Burn With Me is a deck-builder where you burn your cards to win

Well, that's certainly different. Usually a deck-builder card game is about building up your deck, here's it's about sacrificing them and burning them away.

Combat encounters are a challenging and unique experience in Bittersweet Birthday

Bittersweet Birthday is a game that hasn't been mentioned here in quite some time, but thankfully World Eater Games have a big update to share on this unique action adventure RPG.

Prickle is a wholesome Sokoban-style puzzler about catching baby hedgehogs

In the game Prickle you play as a hedgehog dad trying to collect all your children, as they've done a bit of a runner so you need to stick them all together and get them back home.

Fight the devs of Fishards, if you win - it goes open source! Lose and it's deleted from Steam

Well, that's certainly one way to pull in some eyes isn't it? Fight the developers, get it open source or Fishards will be gone from Steam.

Gourdlets is a chilled sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks

With a demo available now and a release window revealed for sometime this Summer, Gourdlets looks like a really sweet and chilled game to try out with Linux support.

Cozy gardening slice-of-life sim The Garden Path arrives July 30

Oh wow, a birthday present just for me huh? The Garden Path from carrotcake and Mooncat Games is now going to release on July 30th.

Inspired by the Philippines, cinematic story-adventure Until Then now releasing June 25

After having a bit of a delay, Polychroma Games have announced their their cinematic adventure game inspired by the Philippines, Until Then is now going to release on June 25th.

Check out the demo for Oblin Party, a wacky physics-based couch/online party brawler

If you love a good bit of total chaos then check out Oblin Party, an upcoming wacky physics-based, couch/online party brawler where the hands do the talking.

Monster collecting game Cassette Beasts free multiplayer update out now

Collect and transform against friends in the Cassette Beasts free multiplayer update, which is now officially available.

Arctic Eggs is the weirdest cooking game I've seen for a while

Arctic Eggs is a thoroughly unique and terribly odd sounding game about cooking up some eggs, to eventually win your freedom while you're stuck in Antarctica.

Time survival roguelite in space Cozy Space Survivors is out now

For those who love to game but have little time, here's a fresh take on the whole survivor-like genre thing with Cozy Space Survivors out now.

Cinematic narrative adventure Until Then delayed a few weeks

Originally due to launch on May 23rd, the cinematic narrative adventure Until Then from Polychroma Games has been delayed.

Pest Apocalypse is a new hilarious survivor-like game with a death-mobile

Here we go again, I am about to be suckered into yet another survivor-like game. You love all of these as well right? Vampire Survivors, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor and more can move over and make room for Pest Apocalypse.

Open source evolution sim Thrive gets upgraded to Godot 4

A game engine upgrade across a major version is quite a big thing, and it initially proved a little problematic for the open source evolution sim Thrive but it is done.

Dome Keeper is getting a major content update and multiplayer is coming

An absolute indie gem released in 2022 is Dome Keeper from developer Bippinbits that has you mine underground for resources, while you also defend your dome above land from aliens. It's good fun and some big updates are on the way.

Khronos Group seeking proposals for paid work to improve OpenXR for Godot Engine

The Khronos Group, the overseers of many open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more are currently looking to pay someone to improve OpenXR in Godot Engine.

Check out this casual fab farming game bundle, plus a whole bunch of Godot Engine courses

Two interesting picks from Humble Bundle to go over for the weekend. First is the Down on the Farm bundle which has some sweet picks, plus one for game devs!

Buckshot Roulette hit a million sales, multiplayer mode in development

It just goes to show, that as challenging as it is for indie devs right now, there's still a whole lot of success stories. Buckshot Roulette is the latest to hit over a million sales.

Slay the Spire 2 announced by Mega Crit for 2025

Mega Crit have announced Slay the Spire 2 during the Triple-I showcase, a game that no doubt will be exciting for many with how great the first is.

Cute gravity-bending platformer ROTA is now free and open source

Always nice to see more developers open up their games. ROTA released back in 2022 is now not only free, but it's also been made open source by the dev.

The ridiculously fun Windowkill gets modding support with a source code release

Windowkill is a fantastic twin-stick shooter, where the game window is constantly shrinking on you and enemies spawn across multiple windows. It's truly clever and now it has full customization available via the newly introduced modding support.

The latest indie hit on Steam sees you play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun

Buckshot Roulette has made the jump from itch.io to Steam, and it seems like it's hitting the mark for a lot of players as it quickly gained an Overwhelmingly Positive rating.

Cozy Space Survivors is a sweet time survival roguelite in space

Cozy Space Survivors is an upcoming simple cozy time survival roguelite in spacem, a game for people who don't have all that much free time.

Of Life and Land is a promising settlement-building game with rich simulation out on Steam

Released into Early Access today is Of Life and Land (prev called Circle of Kerzoven), a settlement-building game from developer Marco Burri made in Godot.

Multiplayer comes to Cassette Beasts on May 20th

The fantastic monster collection game Cassette Beasts is adding in online multiplayer, with a Beta available now with the full update due out on May 20th.

Now you too can lose all your time in Lost For Swords with the demo

Back in July 2023 I wrote about Lost For Swords, a roguelike deck-builder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. It was properly good fun and now it has a Native Linux demo too!

Cinematic narrative adventure Until Then releases May 23rd

Polychroma Games and Maximum Entertainment have announced the cinematic narrative adventure Until Then is going to release on May 23rd.

Backpack Battles has sold 500,000 copies in two weeks on Steam

Backpack Battles, one of my current — uh, fixations shall we say, has managed to blow away expectations on Steam selling over 500,000 copies in only two weeks of Early Access.

Backpack Battles is another clear indie Steam hit

If you enjoyed the idea in Backpack Hero with inventory management, you may want to also take a look at the new Backpack Battles which has a similar basic theme but puts you in PvP battles against other players and it's proven to be quite a hit.

Of Life and Land settlement-builder releases April 2

Need a new city / villager builder and love everything simulated to be a bit more alive? Keep an eye on Of Life and Land that hits Early Access on April 2nd.

Windowkill is a clever multi-window twin-stick shooter that moves around your screen

This might be one of the most unique games I've ever played. Windowkill from torcado just released on Steam with Native Linux support and it's use of multiple moving windows really changes the bullet-hell genre.

Halls of Torment the retro Diablo styled Vampire Survivors-like 'closing in on the finale'

Developer studio Chasing Carrots say they're "closing in on the finale" for the fantastic Halls of Torment, which blends a classic Diablo style with Vampire Survivors-like gameplay for a great mix.

Hazard Pay is an upcoming dark and mysterious block-pushing puzzler

Want a puzzle game that's a little bit different to keep you wanting to find out more? Hazard Pay from Smitner Studio releases later this year and it sounds great.

There's a new Godot Engine addon to simplify testing on Steam Deck

For game developers using or looking at using Godot Engine, you may want to check out the Godot 4 DeployToSteamOS addon which gives you a one-click method to test your games on Steam Deck.

Fortune Avenue is a new take on a Monopoly-like experience

Binogure Studio (City Game Studio) recently announced Fortune Avenue, their own take on a Monopoly-like experience that will enter Early Access this year.

The latest Godot Engine 2023 showreel shows an impressive variety of games

Godot Engine continues to grow in popularity, and the quality of the games being made with it year after year just keep improving. The latest official Godot showreel is out now.

Godot Engine 4.3 will have official Wayland support

2024 is clearly the year of Wayland on the desktop, and now Godot Engine will have official Wayland support with an upcoming new release.

RAWRLAB Games - Announcement of free Godot™ engine port for Nintendo Switch™