3 into the prompt to examine the portrait, behind it you will find a key.
• Enter the number 4 into the prompt to open the drawers with the key and find a knife.
• Enter the number 5 into the prompt to cut open the pillow on the arm chair. Inside it you will find a key.
• Enter the number 1 into the prompt to unloack the door and escape.

Blast from the past

Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom [DOS GAME]

Mutant Bats oh no!

This game, despite its cheesy name, is one of the cutest shoot-'em-up style games ever made for the PC. You take the role of a lone starship pilot, who happens to encounter the "Dreaded Space Bats of Doom" on a routine assignment in outer space, and are all that stands between them and the invasion of Earth.

The game consists of 66 stages, arranged in some sort of pattern (for example, every type of bats you encounter takes 3 stages to pass, each of three introducing new challenges). Once every several bats you kill you get one of four bonuses - purple gems, 6 of which grant you another life, a green gem which makes your missiles faster, a red one which gives you additional missiles per round, or a white gem which grants you a time-limited "hyper" mode.

The game is very challenging, and the cliche' name/plot makes it a refreshing change from all the typical Space Invaders clones...

Return of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom [DOS GAME]

In this sequel, the mutant space bats of doom return yet again to invade earth. Only you stand in their way of achieving their nefarious goals. As usual collect the different colored gems that can increase your ship's firepower, slow down the enemies, or add to the number of lives. In the bonus stage you turn into a bat and fly around collecting the maximum amount of gems to increase the chances of success in battle.

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Game Talk

This is the first game talk where I share my thoughts on games. In this first game talk, I will write about mini indie games that I enjoyed playing.

Loco Motive

A very good point-and-click adventure game that reminds me of old Sierra and LucasArts adventure games, you play as a lawyer who has to solve a murder case on a train. The game has beautiful pixel art graphics and good music. The puzzles in the game are, in my opinion, very good. Not too difficult but also not too easy.
The game has some pixel art gore in it and some wicked humor that I enjoyed. I would recommend this game to anyone who has not played it.
This game is free on Itch.io, but there is also a reimagined version of the game on Steam and Switch to buy. I have not played the reimagined version yet, only the original.

Cookie's Bakery

A Game Boy homebrew game that can also be played online. I had posted this game in the community recently during the Advent calendar free game event. It is a simple game, you own a bakery, and you have to cook cookies for your customers. The customers do not name the kind of cookie they want, they just describe it vaguely, and you have to figure out which type of cookie they want based on the cookie's description in your baking book. Then you have to pick up the right ingredients in the kitchen following the recipe in the baking book and then bake them. If you have done everything correctly, the customer will be satisfied, otherwise, they will be a little disappointed. You can also talk to the town folk at the start of a new day. It does not do anything for the progression of the game, it is just a fun addition. And that is about it for the game. A fun little pastime for a cold winter day. Or you can play it midsummer, who am I to judge?

Game on Itch.io

Six Cats Under

Another short point-and-click adventure game. Yes, I love those games. In this game you play as an old lady who owns many cats and who has recently died. You are a ghost now and worry that your cats will die from hunger trapped inside your house. You want to free them, but your ghostly powers are not strong enough to open the door. So you can only manipulate small things to spook the cats or attract their curiosity. Like pressing the button on a fan or a remote control, for example. A cute little game I recommend for cat lovers.

Game on Itch.io

Corner of Fun

jokes

• I’m not lazy, I’m just in energy-saving mode for gaming.

• Why did the computer go on a diet? It had too many chips!

• PC gamers don't take hot showers.
  They take Steam-y ones.

Memes

Level 1

Boss Fight

I hate it

INIDIE'D

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