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Farm Manager World: Africa DLC Review
The Africa DLC for Farm Manager World on Steam doesn’t just give you a new biome to play with, it hands you an entirely different philosophy of farming. The moment you load into the African region, the game quietly taps you on the shoulder and says, “Everything you thought you knew? Forget it.” The climate is harsher, the soil is stingier, and the weather patterns feel like they’re actively testing your patience. But that’s exactly what makes this DLC feel like a proper expan

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Putt in Parks - Review - PC STEAM
Putt in Parks is a gentle, atmospheric mini‑golf adventure that blends light storytelling with a relaxed, exploration‑driven approach to putting. The game doesn’t present a traditional narrative with cutscenes or dialogue; instead, its “story” unfolds through the environments themselves. Each course feels like a small, self‑contained diorama with its own mood and implied history with abandoned cabins, quiet lakesides, overgrown trails, and lantern‑lit clearings that suggest p

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5 days ago


Drug Farmer Simulator - Early Access Impressions
“Breaking Bad meets Farming Simulator, but everyone involved is still figuring out which button does what.” Drug Farmer Simulator is one of those games that feels like it was born from a single chaotic thought: “What if Stardew Valley had a criminal cousin who never learned proper motor skills?” You load in expecting a tidy little management sim, and instead you’re immediately handed a seedling, a suspiciously empty room, and controls that behave like they were coded by someo

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May 29


Mom Life Simulator – Early Access First Impressions
Mom Life Simulator drops you straight into the deep end of domestic chaos, and honestly, it’s kind of impressive how quickly the game captures the emotional arc of real parenthood: optimism, confusion, mild panic, and the creeping suspicion that the house is judging you. You start your day bright-eyed, ready to conquer the world… and within five minutes you’re juggling a school-aged kid who can’t find their shoes, a baby who has entered their “I will cry because physics exist

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May 29


Slots & Daggers - Quick Review
Slots & Daggers is what happens when a slot machine, a goblin, and a crunchy hip‑hop drum loop walk into a bar and decide to make a roguelike. It’s weird, scrappy, charming, and absolutely committed to its own bit and that bit is “what if gambling and goblin‑stabbing were the same action?” Created solo by Friedemann (the developer behind SUMMERHOUSE), this is a tiny, tightly wound arcade‑RPG hybrid that knows exactly what it wants to be: fast, noisy, and delightfully odd. It’

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May 28


Goblin Sushi - Early Access Impressions
Goblin Sushi launches on Steam Early Access as a chaotic, oddly endearing blend of roguelike pressure and cooking‑sim urgency, the kind of game that immediately feels familiar but quickly reveals its own strange, slimy personality. You play a goblin running a sushi stall in a damp cave, and from the first few minutes it becomes clear that the real enemy isn’t the customers or the ingredients, it’s the rent timer ticking down like a bomb in the corner of the screen. That singl

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May 26


Global Rescue – Early Access Impressions
“Saving the world, one slightly confused firefighter at a time.” Global Rescue hands you the keys to an entire emergency services empire and says, “Go on then, hero, don’t burn the place down.” And somehow, despite your best intentions, you absolutely will. This Early Access build already lets you command fire crews, police, EMS, and SWAT, which means you’re essentially running the world’s most chaotic group project. One minute you’re dispatching ambulances to a fender‑bender

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May 26


Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon Review - PC Steam
Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon is one of those rare indie hybrids that feels instantly coherent despite stitching together two wildly different fantasies: a stealth‑driven dungeon crawler by night and a dice‑rolling shopkeeping sim by day. What makes it work isn’t just the novelty of the loop, but how tightly the story, mechanics, and goblin‑sized personality bind everything together. It’s a game that knows exactly what it wants to be a scrappy, cunning, slightly grubby tale o

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May 25


AETHUS - Mini Review - PC Steam
AETHUS is a polished, story‑first survival‑crafting game where mining isn’t just busywork — it’s the backbone of a surprisingly emotional sci‑fi mystery. With its modular base‑building, physics‑driven resource extraction, and a fully voiced narrative about corporate exploitation, it feels like Subnautica meets Lego Rock Raiders, but with a stronger sense of purpose. You play as Maeve, an ex‑mining engineer trying to carve out a life away from the megacorp ARC. What begins as

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May 25


Chickens Don’t Fly - Mini Review - PC
Chickens Don’t Fly is one of those tiny, throwaway‑looking Steam curios that turns out to be way more charming than it has any right to be. It’s basically a chaotic, slapstick “falling” game where you guide a doomed chicken through obstacle‑filled vertical shafts, trying to survive long enough to rack up points. Think Doodle Jump, but in reverse, and with a sense of humour that’s very “we know this is stupid, lean into it”. The fun comes from the physics: your chicken pinball

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May 25


Schrodinger's Cat Burglar Out Now on Steam
Brisbane-based developer Abandoned Sheep is pleased to reveal that their cat quantum-puzzle game Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is out now on Steam. Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a quantum puzzle adventure where you play as Mittens the cat, who gains the incredible power to be in two places at once. Explore twisted test chambers, make mischief and evade capture by a whisker! Amidst a heist gone wrong, Mittens — the world's greatest (and most literal) cat burglar — finds herself cau

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May 21


Storm Horse Simulator gets a free demo
A free demo of Storm Horse Simulator, a relaxing simulator with adventure and light survival elements, has been available on PC since May 6. Players can explore an open world of wild horses and charming lands. The full game will release on PC in 2026, with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions to follow. Storm Horse Simulator is being developed by INDIE FORGE STUDIOS S.R.L., and the game’s publisher is Ultimate Games S.A. Gallop towards freedom and save the herd! Storm H

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May 12


Raise a Garden - From the Dead! Greenhearth Necromancer Now Available on Steam!
In a world of breakneck pacing, it's time for a break: Silverstring Media and indie.io proudly announce that Greenhearth Necromancer, a cozy semi-idle gardening sim, is now available on Steam! In place of countdown tickers and anxiety mechanics, it offers cozy, laid-back gameplay where there is truly no rush. Just an inherited garden, deliberate pace, and plenty of plants to keep alive or undead as the hours tick by — accompanied by a phenomenal lo-fi soundtrack and a heartwa

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May 12


Snow summit sim Above The Snow teases new Endless Mode, full automation system & DLC
Roadmap reveals plans for post-launch content Building on its recent Steam launch, Above the Desk is wasting no time expanding its mountain survival experience Above the Snow, revealing a packed post-launch roadmap featuring Endless Mode upgrades, deep automation systems, major quality-of-life improvements, and an upcoming DLC. Already holding a "Mostly Positive" rating on Steam, the narrative management sim continues to gain momentum as players push deeper into its harsh exp

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May 12


Let Them Trade - Review PC
Let Them Trade doesn’t open with a grand cinematic or a sweeping lore dump. Instead, it drops you into a tiny wooden kingdom perched on a literal tabletop, as if someone spilled a deluxe board game across a dining room and invited you to start rearranging the pieces. It’s a city builder that immediately disarms you with charm, it's the carved‑wood aesthetic, the warm lighting, the cat lounging beside the board, but beneath that cozy veneer is a surprisingly thoughtful economi

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May 10


1930S-INSPIRED RHYTHM-ACTION 3D PLATFORMER ‘SPANKY BAT-A-SWING’ ANNOUNCED FOR STEAM AND CONSOLE!
Indie developer Green Flamingo is excited to share that their debut action platformer, Spanky “Bat-a-Swing," will be coming to Steam, Nintendo, and Xbox. The PC demo is now available, and a Kickstarter campaign will launch later this year. Enjoy a 1930s hand-animated 3D action platformer where players can fall into the rhythm of smacking enemies to the beat of an electro swing soundtrack. A City Under Rhythmic Control Metrognome has seized power as the new mayor of Metronopol

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May 10


Surreal bodycam psychological horror game Dreamcore releases final episode - Dead Mall - on May 21st
Indie developer Montraluz, in partnership with publisher Tlön Industries, are proud to announce that the fifth and final episode of their cult favorite surreal body-cam psychological horror game Dreamcore will arrive on May 21st for all platforms. Entitled Dead Mall, this concluding episode takes players through an abandoned 1980s inspired shopping center. Dead Mall lets players loose on a nightmarish plaza with all the staples of childhood shopping, but contorted into an unc

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May 10


Game Announcement: Introducing Dupery, A Social Deduction Roguelike
Yogscast Games and Gilded Rune Games have today announced Dupery – a single-player investigation roguelite which takes the thrill of social deduction games into a tightly designed puzzle of lies, contradictions and deceit for solo players. A terrible syndicate has infiltrated society, so players explore cases, listen to what the citizens have to say and use that information to root out the wrong ‘uns. Over the course of their investigations, detectives must gather clues, ques

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May 10


DVD Survivors - PC Review
DVD Survivors takes one of the most universal pieces of visual nostalgia, the bouncing DVD logo and turns it into a frantic, self‑aware bullet‑heaven roguelike that’s far more entertaining than it has any right to be. What begins as a simple screensaver joke quickly escalates into a chaotic, neon‑soaked battle against the worst digital detritus the early‑internet era ever produced. The premise is instantly funny, but what’s impressive is how confidently the game commits to it

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May 9


Caribbean Legend: Age of Pirates - PC Review
Caribbean Legend: Age of Pirates is a game that feels like it washed ashore from another era, sun‑bleached, barnacle‑scarred, and stubbornly proud of its lineage. It’s a modern release built on the bones of the classic Sea Dogs and Age of Pirates titles, and it makes no attempt to hide that heritage. Instead, it embraces it with a kind of defiant sincerity. This is a pirate RPG that wants you to work for your victories, learn its rhythms, and surrender to its sprawling, simul

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May 9
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