As someone who grew up rewinding VHS tapes until the tracking lines looked like ghosts, Dead Format hit me right in the nostalgia cortex. It’s a game that doesn’t just reference horror history, it drags you bodily through it, kicking and screaming, one cursed tape at a time. And honestly? I loved almost every minute of it. Dead Format feels like it was engineered in a lab specifically to target my weaknesses. Analog horror? Check. VHS grime? Check. A stalker enemy that makes

1348 Ex Voto is one of those games that makes a stunning first impression. Its opening hours paint a plague‑stricken Tuscany with a level of mood and texture that feels almost theatrical: candlelit chapels, fog‑drenched forests, and villages hollowed out by fear. You play as Aeta, a wandering knight whose life has been shaped by loss, duty, and a fierce devotion to Bianca, the one person who gives her fractured world meaning. When Bianca disappears, Aeta’s journey becomes a p

Frosthaven on Steam is a richly faithful, steadily evolving digital adaptation of the beloved tabletop campaign, now bolstered by major updates like Awakening Protocol, Legacy of the Algox, and the newest expansion, Into the Abyss, each adding heroes, story arcs, UI improvements, and quality‑of‑life upgrades that make it feel closer than ever to running a physical Frosthaven campaign at your desk. As someone who loves tabletop games, Frosthaven’s digital edition feels like wa

One-Eyed Likho isn’t interested in scaring you senseless, it wants to haunt you. It wants to sit in the back of your mind like a half-remembered bedtime story your grandmother definitely shouldn’t have told you. Morteshka’s folk‑horror adventure is a slow, deliberate descent into Slavic myth, where every creaking floorboard and flickering match feels like a warning whispered through the trees. This is a game that thrives on mood. It’s not chasing jumpscares or shock value; it

Laser Battle Cats – travel & destroy! is exactly the kind of game you buy because the title makes you laugh… and then you realise, halfway through bolting a rotating laser turret onto a radioactive kitten, that you’re actually having a great time. This is a micro‑scale side‑scrolling builder‑shooter where the “build” part matters far more than the “shoot.” Each run is basically a puzzle: you’re not just firing a beam, you’re designing the beam’s delivery system. Rotating join

Runewood: Hundred Nights is a compact but surprisingly atmospheric roguelite autobattler that thrives on mood, momentum, and the quiet dread of a forest that’s always watching you. It’s small, cheap, and simple on the surface, but the loop has teeth. Runewood: Hundred Nights drops you into a Sylvanian forest that feels half‑alive, half‑hungry, and fully committed to seeing whether you can survive a hundred nights with nothing but your deck, your relics, and your nerve. It’s a

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to walk in the sandals of Jesus Christ and I mean literally walk, because this is a visual novel with the occasional mini‑game sprinkled in like spiritual seasoning, Jesus Simulator is here to answer that question with the utmost sincerity… and just a pinch of “Wait, am I really doing this?” This is a game that takes itself seriously. Like, respectfully seriously. Like, “we consulted historically reliable sources” seriously. And y

Kingdom of Night is a game that thrives on mood before anything else. Set in 1987 in the quiet desert town of Miami, Arizona, it opens with a satanic cult accidentally summoning Baphomet and tearing a hole straight through the fabric of normality. John, an ordinary teenager with ordinary anxieties, wakes from a disturbing vision to find his neighbour kidnapped and the streets outside crawling with demons. What begins as a simple rescue spirals into a cosmic‑horror odyssey tha

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a wholesome cooking sim, a small‑town drama, and a meatball‑based shōnen rivalry fused into one gloriously unhinged broth, KuloNiku: Bowl Up! has your answer. You inherit your grandmother’s once‑legendary meatball shop in the town of KuloNiku, and from there it’s all chopping, boiling, befriending, and occasionally battling your way back to culinary glory. The setup is classic, but the execution? Surprisingly spicy. At its heart, B

Spinera’s demo is basically what happens when a slot machine gets tired of eating coins and decides it wants to run a civilization instead. You spin, you pray, you build a Wonder, you pray harder, and then you watch your empire either flourish… or face‑plant into the sands of time because the reels decided today was “no resources for you” day. The core loop is weirdly hypnotic: spin → panic → strategize → spin again anyway because self‑control is for people not ruled by a cos

From the first moments, the game feels like a warm, tactile sandbox that's part cooking sim, part puzzle box, part “what if I just threw this in the pot?” experiment. The Early Access build includes two full levels plus a story-focused space, and even within that limited slice, the personality is unmistakable. Every kitchen is a little diorama of someone’s life: a dorm room cluttered with mismatched cookware, a café counter humming with small details, cabinets labelled with r

Nippets isn’t just a hidden‑object game, it’s a miniature world you meddle with, a place where every window hides a story, every tree begs to be shaken, and every misplaced item is a thread in someone’s life. It’s cozy, funny, occasionally sentimental, and always tactile. What begins as a simple “find the thing” premise quickly becomes a gentle act of people‑watching, world‑prodding, and story‑assembling. This is a game that wants you to slow down, poke around, and let curios

A charming, chaotic, half-baked pizzeria sim with real flavour… and real flaws Pizza Slice is one of those games that feels like it was built from pure enthusiasm: a love letter to Italian kitchens, bustling neighbourhoods, and the fantasy of running a tiny, slightly dysfunctional family pizzeria. It’s warm, it’s earnest, it’s messy, and it’s constantly teetering between “cozy cooking sim” and “stress dream with mozzarella.” You play as Tonio, inheriting your grandfather’s pi

On April 27, Toll Booth Simulator debuts on PC. Developed by a one-man studio, the game puts the player in charge of a toll booth on a desert highway. Routine work is part of the fun, as you can also grow strange fruits, sell drinks, take care of your base, and do much more. Everything in Toll Booth Simulator is packed with absurdity and crazy action. Plans include releasing the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Toll Booth Simulator is a game by the one-man studio Si

A necromancer’s plot, a suspended corpse, and a kingdom built on lies—this VN goes all in. Knight Case Files drops you into the Phoenix Kingdom, a land already simmering with tension before the story even begins. A duke has attempted to seize power using an imposter of his daughter, a necromancer once at war with the Phoenix Clan is stirring again, and somewhere in the palace lies the body of a young woman frozen at the moment of her death. It’s a setup that immediately signa

The Valley Beyond is the kind of game that feels like stepping into a curated dream. You wake up alone on a remote island dotted with sculptures, abandoned structures, and strange interactive art pieces, and the game simply trusts you to start walking. No tutorials, no quest markers, no guiding voice in your ear. Just the wind, the sea, and a world that reveals itself only if you’re patient enough to listen. It’s a bold approach and one that gives the game its charm, but also

Heroes of the Seven Islands is one of those indie RPGs that feels like it crawled out of a forgotten 90s sketchbook as it's bright, scrappy, earnest, and absolutely wearing its inspirations on its sleeve. It’s a hand‑drawn, party‑based, turn‑based RPG set across a fairytale archipelago, and while it’s modest in scope, it’s surprisingly charming and more substantial than its doodly aesthetic suggests. The entire game is illustrated on paper, scanned, and coloured digitally, gi

Saintess of the Golden Bow steps into the otome arena with a premise that immediately hooks you: a woman dies in the real world, wakes up inside her favourite tragic fantasy novel, and discovers she’s been reborn as a side character destined to die early. Instead of accepting that fate, she breaks the script — and the world responds by snapping her into a time loop where every death rewinds the clock but leaves her memories intact. It’s a setup that blends romance, mystery, a

Star Birds arrived on Steam as one of those Early Access projects that already feels unusually self‑assured. It blends the clean, colourful visual language associated with Kurzgesagt with a factory‑building puzzle structure that’s far more intricate than its soft, friendly aesthetic suggests. What begins as a gentle loop of mining asteroids and routing simple production lines quickly evolves into a surprisingly knotty logistical challenge, the kind that forces you to think sp

It's time to mosey over to Steam and play the free demo of Frontier Legends ! Starting today, and running until Thursday, April 30th, cowpokes can get their hands on the new demo for this grand Wild West adventure. It's as easy as falling off your horse, just head to the Frontier Legends Steam page, and click the link to download the demo. If you miss your train and can't play the demo, you'll have to wait for Frontier Legends to launch into early access later this spring. F