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A Short Hike is a brief, delightful game about a young bird hiking around and exploring a summertime island with bad cell phone reception.

Journey through a wonderful tribute to retro adventure and role-playing games as you restore the kingdom in Knights of Tartarus. Knights of Tartarus is a role-playing game where you must enter the underworld to fight an order of knights,…

A turn-based, single-screen, local co-op game about battling flames, breaking through walls and saving the incapacitated, disaster-prone residents of a world where every house is on fire.

Now, like from an early 2000s time capsule arrives CROSSNIQ+ — a love letter to all things Y2K and Dreamcast. 

Veteran Pico-8 developer, BGelais, has released another game for the fantasy platform. This time it's Bandits, a game he has derived the idea of from an old, Canadian TV-game from a few decades back. Bandits is extremely simple in design: A…

Another weekend, another point and click, hidden object game with a cheesy story to sit down and play. This time it's Queen’s Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past. We take on the role of a shapeshifting, alchemist detective, trying to get to…

When it comes to the Western movie formula the first thought which crosses most people's mind is a pistol duel between the hero and their adversary. Hit Me Cowboy takes this iconic moment and turns it into a rhythmic minigame. The sheriff…

Journey through the savage lands and defeat the evil warlock before he summons the demon in Demon Castle, a Castlevania-inspired Pico-8 game. Mush's Demon Castle is a wonderful little browser game which channels a lot of the pace of classic…

Peanut is a 2D retro-style platformer by Team Spikkeee starring Peanut the corgi. The game has been created in a classic 8-bit pixelated style.

Building a town, but underground!

It's that time of year again. Steam has put so many games on sale, and all so that you can fill up your library just as school lets out and summer begins. We have a few suggestions of what to grab in this massive sale to help you get…

Forager is a real treat for fans of open-world crafting games that offer minimal direction.

A strong story and tactical combat combine in Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark, which has recently released on Steam.

Victor Vran has been fighting evil for quite some time, but some people still have questions. Since exiting Early Access through Steam on July 24th 2015, Victor Vran has seen it’s fan base grow exponentially. Even getting a relaunch as…

Point and click adventure game Mutropolis takes you into a dig site full of some old stuff to be discovered and some strange new items to check out. Mutropolis is a pixel art, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic adventure — and that’s a lot of words…

Precipice is a Cold War strategy game with a focus on diplomacy. We have been playing it.

Over the last couple of years, the survival genre seems to have finally calmed down. People have stuck to what they like and it will be hard to get players out of their comfort zone. Can Volcanoids unearth them and accomplish what so many…

Journey across the land with up to three friends as you quest to put the Moon God back where they belong in Kemono Heroes. Kemono Heroes, from Mad Gear Games, is a fun, four-player arcade beat'em up filled with beautiful pixel-art. Up to…

Imperator: Rome is the latest grand strategy game from veteran design and publishing house Paradox Interactive. With a timeline beginning around 300 BC, players are tasked with managing the formation of the Roman Empire  — or one of its…

Counting sheep might be a perfect way to get to sleep, but keeping disobedient sheep in line when there are anvils and more falling from the sky is anything but relaxing. Disobedient Sheep, from SicklyDove Games, is a frantic game about…