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Geometry Dash demake for NES

Geometry Dash hits a record 103k Steam players, beating Call of Duty & Apex Legends. This viral, organic surge proves indie gameplay is king.

Ascend a gothic mechanical citadel in Death Machine, a brutal pixel-art Metroidvania with roguelite item builds.

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Become an angry magpie taking out people and objects in the old-school arcade-like title Pie In The Sky, coming out next month

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Developed by Indonesia-based indie studio Leolit Games, War Angels is a survival base-building game where you run a hospital set in the middle of a warzone. With scarce food, limited medicine, and waves of critically injured patients, every decision becomes a moral struggle that tests your humanity.

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Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.

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2026 is the year when big gun titles like Grand Theft Auto 6 finally come out. We’re also getting remakes like Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined and long-awaited gacha titles like Arknights: Endfield and Silver Palace.

But let’s not forget small-scale indie titles that truly bolster the creative edge and spark of video game design, as well as put people on the game industry map one small step at the time. Whether they’re made overseas or in Southeast Asia, we’ve listed down a few that piqued our interest for the year.

Press releases and assets from across the games industry - screenshots, videos, logos, packshots, artwork, PR contacts, release dates

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

KuloNiku: Bowl Up blends hectic kitchen management with cozy vibes, offering a unique indie cooking game experience.

FPS Quest is all about cheating and modding while making sure you don't tank the game's performance and die

Take on the apocalypse with a hamster that is armed with everything in MOCHI-O, set for a Steam release in about two weeks

Proof of concept GBA, shoot'em up Gameboy Advance

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game, a bloody retro fighting beat em up with frenetic action and a lot of fun and references to the Terrifier franchise.

The SuperTux Team is ecstatic to announce the first beta release of v0.7.0. This is perhaps one of the largest facelifts to the base game since the introduction of Milestone 2! It features completely redone worlds, new artwork, new music; all from the ground up. As such, it may feel entirely different from the previous game, but the overall premise remains true to its roots.

It is a bit difficult to cram it all in one snippet over the years of this release’s development; so we’ll try to keep it brief.

Some of the most significant changes include:

• A complete overhaul of World 1 (Thanks to RustyBox)
• A complete overhaul of World 2, Rooted Forest (Thanks to RustyBox, Servalot, bruhmoent and FrostC)
• New assets for Tux, Badguys, Backgrounds, Tilesets, and other Miscellaneous (Thanks to RustyBox, FrostC, bruhmoent and FilipOK)
• Complete revamps for Gold Bomb, Igel, Spidermite (Tarantula), etc. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for code)
• Complete revamp for Ghoul. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, weluvgoatz for code)
• Add new badguys (and an NPC!): Granito (& Big Granito), Root Sapling, Corrupted Big Granito, etc. (Thanks to RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for code)
• New music (Thanks to SnugglyBun, Servalot, RodirodDude, bruhmoent, and Chitan)
• Overhauled Bonus Island 1 (Thanks to FrostC, Servalot, weluvgoatz, RustyBox, bruhmoent, Sevenberry, and tylerandari12)
• Revamped Level Editor and QoL changes (Thanks to Swagtoy, Tobbi)
• New Cutscenes (Thanks to Narre, RustyBox and FrostC)
• Local multiplayer mode (Thanks to Semphriss)
• Android Revival & Improvements (Thanks to MatusGuy, Swagtoy)
• Tux sliding, rock powerup, crawling, buttjump improvements (Thanks to weluvgoatz)
• Tux dolls to unlock worlds (Thanks to provigz)
• New Yeti Boss Fight (Thanks to MatusGuy)
• New Ghost Tree (Thanks to Hypernoot, RustyBox for graphics, MatusGuy for polishing, FilipOK for hit sound)
• Item Pocket (Thanks to MatusGuy)
• Improved Autotile (Thanks to mrkubax10, tylerandari12, Eauix)
  CMake Refactor + making the game actually build (Thanks to Swagtoy, MatusGuy, tobbi)
• Glinting badguys (Thanks to bruhmoent)
• Flatpak builds (Thanks to Swagtoy)
• Squirrel default arguments (Thanks to provigz)
• Switch to Simplesquirrel (Thanks to MatusGuy and provigz)
• Display music metadata in the level editor (Thanks to James C. De Ricco)

And so so so many more from a ton of contributors, that probably all got missed!

Thank you all for the incredible patience, considering it took us a long time to get here. Please report any and all bugs you come across, especially those you consider game breaking, and also help with translation on the Transifex. We’ll quickly iron them out and will be available for a little while to crush any nasty issues. We have entered a feature freeze so no new feature requests can slip in for 0.7, especially those which change strings. You can also hop in our IRC and Discord (on the README), which are both bridged to each other as well to talk with us!

And of course… Thank YOU, from the bottom of our hearts, for keeping this game alive! – SuperTux Team

A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!

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Serve up sushi as a robot chef in Rolling Hills, a life sim about running your own restaurant in a cozy village. Make new friends, purchase ingredients, enhance your shop, and improve the lives of your neighbors as you perfect your craft!

Embark on a short journey no hand on a stick has been on until now and never again. Rummage through things, avoid being slapped, and hand stuff out to other hands before they lose their patience.

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